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Tables of Contents for Nation of Nations
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps and Charts
xix
Preface to the Fifth Edition
xxi
Introduction
xxx
Primary Source Investigator CD-ROM
xxxii
Prologue Settling and Civilizing the Americas
2
19
Preview
2
1
Peopling the Continents
2
5
Cultures of Ancient Mexico
4
1
Cultures of the Southwest
5
1
Cultures of the Eastern Woodlands
6
1
Beyond the Mesoamerican Sphere
7
2
Cultures of the Great Plains
7
1
Cultures of the Great Basin
8
1
Cultures of the Subarctic and Arctic
8
1
Cultures of the Pacific Northwest
9
1
North America and the Caribbean on the Eve of European Invasion
9
5
Enduring Cultures
10
2
The Rise of the Aztec Empire
12
2
Prologue Summary
14
1
Additional Reading
14
1
Significant Events
15
6
Historians Reconstruct the Past: Tracking the First Americans
16
5
Part One The Creation of a New America
21
118
Old World, New Worlds (1400 -- 1600)
26
26
Preview
26
3
The Meeting of Europe, Africa, and America
29
4
The Portuguese Wave
29
2
The Spanish and Columbus
31
2
The European Background of American Colonization
33
2
Life and Death in Early Modern Europe
33
1
The Conditions of Colonization
34
1
Europeans, Chinese, and Aztecs on the Eve of Contact
34
1
Spain's Empire in the New World
35
4
Spanish Conquest
36
1
Role of the Conquistadors
36
1
Spanish Colonization
37
2
The Effects of Colonial Growth
39
1
The Reformation in Europe
39
4
Backdrop to Reform
39
1
The Teachings of Martin Luther
40
1
The Contribution of John Calvin
41
1
The English Reformation
42
1
England's Entry into America
43
7
The English Colonization of Ireland
43
1
Renewed Interest in the Americas
44
1
The Failures of Frobisher and Gilbert
45
1
Raleigh's Roanoke Venture
45
3
A Second Attempt
48
2
Chapter Summary
50
1
Interactive Learning
50
1
Additional Reading
50
1
Significant Events
51
Daily Lives: ``Barbaric'' Dress--Indian and European
46
6
The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial South (1600 -- 1750)
52
30
Preview
52
2
English Society on the Chesapeake
54
7
The Mercantilist Impulse
55
1
The Virginia Company
55
1
Reform and a Boom in Tobacco
56
2
Settling Down in the Chesapeake
58
1
The Founding of Maryland and the Renewal of Indian Wars
59
1
Changes in English Policy in the Chesapeake
59
2
Chesapeake Society in Crisis
61
7
The Conditions of Unrest
61
1
Bacon's Rebellion and Coode's Rebellion
61
1
From Servitude to Slavery
62
1
Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade
63
3
A Changing Chesapeake Society
66
1
The Chesapeake Gentry
67
1
From the Caribbean to the Carolinas
68
8
Paradise Lost
69
1
The Founding of the Carolinas
70
3
Early Instability
73
1
White, Red, and Black: The Search for Order
74
1
The Founding of Georgia
75
1
The Spanish Borderlands
76
4
Chapter Summary
80
1
Interactive Learning
80
1
Additional Reading
80
1
Significant Events
81
Daily Lives: A Taste for Sugar
72
10
The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial North (1600 -- 1700)
82
28
Preview
82
2
The Founding of New England
84
5
The Puritan Movement
85
1
The Pilgrim Settlement at Plymouth Colony
86
1
The Puritan Settlement at Massachusetts Bay
87
2
New England Communities
89
9
Stability and Order in Early New England
89
2
Congregational Church Order
91
1
Colonial Governments
92
1
Communities in Conflict
92
1
Heretics
93
2
Goodwives and Witches
95
2
Whites and Indians in Early New England
97
1
Effect of Old World diseases
98
1
The Mid-Atlantic Colonies
98
5
The Founding of New Netherlands
98
1
English Rule in New York
99
1
The League of the Iroquois
100
1
The Founding of New Jersey
101
1
Quaker Odysseys
101
1
Patterns of Settlement
102
1
Quakers and Politics
103
1
Adjustment to Empire
103
4
The Dominion of New England
104
1
The Aftershocks of the Glorious Revolution
105
1
Leisler's Rebellion
105
1
Royal Authority in America in 1700
106
1
Chapter Summary
107
1
Interactive Learning
107
1
Additional Reading
107
1
Significant Events
108
Daily Lives: A World of Wonders and Witchcraft
94
16
The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America (1689 -- 1771)
110
29
Preview
110
2
Forces of Division
112
10
Immigration and Natural Increase
112
1
The Settlement of the Backcountry
113
3
Social Conflict on the Frontier
116
1
Boundary Disputes and Tenant Wars
117
2
Eighteenth-Century Seaports
119
2
Social Conflict in Seaports
121
1
Slave Societies in the Eighteenth-Century South
122
4
The Slave Family and Community
123
1
Slavery and Colonial Society in French Louisiana
124
1
Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century British North America
125
1
Enlightenment and Awakening in America
126
3
The Enlightenment in America
126
1
The First Great Awakening
127
1
The Aftermath of the Great Awakening
128
1
