Experience History : Interpreting America's Past

by Davidson, James West; DeLay, Brian; Heyrman, Christine Leigh; Lytle, Mark; Stoff, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780073385679
• ISBN10: 0073385670
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-06
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Connect students to thestoriesof history. Connect students to theexperienceof history. Connect students tosuccessin history.At McGraw-Hill, we have spent the past few years deepening our understanding of the student and instructor experience. Employing a wide array of research tools including surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies, we've identified areas in need of improvement to provide an opportunity for greater learning and teaching experiences.Experience Historyis a direct result of this.Experience Historyis also a first in American History. Its groundbreaking adaptive diagnostic and interactive exercises paired with its lively narrative and engaging visuals creates a unique teaching and learning environment propelling greater student success and better course results. Instructors gain better insight into students' engagement and understanding as students develop a base of knowledge and construct critical thinking skills. Gripping stories keep students turning the page while the adaptive diagnostics for each chapter and a personalized study plan for each individual student help students prepare for class discussions and course work while enjoying increased course success.Experience Historyemphasizes that history is not just a collection of proven facts, but is "created" from the detective work of historians examining evidence from the past. Providing the interactive environment that only an integrated solution can provide,Experience Historygives students the opportunity to examine primary sources and explore specific periods and events. This leads to greater understanding as well as the building and practicing of critical thinking skills. As students uniquely experience American History,Experience Historypropels students to greater understanding while achieving greater course success.Give students an experience. Improve course participation and performance.Experience History, and experience success.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The First Civilizations of North America

An American Story: The Power of a Hidden Past

A Continent of Cultures

A Cultures of Ancient Mexico

Daily Lives: Play Ball

Cultures of the Southwest

Cultures of the Eastern Woodlands

Cultures of the Great Plains

Cultures of the Great Basin

Cultures of the Pacific Northwest

Cultures of the Subarctic and Arctic

Innovations and Limitations

America's Agricultural Gifts

Landscapers

The Shape of a Problem

Historian's Toolbox: An Ancient Calendar

Animals and Illness

Crisis and Transformation

Enduring Cultures

North America on the Eve of Contact

Dueling Documents: How Many People Lived in Hispaniola in 1492?

REVIEW CHART: A CONTINENT OF CULTURES

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Tracking the First Americans

Chapter 2. Old Worlds, New Worlds, 1400-1600

An American Story: Fishing Nets and Far Horizons

Eurasia and Africa in the Fifteenth Century

Europe's Place in the World

Historian's Toolbox: A Witch Bottle

Africa and the Portuguese Wave

Sugar and the Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Spain in the Americas

The Spanish Beachhead in the Caribbean

Daily Lives: "Barbaric Dress"--Indian and European

Conquest of the Aztecs

Dueling Documents: How Did Spaniards and Aztecs Remember First Contact?

The Columbian Exchange

The Crown Steps In

The Search for North America's Indian Empires

Religious Reform Divides Europe

The Teachings of Martin Luther

The Contribution of John Calvin

French Huguenots and the Birth of Spanish Florida

The English Reformation

England's Entry into America

The Ambitions of Gilbert, Raleigh, and Wingina

A Second Roanoke--and Croatoan

REVIEW CHART: EUROPEAN EXPLORATIONS

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 3. Colonization and Conflict in the South, 1600-1750

An American Story: Outlandish Strangers

Spain's North American Colonies

The Founding of a "New" Mexico

The Growth of Spanish Florida

Pope and the Pueblo Revolt

Dueling Documents: What Caused the Pueblo Revolt?

English Society on the Chesapeake

The Virginia Company

Reform and a Boom in Tobacco

The Founding of Maryland and the Renewal of Indian Wars

Changes in English Policy in the Chesapeake

Chesapeake Society in Crisis

Bacon's Rebellion and Coode's Rebellion

From Servitude to Slavery

Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Historian's Toolbox: Hip Mask from Benin

A Changing Chesapeake Society

From the Caribbean to the Carolinas

Paradise Lost

Daily Lives: A Taste for Sugar

The Founding of the Carolinas

Carolina, Florida, and the Southeastern Slave Wars

White, Red, and Black: The Search for Order

The Founding of Georgia

REVIEW CHART: SOUTHERN COLONIES

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 4. Colonization and Conflict in the North, 1600-1700

