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America's History, Value Edition, Volume 2
Tenth EditionRebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert Self; James Henretta
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CHAPTER 14 Reconstruction, 1865â1877
Why did freedpeople, Republican policymakers, and ex-Confederates all end up dissatisfied with Reconstruction or with its aftermath? To what degree did each group succeed in fulfilling its goals?ă
The Struggle for National Reconstructionâ
Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnsonâ
Congress Versus the Presidentâ
Radical Reconstructionâ
Womenâs Rights Deniedâ
The Meaning of Freedomâ
The Quest for Landâ
Republican Governments in the Southâ
Building Black Communitiesâ
The Undoing of Reconstructionâ
The Republicans Unravelâ
Counterrevolution in the Southâ
Reconstruction Rolled Backâ
The Political Crisis of 1877â
Lasting Legaciesâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 14 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 15 Conquering a Continent, 1860â1890
Why and how did the United States build a continental empire, and how did this affect people living in the West?ăă
The Republican Visionâ
The New Union and the Worldâ
Integrating the National Economyâ
Incorporating the Westâ
Mining Empiresâ
From Bison to Cattle on the Plainsâ
Homesteadersâ
The First National Parkâ
A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessedâ
The Civil War and Indians on the Plainsâ
Grantâs Peace Policyâ
The End of Armed Resistanceâ
Strategies of Survivalâ
Western Myths and Realitiesâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 15 REVIEWâ
PART 6âIndustrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877â1917
CHAPTER 16 Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877â1911
Why did large corporations emerge and thrive in late nineteenth century America and how did they reshape trade, work, and politics ?
The Rise of Big Businessâ
Innovators in Enterpriseâ
The Corporate Workplaceâ
On the Shop Floorâ
Immigrants, East and Westâ
Newcomers from Europeâ
Asian Americans and Exclusionâ
Labor Gets Organizedâ
The Emergence of a Labor Movementâ
The Knights of Laborâ
Farmers and Workers: The Cooperative Allianceâ
Another Path: The American Federation of Laborâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 16 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 17 Making Modern American Culture, 1880â1917
Why and how did Americansâ identities, beliefs, and culture change in the early industrial era?
Science and Faithâ
Darwinism and Its Criticsâ
Religion: Diversity and Innovationâ
Realism in the Artsâ
Commerce and Cultureâ
Consumer Spacesâ
Masculinity and the Rise of Sportsâ
The Great Outdoorsâ
Women, Men, and the Solitude of Selfâ
Changing Familiesâ
Expanding Opportunities for Educationâ
Womenâs Civic Activism â
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 17 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 18 "Civilizationâs Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880â1917
Why and how did the rise of big cities shape American society and politics?
The New Metropolisâ
The Landscape of the Industrial Cityâ
Newcomers and Neighborhoodsâ
City Culturesâ
Governing the Great Cityâ
Urban Political Machinesâ
The Limits of Machine Governmentâ
Crucibles of Progressive Reformâ
Fighting Dirt and Viceâ
The Movement for Social Settlementsâ
Cities and National Politicsâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 18 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 19 Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880â1917
Why and how did Progressive Era reformers seek to address the problems of industrial America, and to what extent did they succeed?
Reform Visions, 1880â1892ă ă ă ă ă ăăăăăăă
Electoral Politics After Reconstructionâ
The Populist Programâ
The Political Earthquakes of the 1890sâ
Depression and Reactionâ
Democrats and the "Solid South"â
Republicans Retake National Controlâ
Reform Reshaped, 1901â1912â
Theodore Roosevelt as Presidentâ
Diverse Progressive Goalsâ
The Election of 1912â
Wilsonâs Reforms, 1913â1917â
Economic Reformsâ
Progressive Legaciesâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 19 REVIEWâ
PART 7âGlobal Ambitions and Domestic Turmoil, 1890â1945â
CHAPTER 20 An Emerging World Power, 1890â1918
Why did the United States become a major power on the world stage by the 1910s, and what impact did this have at home and abroad?ă
From Expansion to Imperialismâ
Foundations of Empireâ
The War of 1898â
Spoils of Warâ
A Power Among Powersâ
The Open Door in Asiaâ
The United States and Latin Americaâ
The United States in World War Iâ
From Neutrality to Warâ
"Over There"â
War on the Home Frontâ
Catastrophe at Versaillesâ
The Fate of Wilsonâs Ideasâ
Congress Rejects the Treatyâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 20 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 21 Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919â1932â
Why did cultural and political conflict erupt in the 1920s, and what factors lead to the Great Depression?
Resurgent Conservatismâ
The Red Scareâ
Racial Backlashâ
American Business at Home and Abroadâ
Government Businesses Entangledâ
Making a Modern Consumer Economyâ
Postwar Abundanceâ
Consumer Cultureâ
The Automobile and Suburbanizationâ
The Politics and Culture of a Diversifying Nationâ
Women in a New Age
Culture Warsâ
The Harlem Renaissanceâ
The Coming of the Great Depressionâ
From Boom to Bustâ
The Depressionâs Early Years
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 21 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 22 Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929â1938â
What new roles did the American government take on during the New Deal, and how did these roles shape the economy and society?
Early Responses to the Depression, 1929â1932â
Enter Herbert Hooverâ
Rising Discontentâ
The 1932 Electionâ
The New Deal Arrives, 1933â1935â
Roosevelt and the First Hundred Daysâ
The New Deal Under Attackâ
The Second New Deal and the Redefining of Liberalism, 1935â1938â
The Welfare State Comes into Beingâ
From Reform to Stalemateâ
The New Deal and American Societyâ
A Peopleâs Democracyâ
Reshaping the Environmentâ
The New Deal and the Artsâ
The Legacies of the New Dealâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 22 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 23 The World at War, 1937â1945
How did World War II transform the United States domestically and change its relationship with the world?