Anglo-American Worlds of the Eighteenth Century
129
6
English Economic and Social Development
130
1
The Consumer Revolution
130
1
Inequality in England and America
131
1
Politics in England and America
132
2
The Imperial System before 1760
134
1
Toward the Seven Years' War
135
1
Chapter Summary
136
1
Interactive Learning
137
1
Additional Reading
137
1
Significant Events
138
Daily Lives: Transatlantic Trials
114
25
Part Two The Creation of a New Republic
139
154
Toward the War for American Independence (1754 -- 1776)
144
26
Preview
144
1
The Seven Years' War
145
4
The Years of Defeat
145
2
The Years of Victory
147
1
Postwar Expectations
147
2
The Imperial Crisis
149
14
New Troubles on the Frontier
151
1
George Grenville's New Measures
151
1
The Beginning of Colonial Resistance
152
2
Riots and Resolves
154
1
Repeal of the Stamp Act
155
1
The Townshend Acts
156
1
The Resistance Organizes
157
3
The International Sons of Liberty
160
1
The Boston Massacre
160
1
Resistance Revived
161
1
The Empire Strikes Back
162
1
Toward the Revolution
163
5
The First Continental Congress
164
1
The Last Days of the British Empire in America
165
1
The Fighting Begins
166
1
Common Sense
167
1
Chapter Summary
168
1
Interactive Learning
168
1
Additional Reading
168
1
Significant Events
169
Daily Lives: Street Theater
158
12
The American People and the American Revolution (1775 -- 1783)
170
26
Preview
170
2
The Decision for Independence
172
3
The Second Continental Congress
172
1
The Declaration
172
3
American Loyalists
175
1
The Fighting in the North
175
7
The Two Armies at Bay
176
1
Laying Strategies
177
1
The Campaigns in New York and New Jersey
178
2
Capturing Philadelphia
180
2
Disaster at Saratoga
182
1
The Turning Point
182
3
The American Revolution Becomes a Global War
182
1
Winding Down the War in the North
183
1
War in the West
184
1
The Home Front in the North
185
1
The Struggle in the South
185
5
The Siege of Charleston
186
1
The Partisan Struggle in the South
186
1
Greene Takes Command
187
2
African Americans in the Age of Revolution
189
1
The World Turned Upside Down
190
3
Surrender at Yorktown
191
1
The Significance of a Revolution
191
2
Chapter Summary
193
1
Interactive Learning
194
1
Additional Reading
194
1
Significant Events
195
Daily Lives: Radical Chic and the Revolutionary Generation
178
18
Crisis and Constitution (1776 -- 1789)
196
32
Preview
196
1
Republican Experiments
197
3
The State Constitutions
198
1
From Congress to Confederation
199
1
The Temptations of Peace
200
9
The Temptations of the West
200
1
Foreign Intrigues
200
2
Disputes among the States
202
1
The More Democratic West
203
1
The Northwest Territory
204
2
Slavery and Sectionalism
206
1
Wartime Economic Disruption
207
2
Republican Society
209
4
The New Men of the Revolution
209
1
The New Women of the Revolution
210
1
Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication
211
1
Republican Motherhood and Education
212
1
The Attack on Aristocracy
212
1
From Confederation to Constitutions
213
8
The Jay-Gardoqui Treaty
214
1
Shays's Rebellion
215
1
Framing a Federal Constitution
216
1
The Virginia and New Jersey Plans
217
1
The Deadlock Broken
217
2
Ratification
219
1
Changing Revolutionary Ideals
220
1
Chapter Summary
221
1
Interactive Learning
222
1
Additional Reading
222
1
Significant Events
223
Daily Lives: The Spirits of Independence
214
14
Historians Reconstruct the Past: White and Black Southerners Worshiping Together
224
4
The Republic Launched (1789 -- 1801)
228
28
Preview
228
2
1789: A Social Portrait
230
5
The Semisubsistence Economy of Crevecoeur's America
231
1
The Commercial Economy of Franklin's America
232
3
The Constitution and Commerce
235
1
The New Government
235
6
Washington's Character
235
1
Organizing the Government
236
1
The Bill of Rights
237
1
Hamilton's Financial Program
237
2
Opposition to Hamilton's Program
239
2
The Specter of Aristocracy
241
1
Expansion and Turmoil in the West
241
1
The Resistance of the Miami
241
1
The Whiskey Rebellion
241
1
Pinckney's Treaty
242
1
The Emergence of Political Parties
242
6
Americans and the French Revolution
243
1
Washington's Neutral Course
244
1
The Federalists and Republicans Organize
245
1
The 1796 Election
246
1
Federalist and Republican Ideologies
247
1
The Presidency of John Adams
248
6
The Naval War with France
248
1
Suppression at Home
249
2
The Election of 1800
251
1
Political Violence in the Early Republic
252
2
Chapter Summary
254
1
Interactive Learning
254
1
Additional Reading
255
1
Significant Events
255
Daily Lives: Exploring the Wondrous World
250
6
The Jeffersonian Republic (1801 -- 1824)
256
37
Preview
256
2
Jefferson in Power
258
4
The New Capital City
258
1
Jefferson's Character and Philosophy
259
1
Republican Principles
260
1
Jefferson's Economic Policies
260
1
