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Watch our diverse history come alive through the images, maps, and primary sources shared in America's History: Concise Edition, Combined Volume.
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-15
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30
NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader – 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, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.
Preface
Versions and Supplements
Brief Contents
Contents
Maps, Figures, and Tables
Part 1: ?Transformations of North America, 1491–1700
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 1 LaunchPad
Document P1-1: Meal of Maize and Beans, the Sixth Month of the Aztec Solar Calendar (c. 1585)
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Document P1-2: THEODORE DE BRY, The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Commander on His First Voyage (1591)
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Document P1-3: THOMAS MORTON, Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England) (1637)
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Document P1-4: THOMAS PHILLIPS, A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693–1694)
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Document P1-5: RICHARD HAKLUYT, A Discourse of Western Planting (1584)
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1. Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600
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The Native American Experience
The First Americans
American Empires
Chiefdoms and Confederacies
Patterns of Trade
Sacred Power
Western Europe: The Edge of the Old World
Hierarchy and Authority
Peasant Society
Expanding Trade Networks
Myths, Religions, and Holy Warriors
West and Central Africa: Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Empires, Kingdoms, and Ministates
Trans-Saharan and Coastal Trade
The Spirit World
Exploration and Conquest
Portuguese Expansion
The African Slave Trade
Sixteenth-Century Incursions
Chapter Review
LearningCurve LaunchPad
America in Global Context Altered Landscapes
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Thinking Like a Historian Colliding Cultures
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Interpretations How Connected Were Native American Communities Before 1492?
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Analyzing Voices A Spanish Priest Criticizes His Fellow Colonists LaunchPad
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1. Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 1 LaunchPad
Document 1-1: THOMAS HARIOT, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
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Document 1-2: De Soto Encounters Incans in Peru ARTIST UNKNOWN (SPANISH SCHOOL), Construction of the First Christian Church in San Miguel de Piura, and the Battle of Hernando de Soto with the Indians (1726)
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Document 1-3: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Journal of the First Voyage (1492)
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Document 1-4: BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)
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Document 1-5: COUNCIL OF HUEJOTZINGO, Letter to the King of Spain (1560)
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Document 1-6: BROTHER LUIS BRANDAON, Letter to Father Sandoval (1610)
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2. American Experiments, 1521–1700
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Spain’s Tribute Colonies
A New American World
The Columbian Exchange
The Protestant Challenge to Spain
Plantation Colonies
Brazil’s Sugar Plantations
England’s Tobacco Colonies
The Caribbean Islands
Plantation Life
Neo-European Colonies
New France
New Netherland
The Rise of the Iroquois
New England
Instability, War, and Rebellion
Native American Resistance
Bacon’s Rebellion
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Plantation Colonies Versus Neo-Europes
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Thinking Like a Historian Who Was Pocahontas?
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Interpretations What Role Did Climate Play in American Colonization?
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Analyzing Voices ?Susanna Martin, Accused Witch LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 2 LaunchPad
Document 2-1: Testimony of Acoma Indians (1599)
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Document 2-2: JOHN WINTHROP, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
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Document 2-3: CARELl ALLARD, English Quakers Planting Tobacco on Barbados (1680)
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Document 2-4: Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649)
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Document 2-5: EDMUND WHITE, Letter to Joseph Morton (1687)
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Document 2-6: REV. FATHER LOUIS CELLOT, Letter to Father François Le Mercier (1656)
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Part 2: ?British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763
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Document P2-1: OLAUDAH EQUIANO, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1794)
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Document P2-2: Letter from Christen Janzen to His Family (1711)
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Document P2-3: The Vain Prodigal Life and Tragical Penitent Death of Thomas Hellier (1680)
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Document P2-4 : GREGOIRE HURET, The Death of Some Jesuit Fathers in Nouvelle-France (1664)
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Document P2-5: Journal of James Kenny (1761–1763)
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3. The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750
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Colonies to Empire, 1607–1713
Self-Governing Colonies and New Elites, 1607–1660
The Restoration Colonies and Imperial Expansion
From Mercantilism to Imperial Dominion
The Glorious Revolution in England and America
Imperial Wars and Native Peoples
Tribalization
Indian Goals
The Imperial Slave Economy
The South Atlantic System
Africa, Africans, and the Slave Trade
Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina
An African American Community Emerges
The Rise of the Southern Gentry
The Northern Maritime Economy
The Urban Economy
Urban Society
The New Politics of Empire, 1713–1750
The Rise of Colonial Assemblies
Salutary Neglect
Protecting the Mercantile System
Mercantilism and the American Colonies
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal "Middle Passage"
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Thinking Like a Historian Servitude and Slavery
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Interpretations Why Did Americans Adopt Slavery?
