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Please Note: The Combined Volume includes all chapters. Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16 and Volume 2 includes Chapters 16-31.

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, and all of the documents from the companion reader Reading the American Past – has been labeled 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

Maps, Figures, and Tables

Special Features

1. Ancient America, Before 1492

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: An archaeological dig helps uncover ancient North American traditions

Archaeology and History
The First Americans
African and Asian Origins

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Who Were the First Americans?"

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Paleo-Indian Hunters

Archaic Hunters and Gatherers
Great Plains Bison Hunters

Great Basin Cultures

Pacific Coast Cultures

Eastern Woodland Cultures

Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms
Southwestern Cultures

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

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders 　　　　LaunchPad

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Artifacts of Daily Life in Chaco Canyon"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
Woodland Burial Mounds and Chiefdoms

Native Americans in the 1490s
Eastern and Great Plains Peoples

Southwestern and Western Peoples

Cultural Similarities

The Mexica: A Mesoamerican Culture
Conclusion: The World of Ancient Americans
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 1 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 1
Document 1-1: A Taino Origin Story: Ramón Pané, On Taino Religious Practices
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Document 1-2: A Penobscot Origin Narrative: Joseph Nicolar, The Life and Traditions of the Red Men, 1893

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Document 1-3: Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative: "In the Beginning"

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Document 1-4: Aristotle on Masters and Slaves: The Politics, ca. 300 B.C.

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

2. Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492–1600

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Queen Isabella of Spain supports Christopher Columbus’s risky plan to sail west across the Atlantic

Europe in the Age of Exploration
Mediterranean Trade and European Expansion

A Century of Portuguese Exploration

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

The Geographic Revolution and the Columbian Exchange

Spanish Exploration and Conquest
The Conquest of Mexico

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Why Did Cortés Win?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
The Search for Other Mexicos

Spanish Outposts in Florida and New Mexico

New Spain in the Sixteenth Century

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Justifying Conquest"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
EXPERIENCING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Spreading Christianity in New Spain"

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

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

Europe and The Spanish Example

Conclusion: The promise of the new world for Europeans
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 2 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 2
Document 2-1: The King of the Congo Writes to the King of Portugal: King Afonso and King João III, Correspondence, 1526

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Document 2-2: Columbus Describes His First Encounter with "Indians": The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493

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Document 2-3: A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico, 1519-1520: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain, 1632

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Document 2-4: A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico: Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex
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Document 2-5: Cabeza de Vaca Describes His Captivity Among Native Americans in Texas and the Southwest, 1528-1536: Narrative, 1542

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

3. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601–1700

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Pocahontas "rescues" John Smith

An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay
The Fragile Jamestown Settlement

Cooperation and Conflict between Natives and Newcomers

From Private Company to Royal Government

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

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Tobacco Agriculture

A Servant Labor System

The Rigors of Servitude

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Enslavement by Marriage"

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Cultivating Land and Faith

Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake
Social and Economic Polarization

Government Policies and Political Conflict

Bacon’s Rebellion

MAKING AN HISTORICAL ARGUMENT: "Why Did English Colonists Consider Themselves Superior to Indians and Africans?"

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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

Conclusion: The Growth of English Colonies Based on Export Crops and Slave Labor
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 3 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 3
Document 3-1: Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia: Letter to Father and Mother, March 20, April 2, 3, 1623

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Document 3-2: Opechancanough's 1622 Uprising in Virginia: Edward Waterhouse, Declaration, 1622

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Document 3-3: Sex and Race Relations: Testimony from Virginia Court Records, 1681

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Document 3-4: Bacon's Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration, 1676

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Document 3-5: Pedro Naranjo Describes Pueblo Revolt: Declaration of Pedro Naranjo of the Queres Nation, December 19, 1681

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

4. THE NORTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601–1700

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Roger Williams is banished from Puritan Massachusetts

Puritans and the Settlement of New England
Puritan Origins: The English Reformation

The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony

The Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "How did Seventeenth-Century Colonists View Nature" 　　　　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

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Hunting Witches in Salem, Massachusetts"

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

New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Toleration and Diversity in Pennsylvania

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
Conclusion: An English Model of Colonization in North America
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 4 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 4
Document 4-1: The Arbella Sermon: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630

