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Author Biography

James L. Roark (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of American History at Emory University. In 1993, he received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001–2002 he was Pitt Professor of American Institutions at Cambridge University. He has written Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction and coauthored Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South with Michael P. Johnson.
Michael P. Johnson (Ph.D., Stanford University) is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia; Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Speeches and Writings; and Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, the documents reader for The American Promise. He has also coedited No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War with James L. Roark.
Patricia Cline Cohen (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005–2006. She has written A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America and The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, and she has coauthored The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York.
Sarah Stage (Ph.D., Yale University) has taught U.S. history at Williams College and the University of California, Riverside, and she was visiting professor at Beijing University and Szechuan University. Currently she is professor of Women’s Studies at Arizona State University. Her books include Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women’s Medicine and Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession.
Susan M. Hartmann (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. In 1995 she won the university's Exemplary Faculty Award in the College of Humanities. Her publications include Truman and the 80th Congress; The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s; From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since 1960; and The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment.

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading activities, assessment tools, Reflections activities, What’s Your Question? activities, Chronological Reasoning activities, and all of the documents from Reading the American Past – has been indicated on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, timeline activities, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

Preface

Versions and Supplements

Contents

Maps, Figures, and Tables

Special Features

1. ANCIENT AMERICA, BEFORE 1492
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Archaeology and History

Reflections on Archaeology and History LaunchPad

The First Americans
African and Asian Origins

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Who Were the First Americans?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
Paleo-Indian Hunters

Reflections on The First Americans LaunchPad

Archaic Hunters and Gatherers
Great Plains Bison Hunters

Great Basin Cultures

Pacific Coast Cultures

Eastern Woodland Cultures

Reflections on Archaic Hunters and Gatherers LaunchPad

Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms
Southwestern Cultures

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Corn: An Ancient American Legacy"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Daily Life in Chaco Canyon"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
Woodland Burial Mounds and Chiefdoms

Reflections on Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms LaunchPad

Native Americans in the 1490s
Eastern and Great Plains Peoples

Southwestern and Western Peoples

Cultural Similarities

Reflections on Native Americans in the 1490s LaunchPad

The Mexica: A Mesoamerican Culture

Reflections on The Mexica: A Mesoamerican Culture LaunchPad

Conclusion: The World of Ancient Americans
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 1 LaunchPad
Document 1-1: A Taino Origin Story: Ramón Pané, On Taino Religious Practices LaunchPad
Document 1-2: A Penobscot Origin Narrative: Joseph Nicolar, The Life and Traditions of the Red Men, 1893 LaunchPad
Document 1-3: Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative: "In the Beginning" LaunchPad
Document 1-4: Aristotle on Masters and Slaves: The Politics, ca. 300 B.C. LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 1 LaunchPad
Chapter 1 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

2. EUROPEANS ENCOUNTER THE NEW WORLD, 1492–1600
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Europe in the Age of Exploration
Mediterranean Trade and European Expansion

A Century of Portuguese Exploration

Reflections on Europe in the Age of Exploration LaunchPad

A Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic
The Explorations of Columbus

The Geographic Revolution and the Columbian Exchange

Reflections on A Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic LaunchPad

Spanish Exploration and Conquest
The Conquest of Mexico

The Search for Other Mexicos

Spanish Outposts in Florida and New Mexico

New Spain in the Sixteenth Century

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Weapons of Conquest"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Justifying Conquest"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Spreading Christianity in New Spain"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
The Toll of Spanish Conquest and Colonization

Reflections on Spanish Exploration and Conquest LaunchPad

The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe
The Protestant Reformation and the Spanish Response

Europe and The Spanish Example

Reflections on The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe LaunchPad

Conclusion: The promise of the new world for europeans
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 2 LaunchPad
Document 2-1: The King of the Congo Writes to the King of Portugal: King Afonso and King João III, Correspondence, 1526 LaunchPad
Document 2-2: Columbus Describes His First Encounter with "Indians": The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 LaunchPad
Document 2-3: A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico, 1519-1520: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain, 1632 LaunchPad
Document 2-4: A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico: Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex LaunchPad
Document 2-5: Cabeza de Vaca Describes His Captivity Among Native Americans in Texas and the Southwest, 1528-1536: Narrative, 1542 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 2 LaunchPad
Chapter 2 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

3. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601–1700
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay
The Fragile Jamestown Settlement

Cooperation and Conflict between Natives and Newcomers

From Private Company to Royal Government

Reflections on An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay LaunchPad

A Tobacco Society
BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "American Tobacco and European Consumers"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Gamble of Indentured Servitude"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
Tobacco Agriculture

A Servant Labor System

The Rigors of Servitude

Cultivating Land and Faith

Reflections on A Tobacco Society LaunchPad

Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake
Social and Economic Polarization

Government Policies and Political Conflict

Bacon’s Rebellion

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Why Did English Colonists Consider Themselves Superior to

Indians and Africans?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad

Reflections on Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake LaunchPad

Toward a Slave Labor System
Religion and Revolt in the Spanish Borderland

The West Indies: Sugar and Slavery

Carolina: A West Indian Frontier

Slave Labor Emerges in the Chesapeake

Reflections on Toward a Slave Labor System LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Growth of English Colonies Based on Export Crops and Slave Labor
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 3 LaunchPad
Document 3-1: Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia: Letter to Father and Mother, March 20, April 2, 3, 1623 LaunchPad
Document 3-2: Opechancanough's 1622 Uprising in Virginia: Edward Waterhouse, Declaration, 1622 LaunchPad
Document 3-3: Sex and Race Relations: Testimony from Virginia Court Records, 1681 LaunchPad
Document 3-4: Bacon's Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration, 1676 LaunchPad
Document 3-5: Pedro Naranjo Describes Pueblo Revolt: Declaration of Pedro Naranjo of the Queres Nation, December 19, 1681 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 3 LaunchPad
Chapter 3 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

4. THE NORTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601–1700
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Puritans and the Settlement of New England
Puritan Origins: The English Reformation

The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony

The Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony

Reflections on Puritans and the Settlement of New England LaunchPad

The Evolution of New England Society
Church, Covenant, and Conformity

Government by Puritans for Puritanism

The Splintering of Puritanism

Religious Controversies and Economic Changes

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Seats of Power"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Hunting Witches in Salem,

Massachusetts"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on The Evolution of New England Society LaunchPad

The Founding of the Middle Colonies
From New Netherland to New York

New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Toleration and Diversity in Pennsylvania

Reflections on The Founding of the Middle Colonies LaunchPad

The Colonies and the English Empire
Royal Regulation of Colonial Trade

King Philip’s War and the Consolidation of Royal Authority

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "New France and the Indians: The English Colonies’

