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Chapter 16 The Agony of Reconstruction
Chapter 17 The West: Exploiting an Empire
Chapter 18 The Industrial Society
Chapter 19 Toward an Urban Society, 1877–1900
Chapter 20 Political Realignments in the 1890s
Chapter 21 Toward Empire
Chapter 22 The Progressive Era
Chapter 23 From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism
Chapter 24 The Nation at War
Chapter 25 Transition to Modern America
Chapter 26 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Chapter 27 America and the World, 1921–1945
Chapter 28 The Onset of the Cold War
Chapter 29 Affl uence and Anxiety
Chapter 30 The Turbulent Sixties
Chapter 31 The Rise of a New Conservatism, 1969–1988
Chapter 32 Into the Twenty-fi rst Century, 1989–2012
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Maps, Figures, and Tables xxi Features xxiii About the Authors xxvi Supplements xxviii
Chapter 16
THE AGONY OF RECONSTRUCTION 366 Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction 366
The President vs. Congress 368 Wartime Reconstruction 368 Andrew Johnson at the Helm 369 Congress Takes the Initiative 371 Congressional Reconstruction Plan Enacted 372 The Impeachment Crisis 373
Reconstructing Southern Society 374 Reorganizing Land and Labor 374 Black Codes: A New Name for Slavery? 376 Republican Rule in the South 376 Claiming Public and Private Rights 377
Retreat from Reconstruction 379 Rise of the Money Question 379 Final Efforts of Reconstruction 379 A Reign of Terror Against Blacks 380 Spoilsmen vs. Reformers 381
Reunion and the New South 382 The Compromise of 1877 382 “Redeeming” a New South 383 The Rise of Jim Crow 386
Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the “Unfi nished Revolution” 387
◾ FEATURE ESSAY “Forty Acres and a Mule” 384
Chapter 17
THE WEST: EXPLOITING AN EMPIRE 390 Lean Bear’s Changing West 390
Beyond the Frontier 391
Crushing the Native Americans 392 Life of the Plains Indians 393 “As Long as Waters Run”: Searching for an Indian Policy 394 Final Battles on the Plains 395 The End of Tribal Life 396
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Settlement of the West 400 Men and Women on the Overland Trail 400 Land for the Taking 401 Territorial Government 402 The Spanish-Speaking Southwest 403
The Bonanza West 403 The Mining Bonanza 403 Gold from the Roots Up: The Cattle Bonanza 405 Sodbusters on the Plains: The Farming Bonanza 407 New Farming Methods 408 Discontent on the Farm 409 The Final Fling 410
Conclusion: The Meaning of the West 410
◾ FEATURE ESSAY Blacks in Blue: The Buffalo Soldiers in the West 398
Chapter 18
THE INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY 414 A Machine Culture 414
Industrial Development 416
An Empire on Rails 416 “Emblem of Motion and Power” 416 Building the Empire 418 Linking the Nation via Trunk Lines 419 Rails Across the Continent 419 Problems of Growth 420
An Industrial Empire 421 Carnegie and Steel 421 Rockefeller and Oil 423 The Business of Invention 424
The Sellers 428
The Wage Earners 428 Working Men, Working Women, Working Children 428
Culture of Work 430 Labor Unions 431 Labor Unrest 432
Conclusion: Industrialization’s Benefi ts and Costs 435
◾ FEATURE ESSAY Shopping in a New Society 426
Chapter 19
TOWARD AN URBAN SOCIETY, 1877–1900 438 The Overcrowded 438
The Lure of the City 439 Skyscrapers and Suburbs 440 Tenements and the Problems of Overcrowding 441
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Strangers in a New Land 441 Immigrants and the City 444 The House That Tweed Built 446
Social and Cultural Change, 1877–1900 447 Manners and Mores 448 Leisure and Entertainment 448 Changes in Family Life 449 Changing Views: A Growing Assertiveness among Women 450 Educating the Masses 450 Higher Education 451
The Spread of Jim Crow 454
The Stirrings of Reform 455 Progress and Poverty 455 New Currents in Social Thought 456 The Settlement Houses 457 Crisis in Social Welfare 458
Conclusion: The Pluralistic Society 459
◾ FEATURE ESSAY Ellis Island: Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears 442
◾ LAW AND SOCIETY Plessy v. Ferguson : The Shaping of Jim Crow 460
Chapter 20
POLITICAL REALIGNMENTS IN THE 1890s 466 Hardship and Heartache 466
Politics of Stalemate 468 The Party Deadlock 468 Experiments in the States 468 Reestablishing Presidential Power 469
Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress 470 Tariffs, Trusts, and Silver 470 The 1890 Elections 472
