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Chapter 17 Catalog	RECONSTRUCTION: The Turning Point That Never Turned Confederacy’s Defeat Reconstruction’s Overarching Issues Wartime Reconstruction Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Policies Radical Republicans and Reconstruction Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction Johnson’s Reconstruction Policy The Black Suffrage Issue in the North Southern Defiance The Black Codes Land and Labor in the Postwar South The Freedmen’s Bureau The Issue of Land for the Landless The Advent of Radical Reconstruction The Fourteenth Amendment The 1866 Congressional Elections The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson The Southern Response to the Reconstruction Acts The White Backlash During Presidential Reconstruction: The 1866 Race Riots in Memphis and New Orleans Republican State Governments The First Grant Administration The Election of 1868 The Fifteenth Amendment Grant in the White House Civil Service Reform Foreign Policy Issues The White Backlash Continues The 1872 Presidential Election The Panic of 1873 Retreat From Reconstruction The 1876 Presidential Election Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 18 Catalog	INDIAN EXPULSION AND WHITE SETTLEMENT IN THE TRANS-MISSOURI WEST Native Americans and the Civil War Choosing Sides Wartime Massacres and Detention American Westward Expansion during the Civil War Conquest by the Railroad The Homestead Act The Western Economy The Great Western Cattle Trails Western Mining Crime and Punishment in the Old West Outlaw Chic Women in the West Graceful as a Cat: Billy the Kid Abortion Restriction in the West Chinese Workers Mexican Labor African Americans in the Old West Buffalo Soldiers African Americans and the Western Labor Movement Black Colonies in Kansas and Oklahoma The Reservation Era The Buffalo Slaughter Little Big Horn Geronimo and the Twilight of Indian Resistance The Dawes Severalty Act The Real and Mythic West Joseph, Chief of the Nez Percé Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 19 Catalog	THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA & THE POLITICS OF THE NEW ORDER The Rise of Big Business The Railroads Andrew Carnegie and Steel John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil Bell, Edison, and Westinghouse The Emergence of Mass Marketing From Competition to Consolidation: The Rise of the Corporation The Flush Toilet: Technology Changes Daily American Life J. P. Morgan and Finance Capitalism Laissez-Faire in Theory and Practice Social Darwinism Foreign Immigration and Internal Migration Why They Came Immigrant Labor From the Farm to the City The "New South" The Rise of Oganized Labor The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 The Haymarket Affair Henry George and Edward Bellamy The Homestead Lockout The Pullman Strike Gilded Age Politics Urban Political Machines Patronage Politics in the States The Shadow Presidents The Democrats Finally Emerge Victorious: The Election of 1884 Tariffs and Pensions Cleveland Repudiated: The Election of 1888 Federal Courts and the Regulation of Business The Fight for Free Silver The Depression of 1893-1897 The Populist Uprising Farmer Alliances Forming the People's Party The 1896 Presidential Election The Collapse of Populism Changing World Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 20 Catalog	THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC America’s Quest for Empire: 1880-1900 Voices for Expansion The Imperialists Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Rise of American Militarism Hawaii The Spanish-American War “A Splendid Little War” Critics of Empire: The Anti-Imperialists The United States Becomes a World Power Guerrilla War in the Philippines, 1898-1902 Controlling Cuba and Puerto Rico The Open Door Policy The Boxer Rebellion Theodore Roosevelt and the Foundation of American Foreign Policy The Roosevelt Corollary The Panama Canal William Howard Taft and Dollar Diplomacy Political Cartoons and American Imperialism United States Expansion Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 21 Catalog	THE PROGRESSIVE REFORMATION OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA Influences Upon Progressivism The Strands of Progressivism The Muckrakers Local Urban Reforms State-Level Reforms Labor Reforms Prohibition Woman Suffrage Political Reforms Robert La Follette and the “Wisconsin Idea” African-American Responses to Jim Crow Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois Jack Johnson (1878-1946) National Reform Under Roosevelt The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt Takes Command The Northern Securities Company Case The Anthracite Coal Strike Roosevelt’s Reelection Railroad Regulation Regulation of the Nation’s Food and Medicine The First Environmental President Roosevelt Chooses a Successor The Taft Presidency Roosevelt vs. Taft The Election of 1912 National Reform Under Wilson Wilson’s Background Wilson’s Economic Reforms The Pinnacle of National Progressivism–Wilson’s Acceptance of Social Reform