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U.S.: A Narrative History off ers thirty interactive maps that support geographical as well as historical thinking. These maps appear in both the eBook and Connect History exercises.
For some interactive maps, students click on the boxes in the map legend to see changing boundaries, visualize migration routes, or analyze war battles and election results.
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U.S.: A Narrative History is a 21st-century approach to teaching history. Students study smarter with SmartBook.
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Critical missions promote critical thinking. What would your students do if they were senators voting on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
Or if they were advisers to Harry Truman, helping him decide whether to drop the atomic bomb?
Critical Missions make students feel like active participants in history by immersing them in a series of transformative moments from our past.
As advisers to key historical fi gures, they read and analyze primary sources, interpret maps and timelines, and write recommendations.
As a follow-up activity in each Critical Mission, students learn to think like historians by conducting a retrospective analysis from a contemporary perspective.
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U.S. A N A R R A T I V E H I S T O R Y
Seventh Edit ion James West Davidson
Christine Leigh Heyrman University of Delaware
Brian DeLay University of California, Berkeley
Mark H. Lytle Bard College
Michael B. Stoff University of Texas, Austin
V O L U M E 2 : F R O M 1 8 6 5
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17 Reconstructing the Union 1865–1877 332
18 The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West 1870–1890 351
19 The New Industrial Order 1870–1900 374
20 The Rise of an Urban Order 1870–1900 395
21 The Political System under Strain at Home and Abroad 1877–1900 417
22 The Progressive Era 1890–1920 442
23 The United States and the Collapse of the Old World Order 1901–1920 465
24 The New Era 1920–1929 488
25 The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929–1939 510
26 America’s Rise to Globalism 1927–1945 540
27 Cold War America 1945–1954 568
28 The Suburban Era 1945–1963 588
29 Civil Rights and Uncivil Liberties 1947–1969 611
30 The Vietnam Era 1963–1975 631
31 The Conservative Challenge 1976–1992 656
32 The United States in a Global Community 1989–Present 681
SOME HIGHLIGHTS: DUELING DOCUMENTS is a new feature appearing in half the chapters. Each box showcases two pri- mary sources with contrasting points of view.
HISTORIAN’S TOOLBOX, alternating with Dueling Documents, showcases historical images and arti- facts, asking students to focus on visual evidence and examine material culture. New items in this edition include “A White Man’s View of Custer’s Defeat,” exhibiting a popular lithograph on the subject and discussing its iconography; “Youth in a Jar,” analyzing an advertisement for beauty cream; stills from the 1951 Civil Defense film, “Duck and Cover,” starring Bert the Turtle in atomic attack.
GEOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS have been added to many map captions to reinforce geographic liter- acy and to connect the maps to the chapter’s rel- evant themes.
CHAPTER 18, THE NEW SOUTH AND THE TRANS- MISSISSIPPI WEST discusses the costs of Jim Crow segregation to white as well as black south- erners; plus a discussion of the Navajo “Long Walk” or forced deportation from Arizona to east- ern New Mexico.
CHAPTER 20, THE RISE OF AN URBAN ORDER, con- tains a new opening narrative, “The Dogs of Hell,” evoking the famous Chicago fire of 1871.
CHAPTER 22, THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, includes new material on Margaret Sanger, birth control, and its relationship to a wave of forced steriliza- tions, as well as a new discussion of Progressiv- ism in western states. CHAPTER 24, THE NEW ERA, discusses the emer- gence of “Companionate Marriage,” in which companionship and sexual intimacy helped invest marriage with greater equality.
CHAPTER 28, THE SUBURBAN ERA, examines the “Cola Wars” between Coke and Pepsi, as an example of the role of advertising in a consumer economy.
CHAPTER 30, THE VIETNAM ERA, now ends with the fall of Saigon. Material on OPEC, the Middle East, and Kissinger-Ford diplomacy has been moved to Chapter 31. The restructuring makes both chapters more coherent and balanced in length.
CHAPTER 31, THE CONSERVATIVE CHALLENGE, pro- files Saturday Night Fever (the most popular box- office movie of the decade) to examine the era’s culture wars.
