How to Use LaunchPad to Succeed
Introduction for Chapter 1
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 1
Archaeology and History
The First Americans
African and Asian Origins
Historical Question: “Who Were the First Americans?”
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Paleo-Indian Hunters
Archaic Hunters and Gatherers
Great Plains Bison Hunters
Great Basin Cultures
Pacific Coast Cultures
Eastern Woodland Cultures
Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms
Southwestern Cultures
Beyond America’s Borders: Corn: An Ancient American Legacy
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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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 1
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking To The Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 1
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 1
Introduction for Chapter 2
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
The Geographic Revolution and the Columbian Exchange
Spanish Exploration and Conquest
The Conquest of Mexico
Visualizing History: “Weapons of Conquest”
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The Search for Other Mexicos
Spanish Outposts in Florida and New Mexico
New Spain in the Sixteenth Century
Documenting the American Promise: “Justifying Conquest”
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Seeking the American Promise: “Spreading Christianity in New Spain”
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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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 2
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 2
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 2
Introduction for Chapter 3
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 3
An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay
The Fragile Jamestown Settlement
Cooperation and Conflict between Natives and Newcomers
From Private Company to Royal Government
A Tobacco Society
Beyond America’s Borders: “American Tobacco and European Consumers”
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Tobacco Agriculture
A Servant Labor System
The Rigors of Servitude
Seeking the American Promise: “The Gamble of Indentured Servitude”
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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
Carolina: A West Indian Frontier
Slave Labor Emerges in the Chesapeake
Historical Question: “Why Did English Colonists Consider Themselves Superior to Indians and Africans?”
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Conclusion: The Growth of English Colonies Based on Export Crops and Slave Labor
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 3
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 3
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 3
Introduction for Chapter 4
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
The Evolution of New England Society
Church, Covenant, and Conformity
Visualizing History: “Targets of Puritan Reform”
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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
Royal Regulation of Colonial Trade
King Philip’s War and the Consolidation of Royal Authority
Beyond America’s Borders: New France and the Indians: The English Colonies’ Northern Borderlands
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Conclusion: An English Model of Colonization in North America
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 4
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 4
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 4
Introduction for Chapter 5
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
Seeking the American Promise: “A Sailor’s Life in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”
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The Middle Colonies: Immigrants, Wheat, and Work
German and Scots-Irish Immigrants
“God Gives All Things to Industry”: Urban and Rural Labor
Visualizing History: “A View of Urban Life”
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The Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery
The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Growth of Slavery
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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 5
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 5
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 5
Introduction for Chapter 6
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
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
Seeking the American Promise: “Pursuing Liberty, Protesting Tyranny”
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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
The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts, 1770–1774
The Calm before the Storm
Tea in Boston Harbor
The Coercive Acts
Documenting the American Promise: “Reactions to the Boston Port Act outside of Massachusetts”
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Beyond Boston: Rural New England
The First Continental Congress
Domestic Insurrections, 1774–1775
Lexington and Concord
Rebelling against Slavery
Conclusion: The Long Road to Revolution
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 6
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 6
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 6
Introduction for Chapter 7
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
Visualizing History: “Keeping Powder Dry”
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The British Strategy
Quebec, New York, and New Jersey
The Home Front
Patriotism at the Local Level
The Loyalists
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
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
Beyond America’s Borders: European Nations and the Peace of Paris, 1783
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Conclusion: Why the British Lost
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 7
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 7
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 7
Introduction for Chapter 8
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 8
The Articles of Confederation
Confederation and Taxation
The Problem of Western Lands
Running the New Government
Visualizing History: “The Great Seal of the United States”
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The Sovereign States
The State Constitutions
Who Are “the People”?
Equality and Slavery
Seeking the American Promise: “A Slave Sues for Her Freedom”
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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
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
The Antifederalists
Historical Question: “Was the New United States a Christian Country?”
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The Big Holdouts: Virginia and New York
Conclusion: The “Republican Remedy”
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 8
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 8
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 8
Introduction for Chapter 9
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 9
The Search for Stability
Washington Inaugurates the Government
The Bill of Rights
Historical Question: “How Did America’s First Congress Address the Question of Slavery?”
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The Republican Wife and Mother
Hamilton’s Economic Policies
Agriculture, Transportation, and Banking
The Public Debt and Taxes
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
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
Documenting the American Promise: “The Crisis of 1798: Sedition”
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Conclusion: Parties Nonetheless
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 9
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 9
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 9
Introduction for Chapter 10
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 10
Jefferson’s Presidency
Turbulent Times: Election and Rebellion
Historical Question: “How Could a Vice President Get Away with Murder?”
