1: Mapping Global Frontiers

1. Mapping Global Frontiers, to 1585

American Histories: Malinzin and Martin Waldseemüller

Native Peoples in the Americas

Native Peoples Develop Diverse Cultures

The Aztecs, the Maya, and the Incas

Native Cultures to the North

Europe Expands Its Reach

The Mediterranean World

Portugal Pursues Long-Distance Trade

European Encounters with West Africa

Document 1.1 John Lok, The Second Voyage to Guinea, 1554

Worlds Collide

Europeans Cross the Atlantic

Document 1.2 Christopher Columbus, Reaching the West Indies, 1492

Europeans Explore the Americas

Mapmaking and Printing

The Columbian Exchange

Europeans Make Claims to North America

Spaniards Conquer Indian Empires

Document 1.3 Aztec Smallpox Victim, 1540

Spanish Adventurers Head North

Europeans Compete in North America

Spain Seeks Dominion in Europe and the Americas

Documents 1.4 and 1.5 European Depictions of the Americas: Two Views

Conclusion: A New America

Chapter Review

Document Project 1 Mapping America

Document 1.6 Christopher and Bartolomeo Columbus, Map of Europe and North Africa, c. 1490

Document 1.7 Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann, Universalis Cosmographia, 1507

Document 1.8 Piri Reis Map, 1513

Document 1.9 Dauphin Map of Canada, c. 1543

Document 1.10 Map of Cuauhtinchan, 1550

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 1 Spanish and Indian Encounters in the Americas, 1520–1555

Document 1.11 Hernán Cortés, Letter to King Charles I, 1520

Document 1.12 Aztec Priests Respond to the Spanish, 1524

Document 1.13 Omens Foretelling the Arrival of the Spaniards, ca. 1555

Document 1.14 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, La Relación, ca. 1528

Document 1.15 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, The Journey of Coronado, 1540–1542

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 1 Summative Quiz

2: Colonization and Conflicts

2. Colonization and Conflicts, 1150-1680

American Histories: Captain John Smith and Anne Hutchinson

Religious and Imperial Transformations

The Protestant Reformation

Spain’s Global Empire Declines

France Enters the Race for Empire

Documents 2.1 and 2.2 Indians and Jesuit Missionaries in New France: Two Views

The Dutch Expand into North America

The English Seek an Empire

The English Establish Jamestown

Tobacco Fuels Growth in Virginia

Document 2.3 Simon van de Passe, Engraving of Pocahontas, 1616

Expansion, Rebellion, and the Emergence of Slavery

Document 2.4 Virginia Slave Law, 1662

The English Compete for West Indies Possessions

Pilgrims and Puritans Settle New England

Pilgrims Arrive in Massachusetts

The Puritan Migration

The Puritan Worldview

Dissenters Challenge Puritan Authority

Wars in Old and New England

Document 2.5 Captain John Underhill, Attack at Mystic, Connecticut, 1638

Conclusion: European Empires in North America

Chapter Review

Document Project 2 King Philip’s War

Document 2.6 John Easton, A Relation of the Indian War, 1675

Document 2.7 Benjamin Church, Passages Relating to Philip’s War, 1716

Document 2.8 Edward Randolph, Report on the War, 1676

Document 2.9 William Nahaton, Petition to Free an Indian Slave, 1675

Document 2.10 Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of Captivity, 1682

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 2 Comparing Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colonies

Document 2.11 Passenger List to Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1634

Document 2.12 Passenger List to Virginia, 1634

Document 2.13 John Smith, The Commodities in Virginia, c. 1612

Document 2.14 John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630

Document 2.15 Richard Frethorne, Letter Home from Virginia, 1623

Document 2.16 Letter Home from Massachusetts Bay, 1631

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 2 Summative Quiz

3: Global Changes Reshape Colonial America

3. Global Changes Reshape Colonial America, 1680-1750

American Histories: William Moraley Jr. and Eliza Lucasn

Europeans Expand Their Claims

English Colonies Grow and Multiply

Document 3.1 John Locke, On the State of Nature, 1690

France Seeks Lands and Control

The Pueblo Revolt and Spain’s Fragile Empire

European Wars and American Consequences

Colonial Conflicts and Indian Alliances

Indians Resist European Encroachment

Document 3.2 The Tuscarora Appeal to the Pennsylvania Government, 1710

Global Conflicts on the Southern Frontier

The Benefits and Costs of Empire

Colonial Traders Join Global Networks

Imperial Policies Focus on Profits

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Document 3.3 Plan of a Slave Ship, 1789

Seaport Cities and Consumer Cultures

Labor in North America

Finding Work in the Colonies

Documents 3.4 and 3.5 Pennsylvania as Promised Land? Two Views

Coping with Economic Distress

Rural Americans Face Changing Conditions

Slavery Takes Hold in the South

Africans Resist Their Enslavement

Conclusion: Changing Fortunes in British North America

Chapter Review

Document Project 3 The Production of Indigo

Document 3.6 Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Letter to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 1785

Document 3.7 George Milligen-Johnston, A Description of South Carolina, 1770

Document 3.8 Pamphlet on Cultivating Indigo, 1746

Document 3.9 Laboring for Indigo, 1773

Document 3.10 James Habersham, Letter to Benjamin Martyn, June 13, 1751

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 3 The Atlantic Slave Trade

Document 3.11 Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, 1798

Document 3.12 Thomas Phillips, Voyage of the Hannibal, 1694

Document 3.13 Willem Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, 1703

Document 3.14 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 3 Summative Quiz

4: Religious Strife and Social Upheavals

4. Religious Strife and Social Upheavals

American Histories: Gilbert Tennent and Sarah Grosvenor

An Ungodly Society?