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Analyzing Voices Native Americans and European Empires LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 3 LaunchPad
Document 3-1: At the Town-House in Boston: April 18th, 1689. A Letter to Sir Edmond Andros Knight (1689)
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Document 3-2: CANASSATEGO, Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New York (1742)
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Document 3-3: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, An Act for Suppressing Outlying Slaves (1691)
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Document 3-4: WILLIAM BYRD II, Diary Entries (1709–1712)
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Document 3-5: JOHN BARNARD, The Autobiography of the Rev. John Barnard (1766)
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Document 3-6: LORD CORNBURY, Letter to the Lords of Trade (1704)
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4. Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763
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New England’s Freehold Society
Farm Families: Women in the Household Economy
Farm Property: Inheritance
Freehold Society in Crisis
Diversity in the Middle Colonies
Economic Growth, Opportunity, and Conflict
Cultural Diversity
Religion and Politics
Commerce, Culture, and Identity
Transportation and the Print Revolution
The Enlightenment in America
American Pietism and the Great Awakening
Religious Upheaval in the North
Social and Religious Conflict in the South
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750–1765
The French and Indian War
The Great War for Empire
British Industrial Growth and the Consumer Revolution
The Struggle for Land in the East
Western Rebels and Regulators
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Transatlantic Migration, 1500–1760
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Thinking Like a Historian Women’s Labor
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Interpretations Did Diversity Lead to Toleration?
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Analyzing Voices Evangelical Religion and Enlightenment Rationalism LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 4 LaunchPad
Document 4-1: Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments with Electricity (Turned into an 18th Century Parlor Game) (c. 18th century)
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Document 4-2: SARAH OSBORN, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn (1814)
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Document 4-3: CHARLES WOODMASON, Journal (1766–1768)
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Document 4-4: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Albany Plan of Union (1754)
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Document 4-5: State of the British and French Colonies in North America (1755)
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Document 4-6: Petition from the Inhabitants of Orange County, North Carolina (1770)
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Part 3: ?Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800
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Document P3-1: RICHARD ALLEN, Eulogy for Washington (1799)
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Document P3-2: J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVECOEUR, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
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Document P3-3: JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)
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Document P3-4: George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
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Document P3-5: EDWARD SAVAGE, Liberty. In the Form of the Goddess of Youth, Giving Support to the Bald Eagle (1796)
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5. The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776
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An Empire Transformed
The Costs of Empire
George Grenville and the Reform Impulse
An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act
The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770
Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd
The Ideological Roots of Resistance
Another Kind of Freedom
Parliament and Patriots Square Off Again
The Problem of the West
Parliament Wavers
The Road to Independence, 1771–1776
A Compromise Repudiated
The Continental Congress Responds
The Rising of the Countryside
Loyalists and Neutrals
Violence East and West
Lord Dunmore’s War
Armed Resistance in Massachusetts
The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Independence Declared
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Britain’s Atlantic and Asian Empires
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Thinking Like a Historian Beyond the Proclamation Line
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Interpretations Did British Administrators Try to Protect or Exploit Native Americans?
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Analyzing Voices The Debate over Representation and Sovereignty LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 5 LaunchPad
Document 5-1: RICHARD BLAND, Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1766)
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Document 5-2: STAMP ACT CONGRESS, Declaration of Rights (1765)
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Document 5-3: PETER OLIVER, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1781)
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Document 5-4: A Protest by the Worcester, Massachusetts, Selectmen (1774)
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Document 5-5: THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Letter to Thomas Whately (1769)
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Document 5-6: THOMAS PAINE, Common Sense (1776)
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6. Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789
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The Trials of War, 1776–1778
War in the North
Armies and Strategies
Victory at Saratoga
The Perils of War
Financial Crisis
Valley Forge
The Path to Victory, 1778–1783
The French Alliance
War in the South
The Patriot Advantage
Diplomatic Triumph
Creating Republican Institutions, 1776–1787
The State Constitutions: How Much Democracy?
Women Seek a Public Voice
The War’s Losers: Loyalists, Native Americans, and Slaves
The Articles of Confederation
Shays’s Rebellion
The Constitution of 1787
The Rise of a Nationalist Faction
The Philadelphia Convention
The People Debate Ratification
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context China’s Growing Empire
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Thinking Like a Historian The Black Soldier’s Dilemma
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Interpretations Was the Constitution Necessary?
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Analyzing Voices The First National Debate over Slavery LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 6 LaunchPad
Document 6-1: Instructions to the Delegates from Mecklenburg to the Provincial Congress at Halifax in November (1776)
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Document 6-2: ABIGAIL AND JOHN ADAMS, Correspondence (1776)
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Document 6-3: PRINCE HALL, Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Council and the House of Representatives (1777)
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Document 6-4: JAMES PEALE, General George Washington at Yorktown (c. 1782)
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Document 6-5: DANIEL GRAY, Address to the People of Several Towns (1786)
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Document 6-6: JAMES MADISON, Federalist No. 10 and Federalist No. 51 (1787)
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7. Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820
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The Political Crisis of the 1790s
The Federalists Implement the Constitution
Hamilton’s Financial Program
Jefferson’s Agrarian Vision
The French Revolution Divides Americans
The Rise of Political Parties
A Republican Empire Is Born
Sham Treaties and Indian Lands
Migration and the Changing Farm Economy
The Jefferson Presidency
Jefferson and the West
The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics
Conflict in the Atlantic and the West
The War of 1812
The Federalist Legacy
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Race
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Thinking Like a Historian The Social Life of Alcohol
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Interpretations Did Hamilton’s Economic System Endanger the Legacy of the Revolution?
