The American Journey, Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition, Combined Volume

by Goldfield, David; Anderson, Virginia DeJohn; Argersinger, Jo Ann; Argersinger, Peter H.; Barney, William L.; Weir, Robert M.; Abbott, Carl

• ISBN13: 9780131500938
• ISBN10: 0131500937
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback w/Disk
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For freshman- and sophomore-level survey courses in U.S. History. To know history is to love historyThis highly visual brief survey of U.S. History introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history in a exciting new format designed to ignite in students a passion to know and love history the way that their professors do. The Teaching & Learning Classroom edition of the highly successful The American Journey, provides your students with the most help available in reading, thinking, and applying the material they are learning in the text and in lecture. A series of pedagogical aids, in text and out of class study companions, as well as complete instructor presentational and assessment support makes this text the perfect choice for those looking to make history come alive for their students.

Table of Contents

(NOTE: Volume I includes Chapters 1-18 and Volume II includes Chapters 18-33.)(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Conclusion, Review Questions, Recommended Reading, Where to Learn More, and Web Resources.)

Worlds Apart

Different Worlds

Contact

Competition for a Continent

Transplantation, 1600-1685

The French in North America

English Settlement in the Chesapeake

The Founding of New England

The English in the Caribbean

The Proprietary Colonies

The Creation of New Worlds

Indians and Europeans

Africans and Europeans

Non-Slave Labor in Early America

Convergence and Conflict

Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies

The Transformation of Culture

The Colonial Political World

Expanding Empires

A Century of Warfare

Imperial Breakdown, 1763-1774

Imperial Reorganization

American Reactions

The Aftermath of Crisis

The Townshend Crisis

The Road to Revolution

The War for Independence, 1774-1783

The Outbreak of War and the Declaration of Independence, 1774-1776

The Combatants

The War in the North, 1776-1777

The War Widens, 1778-1781

The American Victory, 1782-1783

War and Society, 1775-1783

The First Republic, 1776-1789

The New Order of Republicanism

Problems at Home

Diplomatic Weaknesses

Toward a New Union

A New Republic and the Rise of Parties, 1789-1800

Washington''s America

Forging a New Government

The Emergence of Parties

The Last Federalist Administration

The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800-1824

Jefferson''s Presidency

Madison and the Coming of War

The War of 1812

The Era of Good Feelings

The Breakdown of Unity

The Jacksonian Era, 1824-1845

The Egalitarian Impulse

Jackson''s Presidency

Van Buren and Hard Times

The Rise of the Whig Party

The Whigs in Power

Slavery and the Old South, 1800-1860

The Lower South

The Upper South

Slave Life and Culture

Free Society

The Proslavery Argument

The Market Revolution and Social Reform, 1815-1850

The Way West, 1815-1850

The Agricultural Frontier

The Frontier of the Plains Indians

The Mexican Borderlands

Politics, Expansion, and War

The Politics of Sectionalism, 1846-1861

Slavery in the Territories

Political Realignment

The Road to Disunion

Battle Cries and Freedom Songs: The Civil War, 1861-1863

Mobilization, North and South

The Early War, 1861-1862

Turning Points, 1862-1863

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865

More Than Freedom: African-American Aspirations in 1865

Federal Reconstruction, 1865-1870

Counter-Reconstruction, 1870-1874

Redemption, 1874-1877

The Failure of Reconstruction

A New South, 1877-1900

The Newness of the New South

The Southern Agrarian Revolt

Women in the New South

Settling the Race Issue

Industry, Immigrants, and Cities, 1870-1900

New Industry

New Immigrants

New Cities

Transforming the West, 1865-1890

Native Americans

Exploiting the Mountains: The Mining Bonanza

Exploiting the Grass: The Cattle Kingdom

Exploiting the Earth: The Expansion of Agriculture

Politics and Government, 1877-1900

The Structure and Style of Politics

The Limits of Government

Public Policies and National Elections

The Crisis of the 1890s

The Progressive Era, 1900-1917

The Ferment of Reform

Reforming Society

Reforming Politics and Government

Roosevelt and the Progressive Presidency

Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Reform

Creating an Empire, 1865-1917

The Roots of Imperialism

First Steps

The Spanish-American War

Imperial Ambitions: The United States and East Asia, 1899-1917

Imperial Power: The United States and Latin America, 1899-1917

America and the Great War, 1914-1920

Waging Neutrality

Waging War in America

Waging War and Peace Abroad

Waging Peace at Home

Toward a Modern America: The 1920s

The Economy that Roared

The Business of Government

Cities and Suburbs

Mass Culture in the Jazz Age

Culture Wars

A New Era in the World?

