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Nancy A. Hewitt (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of History and of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her publications include Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s, for which she received the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians, Women’s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872, and the edited volume No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. She is currently working on a biography of the nineteenth-century radical activist Amy Post and a book that recasts the U.S. woman suffrage movement.
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Exploring American Histories offers an entirely new approach to teaching the U.S. survey that puts investigating sources and thinking about the many stories of American history right at the center of your course. The distinctive format integrates primary documents and a brief narrative into one cost-effective and easy-to-use volume. Exploring American Histories features Bedford/St. Martin’s new digital history tools, including LearningCurve, an adaptive quizzing engine that garners over a 90% student satisfaction rate, and LaunchPad, the all new interactive e-book and course space that puts high quality easy-to-use assessment at your fingertips. Easy to integrate into your campus LMS, and featuring video, additional primary sources, a wealth of adaptive and summative quizzing, and more, LaunchPad cements student understanding of the text while helping them make progress toward learning outcomes. It’s the best content joined up with the best technology. Available in combined and split volumes and in a number of affordable print and digital formats.
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Publisher: | Bedford/St. Martin's |
Publication date: | 01/04/2013 |
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About the Author
Nancy A. Hewitt (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of History and of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her publications include Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s, for which she received the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians, Women’s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872, and the edited volume No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. She is currently working on a biography of the nineteenth-century radical activist Amy Post and a book that recasts the U.S. woman suffrage movement.
Steven F. Lawson (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. His research interests include U.S. politics since 1945 and the history of the civil rights movement, with a particular focus on black politics and the interplay between civil rights and political culture in the mid-twentieth century. He is the author of many works including Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941, Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969, and In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965-1982.
Table of Contents
1 Mapping Global Frontiers, to 1585American Histories: Malintzin and Martin WaldseemüllerNative Peoples in the AmericasNative Peoples Develop Diverse CulturesThe Aztecs, the Maya, and the IncasNative Cultures to the NorthEurope Expands Its ReachThe Mediterranean WorldPortugal Pursues Long-Distance TradeEuropean Encounters with West AfricaDocument 1.1 John Lok, The Second Voyage to Guinea, 1554Worlds CollideEuropeans Cross the AtlanticDocument 1.2 Christopher Columbus, Reaching the West Indies, 1492Europeans Explore the AmericasMapmaking and PrintingThe Columbian ExchangeEuropeans Make Claims to North AmericaSpaniards Conquer Indian EmpiresDocument 1.3 Aztec Smallpox Victim, 1540 Spanish Adventurers Head NorthEuropeans Compete in North AmericaSpain Seeks Dominion in the Americas Documents 1.4 and 1.5 European Depictions of the Americas: Two Views Conclusion: A New AmericaChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 1 Mapping AmericaDocument 1.6 Christopher and Bartolomeo Columbus, Map of Europe and North Africa, c. 1490Document 1.7 Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann, Universalis Cosmographia, 1507Document 1.8 Piri Reis Map, 1513 Document 1.9 Dauphin Map of Canada, c. 1543Document 1.10 Map of Cuauhtinchan, 15502 Colonization and Conflicts, 1550–1680American Histories: Captain John Smith and Anne HutchinsonReligious and Imperial TransformationsThe Protestant ReformationSpain’s Global Empire DeclinesFrance Enters the Race for EmpireDocuments 2.1 and 2.2 Indians and Jesuit Missionaries in New France: Two ViewsThe Dutch Expand into North AmericaThe English Seek an EmpireThe English Establish Jamestown Tobacco Fuels Growth in VirginiaDocument 2.3 Simon van de Passe, Engraving of Pocahontas, 1616Expansion, Rebellion, and the Emergence of SlaveryDocument 2.4 Virginia Slave Law, 1662The English Compete for West Indies PossessionsPilgrims and Puritans Settle New EnglandPilgrims Arrive in MassachusettsThe Puritan MigrationThe Puritan WorldviewDissenters Challenge Puritan AuthorityWars in Old and New England Document 2.5 