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16. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863-1877Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPadWartime Reconstruction"To Bind Up the Nations Wounds"Land and LaborThe African American Quest for Autonomy
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Meaning of Freedom"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
LaunchPadReflections on Wartime Reconstruction LaunchPadPresidential ReconstructionJohnsons Program of ReconciliationWhite Southern Resistance and Black CodesExpansion of Federal Authority and Black Rights
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Congressional ReconstructionThe Fourteenth Amendment and Escalating ViolenceRadical Reconstruction and Military RuleImpeaching a PresidentThe Fifteenth Amendment and Womens Demands
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The Struggle in the SouthFreedmen, Yankees, and Yeomen
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "What Did the Ku Klux Klan Really Want?"Quiz for Historical Question
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VISUALIZING HISTORY: "A Post-Slavery Encounter"Quiz for Visualizing History
LaunchPadReflections on The Struggle in the South LaunchPadReconstruction CollapsesGrants Troubled PresidencyNorthern Resolve WithersWhite Supremacy TriumphsAn Election and a Compromise
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Conclusion: "A Revolution But Half Accomplished"Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 16 LaunchPadDocument 16-1: Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South: Report on the Condition of the South, 1865 LaunchPadDocument 16-2: Black Codes Enacted in the South: Mississippi Black Code, November 1865 LaunchPadDocument 16-3: Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families: Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865-1870 LaunchPadDocument 16-4: Planter Louis Manigault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves, 1867: Louis Manigault, "A Narrative of a Post-Civil War Visit to Gowrie and East Hermitage Plantations," March 22, 1867 LaunchPadDocument 16-5: Klan Violence against Blacks: Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 16 LaunchPadChapter 16 Summative Quiz LaunchPad17. THE CONTESTED WEST, 1865-1900Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadConquest and Empire in the WestBEYOND AMERICAS BORDERS: "Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Treatment of the Sioux and the Zulu"Quiz for Beyond Americas Borders LaunchPadIndian Removal and the Reservation SystemThe Decimation of the Great Bison HerdsIndian Wars and the Collapse of ComancheríaThe Fight for the Black HillsVISUALIZING HISTORY: "Custers Last Stand"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadReflections on Conquest and Empire in the West LaunchPad
Forced Assimilation and Indian ResistanceIndian Schools and the War against Indian CultureThe Dawes Act and Indian Land AllotmentIndian Resistance and Survival
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Mining the WestLife on the Comstock LodeThe Diverse Peoples of the West
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Land FeverMoving West: Homesteaders and Speculators
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Young Women Homesteaders and the Promise of the West"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
LaunchPadRanchers and CowboysTenants, Sharecroppers, and MigrantsCommercial Farming and Industrial CowboysTerritorial Government
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Conclusion: The West in the Gilded AgeChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 17 LaunchPadDocument 17-1: Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California: A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 1870 LaunchPadDocument 17-2: Mattie Oblinger Describes Life on a Nebraska Homestead: Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas, and Wheeler Thomas Family, June 16, 1873 LaunchPadDocument 17-3: Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border: N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875 LaunchPadDocument 17-4: In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment: Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879 LaunchPadDocument 17-5: A Plea to "Citizenize" Indians: Richard Pratt, "Kill the Indian ... and save the man," 1892 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 17 LaunchPadChapter 17 Summative Quiz LaunchPad18. RAILROADS, BUSINESS, AND POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE, 1865-1900Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadRailroads and the Rise of New IndustriesRailroads: Americas First Big BusinessVISUALIZING HISTORY: "Alva Vanderbilt and the Gilded Age"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadAndrew Carnegie, Steel, and Vertical IntegrationJohn D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil, and the TrustNew Inventions: The Telephone and the Telegraph
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From Competition to ConsolidationJ. P. Morgan and Finance CapitalismSocial Darwinism, Laissez-Faire, and the Supreme Court
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Social Darwinism: Did Wealthy Industrialists Practice What They Preached?"Quiz for Historical Question
LaunchPadReflections on From Competition to Consolidation LaunchPadPolitics and CulturePolitical Participation and Party LoyaltySectionalism and the New SouthGender, Race, and PoliticsDOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Ida B. Wells and Her Campaign to Stop Lynching"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPadWomens Activism