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The Jeffersonian Vision of Republican Simplicity
Dangers Overseas: The Barbary Wars
Opportunities and Challenges in the West
The Louisiana Purchase
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
Seeking the American Promise: “One Woman’s Quest to Provide Higher Education for Women”
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Monroe and Adams
From Property to Democracy
The Missouri Compromise
The Monroe Doctrine
The Election of 1824
The Adams Administration
Conclusion: Republican Simplicity Becomes Complex
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 10
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 10
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 10
Introduction for Chapter 11
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 11
The Market Revolution
Improvements in Transportation
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
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
Beyond America’s Borders: Transatlantic Abolition
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Van Buren’s One-Term Presidency
The Politics of Slavery
Elections and Panics
Seeking the American Promise: “Going Ahead or Gone to Smash: An Entrepreneur Struggles in the 1830s”
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Conclusion: The Age of Jackson or the Era of Reform?
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 11
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 11
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 11
Introduction for Chapter 12
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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Free Labor: Promise and Reality
The Free-Labor Ideal
Economic Inequality
Beyond America’s Borders: Global Prosperity in the 1850s
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Immigrants and the Free-Labor Ladder
The Westward Movement
Manifest Destiny
Oregon and the Overland Trail
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
Golden California
Documenting the American Promise: “The Gold Rush”
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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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 12
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 12
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 12
Introduction for Chapter 13
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 13
The Growing Distinctiveness of the South
Cotton Kingdom, Slave Empire
Visualizing History: “The Auction Block”
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The South in Black and White
Documenting the American Promise: “Defending Slavery”
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The Plantation Economy
Masters and Mistresses in the Big House
Paternalism and Male Honor
Historical Question: “How Often Were Slaves Whipped?”
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The Southern Lady and Feminine Virtues
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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 13
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 13
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 13
Introduction for Chapter 14
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 14
The Bitter Fruits of War
Visualizing History: “Games among the Sioux”
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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 Manifest Destiny
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Realignment of the Party System
The Old Parties: Whigs and Democrats
The New Parties: Know-Nothings and Republicans
Seeking the American Promise: ““A Purse of Her Own”: Petitioning for the Right to Own Property”
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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
Republican Victory in 1860
Secession Winter
Conclusion: Slavery, Free Labor, and the Failure of Political Compromise
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 14
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 14
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 14
Introduction for Chapter 15
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
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
Seeking the American Promise: “The Right to Fight: Black Soldiers in the Civil War”
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The South at War
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
Grant Takes Command
Historical Question: “Why Did So Many Soldiers Die?”
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The Election of 1864
The Confederacy Collapses
Conclusion: The Second American Revolution
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 15
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 15
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 15
Introduction for Chapter 16
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
Historical Question: “What Did the Ku Klux Klan Really Want?”
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Republican Rule
White Landlords, Black Sharecroppers
Visualizing History: “A Post-slavery Encounter”
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Reconstruction Collapses
Grant’s Troubled Presidency
Northern Resolve Withers
White Supremacy Triumphs
An Election and a Compromise
Conclusion: “A Revolution but Half Accomplished”
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 16
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 16
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 16
Introduction for Chapter 17
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 17
Conquest and Empire in the West
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
Indian Wars and the Collapse of Comanchería
The Fight for the Black Hills
Visualizing History: ““Custer’s Last Stand””
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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
Documenting the American Promise: “Young Women Homesteaders and the Promise of the West”
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Ranchers and Cowboys
Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants
Commercial Farming and Industrial Cowboys
Territorial Government
Conclusion: The West in the Gilded Age
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 17
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 17
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 17
Introduction for Chapter 18
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 18
Railroads and the Rise of New Industries
Railroads: America’s First Big Business
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
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
Historical Question: “Social Darwinism: Did Wealthy Industrialists Practice What They Preached?”
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Politics and Culture
Political Participation and Party Loyalty
Sectionalism and the New South
Gender, Race, and Politics
Documenting the American Promise: “Ida B. Wells and Her Campaign to Stop Lynching”
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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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 18
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 18
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 18
Introduction for Chapter 19
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 19
The Rise of the City
The Urban Explosion: A Global Migration
Seeking the American Promise: “Seeking Refuge: Russian Jews Escape the Pogroms”
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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
Documenting the American Promise: “The Songs of the Knights of Labor”
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Haymarket and the Specter of Labor Radicalism
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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 19
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 19
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 19
Introduction for Chapter 20
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 20
The Farmers Unite
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
Beyond America’s Borders: “Regime Change in Hawai’i”
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The Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door Policy
“A Splendid Little War”
Historical Question: “Did Terrorists Sink the Maine?”
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The Debate over American Imperialism
Conclusion: Rallying around the Flag
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 20
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 20
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 20
Introduction for Chapter 21
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 21
Grassroots Progressivism
Civilizing the City
Seeking the American Promise: “Making the Workplace Safer: Alice Hamilton Explores the Dangerous Trades”
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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
Historical Question: “Progressives and Conservation: Should Hetch Hetchy Be Dammed or Saved?”