Captain John Underhill, Attack at Mystic, Connecticut, 1638Conclusion: European Empires in North AmericaChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 2 King Philip’s WarDocument 2.6 John Easton, A Relation of the Indian War, 1675 Document 2.7 Benjamin Church, Passages Relating to Philip’s War, 1716 Document 2.8 Edward Randolph, Report on the War, 1676 Document 2.9 William Nahaton, Petition to Free an Indian Slave, 1675Document 2.10 Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of Captivity, 1682 3 Global Changes Reshape Colonial America, 1680–1750American Histories: William Moraley Jr. and Eliza LucasEuropeans Expand Their Claims English Colonies Grow and MultiplyDocument 3.1 John Locke, On the State of Nature, 1690France Seeks Land and ControlThe Pueblo Revolt and Spain’s Fragile EmpireEuropean Wars and American Consequences Colonial Conflicts and Indian AlliancesIndians Resist European EncroachmentDocument 3.2 The Tuscarora Appeal to the Pennsylvania Government, 1710Global Conflicts on the Southern FrontierThe Benefits and Costs of Empire Colonial Traders Join Global NetworksImperial Policies Focus on ProfitsThe Atlantic Slave TradeDocument 3.3 Plan of a Slave Ship, 1789 Seaport Cities and Consumer CulturesLabor in North AmericaFinding Work in the Northern ColoniesDocuments 3.4 and 3.5 Pennsylvania: The Promised Land?: Two ViewsCoping with Economic DistressRural Americans Face Changing ConditionsSlavery Takes Hold in the South Africans Resist Their EnslavementConclusion: Changing Fortunes in British North AmericaChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 3 The Production of IndigoDocument 3.6 Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Letter to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 1785 Document 3.7 George Milligen-Johnston, A Description of South Carolina, 1770 Document 3.8 Pamphlet on Cultivating Indigo, 1746Document 3.9 Laboring for Indigo, 1773Document 3.10 James Habersham, Letter to Benjamin Martyn, June 13, 1751 4 Religious Strife and Social Upheavals, 1680–1750 American Histories: Gilbert Tennent and Sarah GrosvenorAn Ungodly Society? The Rise of Religious Anxieties Cries of Witchcraft Documents 4.1 and 4.2 The Devil’s Work: Two Views Family and Household Dynamics Women’s Changing Status Document 4.3 Will of Edmund Titus, Oyster Bay, New York, 1754 Working Families Reproduction and Women’s Roles The Limits of Patriarchal Order Diversity and Competition in Colonial Society Population Growth and Economic Competition Increasing Diversity Expansion and Conflict Religious Awakenings The Roots of the Great Awakening An Outburst of Revivals Document 4.4 Nathan Cole, On George Whitefield Coming to Connecticut, 1740Religious Dissension Political Awakenings Changing Political Relations Dissent and Protest Transforming Urban Politics Document 4.5 The Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1736Conclusion: A Divided Society Chapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 4 Awakening Religious Tensions Document 4.6 George Whitefield, Marks of a True Conversion, 1739 Document 4.7 Gilbert Tennent, The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry, 1739 Document 4.8 Newspaper Report on James Davenport, 1743Document 4.9 Charles Chauncy, Letter to Scottish Minister George Wishart, 1742 Document 4.10 Dr. Squintum’s Exaltation or the Reformation, 17635 Wars and Empires, 1750–1774American Histories: George Washington and Herman HusbandA War for Empire, 1754–1763The Opening BattlesA Shift to Global War The Costs of VictoryBattles and Boundaries on the FrontierDocument 5.1 Pontiac, Speech to Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Huron Leaders, 1763Conflicts over Land and Labor EscalatePostwar British Policies and Colonial UnityCommon GrievancesForging Ties across the ColoniesGreat Britain Seeks Greater Control Resistance to Britain IntensifiesThe Stamp Act Inspires Coordinated ResistanceDocuments 5.2 and 5.3 Protesting the Stamp Act: Two ViewsThe Townshend Act and the Boston MassacreDocument 5.4 John Dickinson, Letter from a Farmer, 1768Continuing Conflicts at HomeTea and Widening ResistanceDocument 5.5 The Edenton Proclamation, 1774The Continental Congress and Colonial UnityConclusion: Liberty within EmpireChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 5 The Boston MassacreDocument 5.6 Deposition of William Wyatt, March 7, 1770 Document 5.7 Account of Boston Massacre Funeral Procession, March 12, 1770 Document 5.8 Paul Revere, Etching of the Boston Massacre, 1770Document 5.9 Account of Captain Thomas Preston, June 25, 1770Document 5.10 John Hancock, Oration on the Boston Massacre, 1774 6 Revolutions, 1775–1783American Histories: Thomas Paine and Deborah SampsonThe Question of Independence Armed Conflict EruptsBuilding a Continental ArmyReasons for Caution and for ActionDocuments 6.1 and 6.2 Debating Independence: Two ViewsDeclaring IndependenceChoosing SidesRecruiting SupportersDocument 6.3 Oneida Address to Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull, June 1775 Choosing NeutralityCommitting to IndependenceFighting for IndependenceBritish Troops Gain Early VictoriesPatriots Prevail