Chapter 1

Ancient America, Before 1492

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 1

Archaeology and History

The First Americans

African and Asian Origins

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 1

Paleo-Indian Hunters.

Archaic Hunters and Gatherers

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 1

Great Plains Bison Hunters

Great Basin Cultures

Pacific Coast Cultures

Eastern Woodland Cultures

Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms

Southwestern Cultures

Visual Activity for Chapter 1

Visualizing History: Daily Life in Chaco Canyon

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Woodland Burial Mounds and Chiefdoms

Native Americans in the 1490s

Eastern and Great Plains Peoples

Southwestern and Western Peoples

Cultural Similarities

The Mexica: A Mesoamerican Culture

Conclusion: The World of Ancient Americans

Chapter Review

Essential Questions

Making Connections

Chapter 1 Summative Quiz

Chapter 2

Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492–1600

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 2

Europe in the Age of Exploration

Mediterranean Trade and European Expansion.

A Century of Portuguese Exploration.

A Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic

The Explorations of Columbus.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 2

The Geographic Revolution and the Columbian Exchange.

Spanish Exploration and Conquest

The Conquest of Mexico.

The Search for Other Mexicos.

Spanish Outposts in Florida and New Mexico.

New Spain in the Sixteenth Century.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 2

Documenting the American Promise: Justifying Conquest

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Visual Activity for Chapter 2

The Toll of Spanish Conquest and Colonization.

The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe

The Protestant Reformation and the Spanish Response.

Europe and the Spanish Example.

Conclusion: The Promise of the New World for Europeans

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 2 Summative Quiz

Chapter 3

The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601–1700

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 3

An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay

The Fragile Jamestown Settlement.

Visual Activity for Chapter 3

Cooperation and Conflict between Natives and Newcomers.

From Private Company to Royal Government.

A Tobacco Society

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 3

Beyond America’s Borders: American Tobacco and European Consumers

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Tobacco Agriculture.

A Servant Labor System.

The Rigors of Servitude.

Cultivating Land and Faith.

Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake

Social and Economic Polarization.

Government Policies and Political Conflict.

Bacon’s Rebellion.

Toward a Slave Labor System

Religion and Revolt in the Spanish Borderland.

The West Indies: Sugar and Slavery.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 3

Carolina: A West Indian Frontier.

Slave Labor Emerges in the Chesapeake.

Conclusion: The Growth of English Colonies Based on Export Crops and Slave Labor

Chapter Review

Essential Questions

Making Connections

Chapter 3 Summative Quiz

Chapter 4

The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601–1700

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 4

Puritans and the Settlement of New England

Puritan Origins: The English Reformation.

The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony.

The Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 4

The Evolution of New England Society

Church, Covenant, and Conformity.

Visual Activity for Chapter 4

Government by Puritans for Puritanism.

The Splintering of Puritanism.

Religious Controversies and Economic Changes.

Documenting the American Promise: Hunting Witches in Salem, Massachusetts

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The Founding of the Middle Colonies

From New Netherland to New York.

New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Toleration and Diversity in Pennsylvania.

The Colonies and the English Empire

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 4

Royal Regulation of Colonial Trade.

King Philip’s War and the Consolidation of Royal Authority.

Conclusion: An English Model of Colonization in North America

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 4 Summative Quiz

Chapter 5

Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701–1770

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 5

A Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North America

New England: From Puritan Settlers to Yankee Traders

Natural Increase and Land Distribution.

Farms, Fish, and Atlantic Trade.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 5

The Middle Colonies: Immigrants, Wheat, and Work

German and Scots-Irish Immigrants.

“God Gives All Things to Industry”: Urban and Rural Labor.

Visual Activity for Chapter 5

The Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery

The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Growth of Slavery.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 5

Slave Labor and African American Culture.

Tobacco, Rice, and Prosperity.

Unifying Experiences

Commerce and Consumption.

Religion, Enlightenment, and Revival.

Trade and Conflict in the North American Borderlands.

Documenting the American Promise: Spanish Priests Report on California Missions

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Colonial Politics in the British Empire.

Conclusion: The Dual Identity of British North American Colonists

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 5 Summative Quiz

Chapter 6

The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754–1775

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 6

The Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763

French-British Rivalry in the Ohio Country.

