American Stories: A History of The United States, Volume 2: Since 1865

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Detailed Contents
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16 The Agony of Reconstruction 1865–1877
	Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction
	16.1 The President Versus Congress
		16.1.1 Wartime Reconstruction
		16.1.2 Andrew Johnson at the Helm
		16.1.3 Congress Takes the Initiative
		16.1.4 Past and Present: The Reconstruction Amendments
		16.1.5 Congressional Reconstruction Plan Enacted
		16.1.6 The Impeachment Crisis
	16.2 Reconstructing Southern Society
		16.2.1 Reorganizing Land and Labor
		16.2.2 Slavery by Another Name?
		16.2.3 Republican Rule in the South
		16.2.4 Claiming Public and Private Rights
	16.3 Retreat from Reconstruction
		16.3.1 Final Efforts of Reconstruction
		16.3.2 A Reign of Terror Against Blacks
	16.4 Reunion and the New South
		16.4.1 The Compromise of 1877
		16.4.2 “Redeeming” A New South
		16.4.3 The Rise of Jim Crow
	Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the “Unfinished Revolution”
	Chapter 16 Timeline
	Chapter Review: The Agony of Reconstruction 1865–1877
17 The West Exploiting an Empire 1849–1902
	Lean Bear’s Changing West
	17.1 Beyond The Frontier
	17.2 Removing the Indians
		17.2.1 Life of the Plains Indians
		17.2.2 Searching for an Indian Policy
		17.2.3 Final Battles on the Plains
		17.2.4 The End of Tribal Life
	17.3 Settlement of the West
		17.3.1 Men and Women on the Overland Trail
		17.3.2 Land for the Taking
		17.3.3 The Spanish-Speaking Southwest
	17.4 The Bonanza West
		17.4.1 The Mining Bonanza
		17.4.2 Past and Present: Boom and Bust: From Gold Mining to Oil Fracking
		17.4.3 The Cattle Bonanza
		17.4.4 The Farming Bonanza
		17.4.5 Discontent on the Farm
		17.4.6 The Last Rush
	Conclusion: The Meaning of the West
	Chapter 17 Timeline
	Chapter Review: The West Exploiting an Empire 1849–1902
18 The Industrial Society 1850–1901
	A Machine Culture
	18.1 Industrial Development
		18.1.1 Past and Present: The Gig Economy
		18.1.2 An Empire on Rails
		18.1.3 Building the Empire
		18.1.4 Linking the Nation via Trunk Lines
		18.1.5 Rails Across the Continent
		18.1.6 Problems of Growth
	18.2  An Industrial Empire
		18.2.1 Carnegie and Steel
		18.2.2 Rockefeller and Oil
		18.2.3 The Business of Invention
	18.3  The Sellers
	18.4 The Wage Earners
		18.4.1 Working Men, Working Women, Working Children
	18.5 Culture of Work
		18.5.1 Labor Unions
		18.5.2 Labor Unrest
	Conclusion: Industrialization’s Benefits and Costs
	Chapter 18 Timeline
	Chapter Review: The Industrial Society 1850–1901
19 Toward an Urban Society 1877–1900
	The Overcrowded City
	19.1 The Lure of the City
		19.1.1 Skyscrapers and Suburbs
		19.1.2 Tenements and the Problems of Overcrowding
		19.1.3 Strangers in a New Land
		19.1.4 Immigrants and the City
		19.1.5 Past and Present: The Never-Ending Battle over Immigration
		19.1.6 Urban Political Machines
	19.2 Social and Cultural Change, 1877–1900
		19.2.1 Manners and Mores
		19.2.2 Leisure and Entertainment
		19.2.3 Changes in Family Life
		19.2.4 Changing Views: A Growing Assertiveness Among Women
		19.2.5 Educating the Masses
		19.2.6 Higher Education
	19.3 The Spread of Jim Crow
	19.4 The Stirrings of Reform
		19.4.1 Progress and Poverty
		19.4.2 New Currents in Social Thought
		19.4.3 The Settlement Houses
		19.4.4 A Crisis in Social Welfare
	Conclusion: The Pluralistic Society
	Chapter 19 Timeline
	Chapter Review: Toward an Urban Society 1877–1900
20 Political Realignments 1876–1901
	Hardship and Heartache
	20.1 Politics of Stalemate
		20.1.1 The Party Deadlock
		20.1.2 Reestablishing Presidential Power
		20.1.3 Tariffs, Trusts, and Silver
		20.1.4 The 1890 Elections
	20.2 The Rise of the Populist Movement
		20.2.1 The Farm Problem
