America History, Volume II

Front Cover......Page 1
Inside Front Cover......Page 2
About the cover image......Page 3
Title Page......Page 5
Copyright Page......Page 6
Preface: Why This Book This Way......Page 7
Versions and Supplements......Page 12
Brief Contents......Page 16
PART 5: Creating and Preserving a Continental Nation, 1844–1877......Page 19
Maps, Figures, and Tables......Page 29
Chapter 15: Reconstruction, 1865–1877......Page 36
Map 15.1: Reconstruction......Page 41
Map 15.2: The Barrow Plantation, 1860 and 1881......Page 49
Table 15.1: Primary Reconstruction Laws and Constitutional Amendments......Page 42
Chapter 16: Conquering a Continent, 1854–1890......Page 66
Map 16.1: Expansion of the Railroad System, 1870–1890......Page 71
AMERICA COMPARED: The Santa Fe Railroad in Mexico and the United States......Page 72
Map 16.4: Settlement of the Pacific Slope, 1860–1890......Page 75
The Civil War and Indians on the Plains......Page 84
Strategies of Survival......Page 92
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Representing Indians......Page 88
Chapter 17: Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911......Page 102
Newcomers from Europe......Page 115
Map 17.2: Sources of European Immigration to the United States, 1871–1910......Page 117
Innovators in Enterprise......Page 104
AMERICA COMPARED: Emigrants and Destinations, 1881–1915......Page 118
Chapter 18: The Victorians Make the Modern, 1880–1917......Page 132
Women, Men, and the Solitude of Self......Page 142
Darwinism and Its Critics......Page 151
Table 18.1: High School Graduates, 1870–1910......Page 145
Chapter 19: “Civilization’s Inferno”: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880–1917
......Page 164
Map 19.1: The Lower East Side, New York City, 1900......Page 171
Figure 19.1: Floor Plan of a Dumbbell Tenement......Page 174
AMERICA COMPARED: The World’s Biggest Cities, 1800–2000......Page 169
Chapter 20: Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917......Page 194
Map 20.1: The Presidential Elections of 1880, 1884, and 1888......Page 197
Map 20.2: The Heyday of Western Populism, 1892......Page 201
New National Realities......Page 204
Map 20.4: The Presidential Elections of 1892 and 1896......Page 206
Economic Reforms......Page 218
Table 20.1: Major Federal Progressive Measures, 1883–1921......Page 220
Chapter 21: An Emerging World Power 1890–1918......Page 230
Map 21.1: The Great Powers in East Asia, 1898–1910......Page 237
Map 21.2: Policeman of the Caribbean......Page 241
War on the Home Front......Page 246
Congress Rejects the Treaty......Page 256
AMERICA COMPARED: The Human Cost of World War I......Page 247
Chapter 22: Cultural Conflict, Bubble, and Bust, 1919–1932
......Page 262
Map 22.1: Ku Klux Klan Politics and Violence in the 1920s......Page 273
Harlem in Vogue......Page 276
Figure 22.1: Unemployment, 1915–1945......Page 286
Chapter 23: Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1939
......Page 292
The 1932 Election......Page 297
The New Deal Under Attack......Page 303
Map 23.3: Popular Protest in the Great Depression, 1933–1939......Page 306
Reshaping the Environment......Page 317
The Legacies of the New Deal......Page 319
Table 23.1: American Banks and Bank Failures, 1920–1940......Page 299
Table 23.2: Major New Deal Legislation......Page 308
Chapter 24: The World at War, 1937–1945
......Page 324
Japanese Removal......Page 345
Map 24.2: World War II in Europe, 1941–1943......Page 348
Map 24.3: World War II in Europe, 1944–1945......Page 349
The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War......Page 351
Map 24.5: World War II in the Pacific, 1943–1945......Page 352
Financing the War......Page 331
AMERICA COMPARED: The Scales of War: Losses and Gains During World War II......Page 332
Chapter 25: Cold War America, 1945–1963......Page 362
The Containment Strategy......Page 366
Map 25.2: The Korean War, 1950–1953......Page 374
Map 25.3: The Military-Industrial Complex......Page 375
Red Scare: The Hunt for Communists......Page 378
The Cold War and Colonial Independence......Page 385
Map 25.6: The United States and Cuba, 1961–1962......Page 389
Truman and the End of Reform......Page 376
AMERICA COMPARED: Arming for the Cold War......Page 372
Chapter 26: Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963
......Page 396
Map 26.1: Connecting the Nation: The Interstate Highway System, 1930 and 1970......Page 419
Rise of the Sunbelt......Page 420
A Nation of Consumers......Page 401
Figure 26.2: Labor Union Strength, 1900–1997......Page 402
The Baby Boom......Page 408