The Albany Congress.

Visualizing History: Cultural Cross-Dressing in Eighteenth-Century Portraits

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The War and Its Consequences.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 6

Pontiac’s Rebellion and the Proclamation of 1763.

The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763–1765

Grenville’s Sugar Act.

The Stamp Act.

Resistance Strategies and Crowd Politics.

Liberty and Property.

The Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767–1770

The Townshend Duties.

Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty.

Military Occupation and “Massacre” in Boston.

Visual Activity for Chapter 6

The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts, 1770–1774

The Calm before the Storm.

Tea in Boston Harbor.

The Coercive Acts.

Beyond Boston: Rural New England.

The First Continental Congress.

Domestic Insurrections, 1774–1775

Lexington and Concord.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 6

Rebelling against Slavery.

Conclusion: The Long Road to Revolution

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 6 Summative Quiz

Chapter 7

The War for America, 1775–1783

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 7

The Second Continental Congress

Assuming Political and Military Authority.

Pursuing Both War and Peace.

Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams, and the Case for Independence.

The Declaration of Independence.

The First Year of War, 1775–1776

The American Military Forces.

The British Strategy.

Quebec, New York, and New Jersey.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 7

The Home Front

Patriotism at the Local Level.

The Loyalists.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 7

Documenting the American Promise: Families Divide over the Revolution

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Who Is a Traitor?

Prisoners of War.

Financial Instability and Corruption.

The Campaigns of 1777–1779: The North and West

Burgoyne’s Army and the Battle of Saratoga.

The War in the West: Indian Country.

The French Alliance.

Visual Activity for Chapter 7

The Southern Strategy and the End of the War

Georgia and South Carolina.

Treason and Guerrilla Warfare.

Surrender at Yorktown.

The Losers and the Winners.

Conclusion: Why the British Lost

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 7 Summative Quiz

Chapter 8

Building a Republic, 1775–1789

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 8

The Articles of Confederation

Confederation and Taxation.

The Problem of Western Lands.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 8

Running the New Government.

The Sovereign States

The State Constitutions.

Who Are “the People”?

Equality and Slavery.

Documenting the American Promise: Blacks Petition for Freedom and Rights

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The Confederation’s Problems

The War Debt and the Newburgh Conspiracy.

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix.

Land Ordinances and the Northwest Territory.

Visual Activity for Chapter 8

The Requisition of 1785 and Shays’s Rebellion, 1786–1787.

The United States Constitution

From Annapolis to Philadelphia.

The Virginia and New Jersey Plans.

Democracy versus Republicanism.

Ratification of the Constitution

The Federalists.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 8

The Antifederalists.

The Big Holdouts: Virginia and New York.

Conclusion: The “Republican Remedy“

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 8 Summative Quiz

Chapter 9

The New Nation Takes Form, 1789–1800

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 9

The Search for Stability

Washington Inaugurates the Government.

The Bill of Rights.

The Republican Wife and Mother.

Hamilton’s Economic Policies

Agriculture, Transportation, and Banking.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 9

The Public Debt and Taxes.

Visual Activity for Chapter 9

The First Bank of the United States and the Report on Manufactures.

The Whiskey Rebellion.

Conflict on America’s Borders and Beyond

Creeks in the Southwest.

Ohio Indians in the Northwest.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 9

France and Britain.

Beyond America’s Borders: France, Britain, and Woman’s Rights in the 1790s

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The Haitian Revolution.

Federalists and Republicans

The Election of 1796.

The XYZ Affair.

The Alien and Sedition Acts.

Conclusion: Parties Nonetheless

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 9 Summative Quiz

Chapter 10

Republicans in Power, 1800–1824

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 10

Jefferson’s Presidency

Turbulent Times: Election and Rebellion.

The Jeffersonian Vision of Republican Simplicity.

Dangers Overseas: The Barbary Wars.

Opportunities and Challenges in the West

The Louisiana Purchase.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 10

The Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Visualizing History: Cultural Exchange on the Lewis and Clark Trail

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Osage and Comanche Indians.

Jefferson, the Madisons, and the War of 1812

Impressment and Embargo.