in New JerseyA Critical Year of WarfarePatriots Gain Critical AssistanceSurviving on the Home FrontGoverning in Revolutionary TimesColonies Become StatesPatriots Divide over SlaveryFrance Allies with the PatriotsRaising Armies and FundsDocument 6.4 Chevalier de Pontgibaud, A French Volunteer at Valley Forge, 1828Indian Affairs and Land ClaimsWinning the War and the PeaceFighting in the WestWar Rages in the SouthAn Uncertain PeaceDocument 6.5 Thomas Peters, Petition to British Cabinet, 1790 A Surprising VictoryConclusion: Legacies of the RevolutionChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 6 Women in the RevolutionDocument 6.6 Christian Barnes, Letter to Elizabeth Inman, April 29, 1775 Document 6.7 Deborah Champion, Letter to Patience, October 2, 1775 Document 6.8 Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams, July 13, 1777 Document 6.9 Esther De Berdt Reed, The Sentiments of an American Woman, 1780 Document 6.10 Mary Jemison, The War’s Impact on Native Americans, 1823 7 Political Cultures, 1783–1800American Histories: Daniel Shays and Alexander HamiltonPostwar ProblemsOfficers Threaten MutinyDocuments 7.1 and 7.2 Conflicts over Western Lands: Two ViewsIndians, Land, and the Northwest OrdinanceDepression and DebtOn the Political MarginsSeparating Church and StateAfrican Americans Struggle for RightsDocument 7.3 Petition from Free Blacks of Charleston, 1791Women Seek Wider RolesIndebted Farmers Fuel Political Crises Reframing the American GovernmentThe Philadelphia Convention of 1787Americans Battle over RatificationDocument 7.4 Amos Singletary, Speech to the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788Organizing the Federal GovernmentHamilton Forges an Economic AgendaYears of Crisis, 1792–1796Foreign Trade and Foreign Wars The Whiskey RebellionFurther Conflicts on the FrontierThe First Party SystemThe Adams PresidencyThe Election of 1800Conclusion: A Young Nation Comes of AgeChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 7 The Whiskey RebellionDocument 7.5 Resolution to the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1791 Document 7.6 The Pittsburgh Resolution, 1794Document 7.7 George Washington, Proclamation against the Rebels, 1794 Document 7.8 Alexander Hamilton, Letter to George Washington, August 5, 1794Document 7.9 Alexander Hamilton, Tully’s Pamphlet, 1794Document 7.10 Francis Kemmelmeyer, George Washington Reviewing Army Troops, 1794 8 New Frontiers, 1790–1820 American Histories: Parker Cleaveland and SacagaweaCreating an American IdentityEducation for a New Nation Literary and Cultural Developments Document 8.1 Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple, 1791The Racial Limits of American Culture Emigration and ColonizationBuilding a National CapitalExtending U.S. Borders A New Administration Faces ChallengesDocument 8.2 Mary Hassal, Secret History, 1808Incorporating the Louisiana TerritoryThe Supreme Court Extends Its ReachDemocratic-Republicans Expand Federal PowersRemaking the U.S. EconomyThe U.S. Population Grows and MigratesTechnology Reshapes Agriculture and Industry Transforming Household Production Documents 8.3 and 8.4 Industrial Beginnings in Massachusetts: Two ViewsTechnology, Cotton, and SlavesConclusion: New Frontiers and New ChallengesChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 8 Race Relations in the Early RepublicDocument 8.5 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Marquis de Chastellux, 1785 Document 8.6 Meriwether Lewis, Journal Entry, 1805Document 8.7 Confession of Solomon, September 1800 Document 8.8 Andrew Jackson, Runaway Slave Advertisement, 1804Document 8.9 Robert Sutcliff, Travels in Some Parts of North America, 1812Document 8.10 Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization, 18179 Defending and Redefining the Nation, 1809–1832American Histories: Dolley Madison and John RossConflicts at Home and AbroadTensions at Sea and on the FrontierDocument 9.1 Tecumseh, Speech to William Henry Harrison, 1810War Erupts with BritainExpanding the Economy and the NationGovernments Fuel Economic GrowthAmericans Expand the Nation’s BordersRegional Economic DevelopmentEconomic and Political CrisesThe Panic of 1819 Slavery in MissouriDocuments 9.2 and 9.3 Protesting the Missouri Compromise: Two ViewsRedefining American DemocracyExpanding Voting RightsRacial Restrictions and Antiblack ViolencePolitical RealignmentsThe Presidential Election of 1828 Jacksonian Democracy in ActionA Democratic Spirit?Confrontations over Tariffs and the BankDocument 9.4 General Jackson Slaying the Many Headed Monster, 1836Contesting Indian Removal Conclusion: The Nation Faces New ChallengesChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 9 The Panic of 1819Document 9.5 Auction in Chatham Square Street, 1820Document 9.6 James Flint, Account of the Panic, 1820Document 9.7 Virginia Agricultural Society, Antitariff Petition, 1820Document 9.8 James Kent, Arguments against Expanding Male Voting Rights, 1821 Document 9.9 Nathan Sanford, Arguments for Expanding Male Voting Rights, 182110 Slavery Expands South and West, 1830–1850American Histories: James Henry Hammond and Solomon NorthrupPlanters