Maps Features Preface New to the Fifth Edition Hallmark Features Learning Resources for Of the People Acknowledgments About the Authors CHAPTER 15 Reconstructing a Nation, 1865-1877 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: John Dennett Visits a Freedmen''s Bureau Court Wartime Reconstruction Lincoln''s Ten Percent Plan Versus the Wade-Davis Bill The Meaning of Freedom Experiments with Free Labor Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867 The Political Economy of Contract Labor Resistance to Presidential Reconstruction Congress Clashes with the President Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment Congressional Reconstruction The South Remade The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson Radical Reconstruction in the South Achievements and Failures of Radical Government The Political Economy of Sharecropping The Gospel of Prosperity A Counterrevolution of Terrorism and Economic Pressure AMERICA IN THE WORLD: Reconstructing America''s Foreign Policy A Reconstructed West The Overland Trail The Origins of Indian Reservations Reforming Native American Tribes out of Existence The Retreat from Republican Radicalism Republicans Become the Party of Moderation Reconstructing the North The Fifteenth Amendment and Nationwide African American Suffrage Women and Suffrage The End of Reconstruction Corruption Is the Fashion Liberal Republicans Revolt "Redeeming" the South STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: An Incident at Coushatta, August 1874 The Twice-Stolen Election of 1876 Sharecropping Becomes Wage Labor Conclusion Chapter 15 Primary Sources 15.1 Petroleum V. Nasby [David Ross Locke], A Platform for Northern Democrats (1865) 15.2 A Black tenant farmer describes working conditions 15.3 Sharecropping Contract Between Alonzo T. Mial and Fenner Powell (1886) 15.4 Joseph Farley, An Account of Reconstruction 15.5 A Southern Unionist Judge''s Daughter Writes the President for Help (1874) 15.

6 Red Cloud Pleads the Plains Indians'' Point of View at Cooper Union (1870) CHAPTER 16 The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism, 1850-1890 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Rosa Cassettari The Political Economy of Global Capitalism The "Great Depression" of the Late Nineteenth Century AMERICA IN THE WORLD: The Global Migration of Labor The Economic Transformation of the West Cattlemen: From Drovers to Ranchers Commercial Farmers Remake the Plains Changes in the Land AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Pioneers'' Paradise Lost America Moves to the City The Rise of Big Business The Rise of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Dominates the Steel Industry Big Business Consolidates A New Social Order Lifestyles of the Very Rich The Consolidation of the New Middle Class The Industrial Working Class Comes of Age Social Darwinism and the Growth of Scientific Racism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: "The Chinese Must Go" The Knights of Labor and the Haymarket Disaster Conclusion Chapter 16 Primary Sources 16.1 Stephen Crane Visits the "Breaker" at a Coal Mine 16.2 Visual Document: Alfred R. Waud, "Bessemer Steel Manufacture" (1876) 16.3 George Steevens, Excerpt from The Land of the Dollar (1897) 16.4 James Baird Weaver, A Call to Action (1892) 16.5 Visual Documents: "Gift for the Grangers" (1873) and the Jorns Family of Dry Valley, Custer County, Nebraska (1886) 16.6 William A.

Peffer Pleads the Farmer''s Cause, 1891 CHAPTER 17 The Culture and Politics of Industrial America, 1870-1892 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Luna Kellie and the Farmers'' Alliance The Elusive Boundaries of Male and Female The Victorian Construction of Male and Female The Moralists'' Crusade for Morality Urban Culture A New Cultural Order: New Americans Stir Old Fears Josiah Strong Attacks Immigration From Immigrants to Ethnic Americans The Catholic Church and Its Limits in Immigrant Culture Immigrant Cultures The Enemy at the Gates Two Political Styles The Triumph of Party Politics Masculine Partisanship and Feminine Voluntarism The Women''s Christian Temperance Union The Critics of Popular Politics STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The "Crusade" Against Alcohol Economic Issues Dominate National Politics Greenbacks and Greenbackers Weak Presidents Oversee a Stronger Federal Government AMERICA IN THE WORLD: Foreign Policy: The Limited Significance of Commercial Expansion Government Activism and Its Limits States Discover Activism Cities: Boss Rule and New Responsibilities Challenging the New Industrial Order Henry George and the Limits of Producers'' Ideology Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Clubs Agrarian Revolt The Rise of the Populists Conclusion Chapter 17 Primary Sources 17.1 Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (1883) 17.2 Josiah Strong, Excerpts from "The Superiority of the Anglo-Saxon Race" (1885) 17.3 Henry George, Excerpts from "That We Might All Be Rich" (1883) 17.4 Jacob Riis, Excerpt from How the Other Half Lives (1890) and Visual Document: Jacob Riis, Visual Document "Nomads of the Street" (ca. 1890) 17.5 New York World, "How Tim Got the Votes" (1892) 17.6 Tammany Times, "And Reform Moves On" (1895) CHAPTER 18 Industry and Empire, 1890-1900 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: J.