An American Story: Bears on Floating Islands

France in North America

The Origins of New France

New Netherlands, the Iroquois, and the Beaver Wars

The Lure of the Mississippi

Historian's Toolbox: A French Map

The Founding of New England

The Puritan Movement

The Pilgrim Settlement of Plymouth Colony

The Puritan Settlement at Massachusetts Bay

Stability and Order in Early New England

Communities in Conflict

Goodwives and Witches

Daily Lives: A World of Wonders and Witchcraft

Dueling Documents: Accusations and Defenses in the Salem Witchcraft Trials

The People in the Way

Metacom's War

The Mid-Atlantic Colonies

English Rule in New York

The Founding of New Jersey

Quaker Odysseys

Patterns of Growth

Quakers and Politics

Adjustment to Empire

The Dominion of New England

Royal Authority in America in 1700

REVIEW CHART: NORTHERN COLONIES

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 5. The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America, 1689-1768

An American Story: The Tale of a Tattooed Traveler

Crisis and Transformation in Northern New Spain

Defensive Expansion into Texas

Crisis and Rebirth in New Mexico

Spanish California

Dueling Documents: The Founders of Spanish California

Women and the Law in New Spain and British North America

Eighteenth-Century New France

Colonial Compromise

France on the Gulf Coast

Slavery and Colonial Society in French Louisiana

Forces of Division in British North America

Immigration and Natural Increase

Daily Lives: Transatlantic Trials

Moving into the Backcountry

Social Conflict on the Frontier

Eighteenth-Century Seaports

Historian's Toolbox: A Woman's Cupboard

Social Tension in Seaports

Slave Societies in the Eighteenth-Century South

The Slave Family and Community

Slavery and Colonial Society in French Louisiana

Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century British

North America

Enlightenment and Awakening in America

The Enlightenment in America

The First Great Awakening

The Aftermath of the Great Awakening

Anglo-American Worlds of the Eighteenth Century

English Economic and Social Development

The Consumer Revolution

Inequality in England and America

Politics in England and America

The Imperial System Before 1760

REVIEW CHART: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NORTH AMERICA

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 6. Toward the War for American Independence, 1754-1776

An American Story: The General, the Trader, and the Missing Allies

The Seven Years' War

Origins

Years of Defeat

A Shift in Policy

Years of Victory

Historian's Toolbox: John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark

Postwar Expectations

The Imperial Crisis

Pontiac's Rebellion

George Grenville's New Measures

The Beginning of Colonial Resistance

Riots and Resolves

Repeal of the Stamp Act

The Townshend Acts

The Resistance Organizes

Daily Lives: Street Theater

The International Sons of Liberty

The Boston Massacre

Dueling Documents: Who Was to Blame for the Boston Massacre?

Resistance Revived

The Empire Strikes Back

Toward the Revolution

The First Continental Congress

The Last Days of the British Empire in America

The Fighting Begins

Common Sense

REVIEW CHART: PARLIAMENT AND THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 7. The American People: The American Revolution, 1775-1783

An American Story: "Will He Fight?"

The Decision for Independence

The Second Continental Congress

The Declaration

Dueling Documents: Abigail and John Adams Spar on Women's Rights

American Loyalists

The Fighting in the North

The Two Armies at Bay

Daily Lives: Radical Chic and Revolutionary Women

Laying Strategies

Capturing Philadelphia

Disaster at Saratoga

The Turning Point

The American Revolution Becomes a Global War

Winding Down the War in the North

War in the West

The Home Front in the North

The Struggle in the South

The Siege of Charleston

The Partisan Struggle in the South

Greene Takes Command

African Americans in the Age of Revolution

Historian's Toolbox: Runaways

The World Turned Upside Down

Surrender at Yorktown

REVIEW CHART: BRITISH AND AMERICAN FORCES COMPARED

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 8. Crisis and Constitution, 1776-1789

An American Story: "These United States"

Republican Experiments

The State Constitutions

From Congress to Confederation

The Temptations of Peace

The Temptations of the West

Foreign Intrigues

Disputes among the States

The More Democratic West

The Northwest Territory

Slavery and Sectionalism

Wartime Economic Disruption

Republican Society

The New Men of the Revolution

The New Women of the Revolution

Historian's Toolbox: A Woman's Compass

Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication

Republican Motherhood and Education

The Attack on Aristocracy

Daily Lives: The Spirits of Independence

From Confederation to Constitutions

The Jay-Gardoqui Treaty

Shays's Rebellion

Framing a Federal Constitution

The Virginia and New Jersey Plans

The Deadlock Broken

Ratification

Dueling Documents: Republican Remedy?

