What was “Fordism” and how did workers respond to it?
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He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association. In 2006 he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University. His most recent book is The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the Lincoln Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. C O N T E N T S A b o u t t h e A u t h o r . . . v L i s t o f M a p s , T a b l e s , a n d F i g u r e s . . . x v i i i P r e f a c e . . . x x 1 5 . “ W H A T I S F R E E D O M ? ” : R E C O N S T R U C T I O N , 1 8 6 5 – 1 8 7 7 . . . 4 4 1 T H E M E A N I N G O F F R E E D O M . . . 443 Families in Freedom ... 443 Church and School ... 444 Political Freedom ... 444 Land, Labor, and Freedom ... 445 Masters without Slaves ... 445 The Free Labor Vision ... 447 The Freedmen’s Bureau ... 447 The Failure of Land Reform ... 448 The White Farmer ... 449 Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865), and From A Sharecropping Contract (1866) ... 450 Aftermath of Slavery ... 453 T H E M A K I N G O F R A D I C A L R E C O N S T R U C T I O N . . . 454 Andrew Johnson ... 454 The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction ... 454 The Black Codes ... 455 The Radical Republicans ... 456 The Origins of Civil Rights ... 456 The Fourteenth Amendment ... 457 The Reconstruction Act ... 458 Impeachment and the Election of Grant ... 458 The Fifteenth Amendment ... 460 The “Great Constitutional Revolution” ... 461 The Rights of Women ... 461 R A D I C A L R E C O N S T R U C T I O N I N T H E S O U T H . . . 462 “The Tocsin of Freedom” ... 462 The Black Officeholder ... 464 Carpetbaggers and Scalawags ... 464 Southern Republicans in Power ... 465 The Quest for Prosperity ... 465 T H E O V E R T H R O W O F R E C O N S T R U C T I O N . . . 466 Reconstruction’s Opponents ... 466 “A Reign of Terror” ... 467 The Liberal Republicans ... 469 The North’s Retreat ... 470 The Triumph of the Redeemers ... 471 The Disputed Election and Bargain of 1877 ... 472 The End of Reconstruction ... 473 R E V I E W . . . 4 7 4 1 6 . A M E R I C A ’ S G I L D E D A G E , 1 8 7 0 – 1 8 9 0 . . . 4 7 5 T H E S E C O N D I N D U S T R I A L R E V O L U T I O N . . . 476 The Industrial Economy ... 477 Railroads and the National Market ... 478 The Spirit of Innovation ... 479 Competition and Consolidation ... 480 The Rise of Andrew Carnegie ... 481 The C o n t e n t s v i i Triumph of John D. Rockefeller ... 481 Workers’ Freedom in an Industrial Age ... 482 T H E T R A N S F O R M A T I O N O F T H E W E S T . . . 483 A Diverse Region ... 484 Farming in the Trans-Mississippi West ... 485 The Cowboy and the Corporate West ... 486 Conflict on the Mormon Frontier ... 487 The Subjugation of the Plains Indians ... 488 “Let Me Be a Free Man” ... 489 Remaking Indian Life ... 489 The Dawes Act and Wounded Knee ... 490 Settler Societies and Global Wests ... 491 Voices of Freedom: From Andrew Carnegie, “Wealth” (1889), and From Ira Steward, “A Second Declaration of Independence” (1879) ... 492 P O L I T I C S I N A G I L D E D A G E . . . 494 The Corruption of Politics ... 494 The Politics of Dead Center ... 495 Government and the Economy ... 496 Reform Legislation ... 497 Political Conflict in the States ... 497 F R E E D O M I N T H E G I L D E D A G E . . . 498 The Social Problem ... 498 Social Darwinism in America ... 499 Liberty of Contract and the Courts ... 