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  1. Preface
  2. 1 The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
    1. Introduction
    2. 1.1 The Americas
    3. 1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
    4. 1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery
    5. Key Terms
    6. Summary
    7. Review Questions
    8. Critical Thinking Questions
  3. 2 Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650
    1. Introduction
    2. 2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
    3. 2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
    4. 2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
    5. 2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  4. 3 Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
    1. Introduction
    2. 3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
    3. 3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
    4. 3.3 English Settlements in America
    5. 3.4 The Impact of Colonization
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  5. 4 Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
    1. Introduction
    2. 4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
    3. 4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
    4. 4.3 An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
    5. 4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
    6. 4.5 Wars for Empire
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
  6. 5 Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
    1. Introduction
    2. 5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
    3. 5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
    4. 5.3 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
    5. 5.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
    6. 5.5 Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
  7. 6 America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
    1. Introduction
    2. 6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
    3. 6.2 The Early Years of the Revolution
    4. 6.3 War in the South
    5. 6.4 Identity during the American Revolution
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  8. 7 Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
    1. Introduction
    2. 7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
    3. 7.2 How Much Revolutionary Change?
    4. 7.3 Debating Democracy
    5. 7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  9. 8 Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820
    1. Introduction
    2. 8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
    3. 8.2 The New American Republic
    4. 8.3 Partisan Politics
    5. 8.4 The United States Goes Back to War
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  10. 9 Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
    1. Introduction
    2. 9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
    3. 9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
    4. 9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
    5. 9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  11. 10 Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
    1. Introduction
    2. 10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
    3. 10.2 The Rise of American Democracy
    4. 10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
    5. 10.4 Indian Removal
    6. 10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
  12. 11 A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
    1. Introduction
    2. 11.1 Lewis and Clark
    3. 11.2 The Missouri Crisis
    4. 11.3 Independence for Texas
    5. 11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
    6. 11.5 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
  13. 12 Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
    1. Introduction
    2. 12.1 The Economics of Cotton
    3. 12.2 African Americans in the Antebellum United States
    4. 12.3 Wealth and Culture in the South
    5. 12.4 The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  14. 13 Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
    1. Introduction
    2. 13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
    3. 13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
    4. 13.3 Reforms to Human Health
    5. 13.4 Addressing Slavery
    6. 13.5 Women’s Rights
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
  15. 14 Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
    1. Introduction
    2. 14.1 The Compromise of 1850
    3. 14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
    4. 14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
    5. 14.4 John Brown and the Election of 1860
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  16. 15 The Civil War, 1860–1865
    1. Introduction
    2. 15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
    3. 15.2 Early Mobilization and War
    4. 15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
    5. 15.4 The Union Triumphant
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  17. 16 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
    1. Introduction
    2. 16.1 Restoring the Union
    3. 16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
    4. 16.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
    5. 16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  18. 17 Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
    1. Introduction
    2. 17.1 The Westward Spirit
    3. 17.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
    4. 17.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
    5. 17.4 The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
    6. 17.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
  19. 18 Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
    1. Introduction
    2. 18.1 Inventors of the Age
    3. 18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
    4. 18.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
    5. 18.4 A New American Consumer Culture
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  20. 19 The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
    1. Introduction
    2. 19.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
    3. 19.2 The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
    4. 19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
    5. 19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  21. 20 Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
    1. Introduction
    2. 20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
    3. 20.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
    4. 20.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
    5. 20.4 Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  22. 21 Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
    1. Introduction
    2. 21.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
    3. 21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