The Road to Warâ
The Rise of Fascismâ
War Approachesâ
The Attack on Pearl Harborâ
Organizing for a Global Warâ
Financing the Warâ
Mobilizing the American Fighting Forceâ
Workers and the War Effortâ
Politics in Wartimeâ
Life on the Home Frontâ
"For the Duration"â
Migration and the Wartime Cityâ
Japanese Removalâ
Fighting and Winning the Warâ
Wartime Aims and Tensionsâ
The War in Europeâ
The War in the Pacificâ
The Atomic Bomb and the End of the Warâ
The Toll of the Warâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 23 REVIEWâ
PART 8âThe Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945â1980â
CHAPTER 24 Cold War America, 1945â1963â
In the first two decades of the Cold War, how did competition on the international stage and a climate of fear at home affect politics, society, and culture in the United States?
Containment in a Divided Global Orderâ
Origins of the Cold Warâ
The Containment Strategyâ
Containment in Asiaâ
Cold War Liberalismâ
Truman and the End of Reformâ
Red Scare: The Hunt for Communistsâ
The Politics of Cold War Liberalismâ
Containment in the Postcolonial Worldâ
The Cold War and Colonial Independenceâ
John F. Kennedy and the Cold Warâ
Making a Commitment in Vietnamâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 24 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 25 Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945â1963â
Why did consumer culture become such a fixture of American life in the postwar decades, and how did it affect politics and society?
Postwar Prosperity and the Affluent Societyâ
Economy: From Recovery to Dominanceăă
A Nation of Consumersâ
Youth Cultureâ
Religion and the Middle Classâ
The American Family in the Era of Containmentâ
The Baby Boomâ
Women, Work, and Familyâ
Challenging Middle-Class Moralityâ
A Suburban Nationâ
The Postwar Housing Boomâ
Rise of the Sunbeltâ
Two Societies: Urban and Suburbanâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 25 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 26 Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941â1973
How did the civil rights movement evolve over time, and how did competing ideas and political alliances affect its growth and that of other social movements?
The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle, 1941â1957â
Life Under Jim Crowâ
Origins of the Civil Rights Movementâ
World War II: The Beginningsâ
Cold War Civil Rightsâ
Mexican Americans and Japanese Americansâ
Fighting for Equality Before the Lawâ
Forging a Protest Movement, 1955â1965â
Nonviolent Direct Actionâ
Legislating Civil Rights, 1963â1965â
Beyond Civil Rights, 1966â1973â
Black Nationalismâ
Urban Disorderâ
Rise of the Chicano Movementâ
The American Indian Movementâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 26 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 27 Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961â1972â
What were liberalismâs social and political achievements in the 1960s, and how did debates over liberal values contribute to conflict at home and reflect war abroad?
Liberalism at High Tideâ
John F. Kennedyâs Promiseâ
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Societyâ
Rebirth of the Womenâs Movementâ
The Vietnam War Beginsâ
Escalation Under Johnsonâ
Public Opinion and the Warâ
The Student Movementâ
Days of Rage, 1968â1972â
War Abroad, Tragedy at Homeâ
The Antiwar Movement and the 1968 Electionâ
The Nationalist Turnâ
Womenâs Liberation and Black and Chicana Feminismâ
Stonewall and Gay Liberationâ
Rise of the Silent Majorityâ
Nixon in Vietnamâ
The Silent Majority Speaks Outâ
The 1972 Electionâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 27 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 28 The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973â1980â
How did the legacy of social changes in the 1960sâsuch as civil rights, shifting gender roles and challenges to the familyâcontinue to reverberate in the 1970s, lead to both new opportunities and political clashes?ă
An Era of Limits
Energy Crisisâ
Environmentalismâ
Economic Transformationâ
Urban Crisis and Suburban Revoltâ
Politics in Flux, 1973â1980â
Watergate and the Fall of a Presidentâ
Jimmy Carter: The Outsider as Presidentâ
Reform and Reaction in the 1970sâ
Civil Rights in a New Eraâ
The Womenâs Movement and Gay Rightsâ
After the Warren Courtâ
The American Family on Trialâ
Working Families in the Age of Deindustrializationâ
Navigating the Sexual Revolutionâ
Religion in the 1970s: The New Evangelicalismâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 28 REVIEWâ
PART 9âGlobalization and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Presentâ
CHAPTER 29 Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980â1991
What factors made the rise of the New Right possible, and what ideas about freedom and citizenship did conservatives articulate in the 1980s?
The Rise of the New Rightâ
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan: Champions of the Rightâ
Free-Market Economics and Religious Conservatismâ
The Carter Presidencyâ
The Dawning of the Conservative Ageâ
The Reagan Coalitionâ
Conservatives in Powerâ
Morning in Americaâ
The End of the Cold Warâ
U.S.-Soviet Relations in a New Eraâ
A New Political Order at Home and Abroadâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 29 REVIEWâ
CHAPTER 30 Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Presentâ
How has the post-Cold War era of globalization affected American politics, economics, and society?
America in the Global Economyâ
The Rise of the European Union and Chinaâ
A New Era of Globalizationâ
Revolutions in Technologyâ
Politics and Partisanship in a Contentious Eraâ
An Increasingly Plural Societyâ
Clashes over "Family Values"â
Bill Clinton and the New Democratsâ
PostâCold War Foreign Policyâ
Into a New Centuryâ
The Ascendance of George W. Bushâ
Violence Abroad and Economic Collapse at Homeâ
Reform and Stalemate in the Obama Yearsâ
SUMMARYâ
CHAPTER 30 REVIEWâ