U.S. History

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this textbook covers american history from 1492 to the 21st century 3. About U.S. History......Page 10 5. About the authors......Page 12 Chapter 1. The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492......Page 16 1.1. The Americas*......Page 17 1.2. Europe on the Brink of Change*......Page 27 1.3. West Africa and the Role of Slavery*......Page 33 Glossary......Page 39 Chapter 2. Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650......Page 42 2.1. Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest*......Page 43 2.2. Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World*......Page 51 2.3. Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy*......Page 55 2.4. New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange*......Page 61 Glossary......Page 68 Chapter 3. Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700......Page 72 3.1. Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society*......Page 73 3.2. Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions*......Page 76 3.3. English Settlements in America*......Page 81 3.4. The Impact of Colonization*......Page 95 Glossary......Page 100 Chapter 4. Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763......Page 104 4.1. Charles II and the Restoration Colonies*......Page 105 4.2. The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire*......Page 111 4.3. An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution*......Page 114 4.4. Great Awakening and Enlightenment*......Page 119 4.5. Wars for Empire*......Page 123 Glossary......Page 129 Chapter 5. Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774......Page 134 5.1. Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War*......Page 135 5.2. The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty*......Page 139 5.3. The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest*......Page 145 5.4. The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts*......Page 152 5.5. Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity*......Page 156 Glossary......Page 160 Chapter 6. America's War for Independence, 1775-1783......Page 164 6.1. Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences*......Page 165 6.2. The Early Years of the Revolution*......Page 171 6.3. War in the South*......Page 177 6.4. Identity during the American Revolution*......Page 181 Glossary......Page 188 Chapter 7. Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790......Page 192 7.1. Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic*......Page 193 7.2. How Much Revolutionary Change?*......Page 196 7.3. Debating Democracy*......Page 204 7.4. The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution*......Page 211 Glossary......Page 217 Chapter 8. Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820......Page 220 8.1. Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans*......Page 221 8.2. The New American Republic*......Page 227 8.3. Partisan Politics*......Page 233 8.4. The United States Goes Back to War*......Page 241 Glossary......Page 247 Chapter 9. Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850......Page 252 9.1. Early Industrialization in the Northeast*......Page 253 9.2. A Vibrant Capitalist Republic*......Page 261 9.3. On the Move: The Transportation Revolution*......Page 269 9.4. A New Social Order: Class Divisions*......Page 272 Glossary......Page 278 Chapter 10. Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840......Page 282 10.1. A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson*......Page 283 10.2. The Rise of American Democracy*......Page 289 10.3. The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War*......Page 292 10.4. Indian Removal*......Page 296 10.5. The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority*......Page 302 Glossary......Page 306 Chapter 11. A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860......Page 310 11.1. Lewis and Clark*......Page 311 11.2. The Missouri Crisis*......Page 317 11.3. Independence for Texas*......Page 319 11.4. The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848*......Page 324 11.5. Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West*......Page 332 Glossary......Page 336 Chapter 12. Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860......Page 340 12.1. The Economics of Cotton*......Page 341 12.2. African Americans in the Antebellum United States*......Page 346 12.3. Wealth and Culture in the South*......Page 353 12.4. The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States*......Page 363 Glossary......Page 367 Chapter 13. Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860......Page 370 13.1. An Awakening of Religion and Individualism*......Page 371 13.2. Antebellum Communal Experiments*......Page 377 13.3. Reforms to Human Health*......Page 382 13.4. Addressing Slavery*......Page 386 13.5. Women’s Rights*......Page 391 Glossary......Page 394 Chapter 14. Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s......Page 398 14.1. The Compromise of 1850*......Page 399 14.2. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party*......Page 408 14.3. The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife*......Page 415 14.4. John Brown and the Election of 1860*......Page 420 Glossary......Page 424 Chapter 15. The Civil War, 1860–1865......Page 428 15.1. The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War*......Page 429 15.2. Early Mobilization and War*......Page 435 15.3. 1863: The Changing Nature of the War*......Page 440 15.4. The Union Triumphant*......Page 449 Glossary......Page 456 Chapter 16. The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877......Page 460 16.1. Restoring the Union*......Page 461 16.2. Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866*......Page 465 16.3. Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872*......Page 469 16.4. The Collapse of Reconstruction*......Page 477 Glossary......Page 485 Chapter 17. Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900......Page 488 17.1. The Westward Spirit*......Page 489 17.2. Homesteading: Dreams and Realities*......Page 495 17.3. Making a Living in Gold and Cattle*......Page 500 17.4. The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture*......Page 505 17.5. The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens*......Page 510 Glossary......Page 514 Chapter 18. Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900......Page 518 18.1. Inventors of the Age*......Page 519 18.2. From Invention to Industrial Growth*......Page 524 18.3. Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor*......Page 531 18.4. A New American Consumer Culture*......Page 540 Glossary......Page 544 Chapter 19. The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900......Page 548 19.1. Urbanization and Its Challenges*......Page 549 19.2. The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration*......Page 557 19.3. Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life*......Page 562 19.4. Change Reflected in Thought and Writing*......Page 570 Glossary......Page 576 Chapter 20. Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900......Page 580 20.1. Political Corruption in Postbellum America*......Page 581 20.2. The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold*......Page 588 20.3. Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era*......Page 595 20.4. Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s*......Page 600 Glossary......Page 607 Chapter 21. Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920......Page 610 21.1. The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America*......Page 611 21.2. Progressivism at the Grassroots Level*......Page 613 21.3. New Voices for Women and African Americans*......Page 622 21.4. Progressivism in the White House*......Page 628 Glossary......Page 638 Chapter 22. Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914......Page 642 22.1. Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire*......Page 643 22.2. The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire*......Page 649 22.3. Economic Imperialism in East Asia*......Page 656 22.4. Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy*......Page 659 22.5. Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”*......Page 664 Glossary......Page 666 Chapter 23. Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919......Page 670 23.1. American Isolationism and the European Origins of War*......Page 671 23.2. The United States Prepares for War*......Page 677 23.3. A New Home Front*......Page 682 23.4. From War to Peace*......Page 687 23.5. Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath*......Page 693 Glossary......Page 698 Chapter 24. The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929......Page 702 24.1. Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment*......Page 703 24.2. Transformation and Backlash*......Page 709 24.3. A New Generation*......Page 716 24.4. Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s*......Page 724 Glossary......Page 728 Chapter 25. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932......Page 732 25.1. The Stock Market Crash of 1929*......Page 733 25.2. President Hoover’s Response*......Page 744 25.3. The Depths of the Great Depression*......Page 749 25.4. Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal*......Page 757 Glossary......Page 761 Chapter 26. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941......Page 766 26.1. The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt*......Page 767 26.2. The First New Deal*......Page 771 26.3. The Second New Deal*......Page 780 Glossary......Page 792 Chapter 27. Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945......Page 796 27.1. The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States*......Page 797 27.2. The Home Front*......Page 804 27.3. Victory in the European Theater*......Page 816 27.4. The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb*......Page 821 Glossary......Page 826 Chapter 28. Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960......Page 830 28.1. The Challenges of Peacetime*......Page 831 28.2. The Cold War*......Page 834 28.3. The American Dream*......Page 843 28.4. Popular Culture and Mass Media*......Page 849 28.5. The African American Struggle for Civil Rights*......Page 852 Glossary......Page 859 Chapter 29. Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s......Page 864 29.1. The Kennedy Promise*......Page 865 29.2. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society*......Page 872 29.3. The Civil Rights Movement Marches On*......Page 878 29.4. Challenging the Status Quo*......Page 887 Glossary......Page 891 Chapter 30. Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980......Page 894 30.1. Identity Politics in a Fractured Society*......Page 895 30.2. Coming Apart, Coming Together*......Page 902 30.3. Vietnam: The Downward Spiral*......Page 910 30.4. Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare*......Page 915 30.5. Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm*......Page 920 Glossary......Page 924 Chapter 31. From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000......Page 928 31.1. The Reagan Revolution*......Page 929 31.2. Political and Cultural Fusions*......Page 934 31.3. A New World Order*......Page 940 31.4. Bill Clinton and the New Economy*......Page 946 Glossary......Page 957 Chapter 32. The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century......Page 960 32.1. The War on Terror*......Page 961 32.2. The Domestic Mission*......Page 967 32.3. New Century, Old Disputes*......Page 974 32.4. Hope and Change*......Page 979 Glossary......Page 987 Appendix A. The Declaration of Independence*......Page 992 Appendix B. The Constitution of the United States*......Page 996 Appendix C. Presidents of the United States of America*......Page 1012 Appendix D. U.S. Political Map*......Page 1016 Appendix E. U.S. Topographical Map*......Page 1018 Appendix F. United States Population Chart*......Page 1020 G.2. THE COLONIAL AMERICAS......Page 1022 G.3. REFORM, PROTEST, AND REVOLUTION......Page 1023 G.5. INDUSTRIALIZATION AND TRANSFORMATION......Page 1024 G.7. THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH......Page 1025 G.9. CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION......Page 1026 G.11. FROM THE GILDED AGE TO THE PROGRESSIVE ERA......Page 1028 G.12. IMPERIAL EXPANSION AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR......Page 1029 G.14. THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL......Page 1030 G.16. FROM CAMELOT TO CULTURE WARS......Page 1031 G.17. TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PROBLEMS......Page 1032 Chapter 7......Page 1034 Chapter 12......Page 1035 Chapter 17......Page 1036 Chapter 22......Page 1037 Chapter 26......Page 1038 Chapter 30......Page 1039 Chapter 32......Page 1040 Index......Page 1042