The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People

Table of Contents and Preface
	Cover
	Title Page
		A Concise History of the American People
	Copyright Information
	Brief Contents
	Contents
	Preface
	America's History Is Still Unfolding
		PRIMARY SOURCES HELP STUDENTS THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT HISTORY
		Consider the Source
		Debating the Past
		America in the World
		Patterns of Popular Culture
		Writing Assignment
		Map Tools to Promote Student Learning
		SmartBook
		Contextualize History
		Instructor Resources
		Chapter-by-Chapter Changes
	Acknowledgments
	About the Authors
Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
	Chapter 1 Introduction
	America Before Columbus
		The Peoples of the Precontact Americas
		The Growth of Civilizations: The South
		The Civilizations of the North
	Europe Looks Westward
		Commerce and Sea Travel
		Christopher Columbus
		The Spanish Empire
		Northern Outposts
		Biological and Cultural Exchanges
		Africa and America
	The Arrival of the English
		Incentives for Colonization
		The First English Settlements
		The French and the Dutch in America
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands
	Chapter 2 Introduction
	The Early Chesapeake
		Colonists and Native Peoples
		Reorganization and Expansion
		Slavery and Indenture in the Virginia Colony
		Bacon’s Rebellion
		Maryland and the Calverts
	The Growth of New England
		Plymouth Plantation
		The Massachusetts Bay Experiment
		The Expansion of New England
		King Philip’s War
	The Restoration Colonies
		The English Civil War
		The Carolinas
		New Netherland, New York, and New Jersey
		The Quaker Colonies
	Borderlands and Middle Grounds
		The Caribbean Islands
		Slaveholder and Enslaved in the Caribbean
		The Southwest Borderlands
		The Southeast Borderlands
		The Founding of Georgia
		Middle Grounds
	The Development of Empire
		The Dominion of New England
		The “Glorious Revolution”
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America
	Chapter 3 Introduction
	The Colonial Population
		Indentured Servitude
		Birth and Death
		Medicine in the Colonies
		Women and Families in the Colonies
		The Beginnings of Slavery in English America
		Changing Sources of European Immigration
	The Colonial Economies
		Slavery and Economic Life
		Industry and Its Limits
		The Rise of Colonial Commerce
		The Rise of Consumerism
	Patterns of Society
		Southern Communities
		Northern Communities
		Cities
	Awakenings and Enlightenments
		The Pattern of Religions
		The Great Awakening
		The Enlightenment
		Literacy and Technology
		Education
		The Spread of Science
		Concepts of Law and Politics
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition
	Chapter 4 Introduction
	Loosening Ties
		A Decentralized Empire
		The Colonies Divided
	The Struggle for the Continent
		New France and the Iroquois Nation
		Anglo–French Conflicts
		The Great War for Empire
	The New Imperialism
		Burdens of Empire
		The British and Native Americans
		Battles over Trade and Taxes
	Stirrings of Revolt
		The Stamp Act Crisis
		Internal Rebellions
		The Townshend Program
		The Boston Massacre
		The Philosophy of Revolt
		Sites of Resistance
		The Tea Excitement
	Cooperation and War
		New Sources of Authority
		Lexington and Concord
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 5: The American Revolution
	Chapter 5 Introduction
	The States United
		Defining American War Aims
		The Declaration of Independence
		Mobilizing for War
	The War for Independence
		New England
		The Mid-Atlantic
		Securing Aid from Abroad
		The South
		Winning the Peace
	War and Society
		Loyalists and Religious Groups
		The War and Slavery
		Native Americans and the Revolution
		Women’s Rights and Roles
		The War Economy
	The Creation of State Governments
		The Principles of Republicanism
		The First State Constitutions
		Revising State Governments
	The Search for a National Government
		The Confederation
		Diplomatic Failures
		The Confederation and the Northwest
		Native Americans and the Western Lands
		Debts, Taxes, and Daniel Shays
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic
	Chapter 6 Introduction
	Framing a New Government
		Advocates of Reform
		A Divided Convention
		Compromise
		The Constitution of 1787
	Adoption and Adaptation
		Federalists and Antifederalists
