Of the People : A History of the United States, Volume II: since 1865, with Sources
Of the People : A History of the United States, Volume II: since 1865, with Sources
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Author(s): McGerr, Michael
Summers, Mark
Townsend, Camilla
ISBN No.: 9780197798805
Pages: 832
Year: 202602
Format: Trade Paper
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ContentsChapter 15: Reconstructing a Nation, 1865-1877American Portrait: John Dennett Visits a Freedmen''s Bureau Court15.1 Wartime Reconstruction Lincoln''s Ten Percent Plan Versus the Wade-Davis Bill The Meaning of Freedom Experiments with Free Labor15.2 Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867 The Political Economy of Contract Labor Resistance to Presidential Reconstruction Congress Clashes with the President Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment15.3 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 Pressure15.4 A Reconstructed West The Overland Trail The Origins of Indian Reservations Reforming Native American Tribes out of Existence15.5 The Retreat From Republican Radicalism Republicans Become the Party of Moderation15.6 Reconstructing the North The Fifteenth Amendment and Nationwide African American Suffrage Women and Suffrage Reconstructing America''s Foreign Policy15.7 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 American Landscape: The Exodusters Make it to the Promised LandConclusionChapter 15 Primary Sources15.


1 Petroleum V. Nasby [David Ross Locke], A Platform for Northern Democrats (1865)15.2 A Black Tenant Farmer Describes Working Conditions15.3 Sharecropping Contract Between Alonzo T. Mial and Fenner Powell (1886)15.4 Joseph Farley, An Account of Reconstruction15.5 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 16.


1 The Political Economy of Global Capitalism The "Great Depression" of the Late Nineteenth Century 16.2 The Economic Transformation of the West Cattlemen: From Drovers to Ranchers Commercial Farmers Remake the Plains Changes in the Land The West as a Treasure-House America Moves to the City American Landscape: Pioneers'' Paradise Lost 16.3 The Rise of Big Business The Rise of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Dominates the Steel Industry Big Business Consolidates 16.4 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 Sources16.1 Stephen Crane Visits the "Breaker" at a Coal Mine16.2 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 17.1 The Elusive Boundaries of Male and Female The Victorian Construction of Male and Female The Moralists'' Crusade for Virtue and Self-Control Urban Culture 17.2 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 17.3 Two Political Styles The Triumph of Party Politics Masculine Partisanship and Feminine Voluntarism The Women''s Christian Temperance Union The Critics of Popular Politics 17.4 Economic Issues Dominate National Politics Greenbacks and Greenbackers Struggles For Democracy: The "Crusade" Against Alcohol Weak Presidents Oversee a Stronger Federal Government 17.


5 Government Activism and its Limits States Discover Activism Cities: Boss Rule and New Responsibilities 17.6 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 Sources17.1 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, "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 18.1 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 18.2 A Modern Economy Currency: Gold Versus Silver The Cross of Gold The Battle of the Standards 18.3 The Retreat From Politics The Lure of the Cities American Landscape: Galveston, Texas, 1900 Inventing Jim Crow The Atlanta Compromise Struggles For Democracy: Mary Church Terrell and "The Progress of Colored Women" Disfranchisement and the Decline of Popular Politics Organized Labor Retreats from Politics 18.4 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 Sources18.1 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 19.1 Toward a New Politics The Insecurity of Modern Life The Decline of Partisan Politics Social Housekeeping Evolution or Revolution? 19.2 The Progressives Social Workers and Muckrakers Struggles For Democracy: Public Response to The Jungle Dictatorship of the Experts Progressives on the Color Line 19.3 Progressives in State and Local Politics Redesigning the City Reform Mayors and City Services Progressives and the States 19.4 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 Big Burn 19.


5 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: Mabel Seagrave and the American Women''s Overseas Hospital Unit 20.1 The Challenge of Revolution The Mexican Revolution Bringing Order to the Caribbean A One-Sided Neutrality The Lusitania''s Last Voyage 20.2 The Drift to War The Election of 1916 The Last Attempts at Peace War Aims The Fight in Congress 20.


3 Mobilizing the Nation and the Economy Enforcing Patriotism Struggles For Democracy: Eugene V. Debs Speaks Out Against the War Regimenting the Economy The Great Migration Reforms Become "War Measures" 20.4 Over There Citizens into Soldiers The Fourteen Points The Final Offensive 20.5 Revolutionary Anxieties Wilson in Paris The Senate Rejects the League Red Scare American Landscape: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Conclusion Chapter 20 Primary Sources20.1 Eugene V. Debs, Excerpts from Canton, Ohio, Speech (1918) 20.2 George Creel, Excerpts from How We Advertised America (1920) 20.3 Woodrow Wilson, Joint Address to Congress Leading to Declaration Against War on Germany (1917) 20.


4 Marysville Evening Tribune, Influenza, and the American Military (1918)Chapter 21: The Modern Nation, 1919-1928 American Portrait: "America''s Sweetheart" 21.1 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 21.2 A Modern Culture The Spread of Consumerism New Pleasures for a Mass Audience A Sexual Revolution Changing Gender Ideals Struggles For Democracy: The Scopes Trial The Family and Youth American Landscape: The Tulsa Race Massacre The Celebration of the Individual 21.3 The Limits of the Modern Culture The Limits of Prosperity The "Lost Generation" of Intellectuals Fundamentalist Christians and "Old-Time Religion" Nativists and Immigration Restriction The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan Mexican Americans African Americans and the New Negro 21.4 A "New Era" In Politics and Government The Modern Political System The Republican Ascendancy The Politics of Individualism Republican Foreign Policy Extending the New Era Conclusion Chapter 21 Primary Sources 21.1 Hiram Wesley Evans, Excerpts from "The Klan: Defender of Americanism" (1925) 21.2 Marie Prevost on "The Flapper" (1923) 21.3 Visual Document: Colgate & Co.


Advertisement (1925) 21.4 Robert Lynd and Helen Lynd, Excerpt from "Remaking Leisure in Middletown" (1929) Chapter 22: A Great Depression and a New Deal, 1929-1940 American Portrait: Dorothea Lange 22.1 The Great Depression Causes Descending into Depression Hoover Responds 22.2 The First New Deal The Election of 1932 FDR Takes Command Federal Relief The Farm Crisis Struggles For Democracy: Electrifying Hill Country The Blue Eagle 22.3 The Second New Deal Critics Attack from All Sides The Second Hundred Days Social Security for Some Labor and the New Dea.


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