John Marshall and Judicial Review
261
1
The Jeffersonian Attack on the Judiciary
262
1
Jefferson and Western Expansion
262
3
The Louisiana Purchase
263
1
Lewis and Clark
264
1
Whites and Indians on the Frontier
265
8
The Course of White Settlement
265
1
A Changing Environment
266
1
The Second Great Awakening
266
4
Pressure on Indian Lands and Culture
270
1
The Prophet, Tecumseh, and the Pan-Indian Movement
271
2
The Second War for American Independence
273
8
The Barbary Pirates and Cultural Identities
274
2
Neutral Rights
276
1
The Embargo
276
1
Madison and the Young Republicans
277
1
The Decision for War
277
1
National Unpreparedness
278
1
``A Chance Such as Will Never Occur Again''
278
1
The British Invasion
279
2
The Hartford Convention
281
1
America Turns Inward
281
4
The Missouri Crisis
282
1
Monroe's Presidency
283
1
Monroe Doctrine
284
1
Improved relations with Britain
284
1
The End of an Era
285
1
Chapter Summary
285
1
Interactive Learning
286
1
Additional Reading
286
1
Significant Events
287
Daily Lives: The Frontier Camp Meeting
268
25
Historians Reconstruct the Past: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson
288
5
Part Three The Republic Transformed and Tested
293
268
The Opening of America (1815 -- 1850)
298
32
Preview
298
1
The Market Revolution
299
9
The New Nationalism
300
1
The Cotton Trade
300
1
The Transportation Revolution
301
1
The Canal Age
301
1
Steamboats and Railroads
302
1
Agriculture in the Market Economy
303
1
John Marshall and the Promotion of Enterprise
304
4
General Incorporation Laws
308
1
A Restless Temper
308
4
A People in Motion
308
1
Population Growth
309
1
The Federal Land Rush
310
1
Geographic Mobility
311
1
Urbanization
311
1
The Rise of Factories
312
7
Technological Advances
313
1
The Postal System
314
1
Textile Factories
314
2
Lowell and the Environment
316
1
Industrial Work
317
1
The Shoe Industry
318
1
The Labor Movement
319
1
Social Structures of the Market Society
319
6
Economic Specialization
319
1
Materialism
320
1
The Emerging Middle Class
320
2
The Distribution of Wealth
322
1
Social Mobility
322
1
A New Sensitivity to Time
323
1
The Market at Work: Three Examples
323
2
Prosperity and Anxiety
325
1
The Panic of 1819
326
1
Chapter Summary
326
1
Interactive Learning
327
1
Additional Reading
327
1
Significant Events
328
Daily Lives: Floating Palaces of the West
306
24
The Rise of Democracy (1824 -- 1840)
330
32
Preview
330
2
Equality and Opportunity
332
2
The Tension between Equality and Opportunity
334
1
The New Political Culture of Democracy
334
5
The Election of 1824
335
1
Anti-Masonry and the Defense of Equality
335
1
Social Sources of the New Politics
336
1
Male suffrage in Europe and Latin America
337
1
The Acceptance of Parties
338
1
The Politics of the Common Man
338
1
Jackson's Rise to Power
339
2
John Quincy Adams's Presidency
339
1
President of the People
340
1
The Political Agenda in the Market Economy
341
1
Democracy and Race
341
7
Accommodate or Resist?
342
1
Trail of Tears
343
2
Free Blacks in the North
345
1
The African American Community
346
1
The Minstrel Show
347
1
The Nullification Crisis
348
2
The Growing Crisis in South Carolina
348
1
Calhoun's Theory of Nullification
349
1
The Nullifiers Nullified
350
1
The Bank War
350
4
The National Bank and the Panic of 1819
351
1
Biddle's Bank
351
1
The Clash between Jackson and Biddle
352
1
The Bank Destroyed
352
1
Jackson's Impact on the Presidency
353
1
Van Buren and Depression
354
2
``Van Ruin's'' Depression
355
1
The Whigs' Triumph
355
1
The Jacksonian Party System
356
3
Democrats, Whigs, and the Market
356
2
The Social Bases of the Two Parties
358
1
The Triumph of the Market
358
1
Chapter Summary
359
1
Interactive Learning
360
1
Additional Reading
360
1
Significant Events
361
Daily Lives: The Plain Dark Democracy of Broadcloth
332
30
The Fires of Perfection (1820 -- 1850)
362
30
Preview
362
1
Revivalism and the Social Order
363
4
Finney's New Measures
364
1
The Philosophy of the New Revivals
365
1
Religion and the Market Economy
365
1
The Rise of African American Churches
366
1
The Significance of the Second Great Awakening
367
1
Women's Sphere
367
3
Women and Revivalism
367
1
The Ideal of Domesticity
367
2
Domesticity in Europe
369
1
The Middle-Class Family in Transition
369
1
American Romanticism
370
5
Emerson and Transcendentalism
372
1
The Clash between Nature and Civilization
373
1
Songs of the Self-Reliant and Darker Loomings
374
1
The Age of Reform
375
5
Utopian Communities
375
1
The Mormon Experience
376
1
Socialist Communities
377
1
The Temperance Movement
378
1
Educational Reform
379
1
The Asylum Movement
379
1
Abolitionism
380
6
The Beginnings of the Abolitionist Movement
381
1
The Spread of Abolitionism
382
2
Opponents and Divisions
384
1
The Women's Rights Movement
385
1
The Schism of 1840
385