Northern Borderlands"
Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad

Reflections on The Colonies and the English Empire LaunchPad

Conclusion: An English Model of Colonization in North America
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 4 LaunchPad
Document 4-1: The Arbella Sermon: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 LaunchPad
Document 4-2: Observations of New England Indians: Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, 1643 LaunchPad
Document 4-3: Wampanoag Grievances at the Outset of King Philip's War: John Easton, A Relation of the Indian War, 1675 LaunchPad
Document 4-4: A Provincial Government Enacts Legislation: The Laws of Pennsylvania, 1682 LaunchPad
Document 4-5: Words of the Bewitched: Testimony against Accused Witch Bridget Bishop, 1692 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 4 LaunchPad
Chapter 4 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

5. COLONIAL AMERICA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701–1770
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
A Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North America

Reflections on A Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North America LaunchPad

New England: From Puritan Settlers to Yankee Traders
Natural Increase and Land Distribution

Farms, Fish, and Atlantic Trade

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Sailor’s Life in the Eighteenth-Century

Atlantic World"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on New England: From Puritan Settlers to Yankee Traders LaunchPad

The Middle Colonies: Immigrants, Wheat, and Work
German and Scots-Irish Immigrants

"God Gives All Things to Industry": Urban and Rural Labor

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "A View of Urban Life"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad

Reflections on The Middle Colonies: Immigrants, Wheat, and Work LaunchPad

The Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery
The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Growth of Slavery

Slave Labor and African American Culture

Tobacco, Rice, and Prosperity

Reflections on The Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery LaunchPad

Unifying Experiences
Commerce and Consumption

Religion, Enlightenment, and Revival

Trade and Conflict in the North American Borderlands

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Spanish Priests Report on

California Missions"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
Colonial Politics in the British Empire

Reflections on Unifying Experiences LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Dual Identity of British North American Colonists
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 5 LaunchPad
Document 5-1: Elizabeth Ashbridge Becomes an Indentured Servant in New York:　Elizabeth Ashbridge, Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, Who Died in…1755 (1807) LaunchPad
Document 5-2: Poor Richard's Advice: Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's Speech from Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757 LaunchPad
Document 5-3: An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry: Charles Woodmason, Sermon on the Baptists and the Presbyterians, ca. 1768 LaunchPad
Document 5-4: Advertisements for Runaway Slaves: South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737-1745 LaunchPad
Document 5-5: A Moravian Missionary Interviews Slaves in the West Indies, 1767-1768:　Christian George Andreas Oldendorp, History of the Evangelical Brethren's Mission on the Caribbean Islands, 1777 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS　 LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 5 LaunchPad
Chapter 5 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

6. THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE COLONIAL CRISIS, 1754–1775
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763
French-British Rivalry in the Ohio Country

The Albany Congress

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Cultural Cross-Dressing in Eighteenth-Century Portraits"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
The War and Its Consequences

Pontiac’s Rebellion and the Proclamation of 1763

Reflections on The Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763 LaunchPad

The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763–1765
Grenville’s Sugar Act

The Stamp Act

Resistance Strategies and Crowd Politics

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Pursuing Liberty, Protesting Tyranny"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
Liberty and Property

Reflections on The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763–1765 LaunchPad

The Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767–1770
The Townshend Duties

Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty

Military Occupation and "Massacre" in Boston

Reflections on The Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767–1770 LaunchPad

The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts, 1770–1774
The Calm before the Storm

Tea in Boston Harbor

The Coercive Acts

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Reactions to the Boston Port Act

Outside of Massachusetts"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
Beyond Boston: Rural New England

The First Continental Congress

Reflections on The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts, 1770–1774 LaunchPad

Domestic Insurrections, 1774–1775
Lexington and Concord

Rebelling against Slavery

Reflections on Domestic Insurrections, 1774–1775 LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Long Road to Revolution
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 6 LaunchPad
Document 6-1: Mary Jemison Is Captured by Seneca Indians during the Seven Years' War: James E. Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, 1824 LaunchPad
Document 6-2: An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre: Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772 LaunchPad
Document 6-3: A Boston Shoemaker Recalls British Arrogance and the Boston Tea Party: George R. T. Hewes, Memoir, 1834 LaunchPad
Document 6-4: Daniel Leonard Argues for Loyalty to the British Empire: To the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, 1774-1775 LaunchPad
Document 6-5: Edmund Burke Urges Reconciliation with the Colonies: Speech to Parliament, March 22, 1775 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 6 LaunchPad
Chapter 6 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

7. THE WAR FOR AMERICA, 1775–1783
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Second Continental Congress
Assuming Political and Military Authority

Pursuing Both War and Peace

Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams, and the Case for Independence

The Declaration of Independence

Reflections on The Second Continental Congress LaunchPad

The First Year of War, 1775–1776
The American Military Forces

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Keeping Powder Dry"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
The British Strategy

Quebec, New York, and New Jersey

Reflections on The First Year of War, 1775–1776 LaunchPad

The Home Front
Patriotism at the Local Level

The Loyalists

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Families Divide over the Revolution"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
Who Is a Traitor?

Prisoners of War

Financial Instability and Corruption

Reflections on The Home Front LaunchPad

The Campaigns of 1777–1779: The North and West
Burgoyne’s Army and the Battle of Saratoga

The War in the West: Indian Country

The French Alliance

Reflections on The Campaigns of 1777–1779: The North and West LaunchPad

The Southern Strategy and the End of the War
Georgia and South Carolina

Treason and Guerrilla Warfare

Surrender at Yorktown

The Losers and the Winners

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "European Nations and the Peace of Paris, 1783"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad

Reflections on The Southern Strategy and the End of the War LaunchPad

Conclusion: Why the British Lost
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 7 LaunchPad
Document 7-1: Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence: Common Sense, January 1776 LaunchPad
Document 7-2: Letters of John and Abigail Adams: Correspondence, 1776 LaunchPad
Document 7-3: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Describes the Distresses of a Frontier Farmer during the Revolution: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, "Distresses of a Frontier Man," 1782 LaunchPad
Document 7-4: Boston King Seeks Freedom by Running Away to the British Army: Memoir, 1798 LaunchPad
Document 7-5: Joseph Brant Appeals to British Allies to Keep Promises: Address to British Secretary of State Lord Germain, 1776 and Message to Governor of Quebec, Frederick Haldimand, 1783 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 7 LaunchPad
Chapter 7 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

8. BUILDING A REPUBLIC, 1775–1789
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Articles of Confederation
Confederation and Taxation

The Problem of Western Lands

Running the New Government

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Great Seal of the United States"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad

Reflections on The Articles of Confederation LaunchPad

The Sovereign States
The State Constitutions

Who Are "the People"?