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Analyzing Voices Factional Politics and the War of 1812 LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 7 LaunchPad
Document 7-1: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Letter to Edward Carrington (1792)
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Document 7-2: THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)
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Document 7-3: THE PROVIDENTIAL DETECTION (c. 1790s)
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Document 7-4: THE PANOPLIST AND MISSIONARY HERALD, Retrograde Movement of National Character (1818)
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Document 7-5: TECUMSEH, "Sleep Not Longer, O’ Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811)
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Document 7-6: Report of the Hartford Convention (1815)
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Part 4: ?Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848
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Document P4-1: Process of Excavation, Erie Canal, Lockport (c. 1820s)
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Document P4-2: JOSEPH STORY, Address Delivered on the Dedication of the Cemetery at Mount Auburn (1831)
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Document P4-3: EMMELINE B. WELLS, Diary (1846)
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Document P4-4: GEORGE CAITLIN, Letters and Notes (1841) and Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon’s Egg Head (The Light) Going to and Returning from Washington (c. 1837-1839)
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Document P4-5: ALBERT BRISBANE, A Concise Exposition of the Doctrine of Association (1843)
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8. Economic Transformations, 1800–1848
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Foundations of a New Economic Order
Credit and Banking
Transportation and the Market Revolution
The Cotton Complex: Northern Industry and Southern Agriculture
The American Industrial Revolution
Origins of the Cotton South
The Cotton Boom and Slavery
Technological Innovation and Labor
The Spread of Innovation
Wageworkers and the Labor Movement
The Growth of Cities and Towns
New Social Classes and Cultures
Planters, Yeomen, and Slaves
The Northern Business Elite
The Middle Class
Urban Workers and the Poor
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The Fate of the American and Indian Textile Industries
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Thinking Like a Historian The Entrepreneur and the Community
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Interpretations Did the Market Revolution Expand Opportunities for Women?
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Analyzing Voices The Debate over Free and Slave Labor LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 8 LaunchPad
Document 8-1: J. HILL, Junction of Erie and Northern Canal (c. 1830–1832)
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Document 8-2: THE WEEKLY REGISTER, Home Influence (1813)
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Document 8-3: LUCY LARCOM, Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence (1881)
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Document 8-4: Ethan Andrews, Slavery and the Domestic Slave-Trade (1836)
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Document 8-5: Ely moore, Address Delivered Before the General Trades’ Union of the City of New-York (1833)
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9. A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848
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The Rise of Popular Politics
The Decline of the Notables and the Rise of Parties
Racial Exclusion and Republican Motherhood
The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
The Election of 1824
The Last Notable President: John Quincy Adams
"The Democracy" and the Election of 1828
Jackson in Power, 1829–1837
Jackson’s Agenda: Rotation and Decentralization
The Tariff and Nullification
The Bank War
Indian Removal
Jackson’s Impact
Class, Culture, and the Second Party System
The Whig Worldview
Labor Politics and the Depression of 1837–1843
"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Alexis de Tocqueville: Letter to Louis de Kergorlay, June 29, 1831
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Thinking Like a Historian Becoming Literate: Public Education and Democracy
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Interpretations Was Indian Removal Humanitarian or Racist?
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Analyzing Voices The Character and Goals of Andrew Jackson LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 9 LaunchPad
Document 9-1: MARTIN VAN BUREN, The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren (1854)
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Document 9-2: FITZWILLIAM BYRDSALL, The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party (1842)
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Document 9-3: ANDREW JACKSON, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States (1832)
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Document 9-4: Henry Clay, Speech on the Presidential Election (1840)
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Document 9-5: Capitol Fashions for 1837 (1837)
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Document 9-6: CHEROKEE WOMEN, Petition (1821 [1831?])
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10. Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848
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Spiritual Awakenings
The Second Great Awakening
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism
Utopian Experiments
Urban Cultures and Conflicts
Sex in the City
Popular Fiction and the Penny Press
Urban Entertainments
African Americans and the Struggle for Freedom
Free Black Communities, North and South
The Rise of Abolitionism
The Women’s Rights Movement
Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
From Antislavery to Seneca Falls
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Women’s Rights in France and the United States, 1848
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Thinking Like a Historian Dance and Social Identity in Antebellum America
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Interpretations What Motivated Antebellum Reformers?
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Analyzing Voices Saving the Nation from Drink LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 10 LaunchPad
Document 10-1: MARGARET FULLER, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
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Document 10-2: JOSEPH SMITH, History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet (c. 1830s)
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Document 10-3: Advertisement for the American Museum (1845)
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Document 10-4: SARAH GRIMKÉ, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
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Document 10-5: DAVID WALKER, Preamble to Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles (1830)
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Document 10-6: CALVIN COLTON, Abolition a Sedition (1839)
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11. Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848 ?