		20.2.2 The Fast-Growing Farmers’ Alliance
		20.2.3 Past and Present: The New Populism
		20.2.4 The People’s Party
	20.3 The Crisis of the Depression
		20.3.1 The Panic of 1893
		20.3.2 The Pullman Strike
		20.3.3 A Beleaguered President
		20.3.4 Breaking the Party Deadlock
	20.4 Changing Attitudes
		20.4.1 Women and Children in the Labor Force
		20.4.2 Changing Themes in Literature
	20.5 The Presidential Election of 1896
		20.5.1 The Mystique of Silver
		20.5.2 The Republicans and Gold
		20.5.3 The Democrats and Silver
		20.5.4 Campaign and Election
	20.6 The McKinley Administration
	Conclusion: A Decade’s Dramatic Changes
	Chapter 20 Timeline
	Chapter Review: Political Realignments 1876–1901
21 Toward Empire 1865–1902
	Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
	21.1 America Looks Outward
		21.1.1 Catching the Spirit of Empire
		21.1.2 Reasons for Expansion
		21.1.3 Foreign Policy Approaches, 1867–1900
		21.1.4 The Lure of Hawaii
		21.1.5 The New Navy
	21.2 War with Spain
		21.2.1 A War for Principle
		21.2.2 Past and Present: Wars for Human Rights?
		21.2.3 The Spanish-American War
		21.2.4 African American Soldiers in the War
		21.2.5 The Course of the War
	21.3 Acquisition of Empire
		21.3.1 The Treaty of Paris Debate
		21.3.2 Guerrilla Warfare in the Philippines
		21.3.3 The Open Door
	Conclusion: Outcome of the War with Spain
	Chapter 21 Timeline
	Chapter Review: Toward Empire 1865–1902
22 The Progressive Era 1895–1917
	Muckrakers Call for Reform
	22.1 The Changing Face of Industrialism
		22.1.1 The Innovative Model T
		22.1.2 The Burgeoning Trusts
		22.1.3 Managing the Machines
	22.2 Society’s Masses
		22.2.1 Better Times on the Farm
		22.2.2 Women and Children at Work
		22.2.3 Past and Present: Women and the Struggle for Equality
		22.2.4 The Niagara Movement and the NAACP
		22.2.5 Immigrants in the Labor Force
	22.3 Conflict in the Workplace
		22.3.1 Organizing Labor
	22.4 A New Urban Culture
		22.4.1 Production and Consumption
		22.4.2 Living and Dying in an Urban Nation
		22.4.3 Popular Pastimes
		22.4.4 Experimentation in the Arts
	Conclusion: A Ferment of Discovery and Reform
	Chapter 22 Timeline
	Chapter Review: The Progressive Era 1895–1917
23 From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism 1900–1920
	What Jane Addams Decided
	23.1 The Spirit of Progressivism
		23.1.1 The Rise of the Professions
		23.1.2 The Social-Justice Movement
		23.1.3 The Purity Crusade
		23.1.4 Woman Suffrage, Women’s Rights
		23.1.5 A Ferment of Ideas: Challenging the Status Quo
	23.2 Reform in the Cities and States
		23.2.1 Interest Groups and the Decline of Popular Politics
		23.2.2 Reform in the Cities
		23.2.3 Action in the States
	23.3 The Republican Roosevelt
		23.3.1 Busting the Trusts
		23.3.2 “Square Deal” in the Coalfields
	23.4 Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height
		23.4.1 Regulating the Railroads
		23.4.2 Cleaning Up Food and Drugs
		23.4.3 Conserving the Land
	23.5 The Ordeal of William Howard Taft
		23.5.1 Party Insurgency
		23.5.2 The Ballinger–Pinchot Affair
		23.5.3 Taft Alienates the Progressives
		23.5.4 Differing Philosophies in the Election of 1912
		23.5.5 Past and Present: How Big Is Too Big?
	23.6 Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom
		23.6.1 The New Freedom in Action
		23.6.2 Wilson Moves Toward the New Nationalism
	Conclusion: The Fruits of Progressivism
	Chapter 23 Timeline
	Chapter Review: From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of
Progressivism 1900–1920
24 The Nation at War 1901–1920
	The Sinking of the Lusitania
	24.1 A New World Power
		24.1.1 Building the Panama Canal
		24.1.2 Ventures in the Far East
		24.1.3 Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
	24.2 Foreign Policy Under Wilson
		24.2.1 Troubles Across the Border
	24.3 Toward War