The Election of 1916 The Legacy of Progressivism Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 22 Catalog	THE “GREAT WAR”: WORLD WAR I Wilsonian “Missionary Diplomacy” The Outbreak of the Great War Causes for the War American Neutrality The English Blockade and German Submarine Warfare America Enters the War The Zimmermann Telegram Declaration of War The War at Home Propaganda and Hysteria Manpower Mobilization Mobilization of Resources Dissenters and the Suppression of Civil Liberties African Americans and the War The War after U.S. Entry The Bolshevik Revolution Wilson’s Fourteen Points “Over There”: The U.S. Military in World War I The End of the War The Search for Peace The Versailles Peace Conference Fight for the League of Nations The “Spanish Flu” Pandemic Postwar Racism and the Red Scare Postwar Normalcy Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 23 Catalog	THE CONTENTIOUS TWENTIES The Postwar Economy “Sick Industries” Economic Boom The Myth of the “Roaring 20s” “Ballyhoo” and Record-Breaking The Black Sox Scandal The “New Woman” The Misappropriation of Freud The Impact of the Great Black Migration The Defenders of Tradition Restrictions on Dress, Dancing, and Movies Prohibition Nativism and Immigration Restriction Fundamentalism The Second Ku Klux Klan Resurgent Political Conservatism Election of 1920 The Failed Harding Presidency “Keeping Cool” With Coolidge “The Business of America” The Election of Hoover and The Great Crash Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 24 Catalog	THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL The Presidency of Herbert Hoover The Technocrat as President The Deepening Depression Occupying Washington: The Bonus Army The Election of 1932 The Lord of the Manor: FDR Launching the New Deal The New Dealers Saving Capitalism: Banking and Stock Exchange Initiatives Initial Relief and Recovery Efforts Major Relief Programs Industrial Recovery Measures Agricultural Recovery Efforts The Tennessee Valley Authority Populist Opposition to the New Deal Radicalism in the States The Rise of the Demagogues: Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin The “Second New Deal” Promoting Electricity for All New Relief Programs Social Security The Townsend Plan Labor Resurgence Minorities, Women, and The New Deal Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era Hispanic Americans during the Great Depression Native Americans and the New Deal Women during the New Deal Era Roosevelt’s Reelection and Second Term The Election of 1936 Stalemate, 1937-1940 The “Court Packing” Furor The Recession of 1937-1938 New Deal Legacy Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 25 Catalog	DEMOCRACY, FASCISM, AND COMMUNISM AT WAR, 1921-1945 America and the World During the 1920s Stabilizing the European Economy Toward the Good Neighbor Policy Active Global Diplomacy The Rise of Totalitarianism in Asia and Europe Japanese Militarism and the Takeover of Manchuria The Rise of Mussolini and the Invasion of Ethiopia The Rise of the Nazis The Spanish Civil War American Isolationism The Neutrality Acts The Coming of World War II The Japanese Invasion of China The High Water Mark of Appeasement: Austria and Czechoslovakia The Nazi-Soviet Partition of Poland World War II Begins in Europe Neutrality Revision The Fall of France The American Reaction to War Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh The Election of 1940 Lend-Lease The Undeclared Naval War vs. Germany in the Atlantic Worsening Relations with Japan The Road to Pearl Harbor Halting the Axis, 1941-1942 The Fall of the Philippines The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway Allied Victories in Egypt and Russia The Battle of the Atlantic The American Home Front Industrial Mobilization Manpower Mobilization Financing the War Civilian Sacrifice Women during World War II The African American Experience Hispanics and the War Native American Contributions The Internment of Japanese Americans Victory in Europe, 1943-1945 The Debate Over Strategy in Europe Frank Fujita, Jr.–A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Empire of the Rising Sun Operation Torch The Allied Invasions of Sicily and Southern Italy Strategic Bombing The Tehran Conference D-Day The Yalta Conference End of the War in Europe Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 The South Pacific Campaign The Central Pacific Campaign The Fight for the Philippines The Bloody Fight for Iwo Jima and Okinawa The New President Naval Blockade and Fire Bombing of Japan The Defeat of Japan Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 26 Catalog	THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR The Emerging Cold War The Truman Doctrine and Containment Aid to Greece and Turkey The Marshall Plan The Berlin Crisis The Formation of NATO Domestic Politics during the Truman Years Truman and Civil Rights The 1948 Election The Fair Deal The Communist Takeover of China Cold War Hysteria: The Second Red Scare The Politics of Anti-communism The Spy Trials The Rise of McCarthyism The Korean War North