Herbert Hoover and the Final Triumph of the New Era

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

Hard Times in Hooverville

Herbert Hoover and the Depression

Launching the New Deal

Consolidating the New Deal

The New Deal and American Life

Ebbing of the New Deal

World War II, 1939-1945

The Dilemmas of Neutrality

Holding the Line

Mobilizing the Home Front

War and Peace

The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1946-1952

Launching the Great Boom

Truman, Republicans, and the Fair Deal

Confronting the Soviet Union

Cold War and Hot War

The Second Red Scare

The Confident Years, 1953-1964

A Decade of Affluence

Facing Off with the Soviet Union

John F. Kennedy and the Cold War

Righteousness Like a Mighty Stream: The Struggle for Civil Rights

ldquo;Let Us Continue.rdquo;

Shaken to the Roots, 1965-1980

The End of Consensus

The Year of the Gun, 1968

Nixon and Watergate

Jimmy Carter: Idealism and Frustration in the White House

The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World

Complacency and Crisis, 1993-2003

Appendix

Glossary

Photo Credits

Index

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Excerpts

The path that led us toThe American Journeybegan in the classroom with our students. Our goal is to make American history accessible to students. The key to that goal--the core of the book--is a strong clear narrative. American history is a compelling story and we seek to tell it in an engaging, forthright way. But we also provide students with an abundance of tools to help them absorb that story and put it in context. We introduce them to the concerns of the participants in America's history with primary source documents. The voices of contemporaries open each chapter, describing their own personal journeys toward fulfilling their dreams, hopes, and ambitions as part of the broader American journey. These voices provide a personal window on our nation's history, and the themes they express resonate throughout the narrative. But if we wrote this book to appeal to our students, we also wrote it to engage their minds. We wanted to avoid academic trendiness, particularly the restricting categories that have divided the discipline of history over the last twenty years or so. We believe that the distinctions involved in the debates about multiculturalism and identity, between social and political history, between the history of the common people and the history of the elite, are unnecessarily confusing. What we seek is integration--to combine political and social history, to fit the experience of particular groups into the broader perspective of the American past, to give voice to minor and major players alike because of their role in the story we have to tell. APPROACH In telling our story, we had some definite ideas about what we might include and emphasize that other texts do not--information we felt that the current and next generations of students will need to know about our past to function best in a new society. Chronological Organization.A strong chronological backbone supports the book. We have found that the jumping back and forth in time characteristic of some American history textbooks confuses students. They abhor dates but need to know the sequence of events in history. A chronological presentation is the best way to be sure they do. Geographical Literacy.We also want students to be geographically literate. We expect them not only to know what happened in American history, but where it happened as well. Physical locations and spatial relationships were often important in shaping historical events. The abundant maps in The American Journey--all numbered and called out in the text--are an integral part of our story. Regional Balance.The American Journeypresents balanced coverage of all regions of the country. In keeping with this balance, the South and the West receive more coverage in this text than in comparable books. Point of View.The American Journeypresents a balanced overview of the American past. But "balanced" does not mean bland. We do not shy away from definite positions on controversial issues, such as the nature of early contacts between Native Americans and Europeans, why the political crisis of the 1850s ended in a bloody Civil War, and how Populism and its followers fit into the American political spectrum. If students and instructors disagree, that's great; discussion and dissent are important catalysts for understanding and learning. Religion.Nor do we shy away from some topics that play relatively minor roles in other texts, like religion. Historians are often uncomfortable writing about religion and tend to slight its influence. This text stresses the importance of religion in American society both as a source of strength and a reflection of some its more troubling aspects. Historians mostly write for each other. That's too bad. We need to reach out and expand our audience. An American history text is a good place to start. Our studen