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The Expanding South
Planters, Small Freeholders, and Poor Freemen
The Settlement of Texas
The Politics of Democracy
The African American World
Evangelical Black Protestantism
Forging Families and Communities
Negotiating Rights
Manifest Destiny, North and South
The Push to the Pacific
The Plains Indians
The Fateful Election of 1844
The U.S.-Mexico War, 1846–1848
The "War of a Thousand Deserts"
Polk’s Expansionist Program
American Military Successes
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Financing War
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Thinking Like a Historian Childhood in Black and White
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Interpretations What Explains American Enthusiasm for Manifest Destiny?
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Analyzing Voices The U.S.-Mexico War: Expansion and Slavery LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 11 LaunchPad
Document 11-1: SUSAN DABNEY SMEDES, Memorials of a Southern Planter (1887)
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Document 11-2: Slave Songs of the United States (1867) and Slaves Dance to Their Own Music on a Southern Plantation (c. 1852)
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Document 11-3: LANSFORD HASTINGS, The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (1845)
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Document 11-4: JOHN D. SLOAT, To the Inhabitants of California (1846) and GENERAL FRANCISCO MEJIA, A Proclamation at Matamoros (1846)
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Document 11-5: Richard Doyle, The Land of Liberty (1847)
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Part 5: Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877
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Document P5-1: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (1848)
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Document P5-2: STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA, An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians (1850)
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Document P5-3: SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States (1855)
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Document P5-4: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Cooper Union Address (1860)
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Document P5-5: ALEXANDER STEPHENS, "Cornerstone" Speech (1861)
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Document P5-6: THOMAS NAST, "This is a White Man’s Government" (1868)
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12. Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1860
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A Divisive War, 1844–1850
"Free Soil" in Politics
California Gold and Racial Warfare
1850: Crisis and Compromise
The End of the Second Party System, 1850–1858
The Abolitionist Movement Grows
The Whig Party’s Demise
Immigrants and Know-Nothings
The West and the Fate of the Union
Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858–1860
Lincoln’s Political Career
The Union Under Siege
The Election of 1860
Secession Winter, 1860–1861
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The Gold Rush: California and Australia
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Thinking Like a Historian The Irish in America
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Interpretations Did Slavery Have a Future in the West?
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Analyzing Voices To Secede or Not to Secede? LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 12 LaunchPad
Document 12-1: Susan Shelby Magoffin, Diary (1846)
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Document 12-2: John l. Magee, Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler (1856)
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Document 12-3: JOHN C. CALHOUN, Speech on the Slavery Question (1850)
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Document 12-4: CHARLES SUMNER, The Crime of Kansas (1856)
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Document 12-5: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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Document 12-6: KEZIAH GOODWIN HOPKINS BREVARD, Diary (1860–1861)
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13. Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865
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The War Begins, 1861–1862
Early Expectations
Campaigns East and West
Antietam and Its Consequences
Toward "Hard War," 1863
Politics North and South
The Impact of Emancipation
Citizens and the Work of War
Vicksburg and Gettysburg
The Road to Union Victory, 1864–1865
Grant and Sherman Take Command
The Election of 1864 and Sherman’s March
The Confederacy Collapses
The World the War Made
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context War Debt: Britain and the United States, 1830–1900
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Thinking Like a Historian Military Deaths — and Lives Saved — During the Civil War
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Interpretations How Divided Was the Confederate Public?
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Document 13-1: Sowing and Reaping (1863)
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Document 13-2: Ambrose Bierce, What I Saw of Shiloh (1881)
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Document 13-3: CORNELIA HANCOCK, Letters of a Civil War Nurse (1863)
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Document 13-4: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and JEFFERSON DAVIS, President’s Message (1863)
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Document 13-5: HARRY SMITH, Fifty Years of Slavery (1891)
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Document 13-6: WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)
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14. Reconstruction, 1865–1877
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The Struggle for National Reconstruction
Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnson
Congress Versus the President
Radical Reconstruction
Women’s Rights Denied
The Meaning of Freedom
The Quest for Land
Republican Governments in the South
Building Black Communities
The Undoing of Reconstruction
The Republicans Unravel
Counterrevolution in the South
Reconstruction Rolled Back
The Political Crisis of 1877
Lasting Legacies
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America in Global Context Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States
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Thinking Like a Historian The South’s "Lost Cause"
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Interpretations How Free Were Freedwomen in Reconstruction?
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Analyzing Voices The Impact of Terror LaunchPad
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Document 14-1: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Last Public Address (1865)
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Document 14-2: BETTY POWERS, Federal Writers’ Project Interview (c. 1936)
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Document 14-3: FRANCES BUTLER LEIGH, Letter to a Friend in England (1867)
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Document 14-4: CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS JR., The Protection of the Ballot in National Elections (1869)
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Document 14-5: THOMAS NAST, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State (1874)
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Document 14-6: ROBERT BROWNE ELLIOTT, Speech to Congress (1874)
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15. Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890
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The Republican Vision
The New Union and the World
Integrating the National Economy
Incorporating the West
Mining Empires
Cattlemen on the Plains
Homesteaders
The First National Park
A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed
The Civil War and Indians on the Plains
Grant’s Peace Policy
The End of Armed Resistance
Strategies of Survival
Western Myths and Realities
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The Santa Fe Railroad in Mexico and the United States
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Thinking Like a Historian Representing Indians
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Interpretations What Factors Motivated America’s Indian Policies?