    4. 21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
    5. 21.4 Progressivism in the White House
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  23. 22 Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
    1. Introduction
    2. 22.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
    3. 22.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
    4. 22.3 Economic Imperialism in East Asia
    5. 22.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
    6. 22.5 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
  24. 23 Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
    1. Introduction
    2. 23.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
    3. 23.2 The United States Prepares for War
    4. 23.3 A New Home Front
    5. 23.4 From War to Peace
    6. 23.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
  25. 24 The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
    1. Introduction
    2. 24.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
    3. 24.2 Transformation and Backlash
    4. 24.3 A New Generation
    5. 24.4 Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  26. 25 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
    1. Introduction
    2. 25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
    3. 25.2 President Hoover’s Response
    4. 25.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
    5. 25.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  27. 26 Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
    1. Introduction
    2. 26.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
    3. 26.2 The First New Deal
    4. 26.3 The Second New Deal
    5. Key Terms
    6. Summary
    7. Review Questions
    8. Critical Thinking Questions
  28. 27 Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
    1. Introduction
    2. 27.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
    3. 27.2 The Home Front
    4. 27.3 Victory in the European Theater
    5. 27.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  29. 28 Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
    1. Introduction
    2. 28.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
    3. 28.2 The Cold War
    4. 28.3 The American Dream
    5. 28.4 Popular Culture and Mass Media
    6. 28.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
  30. 29 Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
    1. Introduction
    2. 29.1 The Kennedy Promise
    3. 29.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
    4. 29.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
    5. 29.4 Challenging the Status Quo
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  31. 30 Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
    1. Introduction
    2. 30.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
    3. 30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
    4. 30.3 Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
    5. 30.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
    6. 30.5 Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
  32. 31 From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
    1. Introduction
    2. 31.1 The Reagan Revolution
    3. 31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
    4. 31.3 A New World Order
    5. 31.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  33. 32 The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
    1. Introduction
    2. 32.1 The War on Terror
    3. 32.2 The Domestic Mission
    4. 32.3 New Century, Old Disputes
    5. 32.4 Hope and Change
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
  34. A | The Declaration of Independence
  35. B | The Constitution of the United States
  36. C | Presidents of the United States of America
  37. D | U.S. Political Map
  38. E | U.S. Topographical Map
  39. F | United States Population Chart
  40. G | Further Reading
  41. Answer Key
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
    4. Chapter 4
    5. Chapter 5
    6. Chapter 6
    7. Chapter 7
    8. Chapter 8
    9. Chapter 9
    10. Chapter 10
    11. Chapter 11
    12. Chapter 12
    13. Chapter 13
    14. Chapter 14
    15. Chapter 15
    16. Chapter 16
    17. Chapter 17
    18. Chapter 18
    19. Chapter 19
    20. Chapter 20
    21. Chapter 21
    22. Chapter 22
    23. Chapter 23
    24. Chapter 24
    25. Chapter 25
    26. Chapter 26
    27. Chapter 27
    28. Chapter 28
    29. Chapter 29
    30. Chapter 30
    31. Chapter 31
    32. Chapter 32
  42. Index
A
abolitionist13.4 Addressing Slavery
Abu Ghraib32.2 The Domestic Mission
Afghan Northern Alliance32.1 The War on Terror
Age of Reason4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
agrarian society1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
al-Qaeda32.1 The War on Terror
alcalde11.3 Independence for Texas
Alliance for Progress29.1 The Kennedy Promise
American Equal Rights Association16.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
American individualism25.2 President Hoover’s Response
American Missionary Association16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
American Party14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
American River11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
American System10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
Americanization17.4 The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
antebellum12.1 The Economics of Cotton
Anti-Federalists7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
Anti-Imperialist League22.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
Antietam15.2 Early Mobilization and War
appeasement27.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
Army of the Potomac15.2 Early Mobilization and War
Army of the West15.2 Early Mobilization and War
Articles of Confederation7.3 Debating Democracy
artisans9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
Atlanta Compromise21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
B
baby boom28.3 The American Dream
bank runs25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Banking Act of 193526.3 The Second New Deal
Barnburners11.5 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
Battle of New Orleans8.4 The United States Goes Back to War
Bell18.1 Inventors of the Age
Beringia1.1 The Americas
bicameral7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
Big Three27.3 Victory in the European Theater
Bill of Rights8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
Black Cabinet26.3 The Second New Deal
Black codes16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
Black Death1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
Black Legend2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
Black Power29.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
Black Pride29.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
Black separatism29.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
Black Tuesday25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