REVIEW CHART: CRISES OF THE 1780S--AND CONSEQUENCES

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: White and Black Southerners Worshiping Together

Chapter 9. The Early Republic, 1789-1824

An American Story: "I Felt Myself Mad with Passion"

1789: A Social and Political Portrait of the New Republic

Semisubsistence and Commercial Economies

The Constitution and Commerce

Washington Organizes the Government

Hamilton's Financial Program

The Emergence of Political Parties

Americans and the French Revolution

Washington's Neutral Course

The Federalists and the Republicans Organize

The 1796 Election

Federalist and Republican Ideologies

The Presidency of John Adams

Suppression at Home

The Election of 1800

John Marshall and Judicial Review

The Political Culture of the Early Republic

African-American Celebrations

Women's Education and Civic Participation

Dueling Documents: Can This Marriage Be Saved?

The Republicans in Power

The New Capital City

Jefferson's Philosophy

Jefferson's Economic Policies

The Miami Confederacy Resists

Doubling the Size of the Nation

Pressure on Indian Lands and Culture

White Frontier Society

The Beginnings of the Second Great Awakening

Daily Lives: The Frontier Camp Meeting

The Prophet, Tecumseh, and the Pan-Indian Movement

The Second War for American Independence

The Barbary Pirates and Cultural Identities

The Embargo

Madison and the Young Republicans

The Decision for War

The British Invasion

Monroe's Presidency

Historian's Toolbox: Remembering Lafayette

REVIEW CHART: FEDERALISTS AND REPUBLICANS

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson

Chapter 10. The Opening of America, 1815-1850

An American Story: From Boom to Bust with One-Day Clocks

The National Market Economy

The New Nationalism

The Cotton Trade

The Transportation Revolution

Daily Lives: Floating Palaces of the West

The Communications Revolution

The Transformation of Agriculture

John Marshall and the Promotion of Enterprise

A People in Motion

Population Growth

Geographic Mobility

Urbanization

The Rise of Factories

Technological Advances

Textile Factories

Lowell and the Environment

Industrial Work

The Labor Movement

Sam Patch and a Worker's "Art"

Social Structures of the Market Society

Household Production and Consumption

Dueling Documents: The Market and Equality: He Said, She Said

The Emerging Middle Class

The Distribution of Wealth

Social Mobility

A New Sensitivity to Time

Historian's Toolbox: The Clock's Two Faces

The Market at Work: Three Examples

Prosperity and Anxiety

The Panic of 1819

REVIEW CHART: EARLY INDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE NORTH

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 11. The Rise of Democracy, 1824-1840

An American Story: "Wanted: Curling Tongs, Cologne, and Silk Stockings ..."

Equality, Opportunity, and the New Political Culture of Democracy

The Tension between Equality and Opportunity

Daily Lives: The Plain Dark Democracy of Broadcloth

The New Political Culture of Democracy

The Election of 1824

Social Sources of the New Politics

The Acceptance of Parties

The Politics of the Common Man

Jackson's Rise to Power

John Quincy Adam's Presidency

President of the People

The Political Agenda in the Market Economy

Democracy and Race

Accommodate or Resist?

Trail of Tears

Removal and Epidemics in the West

Free Blacks in the North

Dueling Documents: African Colonization: Hoping for the Best and Suspecting the Worst

The African American Community

Racism Strikes a Deeper Root

The Nullification Crisis

The Growing Crisis in South Carolina

Calhoun's Theory of Nullification

The Nullifiers Nullified

The Bank War

The National Bank and the Panic of 1819

Biddle's Bank

The Clash between Jackson and Biddle

Historian's Toolbox: Biddle and Jackson Take the Gloves Off

The Bank Destroyed

Jackson's Impact on the Presidency

Van Buren and Depression

"Van Ruin's" Depression

The Whigs' Triumph

The Jacksonian Party System

Democrats, Whigs, and the Market

The Social Bases of the Two Parties

REVIEW CHART: WINNERS AND LOSERS IN JACKSONIAN AMERICA

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 12. The Fires of Perfection, 1820-1850