Chapter 27: Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973
......Page 426
Cold War Civil Rights......Page 432
Forging a Protest Movement, 1955–1965......Page 437
Map 27.3: The Civil Rights Struggle, 1954–1965......Page 445
Map 27.4: Black Voter Registration in the South, 1964 and 1975......Page 449
Map 27.5: Decolonization and the Third World, 1943–1990......Page 453
World War II: The Beginnings......Page 430
Chapter 28: Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972
......Page 460
Map 28.1: The Presidential Election of 1964......Page 464
Escalation Under Johnson......Page 468
The Nationalist Turn......Page 481
Map 28.4: The Presidential Election of 1972......Page 490
Rebirth of the Women’s Movement......Page 466
Figure 28.2: U.S. Troops in Vietnam, 1960–1973......Page 469
Table 28.1: Major Great Society Legislation......Page 465
Chapter 29: The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980
......Page 494
Map 29.1: From Rust Belt to Sun Belt, 1940–2000......Page 502
Map 29.2: States Ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972–1977......Page 511
Energy Crisis......Page 496
Figure 29.2: The Inflation Rate, 1960–2000......Page 501
AMERICA COMPARED: Economic Malaise in the Seventies......Page 504
Figure 29.5: The Increase in Two-Worker Families......Page 516
Jimmy Carter: The Outsider as President......Page 507
Chapter 30: Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991
......Page 530
The Reagan Coalition......Page 539
Map 30.2: U.S. Involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1954–2000......Page 552
Map 30.3: The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Creation of Independent States, 1989–1991......Page 555
Figure 30.1: The Annual Federal Budget Deficit (or Surplus), 1940–2009......Page 542
Chapter 31: Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present
......Page 560
An Era of Globalization......Page 567
Map 31.2: Hispanic and Asian Populations, 2000......Page 572
Map 31.3: The Presidential Election of 1992......Page 579
Map 31.4: U.S. Involvement in the Middle East, 1979–2010......Page 586
The Rise of the European Union and China......Page 563
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Globalization: Its Proponents and Its Discontents......Page 564
AMERICA COMPARED: Global Trade, 1960–2009......Page 566
An Increasingly Plural Society......Page 571
Figure 31.6: Gross Federal Debt as a Percentage of Gross Domestic Product......Page 585
Table 31.1: Impact of the Bush Tax Cuts, 2001–2003......Page 584
AMERICAN COMPARED......Page 32
AMERICAN VOICES: Freedom......Page 46
AMERICAN VOICES: Women’s Rights in the West......Page 80
AMERICAN VOICES: Jewish Immigrants in the Industrial Economy......Page 120
AMERICAN VOICES: Three Interpretations of Social Darwinism......Page 154
AMERICAN VOICES: “These Dead Bodies Were the Answer”: The Triangle Fire......Page 188
AMERICAN VOICES: Theodore Roosevelt: From Anti-Populist to New Nationalist......Page 216
AMERICAN VOICES: Debating the Philippines......Page 238
AMERICAN VOICES: Urban Writers Describe Small-Town America......Page 280
AMERICAN VOICES: Ordinary People Respond to the New Deal
......Page 300
AMERICAN VOICES: Women in the Wartime Workplace......Page 336
AMERICAN VOICES: Hunting Communists and Liberals......Page 380
AMERICAN VOICES: Coming of Age in the Postwar Years......Page 410
AMERICAN VOICES: Challenging White Supremacy
......Page 442
AMERICAN VOICES: The Toll of War......Page 470
AMERICAN VOICES: Debating the Equal Rights Amendment......Page 512
AMERICAN VOICES: Christianity and Public Life......Page 536
AMERICAN VOICES: Immigration After 1965: Its Defenders and Critics......Page 574
AMERICA COMPARED: Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States......Page 40
AMERICA COMPARED: Christianity in the United States and Japan......Page 159
AMERICA COMPARED: A Progressive Reports from New Zealand......Page 211
AMERICA COMPARED: Hollywood in Europe......Page 285
AMERICA COMPARED: The Great Depression in England and the United States......Page 295
AMERICA COMPARED: Hanoch Bartov: Everyone Has a Car
......Page 418
AMERICA COMPARED: Freedom in the United States and Africa
......Page 434
AMERICA COMPARED: The Global Protests of 1968......Page 478
AMERICA COMPARED: Yoichi Funabashi: “Japan and America: Global Partners”
......Page 546
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN......Page 33
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: The South’s “Lost Cause”......Page 60
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Poverty and Food......Page 112