CHAPTER 32, THE UNITED STATES IN A GLOBAL COMMUNITY, expands to cover the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act, growing concern with income inequality, global warming and climate change; and the debate over hydraulic fracturing.
WHAT’S NEW U.S. BRIEF CONTENTS
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Racism and the Failure of Reconstruction 347
CHAPTER SUMMARY 349 | ADDITIONAL READING 349 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 350
18 THE NEW SOUTH AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST 1870–1890
AN AMERICAN STORY: “Come West” 351
The Southern Burden 352 Tenancy and Sharecropping 353
17 RECONSTRUCTING THE UNION 1865–1877
AN AMERICAN STORY: A Secret Sale at Davis Bend 332
Presidential Reconstruction 334 Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan 334
Reconstruction under Andrew Johnson 334
The Failure of Johnson’s Program 335
Johnson’s Break with Congress 336
The Fourteenth Amendment 336
The Election of 1866 337
Congressional Reconstruction 337 Post-Emancipation Societies in the Americas 338
The Land Issue 338
Impeachment 338
Reconstruction in the South 339 Black and White Republicans 339
Reforms under the New State Governments 339
Economic Issues and Corruption 340
Black Aspirations 340 Experiencing Freedom 340
The Black Family 340
The Schoolhouse and the Church 341
New Working Conditions 341
Planters and a New Way of Life 343
The Abandonment of Reconstruction 343 The Grant Administration 343
Growing Northern Disillusionment 345
The Triumph of White Supremacy 346
The Disputed Election of 1876 346
HISTORIAN’S TOOLBOX Dressed to Kill 347
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Transportation and Communication 377
Finance Capital 378
The Corporation 378
An International Pool of Labor 378
Railroads: America’s First Big Business 379 A Managerial Revolution 380
Competition and Consolidation 381
The Challenge of Finance 381
The Growth of Big Business 381 Strategies of Growth 382
Carnegie Integrates Steel 382
Rockefeller and the Great Standard Oil Trust 383
The Mergers of J. Pierpont Morgan 384
Corporate Defenders 384
Corporate Critics 384
The Costs of Doing Business 385
The Workers’ World 386 Industrial Work 387
Children, Women, and African Americans 388
The American Dream of Success 389
The Systems of Labor 389 Early Unions 389
The Knights of Labor 389
HISTORIAN’S TOOLBOX Digital Detecting 390
The American Federation of Labor 391
The Limits of Industrial Systems 391
Management Strikes Again 392
CHAPTER SUMMARY 393 | ADDITIONAL READING 393 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 394
Southern Industry 354
The Sources of Southern Poverty 355
Life in the New South 356 Rural Life 356
The Church 356
Segregation 357
Western Frontiers 357 Western Landscapes 358
Indian Peoples and the Western Environment 358
Whites and the Western Environment: Competing Visions 359
The War for the West 360 Contact and Conflict 361
Custer’s Last Stand—and the Indians’ 361
HISTORIAN’S TOOLBOX A White Man’s View of Custer’s Defeat 363
Killing with Kindness 363
Borderlands 364
Ethno-Racial Identity in the New West 365
Boom and Bust in the West 366 Mining Sets a Pattern 366
The Transcontinental Railroad 366
Cattle Kingdom 367
The Final Frontier 368 Farming on the Plains 368
A Plains Existence 368
The Urban Frontier 369
The West and the World Economy 370
Packaging and Exporting the “Wild West” 370
CHAPTER SUMMARY 372 | ADDITIONAL READING 372 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 373
19 THE NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDER 1870–1900
AN AMERICAN STORY: Scampering through America 374
The Development of Industrial Systems 375 Natural Resources and Industrial Technology 376
Systematic Invention 376
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City Life 404 The Immigrant in the City 404
Urban Middle-Class Life 406