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Presidential PoliticsCorruption and Party StrifeGarfields Assassination and Civil Service ReformReform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884
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Economic Issues and Party RealignmentThe Tariff and the Politics of ProtectionRailroads, Trusts, and the Federal GovernmentThe Fight for Free SilverPanic and Depression
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Conclusion: Business Dominates an EraChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 18 LaunchPadDocument 18-1: Marshall Kirkman Likens Railroad Corporations to Armies: Marshall M. Kirkman, "The Railway Army," 1894 LaunchPadDocument 18-2: William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883 LaunchPadDocument 18-3: Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies: Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894 LaunchPadDocument 18-4: Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth: Wealth, 1889 LaunchPadDocument 18-5: Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime: An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 18 LaunchPadChapter 18 Summative Quiz LaunchPad19. THE CITY AND ITS WORKERS, 1870-1900Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Rise of the CityThe Urban Explosion: A Global MigrationSEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Seeking Refuge: Russian Jews Escape the Pogroms"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPadRacism and the Cry for Immigration RestrictionThe Social Geography of the City
- Reflections on The Rise of the City
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At Work in Industrial AmericaAmericas Diverse WorkersThe Family Economy: Women and ChildrenWhite-Collar Workers: Managers, "Typewriters," and Salesclerks
- Reflections on At Work in Industrial America
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Workers OrganizeThe Great Railroad Strike of 1877The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Songs of the Knights of Labor"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
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At Home and at PlayDomesticity and "Domestics"Cheap Amusements
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City Growth and City GovernmentBuilding Cities of Stone and SteelCity Government and the "Bosses"White City or City of Sin?
BEYOND AMERICAS BORDERS: "The Worlds Columbian Exposition and Nineteenth- Century Worlds Fairs"Quiz for Beyond Americas Borders
LaunchPadReflections on City Growth and City Government LaunchPadConclusion: Who Built the Cities?Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPad
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Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 19 LaunchPadDocument 19-1: A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market: Thomas O'Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885 LaunchPadDocument 19-2: Domestic Servants on Household Work: Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s LaunchPadDocument 19-3: Jacob Riis Describes Abandoned Babies in New York City's Slums: Waifs of New York City's Slums, 1890 LaunchPadDocument 19-4: Walter Wyckoff Listens to Revolutionary Workers in Chicago: Walter A. Wyckoff, "Among the Revolutionaries," 1898 LaunchPadDocument 19-5: George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics: William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 19 LaunchPadChapter 19 Summative Quiz LaunchPad20. DISSENT, DEPRESSION, AND WAR, 1890-1900Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Farmers Unite The Farmers AllianceThe Populist Movement
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The Labor WarsThe Homestead LockoutThe Cripple Creek Miners Strike of 1894Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Press and the Pullman Strike: Framing Class Conflict"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
LaunchPadReflections on The Labor Wars LaunchPadWomens ActivismFrances Willard and the Womans Christian Temperance UnionElizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Woman Suffrage
- Reflections on Womens Activism
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Depression PoliticsCoxeys ArmyThe Peoples Party and the Election of 1896
- Reflections on Depression Politics
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The United States and the WorldMarkets and Missionaries
BEYOND AMERICAS BORDERS: "Regime Change in Hawaii"Quiz for Beyond Americas Borders
LaunchPadThe Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door Policy"A Splendid Little War"
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Did Terrorists Sink the Maine?"Quiz for Historical Question
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- Reflections on The United States and the World