Korea Invades the South Chinese Intervention Truman Fires MacArthur Chills and Fever during the Cold War Initial U.S. Involvement in Vietnam America Turns to Eisenhower The 1952 Election The End of the Korean War McCarthy's Decline Eisenhower and the Cold War John Foster Dulles and the “New Look” Critics of the New Look and Massive Retaliation Ike and the Soviets The Hungary Crisis The Emergence of the Third World Covert CIA Operations in Iran and Guatemala Troubles in the Middle East Eisenhower and Vietnam Sputnik The U-2 Incident Eisenhower Wars of a “Military-Industrial Complex” Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 27 Catalog	AMERICAN CULTURE FROM 1945-1960 Racism Before World War II The Persistence of Eugenics The Cold War and Race Relations Black Political Activism Desegregation in Higher Education The Brown Decision The Murder of Emmett Till Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott The Little Rock Crisis The Sit-in Movement Mexican-American Activism Rosie the Riveter After the War Women in 1950s Popular Culture Family Life and the Baby Boom Family Troubles Sex during the 1950s The Double Standard Porn in the U.S.A. The Cost of Sexual Hypocrisy Oppression and the Birth of the Gay Rights Movement The Interstate Highway System TV Nation Television and Professional Sports The Beats: Subterranean Rebels “Seduction of the Innocent”: The Comic Book Wars The “Sick Humor” of Lenny Bruce Rock ‘n’ Roll The Lasting Influence of the 1950s Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 28 Catalog	REFORM AND BACKLASH UNDER KENNEDY AND JOHNSON The 1960 Presidential Election Civil Rights and the 1960 Campaign The Catholic Issue Returns Television and the Kennedy-Nixon Debates Kennedy Triumphant The “New Frontier” The Bay of Pigs Fiasco The Berlin Wall The Cuban Missile Crisis The Space Race The Civil Rights Movement during the Kennedy Years The Freedom Riders Integrating “Ole Miss” “Bombingham” The University of Alabama Integrates The March on Washington Four Little Girls The Kennedy Assassination and Its Impact LBJ: A Political Force of Nature An Unlikely Civil Rights Ally The Great Society The Civil Rights Movement during the Johnson Years The 1964 Civil Rights Act Freedom Summer The Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman Murders The Election of 1964 Upstaging the President Fannie Lou Hamer and the 1964 Democratic Convention “Bloody Sunday” in Selma The Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Life and Death of Malcolm X Long Hot Summers White Backlash The Warren Court 1960-1967: The Best of Times 1960-1967: The Worst of Times Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 29 Catalog	ROLLING THUNDER: THE VIETNAM WAR UNDER KENNEDY AND JOHNSON South Vietnam Under Diem The Diem Regime Kennedy Continues U.S. Aid to Diem Strategic Hamlets Buddist Protests and Government Suppression Diem's Overthrow Johnson Stays the Course “The Prospects Now Are For a Shorter War” Vietnam and the Election of 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Incident Direct U.S. Military Intervention Operation Rolling Thunder Deployment of Chemical Weapons Search and Destroy Missions American Fighting Men Trouble with the Locals Race Matters The Hanoi Hilton The War at Home, 1965-67 The “Television War” Public Opinion and the War Class Divisions Anti-War Protests Emerge The Burning of Norman Morrison “No Vietcong Ever Called Me Nigger” The March on the Pentagon Apologies and Forgiveness Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 30 Catalog	THE NIGHTMARE YEAR, 1968 Campus Unrest Protests at Columbia and Harlem The Columbia Occupation The Seizure of the Pueblo Vietnam in '68 The Tet Offensive “One of the Great Pictures of the Vietnam War” Losing “The Most Trusted Man in America” The My Lai Massacre Uncommon Valor The War and Domestic Politics RFK “Clean For Gene”: Surprise in New Hampshire LBJ Bows Out Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and the Poor People's Campaign The FBI War on MLK The Poor People's Campaign The King Assassination Robert Kennedy on the Death of Martin Luther King The Election of 1968 Another Kennedy Assassination Nixon's Political Comeback Wallace Enters the Race Last Man Standing The Chicago Convention Riot Nixon Victorious 1968: The “What-Ifs” Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 31 Catalog	AMERICAN FRUSTRATION AND DECLINE IN THE 1970s Domestic Affairs Under Nixon Affirmative Action Nixonomics The First Energy Crisis Foreign Affairs Under Nixon A Coup in Chile Cracks in the Communist World “Peace With Honor” Operation Menu Four Dead in Ohio Declining Morale The Pentagon Papers The Christmas Bombing “Nothing More to Say After That”: Aftermath of the Vietnam War Fragging The Killing Fields of Cambodia Nixon's Re-Election A Cancer Close to the Presidency: The Watergate Scandal “The Saturday Night Massacre” A Ford, Not a Lincoln “A Full, Free, and Absolute Pardon” The Reform Congress The Ford Interlude The 1976 Election Thunder from the Right The Democratic Challenge “No Soviet Domination of Eastern Europe” The