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Document 4-2: Observations of New England Indians: Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, 1643

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Document 4-3: Wampanoag Grievances at the Outset of King Philip's War: John Easton, A Relation of the Indian War, 1675

Quiz for 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

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Document 4-5: Words of the Bewitched: Testimony against Accused Witch Bridget Bishop, 1692

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

5. COLONIAL AMERICA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701–1770
Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: The Robin Johns experience horrific turns of fortune in the Atlantic slave trade

A Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North America
New England: From Puritan Settlers to Yankee Traders
Natural Increase and Land Distribution

Farms, Fish, and Atlantic Trade

EXPERIENCING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Sailor’s Life in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"

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

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

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Why Did Few Colonists Oppose the African Slave Trade?" 　　　　LaunchPad
Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　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

Unifying Experiences
Commerce and Consumption

Religion, Enlightenment, and Revival

Trade and Conflict in the North American Borderlands

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Spanish Priests Report on California Missions"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
Colonial Politics in the British Empire

Conclusion: The Dual Identity of British North American Colonists
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 5 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 5
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)
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Document 5-2: Poor Richard's Advice: Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's Speech from Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
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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
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Document 5-4: Advertisements for Runaway Slaves: South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737-1745
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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
Quiz for 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

6. The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754–1775

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Loyalist governor Thomas Hutchinson stands his ground in radical Massachusetts

The Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763
French-British Rivalry in the Ohio Country

The Albany Congress

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: 　"Why did the Mohawk Chief Hendrick fight with the British against the French in 1755?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad

The War and Its Consequences

Pontiac’s Rebellion and the Proclamation of 1763

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

The Stamp Act

Resistance Strategies and Crowd Politics

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

Quiz for Experiencing the American Promise 　　　　LaunchPad
Liberty and Property

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

Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty

Military Occupation and "Massacre" in Boston

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

Tea in Boston Harbor

The Coercive Acts

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Reactions to the Boston Port Act outside of Massachusetts"

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Beyond Boston: Rural New England

The First Continental Congress

Domestic Insurrections, 1774–1775
Lexington and Concord

Rebelling against Slavery

Conclusion: The Long Road to Revolution
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 6 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 6
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

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Document 6-2: An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre: Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772

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Document 6-3: A Boston Shoemaker Recalls British Arrogance and the Boston Tea Party: George R. T. Hewes, Memoir, 1834

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Document 6-4: Daniel Leonard Argues for Loyalty to the British Empire: To the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, 1774-1775

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Document 6-5: Edmund Burke Urges Reconciliation with the Colonies: Speech to Parliament, March 22, 1775

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

7. THE WAR FOR AMERICA, 1775–1783

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Deborah Sampson masquerades as a man to join the Continental army

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

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "How Did ‘New Media’ Push Forward the Declaration of Independence?"

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

The British Strategy

Quebec, New York, and New Jersey

The Home Front
Patriotism at the Local Level

The Loyalists

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Families Divide over the Revolution"

Who Is a Traitor?

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
Prisoners of War

Financial Instability and Corruption

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

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

Treason and Guerrilla Warfare

A Shaming Ritual Targeting the Great Traitor

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
Conclusion: Why the British Lost
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 7 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 7
Document 7-1: Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence: Common Sense, January 1776

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Document 7-2: Letters of John and Abigail Adams: Correspondence, 1776

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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

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Document 7-4: Boston King Seeks Freedom by Running Away to the British Army: Memoir, 1798

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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

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

8. BUILDING A REPUBLIC, 1775–1789

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: James Madison comes of age in the midst of revolution

The Articles of Confederation
Confederation and Taxation

The Problem of Western Lands

Running the New Government

The Sovereign States
The State Constitutions

Who Are "the People"?