Dolley Madison and Social Politics.

Tecumseh and Tippecanoe.

The War of 1812.

Washington City Burns: The British Offensive.

Women’s Status in the Early Republic

Women and the Law.

Women and Church Governance.

Female Education.

Monroe and Adams

From Property to Democracy.

Visual Activity for Chapter 10

The Missouri Compromise.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 10

The Monroe Doctrine.

The Election of 1824.

The Adams Administration.

Conclusion: Republican Simplicity Becomes Complex

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 10 Summative Quiz

Chapter 11

The Expanding Republic, 1815–1840

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 11

The Market Revolution

Improvements in Transportation.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 11

Factories, Workingwomen, and Wage Labor.

Documenting the American Promise: Mill Girls Stand Up to Factory Owners, 1834

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Bankers and Lawyers.

Booms and Busts.

The Spread of Democracy

Popular Politics and Partisan Identity.

The Election of 1828 and the Character Issue.

Jackson’s Democratic Agenda.

Jackson Defines the Democratic Party

Indian Policy and the Trail of Tears.

Visual Activity for Chapter 11

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 11

The Tariff of Abominations and Nullification.

The Bank War and Economic Boom.

Cultural Shifts, Religion, and Reform

The Family and Separate Spheres.

The Education and Training of Youths.

The Second Great Awakening.

The Temperance Movement and the Campaign for Moral Reform.

Organizing against Slavery.

Van Buren’s One-Term Presidency

The Politics of Slavery.

Elections and Panics.

Conclusion: The Age of Jackson or the Era of Reform?

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 11 Summative Quiz

Chapter 12

The New West and the Free North, 1840–1860

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 12

Economic and Industrial Evolution

Agriculture and Land Policy.

Manufacturing and Mechanization.

Railroads: Breaking the Bonds of Nature.

Visualizing History: The Path of Progress

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Map Activity 1 for Chapter 12

Free Labor: Promise and Reality

The Free-Labor Ideal.

Economic Inequality.

Immigrants and the Free-Labor Ladder.

The Westward Movement

Manifest Destiny.

Oregon and the Overland Trail.

Visual Activity for Chapter 12

The Mormon Exodus.

The Mexican Borderlands.

Expansion and the Mexican-American War

The Politics of Expansion.

The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848.

Victory in Mexico.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 12

Golden California.

Reforming Self and Society

The Pursuit of Perfection: Transcendentalists and Utopians.

Woman’s Rights Activists.

Abolitionists and the American Ideal.

Conclusion: Free Labor, Free Men

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 12 Summative Quiz

Chapter 13

The Slave South, 1820–1860

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 13

The Growing Distinctiveness of the South

Cotton Kingdom, Slave Empire.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 13

The South in Black and White.

Documenting the American Promise: Defending Slavery

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The Plantation Economy.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 13

Masters and Mistresses in the Big House

Paternalism and Male Honor.

The Southern Lady and Feminine Virtues.

Visual Activity for Chapter 13

Slaves in the Quarter

Work.

Family and Religion.

Resistance and Rebellion.

The Plain Folk

Plantation-Belt Yeomen.

Upcountry Yeomen.

Poor Whites.

The Culture of the Plain Folk.

Black and Free: On the Middle Ground

Precarious Freedom.

Achievement despite Restrictions.

The Politics of Slavery

The Democratization of the Political Arena.

Planter Power.

Conclusion: A Slave Society

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 13 Summative Quiz

Chapter 14

The House Divided, 1846–1861

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 14

The Bitter Fruits of War

The Wilmot Proviso and the Expansion of Slavery.

The Election of 1848.

Debate and Compromise.

The Sectional Balance Undone

The Fugitive Slave Act.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Beyond America's Borders: Filibusters: The Underside of the Manifest Destiny

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Map Activity 1 for Chapter 14

Realignment of the Party System

The Old Parties: Whigs and Democrats.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 14

The New Parties: Know-Nothings and Republicans.

The Election of 1856.

Freedom under Siege

“Bleeding Kansas.”

The Dred Scott Decision.

Prairie Republican: Abraham Lincoln.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

The Union Collapses

The Aftermath of John Brown’s Raid.