The Rise of Religious Anxieties

Cries of Witchcraft

Documents 4.1 and 4.2 The Devil’s Work: Two Views

Family and Household Dynamics

Women’s Changing Status

Document 4.3 Will of Edmund Titus, Oyster Bay, New York, 1754

Working Families

Reproduction and Women’s Roles

The Limits of Patriarchal Order

Diversity and Competition in Colonial Society

Population Growth and Economic Competition

Increasing Diversity

Expansion and Conflict

Religious Awakenings

The Roots of the Great Awakening

An Outburst of Revivals

Document 4.4 Nathan Cole, On George Whitefield Coming to Connecticut, 1740

Religious Dissension

Political Awakenings

Changing Political Relations

Dissent and Protest

Transforming Urban Politics

Document 4.5 The Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1736

Conclusion: A Divided Society

Chapter Review

Document Project 4 Awakening Religious Tensions

Document 4.6 George Whitefield, Marks of a True Conversion, 1739

Document 4.7 Gilbert Tennent, The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry, 1739

Document 4.8 Newspaper Report on James Davenport, 1743

Document 4.9 Charles Chauncy, Letter to Scottish Minister George Wishart, 1742

Document 4.10 Dr. Squintum’s Exaltation or the Reformation, 1763

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 4 A New Commercial Culture in Boston

Document 4.11 Ship Arrivals and Departures at Boston, 1707

Document 4.12 Goods for Sale, 1720

Document 4.13 Advertisement for Musical Instruments, 1716

Document 4.14 Chest of Drawers, ca. 1735–1739

Document 4.15 Advertisement for Runaway Slave, 1744

Document 4.16 Letter from a Boston Protester, 1737

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 4 Summative Quiz

5: Wars and Empires

5. Wars and Empires, 1750-1774

American Histories: George Washington and Herman Husband

A War for Empire, 1754–1763

The Opening Battles

A Shift to Global War

The Costs of Victory

Battles and Boundaries on the Frontier

Document 5.1 Pontiac, Speech to Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Huron Leaders, 1763

Conflicts over Land and Labor Escalate

Postwar British Policies and Colonial Unity

Common Grievances

Forging Ties across the Colonies

Great Britain Seeks Greater Control

Resistance to Britain Intensifies

The Stamp Act Inspires Coordinated Resistance

Documents 5.2 and 5.3 Protesting the Stamp Act: Two Views

The Townshend Act and the Boston Massacre

Document 5.4 John Dickinson, Letter from a Farmer, 1768

Continuing Conflicts at Home

Tea and Widening Resistance

Document 5.5 The Edenton Proclamation, 1774

The Continental Congress and Colonial Unity

Conclusion: Liberty within Empire

Chapter Review

Document Project 5 The Boston Massacre

Document 5.6 Deposition of William Wyatt, March 7, 1770

Document 5.7 Account of Boston Massacre Funeral Procession, March 12, 1770

Document 5.8 Paul Revere, Etching of the Boston Massacre, 1770

Document 5.9 Account of Captain Thomas Preston, June 25, 1770

Document 5.10 John Hancock, Oration on the Boston Massacre, 1774

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 5 Defining Liberty, Defining America

Document 5.11 The Albany Plan of Union, 1754

Document 5.12 Boycott Agreement of Women in Boston, 1770

Document 5.13 Peter Bestes and Massachusetts Slaves, Letter to Local Representatives, 1773

Document 5.14 Committees of Correspondence, 1773

Document 5.15 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 5 Summative Quiz

6: Revolutions

6. Revolutions, 1775–1783

American Histories: Thomas Paine and Deborah Sampson

The Question of Independence

Armed Conflict Erupts

Building a Continental Army

Reasons for Caution and for Action

Documents 6.1 and 6.2 Debating Independence: Two Views

Declaring Independence

Choosing Sides

Recruiting Supporters

Document 6.3 Oneida Address to Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull, June 1775

Choosing Neutrality

Committing to Independence

Fighting for Independence

British Troops Gain Early Victories

Patriots Prevail in New Jersey

A Critical Year of Warfare

Patriots Gain Critical Assistance

Surviving on the Home Front

Governing in Revolutionary Times

Colonies Become States

Patriots Divide over Slavery

France Allies with the Patriots

Document 6.4 Chevalier de Pontgibaud, A French Volunteer at Valley Forge, 1828

Raising Armies and Funds

Indian Affairs and Land Claims

Winning the War and the Peace

Fighting in the West

War Rages in the South

An Uncertain Peace

Document 6.5 Thomas Peters, Petition to the British Cabinet, 1790

A Surprising Victory

Conclusion: Legacies of the Revolution

Chapter Review

Document Project 6 Women in the Revolution

Document 6.6 Christian Barnes, Letter to Elizabeth Inman, April 29, 1775

Document 6.7 Deborah Champion, Letter to Patience, October 2, 1775

Document 6.8 Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams, July 13, 1777

Document 6.9 Esther De Berdt Reed, The Sentiments of an American Woman, 1780

Document 6.10 Mary Jemison, The War's Impact on Native Americans, 1823

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 6 Loyalists in the American Revolution

Document 6.11 Joseph Galloway, Speech to Continental Congress, 1774

Document 6.12 Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America, Impartially Stated, 1776

Document 6.13 Hannah Griffits, Response to Thomas Paine, 1776

Document 6.14 Philip Dawe, Cartoon on Violence against Loyalists, 1775

Document 6.15 Boston King, “Memoirs of the Life of Boston King,” 1798

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 6 Summative Quiz

7: Political Cultures

7. Political Cultures, 1783–1800

American Histories: Daniel Shays and Alexander Hamilton

Postwar Problems

Officers Threaten Mutiny

Indians, Land, and the Northwest Ordinance

Documents 7.1 and 7.2 Conflicts over Western Lands: Two Views

Depression and Debt

On the Political Margins

Separating Church and State

African Americans Struggle for Rights

Document 7.3 Petition from Free Blacks of Charleston, 1791

Women Seek Wider Roles

Indebted Farmers Fuel Political Crises

Reframing the American Government

The Philadelphia Convention of 1787

Americans Battle over Ratification

Document 7.4 Amos Singletary, Speech to the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788

Organizing the Federal Government

Hamilton Forges an Economic Agenda

Years of Crisis, 1792–1796

Foreign Trade and Foreign Wars

The Whiskey Rebellion

Further Conflicts on the Frontier

The First Party System

The Adams Presidency

The Election of 1800

Conclusion: A Young Nation Comes of Age

Chapter Review

Document Project 7 The Whiskey Rebellion

Document 7.5 Resolution to the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1791

Document 7.6 The Pittsburgh Resolution, 1794

Document 7.7 George Washington, Proclamation against the Rebels, 1794

Document 7.8 Alexander Hamilton, Letter to George Washington, August 5, 1794

Document 7.9 Alexander Hamilton, Tully’s Pamphlet, 1794

Document 7.10 James Madison, Letter to James Monroe, December 4, 1794

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 7 Debating the Constitution