An American Story: The Beechers and the Kingdom of God

The Transformation of American Evangelism

Charles Grandison Finney and Modern Revivalism

The Appeal of Evangelism

Dueling Documents: Pleas for and Against Foreign Missions

The Significance of the Second Great Awakening

Revivalism and the Social Order

The Temperance Movement

The Ideals of Women and the Family

The Middle Class Family in Transition

Daily Lives: Privacy Begins at Home

Protestants and Catholics

Historian's Toolbox: The Printer's Angel

Visionaries

The Unitarian Contribution

From Unitarianism to Transcendentalism

The American Renaissance

Secular Utopian Communities

Religious Utopian Communities

The Mormon Experience

Radical Reform

The Beginnings of the Abolitionist Movement

The Spread of Abolitionism

Opponents and Divisions

The Women's Rights Movement

The Schism of 1840

Reform Shakes the Party System

The Turn Toward Politics

The Maine Law

Abolitionism and the Party System

REVIEW CHART: VARIETIES OF ANTEBELLUM REFORM

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 13. The Old South, 1820-1860

An American Story: Where Is the Real South?

The Social Structure of the Cotton Kingdom

The Boom Country Economy

The Upper South's New Orientation

The Rural South

Distribution of Slavery

Slavery as a Labor System

Class Structure of the White South

The Slaveowners

Tidewater and Frontier

The Master at Home

The Plantation Mistress

Dueling Documents: Mistresses and House Servants

Yeoman Farmers

Poor Whites

The Peculiar Institution

Work and Discipline

Slave Maintenance

Daily Lives: A Slave's Daily Bread Resistance

Slave Culture

The Slave Family

Slave Songs and Stories

Steal Away to Jesus

The Slave Community

Free Black Southerners

Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery

The Virginia Debate of 1832

The Proslavery Argument

Historian's Toolbox: George Washington, Slaveholder Closing Ranks

REVIEW CHART: PIVOTAL MOMENTS FOR THE OLD SOUTH

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 14. Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue, 1820-1850

An American Story: Strangers on the Great Plains

Manifest (and Not So Manifest) Destiny

The Roots of the Doctrine

The Mexican Borderlands

The Texas Revolution

The Texas Republic

The Trek West

The Overland Trail

Women on the Overland Trail

Indians and the Trail Experience

Daily Lives: Seeing the Elephant on the Overland Trail

The Political Origins of Expansion

Tyler's Texas Ploy

Van Overboard

To the Pacific

Provoking a War

Indians and Mexicans

Historian's Toolbox: Set'an Annual Calendar of the Kiowa

Opposition to the War

Dueling Documents: In What Country Did the U.S.-Mexican War Begin?

The Price of Victory

The Rise of the Slavery Issue

New Societies in the West

Farming in the West

The Gold Rush

Instant City: San Francisco

The Migration from China

The Mormons in Utah

Temple City: Salt Lake City

Shadows on the Moving Frontier

Escape from Crisis

A Two-Faced Campaign

The Compromise of 1850

Away from the Brink

REVIEW CHART: TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AMERICAN WEST, 1819-1850

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 15. The Union Broken, 1850-1861

An American Story: The Sacking of a Town in Kansas

Sectional Changes in American Society

The Growth of a Railroad Economy

Historian's Toolbox: Brandied Cherries and Buttons

Railroads and the Prairie Environment

Railroads and the Urban Environment

Rising Industrialization

Immigration

Southern Complaints

The Political Realignment of the 1850s

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Collapse of the Second American Party System

The Know-Nothings

The Republicans and Bleeding Kansas

Daily Lives: Uncle Tom by Footlights

The Caning of Charles Sumner

The Election of 1856

The Worsening Crisis

The Dred Scott Decision

The Panic of 1857

The Lecompton Constitution

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

The Beleaguered South

The Road to War

A Sectional Election

Secession

The Outbreak of War

Dueling Documents: Slavery and Secession

The Roots of a Divided Society

REVIEW CHART: THE ROAD TO DISUNION

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 16. Total War and the Republic, 1861-1865

An American Story: The Rout at Bull Run

Opening Moves

Political Leadership

The Border States

Blockade and Isolate

Grant in the West

Eastern Stalement

Emancipation

The Logic of Events

The Emancipation Proclamation

African Americans' Civil War

Black Soldiers

The Confederate Home Front

The New Economy

New Opportunities for Southern Women

Confederate Finance and Government

Hardship and Suffering

The Union Home Front

Government Finances and the Economy

Historian's Toolbox: Face Value?

