Historical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Skills for AP U.S. History
Historical Thinking Skills
Chronological Reasoning
Comparison and Contextualization
Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence
Historical Interpretation and Synthesis
Getting the Most Out of Reading History
Before Reading (Prereading)
During Reading
After Reading
Writing About History
Document-Based Questions
Long-Essay Questions
Introduction for Part 1
Native American Diversity and Complexity
Colonial Settlement and the Columbian Exchange
Experimentation and Transformation
Timeline: Transformations of North America, 1450–1700
AP-Style Short Answer Questions for Part 1
Introduction for Chapter 1
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 1
The Native American Experience
The First Americans
American Empires
Chiefdoms and Confederacies
Patterns of Trade
America Compared: Altered Landscapes
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Sacred Power
Western Europe: The Edge of the Old World
Hierarchy and Authority
Peasant Society
Expanding Trade Networks
Myths, Religions, and Holy Warriors
West and Central Africa: Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Empires, Kingdoms, and Ministates
Trans-Saharan and Coastal Trade
Thinking Like a Historian: Colliding Cultures
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The Spirit World
Exploration and Conquest
Portuguese Expansion
The African Slave Trade
Sixteenth-Century Incursions
American Voices: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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Concise Edition: American Voices: Cortés and Moctezuma Meet
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 2
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 2
Spain’s Tribute Colonies
A New American World
The Columbian Exchange
The Protestant Challenge to Spain
Plantation Colonies
Brazil’s Sugar Plantations
England’s Tobacco Colonies
Thinking Like a Historian: Who Was Pocahontas?
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The Caribbean Islands
Plantation Life
Neo-European Colonies
America Compared: Plantation Colonies Versus Neo-Europes
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New France
New Netherland
The Rise of the Iroquois
New England
Instability, War, and Rebellion
New England’s Indian Wars
American Voices: The Causes of Metacom’s War
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Bacon’s Rebellion
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Part 2
The Diversification of British North America
Rise of the British Atlantic World
Contact and Conflict
Timeline: British North America and the Atlantic World, 1660–1763
AP-Style Short Answer Questions for Part 2
Introduction for Chapter 3
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 3
Colonies to Empire, 1660–1713
The Restoration Colonies and Imperial Expansion
From Mercantilism to Imperial Dominion
The Glorious Revolution in England and America
Imperial Wars and Native Peoples
Tribalization
Indian Goals
The Imperial Slave Economy
The South Atlantic System
Africa, Africans, and the Slave Trade
America Compared: Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal “Middle Passage”
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Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina
Thinking Like a Historian: Servitude and Slavery
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An African American Community Emerges
The Rise of the Southern Gentry
The Northern Maritime Economy
The Urban Economy
Urban Society
The New Politics of Empire, 1713–1750
The Rise of Colonial Assemblies
Salutary Neglect
American Voices: The Rise of Colonial Self-Government
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Protecting the Mercantile System
Mercantilism and the American Colonies
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 4
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 4
New England’s Freehold Society
Farm Families: Women in the Household Economy
Thinking Like a Historian: Women’s Labor
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Farm Property: Inheritance
Freehold Society in Crisis
Diversity in the Middle Colonies
Economic Growth, Opportunity, and Conflict
America Compared: Transatlantic Migration, 1500–1760
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Cultural Diversity
Religion and Politics
Commerce, Culture, and Identity
Transportation and the Print Revolution
The Enlightenment in America
American Pietism and the Great Awakening
American Voices: Evangelical Religion and Enlightenment Rationalism
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Religious Upheaval in the North
Social and Religious Conflict in the South
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750–1763
The French and Indian War
The Great War for Empire
British Industrial Growth and the Consumer Revolution
The Struggle for Land in the East
Western Rebels and Regulators
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Part 3
From British North America to the United States of America
Challenges to the Social Order
Conquest, Competition, and Consolidation
Timeline: Revolution and Republican Culture, 1763–1820
AP-Style Short Answer Questions for Part 3
Introduction for Chapter 5
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 5
An Empire Transformed
America Compared: Britain’s Atlantic and Asian Empires
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The Costs of Empire
George Grenville and the Reform Impulse
An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act
The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770
Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd
The Ideological Roots of Resistance
Another Kind of Freedom
Parliament and Patriots Square Off Again
The Problem of the West
Thinking Like a Historian: Beyond the Proclamation Line
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Parliament Wavers
The Road to Independence, 1771–1776
A Compromise Repudiated
The Continental Congress Responds
American Voices: The Debate over Representation and Sovereignty
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The Rising of the Countryside
Loyalists and Neutrals
Violence East and West
Lord Dunmore’s War
Armed Resistance in Massachusetts
The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Independence Declared
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 6
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 6
The Trials of War, 1776–1778
War in the North
Armies and Strategies
Victory at Saratoga
The Perils of War
Financial Crisis
Valley Forge
The Path to Victory, 1778–1783
The French Alliance
War in the South
Thinking Like a Historian: The Black Soldier’s Dilemma
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The Patriot Advantage
Diplomatic Triumph
America Compared: China’s Growing Empire
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Creating Republican Institutions, 1776–1787
The State Constitutions: How Much Democracy?