Document 7.11 Cato III, New York Journal, 1787

Document 7.12 James Madison, Federalist 10, 1787

Document 7.13 James Madison, Federalist 51, 1788

Document 7.14 Brutus, Second Essay Opposing the Constitution, 1787

Document 7.15 Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 84, 1788

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 7 Summative Quiz

8: New Frontiers

8. New Frontiers, 1790–1820

American Histories: Parker Cleveland and Sacagawea

Creating an American Identity

Education for a New Nation

Literary and Cultural Developments

Document 8.1 Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple, 1791

The Racial Limits of American Culture

Emigration and Colonization

Building a National Capital

Extending U.S. Borders

A New Administration Faces Challenges

Document 8.2 Mary Hassal, Secret History, 1808

Incorporating the Louisiana Territory

The Supreme Court Extends Its Reach

Democratic-Republicans Expand Federal Powers

Remaking the U.S. Economy

The U.S. Population Grows and Migrates

Technology Reshapes Agriculture and Industry

Transforming Household Production

Documents 8.3 and 8.4 Industrial Beginnings in Massachusetts: Two Views

Technology, Cotton, and Slaves

Conclusion: New Frontiers and New Challenges

Chapter Review

Document Project 8 Race Relations in the Early Republic

Document 8.5 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Marquis de Chastellux, 1785

Document 8.6 Meriwether Lewis, Journal Entry, 1805

Document 8.7 Confession of Solomon, September 1800

Document 8.8 Andrew Jackson, Runaway Slave Advertisement, 1804

Document 8.9 Robert Sutcliff, Travels in Some Parts of North America, 1812

Document 8.10 Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization, 1817

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 8 Literary and Cultural Developments in the Early United States

Document 8.11 Noah Webster, Dissertations on the English Language, 1789

Document 8.12 Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

Document 8.13 Samuel Jennings, Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, 1792

Document 8.14 Mason Locke Weems, Life of Washington, 1806

Document 8.15 Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle,” 1820

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 8 Summative Quiz

9: Defending and Redefining the Nation

9. Defending and Redefining the Nation, 1809–1832

American Histories: Dolley Madison and John Ross

Conflicts at Home and Abroad

Tensions at Sea and on the Frontier

Document 9.1 Tecumseh, Speech to William Henry Harrison, 1810

War Erupts with Britain

Expanding the Economy and the Nation

Governments Fuel Economic Growth

Americans Expand the Nation’s Borders

Regional Economic Development

Economic and Political Crises

The Panic of 1819

Slavery in Missouri

Documents 9.2 and 9.3 Protesting the Missouri Compromise: Two Views

Redefining American Democracy

Expanding Voting Rights

Racial Restrictions and Antiblack Violence

Political Realignments

The Presidential Election of 1828

Jacksonian Democracy in Action

A Democratic Spirit?

Confrontations over Tariffs and the Bank

Document 9.4 General Jackson Slaying the Many Headed Monster, 1836

Contesting Indian Removal

Conclusion: The Nation Faces New Challenges

Chapter Review

Document Project 9 The Panic of 1819

Document 9.5 Auction in Chatham Square, 1820

Document 9.6 James Flint, Account of the Panic, 1820

Document 9.7 Virginia Agricultural Society, Antitariff Petition, 1820

Document 9.8 James Kent, Arguments against Expanding Male Voting Rights, 1821

Document 9.9 Nathan Sanford, Arguments for Expanding Male Voting Rights, 1821

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 9 The Election of 1828

Document 9.10 Proceedings of the Anti-Jackson Convention in Richmond, 1828

Document 9.11 Monumental Inscriptions, 1828

Document 9.12 New Jersey Pro-Jackson Convention, 1828

Document 9.13 Resolution of the Albany County Republican Convention, 1828

Document 9.14 Jackson Handbill, 1828

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 9 Summative Quiz

10: Slavery Expands South and West

10. Slavery Expands South and West, 1830–1850

American Histories: James Henry Hammond and Solomon Northrup

Planters Expand the Slave System

A Plantation Society Develops in the South

Urban Life in the Slave South

The Consequences of Slavery’s Expansion

Document 10.1 Edward Strutt Abdy, Description of Washington, D.C., Slave Pen, 1833

Slave Society and Culture

Slaves Fuel the Southern Economy

Developing an African American Culture

Resistance and Rebellion

Planters Tighten Control

Harsher Treatment for Southern Blacks

Documents 10.2 and 10.3 Debating Slavery: Two Views

White Southerners without Slaves

Planters Seek to Unify Southern Whites

Democrats Face Political and Economic Crises

Continued Conflicts over Indian Lands

Document 10.4 Petition of the Women’s Councils to the Cherokee National Council, 1831

The Battle for Texas

Van Buren and the Panic of 1837

The Whigs Win the White House

Document 10.5 William Henry Harrison Campaign Poster, 1840

The National Government Looks to the West

Expanding to Oregon and Texas

Pursuing War with Mexico

Debates over Slavery Intensify

Conclusion: Geographical Expansion and Political Division

Chapter Review

Document Project 10 Claiming Texas

Document 10.6 Mary Austin Holley, Letter to Charles Austin, 1831

Document 10.7 Colonel Gregorio Gomez, Call to Arms against the Texans, 1835

Document 10.8 Colonel William Travis, Appeal for Reinforcements, March 3, 1836

Document 10.9 Benjamin Lundy, The War in Texas, 1836

Document 10.10 Southerners Support Texas Settlers, 1837

Document 10.11 Treaty of Tehuacana Creek, October 9, 1844

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 10 Life in Slavery

Document 10.12 William Wells Brown, Narrative of a Fugitive Slave, 1847

Document 10.13 Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, 1855

Document 10.14 Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861

Document 10.15 Interview with Laura Smalley, 1941

Document 10.16 Interview with Irene Williams, 1940

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 10 Summative Quiz

11: Social and Cultural Ferment in the North

11. Social and Cultural Ferment in the North, 1820–1850

American Histories: Charles Grandison Finney and Amy Kirby Post

The Growth of Cities

The Lure of Urban Life

The Roots of Urban Disorder

The New Middle Class

The Rise of Industry

Factory Towns and Women Workers

Documents 11.1 and 11.2 Life in the Mills: Two Views

Deskilling and the Response of Working Men

The Panic of 1837 in the North

Rising Class and Cultural Tensions

Document 11.3 Samuel F. B. Morse, The Dangers of Foreign Immigration, 1835

Saving the Nation from Sin

The Second Great Awakening

New Spirits Rising

Transcendentalism

Organizing for Change

Varieties of Reform

Document 11.4 Drunkard’s Home, 1850

The Temperance Movement

Utopian Communities

Document 11.5 George Ripley, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, November 9, 1840

