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Tables of Contents for The American Nation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Themes in American History
xviii
Geography Themes
xix
Critical Thinking and the Study of History
xx
UNIT 1 American Beginnings Prehistory-1900
xxii
Unit 1 Preview
1
1
Prologue: The New Nation Prehistory-1861
2
64
The World By 1500
4
6
Then and Now Sacred or Scientific Sites?
7
3
Creating a New Nation
10
11
Great Debates Independence
11
3
The Religious Spirit Separation of Church and State
14
3
The Declaration of Independence
17
4
Growth and Change
21
7
Presidential Lives
22
2
James Monroe
Teen Life Lowell Girls
24
5
Biography
29
Juan Seguin
Westward Expansion and Sectional Conflict
28
38
Strategies for Success Building Vocabulary
30
6
Constitution Handbook
36
30
The Civil War 1861-1865
66
34
The Union Dissolves
68
7
Presidential Lives
69
2
Abraham Lincoln
Biography
71
1
Robert E. Lee
Through Others' Eyes European Views of the Civil War
72
1
Strategies for Success Recognizing Fallacies in Reasoning
73
2
The North and South Face Off
75
7
American Arts Mathew Brady's Photographs
77
1
Biography
78
1
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Teen Life Growing Up During the Civil War
79
3
Fighting the War
82
8
Historical Documents The Emancipation Proclamation
86
2
Science & Technology Weapons and War
88
2
The Final Phase
90
10
Historical Documents The Gettysburg Address
91
7
America's Geography Regionalism
98
2
Reconstruction and the New South 1865-1900
100
30
Presidential Reconstruction
102
5
Then and Now Juneteenth
103
1
Strategies for Success Comparing Points of View
104
3
Congressional Reconstruction
107
8
Biography
107
1
Frederick Douglass
Through Others' Eyes Latin American Views of Reconstruction
108
3
Presidential Lives
111
2
Andrew Johnson
Presidential Lives
113
2
Ulysses S. Grant
Reconstruction in the South
115
5
History in the Making Interpretations of Reconstruction
117
2
Great Debates Reconstruction
119
1
The New South
120
10
Changing Ways The South
121
2
American Letters Black Writers During the Late 1800s
123
1
Biography
124
4
Madame C. J. Walker
Unit 1 Review
128
2
UNIT 2 A Nation Transformed 1860-1910
130
112
Unit 2 Review
131
1
The Western Crossroads 1860-1910
132
30
War in the West
134
8
Biography
137
1
Sitting Bull
History in the Making
138
1
George Custer
The Religious Spirit The Ghost Dance
139
3
Western Farmers
142
7
American Letters The Western Novel
146
2
Biography
148
1
Willa Cather
The Cattle Boom
149
6
American Arts Frontier Artists
151
1
Teen Life Ranch Life
152
3
The Mining Boom
155
7
Strategies for Success Comparing and Contrasting
156
2
Great Debates The old West
158
4
The Second Industrial Revolution 1865-1905
162
28
The Age of Invention
164
9
Changing Ways Technology in Daily Life
169
1
Science & Technology Electricity
170
1
Biography
171
2
Thomas Edison
The Rise of Big Business
173
8
Biography
175
1
Andrew Carnegie
The Religious Spirit Philanthropy and the Gospel of Wealth
176
2
Strategies for Success Evaluating Historical Actions
178
3
Labor Strives to Organize
181
9
Through Others' Eyes Austrian View of U.S. Workers
183
1
Biography
184
1
Mary Harris Jones
Then and Now Labor Unions
185
5
The Transformation of American Society 1865-1910
190
26
The New Immigrants
192
6
Changing Ways Immigration
194
1
The Religious Spirit Orthodox Religions
195
3
The Urban World
198
7
Teen Life The Debutante Ball
201
2
Biography
203
2
Jane Addams
Daily Life in the Cities
205
11
Strategies for Success Analyzing
206
2
Then and Now Amusement Parks
208
3
Biography
211
3
Scott Joplin
America's Geography Conquering Distance
214
2
Politics in the Gilded Age 1865-1900
216
26
Political Machines
218
6
Strategies for Success Synthesizing
221
1
American Arts Thomas Nast's Cartoons
222
2
Restoring Honest Government
224
7
American Letters Mark Twain's Political Writings
226
2
Then and Now Civil Service
228
1
Presidential Lives
229
2
Grover Cleveland
The Populist Movement
231
11
Changing Ways The American Farmer
234
2
Biography
236
1
William Jennings Bryan
Presidential Lives
237
3
William McKinley
Unit 2 Review
240
2