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Conclusion: Rallying around the FlagChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 20 LaunchPadDocument 20-1: Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers' Alliance: Mary Elizabeth Lease, "Women in the Farmers' Alliance," 1891 LaunchPadDocument 20-2: White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina: Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington "Rebellion" of 1898 LaunchPadDocument 20-3: Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead: Pinkerton Guard Testimony, 1893 LaunchPadDocument 20-4: Conflicting Views about Labor Unions: N. F. Thompson, Testimony before the Industrial Commission on the Relations and Conditions of Capital and Labor, 1900 and Samuel Gompers, Letter to the American Federationist, 1894 LaunchPadDocument 20-5: Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines: Case against the United States, 1899 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 20 LaunchPadChapter 20 Summative Quiz LaunchPad21. PROGRESSIVISM FROM THE GRASS ROOTS TO THE WHITE HOUSE, 1890-1916Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadGrassroots ProgressivismCivilizing the CitySEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Making the Workplace Safer: Alice Hamilton Explores the Dangerous Trades"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPadProgressives and the Working Class
- Reflections on Grassroots Progressivism
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Progressivism: Theory and PracticeReform Darwinism and Social EngineeringProgressive Government: City and State
- Reflections on Progressivism: Theory and Practice
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Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore RooseveltThe Square DealRoosevelt the Reformer
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Birth of Photojournalism"Quiz for Visualizing History
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HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Progressives and Conservation: Should Hetch Hetchy Be Dammed or Saved?"Quiz for Historical Question
LaunchPadThe Big StickThe Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft
- Reflections on Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt
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Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High TideProgressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912Wilsons Reforms: Tariff, Banking, and the TrustsWilson, Reluctant Progressive
- Reflections on Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide
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The Limits of Progressive ReformRadical AlternativesProgressivism for White Men Only
- Reflections on The Limits of Progressive Reform
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Conclusion: The Transformation of the Liberal StateChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 21 LaunchPadDocument 21-1: Jane Addams on Settlement Houses: The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892 LaunchPadDocument 21-2: A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago: Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900 LaunchPadDocument 21-3: Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony: Letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer, January 12, 1907 LaunchPadDocument 21-4: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women's Suffrage: Marie Jenney Howe, An Anti-Suffrage Monologue, 1913 LaunchPadDocument 21-5: Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation: The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 LaunchPadDocument 21-6: W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality: Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 21 LaunchPadChapter 21 Summative Quiz LaunchPad22. WORLD WAR I: THE PROGRESSIVE CRUSADE AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1914-1920Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadWoodrow Wilson and the WorldTaming the AmericasThe European CrisisThe Ordeal of American NeutralityThe United States Enters the War
- Reflections on Woodrow Wilson and the World
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"Over There"The Call to ArmsThe War in France
- Reflections on "Over There"
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The Crusade for Democracy at HomeThe Progressive Stake in the WarWomen, War, and the Battle for Suffrage
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Seeking to Serve: An American Woman in Wartime France"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise
LaunchPadDOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Final Push for Woman Suffrage"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
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- Reflections on The Crusade for Democracy at Home
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A Compromised PeaceWilsons Fourteen PointsThe Paris Peace ConferenceThe Fight for the Treaty
- Reflections on A Compromised Peace
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Democracy at RiskEconomic Hardship and Labor UpheavalThe Red Scare
BEYOND AMERICAS BORDERS: "Bolshevism"Quiz for Beyond Americas Borders
LaunchPadThe Great Migrations of African Americans and MexicansPostwar Politics and the Election of 1920
- Reflections on Democracy at Risk
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Conclusion: Troubled CrusadeChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 22 LaunchPadDocument 22-1: The North American Review Considers War a Blessing, Not a Curse: "For Freedom and Democracy," The North American Review, April 1917 LaunchPadDocument 22-2: Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers: Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918 LaunchPadDocument 22-3: A Doughboy's Letter from the Front: Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918 LaunchPadDocument 22-4: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists: The Case against the "Reds," 1920 LaunchPadDocument 22-5: An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot: Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 22 LaunchPadChapter 22 Summative Quiz LaunchPad23. FROM NEW ERA TO GREAT DEPRESSION, 1920-1932Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe New EraA Business GovernmentPromoting Prosperity and Peace AbroadAutomobiles, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line ProgressConsumer CultureVISUALIZING HISTORY: "Advertising in a Consumer Age"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadReflections on The New Era LaunchPad