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Analyzing Voices Women’s Rights in the West LaunchPad
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Document 15-1: Indian Territory, That Garden of the World (c. 1880)
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Document 15-2: CURRIER & IVES, Across the Continent (1868)
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Document 15-3: J. WRIGHT MOOAR, Buffalo Days (1933)
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Document 15-4: FRANCIS A. WALKER, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1872)
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Document 15-5: MOURNING DOVE, A Salishan Autobiography (1990)
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Part 6: ?Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917
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Document P6-1: William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
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Document P6-2: WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH , Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)
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Document P6-3: Caroline Ticknor, The Steel-Engraving Lady and the Gibson Girl (1901)
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Document P6-4: Franz Boas, The Mind of Primitive Man (1911)
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Document P6-5: MARCEL DUCHAMP, Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) and J. F. GRISWOLD, "The Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway) (1913)
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Document P6-6: Carlos Montezuma, What Indians Must Do (1914)
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16. Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1910
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The Rise of Big Business
Innovators in Enterprise
The Corporate Workplace
On the Shop Floor
Immigrants, East and West
Newcomers from Europe
Asian Americans and Exclusion
Labor Gets Organized
The Emergence of a Labor Movement
The Knights of Labor
Farmers and Workers: The Cooperative Alliance
Another Path: The American Federation of Labor
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Emigrants and Destinations, 1881–1915
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Thinking Like a Historian Poverty and Food
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Interpretations How Modern Were Late-Nineteenth-Century Corporations?
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Analyzing Voices Jewish Immigrants in the Industrial Economy LaunchPad
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Document 16-1: Andrew Carnegie, Wealth (1889)
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Document 16-2: Terence Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor (1889)
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Document 16-3: Antanas Kaztauskis, Life Story of a Lithuanian (c. 1906)
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Document 16-4: Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
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Document 16-5: Joseph Keppler, Looking Backward (1893)
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Document 16-6: Arthur Twining Hadley, The Good and the Evil of Industrial Combination (1897)
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Chapter 17
Making Modern American Culture, 1880–1917
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Science and Faith
Darwinism and Its Critics
Religion: Diversity and Innovation
Realism in the Arts
Commerce and Culture
Consumer Spaces
Masculinity and the Rise of Sports
The Great Outdoors
Women, Men, and the Solitude of Self
Changing Families
Education
Toward Women’s Emancipation
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Christianity in the United States and Japan
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Thinking Like a Historian WCTU Women "Do Everything"
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Interpretations Was Professional Baseball a National Pastime or a Business Monopoly?
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Analyzing Voices William Graham Sumner and W. E. B. Du Bois on Heredity and Success LaunchPad
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Document 17-1: Theodore Roosevelt, Professionalism in Sports (1890)
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Document 17-2: FRANCES BENJAMIN JOHNSTON, Children Doing Calisthenics While Sitting at their Desks (c. 1890s)
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Document 17-3: Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Educated for What? (1916)
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Document 17-4: THEODORE DREISER, Sister Carrie (1900)
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Document 17-5: Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition Speech (1895)
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Document 17-6: Mary White Ovington, Black and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder (1932–1933)
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Chapter 18: "Civilization’s Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880–1917
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The New Metropolis
The Shape of the Industrial City
Newcomers and Neighborhoods
City Cultures
Governing the Great City
Urban Machines
The Limits of Machine Government
Crucibles of Progressive Reform
Fighting Dirt and Vice
The Movement for Social Settlements
Cities and National Politics
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The World’s Biggest Cities, 1800–2000
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Thinking Like a Historian Making Mass Media: Newspaper Empires
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Interpretations How Did Urban Progressive Reformers Approach Environmentalism?
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Analyzing Voices "These Dead Bodies Were the Answer": The Triangle Fire LaunchPad
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Document 18-1: Luna Park at Night (c. 1913)
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Document 18-2: Jane Addams, Why the Ward Boss Rules (1898)
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Document 18-3: Marie Ganz and Nat J. Ferber, Rebels: Into Anarchy, and Out Again (1920)
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Document 18-4: NEW YORK WORLD, New York Negroes Stage Silent Parade of Protest (1916)
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Document 18-5: CHARLES E. HUGHES, Address to the Second Annual Congress of the Playground Association of America (1908)
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Document 18-6: Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
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19. Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917
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Reform Visions, 1880–1892
Electoral Politics After Reconstruction
The Populist Program
The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s
Depression and Reaction
Democrats and the "Solid South"
New National Realities
Reform Reshaped, 1901–1912
Theodore Roosevelt as President
Diverse Progressive Goals
The Election of 1912
Wilson and the New Freedom, 1913–1917
Economic Reforms
Progressive Legacies
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America in Global Context Economic Output and Government Social Spending, 1913
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Thinking Like a Historian Making Modern Presidents
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Interpretations Were the "Gilded Age" and "Progressive Era" Separate Eras?