Equality and Slavery

EXPERIENCING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Slave Sues for Her Freedom"

Quiz for Experiencing the American Promise 　　　　LaunchPad
The Confederation’s Problems

The War Debt and the Newburgh Conspiracy

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix

Land Ordinances and the Northwest Territory

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Northwest Ordinance and Slavery"

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

The United States Constitution
From Annapolis to Philadelphia

The Virginia and New Jersey Plans

Democracy versus Republicanism

Ratification of the Constitution
The Federalists

The Antifederalists

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

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The Big Holdouts: Virginia and New York

Conclusion: The "Republican Remedy’
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 8 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 8
Document 8-1: Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church: Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours, 1833

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Document 8-2: Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race: Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782

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Document 8-3: Benjamin Rush Proposes a Proper Education for a Republic: Benjamin Rush, "Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic," 1786

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Document 8-4: Making the Case for the Constitution: James Madison, Federalist Number 10, 1787

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Document 8-5: Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution: Observations on the New Constitution, 1788

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

9. THE NEW NATION TAKES FORM, 1789–1800

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Brilliant and brash, Alexander Hamilton becomes a polarizing figure in the 1790s

The Search for Stability
Washington Inaugurates the Government

The Bill of Rights

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "How Did America’s First Congress Address the Question of Slavery?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
The Republican Wife and Mother

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

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 1790s"

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The Haitian Revolution

Federalists and Republicans
The Election of 1796

The XYZ Affair

The Alien and Sedition Acts

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Crisis of 1798: Sedition"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
Conclusion: Parties Nonetheless
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 9 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 9
Document 9-1: Alexander Hamilton on the Economy: Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791

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Document 9-2: Mary Dewees Moves West to Kentucky: Journal, 1788-1789

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Document 9-3: Judith Sargent Murray Insists on the Equality of the Sexes: Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes," 1790

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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

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Document 9-5: President George Washington's Parting Advice to the Nation: Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

10. Republicans in Power, 1800–1824

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: The Shawnee chief Tecumseh attempts to forge a pan-Indian confederacy

Jefferson’s Presidency
Turbulent Times: Election and Rebellion

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

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
The Jeffersonian Vision of Republican Simplicity

Dangers Overseas: The Barbary Wars

Opportunities and Challenges in the West
The Louisiana Purchase

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Osage and Comanche Indians

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

Dolley Madison and Social Politics

Tecumseh and Tippecanoe

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Nation’s First Formal Declaration of War"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
Washington City Burns: The British Offensive

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

Women and Church Governance

Female Education

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

Quiz for Experiencing the American Promise 　　　　LaunchPad
Monroe and Adams
From Property to Democracy

The Missouri Compromise

The Monroe Doctrine

The Election of 1824

The Adams Administration

Conclusion: Republican Simplicity Becomes Complex
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 10 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 10
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
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Document 10-2: Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone: The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805
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Document 10-3: A Slave Demands That Thomas Jefferson Abolish Slavery: A　 Slave to Thomas Jefferson, November 30, 1808
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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
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Document 10-5: James Hamilton's Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812: Confession, 1818
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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

11. The Expanding Republic, 1815–1840

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: The Grimké sisters speak out against slavery

The Market Revolution
Improvements in Transportation

Factories, Workingwomen, and Wage Labor

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Mill Girls Stand Up to Factory Owners, 1834"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
Bankers and Lawyers

Booms and Busts

The Spread of Democracy
Popular Politics and Partisan Identity

The Election of 1828 and the Character Issue

Jackson’s Democratic Agenda

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

The Tariff of Abominations and Nullification

The Bank War and Economic Boom

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

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Who Scorned Temperance and Moral Reform?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
Organizing against Slavery

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

Elections and Panics

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

Quiz for Experiencing the American Promise 　　　　LaunchPad
Conclusion: The Age of Jackson or the Era of Reform?
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 11 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 11
Document 11-1: President Andrew Jackson's Parting Words to the Nation: Farewell Address, March 4, 1837

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Document 11-2: Cherokees Debate Removal: John Ross, Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, 1836 and Elias Boudinot, A Reply to John Ross, 1837

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Document 11-3: Alexis de Toqueville Describes the Three Races in the United States: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835

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Document 11-4: David Walker Demands Emancipation: Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829

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Document 11-5: Sarah Grimké on the Status of Women: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

12. The New West and the Free North, 1840–1860

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Opening Vignette: With the support of his wife, Abraham Lincoln struggles to survive in antebellum America

Economic and Industrial Evolution
Agriculture and Land Policy

Manufacturing and Mechanization

Railroads: Breaking the Bonds of Nature

Free Labor: Promise and Reality
The Free-Labor Ideal

Economic Inequality

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

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Immigrants and the Free-Labor Ladder

The Westward Movement
Manifest Destiny

Oregon and the Overland Trail

The Mormon Exodus

The Mexican Borderlands

Expansion and the Mexican-American War
The Politics of Expansion

The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848

Victory in Mexico

Golden California

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Gold Rush"

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MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Why was the Gold Rush So Deadly for California’s Indians?"