Abolitionism Expands and Divides

The Beginnings of the Antislavery Movement

Abolition Gains Ground and Enemies

Abolitionism and Women’s Rights

The Rise of Antislavery Parties

Conclusion: From the North to the Nation

Chapter Review

Document Project 11 The Second Great Awakening and Women’s Activism

Document 11.6 Charles Grandison Finney, What Revival Is, 1835

Document 11.7 Frances Trollope, Description of a Revival Meeting, 1832

Document 11.8 Elizabeth Emery and Mary P. Abbott, Letter to the Liberator, 1836

Document 11.9 Pastoral Letter to the Liberator, 1837

Document 11.10 Sarah Grimké, Response to the Pastoral Letter, 1837

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 11 Debating Abolition

Document 11.11 William Lloyd Garrison, On the Constitution and the Union, 1832

Document 11.12 Stephen Symonds Foster, The Brotherhood of Thieves, 1843

Document 11.13 Liberty Party Platform, 1844

Document 11.14 Gerrit Smith, Address to the Liberty Party Convention, 1848

Document 11.15 Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and the Constitution, 1851

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 11 Summative Quiz

12: Imperial Ambitions and Sectional Crises

12. Imperial Ambitions and Sectional Crises, 1848–1861

American Histories: John C. Frémont and Dred Scott

Claiming the West

Traveling the Overland Trail

Document 12.1 Elizabeth Smith Geer, Oregon Trail Diary, 1847

The Gold Rush

A Crowded Land

Expansion and the Politics of Slavery

California and the Compromise of 1850

Document 12.2 John C. Calhoun, On the Compromise of 1850, 1850

The Fugitive Slave Act Inspires Northern Protest

Pierce Encourages U.S. Expansion

Sectional Crises Intensify

Popularizing Antislavery Sentiment

Documents 12.3 and 12.4 Slavery in Literature: Two Views

The Kansas-Nebraska Act Stirs Dissent

Bleeding Kansas and the Election of 1856

Document 12.5 John Magee, Forcing Slavery down the Throat of a Freesoiler, 1856

The Dred Scott Decision

From Sectional Crisis to War

John Brown’s Raid

The Election of 1860

The Lower South Secedes

Conclusion: The Coming of the Civil War

Chapter Review

Document Project 12 Visions of John Brown

Document 12.6 State Register (Springfield, Illinois) | The Irrepressible Conflict, 1859

Document 12.7 Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown, 1859

Document 12.8 John Brown, Letter to E.B. from Jail, November 1, 1859

Document 12.9 Reverend J. Sella Martin, Day of Mourning Speech, December 2, 1859

Document 12.10 A Southern Paper Reacts to Brown’s Execution, December 3, 1859

Document 12.11 Currier and Ives, John Brown on His Way to Execution, 1863

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 12 Sectional Politics and the Rise of the Republican Party

Document 12.12 Abraham Lincoln, On Slavery, 1854

Document 12.13 Republican Party Platform, 1856

Document 12.14 Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas, 1856

Document 12.15 William H. Seward, The Irrepressible Conflict,1858

Document 12.16

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 12 Summative Quiz

13: Civil War

13. Civil War, 1861–1865

American Histories: Frederick Douglass and Rose O’Neal Greenhow

The Nation Goes to War

The South Embraces Secession

Documents 13.1 and 13.2 Debating Secession in Georgia: Two Views

Both Sides Prepare for War

Fighting for Union or against Slavery?

Debating the Role of African Americans

Document 13.3 Charlotte Forten, Life on the Sea Islands, 1864

Fighting for the Right to Fight

Union Politicians Consider Emancipation

War Transforms the North and the South

Life and Death on the Battlefield

Document 13.4 Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Burial of Federal Dead, Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 1864

The Northern Economy Booms

Urbanization and Industrialization in the South

Women Aid the War Effort

Dissent and Protest in the Midst of War

The Tide of War Turns

Key Victories for the Union

African Americans Contribute to Victory

The Final Battles and the Promise of Peace

Document 13.5 Eleanor Cohen Seixas, Journal Entry, February 1865

Conclusion: An Uncertain Future

Chapter Review

Document Project 13 Civil War Letters

Document 13.6 Fred Spooner, Letter to His Brother Henry, April 30, 1861

Document 13.7 John Hines, Letter to His Parents, April 22, 1862

Document 13.8 Ginnie Ott, Letter to Enos Ott, November 21, 1864

Document 13.9 Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Letter to Her Mother, May 26, 1862

Document 13.10 Thomas Freeman, Letter to His Brother-in-Law, March 26, 1864

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 13 Home Front Protest during the Civil War

Document 13.11 John Beauchamp Jones, The Richmond Bread Riot, 1866

Document 13.12 Richmond Bread Riot Cartoon, 1863

Document 13.13 Edward B. Freeland, The New York City Draft Riot, 1863

Document 13.14 Clement L. Vallandigham, The Civil War in America, 1863

Document 13.15 Calls for Peace in North Carolina, 1863

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 13 Summative Quiz

14: Emancipations and Reconstructions

14. Emancipations and Reconstructions, 1863–1877

American Histories: Jefferson Franklin Long and Andrew Johnson

Prelude to Reconstruction

African Americans Embrace Emancipation

Reuniting Families Torn Apart by Slavery

Free to Learn

Black Churches Take a Leadership Role

National Reconstructions

Abraham Lincoln Plans for Reunion

Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction

Johnson and Congressional Resistance

Documents 14.1 and 14.2 Debating the Freedmen’s Bureau: Two Views

Congressional Reconstruction

The Struggle for Universal Suffrage

Document 14.3 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, On Suffrage, 1869

Remaking the South

Whites Reconstruct the South

Black Political Participation and Economic Opportunities

Document 14.4 Sharecropping Agreement, 1870

White Resistance to Congressional Reconstruction

The Unmaking of Reconstruction

The Republican Retreat

Congressional and Judicial Retreat

The Presidential Compromise of 1876

Conclusion: The Legacies of Reconstruction

Chapter Review

Document Project 14 Testing and Contesting Freedom

Document 14.5 Mississippi Black Code, 1865

Document 14.6 Richard H. Cain, Federal Aid for Land Purchase, 1868

Document 14.7 Ellen Parton, Testimony on Klan Violence, 1871

Document 14.8 The Force Act, 1871

Document 14.9 Thomas Nast, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State, 1874

Document 14.10 What the Centennial Ought to Accomplish, 1875

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 14 Reconstruction in South Carolina

Document 14.11 Colored People’s Convention of South Carolina, Memorial to Congress, 1865

Document 14.12 Lottie Rollin, Address on Universal Suffrage, 1870

Document 14.13 Robert Brown Elliott, In Defense of the Civil Rights Bill, 1874

Document 14.14 James Shepherd Pike, The Prostrate State, 1874

Document 14.15 Ulysses S. Grant, Letter to South Carolina Governor D. H. Chamberlain, 1876