blacklist28.2 The Cold War
Bleeding Kansas14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
bloody shirt campaign20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
bonanza farms17.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
Bonus Army25.2 President Hoover’s Response
boomerang generation32.4 Hope and Change
bootlegging24.3 A New Generation
border ruffians14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
Boston Harbor6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
Boston Massacre5.3 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
Boxer Rebellion22.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
Brains Trust26.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
Bucktails10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
Bull Run Creek15.2 Early Mobilization and War
Bunker Hill6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
Bush Doctrine32.1 The War on Terror
C
California Gold Rush17.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
Californios11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
Calvinism2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
carpetbaggers16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
Carter Doctrine30.5 Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
cash crop12.1 The Economics of Cotton
charter schools32.2 The Domestic Mission
chasquis1.1 The Americas
chattel slavery1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery
checks and balances7.3 Debating Democracy
chinampas1.1 The Americas
circuit riders13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
Citizen Genêt affair8.2 The New American Republic
City Beautiful19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
civil service20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
civil unions32.3 New Century, Old Disputes
Civil Works Administration26.2 The First New Deal
Civilian Conservation Corps26.2 The First New Deal
Clark Memorandum25.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
clear and present danger23.2 The United States Prepares for War
code of deference10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
Coercive Acts5.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
Cold War28.2 The Cold War
collateralized debt obligations32.2 The Domestic Mission
colonization13.4 Addressing Slavery
Columbian Exchange2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
Comanche11.3 Independence for Texas
Committee of Correspondence5.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
Committee of Public Information23.2 The United States Prepares for War
commodification2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
Compromise of 185011.5 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
Compromise of 187716.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
Comstock Lode17.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
concurrent majority12.3 Wealth and Culture in the South
Confederacy15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
confiscation acts6.4 Identity during the American Revolution
Connecticut Compromise7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
conscientious objectors27.2 The Home Front
conservative Whigs7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
containment28.2 The Cold War
Continental currency6.4 Identity during the American Revolution
contrabands15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
Contract with America31.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
Contras31.3 A New World Order
Copperheads15.4 The Union Triumphant, 16.1 Restoring the Union
Corps of Discovery11.1 Lewis and Clark
corrupt bargain10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
cotton boom12.1 The Economics of Cotton
cotton gin12.1 The Economics of Cotton
counterculture30.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
counterinsurgency29.1 The Kennedy Promise
coverture7.2 How Much Revolutionary Change?
Coxey’s Army20.4 Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
credit default swaps32.2 The Domestic Mission
Crédit Mobilier of America scandal20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
Crittenden Compromise15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
crop-lien system16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
Crusades1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
Cumberland Road9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
D
D-day27.3 Victory in the European Theater
Daughters of Liberty5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Deep Throat30.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
Defense of Marriage Act32.4 Hope and Change
deism4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
democracy7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
Democratic-Republicans8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
Depression of 189320.4 Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
desegregation28.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
deskilling9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
détente30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
direct primary21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
direct tax5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Dixiecrats30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
dollar diplomacy22.5 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
domestic slave trade12.1 The Economics of Cotton
Dominion of New England4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
domino theory28.2 The Cold War
Double V campaign27.2 The Home Front
Dred Scott v. Sandford14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
Dunmore’s Proclamation6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
Dust Bowl25.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
Dutch West India Company3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
E
Edison18.1 Inventors of the Age
Electoral College7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
Emancipation Proclamation15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
Embargo Act of 18078.4 The United States Goes Back to War
Emergency Banking Act26.2 The First New Deal
empresario11.3 Independence for Texas
encomiendas2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
Enforcement Acts16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
English interregnum4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
Enlightenment4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
Enola Gay27.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
Erie Canal9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
eugenicists21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
Executive Order 906627.2 The Home Front
executive privilege30.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
exodusters17.1 The Westward Spirit
expatriate24.3 A New Generation
F
Fair Deal28.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
farm holidays25.2 President Hoover’s Response