Visual Activity for Chapter 14

Republican Victory in 1860.

Secession Winter.

Conclusion: Slavery, Free Labor, and the Failure of Political Compromise

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 14 Summative Quiz

Chapter 15

The Crucible of War, 1861–1865

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 15

“And the War Came”

Attack on Fort Sumter.

The Upper South Chooses Sides.

The Combatants

How They Expected to Win.

Lincoln and Davis Mobilize.

Battling It Out, 1861-1862

Stalemate in the Eastern Theater.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 15

Union Victories in the Western Theater.

The Atlantic Theater.

International Diplomacy.

Union and Freedom

From Slaves to Contraband.

From Contraband to Free People.

The War of Black Liberation.

The South at War

Visual Activity for Chapter 15

Revolution from Above

Hardship Below.

Documenting the American Promise: Home and Country

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The Disintegration of Slavery.

The North at War

The Government and the Economy.

Women and Work at Home and at War.

Politics and Dissent.

Grinding Out Victory, 1863–1865

Vicksburg and Gettysburg.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 15

Grant Takes Command.

The Election of 1864.

The Confederacy Collapses.

Conclusion: The Second American Revolution

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 15 Summative Quiz

Chapter 16

Reconstruction, 1863–1877

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 16

Wartime Reconstruction

“To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds.”

Land and Labor.

The African American Quest for Autonomy.

Documenting the American Promise: The Meaning of Freedom

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Presidential Reconstruction

Johnson’s Program of Reconciliation.

White Southern Resistance and Black Codes.

Expansion of Federal Authority and Black Rights.

Congressional Reconstruction

The Fourteenth Amendment and Escalating Violence.

Radical Reconstruction and Military Rule.

Impeaching a President.

The Fifteenth Amendment and Women’s Demands.

The Struggle in the South

Freedmen, Yankees, and Yeomen.

Republican Rule.

White Landlords, Black Sharecroppers.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 16

Reconstruction Collapses

Grant’s Troubled Presidency.

Visual Activity for Chapter 16

Northern Resolve Withers.

White Supremacy Triumphs.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 16

An Election and a Compromise.

Conclusion: “A Revolution But Half Accomplished”

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 16 Summative Quiz

Chapter 17

The Contested West, 1865–1900

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 17

Conquest and Empire in the West

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 17

Beyond America’s Borders: Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Treatment of the Sioux and the Zulu

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Indian Removal and the Reservation System.

The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds.

Visual Activity for Chapter 17

Indian Wars and the Collapse of Comanchería.

The Fight for the Black Hills.

Forced Assimilation and Indian Resistance

Indian Schools and the War on Indian Culture.

The Dawes Act and Indian Land Allotment.

Indian Resistance and Survival.

Mining the West

Life on the Comstock Lode.

The Diverse Peoples of the West.

Land Fever

Moving West: Homesteaders and Speculators.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 17

Ranchers and Cowboys.

Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants.

Commercial Farming and Industrial Cowboys.

Conclusion: The West in the Gilded Age

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 17 Summative Quiz

Chapter 18

Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865–1900

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 18

Old Industries Transformed, New Industries Born

Railroads: America’s First Big Business.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 18

Visualizing History: Alva Vanderbilt and the Gilded Age

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Andrew Carnegie, Steel, and Vertical Integration.

John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil, and the Trust.

Visual Activity: “WHAT A FUNNY LITTLE GOVERNMENT”

New Inventions: The Telephone and the Telegraph.

From Competition to Consolidation

J. P. Morgan and Finance Capitalism.

Social Darwinism, Laissez-Faire, and the Supreme Court.

Politics and Culture

Political Participation and Party Loyalty.

Sectionalism and the New South.

Gender, Race, and Politics.

Women’s Activism.

Presidential Politics

Corruption and Party Strife.

Garfield’s Assassination and Civil Service Reform.

Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884.

Economic Issues and Party Realignment

The Tariff and the Politics of Protection.

Railroads, Trusts, and the Federal Government.

The Fight for Free Silver.

Panic and Depression.

Conclusion: Business Dominates an Era

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 18 Summative Quiz

Chapter 19

The City and Its Workers, 1870–1900

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 19

The Rise of the City

The Urban Explosion: A Global Migration.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 19

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 19

Racism and the Cry for Immigration Restriction.