Equality and Slavery

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: A Slave Sues for Her Freedom

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on The Sovereign States LaunchPad

The Confederation’s Problems
The War Debt and the Newburgh Conspiracy

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix

Land Ordinances and the Northwest Territory

The Requisition of 1785 and Shays’s Rebellion, 1786–1787

Shays’s Rebellion

Reflections on The Confederation’s Problems LaunchPad

The United States Constitution
From Annapolis to Philadelphia

The Virginia and New Jersey Plans

Democracy versus Republicanism

Reflections on The United States Constitution LaunchPad

Ratification of the Constitution
The Federalists

The Antifederalists

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Was the New United States a Christian Country?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
The Big Holdouts: Virginia and New York

Reflections on Ratification of the Constitution LaunchPad

Conclusion: The "Republican Remedy’
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 8 LaunchPad
Document 8-1: Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church: Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours, 1833 LaunchPad
Document 8-2: Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race: Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782 LaunchPad
Document 8-3: Benjamin Rush Proposes a Proper Education for a Republic: Benjamin Rush, "Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic," 1786 LaunchPad
Document 8-4: Making the Case for the Constitution: James Madison, Federalist Number 10, 1787 LaunchPad
Document 8-5: Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution: Observations on the New Constitution, 1788 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 8 LaunchPad
Chapter 8 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

9. THE NEW NATION TAKES FORM, 1789–1800
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Search for Stability
Washington Inaugurates the Government

The Bill of Rights

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "How Did America’s First Congress Address the Question of

Slavery?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
The Republican Wife and Mother

Reflections on The Search for Stability LaunchPad

Hamilton’s Economic Policies
Agriculture, Transportation, and Banking

The Public Debt and Taxes

The First Bank of the United States and the Report on Manufactures
The Whiskey Rebellion

Reflections on Hamilton’s Economic Policies LaunchPad

Conflicts on America’s Borders and Beyond
Creeks in the Southwest

Ohio Indians in the Northwest

France and Britain

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "France, Britain, and Woman’s Rights in the

1790’s"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad
The Haitian Revolution

Reflections on Conflicts on America’s Borders and Beyond LaunchPad

Federalists and Republicans
The Election of 1796

The XYZ Affair

The Alien and Sedition Acts

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Crisis of 1798: Sedition"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on Federalists and Republicans LaunchPad

Conclusion: Parties Nonetheless
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 9 LaunchPad
Document 9-1: Alexander Hamilton on the Economy: Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 LaunchPad
Document 9-2: Mary Dewees Moves West to Kentucky: Journal, 1788-1789 LaunchPad
Document 9-3: Judith Sargent Murray Insists on the Equality of the Sexes: Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes," 1790 LaunchPad
Document 9-4: A French Sugar Planter Describes the French and Saint Domingue Revolutions: A Sugar Planter of Saint Domingue Experiences Revolution in France and Saint Domingue, 1791 LaunchPad
Document 9-5: President George Washington's Parting Advice to the Nation: Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 9 LaunchPad
Chapter 9 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

10. REPUBLICANS IN POWER, 1800–1824
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Jefferson’s Presidency
Turbulent Times: Election and Rebellion

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "How Could a Vice President Get Away with Murder?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
The Jeffersonian Vision of Republican Simplicity

Dangers Overseas: The Barbary Wars

Reflections on Jefferson’s Presidency LaunchPad

Opportunities and Challenges in the West
The Louisiana Purchase

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Cultural Exchange on the Lewis and Clark Trail"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad

Osage and Comanche Indians

Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges in the West LaunchPad

Jefferson, the Madisons, and the War of 1812
Impressment and Embargo

Dolley Madison and Social Politics

Tecumseh and Tippecanoe

The War of 1812

Washington City Burns: The British Offensive

Reflections on Jefferson, the Madisons, and the War of 1812 LaunchPad

Women’s Status in the Early Republic
Women and the Law

Women and Church Governance

Female Education

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "One Woman’s Quest to Provide Higher Education for Women"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on Women’s Status in the Early Republic LaunchPad

Monroe and Adams
From Property to Democracy

The Missouri Compromise

The Monroe Doctrine

The Election of 1824

The Adams Administration

Reflections on Monroe and Adams LaunchPad

Conclusion: Republican Simplicity Becomes Complex
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 10 LaunchPad
Document 10-1: President Thomas Jefferson's Private and Public Indian Policy: Letter to Governor William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803 and Address to the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation, December 30, 1806 LaunchPad
Document 10-2: Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone: The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805 LaunchPad
Document 10-3: A Slave Demands That Thomas Jefferson Abolish Slavery: A　 Slave to Thomas Jefferson, November 30, 1808 LaunchPad
Document 10-4: James Forten Protests Pennsylvania Law Threatening Enslavement of Free African Americans: Letters from a Man of Colour, on a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania, 1813 LaunchPad
Document 10-5: James Hamilton's Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812:　Confession, 1818 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS　LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 10 LaunchPad
Chapter 10 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

11. THE EXPANDING REPUBLIC, 1815–1840
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Market Revolution
Improvements in Transportation

Factories, Workingwomen, and Wage Labor

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Mill Girls Stand Up to Factory Owners, 1834"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
Bankers and Lawyers

Booms and Busts

Reflections on The Market Revolution LaunchPad

The Spread of Democracy
Popular Politics and Partisan Identity

The Election of 1828 and the Character Issue

Jackson’s Democratic Agenda

Reflections on The Spread of Democracy LaunchPad

Jackson Defines the Democratic Party
Indian Policy and the Trail of Tears

The Tariff of Abominations and Nullification

The Bank War and Economic Boom

Reflections on Jackson Defines the Democratic Party LaunchPad

Cultural Shifts, Religion, and Reform
The Family and Separate Spheres

The Education and Training of Youths

The Second Great Awakening

The Temperance Movement and the Campaign for Moral Reform

Organizing against Slavery

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Transatlantic Abolition"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad

Reflections on Cultural Shifts, Religion, and Reform LaunchPad

Van Buren’s One-Term Presidency
The Politics of Slavery

Elections and Panics

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Going Ahead or Gone to Smash: An Entrepreneur Struggles in the 1830s"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on Van Buren’s One-Term Presidency LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Age of Jackson or the Era of Reform?
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 11 LaunchPad
Document 11-1: President Andrew Jackson's Parting Words to the Nation: Farewell Address, March 4, 1837 LaunchPad
Document 11-2: Cherokees Debate Removal: John Ross, Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, 1836 and Elias Boudinot, A Reply to John Ross, 1837 LaunchPad
Document 11-3: Alexis de Toqueville Describes the Three Races in the United States: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835 LaunchPad
Document 11-4: David Walker Demands Emancipation: Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829 LaunchPad
Document 11-5: Sarah Grimké on the Status of Women: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 11 LaunchPad
Chapter 11 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

12. THE NEW WEST AND THE FREE NORTH, 1840–1860
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Economic and Industrial Evolution
Agriculture and Land Policy

Manufacturing and Mechanization

Railroads: Breaking the Bonds of Nature

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Path of Progress"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad

Reflections on Economic and Industrial Evolution LaunchPad

Free Labor: Promise and Reality
The Free-Labor Ideal

Economic Inequality

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Global Prosperity in the 1850s"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad
Immigrants and the Free-Labor Ladder