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 14 Summative Quiz

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15: Frontier Encounters

15. Frontier Encounters, 1865–1896

American Histories: Annie Oakley and Geronimo

Opening the West

The Great Plains

Federal Policy and Foreign Investment

Conquest of the Frontier

Indian Civilizations

Changing Federal Policy toward Indians

Indian Defeat

Reforming Indian Policy

Indian Assimilation and Resistance

The Mining Frontier

The Business of Mining

Document 15.1 Granville Stuart, Gold Rush Days, 1925

Life in the Mining Towns

Ranching and Farming Frontiers

The Life of the Cowboy

Documents 15.2 and 15.3 Cowboy Myths and Realities: Two Views

Farmers Head West

Women Homesteaders

Document 15.4 Gro Svendsen, Letter from a Homesteader, 1863

Farming on the Great Plains

Pushing Farther West

Mormons Head West

Californios

Document 15.5 White Caps Flier, 1890

The Chinese in the Far West

Conclusion: The Ambiguous Legacy of the Frontier

Chapter Review

Document Project 15 American Indians and Whites on the Frontier

Document 15.6 James Michael Cavanaugh, Support for Indian Extermination, 1868

Document 15.7 Thomas Nast, “Patience until the Indian Is Civilized—So to Speak,” 1878

Document 15.8 Helen Hunt Jackson, Challenges to Indian Policy, 1881

Document 15.9 Zitkala-Ša, Life at an Indian Boarding School, 1921

Document 15.10 Chief Joseph, Views on Indian Affairs, 1879

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 15 Women in the West

Document 15.11 Martha Jane Cannary Burk, The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, 1896

Document 15.12 Black Migrants to Kansas, 1880

Document 15.13 A Prostitute’s Contract, 1886

Document 15.14 Abigail Scott Duniway, Speaking Out for the Right to Vote, 1914

Document 15.15 Caroline Nichols Churchill, Fighting for Woman Suffrage in Colorado, 1909

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 15 Summative Quiz

16: American Industry in the Age of Organization

16. American Industry in the Age of Organization, 1877–1900

American Histories: Andrew Carnegie and John Sherman

America Industrializes

The New Industrial Economy

Innovation and Inventions

Building a New South

Industrial Consolidation

The Growth of Corporations

Document 16.1 Horace Taylor, What a Funny Little Government, 1900

Free Markets and Rugged Individuals

The Doctrine of Success

Challenges to Laissez-Faire

Society and Culture in the Gilded Age

Wealthy and Middle-Class Pleasures

Document 16.2 The Delineator, 1900

Changing Gender Roles

Black America and Jim Crow

National Politics in the Era of Industrialization

Why Great Men Did Not Become President

Documents 16.3 and 16.4 The Making of a Great President: Two Views

Congressional Inaction

An Energized and Entertained Electorate

Conclusion: Industry in the Age of Organization

Chapter Review

Document Project 16 Debates about Laissez-Faire

Document 16.5 William Graham Sumner, A Defense of Laissez-Faire, 1883

Document 16.6 Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000–1887, 1888

Document 16.7 Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889

Document 16.8 Henry Demarest Lloyd, Critique of Wealth, 1894

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 16 Labor and Race in the New South

Document 16.9 Henry Grady, The New South, 1890

Document 16.10 Testimony of North Carolina Industrial Workers, 1887

Document 16.11 Sharecropper’s Contract, 1882

Document 16.12 Mississippi Constitution, 1890

Document 16.13 Justice Henry Billings Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 16 Summative Quiz

17: Workers and Farmers in the Age of Organization

17. Workers and Farmers in the Age of Organization, 1877–1900

American Histories: John McLuckie and Mary Elizabeth Lease

Working People Organize

The Industrialization of Labor

Document 17.1 John Morrison, Testimony on the Impact of Mechanization, 1883

Organizing Unions

Clashes between Workers and Owners

Document 17.2 Emma Goldman, Reflections on the Homestead Strike, 1931

Working-Class Leisure in Industrial America

Farmers Organize

Farmers Unite

Populists Rise Up

Documents 17.3 and 17.4 Farmers and Workers Organize: Two Views

The Depression of the 1890s

Depression Politics

Document 17.5 Walter Huston, “Here Lies Prosperity,” 1895

Political Realignment in the Election of 1896

The Decline of the Populists

Conclusion: A Passion for Organization

Chapter Review

Document Project 17 The Pullman Strike of 1894

Document 17.6 George Pullman, Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission, 1894

Document 17.7 Eugene V. Debs, On Radicalism, 1902

Document 17.8 Jennie Curtis, Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission, 1894

Document 17.9 Report from the Commission to Investigate the Chicago Strike, 1895

Document 17.10 Grover Cleveland, Reflections on the Pullman Strike, 1904

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 17 The Meanings of Populism

Document 17.11 Frank Doster, Labor Day Speech, 1894

Document 17.12 Reverend J. L. Moore, The Colored Farmers’ Alliance, 1891

Document 17.13 Thomas E. Watson, “The Negro Question in the South,” 1892

Document 17.14 “The People’s Party Tree,” 1895

Document 17.15 William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, 1896

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 17 Summative Quiz

18: Cities, Immigrants, and the Nation

18. Cities, Immigrants, and the Nation, 1880–1914

American Histories: Beryl Lassin and Maria Vik Takacs

A New Wave of Immigrants

Immigrants Arrive from Many Lands

Creating Immigrant Communities

Document 18.1 Anzia Yerzierska, Immigrant Fathers and Daughters, 1925

Hostility toward Recent Immigrants

Document 18.2 “The Stranger at Our Gate,” 1899

The Assimilation Dilemma

Becoming an Urban Nation

The New Industrial City

Cities Expand Upward and Outward

How the Other Half Lived

Document 18.3 Rose Schneiderman, The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911

Urban Politics at the Turn of the Century

Political Machines and City Bosses

Documents 18.4 and 18.5 Political Machines: Two Views

Urban Reformers

Conclusion: A Nation of Cities

Chapter Review

Document Project 18 “Melting Pot” or “Vegetable Soup”?