Expand the Slave System A Plantation Society Develops in the South Urban Life in the Slave SouthThe Consequences of Slavery’s ExpansionDocument 10.1 Edward Strutt Abdy, Description of Washington D.C., Slave Pen, 1833Slave Society and CultureSlaves Fuel the Southern EconomyDeveloping an African American CultureResistance and RebellionPlanters Tighten ControlHarsher Treatment for Southern BlacksDocuments 10.2 and 10.3 Debating Slavery: Two ViewsWhite Southerners without SlavesPlanters Seek to Unify Southern WhitesDemocrats Face Political and Economic CrisesContinued Conflicts over Indian LandsDocument 10.4 Petition of the Women’s Councils to the Cherokee National Council, 1831The Battle for TexasVan Buren and the Panic of 1837The Whigs Gain the White HouseDocument 10.5 William Henry Harrison Campaign Poster, 1840 The National Government Looks to the WestExpanding to Oregon and TexasPursuing War with Mexico Debates over Slavery IntensifyConclusion: Geographical Expansion and Political DivisionChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 10 Claiming TexasDocument 10.6 Mary Austin Holley, Letter to Charles Austin, 1831 Document 10.7 Colonel Gregorio Gomez, Call to Arms against the Texans, 1835 Document 10.8 Colonel William Travis, Appeal for Reinforcements, March 3, 1836Document 10.9 Benjamin Lundy, The War in Texas, 1836 Document 10.10 Southerners Support Texas Settlers, 1837 Document 10.11 Treaty of Tehuacana Creek, October 9, 184411 Social and Cultural Ferment in the North, 1820–1850American Histories: Charles Grandison Finney and Amy PostThe Growth of CitiesThe Lure of Urban LifeThe Roots of Urban DisorderThe New Middle ClassThe Rise of IndustryFactory Towns and Women WorkersDocuments 11.1 and 11.2 Life in the Mills: Two ViewsDeskilling and the Response of Working Men The Panic of 1837 in the NorthRising Class and Cultural TensionsDocument 11.3 Samuel F. B. Morse, The Dangers of Foreign Immigration, 1835Saving the Nation from SinThe Second Great AwakeningNew Spirits RisingTranscendentalismOrganizing for ChangeVarieties of ReformThe Temperance MovementDocument 11.4 Drunkard’s Home, 1850Utopian CommunitiesDocument 11.5 George Ripley, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, November 9, 1840Abolitionism Expands and DividesThe Beginnings of the Antislavery MovementAbolition Gains Ground and Enemies Abolitionism and Women’s RightsThe Rise of Antislavery PartiesConclusion: From the North to the NationChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 11 The Second Great Awakening and Women’s ActivismDocument 11.6 Charles Grandison Finney, What Revival Is, 1835 Document 11.7 Frances Trollope, Description of a Revival Meeting, 1832Document 11.8 Elizabeth Emery and Mary P. Abbott, Letter to the Liberator, 1836 Document 11.9 Pastoral Letter to the Liberator, 1837 Document 11.10 Sarah Grimké, Response to the Pastoral Letter, 1837 12 Imperial Ambitions and Sectional Crises, 1848–1861American Histories: John C. Frémont and Dred ScottClaiming the WestTraveling the Overland Trail Document 12.1 Elizabeth Smith Geer, Oregon Trail Diary, 1847 The Gold Rush A Crowded LandExpansion and the Politics of SlaveryCalifornia and the Compromise of 1850Document 12.2 John C. Calhoun, On the Compromise of 1850, 1850The Fugitive Slave Act Inspires Northern Protest Pierce Encourages U.S. ExpansionSectional Crises IntensifyPopularizing Antislavery SentimentDocuments 12.3 and 12.4 Slavery in Literature: Two ViewsThe Kansas-Nebraska Act Stirs Up DissentDocument 12.5 John Magee, Forcing Slavery down the Throat of a Freesoiler, 1856Bleeding Kansas and the Election of 1856The Dred Scott DecisionFrom Sectional Crisis to War John Brown’s RaidThe Election of 1860The Lower South SecedesConclusion: The Coming of the Civil WarChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 12 Visions of John BrownDocument 12.6 State Register (Springfield, Illinois), The Irrepressible Conflict, 1859 Document 12.7 Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown, 1859 Document 12.8 John Brown, Letter to E.B. from Jail, November 1, 1859 Document 12.9 Reverend J. Sella Martin, Day of Mourning Speech, December 2, 1859Document 12.10 A Southern Paper Reacts to Brown’s Execution, December 3, 1859Document 12.11 Currier and Ives, John Brown on His Way to Execution, 186313 Civil War, 1861–1865American Histories: Frederick Douglass and Rose O’Neal GreenhowThe Nation Goes to WarThe South Embraces SecessionDocuments 13.1 and 13.2 Debating Secession in Georgia: Two ViewsBoth Sides Prepare for WarFighting for Union or against Slavery?Debating the Role of African Americans Document 13.3 Charlotte Forten, Life on the Sea Islands, 1864Fighting for the Right to FightUnion Politicians Consider EmancipationWar Transforms the North and the SouthLife and Death on the BattlefieldDocument 13.4 Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Burial of Federal Dead, Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 1864The Northern Economy Booms Urbanization and Industrialization in the SouthWomen Aid the War EffortDissent and Protest in the Midst of WarThe Tide of War Turns Key Victories for the Union African Americans Contribute