The Roaring TwentiesProhibitionThe New WomanHISTORICAL QUESTION: "Was There a Sexual Revolution in the 1920s?"Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPadThe New NegroSEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Quest for Home Ownership in Segregated Detroit"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPadEntertainment for the MassesThe Lost Generation
- Reflections on The Roaring Twenties
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Resistance to ChangeRejecting the UndesirablesThe Rebirth of the Ku Klux KlanThe Scopes TrialAl Smith and the Election of 1928
- Reflections on Resistance to Change
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The Great CrashHerbert Hoover: The Great EngineerThe Distorted EconomyThe Crash of 1929Hoover and the Limits of Individualism
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Life in the DepressionThe Human TollDenial and EscapeWorking-Class Militancy
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Conclusion: Dazzle and DespairChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 23 LaunchPadDocument 23-1: Edward Earle Purinton Celebrates American Business as the Salvation of the World: Edward Earle Purinton, "Big Ideas From Big Business: Try Them Out for Yourself," The Independent, April 16, 1921 LaunchPadDocument 23-2: Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit: Diary Entries, 1925-1928 LaunchPadDocument 23-3: The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism: Hiram W. Evans, The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926 LaunchPadDocument 23-4: Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies: Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928 LaunchPadDocument 23-5: Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association: The Negro's Greatest Enemy, 1923 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 23 LaunchPadChapter 23 Summative Quiz LaunchPad24. THE NEW DEAL EXPERIMENT, 1932-1939Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadFranklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in GovernmentThe Making of a PoliticianBEYOND AMERICAS BORDERS: "Fascism: Adolf Hitler and National Socialism"Quiz for Beyond Americas Borders LaunchPadThe Election of 1932
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Launching the New DealThe New DealersBanking and Finance ReformRelief and Conservation ProgramsAgricultural InitiativesIndustrial Recovery
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Textile Workers Strike for Better Wages and Working Conditions"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise
LaunchPadReflections on Launching the New Deal LaunchPadChallenges to the New DealResistance to Business ReformCasualties in the CountrysidePolitics on the Fringes
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Toward a Welfare StateRelief for the Unemployed
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Americans Encounter the New Deal"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
LaunchPadEmpowering LaborSocial Security and Tax ReformNeglected Americans and the New Deal
- Reflections on Toward a Welfare State
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The New Deal from Victory to DeadlockThe Election of 1936Court PackingReaction and RecessionThe Last of the New Deal Reforms
- Reflections on The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock
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Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of the New DealChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 24 LaunchPadDocument 24-1: Martha Gellhorn Reports on Conditions in North Carolina in 1934: Martha Gellhorn to Harry Hopkins, November 11, 1934 LaunchPadDocument 24-2: Working People's Letters to New Dealers: Letter to Frances Perkins, January 27, 1935; Letter to Frances Perkins, March 29, 1935; Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 23, 1936; Letter to Frances Perkins, July 27, 1937; and Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 27, 1939 LaunchPadDocument 24-3: Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth: Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935 LaunchPadDocument 24-4: A Mexican American Farmworker Describes the Importance of Sticking Together: Jose Flores, Interview, Farm Security Administration Migrant Labor Camp, El Rio, California, 1941 LaunchPadDocument 24-5: Conservatives Criticize the New Deal: Herbert Hoover, Anti-New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936 and Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 24 LaunchPadChapter 24 Summative Quiz LaunchPad25. THE UNITED STATES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadPeacetime DilemmasRoosevelt and Reluctant IsolationThe Good Neighbor PolicyThe Price of Noninvolvement
- Reflections on Peacetime Dilemmas
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The Onset of WarNazi Aggression and War in EuropeFrom Neutrality to the Arsenal of DemocracyJapan Attacks America
- Reflections on The Onset of War
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Mobilizing for WarHome-Front Security