Reflections on Free Labor: Promise and Reality LaunchPad

The Westward Movement
Manifest Destiny

Oregon and the Overland Trail

The Mormon Exodus

The Mexican Borderlands

Reflections on The Westward Movement LaunchPad

Expansion and the Mexican-American War
The Politics of Expansion

The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848

Victory in Mexico

Golden California

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Gold Rush"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on Expansion and the Mexican-American War LaunchPad

Reforming Self and Society
The Pursuit of Perfection: Transcendentalists and Utopians

Woman’s Rights Activists

Abolitionists and the American Ideal

Reflections on Reforming Self and Society LaunchPad

Conclusion: Free Labor, Free Men
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 12 LaunchPad
Document 12-1: Abraham Lincoln Explains the Free Labor System: Abraham Lincoln, "Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society," Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859 LaunchPad
Document 12-2: The Anxiety of Gain: Henry W. Bellows on Commerce and Morality: The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral Life of America, 1845 LaunchPad
Document 12-3: Gold Fever: Walter Colton, California Gold Rush Diary, 1849-1850 LaunchPad
Document 12-4: That Woman Is Man's Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration: Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 LaunchPad
Document 12-5: A Farmer's View of His Wife: Eliza Farnham, Conversation with a Newly Wed Westerner, 1846 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 12 LaunchPad
Chapter 12 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

13. THE SLAVE SOUTH, 1820–1860
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Growing Distinctiveness of the South
Cotton Kingdom, Slave Empire

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Auction Block"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
The South in Black and White

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Defending Slavery"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
The Plantation Economy

Reflections on The Growing Distinctiveness of the South LaunchPad

Masters and Mistresses in the Big House
Paternalism and Male Honor

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "How Often Were Slaves Whipped?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
The Southern Lady and Feminine Virtues

Reflections on Masters and Mistresses in the Big House LaunchPad

Slaves in the Quarter
Work

Family and Religion

Resistance and Rebellion

Reflections on Slaves in the Quarter LaunchPad

The Plain Folk
Plantation Belt Yeomen

Upcountry Yeomen

Poor Whites

The Culture of the Plain Folk

Reflections on The Plain Folk LaunchPad

Black and Free: On the Middle Ground
Precarious Freedom

Achievement despite Restrictions

Reflections on Black and Free: On the Middle Ground LaunchPad

The Politics of Slavery
The Democratization of the Political Arena

Planter Power

Reflections on The Politics of Slavery LaunchPad

Conclusion: A Slave Society
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 13 LaunchPad
Document 13-1: Madison Hemings Recalls Life as Thomas Jefferson's Enslaved Son: Interview, 1873 LaunchPad
Document 13-2: Plantation Rules: Bennet Barrow, Highland Plantation Journal, May 1, 1838 LaunchPad
Document 13-3: Fanny Kemble Learns about Abuses of Slave Women: Frances Anne Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 LaunchPad
Document 13-4: Nat Turner Explains Why He Became an Insurrectionist: The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831 LaunchPad
Document 13-5: The Proslavery Argument: James Henry Hammond, Letter to an English Abolitionist, 1845 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 13 LaunchPad
Chapter 13 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

14. THE HOUSE DIVIDED, 1846–1861
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Bitter Fruits of War
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Ball Playing Among the Sioux"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
The Wilmot Proviso and the Expansion of Slavery

The Election of 1848

Debate and Compromise

Reflections on The Bitter Fruits of War LaunchPad

The Sectional Balance Undone
The Fugitive Slave Act

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Kansas-Nebraska Act

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Filibusters: The Underside of Manifest Destiny"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad

Reflections on The Sectional Balance Undone LaunchPad

Realignment of the Party System
The Old Parties: Whigs and Democrats

The New Parties: Know-Nothings and Republicans

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Purse of her Own"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
The Election of 1856

Reflections on Realignment of the Party System LaunchPad

Freedom under Siege
"Bleeding Kansas"

The Dred Scott Decision

Prairie Republican: Abraham Lincoln

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Reflections on Freedom under Siege LaunchPad

The Union Collapses
The Aftermath of John Brown’s Raid

Republican Victory in 1860

Secession Winter

Reflections on The Union Collapses LaunchPad

Conclusion: Slavery, Free Labor, and the Failure of Political Compromise
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 14 LaunchPad
Document 14-1: The Kansas-Nebraska Act: Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854 LaunchPad
Document 14-2: The Antislavery Constitution: Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Proslavery or Antislavery? 1860 LaunchPad
Document 14-3: The Proslavery Constitution: Jefferson Davis, Speech before the U.S. Senate, May 1860 LaunchPad
Document 14-4: Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner's Attempt to Escape Slavery: Levi Coffin, Reminiscences, 1880 LaunchPad
Document 14-5: Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child Defends John Brown and Attacks the Slave Power: Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise, 1859 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 14 LaunchPad
Chapter 14 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

15. THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR, 1861–1865
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
"And the War Came"
Attack on Fort Sumter

The Upper South Chooses Sides

Reflections on "And the War Came" LaunchPad

The Combatants
How They Expected to Win

Lincoln and Davis Mobilize

Reflections on The Combatants LaunchPad

Battling It Out, 1861–1862
Stalemate in the Eastern Theater

Union Victories in the Western Theater

The Atlantic Theater

International Diplomacy

Reflections on Battling It Out, 1861–1862 LaunchPad

Union and Freedom
From Slaves to Contraband

From Contraband to Free People

The War of Black Liberation

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Right to Fight: Black Soldiers in the Civil

War"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on Union and Freedom LaunchPad

The South at War
Revolution from Above

Hardship Below

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Home and Country"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
The Disintegration of Slavery

Reflections on The South at War LaunchPad

The North at War
The Government and the Economy

Women and Work at Home and at War

Politics and Dissent

Reflections on The North at War LaunchPad

Grinding Out Victory, 1863–1865
Vicksburg and Gettysburg

Grant Takes Command

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Why Did So Many Soldiers Die?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
The Election of 1864

The Confederacy Collapses

Reflections on Grinding Out Victory, 1863–1865 LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Second American Revolution
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 15 LaunchPad
Document 15-1: President Lincoln's War Aims: Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862; The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863; and The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 LaunchPad
Document 15-2: A Former Slave's War Aims: Statement from an Anonymous Former Slave, New Orleans, 1863 LaunchPad
Document 15-3: The New York Draft Riots: Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, 1863 LaunchPad
Document 15-4: Susie King Taylor Describes Her Wartime Experiences: Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, 1902 LaunchPad
Document 15-5: General William T. Sherman Explains the Hard Hand of War: Correspondence, 1864 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 15 LaunchPad
Chapter 15 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

16. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863–1877
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Wartime Reconstruction
"To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds"

Land and Labor

The African American Quest for Autonomy

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Meaning of Freedom"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on Wartime Reconstruction LaunchPad

Presidential Reconstruction
Johnson’s Program of Reconciliation

White Southern Resistance and Black Codes

Expansion of Federal Authority and Black Rights

Reflections on Presidential Reconstruction LaunchPad

Congressional Reconstruction
The Fourteenth Amendment and Escalating Violence

Radical Reconstruction and Military Rule

Impeaching a President

The Fifteenth Amendment and Women’s Demands

Reflections on Congressional Reconstruction LaunchPad

The Struggle in the South
Freedmen, Yankees, and Yeomen

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "What Did the Ku Klux Klan Really Want?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
Republican Rule