to VictoryThe Final Battles and the Promise of PeaceDocument 13.5 Eleanor Cohen Seixas, Journal Entry, February 1865Conclusion: An Uncertain FutureChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 13 Civil War Letters Document 13.6 Fred Spooner, Letter to His Brother Henry, April 30, 1861 Document 13.7 John Hines, Letter to His Parents, April 22, 1862 Document 13.8 Ginnie Ott, Letter to Enos Ott, November 21, 1864Document 13.9 Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Letter to Her Mother, May 26, 1862 Document 13.10 Thomas Freeman, Letter to His Brother-in-Law, March 26, 1864 14 Emancipations and Reconstructions, 1863–1877American Histories: Jefferson Long and Andrew JohnsonPrelude to ReconstructionAfrican Americans Embrace EmancipationReuniting Families Torn Apart by SlaveryFree to LearnBlack Churches Take a Leadership RoleNational ReconstructionsAbraham Lincoln Plans for ReunionAndrew Johnson and Presidential ReconstructionJohnson and Congressional ResistanceDocuments 14.1 and 14.2 Debating the Freedmen’s Bureau: Two ViewsCongressional ReconstructionThe Struggle for Universal SuffrageDocument 14.3 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, On Suffrage, 1869Remaking the SouthWhites Reconstruct the SouthBlack Political Participation and Economic OpportunitiesDocument 14.4 Sharecropping Agreement, 1870White Resistance to Congressional ReconstructionThe Unmaking of ReconstructionThe Republican RetreatCongressional and Judicial Retreat The Presidential Compromise of 1876Conclusion: The Legacies of ReconstructionChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 14 Testing and Contesting FreedomDocument 14.5 Mississippi Black Code, 1865Document 14.6 Richard H. Cain, Federal Aid for Land Purchase, 1868Document 14.7 Ellen Parton, Testimony on Klan Violence, 1871Document 14.8 The Force Act, 1871Document 14.9, Thomas Nast, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State, 1874Document 14.10 What the Centennial Ought to Accomplish, 187515 Frontier Encounters, 1865–1896American Histories: Annie Oakley and GeronimoOpening the WestThe Great Plains Federal Policy and Foreign InvestmentConquest of the FrontierIndian CivilizationsChanging Federal Policy toward Indians Indian DefeatReforming Indian PolicyIndian Assimilation and ResistanceThe Mining FrontierThe Business of MiningDocument 15.1 Granville Stuart, Gold Rush Days, 1925Life in the Mining TownsRanching and Farming FrontiersThe Life of the CowboyDocuments 15.2 and 15.3 Cowboy Myths and Realities: Two ViewsFarmers Head West Women HomesteadersDocument 15.4 Gro Svendson, Letter from a Homesteader, 1863The Economy of Farming on the Great PlainsPushing Farther WestMormons Head West CaliforniosDocument 15.5 White Caps Flier, 1890The Chinese in the Far West Conclusion: The Ambiguous Legacy of the FrontierChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 15 American Indians and Whites on the FrontierDocument 15.6 James Michael Cavanaugh, Support for Indian Extermination, 1868Document 15.7 Thomas Nast, "Patience until the Indian Is Civilized—So to Speak," 1878Document 15.8 Helen Hunt Jackson, Challenges to Indian Policy, 1881Document 15.9 Zitkala-Ša, Life at an Indian Boarding School, 1921Document 15.10 Chief Joseph, Views on Indian Affairs, 187916 American Industry in the Age of Organization, 1877–1900American Histories: Andrew Carnegie and John ShermanAmerica IndustrializesThe New Industrial EconomyInnovation and InventionsBuilding a New SouthIndustrial Consolidation The Growth of CorporationsDocument 16.1 Horace Taylor, What a Funny Little Government, 1900Free Markets and Rugged IndividualsThe Doctrine of SuccessChallenges to Laissez-FaireSociety and Culture in the Gilded AgeWealthy and Middle-Class PleasuresDocument 16.2 The Delineator, 1900 Changing Gender RolesBlack America and Jim Crow National Politics in the Era of IndustrializationWhy Great Men Did Not Become PresidentDocuments 16.3 and 16.4 The Making of a Great President: Two ViewsCongressional InactionAn Energized and Entertained Electorate Conclusion: Industry in the Age of OrganizationChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 16 Debates about Laissez-FaireDocument 16.5 William Graham Sumner, A Defense of Laissez-Faire, 1883Document 16.6 Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000–1887, 1887Document 16.7 Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889Document 16.8 Henry Demarest Lloyd, Critique of Wealth, 189417 Workers and Farmers in the Age of Organization, 1877–1900American Histories: John McLuckie and Mary Elizabeth LeaseWorking People OrganizeThe Industrialization of LaborDocument 17.1 John Morrison, Testimony on the Impact of Mechanization, 1883Organizing UnionsClashes between Workers and OwnersDocument 17.2 Emma Goldman, Reflections on the Homestead Strike, 1931Working-Class Leisure in Industrial AmericaFarmers Organize Farmers UnitePopulists Rise UpDocuments 17.3 and 17.4 Farmers and Workers Organize: Two ViewsThe Depression of the 1890sDepression PoliticsDocument 17.5 Walter Huston, "Here Lies Prosperity," 1895Political Realignment in the Election of 1896The Decline of the PopulistsConclusion: A Passion for OrganizationChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 17 The Pullman Strike of 1894Document 17.6 George Pullman, Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission, 1894Document 17.7 Eugene V. Debs, On Radicalism, 1902Document 17.8 Jennie Curtis, Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission, 1894Document 17.9 Report from the Commission to Investigate the Chicago Strike, 1895Document 17.10 Grover Cleveland, Reflections on the Pullman Strike, 190418 Cities, Immigrants, and the Nation, 1880–1914American Histories: Beryl Lassin and Maria VikA New Wave of ImmigrantsImmigrants Arrive from Many LandsCreating Immigrant CommunitiesDocument 18.1 Anzia Yerzierska, Immigrant Fathers and Daughters, 1925 Hostility toward Recent ImmigrantsDocument 18.2 The Stranger at Our Gate, 1899The Assimilation DilemmaBecoming an Urban NationThe New Industrial CityCities Expand Outward and UpwardHow the Other Half LivedDocument 18.3 Rose Schneiderman, The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911Urban Politics at the Turn of the CenturyPolitical Machines and City BossesDocuments 18.4 and 18.5 Muckrakers and Political Machines: Two ViewsUrban ReformersConclusion: A Nation of CitiesChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 18 "Melting Pot" or "Vegetable Soup"?Document 18.6 Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot, 1908Document 18.7 "Be Just—Even to John Chinaman," 1893Document 18.8 Alfred P. Schultz, The Mongrelization of America, 1908Document 18.9 Randolph S. Bourne, Trans-national America, 1916Document 18.10 Jacob Riis, The Color Line in New York, 189119 Progressivism and the Search for Order, 1900–1917American Histories: Gifford Pinchot and Gene Stratton-PorterThe Roots of ProgressivismProgressive OriginsMuckrakersHumanitarian ReformFemale Progressives and the PoorDocument 19.1 Jane Addams, Civic Housekeeping, 1910Fighting for Women’s SuffrageDocument 19.2 Nannie Helen Burroughs, Suffrage for Black Women, 1915Progressivism and African AmericansDocuments 19.3 and 19.4 Addressing Inequality: Two ViewsMorality and Social ControlProhibitionThe Crusade against ViceImmigration RestrictionGood Government ProgressivismMunicipal and State ReformConservation and Preservation of the EnvironmentPresidential ProgressivismTheodore Roosevelt and the Square DealTaft Retreats from Progressivism The Election of 1912 and the Progressive Mandate Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom AgendaConclusion: The Progressive LegacyChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 19 Progressivism and Social Control Document 19.5 Frances Willard, On Behalf of Home Protection, 1884 Document 19.6 Abstinence Poster, 1919Document 19.7 Indiana Sterilization Law, 1907 Document 19.8 The Immigration Act of 1917Document 19.9 "Sanitary Precaution," c. 191420 Empire and Wars, 1898–1918American Histories: Alfred Thayer Mahan and José MartíThe Awakening of ImperialismThe Economics of ExpansionCultural Justifications for ImperialismGender and EmpireDocument 20.1 Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man’s Burden," 1899The War with SpainCuba LibreThe War of 1898A Not-So-Free Cuba The Philippine WarExtending U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913Theodore Roosevelt and "Big Stick" DiplomacyDocument 20.2 Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, 1899Opening the Door in China Wilson and American Foreign Policy, 1912–1917 Diplomacy and WarMaking the World Safe for DemocracyDocument 20.3 Robert La Follette, Antiwar Speech, 1917 Fighting the War at HomeGovernment by CommissionWinning Hearts and MindsDocuments 20.4 and 20.5 African Americans and the War: Two ViewsWaging PeaceThe Failure of RatificationConclusion: An American EmpireChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 20 Imperialism versus Anti-ImperialismDocument 20.6 The Hawaiian Memorial, 1897Document 20.7 Albert Beveridge, The March of the Flag, 1898 Document 20.8 "There’s Plenty of Room at the Table," 1906Document 20.9 Anti-Imperialism Letter, 1899 Document 20.10 "Civilization Begins at Home," 1898 21 An Anxious Affluence, 1919–1929 American Histories: D. C. Stephenson and Ossian SweetPostwar TurmoilThe Supreme Court and Civil Liberties The Red Scare, 1919–1920Racial Violence in the Postwar EraPeople of PlentyGovernment Promotion of the EconomyAmericans Become Consumers Document 21.1 General Electric Refrigerator Advertisement, 1928Perilous ProsperityChallenges to Social ConventionsBreaking with the Old MoralityThe African American RenaissanceDocument 21.2 Claude McKay, If We Must Die, 1919Marcus Garvey and Black NationalismCulture WarsNativists versus ImmigrantsResurrection of the Ku Klux KlanDocuments 21.3 and 21.4 Men and Women of the KKK: Two ViewsFundamentalism versus ModernismPolitics and the Fading of ProsperityThe Battle for the Soul of the Democratic PartyWhere Have All the Progressives Gone?Financial CrashConclusion: The Roaring TwentiesChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 21 The Abrams Case and the Red Scare Document 21.5 Mollie Steimer, Trial Testimony, 1918 Document 21.6 "Workers—Wake Up!!," 1917Document 