Document 18.6 Israel Zangwill, The Melting-Pot, 1908

Document 18.7 “Be Just—Even to John Chinaman,” 1893

Document 18.8 Alfred P. Schultz, The Mongrelization of America, 1908

Document 18.9 Randolph S. Bourne, Trans-national America, 1916

Document 18.10 Jacob Riis, The Color Line in New York, 1891

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 18 Class and Leisure in the American City

Document 18.11 “Rube and Mandy at Coney Island,” 1903

Document 18.12 International Contest for the Heavyweight Championship, 1907

Document 18.13 Joseph Rumshinsky, “The Living Orphan,” 1914

Document 18.14 Hutchins Hapgood, Types from City Streets, 1910

Document 18.15 Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 18 Summative Quiz

19: Progressivism and the Search for Order

19. Progressivism and the Search for Order, 1900–1917

American Histories: Gifford Pinchot and Geneva Stratton-Porter

The Roots of Progressivism

Progressive Origins

Muckrakers

Humanitarian Reform

Female Progressives and the Poor

Document 19.1 Jane Addams, Civic Housekeeping, 1910

Fighting for Women’s Suffrage

Document 19.2 Nannie Helen Burroughs, Suffrage for Black Women, 1915

Progressivism and African Americans

Documents 19.3 and 19.4 Addressing Inequality: Two Views

Morality and Social Control

Prohibition

The Crusade against Vice

Immigration Restriction

Good Government Progressivism

Municipal and State Reform

Conservation and Preservation of the Environment

Presidential Progressivism

Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal

Taft Retreats from Progressivism

The Election of 1912

Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Agenda

Conclusion: The Progressive Legacy

Chapter Review

Document Project 19 Progressivism and Social Control

Document 19.5 Frances Willard, On Behalf of Home Protection, 1884

Document 19.6 Abstinence Poster, 1919

Document 19.7 Indiana Sterilization Law, 1907

Document 19.8 The Immigration Act of 1917

Document 19.9 “Sanitary Precaution,” c. 1914

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 19 The New Nationalism, the New Freedom, and the Election of 1912

Document 19.10 Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism, 1910

Document 19.11 Theodore Roosevelt, The Right of the People to Rule, 1912

Document 19.12 Woodrow Wilson, The Third Party, 1912

Document 19.13 Woodrow Wilson, On Labor, 1912

Document 19.14 Eugene V. Debs, Acceptance Speech for the Socialist Party Nomination, 1912

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 19 Summative Quiz

20: Empire and Wars

20. Empire and Wars, 1898–1918

American Histories: Alfred Thayer Mahan and JJosé Martí

The Awakening of Imperialism

The Economics of Expansion

Cultural Justifications for Imperialism

Gender and Empire

Document 20.1 Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden,” 1899

The War with Spain

Cuba Libre

The War of 1898

A Not-So-Free Cuba

The Philippine War

Extending U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913

Theodore Roosevelt and “Big Stick” Diplomacy

Document 20.2 Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, 1899

Opening the Door in China

Wilson and American Foreign Policy, 1912–1917

Diplomacy and War

Making the World Safe for Democracy

Document 20.3 Robert La Follette, Antiwar Speech, 1917

Fighting the War at Home

Government by Commission

Winning Hearts and Minds

Documents 20.4 and 20.5 African Americans and the War: Two Views

Waging Peace

The Failure of Ratification

Conclusion: An American Empire

Chapter Review

Document Project 20 Imperialism versus Anti-Imperialism

Document 20.6 The Hawaiian Memorial, 1897

Document 20.7 Albert Beveridge, The March of the Flag, 1898

Document 20.8 “There’s Plenty of Room at the Table,” 1906

Document 20.9 Anti-Imperialism Letter, 1899

Document 20.10 “Civilization Begins at Home,” 1898

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 20 The Committee on Public Information and Wartime Propaganda

Document 20.11 “World War I: Scenes from the Front,” 1918

Document 20.12 “Halt the Hun!” c. 1918

Document 20.13 Advertisement in History Teacher’s Magazine, 1917

Document 20.14 “He Will Come Back a Better Man!” 1918

Document 20.15 George Creel, The “Censorship” Bugbear, 1920

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 20 Summative Quiz

21: An Anxious Affluence

21. An Anxious Affluence, 1919–1929

American Histories: D.C. Stephenson and Ossian Sweet

Postwar Turmoil

The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties

The Red Scare, 1919–1920

Racial Violence in the Postwar Era

People of Plenty

Government Promotion of the Economy

Americans Become Consumers

Document 21.1 General Electric Refrigerator Advertisement, 1928

Perilous Prosperity

Challenges to Social Conventions

Breaking with the Old Morality

The African American Renaissance

Document 21.2 Claude McKay, If We Must Die, 1919

Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism

Culture Wars

Nativists versus Immigrants

Resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan

Documents 21.3 and 21.4 Men and Women of the KKK: Two Views

Fundamentalism versus Modernism

Politics and the Fading of Prosperity

The Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party

Where Have All the Progressives Gone?

Financial Crash

Conclusion: The Roaring Twenties

Chapter Review

Document Project 21 The Abrams Case and the Red Scare

Document 21.5 Mollie Steimer, Trial Testimony, 1918

Document 21.6 “Workers—Wake Up!!” 1918

Document 21.7 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Abrams v. United States Dissent, 1919

Document 21.8 Zechariah Chafee Jr., Freedom of Speech in Wartime, 1919

Document 21.9 Billy Ireland, “We Can’t Digest the Scum,” 1919

Document 21.10 A. Mitchell Palmer, The Case against the Reds, 1920

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 21 The New Negro and the Harlem Renaissance

Document 21.11 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen, “The New Negro—What Is He?” 1919

Document 21.12 Marcus Garvey, Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the Free World, 1920

Document 21.13 Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” 1921

Document 21.14 Jean Toomer, “Reapers” and “November Cotton Flower,” 1923

Document 21.15 Bessie Smith, “Down-Hearted Blues,” 1923

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 21 Summative Quiz

22: Depression, Dissent, and the New Deal

22. Depression, Dissent, and the New Deal, 1929–1940

American Histories: Eleanor Roosevelt and Luisa Moreno

The Great Depression

Hoover Faces the Depression

Hoovervilles and Dust Storms

Challenges for Minorities

Document 22.1 Andy Wright, Plea from One of the Scottsboro Nine, 1937

Families under Strain

The Season of Discontent

The New Deal

Roosevelt Restores Confidence

Steps toward Recovery

Direct Assistance and Relief

Document 22.2 Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1937

New Deal Critics

The New Deal Moves to the Left

Expanding Relief Measures

Establishing Social Security

Organized Labor Strikes Back

A Half Deal for Minorities

Twilight of the New Deal

Documents 22.3 and 22.4 Packing the Supreme Court: Two Views

Conclusion: New Deal Liberalism

Chapter Review

Document Project 22 The Depression in Rural America

Document 22.5 Ann Marie Low, Dust Bowl Diary, 1934

Document 22.6 The Life of a White Sharecropper, 1938

Document 22.7 Sharecropping Family in Washington County, Arkansas, 1935

Document 22.8 John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies, 1936

Document 22.9 Frank Stokes, Let the Mexicans Organize, 1936

Document 22.10 Report of the Great Plains Committee, 1937

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 22 Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Its Critics