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

Woman’s Rights Activists

Abolitionists and the American Ideal

Conclusion: Free Labor, Free Men
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Chapter Review
Chapter 12 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 12
Document 12-1: Abraham Lincoln Explains the Free Labor System: Abraham Lincoln, "Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society," Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859

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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

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Document 12-3: Gold Fever: Walter Colton, California Gold Rush Diary, 1849-1850

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Document 12-4: That Woman Is Man's Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration: Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

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Document 12-5: A Farmer's View of His Wife: Eliza Farnham, Conversation with a Newly Wed Westerner, 1846

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

13. The Slave South, 1820–1860
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Opening Vignette: Slave Nat Turner leads a revolt to end slavery

The Growing Distinctiveness of the South
Cotton Kingdom, Slave Empire

The South in Black and White

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Defending Slavery"

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The Plantation Economy

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Cotton’s Global Empire"

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Masters and Mistresses in the Big House
Paternalism and Male Honor

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "How Often Were Slaves Whipped?"

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The Southern Lady and Feminine Virtues

Slaves in the Quarter
Work

Family and Religion

Resistance and Rebellion

The Plain Folk
Plantation-Belt Yeomen

Upcountry Yeomen

Poor Whites

The Culture of the Plain Folk

Black and Free: On the Middle Ground
Precarious Freedom

Achievement Despite Restrictions

The Politics of Slavery
The Democratization of the Political Arena

Planter Power

Conclusion: A Slave Society
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Chapter Review
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Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 13
Document 13-1: Madison Hemings Recalls Life as Thomas Jefferson's Enslaved Son: Interview, 1873

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Document 13-2: Plantation Rules: Bennet Barrow, Highland Plantation Journal, May 1, 1838

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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
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Document 13-4: Nat Turner Explains Why He Became an Insurrectionist: The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831

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Document 13-5: The Proslavery Argument: James Henry Hammond, Letter to an English Abolitionist, 1845

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

14. THE HOUSE DIVIDED, 1846–1861

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Opening Vignette: Abolitionist John Brown takes his war against slavery to Harpers Ferry, Virginia

The Bitter Fruits of War
The Wilmot Proviso and the Expansion of Slavery

The Election of 1848

Debate and Compromise

The Sectional Balance Undone
The Fugitive Slave Act

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Kansas-Nebraska Act

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Filibusters: Were They the Underside of Manifest Destiny?"

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

The New Parties: Know-Nothings and Republicans

EXPERIENCING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "’A Purse of Her Own’: Petitioning for the Right to Own Property"

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The Election of 1856

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Women’s Politics"

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Freedom under Siege
"Bleeding Kansas"

The Dred Scott Decision

Prairie Republican: Abraham Lincoln

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

The Union Collapses
The Aftermath of John Brown’s Raid

Republican Victory in 1860

Secession Winter

Conclusion: Slavery, Free Labor, and the Failure of Political Compromise
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Chapter Review
Chapter 14 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 14
Document 14-1: The Kansas-Nebraska Act: Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854

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Document 14-2: The Antislavery Constitution: Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Proslavery or Antislavery? 1860

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Document 14-3: The Proslavery Constitution: Jefferson Davis, Speech before the U.S. Senate, May 1860

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Document 14-4: Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner's Attempt to Escape Slavery: Levi Coffin, Reminiscences, 1880

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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

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

15. THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR, 1861–1865

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Opening Vignette: Runaway slave William Gould enlists in the U.S. Navy

"And the War Came"
Attack on Fort Sumter

The Upper South Chooses Sides

The Combatants
How They Expected to Win

Lincoln and Davis Mobilize

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

Union Victories in the Western Theater

The Atlantic Theater

International Diplomacy

Union and Freedom
From Slaves to Contraband

From Contraband to Free People

The War of Black Liberation

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

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The South at War
Revolution from Above

Hardship Below

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Home and Country"

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The Disintegration of Slavery

The North at War
The Government and the Economy

Women and Work at Home and at War

Politics and Dissent

Grinding Out Victory, 1863–1865
Vicksburg and Gettysburg

Grant Takes Command

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Why Did So Many Soldiers Die?"