		24.3.1 The Neutrality Policy
		24.3.2 Freedom of the Seas
		24.3.3 The U-Boat Threat
		24.3.4 The Election of 1916
		24.3.5 The Final Months of Peace
	24.4 Over There
		24.4.1 Mobilization
		24.4.2 War in the Trenches
	24.5 Over Here
		24.5.1 The Conquest of Convictions
		24.5.2 A Bureaucratic War
		24.5.3 Labor in the War
		24.5.4 Past and Present: War and the Economy
	24.6 The Treaty of Versailles
		24.6.1 A Peace at Paris
		24.6.2 Rejection in the Senate
	Conclusion: Postwar Disillusionment
	Chapter 24 Timeline
	Chapter Review: The Nation at War 1901–1920
25 Transition to Modern America 1919–1928
	Wheels for the Millions
	25.1 The Second Industrial Revolution
		25.1.1 The Automobile Industry
		25.1.2 Patterns of Economic Growth
		25.1.3 Past and Present: Consumers All
	25.2 City Life in the Roaring Twenties
		25.2.1 Women and the Family
		25.2.2 Popular Culture in the Jazz Age
	25.3 The Conservative Counterattack
		25.3.1 The Fear of Radicalism
		25.3.2 Prohibition
		25.3.3 The Ku Klux Klan
		25.3.4 Immigration Restriction
		25.3.5 The Fundamentalist Challenge
	26.4 Republican Politics
		25.4.1 Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
		25.4.2 A New Kind of Conservatism
		25.4.3 The Election of 1928
	Conclusion: The Old and the New
	Chapter 25 Timeline
	Chapter Review: Transition to Modern America 1919–1928
26 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1929–1939
	The Struggle Against Despair
	26.1 The Great Depression
		26.1.1 The Great Crash
		26.1.2 The Effect of the Depression
	26.2 Fighting the Depression
		26.2.1 The Emergence of Roosevelt
		26.2.2 The Hundred Days
		26.2.3 Steps Toward Recovery
	26.3 Reforming American Life
		26.3.1 Challenges to FDR
		26.3.2 Social Security
		26.3.3 Past and Present: What Should Government Do?
	26.4 The Impact of the New Deal
		26.4.1 The Rise of Organized Labor
		26.4.2 The New Deal Record on Help to Minorities
	26.5 The New Deal’s End
		26.5.1 The Supreme Court Fight
		26.5.2 The New Deal in Decline
	Conclusion: The New Deal and American Life
	Chapter 26 Timeline
	Chapter Review: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
1929–1939
27 America and the World 1921–1945
	A Pact without Power
	27.1 Isolationism
		27.1.1 Militarism Abroad
		27.1.2 The Lure of Pacifism and Neutrality
		27.1.3 War in Europe
	27.2 The Road to War
		27.2.1 From Neutrality to Undeclared War
		27.2.2 Showdown in the Pacific
	27.3 Turning the Tide Against the Axis
		27.3.1 Wartime Partnerships
		27.3.2 Halting the German Blitz
		27.3.3 Checking Japan in the Pacific
	27.4 The Home Front
		27.4.1 The Arsenal of Democracy
		27.4.2 A Nation on the Move
	27.5 Victory
		27.5.1 D-Day
		27.5.2 War Aims and Wartime Diplomacy
		27.5.3 Triumph and Destruction in the Pacific
		27.5.4 Past and Present: Why No World War III?
	Conclusion: The Transforming Power of War
	Chapter 27 Timeline
	Chapter Review: America and the World 1921–1945
28 The Onset of the Cold War 1945–1960
	The Potsdam Summit
	28.1 The Cold War Begins
		28.1.1 The Division of Europe
		28.1.2 The Atomic Dilemma
	28.2 Containment
		28.2.1 The Truman Doctrine
		28.2.2 Past and Present: America’s Purpose
		28.2.3 The Marshall Plan
		28.2.4 The Western Military Alliance
		28.2.5 The Berlin Blockade
	28.3 The Cold War Expands
		28.3.1 The Military Dimension
		28.3.2 The Cold War in Asia
		28.3.3 The Korean War
	28.4 The Cold War at Home
		28.4.1 Truman’s Troubles
		28.4.2 Truman Vindicated
		28.4.3 The Loyalty Issue
		28.4.4 McCarthyism in Action
		28.4.5 The Republicans in Power
	Conclusion: The Continuing Cold War
	Chapter 28 Timeline
	Chapter Review: The Onset of the Cold War 1945–1960
29 Affluence and Anxiety 1945–1960
	Levittown: The Flight to the Suburbs
	29.1 The Postwar Boom
		29.1.1 Postwar Prosperity
		29.1.2 Life in the Suburbs
		29.1.3 Past and Present: Echoes of the Baby Boom