500 L A B O R A N D T H E R E P U B L I C . . . 501 “The Overwhelming Labor Question” ... 501 The Knights of Labor and the “Conditions Essential to Liberty” ... 502 Middle-Class Reformers ... 502 Protestants and Moral Reform ... 504 A Social Gospel ... 504 The Haymarket Affair ... 505 Labor and Politics ... 506 R E V I E W . . . 5 0 7 1 7 . F R E E D O M ’ S B O U N D A R I E S , A T H O M E A N D A B R O A D , 1 8 9 0 – 1 9 0 0 . . . 5 0 8 T H E P O P U L I S T C H A L L E N G E . . . 510 The Farmers’ Revolt ... 510 The People’s Party ... 511 The Populist Platform ... 512 The Populist Coalition ... 513 The Government and Labor ... 513 Populism and Labor ... 514 Bryan and Free Silver ... 515 The Campaign of 1896 ... 516 T H E S E G R E G A T E D S O U T H . . . 517 The Redeemers in Power ... 517 The Failure of the New South Dream ... 517 Black Life in the South ... 518 The Kansas Exodus ... 518 The Decline of Black Politics ... 519 The Elimination of Black Voting ... 520 The Law of Segregation ... 521 The Rise of Lynching ... 522 Politics, Religion, and Memory ... 523 R E D R A W I N G T H E B O U N D A R I E S . . . 524 The New Immigration and the New Nativism ... 524 Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Rights ... 525 The Emergence of v i i i Contents Booker T. Washington ... 526 The Rise of the AFL ... 527 The Women’s Era ... 528 B E C O M I N G A W O R L D P O W E R . . . 529 The New Imperialism ... 529 American Expansionism ... 529 The Lure of Empire ... 530 The “Splendid Little War” ... 531 Roosevelt at San Juan Hill ... 532 An American Empire ... 533 The Philippine War ... 535 Voices of Freedom: From Josiah Strong, Our Country (1885), and From “Aguinaldo’s Case against the United States” (1899) ... 536 Citizens or Subjects? ... 538 Drawing the Global Color Line ... 539 “Republic or Empire?” ... 539 R E V I E W . . . 5 4 2 1 8 . T H E P R O G R E S S I V E E R A , 1 9 0 0 – 1 9 1 6 . . . 5 4 3 A N U R B A N A G E A N D A C O N S U M E R S O C I E T Y . . . 545 Farms and Cities ... 545 The Muckrakers ... 546 Immigration as a Global Process ... 546 The Immigrant Quest for Freedom ... 548 Consumer Freedom ... 548 The Working Woman ... 549 The Rise of Fordism ... 550 The Promise of Abundance ... 550 V A R I E T I E S O F P R O G R E S S I V I S M . . . 551 Industrial Freedom ... 552 The Socialist Presence and Eugene Debs ... 552 Voices of Freedom: From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898), and From John Mitchell, “A Workingman’s Conception of Industrial Liberty” (1910) ... 554 AFL and IWW ... 556 The New Immigrants on Strike ... 556 Labor and Civil Liberties ... 557 The New Feminism ... 558 The Birth- Control Movement ... 558 Native American Progressivism ... 559 T H E P O L I T I C S O F P R O G R E S S I V I S M . . . 559 Effective Freedom ... 559 State and Local Reforms ... 560 Progressive Democracy ... 561 Jane Addams and Hull House ... 562 The Campaign for Woman Suffrage ... 563 Maternalist Reform ... 564 T H E P R O G R E S S I V E P R E S I D E N T S . . . 566 Theodore Roosevelt ... 566 John Muir and the Spirituality of Nature ... 567 The Conservation Movement ... 567 Taft in Office ... 568 The Election of 1912 ... 569 New Freedom and New Nationalism ... 569 Wilson’s First Term ... 570 The Expanding Role of Government ... 571 R E V I E W . . . 5 7 3 C o n t e n t s i x 1 9 . S A F E F O R D E M O C R A C Y : T H E U N I T E D S T A T E S A N D W O R L D W A R I , 1 9 1 6 – 1 9 2 0 . . . 