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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

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"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
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?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
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"

Quiz for Experiencing the American Promise 　　　　LaunchPad
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?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
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?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
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"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
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"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders 　　　　LaunchPad
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

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad
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"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　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

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"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders 　　　　LaunchPad
"A Splendid Little War"

MAKING HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS: "Did Terrorists Sink the Maine?"
Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
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"

Quiz for Experiencing the American Promise 　　　　LaunchPad
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"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad

Roosevelt and Conservation

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

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
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?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
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"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
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"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
Prohibition

The New Woman

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

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
The New Negro

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

Quiz for Experiencing the American Promise 　　　　LaunchPad
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?"

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
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"

Quiz for Experiencing the American Promise 　　　　LaunchPad
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"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad
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

Quiz for 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

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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"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad

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"

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders 　　　　LaunchPad
Toward Unconditional Surrender
From Bombing Raids to Berlin

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

Quiz for Making Historical Arguments 　　　　LaunchPad
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

Quiz for 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
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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"

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence 　　　　LaunchPad

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"

Quiz for Experiencing the American Promise 　　　　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

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

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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

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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?"

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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
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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

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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?"

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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"

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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