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Analyzing Voices The Omaha Platform, 1892 LaunchPad
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Document 19-1: Omaha Platform (1892)
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Document 19-2: Frederic Howe, The City: The Hope of Democracy (1909)
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Document 19-3: Josephine Conger-Kaneko, What a Socialist Alderman Would Do (1914)
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Document 19-4: U. S. SUPREME COURT, Muller v. Oregon (1908)
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Document 19-5: Theodore Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress (1907)
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Document 19-6: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Talented Tenth (1903)
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Part 7: ?Domestic and Global Challenges, 1890–1945
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Document P7-1: Citizens Committee of Orchard, Rivington, and East Houston Streets, New York City to William Howard Taft (1912)
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Document P7-2: Horace Kallen, Democracy Versus the Melting Pot (1915)
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Document P7-3: Woman Suffrage in Washington, District of Columbia (c. 1917–1918)
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Document P7-4: W. B. Riley, The Faith of the Fundamentalists (1927)
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Document P7-5: Private Charles F. Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt (1944)
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Document P7-6: Luisa Moreno, Caravans of Sorrow (1940)
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20. An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918
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From Expansion to Imperialism
Foundations of Empire
The War of 1898
Spoils of War
A Power Among Powers
The Open Door in Asia
The United States and Latin America
The United States in World War I
From Neutrality to War
"Over There"
War on the Home Front
Catastrophe at Versailles
The Fate of Wilson’s Ideas
Congress Rejects the Treaty
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The Human Cost of World War I
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Thinking Like a Historian German Americans in World War I
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Interpretations Was Wilson’s Internationalism Successful?
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Analyzing Voices Debating the Philippines LaunchPad
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Document 20-1: Albert Beveridge, "The March of the Flag" Speech (1898)
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Document 20-2: Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen (1898)
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Document 20-3: PUCK, "US President Theodore Roosevelt’s New Diplomacy, ‘Speak Softy and Carry a Big Stick’" (1901)
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Document 20-4: Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi, "I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" (1915)
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Document 20-5: The Liberator, Tulsa, November 9th (1918)
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Document 20-6: Woodrow Wilson, War Aims and Peace Terms (1918)
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21. Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919–1932
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Resurgent Conservatism
The Red Scare
Racial Backlash
The Business of America
The Politics of Normalcy
Making a Modern Consumer Economy
Postwar Abundance
Consumer Culture
The Automobile and Suburbanization
The Politics and Culture of a Diversifying Nation
Women in a New Age
Culture Wars
The Harlem Renaissance
The Coming of the Great Depression
From Boom to Bust
Early Depression Years
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Hollywood in Europe
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Thinking Like a Historian Who Joined the Ku Klux Klan?
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Interpretations How Did Immigrants Experience America at the Turn of the Century?
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Analyzing Voices Urban Writers Describe Small-Town America LaunchPad
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Document 21-1: BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI, Last Statement to the Court of Massachusetts (1927)
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Document 21-2: CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, Passing the Federal Suffrage Amendment (1918)
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Document 21-3: Platform of the Conference for Progressive Political Action (1924)
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Document 21-4: Billy Sunday, Get on the Water Wagon (1915)
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Document 21-5: LANGSTON HUGHES, "The Weary Blues" (1926)
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Document 21-6 | Advertising the American Dream
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22. Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1938
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Early Responses to the Depression, 1929–1932
Enter Herbert Hoover
Rising Discontent
The 1932 Election
The New Deal Arrives, 1933–1935
Roosevelt and the First Hundred Days
The New Deal Under Attack
The Second New Deal and the Redefining of Liberalism, 1935–1938
The Welfare State Comes into Being
From Reform to Stalemate
The New Deal and American Society
A People’s Democracy
Reshaping the Environment
The New Deal and the Arts
The Legacies of the New Deal
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Economic Nationalism in the United States and Mexico
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Thinking Like a Historian The New Deal and Public Works
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Interpretations Was the New Deal a Reform or a Revolution?
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Analyzing Voices Ordinary People Respond to the New Deal LaunchPad
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Document 22-1: Herbert Hoover, Letter to Simeon Fess (1933)
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Document 22-2: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (1933)
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Document 22-3: Huey Long, "Every Man a King" (1934)
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Document 22-4: Michigan Artist Alfred Castagne Sketching WPA Construction Workers (1939)
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Document 22-5: CLIFFORD K. BERRYMAN, "The Spirit of the New Deal" (1933) and
"It’s So Hard to Find a Place for You" (1935)
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Document 22-6: martha gellhorn, Field Report to Harry Hopkins (1934)
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23. The World at War, 1937–1945
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The Road to War
The Rise of Fascism
War Approaches
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Organizing for a Global War
Financing the War
Mobilizing the American Fighting Force
Workers and the War Effort
Politics in Wartime
Life on the Home Front
"For the Duration"
Migration and the Wartime City
Japanese Removal
Fighting and Winning the War
Wartime Aims and Tensions
The War in Europe
The War in the Pacific
The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War
The Toll of the War
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America in Global Context The Scales of War: Losses and Gains During World War II
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Thinking Like a Historian Mobilizing the Home Front
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Interpretations Why Did the United States Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan?