Victorianism and the Pursuit of Virtue 406
DUELING DOCUMENTS City Scenes 407
Challenges to Convention 408
The Decline of “Manliness” 409
City Culture 409 Public Education in an Urban Industrial World 409
Higher Learning and the Rise of the Professional 410
Higher Education for Women 411
A Culture of Consumption 412
Leisure 413
Arts and Entertainment 413
CHAPTER SUMMARY 415 | ADDITIONAL READING 415 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 416
21 THE POLITICAL SYSTEM UNDER STRAIN AT HOME AND ABROAD 1877–1900
AN AMERICAN STORY: “The World United at Chicago” 417
The Politics of Paralysis 419 Political Stalemate 419
The Parties 419
The Issues 420
The White House from Hayes to Harrison 421
Ferment in the States and Cities 422
20 THE RISE OF AN URBAN ORDER 1870–1900
AN AMERICAN STORY: “The Dogs of Hell” 395
A New Urban Age 397 The Urban Explosion 397
The Great Global Migration 397
Holding the City Together 398
Bridges and Skyscrapers 399
Slum and Tenement 400
Running and Reforming the City 401 Boss Rule 401
Rewards, Accomplishments, and Costs 402
Nativism, Revivals, and the Social Gospel 403
The Social Settlement Movement 403
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Controlling the Masses 450 Stemming the Immigrant Tide 450
The Curse of Demon Rum 450
Prostitution 451
“For Whites Only” 451
HISTORIAN’S TOOLBOX Mementos of Murder 452
The Politics of Municipal and State Reform 453 The Reformation of the Cities 453
Progressivism in the States 454
Progressivism Goes to Washington 455 TR 455
A Square Deal 456
Bad Food and Pristine Wilds 457
The Troubled Taft 459
The Election of 1912 459
Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality 460 Early Career 460
The Reforms of the New Freedom 461
Labor and Social Reform 462
CHAPTER SUMMARY 463 | ADDITIONAL READING 463 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 464
23 THE UNITED STATES AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE OLD WORLD ORDER 1901–1920 AN AMERICAN STORY: “A Path Between the Seas” 465
Progressive Diplomacy 467 Big Stick in the Caribbean 467
The Revolt of the Farmers 422 The Harvest of Discontent 422
The Origins of the Farmers’ Alliance 423
The Alliance Peaks 423
The Election of 1892 424
The New Realignment 425 The Depression of 1893 425
DUELING DOCUMENTS WHAT SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT DO? 426
The Rumblings of Unrest 426
The Battle of the Standards 427
Campaign and Election 428
The Rise of Jim Crow Politics 429
The African American Response 429
McKinley in the White House 430
Visions of Empire 431 Imperialism, European-Style and American 431
The Shapers of American Imperialism 432
Dreams of a Commercial Empire 434
The Imperial Moment 435 Mounting Tensions 435
The Imperial War 436
Peace and the Debate over Empire 437
From Colonial War to Colonial Rule 438
An Open Door in China 439
CHAPTER SUMMARY 440 | ADDITIONAL READING 441 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 441
22 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1890–1920 AN AMERICAN STORY: Burned Alive in the City 442
The Roots of Progressive Reform 444 Progressive Beliefs 444
The Pragmatic Approach 444
The Progressive Method 445
The Search for the Good Society 446 Poverty in a New Light 446
Expanding the “Woman’s Sphere” 446
Social Welfare 447
Woman Suffrage 448
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24 THE NEW ERA 1920–1929 AN AMERICAN STORY:
Yesterday Meets Today in the New Era 488
The Roaring Economy 490 Technology, Consumer Spending, and the Boom in Construction 490
The Automobile 490
The Future of Energy 491
The Business of America 492
Welfare Capitalism 492
HISTORIAN’S TOOLBOX Youth in a Jar 493
The Consumer Culture 493
A Mass Society 494 A “New Woman” 494
Mass Media 496
The Cult of Celebrity 497
“Ain’t We Got Fun?” 497
The Art of Alienation 498
A “New Negro” 498