The Rise of the Populist Movement 472 The Farm Problem 472 The Fast-Growing Farmers’ Alliance 473 The People’s Party 474
The Crisis of the Depression 476 The Panic of 1893 476 Coxey’s Army and the Pullman Strike 476 The Miners of the Midwest 477 A Beleaguered President 478 Breaking the Party Deadlock 478
Changing Attitudes 479 “Everybody Works But Father” 479 Changing Themes in Literature 480
The Presidential Election of 1896 481 The Mystique of Silver 481
The Republicans and Gold 481 The Democrats and Silver 484 Campaign and Election 484
The McKinley Administration 485
Conclusion: A Decade’s Dramatic Changes 486
◾ FEATURE ESSAY The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 482
Chapter 21
TOWARD EMPIRE 490 Roosevelt and the Rough Riders 490
America Looks Outward 492 Catching the Spirit of Empire 492 Reasons for Expansion 492 Foreign Policy Approaches, 1867–1900 493 The Lure of Hawaii and Samoa 495 The New Navy 496
War with Spain 497 A War for Principle 498 “A Splendid Little War” 500 “Smoked Yankees” 501 The Course of the War 502
Acquisition of Empire 503 The Treaty of Paris Debate 504 Guerrilla Warfare in the Philippines 505 Governing the Empire 506 The Open Door 507
Conclusion: Outcome of the War with Spain 510
◾ FEATURE ESSAY The 400 Million Customers of China 508
Chapter 22
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 514 Muckrakers Call for Reform 514
The Changing Face of Industrialism 515 The Innovative Model T 516 The Burgeoning Trusts 517 Managing the Machines 518
Society’s Masses 519 Better Times on the Farm 519 Women and Children at Work 520 The Niagara Movement and the NAACP 521 “I Hear the Whistle”: Immigrants in the Labor Force 522
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Confl ict in the Workplace 524 Organizing Labor 525 Working with Workers 527 Amoskeag 530
A New Urban Culture 530 Production and Consumption 530 Living and Dying in an Urban Nation 530 Popular Pastimes 531 Experimentation in the Arts 532
Conclusion: A Ferment of Discovery and Reform 533
◾ FEATURE ESSAY The Triangle Fire 528
Chapter 23
FROM ROOSEVELT TO WILSON IN THE AGE OF PROGRESSIVISM 536 The Republicans Split 536
The Spirit of Progressivism 537 The Rise of the Professions 539 The Social-Justice Movement 539 The Purity Crusade 540 Woman Suffrage, Women’s Rights 540 A Ferment of Ideas: Challenging the Status Quo 542
Reform in the Cities and States 544 Interest Groups and the Decline of Popular Politics 544 Reform in the Cities 544 Action in the States 545
The Republican Roosevelt 546 Busting the Trusts 547 “Square Deal” in the Coalfi elds 547
Roosevelt Progressivism at its Height 548 Regulating the Railroads 548 Cleaning up Food and Drugs 548 Conserving the Land 549
The Ordeal of William Howard Taft 550 Party Insurgency 550 The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair 551 Taft Alienates the Progressives 551 Differing Philosophies in the Election of 1912 552
Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom 553 The New Freedom in Action 554 Wilson Moves Toward the New Nationalism 554
Conclusion: The Fruits of Progressivism 558
◾ FEATURE ESSAY Madam C. J. Walker: African American Business Pioneer 556
Chapter 24
THE NATION AT WAR 562 The Sinking of the Lusitania 562
A New World Power 564 “I Took the Canal Zone” 564 The Roosevelt Corollary 565 Ventures in the Far East 566 Taft and Dollar Diplomacy 566
Foreign Policy Under Wilson 566 Conducting Moral Diplomacy 567 Troubles Across the Border 568
Toward War 568 The Neutrality Policy 569 Freedom of the Seas 569 The U-Boat Threat 570 “He Kept Us Out of War” 570 The Final Months of Peace 571
Over There 572 Mobilization 572 War in the Trenches 576
Over Here 577 The Conquest of Convictions 577 A Bureaucratic War 578 Labor in the War 579
The Treaty of Versailles 582 A Peace at Paris 582 Rejection in the Senate 584
Conclusion: Postwar Disillusionment 585
◾ FEATURE ESSAY Measuring the Mind 574
Chapter 25
TRANSITION TO MODERN AMERICA 588 Wheels for the Millions 588
The Second Industrial Revolution 589 The Automobile Industry 590 Patterns of Economic Growth 590 Economic Weaknesses 591
City Life in the Jazz Age 592 Women and the Family 593 The Roaring Twenties 593 The Flowering of the Arts 595
The Rural Counterattack 598 The Fear of Radicalism 599
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Prohibition 600 The Ku Klux Klan 600 Immigration Restriction 602 The Fundamentalist Challenge 603
Politics of the 1920s 603 Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover 603 Republican Policies 605 The Divided Democrats 605 The Election of 1928 606