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The Big Stick
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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 21
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 21
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 21
Introduction for Chapter 22
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
The Crusade for Democracy at Home
The Progressive Stake in the War
Women, War, and the Battle for Suffrage
Seeking the American Promise: “Seeking to Serve: An American Woman in Wartime France”
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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
Beyond America’s Borders: “Bolshevism”
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The Great Migrations of African Americans and Mexicans
Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920
Conclusion: Troubled Crusade
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 22
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 22
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 22
Introduction 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
Visualizing History: “Advertising in a Consumer Age”
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The Roaring Twenties
Prohibition
The New Woman
Historical Question: “Was There a Sexual Revolution in the 1920s?”
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The New Negro
Seeking the American Promise: “The Quest for Home Ownership in Segregated Detroit”
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Entertainment for the Masses
The Lost Generation
Resistance to Change
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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 23
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 23
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 23
Introduction for Chapter 24
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
Launching the New Deal
The New Dealers
Banking and Finance Reform
Relief and Conservation Programs
Agricultural Initiatives
Industrial Recovery
Seeking the American Promise: “Textile Workers Strike for Better Wages and Working Conditions”
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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
Documenting the American Promise: “Americans Encounter the New Deal”
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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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 24
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 24
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 24
Introduction for Chapter 25
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
Beyond America’s Borders: “Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Atomic Bomb”
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Toward Unconditional Surrender
From Bombing Raids to Berlin
Historical Question: “Why Did the Allies Win World War II?”
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The Defeat of Japan
Atomic Warfare
Conclusion: Allied Victory and America’s Emergence as a Superpower
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 25
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 25
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 25
Introduction for Chapter 26
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 26
From the Grand Alliance to Containment
The Cold War Begins
Documenting the American Promise: “The Emerging Cold War”
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The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Visualizing History: “Selling the Marshall Plan”
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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
The Domestic Chill: McCarthyism
Seeking the American Promise: “An Immigrant Scientist Encounters the Anti-Communist Crusade”
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The Cold War Becomes Hot: Korea
Korea and the Military Implementation of Containment
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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 26
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 26
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 26
Introduction for Chapter 27
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 27
Eisenhower and the Politics of the “Middle Way”
Modern Republicanism
Termination and Relocation of Native Americans
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
Seeking the American Promise: “Operation Pedro Pan: Young Political Refugees Take Flight”
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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
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”
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Visualizing History: “School Desegregation”
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Montgomery and Mass Protest
Conclusion: Peace and Prosperity Mask Unmet Challenges
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 27
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 27
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 27
Introduction for Chapter 28
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
The Response in Washington
Black Power and Urban Rebellions
A Multitude of Movements
Native American Protest
Latino Struggles for Justice
Student Rebellion, the New Left, and the Counterculture
Documenting the American Promise: “Student Protest”
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Visualizing History: “Anti-Establishment Clothing”
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Gay Men and Lesbians Organize
The New Wave of Feminism
A Multifaceted Movement Emerges
Beyond America’s Borders: “Transnational Feminisms”
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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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 28
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 28
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 28
Introduction for Chapter 29
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 29
New Frontiers in Foreign Policy
Meeting the “Hour of Maximum Danger”
New Approaches to the Third World
The Arms Race and the Nuclear Brink
A Growing War in Vietnam
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”
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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
Documenting the American Promise: “Ending the War in Vietnam”
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The Peace Accords
Seeking the American Promise: “From the Fall of Saigon to the House of Representatives”
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The Legacy of Defeat
Conclusion: An Unwinnable War
Chapter Review
Key Terms
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Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 29
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 29
Introduction for Chapter 30
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 30
Nixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional Crisis
Emergence of a Grassroots Movement
Seeking the American Promise: “A Mother Campaigns for a Say in Her Children’s Education”
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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
Promoting Human Rights Abroad
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
Historical Question: “Why Did the ERA Fail?”
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The Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement
Documenting the American Promise: “Protecting Gay and Lesbian Rights”
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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
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 30
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 30
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 30
Introduction for Chapter 31
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 31
Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
Gridlock in Government
Seeking the American Promise: “Suing for Access: Disability and the Courts”
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The Cold War Ends
Going to War in Central America and the Persian Gulf
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
Beyond America’s Borders: “Jobs in a Globalizing Era”
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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
Governing during Economic Crisis and Political Polarization
Visualizing History: “Caricaturing the Candidates: Clinton and Obama in 2008”
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Redefining the War on Terror
Conclusion: Defining the Government’s Role at Home and Abroad
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Key Terms Flashcards for Chapter 31
Review Questions
Making Connections
Linking to the Past
What’s Your Question? for Chapter 31
Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 31
Copyright Page
Preface: Why This Book This Way
Credits
About the Authors
Presidential Elections
Admission of States to the Union
Population
Major Trends in Immigration
Selected Bibliography
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