Farmerettes23.3 A New Home Front
Farmers’ Alliance20.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
federal minimum wage28.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
Federalists7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
Fence Cutting War17.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
feudal society1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
filibuster11.1 Lewis and Clark
Fire-Eaters14.4 John Brown and the Election of 1860
fireside chat26.2 The First New Deal
First Great Awakening4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
Five Civilized Tribes10.4 Indian Removal
flapper24.3 A New Generation
flexible response29.1 The Kennedy Promise
Florida land boom25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Ford Hunger March25.2 President Hoover’s Response
Fort Sumter15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
forty-niners11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
Fourteen Points23.4 From War to Peace
Franklin Delano RooseveltIntroduction
free moral agency9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions
Free-Soil Party11.5 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
Freedmen’s Bureau16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
Freemasons4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
Freeport Doctrine14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
French and Indian War4.5 Wars for Empire
Frontier Thesis22.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
G
gender gap31.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
general in chief15.2 Early Mobilization and War
Gettysburg Address15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
GI Bill28.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
Gilded Age20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
Giuseppe Zangara26.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
Glass-Steagall Banking Act26.2 The First New Deal
globalization2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
Glorious Revolution4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
graft19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
Grange20.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
Great Migration19.2 The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
Great Recession32.2 The Domestic Mission
Great Society29.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Greek civil war28.2 The Cold War
Green Party31.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
Greenback Party20.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
greenbacks15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
greenhouse gases32.3 New Century, Old Disputes
H
habeas corpus15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
Half-Breeds20.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
Harlem Hellfighters23.3 A New Home Front
Harpers Ferry14.4 John Brown and the Election of 1860
Haymarket affair18.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
headright system3.3 English Settlements in America
Heritage Foundation31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
Hessians6.2 The Early Years of the Revolution
Higher Education Act29.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Hillarycare31.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
Hippies30.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
Hispaniola2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
HIV/AIDS31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
holding company18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
Hollywood24.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
Homeland Security Act32.1 The War on Terror
Homestead Act17.1 The Westward Spirit
Hoover25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Hoover Moratorium25.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
horizontal integration18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
Huey “Kingfish” Long26.3 The Second New Deal
hydroelectric power26.2 The First New Deal
hydropathy13.3 Reforms to Human Health
I
identity politics30.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
immediatism13.4 Addressing Slavery
impressment8.2 The New American Republic
Inca2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
indenture3.3 English Settlements in America
Indian Removal Act10.4 Indian Removal
indirect tax5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
indulgences2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
initiative21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
Inquisition1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
instrumentalism19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
internment27.2 The Home Front
interregnum26.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
Intolerable Acts5.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
Iron Curtain28.2 The Cold War
Ironclad Oath16.1 Restoring the Union
Irreconcilables23.4 From War to Peace
J
Jackie Robinson28.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
Jesuits3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
Jim Crow16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
joint stock companies2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
José Martí22.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
K
Kamikaze27.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
Kansas-Nebraska bill14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
Kellogg-Briand Pact27.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
Kitchen Cabinet10.2 The Rise of American Democracy
Koran1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
Ku Klux Klan16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
Kyoto Protocol32.3 New Century, Old Disputes
L
labor theory of value9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
land fever9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
land offices9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
las Gorras Blancas17.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
League of Nations23.4 From War to Peace
letters of marque8.2 The New American Republic
Levittown28.3 The American Dream
liberty bonds23.2 The United States Prepares for War
Liberty Party11.5 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
Little Rock Nine28.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
log cabin campaign10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
Long Telegram28.2 The Cold War
Lost Generation24.3 A New Generation
Louisiana Purchase8.3 Partisan Politics
LoyalistIntroduction
M
machine politics19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
machine tools9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
majority rule7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
malaria22.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
Manhattan Project27.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
Manifest Destiny17.1 The Westward Spirit
manumissions7.2 How Much Revolutionary Change?