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Analyzing Voices Women in the Wartime Workplace LaunchPad
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Document 23-1: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union (1941)
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Document 23-2: Interviews with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project (2001, 2003)
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Document 23-3: Gordon Hirabayashi, Why I Refused to Register for Evacuation (1942)
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Document 23-4: LULAC NEWS, Editorial (1945)
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Document 23-5: Women’s Safety Garments (1943)
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Document 23-6: Harry Truman, Statement by the President Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima (1945)
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Part 8: ?The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980
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Document P8-1: NSC-68 (1950)
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Document P8-2: John D. Peurifoy, Letter to John M. Cabot, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (1953)
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Document P8-3: John F. Kennedy, Address to the United Nations General Assembly (1961)
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Document P8-4: Letters Between Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh (1967)
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Document P8-5: charles sanders, Kissinger in Africa (1976)
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Document P8-6: Iranian Demonstrators Burn an Effigy of Uncle Sam (1979)
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24. Cold War America, 1945–1963
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Containment in a Divided Global Order
Origins of the Cold War
The Containment Strategy
Containment in Asia
Cold War Liberalism
Truman and the End of Reform
Red Scare: The Hunt for Communists
The Politics of Cold War Liberalism
Containment in the Postcolonial World
The Cold War and Colonial Independence
John F. Kennedy and the Cold War
Making a Commitment in Vietnam
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America in Global Context Arming for the Cold War
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Thinking Like a Historian The Global Cold War
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Interpretations Why Was There a Cold War?
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Analyzing Voices Hunting Communists: The Case of Paul Robeson LaunchPad
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Document 24-1: George Kennan, "Long Telegram" to James Byrnes (1946)
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Document 24-2: Walter Lippmann, Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy (1947)
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Document 24-3: FELIX BELAIR, JR., "United States Has Secret Sonic Weapon- Jazz" (1955)
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Document 24-4: Charlotte Oram, Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Investigations (1954)
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Document 24-5: John Foster Dulles, The Evolution of Foreign Policy (1954)
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Document 24-6: "Get the Feel of a Fallout Shelter" (c. 1950s)
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25. Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963
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Postwar Prosperity and the Affluent Society
Economy: From Recovery to Dominance
A Nation of Consumers
Youth Culture
Religion and the Middle Class
The American Family in the Era of Containment
The Baby Boom
Women, Work, and Family
Challenging Middle-Class Morality
A Suburban Nation
The Postwar Housing Boom
Rise of the Sunbelt
Two Nations: Urban and Suburban
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America in Global Context Hanoch Bartov: Everyone Has a Car
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Thinking Like a Historian The Suburban Landscape of Cold War America
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Interpretations Was Rock ’n’ Roll an Agent of Social Change?
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Analyzing Voices Coming of Age in the Postwar Years LaunchPad
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Document 25-1: Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944)
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Document 25-2: 1950s Rock and Roll Dancers (c. 1950)
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Document 25-3: Billy Graham, Our Right to Require Belief (1956)
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Document 25-4: Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care (1946)
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Document 25-5: Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency: Interim Report of the Committee on the Judiciary (1955)
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Document 25-6: J. R. EYERMAN, Photograph of Los Angeles Development Boom (1952) and
MALVINA REYNOLDS, Little Boxes (1962)
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26. Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973
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The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle, 1941–1957
Life Under Jim Crow
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
World War II: The Beginnings
Cold War Civil Rights
Mexican Americans and Japanese Americans
Fighting for Equality Before the Law
Forging a Protest Movement, 1955–1965
Nonviolent Direct Action
Legislating Civil Rights, 1963–1965
Beyond Civil Rights, 1966–1973
Black Nationalism
Urban Disorder
Rise of the Chicano Movement
The American Indian Movement
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Freedom in the United States and Africa
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Thinking Like a Historian Civil Rights and Black Power: Strategy and Ideology
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Interpretations Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Radical or a Reformer?
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Analyzing Voices Race and Geography in the Civil Rights Era LaunchPad
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Document 26-1: Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream (1949)
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Document 26-2: Declaration of Constitutional Principles (1956)
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Document 26-3: FANNIE LOU HAMER, Testimony Before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention (1964)
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Document 26-4: Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet (1964)
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Document 26-5: Indians of All Tribes, Proclamation: To the Great White Father and All His People (1970)
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Document 26-6: LA RAZA PEACE MORATORIUM FLYER, (1970)
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27. Uncivil Wars: ?Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972
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Liberalism at High Tide
John F. Kennedy’s Promise
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society
Rebirth of the Women’s Movement
The Vietnam War Begins
Escalation Under Johnson
Public Opinion and the War
The Student Movement
Days of Rage, 1968–1972
War Abroad, Tragedy at Home
The Antiwar Movement and the 1968 Election
The Nationalist Turn
Women’s Liberation and Black and Chicana Feminism
Stonewall and Gay Liberation
Rise of the Silent Majority
Nixon in Vietnam
The Silent Majority Speaks Out
The 1972 Election
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America in Global Context The Global Protests of 1968
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Thinking Like a Historian Debating the War in Vietnam
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Interpretations What Are the Origins of 1960s Feminism?
