America, The Essential Learning Edition (Volume 2) 3rd Edition By David Emory Shi
Contents in Brief
CHAPTER 15 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 585
PART FIVE Growing Pains 631
CHAPTER 16 Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860–1900 635
CHAPTER 17 The New South and the New West, 1865–1900 675
CHAPTER 18 Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865–1900 721
CHAPTER 19 Seizing an American Empire, 1865–1913 759
PART SIX Modern America 795
CHAPTER 20 The Progressive Era, 1890–1920 799
CHAPTER 21 America and the Great War, 1914–1920 839
CHAPTER 22 A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929 879
CHAPTER 23 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933–1939 927
CHAPTER 24 The Second World War, 1933–1945 973
PART SEVEN The American Age 1027
CHAPTER 25 The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952 1033
CHAPTER 26 Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age, 1950–1959 1071
CHAPTER 27 New Frontiers and a Great Society, 1960–1968 1115
CHAPTER 28 Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s 1167
CHAPTER 29 Conservative Revival, 1977–2000 1221
CHAPTER 30 Twenty-First-Century America, 2000–Present 1267
Table of Contents
List of Maps xvi
List of THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN features xviii
List of WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? features xx
Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxxvii
CHAPTER 15 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 585
The War’s Aftermath in the South 587
Battles over Political Reconstruction 588
Black Society under Reconstruction 602
The Grant Administration 610
Reconstruction’s Significance 623
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 624
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Debating Reconstruction 626
PART FIVE | Growing Pains 631
CHAPTER 16 Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860–1900 635
The Elements of Industrial and Agricultural Growth 636
The Rise of Big Business 647
The Alliance of Business and Politics 653
A Changed Social Order 655
Organized Labor 660
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 672
CHAPTER 17 The New South and the New West, 1865–1900 675
The Myth of the New South 676
The Failings of the New South 679
Race Relations during the 1890s 682
The Settling of the New West 690
Life in the New West 694
The Fate of Western Indians 705
The End of the Frontier 715
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 718
CHAPTER 18 Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865–1900 721
America’s Move to Town 723
The New Immigration 725
Changes in Culture and Thought 730
Gilded Age Politics 735
Corruption and Reform: Hayes to Harrison 738
Unhappy Farmers and the “Money Problem” 745
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 756
CHAPTER 19 Seizing an American Empire, 1865–1913 759
Toward the New Imperialism 760
Expansion in the Pacific 761
The Spanish-American War 763
Consequences of Victory 770
Roosevelt’s “Big-Stick” Diplomacy 778
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 788
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Debating the Annexation of the Philippines 790
PART SIX | Modern America 795
CHAPTER 20 The Progressive Era, 1890–1920 799
The Progressive Impulse 800
The Varied Sources of Progressivism 801
Progressives’ Aims and Achievements 808
Progressivism under Roosevelt and Taft 816
Woodrow Wilson: A Progressive Southerner 826
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 836
CHAPTER 21 America and the Great War, 1914–1920 839
An Uneasy Neutrality 840
Mobilizing for War 850
The American Role in the War 856
The Politics of Peace 862
Stumbling from War to Peace 869
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 876
CHAPTER 22 A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929 879
A “New Era” of Consumption 880
The “Jazz Age” 886
The Modernist Revolt 895
The Reactionary Twenties 901
Republican Resurgence 911
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 924
CHAPTER 23 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933–1939 927
The Causes of the Great Depression 928
The Human Toll of the Depression 932
From Hooverism to the New Deal 937
Roosevelt’s New Deal 943
The New Deal under Fire 953
The Second New Deal 961
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 970
CHAPTER 24 The Second World War, 1933–1945 973
The Rise of Fascism in Europe 974
From Isolationism to Intervention 977
Mobilization at Home 991
The Allied Drive toward Berlin 999
The Pacific War 1011
A New Age Is Born 1016
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 1018
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Debating the United States’ Response to the Holocaust 1020
PART SEVEN | The American Age 1027
CHAPTER 25 The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952 1033
Truman and the Cold War 1034
The Containment Policy 1036
Expanding the New Deal 1043
The Cold War Heats Up 1056
Another Red Scare 1063
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 1068
CHAPTER 26 Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age, 1950–1959 1071
Moderate Republicanism: The Eisenhower Years 1072
A People of Plenty 1078
Cracks in the Picture Window 1088
The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement 1091
Foreign Policy in the Fifties 1099
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 1112
CHAPTER 27 New Frontiers and a Great Society, 1960–1968 1115
The New Frontier 1116
Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement 1128
Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Great Society 1143
The Tragedy of Vietnam 1153
The Turmoil of the Sixties 1159
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 1164
CHAPTER 28 Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s 1167
“Forever Young”: The Youth Revolt 1168
Social Activism Spreads 1179
Nixon and the Revival of Conservatism 1192
“Peace with Honor”: Ending the Vietnam War 1198
The Nixon Doctrine and a Thawing Cold War 1204
Watergate 1208
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 1218
CHAPTER 29 Conservative Revival, 1977–2000 1221
The Carter Presidency 1222
The Rise of Ronald Reagan 1228
The Reagan Revolution 1232
An Anti-Communist Foreign Policy 1236
The Changing Economic and Social Landscape 1242
The Presidency of George H. W. Bush 1245
The Clinton Presidency (1993–2001) 1253
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 1264
CHAPTER 30 Twenty-First-Century America, 2000–Present 1267
America’s Changing Population 1268
A Chaotic Start to a New Century 1269
Second-Term Blues 1277
The Obama Administration 1282
The Trump Administration 1295
Sideswiped by a Pandemic 1313
Biden’s First 100 Days 1325
REVIEWING THE CORE OBJECTIVES 1327
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN: Debating Contemporary Immigration and the Uses of History 1330