21.7 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Abrams v. United States Dissent, 1919Document 21.8 Zechariah Chafee Jr., Freedom of Speech in Wartime, 1919Document 21.9 Billy Ireland, "We Can’t Digest the Scum," 1919 Document 21.10 A. Mitchell Palmer, The Case against the Reds, 192022 Depression, Dissent, and the New Deal, 1929–1940 American Histories: Eleanor Roosevelt and Luisa MorenoThe Great DepressionHoover Faces the DepressionHoovervilles and Dust StormsChallenges for MinoritiesDocument 21.1 Andy Wright, Plea from One of the Scottsboro Nine, 1937Families under StrainThe Season of DiscontentThe New DealRoosevelt Restores ConfidenceSteps toward RecoveryDirect Assistance and Relief Document 22.2 Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1937New Deal CriticsThe New Deal Moves to the LeftExpanding Relief MeasuresEstablishing Social SecurityOrganized Labor Strikes BackA Half Deal for MinoritiesTwilight of the New DealDocuments 22.3 and 22.4 Packing the Supreme Court: Two ViewsConclusion: New Deal LiberalismChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 22 The Depression in Rural AmericaDocument 22.5 Ann Marie Low, Dust Bowl Diary, 1934Document 22.6 The Life of a White Sharecropper, 1938 Document 22.7 Sharecropping Family in Washington County, Arkansas, 1935Document 22.8 John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies, 1936Document 22.9 Frank Stokes, Let the Mexicans Organize, 1936Document 22.10 Report of the Great Plains Committee, 193723 World War II, 1933–1945American Histories: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Fred KorematsuThe Road toward WarThe Growing Crisis in EuropeThe Challenge to IsolationismThe United States Enters the WarDocuments 23.1 and 23.2 American Reactions to Pearl Harbor: Two ViewsGlobal WarWar in EuropeWar in the Pacific Ending the War Evidence of the HolocaustThe Home-Front EconomyManaging the Wartime EconomyNew Opportunities for WomenDocuments 23.3 and 23.4 Women Workers during Wartime: Two ViewsEveryday Life on the Home FrontFighting for Equality at Home The Origins of the Civil Rights MovementDocument 23.5 Letter from Black Soldiers, 1943 Struggles for Mexican AmericansThe Ordeal of Japanese AmericansConclusion: The Impact of World War II Chapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 23 The Decision to Drop the Atomic BombDocument 23.6 Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons, June 16, 1945Document 23.7 Petition to the President of the United States, July 17, 1945Document 23.8 President Harry S. Truman, Press Release on the Atomic Bomb, August 6, 1945Document 23.9 Hiroshima, August 6, 1945Document 23.10 U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 1946 Document 23.11 Father Johannes Siemes, Eyewitness Account of the Hiroshima Bombing, 1945 24 The Opening of the Cold War, 1945–1954American Histories: George Kennan and Julius and Ethel RosenbergThe Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1947Mutual MisunderstandingsDocuments 24.1 and 24.2 Reactions to Soviet Policy in Europe: Two ViewsThe Truman DoctrineThe Marshall Plan and Economic ContainmentDocument 24.3 Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Objections to the Marshall Plan, 1947 The Cold War Hardens, 1948–1952Military ContainmentThe Korean WarDocument 24.4 Helen Stevenson, Letter from Korea, 1951 The War and the Imperial PresidencyPeacetime Challenges, 1945–1948Coming HomeEconomic Conversion and Labor DiscontentThe Postwar Civil Rights StruggleDocument 24.5 To Secure These Rights, 1947The Election of 1948The Anti-Communist Consensus, 1945–1954Loyalty and AmericanismMcCarthyismConclusion: The Cold War and AnticommunismChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 24 McCarthyism and the Hollywood TenDocument 24.6 Ronald Reagan, Testimony before HUAC, 1947 Document 24.7 John Howard Lawson, Testimony before HUAC, 1947Document 24.8 Herblock, "Fire!," 1949Document 24.9 Lillian Hellman, Letter to HUAC, 1952 Document 24.10 Arthur Miller, Reflections on HUAC, 200025 Troubled Innocence, 1950–1961American Histories: Alan Freed and Grace Metalious The Boom Years Economic Boom Baby Boom Suburban Boom Documents 25.1 and 25.2 Living the Suburban Dream: Two ViewsThe Culture of the 1950s The Rise of Television Wild Ones on the Big Screen The Influence of Teenage Culture The Lives of Women Religious Revival Document 25.3 Billy Graham, What’s Wrong with Our World?, 1958Beats and Other Nonconformists The Civil Rights Movement School Segregation and the Supreme Court The Montgomery Bus Boycott White Resistance to Desegregation The Sit-Ins Document 25.4 Ella Baker, Bigger than a Hamburger, 1960The Eisenhower Era Modern Republicanism Eisenhower and the Cold War Cold War Interventions Early U.S. Intervention in Vietnam The Election of 1960 Conclusion: Cold War Politics and Culture Chapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 25 Teenagers in Postwar America Document 25.5 Dick Clark, Your Happiest Years, 1959 Document 25.6 Richard Gehman, The Nine Billion Dollars in Hot Little Hands, 1957Document 25.7 Chevrolet Advertisement, 1954 Document 25.8 Charlotte Jones, Letter on Elvis, 1957Document 