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Japanese Internment"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
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- Reflections on Mobilizing for War
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Fighting BackTurning the Tide in the PacificThe Campaign in Europe
- Reflections on Fighting Back
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The Wartime Home FrontWomen and Families, Guns and ButterThe Double V CampaignWartime Politics and the 1944 ElectionReaction to the Holocaust
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Atomic Bomb"Quiz for Beyond Americas Borders
LaunchPadReflections on The Wartime Home Front LaunchPadToward Unconditional SurrenderFrom Bombing Raids to BerlinHISTORICAL QUESTION: "Why Did the Allies Win World War II?"Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPadThe Defeat of JapanAtomic Warfare
- Reflections on Toward Unconditional Surrender
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Conclusion: Allied Victory and Americas Emergence as a SuperpowerChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 25 LaunchPadDocument 25-1: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan: Speech to Congress, December 8, 1941 LaunchPad
Document 25-2: A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor: Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999 LaunchPad
Document 25-3: The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews: Varian Fry, The Massacre of the Jews, December 21, 1942 LaunchPad
Document 25-4: Soldiers Send Messages Home: Sergeant Irving Strobing, Radio Address from Corregidor, Philippines, May 5 or 6, 1942; John Conroy, Letter, December 24, 1942; Allen Spach, Letter, February 1943; James McMahon, Letter, March 10, 1944; and David Mark Olds, Letter, July 12, 1945 LaunchPad
Document 25-5: Rosies the Riveters Recall Working in War Industries: Rosie the Riveter Memoirs LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 25 LaunchPadChapter 25 Summative Quiz LaunchPad26. COLD WAR POLITICS IN THE TRUMAN YEARS, 1945-1953Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadFrom the Grand Alliance to ContainmentThe Cold War BeginsDOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Emerging Cold War"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPadThe Truman Doctrine and the Marshall PlanVISUALIZING HISTORY: "Selling the Marshall Plan"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadBuilding a National Security StateSuperpower Rivalry around the Globe
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Truman and the Fair Deal at HomeReconverting to a Peacetime EconomyBlacks and Mexican Americans Push for Their Civil RightsThe Fair Deal FloundersThe Domestic Chill: McCarthyism
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "An Immigrant Scientist Encounters the Anti- Communist Crusade"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise
LaunchPadReflections on Truman and the Fair Deal at Home LaunchPadThe Cold War Becomes Hot: KoreaKorea and the Military Implementation of ContainmentFrom Containment to Rollback to ContainmentKorea, Communism, and the 1952 ElectionAn Armistice and the Wars Costs
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Conclusion: The Cold Wars Costs and ConsequencesChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 26 LaunchPadDocument 26-1: General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II: For the Common Defense, 1945 LaunchPad
Document 26-2: George F. Kennan Outlines Containment: The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946 LaunchPad
Document 26-3: Cold War Blueprint: NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950 LaunchPad
Document 26-4: Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists: Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950 LaunchPad
Document 26-5: Donald M. Griffith Recalls Combat in the Korean War: Donald M. Griffith Interview, 2003 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 26 LaunchPadChapter 26 Summative Quiz LaunchPad27. THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF ABUNDANCE, 1952-1960Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadEisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way"Modern RepublicanismTermination and Relocation of Native AmericansThe 1956 Election and the Second Term
- Reflections on Eisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way"
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Liberation Rhetoric and the Practice of ContainmentThe "New Look" in Foreign PolicyApplying Containment to VietnamInterventions in Latin America and the Middle East
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Operation Pedro Pan: Young Political Refugees Take Flight"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise
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New Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of AbundanceTechnology Transforms Agriculture and IndustryBurgeoning Suburbs and Declining CitiesThe Rise of the Sun BeltThe Democratization of Higher Education
- Reflections on New Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of Abundance
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The Culture of AbundanceConsumption Rules the DayThe Revival of Domesticity and ReligionTelevision Transforms Culture and PoliticsCountercurrents
- Reflections on The Culture of Abundance
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The Emergence of a Civil Rights MovementAfrican Americans Challenge the Supreme Court and the President
