Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Community and Diversity

CHAPTER 17 RECONSTRUCTION 1863—1877

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community

The Politics of Reconstruction

The Meaning of Freedom

SEEING HISTORY Changing Images of Reconstruction

Southern Politics and Society

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama

Reconstructing the North

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 18 CONQUEST AND SURVIVAL: The Trans-Mississippi West 1860—1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Oklahoma Land Rush

Indian Peoples Under Siege

The Internal Empire

The Open Range

SEEING HISTORY The Legendary Cowboy: Nat Love, Deadwood Dick  

Farming Communities on The Plains

The World’s Breadbasket

The Western Landscape

The Transformation of Indian Societies

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 19 PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION IN THE GILDED AGE 1865—1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Haymarket Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886

The Rise of Industry, the Triumph of Business

SEEING HISTORY The Standard Oil Company

Labor in the Age of Big Business

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Regulating the Conditions and Limiting the Hours of Labor in the State of Illinois

The New South

The Industrial City

The Rise of Consumer Society

Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 20 DEMOCRACY AND EMPIRE 1870—1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Annexation of Hawai’i

Toward a National Governing Class

Farmers and Workers Organize their Communities

The Crisis of the 1890s

Politics of Reform, Politics of Order

The Path to Imperialism

SEEING HISTORY The White Man’s Burden

Onto a Global Stage 

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Two Sides of Anti-Imperialism

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 21 URBAN AMERICA AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900—1917

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Henry Street Settlement House: Women Settlement House Workers Create a Community of Reform

The Origins of Progressivism  

SEEING HISTORY Photographing Poverty in the Slums of New York

Progressive Politics in Cities and States  

Social Control and Its Limits 

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Debating Prohibition in Progressive-Era Ohio

Challenges to Progressivism  

Women’s Movements and Black Activism  

National Progressivism  

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 22 A GLOBAL POWER: The United States in the Era of the Great War 1901—1920

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The American Expeditionary Force in France

Becoming a World Power 

The Great War 

American Mobilization 

SEEING HISTORY Selling War

Over Here  

Repression and Reaction

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Race Riot in Tulsa 

An Uneasy Peace  

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 2

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• New and expanded coverage is now included on topics such as native religious practices, the position of women in New England, the Spanish and the American Revolution, southern Republicans in the Reconstruction Era and the role of moderate white southerners in the civil rights struggle.
• The text now offers coverage of the election of 2008 and Barack Obama’s first year as president as well as extensive treatment of the Great Recession.
• New topics have been added to the special features “ Communities in Conflict” and “Seeing History” including Indian removal, P.T. Barnum’s “curiosities,” civility and democracy, working conditions and labor in Illinois, race riots in Tulsa and visual interpretations of civil rights.
• Chapter 17 includes expanded discussion of southern Republicans in the Reconstruction Era and emphasizes regional differences within the South.
• Chapter 18’s section called “Producing for the Global Market” has been dropped, with the material integrated into “New Production Technologies” to streamline the outline.
• Chapter 19 has a new“Communities in Conflict” section called“Regulating the Conditions and Limiting the Hours of Labor in the State of Illinois.”
• Chapter 21’s new section discusses immigration from the Caribbean basin in the early 20th century and includes a revised map of immigration to the U.S. from 1900-1920.
• A new “Communities in Conflict” in Chapter 22 explores the race riot in Tulsa in 1921, and the coverage of women’s experiences during World War I has been revised.
• Chapter 23’s coverage of the relationship between global commerce and U.S. foreign policy has been strengthened. The extensively revised bibliographies reflect the large amount of new scholarship on the 1920s.
• Chapter 24 now includes revised and updated statistics and analysis in “Underlying Weaknesses of the 1920s Economy.”
• Much of the Isolationism section in Chapter 25 has been merged into the section “Roosevelt Readies for War” to streamline the chapter.
• Chapter 26’s “Zeal for Democracy” section has been replaced by “The American Way,” which is a phrase that comes up in the most recent scholarship on Cold War culture.
• The coverage of Eisenhower’s foreign policy in Chapter 27 has been clarified.
• Chapter 28 has a new “Seeing History” section which helps students visualize the Civil Rights Movement. There is also new material on the role of moderate white southerners in the civil rights struggle. The extensively revised bibliographies reflect the large amount of new scholarship on the civil rights movement
• The Chapter 29 outline has been streamlined by grouping the sections “Playing the China Card” and “Foreign Policy as Conspiracy” under a new section, “Nixon’s Foreign Policy.” The section on Johnson and the Vietnam