1
Reform Shakes the Party System
386
2
Women and the Right to Vote
386
1
The Maine Law
387
1
Abolitionism and the Party System
387
1
Chapter Summary
388
1
Interactive Learning
389
1
Additional Reading
389
1
Significant Events
390
Daily Lives: Privacy Begins at Home
370
22
The Old South (1820 -- 1860)
392
32
Preview
392
2
The Social Structure of the Cotton Kingdom
394
6
The Boom Country Economy
394
2
The Upper South's New Orientation
396
1
The Rural South
397
1
Distribution of Slavery
398
1
Slavery as a Labor System
399
1
Class Structure of the White South
400
7
The Slaveowners
401
1
Tidewater and Frontier
401
2
The Master at Home
403
1
The Plantation Mistress
404
1
Yeoman Farmers
405
1
Poor Whites
406
1
The Peculiar Institution
407
3
Work and Discipline
407
1
Slave Maintenance
408
1
Resistance
409
1
Slave revolts in Latin America
409
1
Slave Culture
410
7
The Slave Family
411
1
Slave Songs and Stories
412
1
Steal Away to Jesus
413
3
The Slave Community
416
1
Free Black Southerners
416
1
Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery
417
4
The Virginia Debate of 1832
417
1
The Proslavery Argument
418
1
Closing Ranks
419
1
Sections and the Nation
420
1
Chapter Summary
421
1
Interactive Learning
422
1
Additional Reading
422
1
Significant Events
423
Daily Lives: A Slave's Daily Bread
414
10
Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue (1820 -- 1850)
424
32
Preview
424
3
Manifest (and Not So Manifest) Destiny
427
4
The Roots of the Doctrine
427
1
The Mexican Borderlands
428
1
The Texas Revolution
429
1
The Texas Republic
430
1
The Trek West
431
4
The Overland Trail
431
1
Women on the Overland Trail
432
1
Indians and the Trail Experience
433
2
The Political Origins of Expansion
435
6
Tyler's Texas Ploy
436
1
Van Overboard
436
1
To the Pacific
437
1
The Mexican War
437
2
Opposition to the War
439
1
The Price of Victory
439
1
The Rise of the Slavery Issue
440
1
New Societies in the West
441
7
Farming in the West
441
1
The Gold Rush
441
2
Instant City: San Francisco
443
1
The Migration from China
444
1
The Mormons in Utah
445
1
Temple City: Salt Lake City
446
1
Shadows on the Moving Frontier
447
1
Escape from Crisis
448
5
A Two-Faced Campaign
449
1
The Compromise of 1850
450
2
Away from the Brink
452
1
Chapter Summary
453
1
Interactive Learning
454
1
Additional Reading
454
1
Significant Events
455
Daily Lives: Seeing the Elephant on the Overland Trail
434
22
The Union Broken (1850 -- 1861)
456
30
Preview
456
2
Sectional Changes in American Society
458
8
The Growth of a Railroad Economy
459
2
Railroads and the Prairie Environment
461
1
Railroads and the Urban Environment
462
1
Rising Industrialization
462
1
Immigration
463
1
The revolutions of 1848
464
1
Southern Complaints
465
1
The Political Realignment of the 1850s
466
6
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
466
1
The Collapse of the Second American Party System
467
1
The Know-Nothings
468
1
The Republicans and Bleeding Kansas
469
1
The Caning of Charles Sumner
470
1
The Election of 1856
470
2
The Worsening Crisis
472
5
The Dred Scott Decision
472
1
The Panic of 1857
473
1
The Lecompton Constitution
473
1
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
474
2
The Beleaguered South
476
1
The Road to War
477
6
A Sectional Election
477
2
Secession
479
1
The Outbreak of War
480
1
The Roots of a Divided Society
481
2
Chapter Summary
483
1
Interactive Learning
484
1
Additional Reading
484
1
Significant Events
485
Daily Lives: Uncle Tom by Footlights
478
8
Total War and the Republic (1861 -- 1865)
486
44
Preview
486
2
The Demands of Total War
488
3
Political Leadership
489
1
The Border States
490
1
Opening Moves
491
4
Blockade and Isolate
491
1
Grant in the West
491
2
Eastern Stalemate
493
2
Emancipation
495
3
The Logic of Events
496
1
The Emancipation Proclamation
496
1
African Americans' Civil War
497
1
Black Soldiers
498
1
The Confederate Home Front
498
4
The New Economy
499
1
New Opportunities for Southern Women
499
1
Confederate Finance and Government
500
1
Hardship and Suffering
501
1
The Union Home Front
502
5
Government Finances and the Economy
502
2
A Rich Man's War
504
1
Women and the Workforce
504
2
Civil Liberties and Dissent
506
1
Gone to Be a Soldier
507
6
Discipline
508
2
Camp Life
510
1
The Changing Face of Battle
511
2
Hardening Attitudes
513
1
The Union's Triumph
513
7
Confederate High Tide
514
1
Lincoln Finds His General
514
2
War in the Balance
516
1
Abolition as a global movement
517
1
The Twilight of the Confederacy
517
3
The Impact of War
520
2
The war's effect on the cotton trade worldwide
521
1
Chapter Summary
522
1
Interactive Learning
523
1
Additional Reading
523
1
Significant Events
524
Daily Lives: Hardtack, Salt Horse, and Coffee
508
22
Historians Reconstruct the Past: What Caused the New York Draft Riots?