Document 22.11 Franklin Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, May 7, 1933: FDR Outlines the New Deal

Document 22.12 “Give a Man a Job!” 1933

Document 22.13 Frank E. Gannett, Letter on Court Packing, 1937

Document 22.14 Republican Party National Platform, 1936

Document 22.15 Huey P. Long, Criticism of Franklin Roosevelt, 1935

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 22 Summative Quiz

23: World War II

23. World War II, 1933–1945

American Histories: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Fred Korematsu

The Road toward War

The Growing Crisis in Europe

The Challenge to Isolationism

The United States Enters the War

Documents 23.1 and 23.2 American Reactions to Pearl Harbor: Two Views

Global War

War in Europe

War in the Pacific

Ending the War

Evidence of the Holocaust

The Home-Front Economy

Managing the Wartime Economy

New Opportunities for Women

Documents 23.3 and 23.4 Women Workers during Wartime: Two Views

Everyday Life on the Home Front

Fighting for Equality at Home

The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

Document 23.5 Letter from Black Soldiers, 1943

Struggles for Mexican Americans

The Ordeal of Japanese Americans

Conclusion: The Impact of World War II

Chapter Review

Document Project 23 The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

Document 23.6 Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons, June 16, 1945

Document 23.7 Petition to the President of the United States, July 17, 1945

Document 23.8 President Harry S. Truman, Press Release on the Atomic Bomb, August 6, 1945

Document 23.9 Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

Document 23.10 U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 1946

Document 23.11 Father Johannes Siemes, Eyewitness Account of the Hiroshima Bombing, 1945

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 23 Anti-Japanese Prejudice during World War II

Document 23.12 Why We Fight: Prelude to War, 1942

Document 23.13 Poster to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry, 1942

Document 23.14 Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, Hirabayashi v. United States Decision, 1943

Document 23.15 Justice Frank Murphy, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States, 1944

Document 23.16 Charles Kikuchi, Internment Diary, 1942

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 23 Summative Quiz

24: The Opening of the Cold War

24. The Opening of the Cold War, 1945–1954

American Histories: George Kennan and Ethel Rosenberg

The Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1947

Mutual Misunderstandings

Documents 24.1 and 24.2 Reactions to Soviet Policy in Europe: Two Views

The Truman Doctrine

The Marshall Plan and Economic Containment

Document 24.3 Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Objections to the Marshall Plan, 1947

The Cold War Hardens, 1948–1952

Military Containment

The Korean War

Document 24.4 Helen Stevenson, Letter from Korea, 1951

The War and the Imperial Presidency

Peacetime Challenges, 1945–1948

Coming Home

Economic Conversion and Labor Discontent

The Postwar Civil Rights Struggle

Document 24.5 To Secure These Rights, 1947

The Election of 1948

The Anti-Communist Consensus, 1945–1954

Loyalty and Americanism

McCarthyism

Conclusion: The Cold War and Anticommunism

Chapter Review

Document Project 24 McCarthyism and the Hollywood Ten

Document 24.6 Ronald Reagan, Testimony before HUAC, 1947

Document 24.7 John Howard Lawson, Testimony before HUAC, 1947

Document 24.8 Herblock, “Fire!” 1949

Document 24.9 Lillian Hellman, Letter to HUAC, 1952

Document 24.10 Arthur Miller, Reflections on HUAC, 2000

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 24 McCarthyism in Higher Education

Document 24.11 California Loyalty Oath, 1950

Document 24.12 Justice Felix Frankfurter, Concurrence in Wieman v. Updegraff, 1952

Document 24.13 American Association of University Professors, The Rights and Responsibilities of Universities and Their Faculties, 1953

Document 24.14 Victor Lowe, “A Resurgence of ‘Vicious Intellectualism,’” 1951

Document 24.15 Sidney Hook, “Not Mindful Enough,” 1952

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 24 Summative Quiz

25: Troubled Innocence

25. Troubled Innocence, 1950–1961

American Histories: Alan Freed and Grace Metalious

The Boom Years

Economic Boom

Baby Boom

Suburban Boom

Documents 25.1 and 25.2 Living the Suburban Dream: Two Views

The Culture of the 1950s

The Rise of Television

Wild Ones on the Big Screen

The Influence of Teenage Culture

The Lives of Women

Religious Revival

Document 25.3 Billy Graham, What’s Wrong with Our World? 1958

Beats and Other Nonconformists

The Civil Rights Movement

School Segregation andthe Supreme Court

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

White Resistance to Desegregation

The Sit-Ins

Document 25.4 Ella Baker, Bigger Than a Hamburger, 1960

The Eisenhower Era

Modern Republicanism

Eisenhower and the Cold War

Cold War Interventions

Early U.S. Intervention in Vietnam

The Election of 1960

Conclusion: Cold War Politics and Culture

Chapter Review

Document Project 25 Teenagers in Postwar America

Document 25.5 Dick Clark, Your Happiest Years, 1959

Document 25.6 Richard Gehman, The Nine Billion Dollars in Hot Little Hands, 1957

Document 25.7 Chevrolet Advertisement, 1954

Document 25.8 Charlotte Jones, Letter on Elvis, 1957

Document 25.9 Todd Gitlin, Reflections on the 1950s, 1987

Document 25.10 The Desegregation of Central High School, 1957

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 25 The Postwar Suburbs

Document 25.11 Metropolitan Highway Construction: Boston, 1955

Document 25.12 In the Suburbs, 1957

Document 25.13 Harry Henderson, “The Mass-Produced Suburbs,” 1953

Document 25.14 Malvina Reynolds, “Little Boxes,” 1962

Document 25.15 Jackie Robinson, Testimony before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1959

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 25 Summative Quiz

26: The Liberal Consensus and Its Challengers

26. The Liberal Consensus and Its Challengers, 1960–1973

American Histories: Earl Warren and Bayard Rustin

The Politics of Liberalism

Kennedy’s New Frontier

Document 26.1 Edmund Valtman, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Containment in Southeast Asia

