Contents

  1. IMPORTANT NOTICE

  2. I. Faculty Resources

    1. 1. Request Access

    2. 2. How to Read the Textbook

    3. 3. How to Read Primary Sources

    4. 4. I Need Help

  3. II. The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

    1. 5. Introduction

    2. 6. Restoring the Union

    3. 7. Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866

    4. 8. Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872

    5. 9. The Collapse of Reconstruction

    6. 10. Video: Reconstruction and 1876

  4. III. Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900

    1. 11. Introduction

    2. 12. The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture

    3. 13. The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens

    4. 14. The Westward Spirit

    5. 15. Video: Westward Expansion

    6. 16. Homesteading: Dreams and Realities

    7. 17. Making a Living in Gold and Cattle

  5. IV. Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900

    1. 18. Introduction

    2. 19. Inventors of the Age

    3. 20. From Invention to Industrial Growth

    4. 21. Video: The Industrial Economy

    5. 22. Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor

    6. 23. A New American Consumer Culture

  6. V. The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900

    1. 24. Introduction

    2. 25. Urbanization and Its Challenges

    3. 26. The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration

    4. 27. Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life

    5. 28. Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration

    6. 29. Change Reflected in Thought and Writing

  7. VI. Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900

    1. 30. Introduction

    2. 31. Political Corruption in Postbellum America

    3. 32. The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold

    4. 33. Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era

    5. 34. Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s

    6. 35. Video: Gilded Age Politics

  8. VII. Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920

    1. 36. Introduction

    2. 37. The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America

    3. 38. Video: The Progressive Era

    4. 39. Progressivism at the Grassroots Level

    5. 40. New Voices for Women and African Americans

    6. 41. Video: Women's Suffrage

    7. 42. Progressivism in the White House

    8. 43. Video: Progressive Presidents

  9. VIII. Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914

    1. 44. Introduction

    2. 45. Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire

    3. 46. The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire

    4. 47. Economic Imperialism in East Asia

    5. 48. Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy

    6. 49. Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”

    7. 50. Video: American Imperialism

  10. IX. Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919

    1. 51. Introduction

    2. 52. American Isolationism and the European Origins of War

    3. 53. The United States Prepares for War

    4. 54. A New Home Front

    5. 55. From War to Peace

    6. 56. Video: America in World War I

    7. 57. Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath

  11. X. The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929

    1. 58. Introduction

    2. 59. Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment

    3. 60. Transformation and Backlash

    4. 61. A New Generation

    5. 62. Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s

    6. 63. Video: The Roaring 20s

  12. XI. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932

    1. 64. Introduction

    2. 65. The Stock Market Crash of 1929

    3. 66. President Hoover’s Response

    4. 67. The Depths of the Great Depression

    5. 68. Video: The Great Depression

    6. 69. Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal

  13. XII. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941

    1. 70. Introduction

    2. 71. The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt

    3. 72. The First New Deal

    4. 73. The Second New Deal

    5. 74. Video: The New Deal

  14. XIII. Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945

    1. 75. Introduction

    2. 76. The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States

    3. 77. The Home Front

    4. 78. Victory in the European Theater

    5. 79. The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb

    6. 80. Videos: World War II

  15. XIV. Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960

    1. 81. Introduction

    2. 82. The Challenges of Peacetime

    3. 83. The Cold War

    4. 84. Video: The Cold War

    5. 85. Video: The Cold War in Asia

    6. 86. The American Dream

    7. 87. Popular Culture and Mass Media

    8. 88. The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

    9. 89. Video: Civil Rights and the 1950s

  16. XV. Contesting Futures: America in the 1960's

    1. 90. Introduction

    2. 91. The Kennedy Promise

    3. 92. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society

    4. 93. The Civil Rights Movement Marches On

    5. 94. Challenging the Status Quo

  17. XVI. Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980

    1. 95. Introduction

    2. 96. Identity Politics in a Fractured Society

    3. 97. Video: The 1960s in America

    4. 98. Coming Apart, Coming Together

    5. 99. Video: The Rise of Conservatism

    6. 100. Vietnam: The Downward Spiral

    7. 101. Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare

    8. 102. Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm

    9. 103. Video: Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise

  18. XVII. From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000

    1. 104. Introduction

    2. 105. The Reagan Revolution

    3. 106. Video: The Reagan Revolution

    4. 107. Political and Cultural Fusions

    5. 108. Video: George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War

    6. 109. A New World Order

    7. 110. Bill Clinton and the New Economy

    8. 111. Video: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s

  19. XVIII. The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

    1. 112. Introduction

    2. 113. The War on Terror

    3. 114. The Domestic Mission

    4. 115. Video: Terrorism, War, and Bush

    5. 116. New Century, Old Disputes

    6. 117. Hope and Change

    7. 118. Video: Obamanation: Crash Course US History #47

  20. XIX. Appendices

    1. 119. The Declaration of Independence

    2. 120. The Constitution of the United States

    3. 121. Presidents of the United States of America

    4. 122. U.S. Political Map

    5. 123. U.S. Topographical Map

    6. 124. United States Population Chart

    7. 125. Further Reading