525
5
Reconstructing the Union (1865 -- 1877)
530
31
Preview
530
1
Presidential Reconstruction
531
6
Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan
532
1
The Mood of the South
533
1
Johnson's Program of Reconstruction
533
1
The Failure of Johnson's Program
534
1
Johnson's Break with Congress
535
1
The Fourteenth Amendment
536
1
The Elections of 1866
537
1
Congressional Reconstruction
537
3
Post-Emancipation Societies in the Americas
538
1
The Land Issue
538
1
Impeachment
539
1
Reconstruction in the South
540
3
Black Office Holding
540
1
White Republicans in the South
541
1
The New State Governments
542
1
Economic Issues and Corruption
542
1
Black Aspirations
543
7
Experiencing Freedom
543
2
The Black Family
545
1
The Schoolhouse and the Church
546
1
New Working Conditions
547
1
The Freedmen's Bureau
548
1
Planters and a New Way of Life
549
1
The Abandonment of Reconstruction
550
7
The Election of Grant
550
1
The Grant Administration
551
2
Growing Northern Disillusionment
553
1
The Triumph of White Supremacy
553
2
The Disputed Election of 1876
555
1
Racism and the Failure of Reconstruction
556
1
Chapter Summary
557
1
Interactive Learning
558
1
Additional Reading
558
1
Significant Events
559
Daily Lives: The Black Sharecropper's Cabin
544
17
Part Four The United States in an Industrial Age
561
218
The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West (1870 -- 1896)
566
44
Preview
566
2
The Southern Burden
568
5
Agriculture in the New South
568
1
Tenancy and Sharecropping
569
1
Debt peonage in India, Egypt, and Brazil
570
1
Southern Industry
570
2
Timber and Steel
572
1
The Sources of Southern Poverty
573
1
Life in the New South
573
5
Rural Life
574
1
The Church
574
2
Segregation
576
2
Western Frontiers
578
4
Western Landscapes
579
1
Indian Peoples and the Western Environment
579
1
Whites and the Western Environment: Competing Visions
580
2
The War for the West
582
7
Contact and Conflict
582
1
Custer's Last Stand---and the Indians'
583
2
Killing with Kindness
585
2
Borderlands
587
1
Ethno-Racial Identity in the New West
588
1
Boom and Bust in the West
589
6
Mining Sets a Pattern
589
2
The Transcontinental Railroad
591
2
Cattle Kingdom
593
2
The Final Frontier
595
7
A Rush for Land
595
1
Farming on the Plains
595
1
A Plains Existence
596
1
The Urban Frontier
597
2
The West and the World Economy
599
1
Packaging and Exporting the ``Wild West''
600
2
Chapter Summary
602
1
Interactive Learning
603
1
Additional Reading
603
1
Significant Events
604
Daily Lives: The Frontier Kitchen of the Plains
598
12
Historians Reconstruct the Past: Where Have All the Bison Gone?
605
5
The New Industrial Order (1870 -- 1900)
610
32
Preview
610
2
The Development of Industrial Systems
612
8
Natural Resources and Industrial Technology
613
1
Systematic Invention
614
1
Transportation and Communication
615
3
Finance Capital
618
1
The Corporation
618
1
An International Pool of Labor
619
1
Railroads: America's First Big Business
620
4
A Managerial Revolution
621
1
Competition and Consolidation
621
1
The Challenge of Finance
622
2
The Growth of Big Business
624
7
Strategies of Growth
624
1
Carnegie Integrates Steel
625
1
Rockefeller and the Great Standard Oil Trust
626
1
The Mergers of J. Pierpont Morgan
627
1
Corporate Defenders
628
1
Corporate Critics
629
1
The Costs of Doing Business
630
1
The Workers' World
631
3
Industrial Work
631
2
Children, Women, and African Americans
633
1
The American Dream of Success
633
1
The Systems of Labor
634
6
Early Unions
635
1
The Knights of Labor
635
1
The American Federation of Labor
636
1
The Limits of Industrial Systems
636
2
Management Strikes
638
2
Chapter Summary
640
1
Interactive Learning
640
1
Additional Reading
640
1
Significant Events
641
Daily Lives: The Rise of Information Systems
616
26
The Rise of an Urban Order (1870 -- 1900)
642
28
Preview
642
1
A New Urban Age
643
8
The Urban Explosion
644
1
The Great Global Migration
644
3
The Shape of the City
647
1
Urban Transport
648
1
Bridges and Skyscrapers
649
1
Slum and Tenement
650
1
Running and Reforming the City
651
3
Boss Rule
651
1
Rewards, Costs, and Accomplishments
652
1
Nativism, Revivals, and the Social Gospel
653
1
The Social Settlement Movement
654
1
City Life
654
5
The Immigrant in the City
654
3
Urban Middle-Class Life
657
1
Victorianism and the Pursuit of Virtue
657
2
Challenges to Convention
659
1
City Culture
659
9
Public Education in an Urban Industrial World
659
2
Higher Learning and the Rise of the Professional
661
1
Higher Education for Women
661
1
A Culture of Consumption
662
1
Leisure
663
1
City Entertainment at Home and on the Road
664
4
Chapter Summary
668
1
Interactive Learning
668
1
Additional Reading
668
1
Significant Events
669
Daily Lives: The Vaudeville Show
666
4
The Political System under Strain (1877 -- 1900)
670
42
Preview
670
2
The Politics of Paralysis
672
6
Political Stalemate
672
1
The Parties
673
1
The Issues
674
2
The White House from Hayes to Harrison
676
1
Ferment in the States and Cities
677
1
The Revolt of the Farmers
678
6
The Harvest of Discontent
678
1
The Origins of the Farmers' Alliance
679
1
The Alliance Peaks
680
1
The Election of 1892
681
1
The Rise of Jim Crow Politics
682
1
The African American Response
682
2
The New Realignment
684
5
The Depression of 1893
684
1
The Rumblings of Unrest
685
1
The Battle of the Standards
686
2
McKinley in the White House
688
1
Visions of Empire
689
7
European Expansion Worldwide
689
1
The Shapers of American Imperialism
690
5
Looking to Latin America
695
1
Reprise in the Pacific
695
1
The Imperial Moment
696
8
Mounting Tensions
696
2
The Imperial War
698
1
War in Cuba
698
1
Peace and the Debate over Empire
699
3
From Colonial War to Colonial Rule
702
1
An Open Door in China
703
1
Chapter Summary
704
1
Interactive Learning
705
1
Additional Reading
705
1
Significant Events
706
Daily Lives: The New Navy
692
20
Historians Reconstruct the Past: Engendering the Spanish-American War
707
5