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Analyzing Voices The Toll of War LaunchPad
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Document 27-1: Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Great Society (1964)
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Document 27-2: John Kerry, Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1971)
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Document 27-3: JOHN OLSON, Women’s Rights March (1970)
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Document 27-4: Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano (1969)
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Document 27-5: Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention (1964)
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28. The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980
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An Era of Limits
Energy Crisis
Environmentalism
Economic Transformation
Urban Crisis and Suburban Revolt
Politics in Flux, 1973–1980
Watergate and the Fall of a President
Jimmy Carter: The Outsider as President
Reform and Reaction in the 1970s
Civil Rights in a New Era
The Women’s Movement and Gay Rights
After the Warren Court
The American Family on Trial
Working Families in the Age of Deindustrialization
Navigating the Sexual Revolution
Religion in the 1970s: The Fourth Great Awakening
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America in Global Context Economic Malaise in the Seventies
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Thinking Like a Historian The Environmental Movement: Reimagining the Human-Earth Relationship
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Interpretations Why Did the Postwar Boom Bust in the 1970s?
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Analyzing Voices Debating the Equal Rights Amendment LaunchPad
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Document 28-1: JOSEPH FARRIS, "Let OPEC Tighten the Screws. The Larned A. Corys are Ready." (1979)
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Document 28-2: Robert Howard, Youngstown Fights Back (1979)
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Document 28-3: Supreme Court Decision in Roe v. Wade (1973)
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Document 28-4: Phyllis Schlafly, Statement Opposing the ERA (1977)
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Document 28-5: Jimmy Carter, The Crisis of Confidence (1979)
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Document 28-6: CHRISTIANITY TODAY, An Interview with the Lone Ranger of American Fundamentalism (1981)
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Part 9: ?Globalization and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present
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Document P9-1: Irving Kristol, Two Cheers for Capitalism (1978)
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Document P9-2: LeRoy Mcclelland Sr., Interview with Bill Barry (2006)
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Document P9-3: Bill Clinton, Remarks on Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (1993)
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Document P9-4: Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know (2003)
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Document P9-5: Kevin Clarke, Outsourcing Around (2004)
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Document P9-6: SHANNON STAPLETON, Fast Food Workers Rally for Higher Wages (2015)
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29. Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991
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The Rise of the New Right
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan: Champions of the Right
Free-Market Economics and Religious Conservatism
The Carter Presidency
The Dawning of the Conservative Age
The Reagan Coalition
Conservatives in Power
Morning in America
The End of the Cold War
U.S.-Soviet Relations in a New Era
A New Political Order at Home and Abroad
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America in Global Context Yoichi Funabashi: "Japan and America: Global Partners"
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Thinking Like a Historian Personal Computing: A Technological Revolution
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Interpretations How Conservative Was the Reagan Presidency?
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Analyzing Voices Christianity and Public Life LaunchPad
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Document 29-1: Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference Dinner (1981)
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Document 29-2: David Stockman, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed (1986)
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Document 29-3: Wall Street (1987)
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Document 29-4: Robert J. Henle, The Great Deception: What We Are Told About Central America (1986)
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Document 29-5: Jesse Jackson, Common Ground and Common Sense (1988)
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Document 29-6: DON EMMERT, A Navy A-7 Corsair Jet is Pulled Down Broadway (1991)
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Chapter 30
Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present
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America in the Global Economy
The Rise of the European Union and China
An New Era of Globalization
Revolutions in Technology
Politics and Partisanship in a Contentious Era
An Increasingly Plural Society
Clashes over "Family Values"
Bill Clinton and the New Democrats
Post–Cold War Foreign Policy
Into a New Century
The Ascendance of George W. Bush
Violence Abroad and Economic Collapse at Home
Reform and Stalemate in the Obama Years
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America in Global Context Global Trade, 1960–2009
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Thinking Like a Historian Globalization: Its Proponents and Its Discontents
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Interpretations Can Historians Write the History of Current Events?
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Analyzing Voices Immigration after 1965: Its Defenders and Critics LaunchPad
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Document 30-1: Alesha Daughtrey, Interview by April Eaton (2000)
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Document 30-2: California Proposition 187 (1994)
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Document 30-3: Madeleine Albright, Realism and Idealism in American Foreign Policy Today (1994)
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Document 30-4: George W. Bush, Address to Congress (2001)
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Document 30-5: Barack Obama, A More Perfect Union (2008)
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Document 30-6: JAKE GREEN, Trump Protests-Michigan (2017)
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