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The Election of 1864

The Confederacy Collapses

Conclusion: The Second American Revolution
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Chapter Review
Chapter 15 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 15
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

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Document 15-2: A Former Slave's War Aims: Statement from an Anonymous Former Slave, New Orleans, 1863

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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

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Document 15-4: Susie King Taylor Describes Her Wartime Experiences: Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, 1902

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16. Reconstruction, 1863–1877

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Opening Vignette: James T. Rapier emerges in the early 1870s as Alabama’s most prominent black leader

Wartime Reconstruction
"To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds"

Land and Labor

The African American Quest for Autonomy

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Meaning of Freedom"

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Presidential Reconstruction
Johnson’s Program of Reconciliation

White Southern Resistance and Black Codes

Expansion of Federal Authority and Black Rights

Congressional Reconstruction
The Fourteenth Amendment and Escalating Violence

Radical Reconstruction and Military Rule

Impeaching a President

The Fifteenth Amendment and Women’s Demands

The Struggle in the South
Freedmen, Yankees, and Yeomen

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

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Republican Rule

White Landlords, Black Sharecroppers

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "The Slaveholder Exodus"

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Reconstruction Collapses
Grant’s Troubled Presidency

Northern Resolve Withers

White Supremacy Triumphs

An Election and a Compromise

Conclusion: "A Revolution But Half Accomplished"
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Chapter Review
Chapter 16 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 16
Document 16-1: Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South: Report on the Condition of the South, 1865

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Document 16-2: Black Codes Enacted in the South: Mississippi Black Code, November 1865

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Document 16-3: Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families: Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865-1870

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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

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Document 16-5: Klan Violence against Blacks: Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

17. The Contested West, 1865–1900

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Frederick Jackson Turner delivers his "frontier thesis"

Conquest and Empire in the West
BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Treatment of the Sioux and the Zulu"

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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

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

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Custer’s Last Stand"

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The Dawes Act and Indian Land Allotment

Indian Resistance and Survival

Mining the West
Life on the Comstock Lode

The Diverse Peoples of the West

Land Fever
Moving West: Homesteaders and Speculators

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: 　"Did Westerners Really Build It All by Themselves?"

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Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants

Commercial Farming and Industrial Cowboy

Territorial Government
Conclusion: The West in the Gilded Age
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 17 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 17
Document 17-1: Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California: A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 1870

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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

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Document 17-3: Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border: N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875

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Document 17-4: In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment: Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879

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Document 17-5: A Plea to "Citizenize" Indians: Richard Pratt, "Kill the Indian ... and save the man," 1892

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

18. Railroads, Business, and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865–1900
Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Mark Twain and the Gilded Age

Railroads and the Rise of New Industries

Railroads: America’s First Big Business

EXPERIENCING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Charles Crocker, the Big Four, and the Race for Riches"

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Andrew Carnegie, Steel, and Vertical Integration

John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil, and the Trust

New Inventions: The Telephone and the Telegraph

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

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

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Social Darwinism, Laissez-Faire, and the Supreme Court

Politics and Culture
Political Participation and Party Loyalty

Sectionalism and the New South

Gender, Race, and Politics

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Ida B. Wells and Her Campaign to Stop Lynching"

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Women’s Activism

Presidential Politics
Corruption and Party Strife

Garfield’s Assassination and Civil Service Reform

Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

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

Conclusion: Business Dominates an Era
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 18 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 18
Document 18-1: Marshall Kirkman Likens Railroad Corporations to Armies: Marshall M. Kirkman, "The Railway Army," 1894

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Document 18-2: William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883

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Document 18-3: Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies: Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894

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Document 18-4: Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth: Wealth, 1889

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Document 18-5: Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime: An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

19. The City and Its Workers, 1870–1900

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Workers build the Brooklyn Bridge

The Rise of the City
The Urban Explosion: A Global Migration

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS : "What Happened to Urban Workers’ Standard of Living during the Gilded Age?"