Marbury v. Madison8.3 Partisan Politics
maroon communities3.4 The Impact of Colonization
Marshall Plan28.2 The Cold War
Mary McLeod Bethune26.3 The Second New Deal
Massachusetts Circular5.3 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
massive retaliation28.3 The American Dream
materiel27.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
matriarchy1.1 The Americas
Mayflower2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
McDonalds28.3 The American Dream
Mecklenburg Resolves6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
mercantilism2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
Mexican Cession11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848, 14.1 The Compromise of 1850
middle class19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
Middle Passage3.4 The Impact of Colonization
military-industrial complex28.3 The American Dream
millennialism13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
minutemen6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
miscegenation14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
missionaries3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
Missouri Compromise11.2 The Missouri Crisis
mita1.1 The Americas
Model T24.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
Mohawk and Hudson Railroad9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
Molly Maguires18.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
Monarchy7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
monopoly18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
monster bank10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
Montesquieu7.3 Debating Democracy
Moral Majority31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
moral suasion13.4 Addressing Slavery
Mormons13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
Morrill Act15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
mourning wars2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
moving assembly line24.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
muckrakers21.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
Mugwumps20.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
musket3.4 The Impact of Colonization
Muslim1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery
Mutually Assured Destruction28.3 The American Dream
N
NAACP21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
national bank8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
National Labor Relations Board26.3 The Second New Deal
National Organization for Women30.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
National Recovery Administration26.2 The First New Deal
nativism24.2 Transformation and Backlash
naturalism19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
naval quarantine29.1 The Kennedy Promise
Navigation Acts4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
Negro nationalism24.3 A New Generation
neutrality23.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
New Deal26.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
New Freedom21.4 Progressivism in the White House
New Jersey Plan7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
new morality24.3 A New Generation
New Nationalism21.4 Progressivism in the White House
New Right31.1 The Reagan Revolution
New York City Draft Riots15.4 The Union Triumphant
Niagara Movement21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
No Child Left Behind Act32.2 The Domestic Mission
no taxation without representation5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
non-importation movement5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
nonconformist4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
Northwest Passage11.1 Lewis and Clark
nullification10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
O
Obamacare32.4 Hope and Change
Okies25.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
Open Door notes22.3 Economic Imperialism in East Asia
Operation Desert Storm31.3 A New World Order
Ostend Manifesto12.4 The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
P
Pancho Villa23.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
Panic of 181911.3 Independence for Texas
Panic of 187320.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
Parents Music Resource Center31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
paternalism12.2 African Americans in the Antebellum United States
patroonships3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
Peace Corps29.1 The Kennedy Promise
Pentagon Papers30.3 Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
Petticoat affair10.2 The Rise of American Democracy
photojournalism21.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
Phrenology13.3 Reforms to Human Health
pietistic13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
Pilgrims2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
pink collar25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
plumbers30.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
polygenism12.3 Wealth and Culture in the South
polygyny1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery
polytheistic1.1 The Americas
popular sovereignty6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
Populist Party20.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
Port Huron Statement29.4 Challenging the Status Quo
pragmatism19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
privateers2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
probanza de mérito2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
Proclamation Line5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
Progressive Party21.4 Progressivism in the White House
progressive tax21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
Progressivism21.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
Prohibition23.3 A New Home Front
proportional representation7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
proprietary colonies4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
Protestant Reformation2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
Puritans2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
putting-out system9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
Q
Quartering Act5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
quipu1.1 The Americas
R
Radical Republicans16.1 Restoring the Union
Radical Whigs7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
Rappites13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
Reaganomics31.1 The Reagan Revolution
realism19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
recall21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
Reconquista1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
Reconstruction16.1 Restoring the Union
Reconstruction Acts16.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
Red Scare23.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
Red Summer23.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
redeemers16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
referendum21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
repartimiento3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
Report on Public Credit8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
Republic of Fredonia11.3 Independence for Texas
Republic of Sonora12.4 The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
Republican Party14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
republicanism6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