Conclusion: The Old and the New 607
◾ FEATURE ESSAY Marcus Garvey: Racial Redemption and Black Nationalism 596
◾ LAW AND SOCIETY The Scopes “Monkey” Trial: Contesting Cultural Differences 608
Chapter 26
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL 614 The Struggle Against Despair 614
The Great Depression 614 The Great Crash 615 Effect of the Depression 616
Fighting the Depression 619 Hoover and Voluntarism 619 The Emergence of Roosevelt 620 The Hundred Days 621 Roosevelt and Recovery 622 Roosevelt and Relief 623
Roosevelt and Reform 624 Challenges to FDR 624 Social Security 624 Labor Legislation 627
Impact of the New Deal 627 Rise of Organized Labor 627 The New Deal Record on Help to Minorities 628 Women at Work 629
End of the New Deal 630 The Election of 1936 630 The Supreme Court Fight 630 The New Deal in Decline 631
Conclusion: The New Deal and American Life 631
◾ FEATURE ESSAY Eleanor Roosevelt and the Quest for Social Justice 632
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Chapter 27
AMERICA AND THE WORLD, 1921–1945 638 A Pact Without Power 638
Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry 639 Retreat in Europe 640 Cooperation in Latin America 640 Rivalry in Asia 641
Isolationism 641 The Lure of Pacifi sm and Neutrality 642 War in Europe 642
The Road to War 644 From Neutrality to Undeclared War 644 Showdown in the Pacifi c 645
Turning the Tide Against the Axis 647 Wartime Partnerships 647 Halting the German Blitz 648 Checking Japan in the Pacifi c 648
The Home Front 649 The Arsenal of Democracy 649 A Nation on the Move 650 Win-the-War Politics 653
Victory 654 War Aims and Wartime Diplomacy 655 Triumph and Tragedy in the Pacifi c 656
Conclusion: The Transforming Power of War 660
◾ FEATURE ESSAY The Face of the Holocaust 658
Chapter 28
THE ONSET OF THE COLD WAR 664 The Potsdam Summit 664
The Cold War Begins 666 The Division of Europe 666 Withholding Economic Aid 666 The Atomic Dilemma 668
Containment 668 The Truman Doctrine 669 The Marshall Plan 670 The Western Military Alliance 670 The Berlin Blockade 670
The Cold War Expands 671 The Military Dimension 671 The Cold War in Asia 672 The Korean War 673
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The Cold War at Home 674 Truman’s Troubles 674 Truman Vindicated 675 The Loyalty Issue 676 McCarthyism in Action 677 The Republicans in Power 678
Eisenhower Wages the Cold War 680 Entanglement in Indochina 680 Containing China 681 Covert Actions 684 Waging Peace 684
Conclusion: The Continuing Cold War 685
◾ FEATURE ESSAY America Enters the Middle East 682
Chapter 29
AFFLUENCE AND ANXIETY 688 Levittown: The Flight to the Suburbs 688
The Postwar Boom 690 Postwar Prosperity 690 Life in the Suburbs 691
The Good Life? 692 Areas of Greatest Growth 692 Critics of the Consumer Society 692
Farewell to Reform 696 Truman and the Fair Deal 696 Eisenhower’s Modern Republicanism 697
The Struggle over Civil Rights 698 Civil Rights as a Political Issue 699 Desegregating the Schools 700 The Beginnings of Black Activism 701
Conclusion: Restoring National Confi dence 703
◾ FEATURE ESSAY The Reaction to Sputnik 694
Chapter 30
THE TURBULENT SIXTIES 706 Kennedy versus Nixon: The First Televised Presidential Candidate Debate 706
Kennedy Intensifi es the Cold War 708 Flexible Response 709 Crisis over Berlin 709 Containment in Southeast Asia 709 Containing Castro: The Bay of Pigs Fiasco 710 Containing Castro: The Cuban Missile Crisis 711
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The New Frontier at Home 713 The Congressional Obstacle 713 Economic Advance 713 Moving Slowly on Civil Rights 714 “I Have a Dream” 716 The Supreme Court and Reform 717
“Let Us Continue” 717 Johnson in Action 718 The Election of 1964 718 The Triumph of Reform 720
Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War 721 The Vietnam Dilemma 724 Escalation 725 Stalemate 726
Years of Turmoil 726 The Student Revolt 726 Protesting the Vietnam War 727 The Cultural Revolution 728 “Black Power” 728 Ethnic Nationalism 729 Women’s Liberation 730
The Return of Richard Nixon 731 Vietnam Undermines Lyndon Johnson 731 The Democrats Divide 731 The Republican Resurgence 732
Conclusion: The End of an Era 733
◾ FEATURE ESSAY Unintended Consequences: The Second Great Migration 722
Chapter 31
THE RISE OF A NEW CONSERVATISM, 1969–1988 736 Reagan and America’s Shift to the Right 736
The Tempting of Richard Nixon 738 Pragmatic Liberalism 738 Détente 739 Ending the Vietnam War 739 The Watergate Scandal 741