		Completing the Structure
	Federalists and Republicans
		Hamilton and the Federalists
		Enacting the Federalist Program
		The Republican Opposition
	Establishing National Sovereignty
		Securing the West
		Maintaining Neutrality
	The Downfall of the Federalists
		The Election of 1796
		The Quasi War with France
		Repression and Protest
		The “Revolution” of 1800
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era
	Chapter 7 Introduction
	The Rise of Cultural Nationalism
		Educational and Literary Nationalism
		Medicine and Science
		Cultural Aspirations of the New Nation
		Religion and Revivalism
	Stirrings of Industrialism
		Technology in the United States
		Transportation Innovations
		Country and City
	Jefferson the President
		The Federal City and the “People’s President”
		Dollars and Ships
		Conflict with the Courts
	Doubling the National Domain
		Jefferson and Napoleon
		The Louisiana Purchase
		Exploring the West
		The Burr Conspiracy
	Expansion and War
		Conflict on the Seas
		Impressment
		“Peaceable Coercion”
		Native Americans and the British
		Tecumseh and the Prophet
		Florida and War Fever
	The War of 1812
		Battles with the Nations
		Battles with the British
		The Revolt of New England
		The Peace Settlement
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 8: Expansion and Division in the Early Republic
	Chapter 8 Introduction
	Stabilizing Economic Growth
		The Government and Economic Growth
		Transportation
	Expanding Westward
		Westward Migration
		White Settlers in the Old Northwest
		The Plantation System in the Old Southwest
		Trade and Trapping in the Far West
		Eastern Images of the West
	The “Era of Good Feelings”
		The End of the First Party System
		John Quincy Adams and Florida
		The Panic of 1819
	Sectionalism and Nationalism
		The Missouri Compromise
		Marshall and the Court
		The Court and Native Peoples
		The Latin American Revolution and the Monroe Doctrine
	The Revival of Opposition
		The “Corrupt Bargain”
		The Second President Adams
		Jackson Triumphant
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 9: Jacksonian America
	Chapter 9 Introduction
	The Rise of Mass Politics
		Expanding Democracy
		Tocqueville and Democracy in America
		The Legitimization of Party
		President of the Common People
	“Our Federal Union”
		Calhoun and Nullification
		The Rise of Van Buren
		The Webster–Hayne Debate
		The Nullification Crisis
	The Removal of Native Americans
		White Attitudes toward Native Peoples
		The “Five Civilized Tribes”
		Trail of Tears
		The Meaning of Removal
	Jackson and the Bank War
		Biddle’s Institution
		The “Monster” Destroyed
	The Changing Face of American Politics
		Democrats and Whigs
	Politics after Jackson
		Van Buren and the Panic of 1837
		The Log Cabin Campaign
		The Frustration of the Whigs
		Whig Diplomacy
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution
	Chapter 10 Introduction
	The Changing American Population
		Population Trends
		Urban Growth and Immigration, 1840–1860
		The Rise of Nativism
	Transportation and Communications Revolutions
		The Canal Age
		The Early Railroads
		The Triumph of the Rails
		The Telegraph
		New Technology and Journalism
	Commerce and Industry
		The Expansion of Business, 1820–1840
		The Emergence of the Factory
		Advances in Technology
		Rise of the Industrial Ruling Class
	Men and Women at Work
		Recruiting a Native Workforce
		The Immigrant Workforce
		The Factory System and the Artisan Tradition
		Fighting for Control
	Patterns of Society
		The Rich and the Poor
		Social and Geographical Mobility
		Middle-Class Life
		The Changing Family
		The “Cult of Domesticity”
		Leisure Activities
	The Agricultural North
		Northeastern Agriculture
		The Old Northwest
		Rural Life
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
	Chapter 11 Introduction
	The Cotton Economy
		The Rise of King Cotton
		Southern Trade and Industry
	Southern White Society
		The Planter Class
		The “Southern Lady”
		Beneath the Planter Class
	Slavery: The “Peculiar Institution”
		Slavery and Punishment
		Life under Slavery
		Slavery in the Cities
		Free Blacks
		The Slave Trade
	Black Culture Under Slavery
		Religion
		Language and Song
		Family
		Resistance
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform
	Chapter 12 Introduction
	The Romantic Impulse
		Nationalism and Romanticism in American Painting