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The
Brown Decision"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
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Conclusion: Peace and Prosperity Mask Unmet ChallengesChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 27 LaunchPadDocument 27-1: Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women: Women Are Household Slaves, 1949 LaunchPad
Document 27-2: Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence: The Status Seekers, 1959 LaunchPad
Document 27-3: George E. McMillan Reports on Racial Conditions in the South in 1960: George E. McMillan, "Sit-Downs: The South's New Time Bomb," 1960 LaunchPad
Document 27-4: Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow: North Dakota Civil Defense Agency, How You Will Survive, 1960 LaunchPad
Document 27-5: President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex: Farewell Address, January 1961 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 27 LaunchPadChapter 27 Summative Quiz LaunchPad28. REFORM, REBELLION, AND REACTION, 1960-1974Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadLiberalism at High TideThe Unrealized Promise of Kennedys New FrontierJohnson Fulfills the Kennedy PromisePolicymaking for a Great SocietyAssessing the Great SocietyThe Judicial Revolution
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The Second ReconstructionThe Flowering of the Black Freedom StruggleThe Response in WashingtonBlack Power and Urban Rebellions
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A Multitude of MovementsNative American ProtestLatino Struggles for JusticeStudent Rebellion, the New Left, and the Counterculture
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Student Protest"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
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- Reflections on A Multitude of Movements
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The New Wave of FeminismA Multifaceted Movement Emerges
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Transnational Feminisms"Quiz for Beyond Americas Borders
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Liberal Reform in the Nixon AdministrationExtending the Welfare State and Regulating the EconomyResponding to Environmental ConcernsExpanding Social Justice
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Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of Liberalism Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 28 LaunchPadDocument 28-1: New Left Students Seek Democratic Social Change: Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962 LaunchPadDocument 28-2: Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance: Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963 LaunchPadDocument 28-3: George C. Wallace Denounces the Civil Rights Movement: George C. Wallace, "The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax," July 4, 1964 LaunchPadDocument 28-4: Black Power: Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 1967 LaunchPadDocument 28-5: Equal Rights for Women: National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 28 LaunchPadChapter 28 Summative Quiz LaunchPad29. VIETNAM AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR CONSENSUS, 1961-1975Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadNew Frontiers in Foreign PolicyMeeting the "Hour of Maximum Danger"New Approaches to the Third WorldThe Arms Race and the Nuclear BrinkA Growing War in Vietnam
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Lyndon Johnsons War against CommunismAn All-Out Commitment in VietnamPreventing Another Castro in Latin AmericaThe Americanized WarThose Who Served
- Reflections on Lyndon Johnsons War against Communism
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A Nation PolarizedThe Widening War at HomeThe Tet Offensive and Johnsons Move toward Peace
BEYOND AMERICAS BORDERS: "1968: A Year of Protest"Quiz for Beyond Americas Borders
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Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in VietnamMoving toward Détente with the Soviet Union and ChinaShoring Up U.S. Interests around the WorldVietnam Becomes Nixons War
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Ending the War in Vietnam"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
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SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "From the Fall of Saigon to the House of Representatives"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise
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Conclusion: An Unwinnable WarChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 29 LaunchPadDocument 29-1: President Kennedy Explains Why We Are in Vietnam: Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, Letter to President John F. Kennedy, February 18, 1963 and President John F. Kennedy, Letter to Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, March 6, 1963 LaunchPadDocument 29-2: A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War: Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 1966 LaunchPadDocument 29-3: Military Discipline in an Unpopular War: Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971 LaunchPadDocument 29-4: An American Soldier in Vietnam: Arthur E. Woodley Jr., Oral History of a Special Forces Ranger LaunchPadDocument 29-5: John Kerry Denounces the Vietnam War: John Kerry Testimony before the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, 1971 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 29 LaunchPadChapter 29 Summative Quiz LaunchPad30. AMERICA MOVES TO THE RIGHT, 1969-1989Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadNixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional CrisisEmergence of a Grassroots MovementSEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Mother Campaigns for a Say in Her Children's Education"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPadNixon Courts the RightThe Election of 1972WatergateThe Ford Presidency and the 1976 Election