The Economy of Stagfl ation 742 War and Oil 742 The Great Infl ation 743 The Shifting American Economy 744 A New Environmentalism 744
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Private Lives, Public Issues 745 The Changing American Family 745 Gains and Setbacks for Women 745 The Gay Liberation Movement 746 The AIDS Epidemic 748
Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate 749 The Ford Administration 749 Carter and American Malaise 749 Troubles Abroad 751 The Collapse of Détente 751
The Reagan Revolution 752 The Election of 1980 752 Cutting Taxes and Spending 753 Unleashing the Private Sector 754
Reagan and the World 755 Challenging the “Evil Empire” 755 Confrontation in Central America 755 More Trouble in the Middle East 758 Trading Arms for Hostages 758 Reagan the Peacemaker 764
Conclusion: Challenging the New Deal 764
◾ FEATURE ESSAY The Christian Right 756
◾ LAW AND SOCIETY Roe v. Wade: The Struggle over Women’s Reproductive Rights 760
Chapter 32
INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, 1989–2012 768 “This Will Not Stand”: Foreign Policy in the Post–Cold War Era 768
The First President Bush 770 Republicans at Home 770 Ending the Cold War 771 The Gulf War 772
The Changing Faces of America 774 A People on the Move 774 The Revival of Immigration 774 Emerging Hispanics 775 Advance and Retreat for African Americans 776 Americans from Asia and the Middle East 776 Assimilation or Diversity? 777
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The New Democrats 778 The Election of 1992 779 Clinton and Congress 779 Scandal in the White House 780
Clinton and the World 781 Old Rivals in New Light 782 To Intervene or Not 782 The Balkan Wars 782
Republicans Triumphant 783 The Disputed Election of 2000 783 George W. Bush at Home 784 The War on Terror 785 Widening the Battlefi eld 788 Bush Reelected 790
Barack Obama’s Triumph and Trials 791 The Great Recession 791 New Challenges and Old 792 Doubting the Future 793
Conclusion: The End of the American Future—or Not? 794
◾ FEATURE ESSAY An Inconvenient Truth? The Controversy Surrounding Global Warming 786
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373 Reconstruction 383 Election of 1876 392 Physiographic Map of the United States 394 Native Americans in the West: Major Battles and
Reservations 405 Mining Regions of the West 406 Cattle Trails 409 Agricultural Land Use in the 1880s 418 Federal Land Grants to Railroads as of 1871 420 Railroads, 1870 and 1890 433 Labor Strikes, 1870–1900 445 Foreign-Born Population, 1890 470 Election of 1888 475 Election of 1892 485 Election of 1896 496 Hawaiian Islands 503 American Empire, 1900 506 World Colonial Empires, 1900 520 Irrigation and Conservation in the West to 1917 541 “Changing Lives of American Women, 1880–1930” 549 National Parks and Forests 553 Election of 1912 565 The Panama Canal Zone 567 Activities of the United States in the Caribbean,
1898–1930 573 European Alliances and Battlefronts, 1914–1917 576 The Western Front: U.S. Participation, 1918 580 African American Migration Northward, 1910–1920 584 Europe after the Treaty of Versailles, 1919 606 Election of 1928 620 Election of 1932 622 The Tennessee Valley Authority 623 The Dust Bowl 650 World War II in the Pacifi c 652 Japanese American Internment Camps 656 World War II in Europe and North Africa 667 Europe after World War II 669 Marshall Plan Aid to Europe, 1948–1952
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673 The Korean War, 1950–1953 675 Election of 1948 698 The Interstate Highway System 708 Election of 1960 721 African American Voter Registration before and after
Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 724 Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War 732 Election of 1968 741 Election of 1972 746 Voting on the Equal Rights Amendment 752 Election of 1980 758 Trouble Spots in Central America and the Caribbean 759 Trouble Spots in the Middle East 772 The End of the Cold War 779 Election of 1992 780 Election of 1996 783 The Breakup of Yugoslavia/Civil War in Bosnia 784 Election of 2000 791 Election of 2004 792 Election of 2008
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419 Railroad Construction, 1830–1920 421 International Steel Production, 1880–1914 424 Patents Issued by Decade, 1850–1899 444 Immigration to the United States, 1870–1900 447 Urban and Rural Population, 1870–1900 (in millions) 473 Selected Commodity Prices 517 Business Consolidations (Mergers), 1895–1905 523 Immigration to the United States, 1900–1920