Reservationists23.4 From War to Peace
Restoration colonies4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
return to normalcy24.4 Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
Revolution of 18008.3 Partisan Politics
Rhode Island system9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
Roanoke2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
robber barons18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
rock and roll28.4 Popular Culture and Mass Media
Roosevelt Corollary22.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
Rosie the Riveter27.2 The Home Front
rotation in office10.2 The Rise of American Democracy
Rough Riders22.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
S
sacraments1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
salutary neglect4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
Sand Creek Massacre17.4 The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
scalawags16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
scientific management18.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
Scopes Monkey Trial24.2 Transformation and Backlash
Scottsboro Boys25.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
Second Great Awakening13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
Second Ku Klux Klan24.2 Transformation and Backlash
second middle passage12.2 African Americans in the Antebellum United States
second party system10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
Seneca Falls13.5 Women’s Rights
Separatists2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
serfs1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
settlement house movement19.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
Seward’s Folly22.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
Shakers13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
sharecropping16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
Sherman’s March to the Sea15.4 The Union Triumphant
silent majority30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
Silent Sentinels21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
Slave Power11.5 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West, 14.1 The Compromise of 1850
Slavery4.3 An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
smallpox2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
Smoot-Hawley Tariff25.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
social Darwinism18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth, 19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
social gospel19.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
Social Register19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
Social Security26.3 The Second New Deal
sod houses17.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
Sons of Liberty5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
southern strategy6.3 War in the South, 30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
Southern Tenant Farmers Union26.2 The First New Deal
Spanish-American War21.4 Progressivism in the White House
specie9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
Speculation25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
sphere of influence22.3 Economic Imperialism in East Asia
spoils system10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
Sputnik28.3 The American Dream
Square Deal21.4 Progressivism in the White House
stagflation30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
Stalwarts20.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
Stamp Act5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
START31.3 A New World Order
state-level reforms21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
states’ rights28.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)29.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
subprime mortgages32.2 The Domestic Mission
Suffolk Resolves5.5 Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
sugarcane2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
Supreme Court Packing Plan26.3 The Second New Deal
Susquehannock3.3 English Settlements in America
T
Taliban32.1 The War on Terror
Tallmadge Amendment11.2 The Missouri Crisis
Tammany Hall19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
Tariff of Abominations10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
Taylorism21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
Tea Act of 17735.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
Tea Party32.4 Hope and Change
Teapot Dome scandal24.4 Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
teetotalism13.3 Reforms to Human Health
Tejanos11.3 Independence for Texas
temperance13.3 Reforms to Human Health
ten percent plan16.1 Restoring the Union
Tennessee Valley Authority26.2 The First New Deal
the Terror8.2 The New American Republic
thirteen colonies6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
three-fifths compromise7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
Timucua3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
Title VII29.4 Challenging the Status Quo
total war15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
Townshend5.3 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
Trail of Tears10.4 Indian Removal
transcendentalism13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
Treaty of Paris4.5 Wars for Empire
trust18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
Tuskegee Institute27.2 The Home Front
tyranny of the majority10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
U
Underground Railroad14.1 The Compromise of 1850
unicameral7.3 Debating Democracy
Union Leagues16.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
universal manhood suffrage10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
Urbanization19.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
V
vertical integration18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
vice-admiralty courts5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
Victory Stamps27.2 The Home Front
Vietnam Syndrome31.3 A New World Order
Vietnamization30.3 Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
Virginia Plan7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
W
wampum3.4 The Impact of Colonization
war on drugs31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
war on poverty29.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Washington Temperance Society13.3 Reforms to Human Health
Whigs10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
Wilmot Proviso11.5 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
Wisconsin Idea21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
WMDs32.1 The War on Terror
Wobblies21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
Working Men’s Party9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
Works Progress AdministrationIntroduction, 26.3 The Second New Deal
Wounded Knee Massacre17.4 The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
X
XYZ affair8.3 Partisan Politics
Y
yellow fever22.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
yellow journalism22.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
Yippies30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
Yom Kippur War30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
Yorktown6.3 War in the South
Yuppie31.1 The Reagan Revolution
Z
Zimmermann telegram23.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
zoot suits27.2 The Home Front
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