UNIT 3 A World Power 1897-1920
242
116
Unit 3 Preview
243
1
The Age of Reform 1897-1920
244
24
The Progressive Movement
246
6
The Religious Spirit The Social Gospel and Progressivism
248
1
Biography
249
1
Ida Tarbell
Strategies for Success Interpreting the Visual Record: Photographs
250
2
Reforming the New Industrial Order
252
6
Through Others' Eyes Mexican View of Progressivism
254
4
Reforming Society
258
10
American Arts Shaping Public Space
260
2
Biography
262
6
W. E. B. Du Bois
Progressive Politicians 1900-1920
268
28
Reforming Government
270
5
Through Others' Eyes The Australian Ballot
271
2
Strategies for Success Interpreting the Visual Record: Political Cartoons
273
2
Roosevelt and the Square Deal
275
7
Presidential Lives
276
3
Theodore Roosevelt
American Letters Progressive Literature
279
2
Then and Now National Parks
281
1
Reform Under Taft
282
5
History in the Making Views of Taft
283
4
Wilson's ``New Freedom''
287
9
Presidential Lives
288
2
Woodrow Wilson
American Arts The Armory Show
290
2
Biography
292
1
Carrie Chapman Catt
Great Debates The Progressive Legacy
292
4
America and the World 1898-1917
296
30
Expansion in the Pacific
298
7
The Religious Spirit The American Missionary Movement
299
1
Biography Liliuokalani
300
3
Strategies for Success Interpreting Economic Data
303
2
War with Spain
305
7
Biography
305
1
Jose Marti
Biography
306
3
William Randolph Hearst
American Letters Literature of the Spanish-American War
309
3
Expansion in Latin America
312
5
Science & Technology The Panama Canal
314
1
Historical Documents The Roosevelt Corollary
315
2
Conflict with Mexico
317
9
Changing Ways Mexico and the United States
318
6
America's Geography The United States and the World
324
2
World War I 1914-1920
326
32
World War I Breaks Out
328
5
Then and Now Conflicts in Bosnia
329
4
The United States Goes to War
333
7
Through Others' Eyes The Sinking of the Lusitania
334
3
History in the Making The Doughboy's Pack
337
1
Biography
338
2
John J. Pershing
The War at Home
340
7
Biography
343
1
Juliette Gordon Low
Teen Life Mobilizing for the War Effort
343
1
Science & Technology The Influenza Epidemic
344
3
The War's End and Aftermath
347
11
Strategies for Success Interpreting Literature as Historical Evidence
348
2
Historical Documents The Fourteen Points
350
6
Unit 3 Review
356
2
UNIT 4 Prosperity And Crisis 1919-1939
358
112
Unit 4 Preview
359
1
A Turbulent Decade 1919-1929
360
24
Postwar Troubles
362
7
Biography
364
3
John L. Lewis
Strategies for Success Evaluating News Stories
367
2
The Republicans in Power
369
6
Then and Now The Free Market
370
5
A Nation Divided
375
9
Through Others' Eyes An African View of the Back-to-Africa Movement
379
5
The Jazz Age 1920-1929
384
28
Boom Times
386
8
Science & Technology The Model T
388
1
Biography
389
2
Henry Ford
Strategies for Success Studying Primary and Secondary Sources
391
3
Life in the Twenties
394
8
Then and Now Censorship
397
3
The Religious Spirit Pentecostalism
400
2
A Creative Era
402
10
American Letters Harlem Renaissance Writers
405
1
Biography
406
6
James Weldon Johnson
The Great Depression 1929-1933
412
26
Prosperity Shattered
414
6
Through Others' Eyes The Global Depression
417
3
Hard Times
420
8
Biography
424
1
Josefina Fierro de Bright
Strategies for Success Evaluating Artifacts as Historical Evidence
425
1
Then and Now Baseball
426
2
Hoover's Policies
428
10
The Religious Spirit The Salvation Army
429
2
Presidential Lives
431
1
Herbert Hoover
Teen Life Riding the Rails
432
6
The New Deal 1933-1939
438
32
Restoring Hope
440
7
Historical Documents Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
441
6
New Challenges
447
7
Presidential Lives
448
1
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Biography
449
1
Mary McLeod Bethune
Then and Now Social Security
449
5
Life in the New Deal Era
454
5
American Arts Woody Guthrie and American Folk Music
455
1
Biography
456
3
Dorothea Lange
The New Deal and the Arts
459
11
American Letters Literature of the Great Depression
461
1
Strategies for Success Evaluating Art as Historical Evidence
462
4
America's Geography Land Use
466
2
Unit 4 Review
468
2