	29.2 The Good Life?
		29.2.1 Areas of Greatest Growth
		29.2.2 Critics of the Consumer Society
	29.3 The Struggle over Civil Rights
		29.3.1 Civil Rights as a Political Issue
		29.3.2 Desegregating the Schools
		29.3.3 The Beginnings of Black Activism
	Conclusion: Restoring National Confidence
	Chapter 29 Timeline
	Chapter Review: Affluence and Anxiety 1945–1960
30 The Turbulent Sixties 1960–1968
	Kennedy Versus Nixon: The First Televised Presidential Candidate Debate
	30.1 Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War
		30.1.1 Containment in Southeast Asia
		30.1.2 Containing Castro: The Bay of Pigs Fiasco
		30.1.3 Containing Castro: The Cuban Missile Crisis
	30.2 The New Frontier at Home
		30.2.1 Moving Slowly on Civil Rights
		30.2.2 “I Have a Dream”
	30.3 LBJ’s Great Society
		30.3.1 Johnson in Action
		30.3.2 Past and Present: LBJ’s Prediction Comes True
		30.3.3 The Election of 1964
		30.3.4 The Triumph of Reform
	30.4 Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War
		30.4.1 The Vietnam Dilemma
		30.4.2 Escalation
		30.4.3 Stalemate
	30.5 Years of Turmoil
		30.5.1 Protesting the Vietnam War
		30.5.2 The Cultural Revolution in America
		30.5.3 “Black Power”
		30.5.4 Ethnic Nationalism
		30.5.5 Women’s Liberation
	30.6 The Return of Richard Nixon
		30.6.1 Vietnam Undermines Lyndon Johnson
		30.6.2 The Republican Resurgence
	Conclusion: The End of an Era
	Chapter 30 Timeline
	Chapter Review: The Turbulent Sixties 1960–1968
31 To a New Conservatism 1969–1988
	Reagan and America’s Shift to the Right
	31.1 The Tempting of Richard Nixon
		31.1.1 Détente
		31.1.2 Ending the Vietnam War
		31.1.3 The Watergate Scandal
	31.2 Oil and Inflation
		31.2.1 War and Oil
		31.2.2 The Great Inflation
	31.3 Private Lives, Public Issues
		31.3.1 The Changing American Family
		31.3.2 Gains and Setbacks for Women
		31.3.3 The Gay Liberation Movement
	31.4 Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate
		31.4.1 The Ford Administration
		31.4.2 Carter and American Malaise
		31.4.3 Troubles Abroad
	31.5 The Reagan Revolution
		31.5.1 The Election of 1980
		31.5.2 Past and Present: Is Government the Solution or the Problem?
		31.5.3 Cutting Taxes and Spending
	31.6 Reagan and the World
		31.6.1 Challenging the “Evil Empire”
		31.6.2 Confrontation in Central America
		31.6.3 Trading Arms for Hostages
		31.6.4 Reagan the Peacemaker
	Conclusion: Challenging the New Deal
	Chapter 31 Timeline
	Chapter Review: To a New Conservatism 1969–1988
32 Into the Twenty-First Century 1989–2016
	“This Will Not Stand”: Foreign Policy in the Post–Cold War Era
	32.1 The First President Bush
		32.1.1 Republicans at Home
		32.1.2 Ending the Cold War
		32.1.3 The Gulf War
	32.2 The Changing Faces of America
		32.2.1 A People on the Move
		32.2.2 The Revival of Immigration
		32.2.3 Emerging Hispanics
		32.2.4 Advance and Retreat for African Americans
		32.2.5 Americans from Asia and the Middle East
	32.3 The New Democrats
		32.3.1 Clinton and Congress
		32.3.2 Scandal in the White House
	32.4 Republicans Resurgent
		32.4.1 The Disputed Election of 2000
		32.4.2 George W. Bush at Home
		32.4.3 The War on Terrorism
		32.4.4 Widening the Battlefield
		32.4.5 Bush Reelected
	32.5 Barack Obama’s Triumph and Trials
		32.5.1 The Great Recession
		32.5.2 New Challenges and Old
		32.5.3 Past and Present: Did the Election of Barack Obama Change Anything?
		32.5.4 Doubting the Future
	Conclusion: The End of the American Future—or Not?
	Chapter 32 Timeline
	Chapter Review: Into the Twenty-First Century 1989–2016
Appendix
	The Declaration of Independence
	The Articles of Confederation
	The Constitution of the United States of America
	Amendments to the Constitution
	Presidential Elections
Glossary
Credits
Index
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