Defenders of the Faith 499 Nativism and Immigration Restriction 500
The “Noble Experiment” 500
KKK 501
Fundamentalism versus Darwinism 502
Republicans Ascendant 503 The Politics of “Normalcy” 503
A “Diplomatist of the Highest Rank” 468
Dollar Diplomacy 468
Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy 468 Missionary Diplomacy 469
Intervention in Mexico 470
The Road to War 470 The Guns of August 470
Neutral but Not Impartial 471
The Diplomacy of Neutrality 472
Peace, Preparedness, and the Election of 1916 473
Wilson’s Final Peace Offensive 473
War and Society 474 The Slaughter of Stalemate 474
“You’re in the Army Now” 475
Mobilizing the Economy 476
War Work 476
Great Migrations 477
Propaganda and Civil Liberties 477
Over There 478
DUELING DOCUMENTS The Limits of Free Speech 479
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919 480
The Lost Peace 481 The Treaty of Versailles 483
The Battle for the Treaty 483
Red Scare 484
CHAPTER SUMMARY 486 | ADDITIONAL READING 486 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 487
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DUELING DOCUMENTS Two Views of the “Forgotten Man” 521
Saving the Banks 522
Relief for the Unemployed 522
Planning for Industrial Recovery 524
Planning for Agriculture 525
A Second New Deal (1935–1936) 526 Dissent from the Deal 526
The Second Hundred Days 527
The Election of 1936 528
The New Deal and the American People 529 The New Deal and Western Water 529
The Limited Reach of the New Deal 530
Tribal Rights 531
A New Deal for Women 531
The Rise of Organized Labor 532
“Art for the Millions” 533
The End of the New Deal (1937–1940) 534 Packing the Courts 534
The Demise of the Deal 535
The Legacy of the New Deal 537
CHAPTER SUMMARY 537 | ADDITIONAL READING 538 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 539
26 AMERICA’S RISE TO GLOBALISM 1927–1945
AN AMERICAN STORY: “Oh Boy” 540
The United States in a Troubled World 542 Pacific Interests 542
Becoming a Good Neighbor 542
The Diplomacy of Isolationism 543
Inching toward War 544
Hitler’s Invasion 545
Retreat from Isolationism 545
Disaster in the Pacific 546
A Global War 546 Strategies for War 547
Gloomy Prospects 547
A Grand Alliance 548
The Naval War in the Pacific 548
The Policies of Mellon and Hoover 503
Crises at Home and Abroad 504
The Election of 1928 505
The Great Bull Market 506 The Rampaging Bull 506
The Great Crash 506
Causes of the Great Depression 507
CHAPTER SUMMARY 508 | ADDITIONAL READING 509 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 509
25 THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL 1929–1939
AN AMERICAN STORY: Letters from the Edge 510
The Human Impact of the Great Depression 512 Hard Times 512
The Golden Age of Radio and Film 513
“Dirty Thirties”: An Ecological Disaster 514
Mexican Americans and Repatriation 515
African Americans in the Depression 515
The Tragedy of Herbert Hoover 516 The Failure of Relief 516
The Hoover Depression Program 517
Stirrings of Discontent 518
The Bonus Army 519
The Election of 1932 519
The Early New Deal (1933–1935) 520 The Democratic Roosevelts 520
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HISTORIAN’S TOOLBOX Duck and Cover 574
The Atomic Shield versus the Iron Curtain 575
Postwar Prosperity 576 Hidden Costs of a Consuming Nation 576
Postwar Adjustments 576
The New Deal at Bay 577
The Election of 1948 578
The Fair Deal 579
The Cold War at Home 579 The Shocks of 1949 579
The Loyalty Crusade 580
HUAC and Hollywood 581
The Ambitions of Senator McCarthy 581
From Cold War to Hot War and Back 582 Police Action 583
The Chinese Intervene 583
Truman versus MacArthur 583
The Global Implications of the Cold War 584
The Election of 1952 584
The Fall of McCarthy 585
CHAPTER SUMMARY 586 | ADDITIONAL READING 586 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 587
28 THE SUBURBAN ERA 1945–1963