A Rich Man's War

Women and the Workforce

Civil Liberties and Dissent

Gone to Be a Soldier

Discipline

Camp Life

Daily Lives: Hardtack, Salt Horse, and Coffee

The Changing Face of Battle

Hardening Attitudes

The Union's Triumph

Confederate High Tide

Lincoln Finds His General

Dueling Documents: Invaders and Defenders

War in the Balance

The Twilight of the Confederacy

REVIEW CHART: PIVOT POINTS ALONG THE UNION'S ROAD TO VICTORY

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: What Caused the New York Draft Riot?

Chapter 17. Reconstructing the Union, 1865-1877

An American Story: The Secret Sale at Davis Bend

Presidential Reconstruction

Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan

The Mood of the South

Johnson's Program of Reconstruction

The Failure of Johnson's Program

Johnson's Break with Congress

Dueling Documents: Equality and the Vote in Reconstruction

The Fourteenth Amendment

The Elections of 1866

Congressional Reconstruction

Post-Emancipation Societies in the Americas

The Land Issue

Impeachment

Reconstruction in the South

Black Office Holding

White Republicans in the South

The New State Governments

Economic Issues and Corruption

Black Aspirations

Experiencing Freedom

The Black Family

Daily Lives: The Black Sharecropper's Cabin

The Schoolhouse and the Church

New Working Conditions

The Freedmen's Bureau

Planters and a New Way of Life

The Abandonment of Reconstruction

The Election of Grant

The Grant Administration

Growing Northern Disillusionment

The Triumph of White Supremacy

Historian's Toolbox: Dressed to Kill

The Disputed Election of 1876

The Failure of Reconstruction

REVIEW CHART: MAJOR PLAYERS IN RECONSTRUCTION

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 18. The New South & the Trans-Mississippi West, 1870-1914

An American Story: "Come West"

The Southern Burden

Agriculture in the New South

Tenancy and Sharecropping

Southern Industry

Timber and Steel

The Sources of Southern Poverty

Life in the New South

Rural Life

The Church

Segregation

Western Frontiers

Western Landscapes

Indian Peoples and the Western Environment

Whites and the Western Environment: Competing Visions

The War for the West

Contact and Conflict

Custer's "Last Stand"--And the Indians'

Historian's Toolbox: A White Man's View of Custer's Defeat

Killing with Kindness

Borderlands

Dueling Documents: "Americanizing" the Indians

Ethno-Racial Identity in the New West

Boom and Bust in the West

The Transcontinental Railroad

Cattle Kingdom

Home on the Range

A Boom and Bust Cycle

The Final Frontier

A Rush for Land

Farming on the Plains

A Plains Existence

The Urban Frontier

Daily Lives: The Frontier Kitchen of the Plains

The West and the World Economy

Packaging and Exporting the "Wild West"

The South and the West in Sum

REVIEW CHART: THE WAR FOR THE WEST

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Where Have All the Bison Gone?

Chapter 19. The New Industrial Order, 1870-1914

An American Story: "Waiting for their Brains"

The Development of Industrial Systems

Natural Resources and Industrial Technology

Systematic Invention

Transportation and Communication

Finance Capital

Daily Lives: The Rise of Information Systems

The Corporation

An International Pool of Labor

Railroads: America's First Big Business

A Managerial Revolution

Competition and Consolidation

The Challenge of Finance

The Growth of Big Business

Strategies of Growth

Carnegie Integrates Steel

Rockefeller and the Great Standard Oil Trust

The Mergers of J. Pierpont Morgan

Corporate Defenders

Corporate Critics

The Study of Global Warming: First Stirrings

The Workers' World

Industrial Work

Children, Women, and African Americans

Historian's Toolbox: Digital Detecting

The American Dream of Success

The Systems of Labor

Early Unions

The Knights of Labor

The American Federation of Labor

The Limits of Industrial Systems

Management Strikes

Dueling Documents: Two Sides of Haymarket

REVIEW CHART: THE STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES OF BIG BUSINESS

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 20. The Rise of an Urban Order, 1870-1914

An American Story: A Day in the Life of Boss Plunkitt

A New Urban Age

The Urban Explosion

The Great Global Migration

Holding the City Together

Bridges and Skyscrapers

The Urban Environment: Slum and Tenement

Running and Reforming the City

Boss Rule

Historian's Toolbox: Machine Age Voting

Rewards, Costs, and Accomplishments

Nativism, Revivals, and the Social Gospel

The Social Settlement Movement

City Life

The Immigrants in the City

Urban Middle-Class Life

Dueling Documents: City Scenes

City Life and "Manliness"