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Racism and the Cry for Immigration Restriction

The Social Geography of the City

At Work in Industrial America
America’s Diverse Workers

The Family Economy: Women and Children

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

Workers Organize
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Songs of the Knights of Labor

Haymarket and the Specter of Labor Radicalism"

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At Home and at Play
Domesticity and "Domestics"

Cheap Amusements

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"

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Conclusion: Who Built the Cities?
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 19 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 19
Document 19-1: A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market: Thomas O'Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885

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Document 19-2: Domestic Servants on Household Work: Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s

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Document 19-3: Jacob Riis Describes Abandoned Babies in New York City's Slums: Waifs of New York City's Slums, 1890

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Document 19-4: Walter Wyckoff Listens to Revolutionary Workers in Chicago: Walter A. Wyckoff, "Among the Revolutionaries," 1898

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

20. Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890–1900

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Opening Vignette: Frances Willard participates in the creation of the Populist Party in 1892

The Farmers Unite

The Farmers’ Alliance

The Populist Movement

The Labor Wars
The Homestead Lockout

The Cripple Creek Miners’ Strike of 1894

Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Press and the Pullman Strike: Framing Class Conflict"

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

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

Depression Politics
Coxey’s Army

The People’s Party and the Election of 1896

The United States and the World
Markets and Missionaries

The Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door Policy

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

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"A Splendid Little War"

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Did Terrorists Sink the Maine?"
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The Debate over American Imperialism

Conclusion: Rallying around the Flag
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 20 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 20
Document 20-1: Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers' Alliance: Mary Elizabeth Lease, "Women in the Farmers' Alliance," 1891

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Document 20-2: White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina: Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington "Rebellion" of 1898
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Document 20-3: Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead: Pinkerton Guard Testimony, 1893

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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

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Document 20-5: Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines: Case against the United States, 1899

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

21. Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890–1916

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Jane Addams founds Hull House

Grassroots Progressivism
Civilizing the City

EXPERIENCING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Making the Workplace Safer: Alice Hamilton Explores the Dangerous Trades"

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Progressives and the Working Class

Progressivism: Theory and Practice
Reform Darwinism and Social Engineering

Progressive Government: City and State

Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt
The Square Deal

Roosevelt the Reformer

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Flash and the Birth of Photojournalism"

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Roosevelt and Conservation

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

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The Big Stick

The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft

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

The Limits of Progressive Reform
Radical Alternatives

Progressivism for White Men Only

Conclusion: The Transformation of the Liberal State
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 21 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 21
Document 21-1: Jane Addams on Settlement Houses: The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892

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Document 21-2: A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago: Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900

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Document 21-3: Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony: Letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer, January 12, 1907

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Document 21-4: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women's Suffrage: Marie Jenney Howe, An Anti-Suffrage Monologue, 1913

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Document 21-5: Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation: The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895

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Document 21-6: W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality: Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

22. World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad, 1914–1920

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Doughboy George "Brownie" Browne sees combat on the front lines in France

Woodrow Wilson and the World
Taming the Americas

The European Crisis

The Ordeal of American Neutrality

The United States Enters the War

"Over There"
The Call to Arms

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "What Did African Americans Want from WWI and What Did They Get?"

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The War in France

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

Women, War, and the Battle for Suffrage

ANALIZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Final Push for Woman Suffrage"

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Rally around the Flag — or Else

A Compromised Peace
Wilson’s Fourteen Points

The Paris Peace Conference

The Fight for the Treaty

Democracy at Risk
Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval

The Red Scare

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Bolshevism"

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The Great Migrations of African Americans and Mexicans

Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920

Conclusion: Troubled Crusade
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 22 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 22
Document 22-1: The North American Review Considers War a Blessing, Not a Curse: "For Freedom and Democracy," The North American Review, April 1917

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Document 22-2: Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers: Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 191

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Document 22-3: A Doughboy's Letter from the Front: Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918

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Document 22-4: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists: The Case against the "Reds," 1920

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Document 22-5: An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot: Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

23. From New Era to Great Depression, 1920–1932

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Henry Ford puts America on wheels

The New Era
A Business Government

Promoting Prosperity and Peace Abroad

Automobiles, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line Progress

Consumer Culture

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Advertising in a Consumer Age

The Roaring Twenties"

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Prohibition

The New Woman

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

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The New Negro

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

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Entertainment for the Masses