White Landlords, Black Sharecroppers

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "A Post-Slavery Encounter"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad

Reflections on The Struggle in the South LaunchPad

Reconstruction Collapses
Grant’s Troubled Presidency

Northern Resolve Withers

White Supremacy Triumphs

An Election and a Compromise

Reflections on Reconstruction Collapses LaunchPad

Conclusion: "A Revolution But Half Accomplished"
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 16 LaunchPad
Document 16-1: Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South: Report on the Condition of the South, 1865 LaunchPad
Document 16-2: Black Codes Enacted in the South: Mississippi Black Code, November 1865 LaunchPad
Document 16-3: Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families: Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865-1870 LaunchPad
Document 16-4: Planter Louis Manigault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves, 1867: Louis Manigault, "A Narrative of a Post-Civil War Visit to Gowrie and East Hermitage Plantations," March 22, 1867 LaunchPad
Document 16-5: Klan Violence against Blacks: Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 16 LaunchPad
Chapter 16 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

17. THE CONTESTED WEST, 1865–1900
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Conquest and Empire in the West
BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Treatment of the

Sioux and the Zulu"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad
Indian Removal and the Reservation System

The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds

Indian Wars and the Collapse of Comanchería

The Fight for the Black Hills

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Custer’s Last Stand"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad

Reflections on Conquest and Empire in the West LaunchPad

Forced Assimilation and Indian Resistance
Indian Schools and the War against Indian Culture

The Dawes Act and Indian Land Allotment

Indian Resistance and Survival

Reflections on Forced Assimilation and Indian Resistance LaunchPad

Mining the West
Life on the Comstock Lode

The Diverse Peoples of the West

Reflections on Mining the West LaunchPad

Land Fever
Moving West: Homesteaders and Speculators

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Young Women Homesteaders and the Promise of the West"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
Ranchers and Cowboys

Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants

Commercial Farming and Industrial Cowboys

Territorial Government

Reflections on Land Fever LaunchPad

Conclusion: The West in the Gilded Age
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 17 LaunchPad
Document 17-1: Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California: A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 1870 LaunchPad
Document 17-2: Mattie Oblinger Describes Life on a Nebraska Homestead: Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas, and Wheeler Thomas Family, June 16, 1873 LaunchPad
Document 17-3: Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border: N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875 LaunchPad
Document 17-4: In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment: Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879 LaunchPad
Document 17-5: A Plea to "Citizenize" Indians: Richard Pratt, "Kill the Indian ... and save the man," 1892 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 17 LaunchPad
Chapter 17 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

18. RAILROADS, BUSINESS, AND POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE, 1865–1900
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Railroads and the Rise of New Industries
Railroads: America’s First Big Business

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Alva Vanderbilt and the Gilded Age"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
Andrew Carnegie, Steel, and Vertical Integration

John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil, and the Trust

New Inventions: The Telephone and the Telegraph

Reflections on Railroads and the Rise of New Industries LaunchPad

From Competition to Consolidation
J. P. Morgan and Finance Capitalism

Social Darwinism, Laissez-Faire, and the Supreme Court

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Social Darwinism: Did Wealthy Industrialists Practice What They Preached?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad

Reflections on From Competition to Consolidation LaunchPad

Politics and Culture
Political Participation and Party Loyalty

Sectionalism and the New South

Gender, Race, and Politics

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Ida B. Wells and Her Campaign to Stop Lynching"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
Women’s Activism

Reflections on Politics and Culture LaunchPad

Presidential Politics
Corruption and Party Strife

Garfield’s Assassination and Civil Service Reform

Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

Reflections on Presidential Politics LaunchPad

Economic Issues and Party Realignment
The Tariff and the Politics of Protection

Railroads, Trusts, and the Federal Government

The Fight for Free Silver

Panic and Depression

Reflections on Economic Issues and Party Realignment LaunchPad

Conclusion: Business Dominates an Era
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 18 LaunchPad
Document 18-1: Marshall Kirkman Likens Railroad Corporations to Armies: Marshall M. Kirkman, "The Railway Army," 1894 LaunchPad
Document 18-2: William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883 LaunchPad
Document 18-3: Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies: Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894 LaunchPad
Document 18-4: Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth: Wealth, 1889 LaunchPad
Document 18-5: Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime: An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 18 LaunchPad
Chapter 18 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

19. THE CITY AND ITS WORKERS, 1870–1900
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Rise of the City
The Urban Explosion: A Global Migration

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Seeking Refuge: Russian Jews Escape the Pogroms"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
Racism and the Cry for Immigration Restriction

The Social Geography of the City

Reflections on The Rise of the City LaunchPad

At Work in Industrial America
America’s Diverse Workers

The Family Economy: Women and Children

White-Collar Workers: Managers, "Typewriters," and Salesclerks

Reflections on At Work in Industrial America LaunchPad

Workers Organize
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Songs of the Knights of Labor"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
Haymarket and the Specter of Labor Radicalism

Reflections on Workers Organize LaunchPad

At Home and at Play
Domesticity and "Domestics"

Cheap Amusements

Reflections on At Home and at Play LaunchPad

City Growth and City Government
Building Cities of Stone and Steel

City Government and the "Bosses"

White City or City of Sin?

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "The World’s Columbian Exposition and Nineteenth- Century World’s Fairs"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad

Reflections on City Growth and City Government LaunchPad

Conclusion: Who Built the Cities?
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 19 LaunchPad
Document 19-1: A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market: Thomas O'Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885 LaunchPad
Document 19-2: Domestic Servants on Household Work: Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s LaunchPad
Document 19-3: Jacob Riis Describes Abandoned Babies in New York City's Slums: Waifs of New York City's Slums, 1890 LaunchPad
Document 19-4: Walter Wyckoff Listens to Revolutionary Workers in Chicago: Walter A. Wyckoff, "Among the Revolutionaries," 1898 LaunchPad
Document 19-5: George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics: William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 19 LaunchPad
Chapter 19 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

20. DISSENT, DEPRESSION, AND WAR, 1890–1900
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Farmers Unite

The Farmers’ Alliance

The Populist Movement

Reflections on The Farmers Unite LaunchPad

The Labor Wars
The Homestead Lockout

The Cripple Creek Miners’ Strike of 1894

Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Press and the Pullman Strike:

Framing Class Conflict"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on The Labor Wars LaunchPad

Women’s Activism
Frances Willard and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Woman Suffrage

Reflections on Women’s Activism LaunchPad

Depression Politics
Coxey’s Army

The People’s Party and the Election of 1896

Reflections on Depression Politics LaunchPad

The United States and the World
Markets and Missionaries

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Regime Change in Hawai’i"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad
The Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door Policy

"A Splendid Little War"

