U.S. History

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
Introduction
1.1 The Americas
1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery
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Summary
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 2 Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650
Introduction
2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
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Chapter 3 Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
Introduction
3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
3.3 English Settlements in America
3.4 The Impact of Colonization
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Chapter 4 Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
Introduction
4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
4.3 An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
4.5 Wars for Empire
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Chapter 5 Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
Introduction
5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
5.3 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
5.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
5.5 Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
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Chapter 6 America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
Introduction
6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
6.2 The Early Years of the Revolution
6.3 War in the South
6.4 Identity during the American Revolution
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Chapter 7 Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
Introduction
7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
7.2 How Much Revolutionary Change?
7.3 Debating Democracy
7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
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Chapter 8 Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820
Introduction
8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
8.2 The New American Republic
8.3 Partisan Politics
8.4 The United States Goes Back to War
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Chapter 9 Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
Introduction
9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions
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Chapter 10 Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
Introduction
10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
10.2 The Rise of American Democracy
10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
10.4 Indian Removal
10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
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Chapter 11 A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
Introduction
11.1 Lewis and Clark
11.2 The Missouri Crisis
11.3 Independence for Texas
11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
11.5 Free or Slave Soil? The Dilemma of the West
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Chapter 12 Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
Introduction
12.1 The Economics of Cotton
12.2 African Americans in the Antebellum United States
12.3 Wealth and Culture in the South
12.4 The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
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Chapter 13 Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
Introduction
13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
13.3 Reforms to Human Health
13.4 Addressing Slavery
13.5 Women’s Rights
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Chapter 14 Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
Introduction
14.1 The Compromise of 1850
14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
14.4 John Brown and the Election of 1860
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Chapter 15 The Civil War, 1860–1865
Introduction
15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
15.2 Early Mobilization and War
15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
15.4 The Union Triumphant
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Chapter 16 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Introduction
16.1 Restoring the Union
16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
16.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
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Chapter 17 Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
Introduction
17.1 The Westward Spirit
17.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
17.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
17.4 The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture
17.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
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Chapter 18 Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
Introduction
18.1 Inventors of the Age
18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
18.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
18.4 A New American Consumer Culture
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Chapter 19 The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
Introduction
19.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
19.2 The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
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Chapter 20 Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
Introduction
20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
20.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
20.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
20.4 Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
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Chapter 21 Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
Introduction
21.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
21.4 Progressivism in the White House
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Chapter 22 Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
Introduction
22.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
22.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
22.3 Economic Imperialism in East Asia
22.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
22.5 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
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Chapter 23 Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
Introduction
23.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
23.2 The United States Prepares for War
23.3 A New Home Front
23.4 From War to Peace
23.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
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Chapter 24 The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
Introduction
24.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
24.2 Transformation and Backlash
24.3 A New Generation
24.4 Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
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Chapter 25 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
Introduction
25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
25.2 President Hoover’s Response
25.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
25.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
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Chapter 26 Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
Introduction
26.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
26.2 The First New Deal
26.3 The Second New Deal
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Chapter 27 Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
Introduction
27.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
27.2 The Home Front
27.3 Victory in the European Theater
27.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
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Chapter 28 Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
Introduction
28.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
28.2 The Cold War
28.3 The American Dream
28.4 Popular Culture and Mass Media
28.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
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Chapter 29 Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
Introduction
29.1 The Kennedy Promise
29.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
29.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
29.4 Challenging the Status Quo
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Chapter 30 Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
Introduction
30.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
30.3 Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
30.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
30.5 Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
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Chapter 31 From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
Introduction
31.1 The Reagan Revolution
31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
31.3 A New World Order
31.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
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Chapter 32 The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Introduction
32.1 The War on Terror
32.2 The Domestic Mission
32.3 New Century, Old Disputes
32.4 Hope and Change
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Appendix A The Declaration of Independence
Appendix B The Constitution of the United States
Appendix C Presidents of the United States of America
Appendix D U.S. Political Map
Appendix E U.S. Topographical Map
Appendix F United States Population Chart
Appendix G Further Reading
THE PRE-COLUMBIAN WORLD AND EARLY GLOBALIZATION
THE COLONIAL AMERICAS
REFORM, PROTEST, AND REVOLUTION
THE EARLY REPUBLIC
INDUSTRIALIZATION AND TRANSFORMATION
JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH
REFORM AND ABOLITION
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
WESTWARD EXPANSION
FROM THE GILDED AGE TO THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
IMPERIAL EXPANSION AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR
THE ROARING TWENTIES
THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL
WORLD WAR, COLD WAR, AND AMERICAN PROSPERITY
FROM CAMELOT TO CULTURE WARS
TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PROBLEMS
Answer Key
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Index
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