The Progressive Era (1890 -- 1920)
712
32
Preview
712
2
The Roots of Progressive Reform
714
3
The Progressive System of Beliefs
715
1
The Pragmatic Approach
715
1
The Progressive Method
716
1
The Search for the Good Society
717
5
Poverty in a New Light
717
1
Expanding the ``Woman's Sphere''
718
1
Social Welfare
719
1
Woman Suffrage
720
1
Militant suffragists
720
2
Controlling the Masses
722
4
Stemming the Immigrant Tide
723
1
The Curse of Demon Rum
724
1
Prostitution
725
1
``For Whites Only''
725
1
The Politics of Municipal and State Reform
726
3
The Reformation of the Cities
727
1
Progressivism in the States
727
2
Progressivism Goes to Washington
729
8
TR
729
1
A Square Deal
730
2
Bad Food and Pristine Wilds
732
2
The Troubled Taft
734
1
Roosevelt Returns
735
1
The Election of 1912
736
1
Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality
737
3
Early Career
737
1
The Reforms of the New Freedom
737
2
Labor and Social Reform
739
1
The Limits of Progressive Reform
739
1
Chapter Summary
740
1
Interactive Learning
741
1
Additional Reading
741
1
Significant Events
742
Daily Lives: ``Amusing the Million''
722
22
The United States and the Old World Order (1901 -- 1920)
744
35
Preview
744
2
Progressive Diplomacy
746
2
Big Stick in the Caribbean
746
1
A ``Diplomatist of the Highest Rank''
747
1
Dollar Diplomacy
748
1
Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy
748
3
Missionary Diplomacy
749
1
Intervention in Mexico
750
1
The Road to War
751
7
The Guns of August
752
1
Neutral but Not Impartial
753
2
The Diplomacy of Neutrality
755
1
Peace, Preparedness, and the Election of 1916
756
1
Wilson's Final Peace Offensive
756
2
War and Society
758
10
The Slaughter of Stalemate
758
1
``You're in the Army Now''
759
1
Mobilizing the Economy
760
1
War Work
761
2
Great Migrations
763
1
Propaganda and Civil Liberties
763
2
Over There
765
1
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918--1919
766
2
The Lost Peace
768
8
The Treaty of Versailles
769
2
The Battle for the Treaty
771
1
Red Scare
772
4
Chapter Summary
776
1
Interactive Learning
776
1
Additional Reading
776
1
Significant Events
777
Daily Lives: The Doughboys Abroad
770
9
Part Five The Perils of Democracy
779
128
The New Era (1920 -- 1929)
784
34
Preview
784
2
The Roaring Economy
786
6
Technology and Consumer Spending
786
1
The Booming Construction Industry
787
1
The Automobile
787
3
The Business of America
790
1
Welfare Capitalism
790
1
The Consumer Culture
791
1
A Mass Society
792
8
A ``New Woman''
793
3
Mass Media
796
2
Youth Culture
798
1
``Ain't We Got Fun?''
798
1
The Art of Alienation
799
1
A ``New Negro''
800
1
Defenders of the Faith
800
7
Nativism and Immigration Restriction
801
1
The ``Noble Experiment''
802
2
Fundamentalism versus Darwinism
804
1
KKK
805
2
Republicans Ascendant
807
4
The Politics of ``Normalcy''
807
1
The Policies of Mellon and Hoover
808
1
Distress Signals at Home and Abroad
809
1
The Election of 1928
810
1
The Great Bull Market
811
4
The Rampaging Bull
812
1
The Great Crash
812
1
The Sickening Slide in Global Perspective
813
1
The Causes of the Great Depression
814
1
Chapter Summary
815
1
Interactive Learning
816
1
Additional Reading
816
1
Significant Events
817
Daily Lives: The Beauty Contest
794
24
The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929 -- 1939)
818
42
Preview
818
1
The Human Impact of the Great Depression
819
6
Hard Times
820
1
The Golden Age of Radio and Film
821
1
``Dirty Thirties'': An Ecological Disaster
822
2
Mexican Americans and Repatriation
824
1
African Americans in the Depression
825
1
The Tragedy of Herbert Hoover
825
6
The Failure of Relief
826
1
The Hoover Depression Program
827
1
Stirrings of Discontent
828
1
The Bonus Army
829
1
The Election of 1932
830
1
The Early New Deal (1933--1935)
831
7
The Democratic Roosevelts
831
1
Saving the Banks
832
1
Relief for the Unemployed
833
1
Planning for Industrial Recovery
834
2
Planning for Agriculture
836
1
Recovery in Global Perspective
837
1
A Second New Deal (1935--1936)
838
4
Voices of Protest
838
2
The Second Hundred Days
840
1
The Election of 1936
841
1
The American People under the New Deal
842
9
The New Deal and Western Water
842
1
The Limited Reach of the New Deal
843
2
Tribal Rights
845
1
A New Deal for Women
846
1
The Rise of Organized Labor
847
1
Campaigns of the CIO
848
2
``Art for the Millions''
850
1
The End of the New Deal (1937--1940)
851
6
Packing the Courts
851
2
The New Deal at Bay
853
1
Recovery abroad
854
1
The Legacy of the New Deal
855
2
Chapter Summary
857
1
Interactive Learning
857
1
Additional Reading
858
1
Significant Events
859
Daily Lives: Post Office Murals
852
8
America's Rise to Globalism (1927 -- 1945)
860
47
Preview
860
2
The United States in a Troubled World
862
8
Pacific Interests
862
1
Becoming a Good Neighbor
863
1
The Diplomacy of Isolationism
863
1
Neutrality Legislation
864
2
Inching toward War
866
1
Hitler's Invasion
866
1
Retreat from Isolationism
867
2
Disaster in the Pacific
869
1
A Global War
870
5
Strategies for War
870
2
Gloomy Prospects
872
1
A Grand Alliance
873
1
The Naval War in the Pacific
873
1
Turning Points in Europe
874
1
Those Who Fought
875
2
Minorities at War
875
2
Women at War
877
1
War Production
877
6
Finding an Industrial Czar
878
1
Science Goes to War
879
1
War Work and Prosperity
880
1
Organized Labor
881
1
Women Workers
881
1
Global Labor Migrations
882
1
A Question of Rights
883
5
Little Italy
883
1
Concentration Camps
884
2
Minorities on the Job
886
1
At War with Jim Crow
887
1
The New Deal in Retreat
888
1
Winning the War and the Peace
888
11
The Fall of the Third Reich
889
1
Two Roads to Tokyo
890
1
Big Three Diplomacy
891
2
The Road to Yalta
893
2
The Fallen Leader
895
1
The Holocaust
895
2
A Lasting Peace
897
1
Atom Diplomacy
897
2
Chapter Summary
899
1
Interactive Learning
900
1
Additional Reading
900
1
Significant Events
901
Daily Lives: Air Power Shrinks the Globe
892
15
Historians Reconstruct the Past: Did the Atomic Bomb Save Lives?