P. Morgan The Crisis of the 1890s Hard Times and Demands for Help The Overseas Frontier The Drive for Efficiency The Struggle Between Management and Labor Corporate Consolidation A Modern Economy Currency: Gold Versus Silver The Cross of Gold The Battle of the Standards The Retreat from Politics The Lure of the Cities AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Galveston, Texas, 1900 Inventing Jim Crow The Atlanta Compromise Disfranchisement and the Decline of Popular Politics STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Wilmington Race Riot Organized Labor Retreats from Politics American Diplomacy Enters the Modern World Sea Power and the Imperial Urge The Scramble for Empire War with Spain The Anti-Imperialists The Philippine-American War The Open Door Conclusion Chapter 18 Primary Sources 18.1 Frederick Winslow Taylor, Excerpts from The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) 18.2 Booker T. Washington, "The Atlanta Compromise" (1895) 18.3 Theodore Roosevelt, Excerpts from "The Strenuous Life" (1899) 18.4 Platform for the Anti Imperialist League (1899) CHAPTER 19 A United Body of Action, 1900-1916 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Helen Keller Toward a New Politics The Insecurity of Modern Life The Decline of Partisan Politics Social Housekeeping Evolution or Revolution? The Progressives Social Workers and Muckrakers STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Public Response to The Jungle Dictatorship of the Experts Progressives on the Color Line Progressives in State and Local Politics Redesigning the City Reform Mayors and City Services Progressives and the States A Push for "Genuine Democracy" and a "Moral Awakening" The Executive Branch Against the Trusts The Square Deal Conserving Water, Land, and Forests Theodore Roosevelt and Big Stick Diplomacy Taft and Dollar Diplomacy AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Hetch Hetchy Valley Rival Visions of the Industrial Future The New Nationalism The 1912 Election The New Freedom Conclusion Chapter 19 Primary Sources 19.1 Daniel Burnham and Edward H.

Bennet, Plan of Chicago (1909) 19.2 Upton Sinclair, Excerpts from The Jungle (1906) 19.3 Visual Documents: Lewis Wickes Hine, National Child Labor Committee Photographs (Early 1900S) 19.4 Helen Keller, Excerpts from "Blind Leaders" (1913) CHAPTER 20 A Global Power, 1914-1919 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Walter Lippmann The Challenge of Revolution The Mexican Revolution Bringing Order to the Caribbean A One-Sided Neutrality The Lusitania''s Last Voyage The Drift to War The Election of 1916 The Last Attempts at Peace War Aims The Fight in Congress Mobilizing the Nation and the Economy Enforcing Patriotism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Eugene Debs Speaks Out Against the War Regimenting the Economy The Great Migration Reforms Become "War Measures" Over There Citizens into Soldiers The Fourteen Points The Final Offensive Revolutionary Anxieties Wilson in Paris The Senate Rejects the League Red Scare AMERICA IN THE WORLD: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Conclusion Chapter 20 Primary Sources 20.1 Eugene V. Debs, Excerpts from Canton, Ohio, Speech (1918) 20.2 George Creel, Excerpts from How We Advertised America (1920) 20.3 Woodrow Wilson, "Fourteen Points" Speech (1918) 20.

4 Marysville Evening Tribune, Influenza and the American military (1918) CHAPTER 21 The Modern Nation, 1919-1928 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: "America''s Sweetheart" A Dynamic Economy The Development of Industry The Trend Toward Large-Scale Organization The Transformation of Work and the Workforce The Defeat of Organized Labor The Decline of Agriculture The Urban Nation A Modern Culture The Spread of Consumerism New Pleasures for a.