		An American Literature
		Literature in the Antebellum South
		The Transcendentalists
		The Defense of Nature
		Visions of Utopia
		Redefining Gender Roles
		The Mormons
	Remaking Society
		Revivalism, Morality, and Order
		Health, Science, and Phrenology
		Medical Science
		Education
		Rehabilitation
		The Rise of Feminism
		Struggles and Successes of Black Women
	The Crusade against Slavery
		Early Opposition to Slavery
		Black Abolitionists
		Garrison and Abolitionism
		Anti-Abolitionism
		Abolitionism Divided
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
	Chapter 13 Introduction
	Looking Westward
		Manifest Destiny
		Americans in Texas
		Oregon
		The Westward Migration
	Expansion and War
		The Democrats and Expansion
		The Southwest and California
		The Mexican War
	The Sectional Debate
		Slavery and the Territories
		The California Gold Rush
		Rising Sectional Tensions
		The Compromise of 1850
	The Crises of the 1850s
		The Uneasy Truce
		“Young America”
		Slavery, Railroads, and the West
		The Kansas–Nebraska Controversy
		“Bleeding Kansas”
		The Free-Soil Ideology
		The Pro-Slavery Argument
		Buchanan and Depression
		The Dred Scott Decision
		Deadlock over Kansas
		The Emergence of Lincoln
		John Brown’s Raid
		The Election of Lincoln
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 14: The Civil War
	Chapter 14 Introduction
	The Secession Crisis
		The Withdrawal of the South
		The Failure of Compromise
		The Opposing Sides
		Going to War
	The Mobilization of the North
		Economic Nationalism
		Raising the Union Armies
		Wartime Politics
		The Politics of Emancipation
		Black Americans and the Union Cause
		Women, Nursing, and the War
	The Mobilization of the South
		The Confederate Government
		Money and Manpower
		Economic and Social Effects of the War
	Strategy and Diplomacy
		The Commanders
		The Role of Sea Power
		Europe and the Disunited States
	Campaigns and Battles
		The Technology of War
		The Opening Clashes, 1861
		The Western Theater
		The Virginia Front, 1862
		The Progress of the War
		1863: Year of Decision
		The Last Stage, 1864–1865
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South
	Chapter 15 Introduction
	The Problems of Peacemaking
		The Aftermath of War and Emancipation
		Competing Notions of Freedom
		Plans for Reconstruction
		The Death of Lincoln
		Johnson and “Restoration”
	Radical Reconstruction
		The Black Codes
		The Fourteenth Amendment
		The Congressional Plan
		The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
	The South in Reconstruction
		Politics
		Education
		Landownership and Tenancy
	The Grant Administration
		The Soldier President
		The Grant Scandals
		The Greenback Question
		Republican Diplomacy
	The Abandonment of Reconstruction
		The Southern States for Southern Whites
		Waning Northern Commitment
		The Compromise of 1877
		The Legacy of Reconstruction
	The New South
		The “Redeemers”
		Industrialization and the New South
		Black Americans and the New South
		The Lost Cause
		The Birth of Jim Crow
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
	Chapter 16 Introduction
	The Societies of the Far West
		Western Native Societies
		Hispanic New Mexico
		Hispanic California and Texas
		The Chinese Migration
		Anti-Chinese Sentiments
		Migration from the East
	The Romance of the West
		The Western Landscape and the Cowboy
		The Idea of the Frontier
	The Changing Western Economy
		Labor in the West
		The Arrival of the Miners
		The Cattle Kingdom
	The Dispersal of Native Peoples
		White Policies
		The Native American Wars
		The Dawes Act
	The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer
		Farming on the Plains
		Commercial Agriculture
		The Farmers’ Grievances
		The Agrarian Malaise
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
	Chapter 17 Introduction
	Sources of Industrial Growth
		Industrial Technologies
		The Technology of Iron and Steel Production
		The Automobile and the Airplane
		Making Production More Efficient
		Railroad Expansion and the Corporation
	Capitalism and Its Critics
		Survival of the Fittest
		The Gospel of Wealth
		Alternative Visions
		The Problems of Monopoly
	The Ordeal of the Worker
		The Immigrant Workforce
		Wages and Working Conditions
		Unions
		The Knights of Labor
		The American Federation of Labor
		The Homestead Strike