25.9 Todd Gitlin, Reflections on the 1950s, 1987Document 25.10 The Desegregation of Central High School, 195726 The Liberal Consensus and Its Challengers, 1960–1973 American Histories: Earl Warren and Bayard RustinThe Politics of Liberalism Kennedy’s New Frontier Document 26.1 Edmund Valtman, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Containment in Southeast AsiaJohnson Escalates the War in VietnamDocument 26.2 George Olsen, Letter Home from Vietnam, 1969 Civil RightsFreedom RidesThe Government Responds on Civil RightsFreedom Summer and Voting RightsReforming the Social OrderThe Great SocietyThe Warren CourtChallenges to the Liberal Center Movements on the LeftWomen’s LiberationPower to the PeopleDocument 26.3 Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán, 1969The Revival of ConservatismDocuments 26.4 and 26.5 Liberalism and Conservatism: Two ViewsConclusion: Liberalism and Its DiscontentsChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 26 Freedom SummerDocument 26.6 Prospectus for Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 Document 26.7 Nancy Ellin, Letter Describing Freedom Summer, 1964 Document 26.8 Letter from a Freedom Summer Volunteer, 1964 Document 26.9 White Southerners Respond to Freedom Summer, 1964Document 26.10 Fannie Lou Hamer, Address to the Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee, 1964 Document 26.11 Lyndon B. Johnson, Monitoring the MFDP Challenge, 196427 The Conservative Ascendancy, 1968–1992American Histories: Allan Bakke and Anita HillRichard M. Nixon, War, and Politics, 1969–1974The Election of President Nixon The Failure of VietnamizationCold War Realism and DétentePragmatic Conservatism at HomeThe Nixon Landslide and Disgrace, 1972–1974The Challenges of the 1970sJimmy Carter and the Limits of AffluenceThe Persistence of LiberalismDocument 27.1 Combahee River Collective, Black Feminist Statement, 1977 Racial Struggles ContinueThe Conservative Political AscendancyThe New Right RevivalDocument 27.2 Jerry Falwell, We Must Return to Traditional Religious Values, 1980 The Triumph of Ronald ReaganDocuments 27.3 and 27.4 Morning in America: Two ViewsThe Implementation of Social ConservatismThe George H.W. Bush PresidencyConclusion: The Conservative LegacyChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 27 The Affirmative Action DebateDocument 27.5 Lyndon B. Johnson, Freedom Is Not Enough, 1965Document 27.6 Title IX of the Education Amendments Regulations, 1975 Document 27.7 Nathan Glazer, Affirmative Discrimination, 1975Document 27.8 Lewis Powell, Opinion in Bakke Case, 1978 Document 27.9 Nell Irvin Painter, Whites Say I Must Be on Easy Street, 1981Document 27.10 Bob Dole, Call to End Affirmative Action, 1995 28 Ending the Cold War, 1977–1991 American Histories: George Shultz and Barbara Deming Carter’s Diplomacy, 1977–1980 The Perils of Détente Challenges in the Middle East Document 28.1 Robert Ode, Iran Hostage Diary, 1979–1980 Reagan’s Cold War Policy, 1981–1988 "The Evil Empire" Human Rights and the Fight against Communism Fighting International TerrorismThe Nuclear Freeze MovementDocuments 28.2 and 28.3 The Nuclear Freeze Movement: Two ViewsThe Road to Nuclear De-escalation The Fall of the Iron Curtain The Breakup of the Soviet Union Document 28.4 Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the United Nations, 1988Globalization and the New World Order Managing Conflict after the Cold War Conclusion: Farewell to the Cold War Chapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 28 The Iran-Contra Scandal Document 28.5 The Boland Amendment, 1982Document 28.6 CIA Freedom Fighters’ Manual, 1983 Document 28.7 Tower Commission Report, 1987Document 28.8 Ronald Reagan, Speech on Iran-Contra, 1987Document 28.9 Oliver North, Testimony to Congress, July 1987Document 28.10 George Mitchell, Response to Oliver North, 198729 The Challenges of a New Century, 1993 to the presentAmerican Histories: Bill Gates and Kristen BreitweiserTransforming American SocietyThe Computer RevolutionBusiness ConsolidationDocument 29.1 Bo Yee, The New American Sweatshop, 1994The Changing American PopulationPolitics at the End of the Twentieth CenturyThe Clinton PresidencyGlobal Challenges and Economic RenewalThe New MillenniumGeorge W. Bush and Compassionate ConservatismThe United States at War Document 29.2 Farnaz Fassihi, Report from Baghdad, 2004The Decline of the Bush PresidencyChallenges AheadThe Great RecessionThe Rise of Barack ObamaDocuments 29.3 and Documents 29.4 The Great Recession: Two ViewsAn Unfinished AgendaConclusion: Technology and Terror in a Global SocietyChapter Review — LearningCurveDocument Project 29 The Uses of September 11Document 29.5 George W. Bush, The Axis of Evil, 2002 Document 29.6 Diana Hoffman, "The Power of Freedom," 2002 Document 29.7 Daniel Harris, The Kitschification of September 11, 2002Document 29.8 Khaled Abou El Fadl, Response to September 11, 2001Document 29.9 Anti-Muslim Discrimination, 2011Document 29.10 Brian Gallagher, Hundred-Mile Marine, 2012AppendixGlossary of Key TermsCreditsIndexFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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