902
5
Part Six The United States in a Nuclear Age
907
35
Cold War America (1945 -- 1954)
912
30
Preview
912
1
The Rise of the Cold War
913
8
Cracks in the Alliance
914
1
The View from West and East
915
1
Toward Containment
915
1
The Truman Doctrine
916
1
The Marshall Plan
917
1
The Fall of Eastern Europe
917
1
The Atomic Shield versus the Iron Curtain
918
2
Atomic Deterrence
920
1
Postwar Prosperity
921
7
Postwar Adjustments
921
3
Truman under Attack
924
2
A Welfare Program for GIs
926
1
The Election of 1948
927
1
The Fair Deal
928
1
The Cold War at Home
928
5
The Shocks of 1949
929
1
The Loyalty Crusade
930
1
HUAC, Hollywood, and Unions
930
1
The Ambitions of Senator McCarthy
931
2
From Cold War to Hot War and Back
933
7
Police Action
933
2
The Chinese Intervene
935
1
Truman versus MacArthur
936
1
The Global Implications of the Cold War
936
1
The Election of 1952
937
1
The Fall of McCarthy
938
2
Chapter Summary
940
1
Interactive Learning
940
1
Additional Reading
940
1
Significant Events
941
Daily Lives: Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball
924
18
The Suburban Era (1945 -- 1963)
942
194
Preview
942
2
The Rise of the Suburbs
944
4
A Boom in Babies and in Housing
944
1
The boom worldwide
944
2
Cities and Suburbs Transformed
946
2
The Culture of Suburbia
948
6
American Civil Religion
949
1
``Homemaking'' Women in the Workaday World
949
3
A Revolution in Sexuality?
952
1
The Flickering Gray Screen
953
1
The Politics of Calm
954
2
Eisenhower's Modern Republicanism
954
1
The Conglomerate World
955
1
Cracks in the Consensus
956
2
Critics of Mass Culture
956
1
The Rebellion of Young America
957
1
Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers
958
7
To the Brink?
959
1
Brinkmanship in Asia
959
2
The Covert Side of the New Look
961
1
Rising Nationalism
962
2
The Response to Sputnik
964
1
Thaws and Freezes
964
1
The Cold War along a New Frontier
965
3
The Election of 1960
965
1
The Hard-Nosed Idealists of Camelot
966
1
The (Somewhat) New Frontier at Home
967
1
Kennedy's Cold War
968
5
Cold War Frustrations
968
1
Confronting Khrushchev
969
1
The Missiles of October
970
3
Chapter Summary
973
1
Interactive Learning
974
1
Additional Reading
974
1
Significant Events
975
Daily Lives: The New Suburbia
950
26
Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism (1947 -- 1969)
976
32
Preview
976
3
The Civil Rights Movement
979
6
The Changing South and African Americans
979
1
The NAACP and Civil Rights
980
1
The Brown Decision
981
1
Latino Civil Rights
982
1
A New Civil Rights Strategy
983
1
Little Rock and the White Backlash
984
1
A Movement Becomes a Crusade
985
6
Riding to Freedom
986
1
Civil Rights at High Tide
987
2
The Fire Next Time
989
1
Black Power
989
1
Violence in the Streets
990
1
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
991
7
The Origins of the Great Society
993
1
The Election of 1964
994
1
The Great Society
994
1
Immigration reform
995
1
Evaluating the Great Society
996
1
The Reforms of the Warren Court
996
2
The Counterculture
998
7
Activists on the New Left
998
2
Vatican II and American Catholics
1000
1
The Rise of the Counterculture
1000
1
The Rock Revolution
1001
3
The West Coast Scene
1004
1
Chapter Summary
1005
1
Interactive Learning
1006
1
Additional Reading
1006
1
Significant Events
1007
Daily Lives: The Politics of Dress
1002
6
The Vietnam Era (1963 -- 1975)
1008
34
Preview
1008
3
The Road to Vietnam
1011
4
Lyndon Johnson's War
1012
1
Rolling Thunder
1013
2
Social Consequences of the War
1015
3
The Soldiers' War
1015
2
The War at Home
1017
1
The Unraveling
1018
6
Tet Offensive
1018
3
The Shocks of 1968
1021
1
Chicago
1022
1
Revolutionary clashes worldwide
1022
1
Whose Silent Majority?