UNIT 5 World Conflicts 1921-1960
470
122
Unit 5 Preview
471
1
The Road to War 1921-1941
472
26
The Search for Peace
474
5
Biography
475
1
Charles Evans Hughes
Then and Now Peace Movements
475
4
Relations with Latin America
479
5
Through Others' Eyes Latin American Views of Foreign Investment
481
1
Changing Ways Investments in Latin America
482
2
The Rise of Militarism
484
6
Strategies for Success Using Oral Histories
487
1
American Letters Ernest Hemingway and War
488
2
War Breaks Out
490
8
Biography
493
5
Winston Churchill
Americans in World War II 1941-1945
498
32
Early Difficulties
500
7
Through Others' Eyes Japanese View of World War II
501
2
Biography
503
1
Douglas MacArthur
Teen Life The Navajo Code Talkers
504
3
The Home Front
507
7
Historical Documents The Four Freedoms
508
1
American Arts
509
4
Norman Rockwell
Biography
513
1
Norman Mineta
Victory in Europe
514
7
Strategies for Success Preparing Questions
517
4
Victory in Asia
521
9
Presidential Lives
525
1
Harry S Truman
Great Debates The Atomic Bomb
526
4
The Cold War 1945-1960
530
32
Healing the Wounds of War
532
6
Historical Documents The Charter of the United Nations
535
1
Biography
535
1
Eleanor Roosevelt
The Religious Spirit American Judaism
536
2
The Cold War Begins
538
6
Strategies for Success Taking Notes
539
2
Then and Now Extending Economic Aid Abroad
541
1
Biography
541
3
George C. Marshall
The Cold War Turns Hot
544
7
Presidential Lives
548
3
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Cold War at Home
551
11
American Letters Science Fiction
553
2
Teen Life ``Duck and Cover''
555
5
America's Geography Defenses of the Cold War
560
2
Society after World War II 1945-1960
562
30
The Challenges of Peace
564
6
Changing Ways Higher Education
565
2
Strategies for Success Conducting an Interview
567
3
The Affluent Society
570
9
Science & Technology Jonas Salk's Polio Vaccine
575
2
Teen Life Teenagers as Consumers
577
1
Biography
577
2
Elvis Presley
Voices of Dissent
579
13
Biography
581
5
Rosa Parks
American Letters Voices of the Fifties
586
4
Unit 5 Review
590
2
UNIT 6 A Changing Home Front 1954-1978
592
116
Unit 6 Preview
593
1
The New Frontier and the Great Society 1961-1969
594
26
Kennedy and the Cold War
596
7
Changing Ways The Peace Corps
599
1
Science & Technology The Space Program
600
2
Through Others' Eyes Soviet View of the Cuban Missile Crisis
602
1
The Kennedy White House
603
7
Presidential Lives
604
1
John F. Kennedy
Biography
604
1
Donna Shalala
Historical Documents Kennedy's Inaugural Address
605
5
Johnson's Great Society
610
10
Presidential Lives
611
1
Lyndon B. Johnson
Teen Life Vista Volunteers
612
2
Biography
614
1
Rachel Carson
Strategies for Success Using the Library
615
5
The Civil Rights Movement 1960-1978
620
26
Freedom Now!
622
6
Historical Documents Letter from Birmingham Jail
625
1
Biography
626
2
Martin Luther King Jr.
Voting Rights
628
5
Teen Life Freedom Summer Workers
630
3
Challenges for the Movement
633
6
Through Others' Eyes Irish View of the Civil Rights Movement
634
1
Biography
634
5
Malcolm X
The Movement Continues
639
7
Strategies for Success Using Multimedia Resources
642
4
Struggles for Change 1963-1975
646
30
Women's Rights
648
6
Biography
651
1
Gloria Steinem
Then and Now Women and Sports
652
2
The Chicano Movement
654
7
Biography
654
1
Cesar Chavez
The Religious Spirit the Ideal of Nonviolence
655
6
More Groups Mobilize
661
5
Then and Now Education and Deaf Americans
663
1
Strategies for Success Evaluating Web Sites on the Internet
664
2
A Cultural Revolution
666
10
American Arts Pop Art
669
5
America's Geography Urban America
674
2
War in Vietnam 1954-1975
676
32
Background to Conflict
678
6
Through Others' Eyes Asian View of French Colonization
680
2
Strategies for Success Determining Good Sources
682
2
The War Escalates
684
8
American Letters Views of Vietnam
688
2
Historical Documents the Port Huron Statement
690
2
A Turning Point
692
6
Teen Life The Generation Gap
694
1
Biography
695
3
Henry Kissinger
The War Ends
698
10
Biography
700
2
Le Ly Hayslip
Then and Now No More Vietnams
702
4
Unit 6 Review
706
2
UNIT 7 Modern Times 1968-Present
708
88
Unit 7 Preview
709
1