Women Seek a Public Voice
The War’s Losers: Loyalists, Native Americans, and Slaves
The Articles of Confederation
Shays’s Rebellion
The Constitution of 1787
The Rise of a Nationalist Faction
The Philadelphia Convention
American Voices: The First National Debate over Slavery
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The People Debate Ratification
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 7
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 7
The Political Crisis of the 1790s
The Federalists Implement the Constitution
Hamilton’s Financial Program
Jefferson’s Agrarian Vision
The French Revolution Divides Americans
Thinking Like a Historian: The Social Life of Alcohol
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America Compared: The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Race
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The Rise of Political Parties
A Republican Empire Is Born
Sham Treaties and Indian Lands
Migration and the Changing Farm Economy
The Jefferson Presidency
Jefferson and the West
The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics
Conflict in the Atlantic and the West
American Voices: Factional Politics and the War of 1812
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The War of 1812
The Federalist Legacy
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 8
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 8
The Capitalist Commonwealth
Banks, Manufacturing, and Markets
Thinking Like a Historian: The Entrepreneur and the Community
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Public Enterprise: The Commonwealth System
Toward a Democratic Republican Culture
Opportunity and Equality — for White Men
Toward Republican Families
American Voices: The Trials of Married Life
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Raising Republican Children
Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery
The Revolution and Slavery, 1776–1800
The North and South Grow Apart
The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
Protestant Christianity as a Social Force
A Republican Religious Order
The Second Great Awakening
America Compared: American Camp Meetings and English Church Hierarchies
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Religion and Reform
Women’s New Religious Roles
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Part 4
Transforming the Economy, Society, and Culture
Creating a Democratic Polity
Growing Sectional Divisions
Timeline: Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1860
AP-Style Short Answer Questions for Part 4
Introduction for Chapter 9
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 9
The American Industrial Revolution
The Division of Labor and the Factory
The Textile Industry and British Competition
America Compared: The Fate of the American and Indian Textile Industries
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American Mechanics and Technological Innovation
Wageworkers and the Labor Movement
The Market Revolution
The Transportation Revolution Forges Regional Ties
Thinking Like a Historian: The Risks and Rewards of Technological Innovation
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The Growth of Cities and Towns
New Social Classes and Cultures
The Business Elite
The Middle Class
Urban Workers and the Poor
The Benevolent Empire
Charles Grandison Finney: Revivalism and Reform
Immigration and Cultural Conflict
American Voices: A Debate over Catholic Immigration
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Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 10
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 10
The Rise of Popular Politics, 1810–1828
The Decline of the Notables and the Rise of Parties
America Compared: Letter to Louis de Kergorlay, June 29, 1831
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The Election of 1824
The Last Notable President: John Quincy Adams
“The Democracy” and the Election of 1828
The Jacksonian Presidency, 1829–1837
Jackson’s Agenda: Rotation and Decentralization
The Tariff and Nullification
The Bank War
American Voices: The Character and Goals of Andrew Jackson
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Indian Removal
The Jacksonian Impact
Class, Culture, and the Second Party System
The Whig Worldview
Labor Politics and the Depression of 1837–1843
Thinking Like a Historian: Becoming Literate: Public Education and Democracy
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“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!”