		The Pullman Strike
		Sources of Labor Weakness
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 18: The Age of the City
	Chapter 18 Introduction
	The New Urban Growth
		The Migrations
		The Ethnic City
		Assimilation and Exclusion
	The Urban Landscape
		The Creation of Public Space
		The Search for Housing
		Urban Technologies: Transportation and Construction
	Strains of Urban Life
		Health and Safety in the Built Environment
		Urban Poverty, Crime, and Violence
		The Machine and the Boss
	The Rise of Mass Consumption
		Patterns of Income and Consumption
		Chain Stores, Mail-Order Houses, and Department Stores
		Women as Consumers
	Leisure in the Consumer Society
		Redefining Leisure
		Spectator Sports
		Music, Theater, Movies, and Literature
		Patterns of Public Leisure
		The Technologies of Mass Communication
		The Telephone
	High Culture in the Urban Age
		Literature and Art in Urban America
		The Impact of Darwinism
		Toward Universal Schooling
		Universities and the Growth of Science and Technology
		Medical Science
		Education for Women
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire
	Chapter 19 Introduction
	The Politics of Equilibrium
		The Party System
		The National Government
		Presidents and Patronage
		Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff
		New Public Issues
	The Agrarian Revolt
		The Grangers
		The Farmers’ Alliances
		The Populist Constituency
		Populist Ideas
	The Crisis of the 1890s
		The Panic of 1893
		The Silver Question
		“A Cross of Gold”
		The Conservative Victory
		McKinley and Recovery
	Stirrings of Overseas Imperialism
		The New Manifest Destiny
		Hawaii and Samoa
	War with Spain
		Controversy over Cuba
		“A Splendid Little War”
		Seizing the Philippines
		The Battle for Cuba
		Puerto Rico and the United States
		The Debate over the Philippines
	The Republic as Empire
		Governing the Colonies
		The Philippine War
		The Open Door
		A Modern Military System
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 20: The Progressives
	Chapter 20 Introduction
	The Progressive Impulse
		The Muckrakers and the Social Gospel
		The Settlement House Movement
		The Allure of Expertise
		The Professions
		Women and the Professions
	Women and Reform
		The “New Woman”
		The Clubwomen
		Woman Suffrage
	The Assault on the Parties
		Early Attacks
		Municipal Reform
		Statehouse Progressivism
		Parties and Interest Groups
	Sources of Progressive Reform
		Labor, the Machine, and Reform
		Western Progressives
		African Americans and Reform
	Crusades for Social Order and Reform
		The Temperance Crusade
		Immigration Restriction
		The Dream of Socialism
		Decentralization and Regulation
	Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency
		The Accidental President
		The “Square Deal”
		Roosevelt and the Environment
		Panic and Retirement
	The Troubled Succession
		Taft and the Progressives
		The Return of Roosevelt
		Spreading Insurgency
		Roosevelt versus Taft
	Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
		Woodrow Wilson
		The Scholar as President
		Retreat and Advance
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 21: America and the Great War
	Chapter 21 Introduction
	The “Big Stick”: America and the World, 1901–1917
		Roosevelt and “Civilization”
		Protecting the “Open Door” in Asia
		The Iron-Fisted Neighbor
		The Panama Canal
		Taft and “Dollar Diplomacy”
		Diplomacy and Morality
	The Road to War
		The Collapse of the European Peace
		Wilson’s Neutrality
		Preparedness versus Pacifism
		Intervention
	“Over There”
		Mobilizing the Military
		The Yanks Are Coming
		The New Technology of Warfare
		Organizing the Economy for War
		The Search for Social Unity
	The Search for a New World Order
		The Fourteen Points
		The Paris Peace Conference
		The Ratification Battle
	A Society in Turmoil
		The Unstable Economy
		The Demands of African Americans
		The Red Scare
		Refuting the Red Scare
		The Retreat from Idealism
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 22: The New Era
	Chapter 22 Introduction
	The New Economy
		Technology, Organization, and Economic Growth
		Workers in an Age of Capital
		Women and Minorities in the Workforce
		Agricultural Technology and the Plight of the Farmer
	The New Culture
		Consumerism and Communications
		Women in the New Era
		The Disenchanted
	A Conflict of Cultures
		Prohibition