1023
1
Nixon's War
1024
6
Vietnamization---and Cambodia
1025
1
Fighting a No-Win War
1025
1
The Move toward Detente
1026
4
The New Identity Politics
1030
7
Latino Activism
1030
2
The Choices of American Indians
1032
1
Asian Americans
1033
1
Gay Rights
1034
1
Feminism
1034
2
Equal Rights and Abortion
1036
1
The Legacy of Identity Politics
1036
1
The End of an Era
1037
1
Chapter Summary
1038
1
Interactive Learning
1039
1
Additional Reading
1039
1
Significant Events
1040
Daily Lives: The Race to the Moon
1028
14
The Age of Limits (1965 -- 1980)
1042
32
Preview
1042
1
The Limits of Reform
1043
5
Consumerism
1044
1
Environmentalism
1045
3
Watergate and the Politics of Resentment
1048
6
Nixon's New Federalism
1048
1
Stagflation
1049
1
Social Policies and the Court
1049
1
Us versus Them
1050
1
Triumph
1051
1
The President's Enemies
1051
1
Break-In
1052
1
To the Oval Office
1052
2
Resignation
1054
1
A Ford, Not a Lincoln
1054
7
Kissinger and Foreign Policy
1055
1
Global Competition and the Limits of American Influence
1055
2
Shuttle Diplomacy
1057
1
Detente
1057
1
The Limits of a Post-Watergate President
1058
1
Fighting Inflation
1059
1
The Election of 1976
1060
1
Jimmy Carter: Restoring the Faith
1061
6
The Search for Direction
1061
1
A Sick Economy
1062
1
Leadership, Not Hegemony
1063
1
The Wavering Spirit of Detente
1064
1
The Middle East: Hope and Hostages
1065
1
A President Held Hostage
1066
1
Chapter Summary
1067
1
Interactive Learning
1067
1
Additional Reading
1067
1
Significant Events
1068
Daily Lives: Fast-Food America
1046
28
Historians Reconstruct the Past: The Contested Ground of Collective Memory
1069
5
The Conservative Challenge (1980 -- 1992)
1074
28
Preview
1074
2
The Conservative Rebellion
1076
4
The conservative tide worldwide
1076
1
Born Again
1077
1
The Catholic Conscience
1078
1
The Media as Battleground
1078
1
The Election of 1980
1079
1
Prime Time with Ronald Reagan
1080
5
The Great Communicator
1080
1
The Reagan Agenda
1081
1
The Reagan Revolution in Practice
1082
1
The Supply-Side Scorecard
1082
2
The Military Buildup
1084
1
Standing Tall in a Chaotic World
1085
5
Terrorism in the Middle East
1085
1
Mounting Frustrations in Central America
1086
1
The Iran-Contra Connection
1086
2
Cover Blown
1088
1
From Cold War to Glasnost
1089
1
The Election of 1988
1090
1
An End to the Cold War
1090
8
A Post--Cold War Foreign Policy
1090
1
The Gulf War
1091
1
Domestic Doldrums
1092
1
The Conservative Court
1093
3
Disillusionment and Anger
1096
1
The Election of 1992
1097
1
Chapter Summary
1098
1
Interactive Learning
1099
1
Additional Reading
1099
1
Significant Events
1100
Daily Lives: Life in the Underclass
1094
8
Nation of Nations in a Global Community (1980 -- 2000)
1102
34
Preview
1102
2
The New Immigration
1104
7
The New Look of America---Asian Americans
1105
2
The New Look of America---Latinos
1107
1
Illegal Immigration
1107
3
Links with the Home Country
1110
1
Religious Diversity
1110
1
The Clinton Presidency: Managing a New Global Order
1111
5
Clinton: Ambitions and Character
1112
1
The New World Disorder
1112
1
Yugoslavian Turmoil
1113
1
Middle East Peace
1114
1
Global Financial Disorder
1115
1
The Clinton Presidency on Trial
1116
7
Recovery without Reform
1116
1
The Conservative Revolution Reborn
1117
1
Conservatives and the Feminist Agenda
1118
1
Scandal
1119
1
The Politics of Surplus
1120
1
Hanging by a Chad: The Election of 2000
1121
2
The United States in a Networked World
1123
3
The Internet Revolution
1123
2
American Workers in a Two-Tiered Economy
1125
1
Multiculturalism and Contested American Identity
1126
1
African Americans and the Persistence of the Racial Divide
1126
6
African Americans in a Full-Employment Economy
1128
2
Global Pressures in a Multicultural America
1130
2
Chapter Summary
1132
1
Interactive Learning
1133
1
Additional Reading
1133
1
Significant Events
1134
Daily Lives: Motels as an Ethnic Niche
1108
28
Epilogue Fighting Terrorism in a Global Age (2000 -- 2003)
1136
Preview
1136
2
The Bush Agenda
1138
3
Conservative Domestic Initiatives
1139
2
Unilateralism in Foreign Affairs
1141
1
Wars on Terrorism
1141
9
The Roots of Terror
1142
1
Afghanistan and al Qaeda
1143
2
The War on Terror: First Phase
1145
2
The Invasion of Iraq
1147
2
A Messy Aftermath
1149
1
Chapter Summary
1150
1
Additional Reading
1151
1
Significant Events
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Appendix
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1
The Declaration of Independence
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3
The Constitution of the United States of America
4
10
Presidential Elections
14
4
Presidential Administrations
18
12
Justices of the Supreme Court
30
2
A Social Profile of the American Republic
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Credits
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Index
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