The Social Geography of the City.

At Work in Industrial America

America’s Diverse Workers.

The Family Economy: Women and Children.

White-Collar Workers: Managers, “Typewriters,” and Salesclerks.

Workers Organize

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877.

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor.

Haymarket and the Specter of Labor Radicalism.

Visual Activity for Chapter 19

At Home and at Play

Domesticity and “Domestics.”

Cheap Amusements.

City Growth and City Government

Building Cities of Stone and Steel.

City Government and the “Bosses.”

White City or City of Sin?

Beyond America’s Borders: The World’s Columbian Exposition and Nineteenth-Century World’s Fairs

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Conclusion: Who Built the Cities?

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 19 Summative Quiz

Chapter 20

Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890–1900

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 20

The Farmers’ Revolt

The Farmers’ Alliance.

The Populist Movement.

The Labor Wars

The Homestead Lockout.

The Cripple Creek Miners’ Strike of 1894.

Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike.

Documenting the American Promise: The Press and the Pullman Strike: Framing Class Conflict

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Women’s Activism

Frances Willard and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Woman Suffrage.

Depression Politics

Coxey’s Army.

The People’s Party and the Election of 1896.

The United States and the World

Markets and Missionaries.

The Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door Policy.

Visual Activity for Chapter 20

“A Splendid Little War.”

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 20

The Debate over American Imperialism.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 20

Conclusion: Rallying around the Flag

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 20 Summative Quiz

Chapter 21

Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890–1916

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 21

Grassroots Progressivism

Civilizing the City.

Progressives and the Working Class.

Progressivism: Theory and Practice

Reform Darwinism and Social Engineering.

Progressive Government: City and State.

Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt

The Square Deal.

Roosevelt the Reformer.

Visualizing History: The Birth of Photojournalism

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Roosevelt and Conservation.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 21

The Big Stick.

Visual Activity for Chapter 21

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 21

The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft.

Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide

Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912.

Wilson’s Reforms: Tariff, Banking, and the Trusts.

Wilson, Reluctant Progressive.

The Limits of Progressive Reform

Radical Alternatives.

Progressivism for White Men Only.

Conclusion: The Transformation of the Liberal State

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 21 Summative Quiz

Chapter 22

World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad, 1914–1920

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 22

Woodrow Wilson and the World

Taming the Americas.

The European Crisis.

The Ordeal of American Neutrality.

The United States Enters the War.

“Over There”

The Call to Arms.

The War in France.

Visual Activity for Chapter 22

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 22

The Crusade for Democracy at Home

The Progressive Stake in the War.

Women, War, and the Battle for Suffrage.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 22

Documenting the American Promise: The Final Push for Woman Suffrage

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Rally around the Flag — or Else.

A Compromised Peace

Wilson’s Fourteen Points.

The Paris Peace Conference.

The Fight for the Treaty.

Democracy at Risk

Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval.

The Red Scare.

The Great Migrations of African Americans and Mexicans.

Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920.

Conclusion: Troubled Crusade

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 22 Summative Quiz

Chapter 23

From New Era to Great Depression, 1920–1932

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 23

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 23

The New Era

A Business Government.

Promoting Prosperity and Peace Abroad.

Automobiles, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line Progress.

Consumer Culture.

Visual Activity for Chapter 23

Visualizing History: Advertising in a Consumer Age

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The Roaring Twenties

Prohibition.

The New Woman.

The New Negro.

Entertainment for the Masses.

The Lost Generation.

Resistance to Change

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 23

Rejecting the Undesirables.

The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Scopes Trial.

Al Smith and the Election of 1928.

The Great Crash

Herbert Hoover: The Great Engineer.

The Distorted Economy.

The Crash of 1929.

Hoover and the Limits of Individualism.

Life in the Depression

The Human Toll.

Denial and Escape.

Working-Class Militancy.

Conclusion: Dazzle and Despair

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 23 Summative Quiz

Chapter 24

The New Deal Experiment, 1932–1939

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 24

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in Government

The Making of a Politician.