		Nativism and the Klan
		Religious Fundamentalism
		The Democrats’ Ordeal
	Republican Government
		The HardingAdministration
		The Coolidge Administration
		Government and Business
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 23: The Great Depression
	Chapter 23 Introduction
	The Coming of the Depression
		The Great Crash
		Causes of the Depression
		Progress of the Depression
	The American People in Hard Times
		Unemployment and Relief
		African Americans and the Depression
		Hispanics and Asians in Depression America
		Women and Families in the Great Depression
	The Depression and American Culture
		Depression Values
		Radio
		The Movies
		Literature and Journalism
		The Popular Front and the Left
	The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
		The Hoover Program
		Popular Protest
		Hoover and the World Crisis
		The Election of 1932
		The “Interregnum”
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 24: The New Deal Era
	Chapter 24 Introduction
	Launching the New Deal
		Restoring Confidence
		Agricultural Adjustment
		Industrial Recovery
		Regional Planning
		The Growth of Federal Relief
	The New Deal in Transition
		The Conservative Criticism of the New Deal
		The Populist Criticism of the New Deal
		The “Second New Deal”
		Labor Militancy
		Organizing Battles
		Social Security
		New Directions in Relief
		The 1936 “Referendum”
	The New Deal in Disarray
		The Court Fight
		Retrenchment and Recession
	Isolationism and Internationalism
		Depression Diplomacy
		The Rise of Isolationism
		The Failure of Munich
	Limits and Legacies of the New Deal
		African Americans and the New Deal
		The New Deal and NativeAmericans
		Women and the New Deal
		The New Deal and the West
		The New Deal, the Economy, and Politics
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 25: America in a World at War
	Chapter 25 Introduction
	From Neutrality to Intervention
		Neutrality Tested
		Neutrality Abandoned
		The Road to Pearl Harbor
	War on Two Fronts
		Containing the Japanese
		Holding Off the Germans
		America and the Holocaust
		The Soldier's Experience
	The American Economy in Wartime
		Prosperity and the Rights of Labor
		Stabilizing the Boom and Mobilizing Production
		Wartime Science and Technology
	Race and Ethnicity in Wartime America
		Minority Groups and the War Effort
		The Internment of Japanese Americans
		Chinese Americans and the War
	Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture
		Home-Front Life and Culture
		Love, Family, and Sexuality in Wartime
		The Growth of Wartime Conservatism
	The Defeat of the Axis
		The European Offensive
		The Pacific Offensive
		The Manhattan Project and Atomic Warfare
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 26: The Cold War
	Chapter 26 Introduction
	Origins of the Cold War
		Sources of Soviet–American Tension
		Wartime Diplomacy
		Yalta
	The Collapse of the Peace
		The Failure of Potsdam
		The China Problem and Japan
		The Containment Doctrine
		The Conservative Opposition to Containment
		The Marshall Plan
		Mobilization at Home
		The Road to NATO
		Reevaluating Cold War Policy
	America after the War
		The Problems of Reconversion
		The Fair Deal Rejected
		The Election of 1948
		The Fair Deal Revived
		The Nuclear Age
	The Korean War
		The Divided Peninsula
		From Invasion to Stalemate
		Limited Mobilization
	The Crusade against Subversion
		HUAC and Alger Hiss
		The Federal Loyalty Program and the Rosenberg Case
		McCarthyism
		The Republican Revival
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 27: The Affluent Society
	Chapter 27 Introduction
	The Economic “Miracle”
		Economic Growth
		The Rise of the Modern West
		Capital and Labor
	The Explosion of Science and Technology
		Medical Breakthroughs
		Pesticides
		Postwar Electronic Research
		Postwar Computer Technology
		Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles
		The Space Program
	People of Plenty
		The Consumer Culture
		The Suburban Nation
		The Suburban Family
		The Birth of Television
		Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and Environmentalism
		Organized Society and Its Detractors
		The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth
		Rock ’n’ Roll
	The Other America
		On the Margins of the Affluent Society
		Rural Poverty
		The Inner Cities
	The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