5 7 4 A N E R A O F I N T E R V E N T I O N . . . 576 “I Took the Canal Zone” ... 576 The Roosevelt Corollary ... 578 Moral Imperialism ... 579 Wilson and Mexico ... 579 A M E R I C A A N D T H E G R E A T W A R . . . 580 Neutrality and Preparedness ... 581 The Road to War ... 582 The Fourteen Points ... 582 T H E W A R A T H O M E . . . 584 The Progressives’ War ... 584 The Wartime State ... 584 The Propaganda War ... 585 The Coming of Woman Suffrage ... 586 Prohibition ... 587 Liberty in Wartime ... 587 Voices of Freedom: From Eugene V. Debs, Speech to the Jury before Sentencing under the Espionage Act (1918), and From W. E. B. Du Bois, “Returning Soldiers,” The Crisis (1919) ... 588 The Espionage Act ... 590 Coercive Patriotism ... 590 W H O I S A N A M E R I C A N ? . . . 591 The “Race Problem” ... 591 The Anti-German Crusade ... 592 Toward Immigration Restriction ... 593 Groups Apart: Mexicans and Asian-Americans ... 593 The Color Line ... 594 Roosevelt, Wilson, and Race ... 594 W. E. B. Du Bois and the Revival of Black Protest ... 595 Closing Ranks ... 596 The Great Migration ... 596 Racial Violence, North and South ... 597 The Rise of Garveyism ... 598 1 9 1 9 . . . 599 A Worldwide Upsurge ... 599 Upheaval in America ... 599 The Red Scare ... 600 Wilson at Versailles ... 601 The Wilsonian Moment ... 602 The Seeds of Wars to Come ... 604 The Treaty Debate ... 605 R E V I E W . . . 6 0 7 2 0 . F R O M B U S I N E S S C U L T U R E T O G R E A T D E P R E S S I O N : T H E T W E N T I E S , 1 9 2 0 – 1 9 3 2 . . . 6 0 8 T H E B U S I N E S S O F A M E R I C A . . . 610 A Decade of Prosperity ... 610 A New Society ... 611 The Limits of Prosperity ... 612 The Farmers’ Plight ... 612 The Image of Business ... 613 The Decline of Labor ... 613 The Equal Rights Amendment ... 615 Women’s Freedom ... 615 B U S I N E S S A N D G O V E R N M E N T . . . 616 The Republican Era ... 617 Corruption in Government ... 617 The Election of 1924 ... 618 Economic Diplomacy ... 618 T H E B I R T H O F C I V I L L I B E R T I E S . . . 619 A “Clear and Present Danger” ... 620 The Court and Civil Liberties ... 621 x Contents T H E C U L T U R E W A R S . . . 621 The Fundamentalist Revolt ... 621 The Scopes Trial ... 622 The Second Klan ... 623 Closing the Golden Door ... 624 Race and the Law ... 625 Promoting Tolerance ... 626 The Emergence of Harlem ... 627 Voices of Freedom: From André Siegfried, “The Gulf Between,” Atlantic Monthly (March 1928), and From Majority Opinion, Justice James C. McReynolds, in Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) ... 628 The Harlem Renaissance ... 630 T H E G R E A T D E P R E S S I O N . . . 631 The Election of 1928 ... 631 The Coming of the Depression ... 632 Americans and the Depression ... 633 Resignation and Protest ... 635 Hoover’s Response ... 636 The Worsening Economic Outlook ... 636 Freedom in the Modern World ... 637 R E V I E W . . . 6 3 8 2 1 . T H E N E W D E A L , 1 9 3 2 – 1 9 4 0 . . . 6 3 9 T H E F I R S T N E W D E A L . . . 641 FDR and the Election of 1932 ... 641 The Coming of the New Deal ... 642 The Banking Crisis ... 642 The NRA ... 643 Government Jobs ... 644 Public-Works Projects ... 645 The New Deal and Agriculture ... 646 The New Deal and Housing ... 647 The Court and the New Deal ... 648 T H E G R A S S R O O T S R E V O L T . . . 648 Labor’s Great Upheaval ... 648 The Rise of the CIO ... 649 Labor and Politics ...