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: America Picks Up the Telephone......Page 136
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Making Mass Media: Newspaper Empires......Page 178
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Making Modern Presidents......Page 198
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: German Americans in World War I
......Page 250
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Who Joined the Ku Klux Klan?......Page 274
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: The New Deal and Public Works......Page 310
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Mobilizing the Home Front......Page 342
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: The Global Cold War......Page 368
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: The Suburban Landscape of Cold War America......Page 416
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Civil Rights and Black Power: Strategy and Ideology
......Page 446
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Debating the War in Vietnam......Page 474
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: The Environmental Movement: Reimagining the Human-Earth Relationship......Page 498
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Personal Computing: A Technological Revolution
......Page 548
Half Title Page......Page 35
Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnson......Page 38
Congress Versus the President......Page 39
Woman Suffrage Denied......Page 43
The Quest for Land......Page 45
Republican Governments in the South......Page 51
Building Black Communities......Page 53
The Republicans Unravel......Page 55
Counterrevolution in the South......Page 56
Reconstruction Rolled Back......Page 57
Lasting Legacies......Page 59
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 63
The New Union and the World......Page 68
Integrating the National Economy......Page 69
Incorporating the West......Page 73
Mining Empires......Page 74
Cattlemen on the Plains......Page 76
Homesteaders......Page 77
The First National Park......Page 82
A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed......Page 83
Grant’s Peace Policy......Page 86
The End of Armed Resistance......Page 90
Western Myths and Realities......Page 93
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 94
PART 6: Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917......Page 98
The Corporate Workplace......Page 107
On the Shop Floor......Page 108
Immigrants, East and West......Page 114
Labor Gets Organized......Page 122
The Emergence of a Labor Movement......Page 123
The Knights of Labor......Page 125
Farmers and Workers: The Cooperative Alliance......Page 126
Another Path: The American Federation of Labor......Page 127
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 129
Consumer Spaces......Page 134
Masculinity and the Rise of Sports......Page 138
The Great Outdoors......Page 141
Changes in Family Life......Page 143
Education......Page 144
From Domesticity to Women’s Rights......Page 147
Science and Faith......Page 150
Realism in the Arts......Page 152
Religion: Diversity and Innovation......Page 156
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 161
The Shape of the Industrial City......Page 166
Newcomers and Neighborhoods......Page 167
City Cultures......Page 173
Urban Machines......Page 177
The Limits of Machine Government......Page 181
Crucibles of Progressive Reform......Page 182
Fighting Dirt and Vice......Page 183
The Movement for Social Settlements......Page 185
Cities and National Politics......Page 187
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 191
Electoral Politics After Reconstruction......Page 196
The Populist Program......Page 200
Depression and Reaction......Page 202
Democrats and the “Solid South”......Page 203
Theodore Roosevelt as President......Page 208
Diverse Progressive Goals......Page 210
The Election of 1912......Page 214
Progressive Legacies......Page 221
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 223
PART 7: Domestic and Global Challenges, 1890–1945
......Page 226
The War of 1898......Page 232
Spoils of War......Page 235
The Open Door in Asia......Page 236
The United States and Latin America......Page 240
From Neutrality to War......Page 242
“Over There”......Page 244
Catastrophe at Versailles......Page 254
The Fate of Wilson’s Ideas......Page 255
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 258
Racial Strife......Page 264
Erosion of Labor Rights......Page 265
The Red Scare......Page 266