- Reflections on Nixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional Crisis
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The "Outsider" Presidency of Jimmy CarterRetreat from LiberalismEnergy and Environmental ReformPromoting Human Rights AbroadThe Cold War Intensifies
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Ronald Reagan and the Conservative AscendancyAppealing to the New Right and BeyondUnleashing Free EnterpriseWinners and Losers in a Flourishing Economy
- Reflections on Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Ascendancy
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Continuing Struggles over RightsBattles in the Courts and CongressFeminism on the Defensive
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Why Did the ERA Fail?"Quiz for Historical Question
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DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Protecting Gay and Lesbian Rights"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise
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Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 30 LaunchPadDocument 30-1: The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency: Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 1973 LaunchPadDocument 30-2: Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights: Supreme Court Decision, 1973 LaunchPadDocument 30-3: Norma McCorvey Explains How She Became "Roe" of Roe v. Wade: Norma McCorvey Affidavit, United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 2000 LaunchPadDocument 30-4: President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality: Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 1983 LaunchPadDocument 30-5: A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast: Anonymous Man, Oral History, 1983 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 30 LaunchPadChapter 30 Summative Quiz LaunchPad31. THE PROMISES AND CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION, SINCE 1989Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadDomestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H. W. BushGridlock in GovernmentSEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Suing for Access: Disability and the Courts"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPadThe Cold War Ends Going to War in Central America and the Persian GulfThe 1992 Election
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The Clinton Administrations Search for the Middle GroundClintons ReformsAccommodating the RightImpeaching the PresidentThe Booming Economy of the 1990s
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The United States in a Globalizing WorldDefining Americas Place in a New World OrderDebates over Globalization
BEYOND AMERICAS BORDERS: "Jobs in a Globalizing Era"Quiz for Beyond Americas Borders
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President George W. Bush: Conservatism at Home and Radical Initiatives AbroadThe Disputed Election of 2000The Domestic Policies of a "Compassionate Conservative"The Globalization of TerrorismUnilateralism, Preemption, and the Iraq War
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The Obama Presidency: Reform and BacklashGoverning during Economic Crisis and Political Polarization
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Caricaturing the Candidates: Clinton and Obama in 2008"Quiz for Visualizing History
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Conclusion: Defining the Governments Role at Home and AbroadChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhats Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPad
Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 31 LaunchPadDocument 31-1: National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War: The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002 LaunchPadDocument 31-2: A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses: Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007 LaunchPadDocument 31-3: A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked: Tony Campolo, Interview, 2004 LaunchPadDocument 31-4: Joseph Stiglitz Describes Capitalist Fools' Responsibility for the Economic Crisis: Joseph E. Stiglitz, "Capitalist Fools," Global Research, December 11, 2008 LaunchPadDocument 31-5: President Barack Obama Declares a New Beginning in U. S. Relations with the Muslim World: President Barack Obama, "On a New Beginning," Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2010 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 31 LaunchPadChapter 31 Summative Quiz LaunchPadAPPENDICESI. Documents The Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United States Amendments to the Constitution with Annotations (including the six unratified amendments) II. Government and Demographics Presidential Elections Admission of States to the UnionPopulation Growth, 1630-2010 Major Trends in Immigration, 1820-2010 Glossary Selected Bibliography Acknowledgements Index U.S. Political/Geographic and World Maps
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