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About the Author
Preface
Teaching and Learning Package
Acknowledgments
1 THE NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS THE OLD
Why 1492?
THE NATIVE AMERICANS
THE FIRST EUROPEAN
“DISCOVERY”
THE RISE OF MODERN EUROPE
EUROPEAN EXPANSION
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
CONCLUSIONS
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2 THE OLD WORLD COMES TO AMERICA
What Brought Europeans and Africans to the New World?
THE ARISTOCRATIC IMPULSE
THE PROFIT MOTIVE
“THE BEST POOR MAN’S COUNTRY”
INVOLUNTARY IMMIGRANTS
AMERICAAS A RELIGIOUS HAVEN
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
3 COLONIAL SOCIETY
How Did Old World Life and Culture Change in the Wilderness?
A NEW MIXTURE IN A NEW LAND
REGIONS
FAMILIES
EVERYDAY LIFE
GOVERNMENT
RELIGION
INTELLECTUAL AMERICA
THE ARTS
CONCLUSIONS
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4 MOVING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE
Why Did the Colonists Revolt?
THE COLONIAL ECONOMY
COSTS AND BENEFITS OF EMPIRE BEFORE 1763
THE CRISIS OF EMPIRE
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
5 THE REVOLUTION
How Did It Change America?
AMERICAN PROSPECTS
THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE
THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
SOCIAL CHANGE
MAKING THE PEACE
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
6 THE ORIGINS OF THE CONSTITUTION
By Popular Demand?
AMERICA IN THE 1780s
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
RATIFICATION
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
7 THE FIRST PARTY SYSTEM
What Issues Divided the New Nation?
THE NEW GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED
THE BEGINNINGS OF PARTIES
RELATIONS WITH EUROPE
REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
8 THE JEFFERSONIANS IN OFFICE
How Did Power Affect Republican Ideology?
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND REPUBLICAN POLICY
THE WAR OF 1812
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
9 THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE
What Made It Possible?
FACTORS OF PRODUCTION
THE COURSE OF AMERICAN
ECONOMIC GROWTH
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
10 JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
What Was It and How Did It Change Political Life?
THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
JACKSON COMES TO POWER
KING ANDREW
WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS AFTER JACKSON
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
11 THE MEXICAN WAR AND EXPANSIONISM
Greed, Manifest Destiny, or Inevitability?
THE OREGON COUNTRY
THE MEXICAN BORDERLANDS
THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS
EXPANSIONISM: ADVOCATES AND OPPONENTS
MOVING TOWARD WAR
WAR WITH MEXICO
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
12 AMERICANS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
What Were They Really Like?
THE MOVING FRONTIER
NEW PRESSURES IN THE NORTHEAST
THE ARTS IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA
THE PERFECT SOCIETY
CONCLUSIONS
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13 THE OLD SOUTH
What Is Myth and What Was Real?
AN UNEXPECTED DIVERSITY
LIFE UNDER SLAVERY
THE SOUTHERN MIND
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
14 THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR
What Caused the Division?
A HOUSE DIVIDING
THE DILEMMA OF TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
WORSENING TENSIONS
REPUBLICANS AND THE WORSENING CRISIS
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
15 THE CIVIL WAR
How Did the War Change the Nation?
NORTH VERSUS SOUTH
THE WAR BEGINS
WAR AND SOCIETY
THE LAST YEARS OF BATTLE
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
16 RECONSTRUCTION
What Went Wrong?
THE LEGACY OF WAR
ISSUES AND ATTITUDES
PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION
CONGRESS TAKES OVER
CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SOUTH
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
17 THE TRIUMPH OF INDUSTRIALISM
What Were the Causes, What Were the Costs?
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY
THE SPOILERS
THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATION
THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
THE WAGE EARNERS
WORKING-CLASS PROTEST
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
18 AGE OF THE CITY
What Did Cities Offer? And to Whom?
IMMIGRATION
THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
CITY GOVERNMENT
A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
19 THE TRANS-MISSOURI WEST
Another Colony?
SETTLEMENT OF THE LAST WEST
NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE LAST WEST
THE MINING FRONTIER
THE CATTLE KINGDOM
WESTERN LAND POLICIES
FARMING IN THE LAST WEST
FARM DISCONTENT AND WESTERN REVOLT
THE GRANGERS
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
20 THE GILDED AGE
How “Gilded” Was It?
POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE
THE BASES FOR PARTY AFFILIATION
PARTY REALIGNMENTS
CULTURE IN THE AGE OF THE DYNAMO
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
21 THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
Why Did the United States Look Abroad?
THE BACKGROUND
THE BEGINNINGS OF OVERSEAS EXPANSION
HAWAII AND VENEZUELA
CUBA LIBRE
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
IMPERIAL AMERICA
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
22 PROGRESSIVISM
What Were Its Roots and What Were Its Accomplishments?
UNCERTAINTIES
THE OPINION MAKERS
PROGRESSIVISM ENTERS POLITICS
PROGRESSIVISM GOES NATIONAL
THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
23 WORLD WAR I
Idealism, National Interest, or Neutral Rights?
WILSON AND THE WORLD ORDER
NEUTRALITY AND PUBLIC OPINION
NEUTRAL RIGHTS
THE WAR
THE WAR EFFORT AT HOME
MAKING THE PEACE
CONCLUSIONS
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24 THE TWENTIES
Happy Adolescence or Decade of Stress?
THE SWING TO THE POLITICAL RIGHT
“NEW ERA” PROSPERITY
OLD AND NEW AMERICA
CONFRONTATION
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
25 THE NEW DEAL
Too Far or Not Far Enough?
BOOM AND BUST
HOOVER AND THE DEPRESSION
FDR’S NEW DEAL
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
THE SOCIAL WELFARE STATE
END OF THE NEW DEAL
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
26 WORLD WAR II
Blunder, or Decision in the National Interest?
SEEDS OF CONFLICT
THE EROSION OF AMERICAN NEUTRALITY
THE HOME FRONT
THE FIGHTING FRONTS
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
27 POSTWAR AMERICA
Why So Security Conscious?
THE POLITICS OF DEAD CENTER
THE GOOD LIFE
THE OTHER HALF
THE COLD WAR
A SECOND “RED SCARE”
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
28 THE DISSENTING SIXTIES
Why Protest in the “Great Society”?
POLITICS IN CAMELOT
THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY
THE JOHNSON YEARS
THE RISE OF DISSENT
LIBERATION
QUAGMIRE IN VIETNAM
THE 1968 ELECTION
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
29 THE UNCERTAIN SEVENTIES
Why Did the Right Fail?
THE NIXON PRESIDENCY
WATERGATE
SEVENTIES DISCONTENTS
THE ENERGY CRISIS AND ECONOMIC MALAISE
THE CARTER YEARS
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
30 THE “REAGAN REVOLUTION”
What Was It? What Did It Accomplish?
THE FIRST TERM
THE SECOND FOUR YEARS
CONCLUSIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
31 A UNITED AMERICA?
Would Diversity and the War on Terror Change America?
THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH,
THE GULF WAR
THE ELECTION OF 1992
CLINTON’S FIRST TERM
RACE, GENDER, AND NATIONALITY
THE NEW ECONOMY
ELECTION 2000
BUSH AND THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
THE WAR IN IRAQ
ENRON AND THE END OF THE “NEW ECONOMY” ERA
REELECTION AND SECOND TERM
SECOND TERM
CONCLUSIONS
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APPENDIX
The Declaration of Independence,
The Constitution of the United States of America
Presidential Elections
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Cabinet Members
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
PHOTO CREDIT
INDEX
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