Women in Politics......Page 267
Republicans and Business......Page 268
Dollar Diplomacy......Page 269
Culture Wars......Page 270
Critiquing American Life......Page 278
The Postwar Economy......Page 279
The Coming of the Great Depression......Page 284
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 288
Enter Herbert Hoover......Page 294
Rising Discontent......Page 296
Roosevelt and the First Hundred Days......Page 298
The Welfare State Comes into Being......Page 305
From Reform to Stalemate......Page 307
A People’s Democracy......Page 309
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 321
The Rise of Fascism......Page 326
War Approaches......Page 327
The Attack on Pearl Harbor......Page 330
Mobilizing the American Fighting Force......Page 334
Workers and the War Effort......Page 335
Life on the Home Front......Page 339
“For the Duration”......Page 340
Migration and the Wartime City......Page 341
Wartime Aims and Tensions......Page 346
The War in Europe......Page 347
The War in the Pacific......Page 350
The Toll of the War......Page 353
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 355
PART 8: The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980
......Page 358
Origins of the Cold War......Page 364
Containment in Asia......Page 371
The Politics of Cold War Liberalism......Page 383
Containment in the Postcolonial World......Page 384
John F. Kennedy and the Cold War......Page 387
Making a Commitment in Vietnam......Page 390
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 392
Economy: From Recovery to Dominance......Page 398
Youth Culture......Page 405
Religion and the Middle Class......Page 407
Women, Work, and Family......Page 409
Challenging Middle-Class Morality......Page 413
The Postwar Housing Boom......Page 414
Two Societies: Urban and Suburban......Page 421
Chapter Review: LearningCurve
......Page 423
Life Under Jim Crow......Page 428
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement......Page 429
Mexican Americans and Japanese Americans......Page 433
Fighting for Equality Before the Law......Page 435
Nonviolent Direct Action......Page 438
Legislating Civil Rights, 1963–1965......Page 441
Black Nationalism......Page 450
Rise of the Chicano Movement......Page 454
The American Indian Movement......Page 455
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 457
John F. Kennedy’s Promise......Page 462
Rise of the Student Movement......Page 472
War Abroad, Tragedy at Home......Page 477
The Antiwar Movement and the 1968 Election......Page 479
Women’s Liberation......Page 482
Stonewall and Gay Liberation......Page 483
Richard Nixon and the Politics of the Silent Majority......Page 484
Nixon in Vietnam......Page 485
The Silent Majority Speaks Out......Page 487
The 1972 Election......Page 489
Chapter Review: LearningCurve
......Page 491
Environmentalism......Page 497
Economic Transformation......Page 500
Urban Crisis and Suburban Revolt......Page 503
Politics in Flux, 1973–1980......Page 505
Civil Rights in a New Era......Page 508
The Women’s Movement and Gay Rights......Page 510
Working Families in the Age of Deindustrialization......Page 515
Navigating the Sexual Revolution......Page 518
Religion in the 1970s: The Fourth Great Awakening......Page 519
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 523
PART 9: Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present......Page 526
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan: Champions of the Right......Page 532
Free-Market Economics and Religious Conservatism......Page 533
The Carter Presidency......Page 535
Conservatives in Power......Page 540
Morning in America......Page 543
The End of the Cold War......Page 547
U.S.-Soviet Relations in a New Era......Page 550
A New Political Order at Home and Abroad......Page 553
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 557
America in the Global Economy......Page 562
Revolutions in Technology......Page 569
Politics and Partisanship in a New Era......Page 570
Clashes over “Family Values”......Page 576
The Clinton Presidency, 1993–2001......Page 578
Post–Cold War Foreign Policy......Page 580
The Ascendance of George W. Bush......Page 583
The Obama Presidency......Page 588
Chapter Review: LearningCurve......Page 591
The Declaration of Independence......Page 595
The Constitution of the United States of America......Page 597
Amendments to the Constitution (Including the Six Unratified Amendments)......Page 603
Appendix......Page 609
Glossary......Page 617
Index......Page 633
Inside Back Cover......Page 675
Back Cover......Page 676