		The Brown Decision and “Massive Resistance”
		The Expanding Movement
		Causes of the Civil Rights Movement
	Eisenhower Republicanism
		“What Was Good for . . . General Motors”
		The Survival of the Welfare State
		The Decline of McCarthyism
	Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
		Dulles and “Massive Retaliation”
		France, America, and Vietnam
		Cold War Crises
		The U-2 Crisis
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 28: The Turbulent Sixties
	Chapter 28 Introduction
	Expanding the Liberal State
		John Kennedy
		Lyndon Johnson
		The Assault on Poverty
		Cities, Schools, and Immigration
		Legacies of the Great Society
	The Battle for Racial Equality
		Expanding Protests
		A National Commitment
		The Battle for Voting Rights
		The Changing Movement
		Urban Violence
		Black Power
	“Flexible Response” and the Cold War
		Diversifying Foreign Policy
		Confrontations with the Soviet Union
		Johnson and the World
	The Agony of Vietnam
		The United States and Diem
		From Aid to Intervention
		The Quagmire
		The War at Home
	The Traumas of 1968
		The Tet Offensive
		The Political Challenge
		Assassinations and Politics
		The Conservative Response
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 29: The Crisis of Authority
	Chapter 29 Introduction
	The Youth Culture
		The New Left
		The Counterculture
	The Mobilization of Minorities
		Seeds of Native American Militancy
		The Native American Civil Rights Movement
		Latino Activism
		Gay Liberation
	Women and Social Change
		Modern Feminism
		Expanding Achievements
		The Abortion Issue
	Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society
		The New Science of Ecology
		Environmental Advocacy
		Earth Day and Beyond
	Nixon, Kissinger, and the Vietnam War
		Vietnamization
		Escalation
		The End of the War
		Defeat in Indochina
	Nixon, Kissinger, and the World
		The China Initiative and Soviet–American Détente
		The “Third World”
	Politics and Economics in the Nixon Years
		Domestic Initiatives
		From the Warren Court to the Nixon Court
		The 1972 Landslide
		The Troubled Economy
		The Nixon Response
	The Watergate Crisis
		The Scandals
		The Fall of Richard Nixon
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 30: From “The Age of Limits” to Reaganism
	Chapter 30 Introduction
	Politics and Diplomacy after Watergate
		The Ford Custodianship
		The Trials of Jimmy Carter
		Human Rights and National Interests
		The Year of the Hostages
	The Rise of the New Conservative Movement
		The Sunbelt and Its Politics
		Religious Revivalism
		The Emergence of the New Right
		The Tax Revolt
		The Campaign of 1980
	The “Reagan Revolution”
		The Reagan Coalition
		Reagan in the White House
		“Supply-Side” Economics
		The Fiscal Crisis
		Reagan and the World
	The Waning of the Cold War
		The Fall of the Soviet Union
		The Fading of the Reagan Revolution
		The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
		The Gulf War
		The Election of 1992
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Chapter 31: The Age of Globalization
	Chapter 31 Introduction
	A Resurgence of Partisanship
		Launching the Clinton Presidency
		Republican Wins and Losses
		Clinton Triumphant and Embattled
		Impeachment, Acquittal, and Resurgence
		The Election of 2000
		The Presidency of George W. Bush
		The Election of 2008
		Obama and His Opponents
		Obama and the Challenge of Governing
		The Election of 2016 and President Trump
		The Fall of Trump and the Election of 2020
	Science and Technology in the New Economy
		The Digital Revolution
		The Internet
		Breakthroughs in Genetics
	A Changing Society
		A Shifting Population
		Black Americans in the Post–Civil Rights Era
		The Abortion Debate
		AIDS
		Gay Americans and Same-Sex Marriage
		The COVID-19 Pandemic
		The Contemporary Environmental Movement
	The United States in the World
		Challenging the “New World Order”
		The Rise of Modern Terrorism
		The War on Terror
		The Iraq War
		New Challenges in the Middle East
		Diplomacy and Threats in East Asia
		Echos of the Cold War
	Conclusion
	Key Terms/People/Places/Events
	Recall and Reflect
Appendixes
	Appendix: The Declaration of Independence
		In Congress, July 4, 1776,
	Appendix: The Constitution of the United States
Glossary
	Glossary
Index
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