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 11
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 11
Individualism: The Ethic of the Middle Class
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism
Emerson’s Literary Influence
Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture
The Utopian Impulse
Joseph Smith and the Mormon Experience
Urban Popular Culture
Thinking Like a Historian: Dance and Social Identity in Antebellum America
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Abolitionism
Black Social Thought: Uplift, Race Equality, and Rebellion
Evangelical Abolitionism
Opposition and Internal Conflict
The Women’s Rights Movement
Origins of the Women’s Movement
American Voices: Saving the Nation from Drink
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From Black Rights to Women’s Rights
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America Compared: Women’s Rights in France and the United States, 1848
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Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 12
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 12
The Domestic Slave Trade
The Upper South Exports Slaves
The Impact on Blacks
American Voices: The Debate over Free and Slave Labor
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The World of Southern Whites
The Dual Cultures of the Planter Elite
America Compared: The Racial Complexities of Southern Society
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Planters, Smallholding Yeomen, and Tenants
Expanding and Governing the South
The Settlement of Texas
The Politics of Democracy
The African American World
Evangelical Black Protestantism
Forging Families and Communities
Thinking Like a Historian: Childhood in Black and White
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Negotiating Rights
Concise Edition: American Voices: Memories of Slavery
The Free Black Population
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Part 5
Continental Empire and Cultural Conflict
Sectional Tensions, Political Divisions, and Civil War
National Power and Consolidation
Timeline: Creating and Preserving a Continental Nation, 1844–1877
AP-Style Short Answer Questions for Part 5
Introduction for Chapter 13
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 13
Manifest Destiny: South and North
The Push to the Pacific
The Plains Indians
The Fateful Election of 1844
War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846–1850
The War with Mexico, 1846–1848
A Divisive Victory
American Voices: The Mexican War: Expansion and Slavery
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California Gold and Racial Warfare
America Compared: The Gold Rush: California and Australia
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1850: Crisis and Compromise
The End of the Second Party System, 1850–1858
Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act
The Whigs Disintegrate and New Parties Rise
Buchanan’s Failed Presidency
Thinking Like a Historian: Biography as History
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Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858–1860
Lincoln’s Political Career
The Union Under Siege
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 14
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 14
Secession and Military Stalemate, 1861–1862
The Secession Crisis
The Upper South Chooses Sides
Setting War Objectives and Devising Strategies
Toward Total War
Mobilizing Armies and Civilians
Thinking Like a Historian: Military Deaths — and Lives Saved — During the Civil War
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Mobilizing Resources
America Compared: War Debt: Britain and the United States, 1830–1900
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The Turning Point: 1863
Emancipation
Vicksburg and Gettysburg
The Union Victorious, 1864–1865
Soldiers and Strategy
The Election of 1864 and Sherman’s March
American Voices: Gender, Class, and Sexual Terror in the Invaded South
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Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 15
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 15
The Struggle for National Reconstruction
Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnson
America Compared: Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States
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Congress Versus the President
Radical Reconstruction
Woman Suffrage Denied
The Meaning of Freedom
American Voices: Freedom
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The Quest for Land
Republican Governments in the South
Building Black Communities
The Undoing of Reconstruction
The Republicans Unravel
Counterrevolution in the South
Reconstruction Rolled Back
Lasting Legacies
Thinking Like a Historian: The South’s “Lost Cause”
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Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 16
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 16
The Republican Vision
The New Union and the World
Integrating the National Economy
America Compared: The Santa Fe Railroad in Mexico and the United States
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Incorporating the West
Mining Empires
Cattlemen on the Plains
Homesteaders
American Voices: Women’s Rights in the West
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The First National Park
A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed
The Civil War and Indians on the Plains
Grant’s Peace Policy
Thinking Like a Historian: Representing Indians
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Concise Edition: American Voices: Becoming White
The End of Armed Resistance
Strategies of Survival
Western Myths and Realities
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Part 6
Corporations and Conflicts
A Diverse, Urban Society
Reform Initiatives
Timeline: Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917
AP-Style Short Answer Questions for Part 6
Introduction for Chapter 17
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 17
The Rise of Big Business
Innovators in Enterprise
The Corporate Workplace
On the Shop Floor
Thinking Like a Historian: Poverty and Food
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Immigrants, East and West
Newcomers from Europe
America Compared: Emigrants and Destinations, 1881–1915
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American Voices: Jewish Immigrants in the Industrial Economy
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Asian Americans and Exclusion
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Labor Gets Organized
The Emergence of a Labor Movement
The Knights of Labor
Farmers and Workers: The Cooperative Alliance
Another Path: The American Federation of Labor
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 18
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Commerce and Culture
Consumer Spaces
Thinking Like a Historian: America Picks Up the Telephone