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Did Terrorists Sink the Maine?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
The Debate over American Imperialism

Reflections on The United States and the World LaunchPad

Conclusion: Rallying around the Flag
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 20 LaunchPad
Document 20-1: Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers' Alliance: Mary Elizabeth Lease, "Women in the Farmers' Alliance," 1891 LaunchPad
Document 20-2: White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina: Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington "Rebellion" of 1898 LaunchPad
Document 20-3: Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead: Pinkerton Guard Testimony, 1893 LaunchPad
Document 20-4: Conflicting Views about Labor Unions: N. F. Thompson, Testimony before the Industrial Commission on the Relations and Conditions of Capital and Labor, 1900 and Samuel Gompers, Letter to the American Federationist, 1894 LaunchPad
Document 20-5: Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines: Case against the United States, 1899 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 20 LaunchPad
Chapter 20 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

21. PROGRESSIVISM FROM THE GRASS ROOTS TO THE WHITE HOUSE, 1890–1916
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Grassroots Progressivism
Civilizing the City

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Making the Workplace Safer: Alice Hamilton

Explores the Dangerous Trades"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
Progressives and the Working Class

Reflections on Grassroots Progressivism LaunchPad

Progressivism: Theory and Practice
Reform Darwinism and Social Engineering

Progressive Government: City and State

Reflections on Progressivism: Theory and Practice LaunchPad

Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt
The Square Deal

Roosevelt the Reformer

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Birth of Photojournalism"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
Roosevelt and Conservation

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Progressives and Conservation: Should Hetch Hetchy Be Dammed or Saved?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
The Big Stick

The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft

Reflections on Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt LaunchPad

Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide
Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912

Wilson’s Reforms: Tariff, Banking, and the Trusts

Wilson, Reluctant Progressive

Reflections on Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide LaunchPad

The Limits of Progressive Reform
Radical Alternatives

Progressivism for White Men Only

Reflections on The Limits of Progressive Reform LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Transformation of the Liberal State
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 21 LaunchPad
Document 21-1: Jane Addams on Settlement Houses: The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892 LaunchPad
Document 21-2: A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago: Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900 LaunchPad
Document 21-3: Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony: Letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer, January 12, 1907 LaunchPad
Document 21-4: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women's Suffrage: Marie Jenney Howe, An Anti-Suffrage Monologue, 1913 LaunchPad
Document 21-5: Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation: The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 LaunchPad
Document 21-6: W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality: Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 21 LaunchPad
Chapter 21 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

22. WORLD WAR I: THE PROGRESSIVE CRUSADE AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1914–1920
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Woodrow Wilson and the World
Taming the Americas

The European Crisis

The Ordeal of American Neutrality

The United States Enters the War

Reflections on Woodrow Wilson and the World LaunchPad

"Over There"
The Call to Arms

The War in France

Reflections on "Over There" LaunchPad

The Crusade for Democracy at Home
The Progressive Stake in the War

Women, War, and the Battle for Suffrage

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Seeking to Serve: An American Woman in Wartime France"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Final Push for Woman Suffrage"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
Rally around the Flag — or Else

Reflections on The Crusade for Democracy at Home LaunchPad

A Compromised Peace
Wilson’s Fourteen Points

The Paris Peace Conference

The Fight for the Treaty

Reflections on A Compromised Peace LaunchPad

Democracy at Risk
Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval

The Red Scare

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Bolshevism"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad
The Great Migrations of African Americans and Mexicans

Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920

Reflections on Democracy at Risk LaunchPad

Conclusion: Troubled Crusade
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 22 LaunchPad
Document 22-1: The North American Review Considers War a Blessing, Not a Curse: "For Freedom and Democracy," The North American Review, April 1917 LaunchPad
Document 22-2: Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers: Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918 LaunchPad
Document 22-3: A Doughboy's Letter from the Front: Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918 LaunchPad
Document 22-4: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists: The Case against the "Reds," 1920 LaunchPad
Document 22-5: An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot: Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 22 LaunchPad
Chapter 22 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

23. FROM NEW ERA TO GREAT DEPRESSION, 1920–1932
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The New Era
A Business Government

Promoting Prosperity and Peace Abroad

Automobiles, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line Progress

Consumer Culture

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Advertising in a Consumer Age"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad

Reflections on The New Era LaunchPad

The Roaring Twenties
Prohibition

The New Woman

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Was There a Sexual Revolution in the 1920s?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
The New Negro

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Quest for Home Ownership in Segregated Detroit"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
Entertainment for the Masses

The Lost Generation

Reflections on The Roaring Twenties LaunchPad

Resistance to Change
Rejecting the Undesirables

The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan

The Scopes Trial

Al Smith and the Election of 1928

Reflections on Resistance to Change LaunchPad

The Great Crash
Herbert Hoover: The Great Engineer

The Distorted Economy

The Crash of 1929

Hoover and the Limits of Individualism

Reflections on The Great Crash LaunchPad

Life in the Depression
The Human Toll

Denial and Escape

Working-Class Militancy

Reflections on Life in the Depression LaunchPad

Conclusion: Dazzle and Despair
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 23 LaunchPad
Document 23-1: Edward Earle Purinton Celebrates American Business as the Salvation of the World: Edward Earle Purinton, "Big Ideas From Big Business: Try Them Out for Yourself," The Independent, April 16, 1921 LaunchPad
Document 23-2: Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit: Diary Entries, 1925-1928 LaunchPad
Document 23-3: The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism: Hiram W. Evans, The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926 LaunchPad
Document 23-4: Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies: Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928 LaunchPad
Document 23-5: Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association: The Negro's Greatest Enemy, 1923 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 23 LaunchPad
Chapter 23 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

24. THE NEW DEAL EXPERIMENT, 1932–1939
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in Government
The Making of a Politician

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Fascism: Adolf Hitler and National Socialism"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad
The Election of 1932

Reflections on Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in Government LaunchPad

Launching the New Deal
The New Dealers

Banking and Finance Reform

Relief and Conservation Programs

Agricultural Initiatives

Industrial Recovery

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Textile Workers Strike for Better Wages and Working Conditions"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on Launching the New Deal LaunchPad

Challenges to the New Deal
Resistance to Business Reform

Casualties in the Countryside

Politics on the Fringes

Reflections on Challenges to the New Deal LaunchPad

Toward a Welfare State
Relief for the Unemployed

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Americans Encounter the New Deal"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
Empowering Labor

Social Security and Tax Reform

Neglected Americans and the New Deal

Reflections on Toward a Welfare State LaunchPad

The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock
The Election of 1936

Court Packing

Reaction and Recession

The Last of the New Deal Reforms

Reflections on The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock LaunchPad

Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of the New Deal
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 24 LaunchPad
Document 24-1: Martha Gellhorn Reports on Conditions in North Carolina in 1934: Martha Gellhorn to Harry Hopkins, November 11, 1934 LaunchPad
Document 24-2: Working People's Letters to New Dealers: Letter to Frances Perkins, January 27, 1935; Letter to Frances Perkins, March 29, 1935; Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 23, 1936; Letter to Frances Perkins, July 27, 1937; and Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 27, 1939 LaunchPad
Document 24-3: Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth: Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935 LaunchPad
Document 24-4: A Mexican American Farmworker Describes the Importance of Sticking Together: Jose Flores, Interview, Farm Security Administration Migrant Labor Camp, El Rio, California, 1941 LaunchPad
Document 24-5: Conservatives Criticize the New Deal: Herbert Hoover, Anti-New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936 and Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 24 LaunchPad
Chapter 24 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

25. THE UNITED STATES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939–1945
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Peacetime Dilemmas
Roosevelt and Reluctant Isolation

The Good Neighbor Policy

The Price of Noninvolvement

Reflections on Peacetime Dilemmas LaunchPad

The Onset of War
Nazi Aggression and War in Europe

From Neutrality to the Arsenal of Democracy

Japan Attacks America

Reflections on The Onset of War LaunchPad

Mobilizing for War
Home-Front Security

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Japanese Internment"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
Building a Citizen Army

Conversion to a War Economy

Reflections on Mobilizing for War LaunchPad

Fighting Back
Turning the Tide in the Pacific

The Campaign in Europe

Reflections on Fighting Back LaunchPad

The Wartime Home Front
Women and Families, Guns and Butter

The Double V Campaign

Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election

Reaction to the Holocaust

BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Atomic Bomb"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad

Reflections on The Wartime Home Front LaunchPad

Toward Unconditional Surrender
From Bombing Raids to Berlin

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Why Did the Allies Win World War II?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
The Defeat of Japan

Atomic Warfare

Reflections on Toward Unconditional Surrender LaunchPad

Conclusion: Allied Victory and America’s Emergence as a Superpower
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 25 LaunchPad
Document 25-1: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan: Speech to Congress, December 8, 1941 LaunchPad
Document 25-2: A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor: Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999 LaunchPad
Document 25-3: The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews:　Varian Fry, The Massacre of the Jews, December 21, 1942 LaunchPad
Document 25-4: Soldiers Send Messages Home: Sergeant Irving Strobing, Radio Address from Corregidor, Philippines, May 5 or 6, 1942; John Conroy, Letter, December 24, 1942; Allen Spach, Letter, February 1943; James McMahon, Letter, March 10, 1944; and David Mark Olds, Letter, July 12, 1945 LaunchPad
　Document 25-5: Rosies the Riveters Recall Working in War Industries: Rosie the Riveter Memoirs LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS　LaunchPad　

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 25 LaunchPad
Chapter 25 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

26. COLD WAR POLITICS IN THE TRUMAN YEARS, 1945–1953
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
From the Grand Alliance to Containment
The Cold War Begins

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Emerging Cold War"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Selling the Marshall Plan"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
Building a National Security State

Superpower Rivalry around the Globe

Reflections on From the Grand Alliance to Containment LaunchPad

Truman and the Fair Deal at Home
Reconverting to a Peacetime Economy

Blacks and Mexican Americans Push for Their Civil Rights

The Fair Deal Flounders

The Domestic Chill: McCarthyism

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "An Immigrant Scientist Encounters the Anti- Communist Crusade"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on Truman and the Fair Deal at Home LaunchPad

The Cold War Becomes Hot: Korea
Korea and the Military Implementation of Containment

From Containment to Rollback to Containment

Korea, Communism, and the 1952 Election

An Armistice and the War’s Costs

Reflections on The Cold War Becomes Hot: Korea LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Cold War’s Costs and Consequences
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 26 LaunchPad
Document 26-1: General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II: For the Common Defense, 1945 LaunchPad
Document 26-2: George F. Kennan Outlines Containment: The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946 LaunchPad
Document 26-3: Cold War Blueprint: NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950 LaunchPad
Document 26-4: Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists: Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950 LaunchPad
Document 26-5: Donald M. Griffith Recalls Combat in the Korean War: Donald M. Griffith Interview, 2003 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 26 LaunchPad
Chapter 26 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

27. THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF ABUNDANCE, 1952–1960
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Eisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way"
Modern Republicanism

Termination and Relocation of Native Americans

The 1956 Election and the Second Term

Reflections on Eisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way" LaunchPad

Liberation Rhetoric and the Practice of Containment
The "New Look" in Foreign Policy

Applying Containment to Vietnam

Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Operation Pedro Pan: Young Political Refugees Take Flight"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
The Nuclear Arms Race

Reflections on Liberation Rhetoric and the Practice of Containment LaunchPad

New Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of Abundance
Technology Transforms Agriculture and Industry

Burgeoning Suburbs and Declining Cities

The Rise of the Sun Belt

The Democratization of Higher Education

Reflections on New Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of Abundance LaunchPad

The Culture of Abundance
Consumption Rules the Day

The Revival of Domesticity and Religion

Television Transforms Culture and Politics

Countercurrents

Reflections on The Culture of Abundance LaunchPad

The Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement
African Americans Challenge the Supreme Court and the President

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Brown Decision"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "School Desegregation"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
Montgomery and Mass Protest

Reflections on The Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement LaunchPad

Conclusion: Peace and Prosperity Mask Unmet Challenges
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 27 LaunchPad
Document 27-1: Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women: Women Are Household Slaves, 1949 LaunchPad
Document 27-2: Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence: The Status Seekers, 1959 LaunchPad
Document 27-3: George E. McMillan Reports on Racial Conditions in the South in 1960: George E. McMillan, "Sit-Downs: The South's New Time Bomb," 1960 LaunchPad
Document 27-4: Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow: North Dakota Civil Defense Agency, How You Will Survive, 1960 LaunchPad
Document 27-5: President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex: Farewell Address, January 1961 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad　

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 27 LaunchPad
Chapter 27 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

28. REFORM, REBELLION, AND REACTION, 1960–1974
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Liberalism at High Tide
The Unrealized Promise of Kennedy’s New Frontier

Johnson Fulfills the Kennedy Promise

Policymaking for a Great Society

Assessing the Great Society

The Judicial Revolution

Reflections on Liberalism at High Tide LaunchPad

The Second Reconstruction
The Flowering of the Black Freedom Struggle

The Response in Washington

Black Power and Urban Rebellions

Reflections on The Second Reconstruction LaunchPad

A Multitude of Movements
Native American Protest

Latino Struggles for Justice

Student Rebellion, the New Left, and the Counterculture

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Student Protest"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Anti-Establishment Clothing"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
Gay Men and Lesbians Organize

Reflections on A Multitude of Movements LaunchPad

The New Wave of Feminism
A Multifaceted Movement Emerges

BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Transnational Feminisms"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad
Feminist Gains Spark a Countermovement

Reflections on The New Wave of Feminism LaunchPad

Liberal Reform in the Nixon Administration
Extending the Welfare State and Regulating the Economy

