Cengage Advantage Books: A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Volume II

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Brief Contents......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Advantage Edition Preface......Page 12
About the Authors......Page 16
Wartime Reconstruction......Page 18
The Meanings of Freedom......Page 22
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan......Page 26
The Congressional Reconstruction Plan......Page 28
Politics and Reconstruction in the South......Page 36
Retreat from Reconstruction......Page 41
LINKS to the World: The Grants’ Tour of the World......Page 44
Summary......Page 49
The Economic Activities of Native Peoples......Page 50
The Transformation of Native Cultures......Page 53
The Extraction of Natural Resources......Page 59
Irrigation and Transportation......Page 65
LINKS to the World: The Australian Frontier......Page 68
Farming the Plains......Page 70
The Ranching Frontier......Page 75
Summary......Page 77
Technology and the Triumph of Industrialization......Page 78
LINKS to the World: The Atlantic Cable......Page 82
Mechanization and the Changing Status of Labor......Page 86
Labor Violence and the Union Movement......Page 90
Standards of Living......Page 96
The Corporate Consolidation Movement......Page 103
The Gospel of Wealth and Its Critics......Page 105
Summary......Page 108
Growth of the Modern City......Page 109
Urban Neighborhoods......Page 117
Living Conditions in the Inner City......Page 122
Managing the City......Page 125
Family Life......Page 130
The New Leisure and Mass Culture......Page 134
LINKS to the World: Japanese Baseball......Page 136
Summary......Page 141
The Nature of Party Politics......Page 142
Issues of Legislation......Page 145
Tentative Presidents......Page 149
Discrimination, Disfranchisement, and Responses......Page 151
Agrarian Unrest and Populism......Page 155
LINKS to the World: Russian Populism......Page 160
The Depression and Protests of the 1890s......Page 161
The Silver Crusade and the Election of 1896......Page 165
Summary......Page 168
The Varied Progressive Impulse......Page 169
LINKS to the World: Workers’ Compensation......Page 172
Government and Legislative Reform......Page 176
New Ideas in Social Institutions......Page 179
Challenges to Racial and Sexual Discrimination......Page 183
Theodore Roosevelt and the Revival of the Presidency......Page 189
Woodrow Wilson and the Extension of Progressive Reform......Page 195
Summary......Page 197
Imperial Dreams......Page 199
LINKS to the World: National Geographic......Page 204
Ambitions and Strategies......Page 206
Crises in the 1890s: Hawaii,Venezuela, and Cuba......Page 208
The Spanish-American War and the Debate over Empire......Page 212
Asian Encounters:War in the Philippines, Diplomacy in China......Page 215
TR’s World......Page 218
Summary......Page 224
Precarious Neutrality......Page 225
The Decision for War......Page 229
Winning the War......Page 232
LINKS to the World: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918......Page 238
Mobilizing the Home Front......Page 239
Civil Liberties Under Challenge......Page 243
Red Scare, Red Summer......Page 245
The Defeat of Peace......Page 248
Summary......Page 252
Big Business Triumphant......Page 254
Politics and Government......Page 257
A Consumer Society......Page 260
Cities,Migrants, and Suburbs......Page 263
LINKS to the World: Pan American Airways......Page 265
New Rhythms of Everyday Life......Page 267
Lines of Defense......Page 272
The Age of Play......Page 276
Cultural Currents......Page 278
The Election of 1928 and the End of the New Era......Page 280
Summary......Page 283
Hoover and Hard Times 1929–1933......Page 284
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Launching of the New Deal......Page 291
Political Pressure and the Second New Deal......Page 297
Labor......Page 302
Federal Power and the Nationalization of Culture......Page 304
LINKS to the World: The 1936 Olympic Games......Page 308
The Limits of the New Deal......Page 311
Summary......Page 315
Searching for Peace and Order in the 1920s......Page 316
The World Economy, Cultural Expansion, and Great Depression......Page 319
U.S. Dominance in Latin America......Page 324
The Course to War in Europe......Page 327
Japan, China, and a New Order in Asia......Page 331
U.S. Entry into World War II......Page 334
LINKS to the World: Radio News......Page 336
Summary......Page 341
The United States at War......Page 342
The Production Front and American Workers......Page 346
Life on the Home Front......Page 350
The Limits of American Ideals......Page 355
LINKS to the World: War Brides......Page 356
Life in the Military......Page 360
Winning the War......Page 361
Summary......Page 368
From Allies to Adversaries......Page 369
Containment in Action......Page 376
The Cold War in Asia......Page 380
The Korean War......Page 382
Unrelenting Cold War......Page 385
LINKS to the World: The People-to-People Campaign......Page 388
The Struggle for the Third World......Page 390
Summary......Page 398
Shaping Postwar America......Page 400
Domestic Politics in the Cold War Era......Page 406
Cold War Fears and Anticommunism......Page 409
The Struggle for Civil Rights......Page 412
Creating a Middle-Class Nation......Page 416
Men,Women, and Youth at Midcentury......Page 421
LINKS to the World: Barbie......Page 425
The Limits of the Middle-Class Nation......Page 427
Summary......Page 431
Kennedy and the Cold War......Page 432
Marching for Freedom......Page 438
Liberalism and the Great Society......Page 442
Johnson and Vietnam......Page 449
A Nation Divided......Page 455
LINKS to the World: The British Invasion......Page 460
1968......Page 461
Summary......Page 464
The New Politics of Identity......Page 465
The Women’s Movement and Gay Liberation......Page 470
The End in Vietnam......Page 474
Nixon, Kissinger, and the World......Page 477
LINKS to the World: OPEC and the 1973 Oil Embargo......Page 480
Presidential Politics and the Crisis of Leadership......Page 481
Economic Crisis......Page 486
An Era of Cultural Transformation......Page 490
Renewed Cold War and Middle East Crisis......Page 493
Summary......Page 496
Reagan and the Conservative Resurgence......Page 497
Reaganomics......Page 503
Reagan and the World......Page 507
American Society in the 1980s......Page 513
The End of the Cold War and Global Disorder......Page 519
LINKS to the World: CNN......Page 524
Summary......Page 526
Social Strains and New Political Directions......Page 527
“The New Economy” and Globalization......Page 532
Paradoxes of Prosperity......Page 537
September 11 and the War on Terrorism......Page 543
War and Occupation in Iraq......Page 546
Americans in the First Decade of the New Millennium......Page 552
LINKS to the World: The Global AIDS Epidemic......Page 557
Summary......Page 560
INDEX......Page 562