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Masculinity and the Rise of Sports
The Great Outdoors
Women, Men, and the Solitude of Self
Changes in Family Life
Education
From Domesticity to Women’s Rights
Science and Faith
Darwinism and Its Critics
American Voices: Three Interpretations of Social Darwinism
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Realism in the Arts
Religion: Diversity and Innovation
America Compared: Christianity in the United States and Japan
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Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 19
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 19
The New Metropolis
America Compared: The World’s Biggest Cities, 1800–2000
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The Shape of the Industrial City
Newcomers and Neighborhoods
City Cultures
Thinking Like a Historian: Making Mass Media: Newspaper Empires
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Governing the Great City
Urban Machines
The Limits of Machine Government
Crucibles of Progressive Reform
Fighting Dirt and Vice
The Movement for Social Settlements
Cities and National Politics
American Voices: “These Dead Bodies Were the Answer”: The Triangle Fire
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Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 20
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 20
Reform Visions, 1880–1892
Electoral Politics After Reconstruction
Thinking Like a Historian: Making Modern Presidents
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The Populist Program
The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s
Depression and Reaction
Democrats and the “Solid South”
Concise Edition: American Voices: The Cause of Lynching
New National Realities
Reform Reshaped, 1901–1912
Theodore Roosevelt as President
Diverse Progressive Goals
America Compared: A Progressive Reports from New Zealand
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The Election of 1912
American Voices: Theodore Roosevelt: From Anti-Populist to New Nationalist
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Wilson and the New Freedom, 1913–1917
Economic Reforms
Progressive Legacies
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Part 7
America’s Rise to World Power
Modernity and Its Discontents
Creation of the Welfare State
Timeline: Domestic and Global Challenges, 1890–1945
AP-Style Short Answer Questions for Part 7
Introduction for Chapter 21
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 21
From Expansion to Imperialism
Foundations of Empire
The War of 1898
Spoils of War
American Voices: Debating the Philippines
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A Power Among Powers
The Open Door in Asia
The United States and Latin America
The United States in World War I
From Neutrality to War
“Over There”
America Compared: The Human Cost of World War I
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War on the Home Front
Thinking Like a Historian: German Americans in World War I
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Catastrophe at Versailles
The Fate of Wilson’s Ideas
Congress Rejects the Treaty
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 22
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Conflicted Legacies of World War I
Racial Strife
Erosion of Labor Rights
The Red Scare
Politics in the 1920s
Women in Politics
Republicans and Business
Dollar Diplomacy
Culture Wars
Thinking Like a Historian: Who Joined the Ku Klux Klan?
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Concise Edition: American Voices: The Fight for Americanism
Intellectual Modernism
Harlem in Vogue
Critiquing American Life
American Voices: Urban Writers Describe Small-Town America
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From Boom to Bust
The Postwar Economy
Consumer Culture
America Compared: Hollywood in Europe
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The Coming of the Great Depression
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 23
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Early Responses to the Depression, 1929–1932
America Compared: The Great Depression in England and the United States
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Enter Herbert Hoover
Rising Discontent
The 1932 Election
The New Deal Arrives, 1933–1935
Roosevelt and the First Hundred Days
American Voices: Ordinary People Respond to the New Deal
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The New Deal Under Attack
The Second New Deal and the Redefining of Liberalism, 1935–1938
The Welfare State Comes into Being
From Reform to Stalemate
The New Deal’s Impact on Society
Thinking Like a Historian: The New Deal and Public Works
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A People’s Democracy
Reshaping the Environment
The New Deal and the Arts
The Legacies of the New Deal
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 24
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The Road to War
The Rise of Fascism
War Approaches
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Organizing for Victory
Financing the War
America Compared: The Scales of War: Losses and Gains During World War II
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Mobilizing the American Fighting Force
Workers and the War Effort
American Voices: Women in the Wartime Workplace
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Politics in Wartime
Life on the Home Front
“For the Duration”
Thinking Like a Historian: Mobilizing the Home Front
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Migration and the Wartime City
Japanese Removal
Fighting and Winning the War
Wartime Aims and Tensions
The War in Europe
The War in the Pacific
The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War
The Toll of the War
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Part 8
Global Leadership and the Cold War
The Age of Liberalism
Mass Consumption and the Middle Class
Timeline: The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980
AP-Style Short Answer Questions for Part 8
Introduction for Chapter 25
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Guided Reading Activity for Chapter 25
Containment and a Divided Global Order
Origins of the Cold War
The Containment Strategy
Thinking Like a Historian: The Global Cold War
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America Compared: Arming for the Cold War
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Containment in Asia
Cold War Liberalism
Truman and the End of Reform
Red Scare: The Hunt for Communists
American Voices: Hunting Communists and Liberals
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The Politics of Cold War Liberalism
Containment in the Postcolonial World
The Cold War and Colonial Independence
John F. Kennedy and the Cold War
Making a Commitment in Vietnam
Summary
Chapter Review
Terms to Know
Review Questions
Making Connections
More to Explore
Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 26
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Postwar Prosperity and the Affluent Society
Economy: From Recovery to Dominance
A Nation of Consumers
Youth Culture
Religion and the Middle Class
The American Family in the Era of Containment
The Baby Boom
Women, Work, and Family
American Voices: Coming of Age in the Postwar Years
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Challenging Middle-Class Morality
A Suburban Nation
The Postwar Housing Boom
Thinking Like a Historian: The Suburban Landscape of Cold War America
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America Compared: Hanoch Bartov: Everyone Has a Car
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Rise of the Sunbelt
Two Societies: Urban and Suburban
Summary
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Terms to Know
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Making Connections
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Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 27
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The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle, 1941–1957
Life Under Jim Crow
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
World War II: The Beginnings
Cold War Civil Rights
America Compared: Freedom in the United States and Africa
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Mexican Americans and Japanese Americans
Fighting for Equality Before the Law
Forging a Protest Movement, 1955–1965
Nonviolent Direct Action
American Voices: Challenging White Supremacy
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Legislating Civil Rights, 1963–1965
Thinking Like a Historian: Civil Rights and Black Power: Strategy and Ideology
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Beyond Civil Rights, 1966–1973
Black Nationalism
Poverty and Urban Violence
Rise of the Chicano Movement
The American Indian Movement
Summary
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Making Connections
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Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 28
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Liberalism at High Tide
John F. Kennedy’s Promise
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society
Rebirth of the Women’s Movement
The Vietnam War Begins
Escalation Under Johnson
American Voices: The Toll of War
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Public Opinion and the War
Thinking Like a Historian: Debating the War in Vietnam
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Concise Edition: American Voices: Letters to Dr. Spock
Rise of the Student Movement
Days of Rage, 1968–1972
America Compared: The Global Protests of 1968
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War Abroad, Tragedy at Home
The Antiwar Movement and the 1968 Election
The Nationalist Turn
Women’s Liberation
Stonewall and Gay Liberation
Richard Nixon and the Politics of the Silent Majority
Nixon in Vietnam
The Silent Majority Speaks Out
The 1972 Election
Summary
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Terms to Know
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Making Connections
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Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 29
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An Era of Limits
Energy Crisis
Environmentalism
Thinking Like a Historian: The Environmental Movement: Reimagining the Human-Earth Relationship
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Economic Transformation
America Compared: Economic Malaise in the Seventies
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Urban Crisis and Suburban Revolt
Politics in Flux, 1973–1980
Watergate and the Fall of a President
Jimmy Carter: The Outsider as President
Reform and Reaction in the 1970s
Civil Rights in a New Era
The Women’s Movement and Gay Rights
American Voices: Debating the Equal Rights Amendment
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After the Warren Court
The American Family on Trial
Working Families in the Age of Deindustrialization
Navigating the Sexual Revolution
Religion in the 1970s: The Fourth Great Awakening
Summary
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Terms to Know
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Making Connections
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Timeline
Introduction for Part 9
Conservative Ascendancy
End of the Cold War and Rising Conflict in the Middle East
Globalization and Increasing Social Inequality
Timeline: Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century 1980 to the Present
AP-Style Short Answer Questions for Part 9
Introduction for Chapter 30
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The Rise of the New Right
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan: Champions of the Right
Free-Market Economics and Religious Conservatism
American Voices: Christianity and Public Life
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The Carter Presidency
The Dawning of the Conservative Age
The Reagan Coalition
Conservatives in Power
Morning in America
America Compared: “Japan and America: Global Partners”
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Thinking Like a Historian: Personal Computing: A Technological Revolution
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The End of the Cold War
U.S.-Soviet Relations in a New Era
A New Political Order at Home and Abroad
Summary
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Terms to Know
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Timeline
Introduction for Chapter 31
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America in the Global Economy
Thinking Like a Historian: Globalization: Its Proponents and Its Discontents
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The Rise of the European Union and China
America Compared: Global Trade, 1960–2009
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An Era of Globalization
Revolutions in Technology
Politics and Partisanship in a New Era
An Increasingly Plural Society
American Voices: Immigration After 1965: Its Defenders and Critics
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Clashes over “Family Values”
The Clinton Presidency, 1993–2001
Post–Cold War Foreign Policy
Into a New Century
The Ascendance of George W. Bush
Violence Abroad and Economic Collapse at Home
The Obama Presidency
Summary
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Terms to Know
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Making Connections
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Timeline
Copyright Page
Preface: Why This Book This Way
About the Authors
Preface: Why This Book This Way
About the Authors
Copyright Page
Preface: Why This Book This Way
Copyright Page
Preface: Why This Book This Way
Admission of States into the Union
Presidential Elections
Population Growth
Immigration Growth by Decade
Regional Origins