Johnson Escalates the War in Vietnam

Document 26.2 George Olsen, Letter Home from Vietnam, 1969

Civil Rights

Freedom Rides

The Government Responds on Civil Rights

Freedom Summer and Voting Rights

Reforming the Social Order

The Great Society

The Warren Court

Challenges to the Liberal Center

Movements on the Left

Women’s Liberation

Power to the People

Document 26.3 Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán, 1969

The Revival of Conservatism

Documents 26.4 and 26.5 Liberalism and Conservatism: Two Views

Conclusion: Liberalism and Its Discontents

Chapter Review

Document Project 26 Freedom Summer

Document 26.6 Prospectus for Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964

Document 26.7 Nancy Ellin, Letter Describing Freedom Summer, 1964

Document 26.8 Letter from a Freedom Summer Volunteer, 1964

Document 26.9 White Southerners Respond to Freedom Summer, 1964

Document 26.10 Fannie Lou Hamer, Address to the Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee, 1964

Document 26.11 Lyndon B. Johnson, Monitoring the MFDP Challenge, 1964

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 26 Women’s Liberation

Document 26.12 No More Miss America! 1968

Document 26.13 Gloria Steinem, “Women Freeing the Men, Too,” 1970

Document 26.14 National Black Feminist Organization, Statement of Purpose, 1973

Document 26.15 Pat Mainardi, “The Politics of Housework,” 1970

Document 26.16 Phyllis Schlafly, “What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women?” 1972

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 26 Summative Quiz

27: The Conservative Ascendancy

27. The Conservative Ascendancy, 1968–1992

American Histories: Allan Bakke and Anita Hill

Richard M. Nixon, War, and Politics, 1969–1974

The Election of President Nixon

The Failure of Vietnamization

Cold War Realism and Détente

Pragmatic Conservatism at Home

The Nixon Landslide and Disgrace, 1972–1974

The Challenges of the 1970s

Jimmy Carter and the Limits of Affluence

The Persistence of Liberalism

Document 27.1 Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement, 1977

Racial Struggles Continue

The Conservative Political Ascendancy

The New Right Revival

Document 27.2 Jerry Falwell, We Must Return to Traditional Religious Values, 1980

The Triumph of Ronald Reagan

Documents 27.3 and 27.4 Morning in America: Two Views

The Implementation of Social Conservatism

The Presidency of George H. W. Bush

Conclusion: The Conservative Legacy

Chapter Review

Document Project 27 The Affirmative Action Debate

Document 27.5 Lyndon B. Johnson, Freedom Is Not Enough, 1965

Document 27.6 Title IX of the Education Amendments Regulations, 1975

Document 27.7 Nathan Glazer, Affirmative Discrimination, 1975

Document 27.8 Lewis Powell, Opinion in the Bakke Case, 1978

Document 27.9 Nell Irvin Painter, Whites Say I Must Be on Easy Street, 1981

Document 27.10 Bob Dole, Call to End Affirmative Action, 1995

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 27 Debating the Vietnam War

Document 27.11 Peace Marches, April 18, 1967

Document 27.12 Richard Nixon, Press Conference on Vietnamization, 1969

Document 27.13 Spiro Agnew, The Generation Gap, 1970

Document 27.14 Richard Nixon, Press Conference Following the Invasion of Cambodia, May 8, 1970

Document 27.15 John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans against the War, 1971

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 27 Summative Quiz

28: Ending the Cold War

28. Ending the Cold War, 1977–1991

American Histories: George Shultz and Barbara Deming

Carter’s Diplomacy, 1977–1980

The Perils of Détente

Challenges in the Middle East

Document 28.1 Robert Ode, Iran Hostage Diary, 1979–1980

Reagan’s Cold War Policy, 1981–1988

“The Evil Empire”

Human Rights and the Fight against Communism

Fighting International Terrorism

The Nuclear Freeze Movement

Documents 28.2 and 28.3 The Nuclear Freeze Movement: Two Views

The Road to Nuclear De-escalation

The Fall of the Iron Curtain

The Breakup of the Soviet Union

Document 28.4 Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the United Nations, 1988

Globalization and the New World Order

Managing Conflict after the Cold War

Conclusion: Farewell to the Cold War

Chapter Review

Document Project 28 The Iran-Contra Scandal

Document 28.5 The Boland Amendment, 1982

Document 28.6 CIA Freedom Fighter’s Manual, 1983

Document 28.7 Tower Commission Report, 1987

Document 28.8 Ronald Reagan, Speech on Iran-Contra, 1987

Document 28.9 Oliver North, Testimony to Congress, July 1987

Document 28.10 George Mitchell, Response to Oliver North, 1987

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 28 Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War

Document 28.11 Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, 1983

Document 28.12 Ronald Reagan, U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1984

Document 28.13 Geraldine Ferraro, Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, 1984

Document 28.14 Ronald Reagan, Address at Moscow State University, 1988

Document 28.15 George H. W. Bush, State of the Union Address, 1991

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 28 Summative Quiz

29: The Challenges of a New Century

29. The Challenges of a New Century, 1993 to the present

American Histories: Bill Gates and Kristen Breitweiser

Transforming American Society

The Computer Revolution

Business Consolidation

The Changing American Population

Document 29.1 Bo Yee, The New American Sweatshop, 1994

Politics at the End of the Twentieth Century

The Clinton Presidency

Global Challenges and Economic Renewal

The New Millennium

George W. Bush and Compassionate Conservatism

The United States at War

Document 29.2 Farnaz Fassihi, Report from Baghdad, 2004

Bush’s Second Term

Challenges Ahead

The Great Recession

The Rise of Barack Obama

Documents 29.3 and 29.4 The Great Recession: Two Views

An Unfinished Agenda

Conclusion: Technology and Terror in a Global Society

Chapter Review

Document Project 29 The Uses of September 11

Document 29.5 George W. Bush, The Axis of Evil, 2002

Document 29.6 Diana Hoffman, “The Power of Freedom,” 2002

Document 29.7 Daniel Harris, The Kitschification of September 11, 2001

Document 29.8 Khaled Abou El Fadl, Response to September 11, 2001

Document 29.9 Anti-Muslim Discrimination, 2011

Document 29.10 Brian Gallagher, Hundred-Mile Marine, 2012

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

e-Document Project 29 The Environment and Federal Policy in the Twenty-First Century

Document 29.11 George W. Bush, Press Release on Global Climate Change, 2001

Document 29.12 Lester Brown, Outgrowing the Earth, 2004

Document 29.13 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Environmental Justice Act, 2007

Document 29.14 Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, 2012

Document 29.15 Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change Facts, 2012

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Chapter 29 Summative Quiz

About the Book

Preface

Credits

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Glossary

Glossary