American Odyssey

by Nash, Gary B.

• ISBN13: 9780028221540
• ISBN10: 0028221540
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub

Summary

A history of the United States in the twentieth century, featuring sociological and cultural events, as well as strictly historical, and using many pertinent literary excerpts.

Table of Contents

UNIT 1 A Nation of Nations, 40,000 B.C.-A.D. 1800
A Geographic Perspective on History	4	(16)
The Five Themes of Geography	6	(5)
The Themes as Guides to History	11	(9)
Encounters and Colonies	20	(34)
The Earliest Americans	22	(8)
Three Worlds Meet	30	(6)
Building Colonial America	36	(10)
Conflict and Growth in the Colonies	46	(8)
The American Revolution	54	(24)
Toward Revolution	56	(10)
Declaration of Independence	61	(5)
War for Independence	66	(6)
Creating a New America	72	(6)
A New Nation	78	(50)
From Federation to Constitution	80	(8)
Debate and Ratification	88	(24)
Constitution	91	(21)
Launching the New Government	112	(16)
UNIT 2 Rift and Reunion, 1800-1900
The Expanding Nation	128	(34)
Territorial Expansion	130	(10)
The Economy Grows	140	(10)
A Changing People	150	(12)
Civil War and Reconstruction	162	(32)
Slavery and Politics	164	(8)
The Civil War	172	(12)
Reconstruction	184	(10)
New Frontiers	194	(38)
Moving West	196	(8)
Rise of Industrialism	204	(8)
Populism and Protest	212	(6)
Reaching for Empire	218	(14)
UNIT 3 The Roots of a Modern Nation, 1880-1920
Progressive Reforms	232	(32)
Facing a New Order	234	(8)
A Generation of Reformers	242	(8)
Progressive Agendas	250	(14)
Progressivism Takes Hold	264	(28)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency	266	(8)
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom	274	(7)
Limits to Progressivism	281	(11)
Expansionism and World War I	292	(44)
Becoming a World Power	294	(10)
Watching Europe's War	304	(10)
World War I: There and Here	314	(7)
Reshaping the World	321	(15)
UNIT 4 The New Era of the Twenties, 1920-1929
Getting on With Business	336	(38)
Postwar Turmoil	338	(8)
The Republican Influence	346	(7)
Prosperity and American Business	353	(9)
The Changing Nature of Work	362	(12)
A Prospering Society	374	(42)
Growth of the Middle Class	376	(10)
The Jazz Age	386	(10)
Cultural Conflicts	396	(20)
UNIT 5 Economic Crisis and the New Deal, 1929-1939
The Great Depression	416	(34)
The Crash and Its Aftermath	418	(12)
The Dream on Hold	430	(10)
Life During the Depression	440	(10)
The New Deal	450	(40)
FDR and the First New Deal	452	(12)
Criticism and Reformulation	464	(12)
The Impact of the New Deal	476	(14)
UNIT 6 United States Transformed, 1933-1945
World War II	490	(32)
The Road to War	492	(8)
The War Begins	500	(8)
The United States at War	508	(14)
The Home Front	522	(38)
Mobilizing the Home Front	524	(10)
The War and Social Change	534	(8)
The War and Civil Rights	542	(18)
UNIT 7 The Postwar World, 1945-1963
The Uneasy Peace	560	(36)
The Cold War Begins	562	(7)
The Cold War Deepens	569	(7)
Cold War in the Atomic Age	576	(11)
A New Battleground	587	(9)
The Postwar Era	596	(32)
Postwar Economy Booms	598	(8)
Suburban Lifestyles	606	(12)
Poverty and Plenty	618	(10)
Cold War Politics	628	(38)
Retreat From the New Deal	630	(10)
The Cold War at Home	640	(12)
The Eisenhower Years	652	(14)
UNIT 8 Toward Equality and Social Reform, 1954-1976
The Civil Rights Struggle	666	(32)
Challenging Segregation	668	(6)
Freedom Now	674	(6)
Government Response	680	(10)
Disappointed Hopes	690	(8)
The Kennedy and Johnson Years	698	(24)
New Frontier and Great Society	700	(13)
The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties	713	(9)
Voices of Protest	722	(44)
The Revival of Feminism	724	(9)
Hispanic Americans Organize	733	(9)
Land Claims of Native Americans	742	(6)
The Counterculture	748	(18)
UNIT 9 The Troubled Years, 1960-1980
The Vietnam War	766	(40)
War in Southeast Asia	768	(8)
1968: A Year of Crises	776	(10)
The War at Home	786	(10)
Ending the War	796	(10)
From Nixon to Carter	806	(48)
A New Majority	808	(8)
Nixon Foreign Policy	816	(8)
The Watergate Crisis	824	(12)
Ford and Carter	836	(18)
UNIT 10 New Challenges, 1980-Present
The Reagan and Bush Years	854	(36)
The Reagan Revolution	856	(9)
The Collapse of Communism	865	(11)
The Bush Presidency	876	(14)
A Changing Nation in a Changing World	890	(80)
The Clinton Agenda	892	(10)
The New Conservativism	902	(14)
Toward a New Century	916	(16)
APPENDIX
Atlas	932	(12)
United States Databank	944	(6)
United States Presidents	950	(8)
Career Connections Handbook	958	(12)
Glossary	970	(7)
Spanish Glossary	977	(9)
Index	986	(24)
Credits	1010