Carter Presidency The Panama Canal Treaties The Israeli-Egyptian Agreement The Iranian Revolution Carter's “Malaise Speech” America Held Hostage The Moral Majority “There You Go Again”: The Election of Ronald Reagan Americans Get Angry Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 32 Catalog	AMERICAN CULTURE AND THE COUNTERCULTURE OF THE 1960s AND 1970s The Birth of 1960s Youth Culture Discontent in the Suburbs “What Are You Rebelling Against?”: The Childhood of 1960s Radicals “The Order is Rapidly Fading”: Bob Dylan and 1960s Protest Music “Tuning in and Dropping Out”: The Hippie Culture Psychedelic Drugs Manifistations of African-American Pride “Black Power” Changing Depictions of Blacks in Film and Television Roots “Black is Beautiful” Black Nationalism Domestic Terror: The Weather Underground Latino Protests The Crystal City Protests César Chávez and the United Farm Workers Chicanismo Back to Wounded Knee: The American Indian Movement The Environment Movement Silent Spring Earth Day and the Pollution Awareness Movement The women's rights Movement “The Problem With No Name” “The Bunny Law” Glass Ceilings The Failure of the Equal Rights Amendment “Back Alley Abortions” The Case of Sherri Finkbine Roe v. Wade The Birth of the Anti-Abortion Movement The Beginning of the Gay Liberation Movement Stonewall Anita Bryant and the Anti-Gay Rights Backlash “A Civilization Without Insanity”: Religious Experimentation in the Sixties and Seventies Scientology Jim Jones and the People's Temple “A God in Your Universe” The Promise and the Disappointment of American Culture, 1960-1980 Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 33 Catalog	THE RISE OF CONSERVATISM: RONALD REAGAN TO GEORGE H.W. BUSH Conservatism Triumphant The New Right The Moral Majority Conservative Think Tanks The New President From Midwestern Youth to Hollywood Star The Eternal Optimist Reagan’s First Term Domestic Agenda Challenging the Welfare State Reaganomics The Air Traffic Controllers’ Strike The Reagan Recession An Uneven Recovery Taking on the Environmentalists Reagan Confronts the World Increased Tensions with the Soviet Union Right-Wing Support in Central America Continuing Turmoil in the Middle East The Election of 1984 Reagan’s Second Term Domestic Challenges Tax and Immigration Reform Warning Signs The AIDS Epidemic Ronald Reagan and the Challenger Disaster: The President as “Mourner-in-Chief” Supreme Court Appointments Fighting the Cold War: Scandal and Breakthrough The Iran Contra Affair and Other Scandals Monumental Changes in the Soviet Union George H.W. Bush Succeeds Reagan Foreign Affairs Under George H. W. Bush The Cold War Ends Bush and Latin America The Gulf War Bush and The Politics of Frustration Bush's Domestic Balancing Act Domestic Upheaval Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 34 Catalog	A DIVIDED AMERICA: BILL CLINTON TO GEORGE W. BUSH The 1992 Election: Bill Clinton and the Triumph of Neo-Liberalism Clinton Domestic Reform Efforts Trade Agreements “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Health Care Reform The 1994 Republican Counter Revolution The Right’s Ascendance to Power Anti-Government Extremism The Multiculturalism Debate Racial Polarization The 1996 Election: Clinton Vindicated Bill Clinton and the World: Clintonian Foreign Policy The Clinton Doctrine and The People’s Republic of China Africa The Middle East Peacekeeping in the Balkans Second Term High and Low The Clinton Economy The Lewinsky Debacle The 2000 Election The 2000 Post-Election Spectacle The Bush Agenda Bush and Foreign Policy Pre-September 11 Foreign Policy September 11, 2001 The Price of “Freedom” The AmericanCounterattack The Iraq War The 2004 Election Bush's Second Term Hurricane Katrina The Unraveling of the Bush Presidency Republicans Divided and Defeated Technology and Culture at the Dawn of a New Century The Nation's Health Entertainment Personal Computers Wither the Peace Dividend? Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts
Chapter 35 Catalog	BARACK OBAMA AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICA Barack Obama and The election of 2008 The Rise of Barack Obama A Landmark Election Race in America in the 21st Century Obama's First Term The Financial Crisis The Health Care Debate The Tea Party Movement The 2010 Congressional Elections Wall Street Reform and Protest The Obama Administration and the World Moving Away from Unilateralism The Club of Rome, The Environmental Movement, and the Issue of Global Warming Winding Down Two Wars Narrowing the Struggle: The U.s. and Iran The Arab Spring The End of Osama bin Laden The 2012 Presidential Election Obama’s Re-election Second-Term Challenges Polarization: The Greatest Challenge to Contemporary America Chronology Suggested Readings Review Questions Glossary of Important People and Concepts

APPENDIX	A. Declaration of Independence B. Constitution of the United States C. Presidential Elections D. Supreme Court Justices E. Admission of States to the Union F. Population Growth
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