The Lost Generation

Resistance to Change
Rejecting the Undesirables

The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan

The Scopes Trial

Al Smith and the Election of 1928

The Great Crash
Herbert Hoover: The Great Engineer

The Distorted Economy

The Crash of 1929

Hoover and the Limits of Individualism

Life in the Depression
The Human Toll

Denial and Escape

Working-Class Militancy

Conclusion: Dazzle and Despair
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 23 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 23
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

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Document 23-2: Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit: Diary Entries, 1925-1928

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Document 23-3: The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism: Hiram W. Evans, The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926

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Document 23-4: Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies: Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928

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Document 23-5: Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association: The Negro's Greatest Enemy, 1923

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

24. The New Deal Experiment, 1932–1939

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: "Migrant Mother" Florence Owens struggles to survive in the Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in Government
The Making of a Politician

The Election of 1932

Launching the New Deal
MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "How Did the New Deal Contribute to National Defense?"

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The New Dealers

Banking and Finance Reform

Relief and Conservation Programs

Agricultural Initiatives

Industrial Recovery

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

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Challenges to the New Deal
Resistance to Business Reform

Casualties in the Countryside

Politics on the Fringes

Toward a Welfare State
Relief for the Unemployed

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Americans Encounter the New Deal"

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Empowering Labor

Social Security and Tax Reform

Neglected Americans and the New Deal

The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock
The Election of 1936

Court Packing

Reaction and Recession

The Last of the New Deal Reforms

Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of the New Deal
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 24 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 24
Document 24-1: Martha Gellhorn Reports on Conditions in North Carolina in 1934: Martha Gellhorn to Harry Hopkins, November 11, 1934

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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

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Document 24-3: Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth: Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935

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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

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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

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

25. The United States and the Second World War, 1939–1945

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Colonel Paul Tibbets drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Peacetime Dilemmas
Roosevelt and Reluctant Isolation

The Good Neighbor Policy

The Price of Noninvolvement

The Onset of War
Nazi Aggression and War in Europe

From Neutrality to the Arsenal of Democracy

Japan Attacks America

Mobilizing for War
Home-Front Security

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Japanese Internment"

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Building a Citizen Army

Conversion to a War Economy

Fighting Back
Turning the Tide in the Pacific

The Campaign in Europe

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"

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Toward Unconditional Surrender
From Bombing Raids to Berlin

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

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The Defeat of Japan

Atomic Warfare

Conclusion: Allied Victory and America’s Emergence as a Superpower
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 25 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 25
Document 25-1: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan: Speech to Congress, December 8, 1941
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Document 25-2: A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor: Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999
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Document 25-3: The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews:　Varian Fry, The Massacre of the Jews, December 21, 1942
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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

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Document 25-5: Rosies the Riveters Recall Working in War Industries: Rosie the Riveter Memoirs
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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

26. Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945–1953

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Helen Gahagan Douglas, congresswoman and loyal Truman ally, supports the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, and the war in Korea

From the Grand Alliance to Containment
The Cold War Begins

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Emerging Cold War"

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The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Why did the United States Launch the European Recovery Program?"

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Building a National Security State

Superpower Rivalry around the Globe

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

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

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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

Conclusion: The Cold War’s Costs and Consequences
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 26 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

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

27. The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952–1960

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Vice President Richard Nixon debates Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev

Eisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way"
Modern Republicanism

Termination and Relocation of Native Americans

The 1956 Election and the Second Term

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

EXPERIENCING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Operation Pedro: Young Political refugees Take Flight"

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The Nuclear Arms Race

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

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: 　"What Role Did the Government Play in the Prosperity of the Post-World War II years?"

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The Culture of Abundance
Consumption Rules the Day

The Revival of Domesticity and Religion

Television Transforms Culture and Politics

Countercurrents

The Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement
ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "The Brown Decision"

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African Americans Challenge the Supreme Court and the President

Montgomery and Mass Protest

Conclusion: Peace and Prosperity Mask Unmet Challenges
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 27 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 27
Document 27-1: Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women: Women Are Household Slaves, 1949
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Document 27-2: Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence: The Status Seekers, 1959
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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
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Document 27-4: Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow: North Dakota Civil Defense Agency, How You Will Survive, 1960
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Document 27-5: President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex: Farewell Address, January 1961
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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

28. Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960–1974

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Fannie Lou Hamer leads grassroots struggles of African Americans for voting rights and political empowerment