Responding to Environmental Concerns

Expanding Social Justice

Reflections on Liberal Reform in the Nixon Administration LaunchPad

Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of Liberalism
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 28 LaunchPad
Document 28-1: New Left Students Seek Democratic Social Change: Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962 LaunchPad
Document 28-2: Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance: Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963 LaunchPad
Document 28-3: George C. Wallace Denounces the Civil Rights Movement: George C. Wallace, "The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax," July 4, 1964 LaunchPad
Document 28-4: Black Power: Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 1967 LaunchPad
Document 28-5: Equal Rights for Women: National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 28 LaunchPad
Chapter 28 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

29. VIETNAM AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR CONSENSUS, 1961–1975
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
New Frontiers in Foreign Policy
Meeting the "Hour of Maximum Danger"

New Approaches to the Third World

The Arms Race and the Nuclear Brink

A Growing War in Vietnam

Reflections on New Frontiers in Foreign Policy LaunchPad

Lyndon Johnson’s War against Communism
An All-Out Commitment in Vietnam

Preventing Another Castro in Latin America

The Americanized War

Those Who Served

Reflections on Lyndon Johnson’s War against Communism LaunchPad

A Nation Polarized
The Widening War at Home

The Tet Offensive and Johnson’s Move toward Peace

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "1968: A Year of Protest"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad
The Tumultuous Election of 1968

Reflections on A Nation Polarized LaunchPad

Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam
Moving toward Détente with the Soviet Union and China

Shoring Up U.S. Interests around the World

Vietnam Becomes Nixon’s War

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Ending the War in Vietnam"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad
The Peace Accords

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "From the Fall of Saigon to the House of Representatives"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
The Legacy of Defeat

Reflections on Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam LaunchPad

Conclusion: An Unwinnable War
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 29 LaunchPad
Document 29-1: President Kennedy Explains Why We Are in Vietnam: Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, Letter to President John F. Kennedy, February 18, 1963 and President John F. Kennedy, Letter to Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, March 6, 1963 LaunchPad
Document 29-2: A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War: Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 1966 LaunchPad
Document 29-3: Military Discipline in an Unpopular War: Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971 LaunchPad
Document 29-4: An American Soldier in Vietnam: Arthur E. Woodley Jr., Oral History of a Special Forces Ranger LaunchPad
Document 29-5: John Kerry Denounces the Vietnam War: John Kerry Testimony before the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, 1971 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 29 LaunchPad
Chapter 29 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

30. AMERICA MOVES TO THE RIGHT, 1969–1989
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Nixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional Crisis
Emergence of a Grassroots Movement

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Mother Campaigns for a Say in Her Children's Education"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
Nixon Courts the Right

The Election of 1972

Watergate

The Ford Presidency and the 1976 Election

Reflections on Nixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional Crisis LaunchPad

The "Outsider" Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Retreat from Liberalism

Energy and Environmental Reform

Promoting Human Rights Abroad

The Cold War Intensifies

Reflections on The "Outsider" Presidency of Jimmy Carter LaunchPad

Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Ascendancy
Appealing to the New Right and Beyond

Unleashing Free Enterprise

Winners and Losers in a Flourishing Economy

Reflections on Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Ascendancy LaunchPad

Continuing Struggles over Rights
Battles in the Courts and Congress

Feminism on the Defensive

HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Why Did the ERA Fail?"

Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad
The Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Protecting Gay and Lesbian Rights"

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad

Reflections on Continuing Struggles over Rights LaunchPad

Ronald Reagan Confronts an "Evil Empire"
Militarization and Interventions Abroad

The Iran-Contra Scandal

A Thaw in Soviet-American Relations

Reflections on Ronald Reagan Confronts an "Evil Empire" LaunchPad

Conclusion: Reversing the Course of Government
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 30 LaunchPad
Document 30-1: The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency: Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 1973 LaunchPad
Document 30-2: Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights: Supreme Court Decision, 1973 LaunchPad
Document 30-3: Norma McCorvey Explains How She Became "Roe" of Roe v. Wade: Norma McCorvey Affidavit, United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 2000 LaunchPad
Document 30-4: President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality: Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 1983 LaunchPad
Document 30-5: A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast: Anonymous Man, Oral History, 1983 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 30 LaunchPad
Chapter 30 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

31. THE PROMISES AND CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION, SINCE 1989
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
Gridlock in Government

SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Suing for Access: Disability and the Courts"

Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad
The Cold War Ends

Going to War in Central America and the Persian Gulf

The 1992 Election

Reflections on Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush LaunchPad

The Clinton Administration’s Search for the Middle Ground
Clinton’s Reforms

Accommodating the Right

Impeaching the President

The Booming Economy of the 1990s

Reflections on The Clinton Administration’s Search for the Middle Ground LaunchPad

The United States in a Globalizing World
Defining America’s Place in a New World Order

Debates over Globalization

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Jobs in a Globalizing Era"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPad
The Internationalization of the United States

Reflections on The United States in a Globalizing World LaunchPad

President George W. Bush: Conservatism at Home and Radical Initiatives Abroad
The Disputed Election of 2000

The Domestic Policies of a "Compassionate Conservative"

The Globalization of Terrorism

Unilateralism, Preemption, and the Iraq War

Reflections on President George W. Bush: Conservatism at Home and Radical Initiatives Abroad LaunchPad

The Obama Presidency: Reform and Backlash
Governing during Economic Crisis and Political Polarization

VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Caricaturing the Candidates: Clinton and Obama in 2008"

Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad
Redefining the War on Terror

Reflections on The Obama Presidency: Reform and Backlash LaunchPad

Conclusion: Defining the Government’s Role at Home and Abroad
Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPad

What’s Your Question? LaunchPad

Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 31 LaunchPad
Document 31-1: National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War: The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002 LaunchPad
Document 31-2: A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses: Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007 LaunchPad
Document 31-3: A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked: Tony Campolo, Interview, 2004 LaunchPad
Document 31-4: Joseph Stiglitz Describes Capitalist Fools' Responsibility for the Economic Crisis: Joseph E. Stiglitz, "Capitalist Fools," Global Research, December 11, 2008 LaunchPad
Document 31-5: President Barack Obama Declares a New Beginning in U. S. Relations with the Muslim World: President Barack Obama, "On a New Beginning," Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2010 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 31 LaunchPad
Chapter 31 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

APPENDICES
I. Documents
The Declaration of Independence

The Constitution of the United States

Amendments to the Constitution with Annotations (including the six unratified amendments)

II. Government and Demographics
Presidential Elections

Admission of States to the Union

Population Growth, 1630–2010

Major Trends in Immigration, 1820-2010

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index

U.S. Political/Geographic and World Maps

About the Authors

APPENDICES

I. Documents

The Declaration of Independence

The Constitution of the United States

Amendments to the Constitution with Annotations (including the six unratified amendments)

II. Government and Demographics

Presidential Elections

Admission of States to the Union

Population Growth, 1630–2010

Major Trends in Immigration, 1820-2010

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index

U.S. Political/Geographic and World Maps

About the Authors

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