From Nixon to Carter 1968-1980
710
30
The Nixon Years
712
7
Presidential Lives
713
2
Richard M. Nixon
Changing Ways Gasoline Consumption
715
2
Through Others' Eyes Chinese Views of Nixon's Visit
717
2
From Watergate to Ford
719
7
Strategies for Success Formulating a Hypothesis
720
2
Biography
722
1
Barbara Jordan
Great Debates Watergate
723
3
Carter: The Outsider as President
726
6
Science & Technology Solar Power
728
1
Presidential Lives
729
3
Jimmy Carter
Life in the 1970s
732
8
Biography
735
1
Steven Spielberg
Teen Life The Disco Generation
736
4
The Republican Revolution 1980-1992
740
28
Reagan Comes to Power
742
6
The Religious Spirit A Return to Conservative Churches
744
2
Presidential Lives
746
2
Ronald Reagan
Reagan's Second Term
748
7
Biography
749
4
Sandra Day O'Connor
Strategies for Success Creating an Outline
753
2
Bush and Life in the 1980s
755
13
Biography
760
1
Colin Powell
Through Others' Eyes A Palestinian View of the Persian Gulf War
761
5
America's Geography the Natural Environment
766
2
Life in the 1990s and Beyond 1990-Present
768
28
Clinton's First Term
770
6
Presidential Lives
772
1
Bill Clinton
Historical Documents Contract with America
773
3
Clinton's Second Term
776
6
American Letters Reflecting America in Literature
779
2
Biography
781
1
Madeleine Albright
Society in the 1990s
782
5
Biography
782
1
John Glenn
History in the Making DNA Testing
783
2
The Religious Spirit Growing Religious Diversity
785
2
Looking to the Future
787
9
Strategies for Success Writing a Research Paper
790
4
Unit 7 Review
794
2
UNIT 8 America in a Global Context 1880-Present
796
154
Unit 8 Preview
797
1
Imperialism and Independence 1885-Present
798
28
Imperialism to World War I
800
5
Changing Ways Imperialism Then and Now
802
3
Imperialism Between the Wars
805
7
Biography
806
1
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Through Others' Eyes Resisting British Rule of India
807
2
Biography
809
3
Manuel Quezon
Decolonization and the Cold War
812
7
Strategies for Success Identifying Cause and Effect
815
4
Legacies of Imperialism
819
7
Great Debates the United States and the Post-Cold War World
822
4
The Rise of the Global Economy 1880-Present
826
28
Industrialization and Global Trade
828
4
Historical Documents the Monroe Doctrine
829
3
The Global Economy Before World War II
832
7
Strategies for Success Reading Graphs
834
2
Biography
836
2
Charles Gates Dawes
Through Others' Eyes the London Economic Conference
838
1
The Era of American Dominance
839
5
American Arts the Business of Art
841
3
A New Era in Trade
844
10
Great Debates the Future of the Global Economy
848
4
America's Geography the Global Economy
852
2
The Movement of People and Ideas 1890-Present
854
24
Patterns of Migration
856
5
Strategies for Success Reading Maps
858
3
Children of War
861
6
Then and Now Migration and Disease
862
2
Biography
864
3
Bette Bao Lord
The Movement of Information
867
5
Science & Technology How Personal Computers Work
868
4
A Global Culture
872
6
Through Others' Eyes American Culture Abroad
874
4
The Struggle for Human Rights 1885-Present
878
24
Human Rights Before World War I
880
5
Biography
882
1
Emmeline Pankhurst
Strategies for Success Reading Charts
883
2
The Cruelties of War
885
6
American Letters the Pain of War
888
3
Striving for Equality
891
4
History in the Making Songs of Freedom
892
3
The Continuing Struggle
895
7
Through Others' Eyes Human Rights or Cultural Imperialism?
897
1
Biography
898
4
Aung San Suu Kyi
A New Environmental Awareness 1890-Present
902
48
Subduing the Wilderness
904
4
The Religious Spirit Faith and the Wilderness
905
3
Expanding Horizons
908
5
Through Others' Eyes Forest Conservation in Germany
909
1
Biography
910
3
Aldo Leopold
Environmentalism Goes Global
913
4
Teen Life Teen Environmentalists Make a Difference
915
2
A Small Planet
917
11
Biography
920
2
Chico Mendes
Strategies for Success Distinguishing Fact from Opinion
922
4
Unit 8 Review
926
2
Reference Section
Reference Section TOC
928
2
Atlas
930
6
Facts About the States
936
1
Presidents of the United States
937
5
Leading Supreme Court Cases
942
8
Glossary
950
12
Index
962
21
Acknowledgments
983