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

The Second Reconstruction
The Flowering of the Black Freedom Struggle

The Response in Washington

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "What Difference Did the Voting Rights Act Make?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
Black Power and Urban Rebellions

A Multitude of Movements
Native American Protest

Latino Struggles for Justice

Student Rebellion, the New Left, and the Counterculture

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Student Protest"

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Gay Men and Lesbians Organize

The New Wave of Feminism
A Multifaceted Movement Emerges

BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Transnational Feminisms"

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Feminist Gains Spark a Countermovement

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

Responding to Environmental Concerns

Expanding Social Justice

Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of Liberalism
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 28 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 28
Document 28-1: New Left Students Seek Democratic Social Change: Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962

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Document 28-2: Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance: Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963

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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

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Document 28-4: Black Power: Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 1967

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Document 28-5: Equal Rights for Women: National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

29. Vietnam and the End of the Cold War Consensus, 1961–1975

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Lieutenant Frederick Downs, Jr., is wounded in Vietnam and returns home to a country divided over the war

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

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

Preventing Another Castro in Latin America

The Americanized War

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: 　"Why Couldn’t American Bombing Achieve Victory in Vietnam?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
Those Who Served

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"

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The Tumultuous Election of 1968

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

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Ending the War in Vietnam"

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The Peace Accords

The Legacy of Defeat

Conclusion: An Unwinnable War
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 29 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 29
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

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Document 29-2: A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War: Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 1966

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Document 29-3: Military Discipline in an Unpopular War: Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971

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Document 29-4: An American Soldier in Vietnam: Arthur E. Woodley Jr., Oral History of a Special Forces Ranger
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Document 29-5: John Kerry Denounces the Vietnam War: John Kerry Testimony before the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, 1971

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

30. America Moves to the Right, 1969–1989

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Phyllis Schlafly promotes conservatism

Nixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional Crisis
Emergence of a Grassroots Movement

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

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Nixon Courts the Right

The Election of 1972

Watergate

The Ford Presidency and the 1976 Election

The "Outsider" Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Retreat from Liberalism

Energy and Environmental Reform

Promoting Human Rights Abroad

The Cold War Intensifies

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

Unleashing Free Enterprise

Winners and Losers in a Flourishing Economy

Continuing Struggles over Rights
Battles in the Courts and Congress

Feminism on the Defensive

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Why Did the ERA Fail?"

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The Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Protecting Gay and Lesbian Rights"

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Ronald Reagan Confronts an "Evil Empire"

Militarization and Interventions Abroad

The Iran-Contra Scandal

A Thaw in Soviet-American Relations

Conclusion: Reversing the Course of Government
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 30 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 30
Document 30-1: The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency: Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 1973

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Document 30-2: Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights: Supreme Court Decision, 1973

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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

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Document 30-4: President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality: Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 1983

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Document 30-5: A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast: Anonymous Man, Oral History, 1983

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

31. The Promises and Challenges of Globalization, Since 1989

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
Opening Vignette: Colin Powell adjusts to a post–Cold War world

Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
Gridlock in Government

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

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Going to War in Central America and the Persian Gulf

The 1992 Election

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

Accommodating the Right

Impeaching the President

The Booming Economy of the 1990s

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

Debates over Globalization

The Internationalization of the United States

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "What Happened to American Manufacturing Jobs and Why Did it Matter?"

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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

Afghanistan

Iraq

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

ANALYZING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Caricaturing the Candidates: Clinton and Obama in 2008"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad

Redefining the War on Terror

Conclusion: Defining the Government’s Role at Home and Abroad
LearningCurve　LaunchPad
Chapter Review
Chapter 31 Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 31
Document 31-1: National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War: The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002

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Document 31-2: A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses: Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007

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Document 31-3: A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked: Tony Campolo, Interview, 2004

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Document 31-4: Joseph Stiglitz Describes Capitalist Fools' Responsibility for the Economic Crisis: Joseph E. Stiglitz, "Capitalist Fools," Global Research, December 11, 2008

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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

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COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

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

Supreme Court Justices

Admission of States to the Union

Population Growth, 1630–2010

Major Trends in Immigration, 1820-2010

Selected Bibliography

Glossary

Acknowledgements

Index

Atlas of the Territorial Growth of the United States

About the Authors

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