AN AMERICAN STORY: Dynamic Obsolescence (The Wonderful World of Harley Earl) 588
The Rise of the Suburbs 590 A Boom in Babies and in Housing 590
Turning Points in Europe 549
Those Who Fought 550
Minorities at War 550
Women at War 551
War Production 551 Mobilizing for War 551
Science Goes to War 552
War Work and Prosperity 553
Organized Labor 554
Women Workers 554
Mobility 554
A Question of Rights 555 Italians and Asian Americans 555
DUELING DOCUMENTS “Who Do You Want to Win This War?”—Justifying Internment 556
Minorities and War Work 558
Urban Unrest 558
The New Deal in Retreat 559
Winning the War and the Peace 560 The Fall of the Third Reich 560
Two Roads to Tokyo 561
Big Three Diplomacy 561
The Road to Yalta 561
The Fallen Leader 563
The Holocaust 564
A Lasting Peace 564
Atom Diplomacy 565
CHAPTER SUMMARY 566 | ADDITIONAL READING 566 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 567
27 COLD WAR AMERICA 1945–1954
AN AMERICAN STORY: Glad to Be Home? 568
The Rise of the Cold War 570 American Suspicions 570
Communist Expansion 570
A Policy of Containment 571
The Truman Doctrine 572
The Marshall Plan 572
NATO 572
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The Hard-Nosed Idealists of Camelot 605
The (Somewhat) New Frontier at Home 606
Kennedy’s Cold War 606
Cold War Frustrations 606
Confronting Khrushchev 607
The Missiles of October 608
CHAPTER SUMMARY 609 | ADDITIONAL READING 610 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 610
29 CIVIL RIGHTS AND UNCIVIL LIBERTIES 1947–1969
AN AMERICAN STORY: Two Roads to Integration 611
The Civil Rights Movement 613 The Changing South and African Americans 613
The NAACP and Civil Rights 613
The Brown Decision 614
Latino Civil Rights 614
A New Civil Rights Strategy 615
Little Rock and the White Backlash 616
A Movement Becomes a Crusade 616 Riding to Freedom 616
Civil Rights at High Tide 617
The Fire Next Time 619
Black Power 619
Violence in the Streets 620
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society 621 The Origins of the Great Society 621
The Election of 1964 622
The Great Society 622
The Reforms of the Warren Court 624
Youth Movements 624 Activists on the New Left 625
Vatican II and American Catholics 625
The Rise of the Counterculture 625
The Rock Revolution 626
DUELING DOCUMENTS Student Voices for a New America 627
The West Coast Scene 628
CHAPTER SUMMARY 629 | ADDITIONAL READING 630 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 630
Suburbs and Cities Transformed 591
Environmental Blues 592
The Culture of Suburbia 593 American Civil Religion 593
“Homemaking” Women in the Workaday World 594
The Flickering Gray Screen 595
The Politics of Calm 595 The Eisenhower Presidency 595
The Conglomerate World 596
Cracks in the Consensus 597 Critics of Mass Culture 597
Juvenile Delinquency, Rock and Roll, and Rebellion 598
Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers 599 To the Brink? 599
Brinkmanship in Asia 600
The Superpowers 601
Nationalism Unleashed 601
The Response to Sputnik 602
DUELING DOCUMENTS The Kitchen Debate 603
Thaws and Freezes 604
The Cold War on a New Frontier 604 The Election of 1960 605
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Value Politics: The Consumer and Environmental Movements 648 Technology and Unbridled Growth 648
Political Action 648
The Legacy of Identity and Value Politics 649
The End of the War 650
Pragmatic Conservatism 650 Nixon’s New Federalism 651
Stagflation 651
Social Policies and the Court 651
Triumph and Revenge 652
Break-In 652
To the Oval Office 652
Resignation 653
CHAPTER SUMMARY 654 | ADDITIONAL READING 655 | SIGNIFICANT EVENTS 655
31 THE CONSERVATIVE CHALLENGE 1976–1992
AN AMERICAN STORY: The New American Commons 656
The Conservative Rebellion 658 Tax Revolt 658
The Diverse Evangelical World 658
The Catholic Conscience 658
Moving Religion into Politics 659
The Media as Battleground 659
Saturday Night Fever 660