Beyond America’s Borders: Fascism: Adolf Hitler and National Socialism

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The Election of 1932.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 24

Launching the New Deal

The New Dealers.

Banking and Finance Reform.

Relief and Conservation Programs.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 24

Agricultural Initiatives.

Industrial Recovery.

Challenges to the New Deal

Resistance to Business Reform.

Casualties in the Countryside.

Politics on the Fringes.

Toward a Welfare State

Relief for the Unemployed.

Visual Activity for Chapter 24

Empowering Labor.

Social Security and Tax Reform.

Neglected Americans and the New Deal.

The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock

The Election of 1936.

Court Packing.

Reaction and Recession.

The Last of the New Deal Reforms.

Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of the New Deal

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 24 Summative Quiz

Chapter 25

The United States and the Second World War, 1939–1945

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 25

Peacetime Dilemmas

Roosevelt and Reluctant Isolation.

The Good Neighbor Policy.

The Price of Noninvolvement.

The Onset of War

Nazi Aggression and War in Europe.

From Neutrality to the Arsenal of Democracy.

Japan Attacks America.

Mobilizing for War

Home-Front Security.

Documenting the American Promise: Japanese Internment

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Building a Citizen Army.

Conversion to a War Economy.

Fighting Back

Turning the Tide in the Pacific.

The Campaign in Europe.

The Wartime Home Front

Women and Families, Guns and Butter.

The Double V Campaign.

Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election.

Reaction to the Holocaust.

Toward Unconditional Surrender

From Bombing Raids to Berlin.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 25

Visual Activity for Chapter 25

The Defeat of Japan.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 25

Atomic Warfare.

Conclusion: Allied Victory and America's Emergence as a Superpower

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 25 Summative Quiz

Chapter 26

Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945–1953

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 26

From the Grand Alliance to Containment

The Cold War Begins.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 26

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.

Documenting the American Promise: The Emerging Cold War

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Building a National Security State.

Superpower Rivalry around the Globe.

Truman and the Fair Deal at Home

Reconverting to a Peacetime Economy.

Blacks and Mexican Americans Push for Their Civil Rights.

The Fair Deal Flounders.

Visual Activity for Chapter 26

The Domestic Chill: McCarthyism.

The Cold War Becomes Hot: Korea

Korea and the Military Implementation of Containment.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 26

From Containment to Rollback to Containment.

Korea, Communism, and the 1952 Election.

An Armistice and the War’s Costs.

Conclusion: The Cold War's Costs and Consequences

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 26 Summative Quiz

Chapter 27

The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952–1960

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 27

Eisenhower and the Politics of the “Middle Way”

Modern Republicanism.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 27

Termination and Relocation of Native Americans.

Visual Activity for Chapter 27

The 1956 Election and the Second Term.

Liberation Rhetoric and the Practice of Containment

The “New Look” in Foreign Policy.

Applying Containment to Vietnam.

Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East.

The Nuclear Arms Race.

New Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of Abundance

Technology Transforms Agriculture and Industry.

Burgeoning Suburbs and Declining Cities.

The Rise of the Sun Belt.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 27

The Democratization of Higher Education.

The Culture of Abundance

Consumption Rules the Day.

The Revival of Domesticity and Religion.

Television Transforms Culture and Politics.

Countercurrents.

The Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement

African Americans Challenge the Supreme Court and the President.

Documenting the American Promise: The Brown Decision

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise: The Brown Decision

Montgomery and Mass Protest.

Conclusion: Peace and Prosperity Mask Unmet Challenges

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 27 Summative Quiz

Chapter 28

Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960–1974

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 28

Liberalism at High Tide

The Unrealized Promise of Kennedy’s New Frontier.

Johnson Fulfills the Kennedy Promise.

Policymaking for a Great Society.

Assessing the Great Society.

The Judicial Revolution.

The Second Reconstruction

The Flowering of the Black Freedom Struggle.

Visual Activity for Chapter 28

The Response in Washington.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 28

Black Power and Urban Rebellions.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 28

A Multitude of Movements

Native American Protest.

Latino Struggles for Justice.

Student Rebellion, the New Left, and the Counterculture.

Visualizing History: Anti-Establishment Clothing

Quiz for Visualizing History: Anti-Establishment Clothing

Gay Men and Lesbians Organize.