Challenges to Convention

City Culture

Public Education in an Urban Industrial World

Higher Learning and the Rise of the Professional

Higher Education for Women

A Culture of Consumption

Leisure

City Entertainment at Home and on the Road

Daily Lives: The Vaudeville Show

REVIEW CHART: THE GROWTH OF CITIES

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 21. The Political System under Strain at Home and Abroad, 1877-1900

An American Story: "The World United at Chicago"

Politics of Paralysis

Political Stalemate

The Parties

The Issues

The White House from Hayes to Harrison

Ferment in the States and Cities

The Revolt of the Farmers

The Harvest of Discontent

The Origins of the Farmers' Alliance

Dueling Documents: What Can a Farmer Do?

The Election of 1892

The New Realignment

The Depression of 1893

The Rumblings of Unrest

The Battle of the Standards

Historian's Toolbox: Pinning the Winning Ticket

The Rise of Jim Crow Politics

McKinley in the White House

Visions of Empire

Imperialism, European-Style and American

The Shapers of American Imperialism

Dreams of a Commercial Empire

The Imperial Moment

Mounting Tensions

Daily Lives: The New Navy

The Imperial War

War in Cuba

Peace and the Debate over Empire

From Colonial War to Colonial Rule

An Open Door in China

REVIEW CHART: ACQUIRING AN EMPIRE: 1860-1900

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Engendering the Spanish-American War

Chapter 22. The Progressive Era, 1890-1920

An American Story: Burned Alive in the City

The Roots of Progressive Reform

The Progressive System of Beliefs

The Pragmatic Approach

The Progressive Method

The Search for the Good Society

Poverty in a New Light

Expanding the Women's Sphere

Social Welfare

Women's Suffrage

Controlling the Masses

Stemming the Immigrant Tide

Daily Lives: "Amusing the Million"

The Curse of Demon Rum

Prostitution

"For Whites Only"

Historian's Toolbox: Mementos of Murder

The Politics of Municipal and State Reform

The Reformation of the Cities

Progressivism in the States

Progressivism Goes to Washington

A Square Deal

Bad Food and Pristine Wilds

Dueling Documents: Preservation versus Conservation

The Election of 1912

Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality

Early Career

The Reforms of the New Freedom

Labor and Social Reform

REVIEW CHART: THE PROGRESSIVE AMENDMENTS

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 23. The United States and the Collapse of the Old World Order, 1901-1920

An American Story: "A Path Between the Seas"

Progressive Diplomacy

Big Stick in the Caribbean

A "Diplomatist of the Highest Rank"

Dollar Diplomacy

Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy

Missionary Diplomacy

Intervention in Mexico

The Road to War

The Guns of August

Neutral but Not Impartial

The Diplomacy of Neutrality

Peace, Preparedness, and the Election of 1916

Wilson's Final Peace Offensive

War and Society

The Slaughter of Stalemate

"You're in the Army Now"

Historian's Toolbox: Sounding the Times: "Over There"

Mobilizing the Economy

War Work

Great Migrations

Propaganda and Civil Liberties

Dueling Documents: The Limits of Free Speech

Over There

Daily Lives: The Doughboys Abroad

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

The Lost Peace

The Treaty of Versailles

The Battle for the Treaty

Red Scare

REVIEW CHART: THE FATE OF WILSON'S 14 POINTS

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

CHAPTER SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 24. The New Era, 1920-1929

An American Story: Yesterday Meets Today in the New Era

The Roaring Economy

Technology and Consumer Spending

The Booming Construction Industry

The Automobile

The Future of Energy

The Business of America

Welfare Capitalism

The Consumer Culture

Historian's Toolbox: Youth in a Jar

A Mass Society

A "New Woman"

Daily Lives: The Beauty Contest

Mass Media

The Cult of Celebrity

"Ain't We Got Fun"

The Art of Alienation

A "New Negro"

Dueling Documents: "The Problem of the Color Line"

Defenders of the Faith

Nativism and Immigration Restriction

The "Noble Experiment"

Fundamentalism versus Darwinism

KKK

Republican Ascendant

The Politics of "Normalcy"

The Politics of Mellon and Hoover

Distress Signals at Home and Abroad

The Election of 1928

The Great Bull Market

The Rampaging Bull

The Great Crash

The Sickening Slide in Global Perspective

The Causes of the Great Depression

REVIEW CHART: THE CULTURE WARS OF THE 1920S

CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE

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