The New Wave of Feminism

A Multifaceted Movement Emerges.

Feminist Gains Spark a Countermovement.

Liberal Reform in the Nixon Administration

Extending the Welfare State and Regulating the Economy.

Responding to Environmental Concerns.

Expanding Social Justice.

Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of Liberalism

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 28 Summative Quiz

Chapter 29

Vietnam and the End of the Cold War Consensus, 1961–1975

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 28

New Frontiers in Foreign Policy

Meeting the “Hour of Maximum Danger.”

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 29

New Approaches to the Third World.

The Arms Race and the Nuclear Brink.

A Growing War in Vietnam.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 29

Lyndon Johnson’s War against Communism

An All-Out Commitment in Vietnam.

Preventing Another Castro in Latin America.

The Americanized War.

Those Who Served.

A Nation Polarized

The Widening War at Home.

The Tet Offensive and Johnson’s Move toward Peace.

Beyond America’s Borders: 1968: A Year of Protest

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders: 1968: A Year of Protest

The Tumultuous Election of 1968.

Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam

Moving toward Détente with the Soviet Union and China.

Shoring Up U.S. Interests around the World.

Vietnam Becomes Nixon’s War.

Visual Activity for Chapter 29

The Peace Accords.

The Legacy of Defeat.

Conclusion: An Unwinnable War

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 29 Summative Quiz

Chapter 30

America Moves to the Right, 1969–1989

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 30

Nixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional Crisis

Emergence of a Grassroots Movement.

Nixon Courts the Right.

The Election of 1972.

Watergate.

The Ford Presidency and the 1976 Election.

The “Outsider” Presidency of Jimmy Carter

Retreat from Liberalism.

Energy and Environmental Reform.

Visual Activity for Chapter 30

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 30

Promoting Human Rights Abroad.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 30

The Cold War Intensifies.

Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Ascendancy

Appealing to the New Right and Beyond.

Unleashing Free Enterprise.

Winners and Losers in a Flourishing Economy.

Continuing Struggles over Rights

Battles in the Courts and Congress.

Feminism on the Defensive.

The Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement.

Documenting the American Promise: Protecting Gay and Lesbian Rights

Quiz for Documenting the American Promise: Protecting Gay and Lesbian Rights

Ronald Reagan Confronts an “Evil Empire”

Militarization and Interventions Abroad.

The Iran-Contra Scandal.

A Thaw in Soviet-American Relations.

Conclusion: Reversing the Course of Government

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 30 Summative Quiz

Chapter 31

The Promises and Challenges of Globalization, Since 1989

Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 31

Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush

Gridlock in Government.

Going to War in Central America and the Persian Gulf.

Map Activity 1 for Chapter 31

The Cold War Ends.

Map Activity 2 for Chapter 31

Visual Activity for Chapter 31

The 1992 Election.

The Clinton Administration’s Search for the Middle Ground

Clinton’s Reforms.

Accommodating the Right.

Impeaching the President.

The Booming Economy of the 1990s.

The United States in a Globalizing World

Defining America’s Place in a New World Order.

Debates over Globalization.

The Internationalization of the United States.

President George W. Bush: Conservatism at Home and Radical Initiatives Abroad

The Disputed Election of 2000.

The Domestic Policies of a “Compassionate Conservative.”

The Globalization of Terrorism.

Unilateralism, Preemption, and the Iraq War.

The Obama Presidency: Reform and Backlash

Visualizing History: Caricaturing the Candidates: Clinton and Obama in 2008

Quiz for Visualizing History: Caricaturing the Candidates: Clinton and Obama in 2008

Conclusion: Defining the Government’s Role at Home and Abroad

Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Chapter 31 Summative Quiz

About The American Promise: A Concise History, Fifth Edition

Copyright Page

Credits

Preface: Why This Book This Way

About the Authors

About Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, Fifth Edition

Appendix: Suggested References

Presidential Elections

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State

Supreme Court Justices

Federal Spending and the Economy, 1790-2009

Population Growth, 1630-2010

Birthrate, 1820-2007

Life Expectancy, 1900-2007

Major Trends in Immigration, 1820-2010