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Chapter 17 Reconstruction, 1863-1877
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community
THE POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION
The Defeated South
Abraham Lincoln's Plan
Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction
Free Labor and the Radical Republican Vision
Congressional Reconstruction and the Impeachment Crisis
The Election of 1868
Woman Suffrage and Reconstruction
THE MEANING OF FREEDOM
Moving About
The African American Family
African American Churches and Schools
Land and Labor after Slavery
The Origins of African American Politics
SOUTHERN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Southern Republicans
Reconstructing the States: A Mixed Record
White Resistance and "Redemption"
King Cotton: Sharecroppers, Tenants, and the Southern Environment
RECONSTRUCTING THE NORTH
The Age of Capital
Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872
The Depression of 1873
The Electoral Crisis of 1876
Chapter 18 Conquest And Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The Oklahoma Land Rush
INDIAN PEOPLES UNDER SIEGE
Autonomous Indian Nations
The Reservation Policy and the Slaughter of the Buffalo
The Indian Wars
The Nez Percé
THE INTERNAL EMPIRE
Mining Towns
Mormon Settlements
Mexican Borderland Communities
THE OPEN RANGE
The Long Drives
The Sporting Life
Frontier Violence and Range Wars
FARMING COMMUNITIES ON THE PLAINS
The Homestead Act
Populating the Plains
Work, Dawn to Dusk
THE WORLD'S BREADBASKET
New Production Technologies
Producing for the Global Market
California Agribusiness
The Toll on the Environment
THE WESTERN LANDSCAPE
Nature's Majesty
The Legendary Wild West
The "American Primitive"
THE TRANSFORMATION OF
INDIAN SOCIETIES
Reform Policy and Politics
The Ghost Dance
Endurance and Rejuvenation
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
Mechanization Takes Command
Expanding the Market for Goods
Integration, Combination, and Merger
The Gospel of Wealth
LABOR IN THE AGE OF BIG BUSINESS
The Wage System
The Knights of Labor
The American Federation of Labor
THE NEW SOUTH
An Internal Colony
Southern Labor
Mill Towns in the Piedmont
THE INDUSTRIAL CITY
Populating the City
The Urban Landscape
The City and the Environment
THE RISE OF CONSUMER SOCIETY
"Conspicuous Consumption"
Self-Improvement and the Middle Class
Life in the Streets
CULTURES IN CONFLICT, CULTURE IN COMMON
Education
Leisure and Public Space
National Pastimes
Chapter 20 Democracy and Empire, 1870-1900
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The Annexation of Hawai'i
TOWARD A NATIONAL
GOVERNING CLASS
The Growth of Government
The Machinery of Politics
The Spoils System and Civil Service Reform
FARMERS AND WORKERS ORGANIZE THEIR COMMUNITIES
The Grange
The Farmers' Alliance
Workers Search for Power
Women Build Alliances
Populism and the People's Party
THE CRISIS OF THE 1890s
Financial Collapse and Depression
Strikes: Coeur d'Alene, Homestead, and Pullman
The Social Gospel
POLITICS OF REFORM, POLITICS OF ORDER
The Free Silver Issue
Populism's Last Campaigns
The Republican Triumph
Nativism and Jim Crow
THE PATH TO IMPERIALISM
All the World's a Fair
The "Imperialism of Righteousness"
The Quest for Empire
ONTO A GLOBAL STAGE
A "Splendid Little War" in Cuba
War in the Philippines
Critics of Empire
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
Unifying Themes
New Journalism: Muckraking
Intellectual Trends Promoting Reform
The Female Dominion
PROGRESSIVE POLITICS IN CITIES AND STATES
The Urban Machine
Progressives and Urban Reform
Statehouse Progressives
SOCIAL CONTROL AND ITS LIMITS
The Prohibition Movement
The Social Evil
The Redemption of Leisure
Standardizing Education
CHALLENGES TO PROGRESSIVISM
The New Global Immigration
Urban Ghettos
Company Towns
The AFL: "Unions, Pure and Simple"
The IWW: "One Big Union"
Rebels in Bohemia
WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS AND BLACK ACTIVISM
The New Woman
Birth Control
Racism and Accommodation
Racial Justice, the NAACP, and Black Women's Activism
NATIONAL PROGRESSIVISM
Theodore Roosevelt and Presidential Activism
Trust-Busting and Regulation
The Birth of Environmentalism
Republican Split
The Election of 1912: A Four-Way Race
Woodrow Wilson's First Term
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
Roosevelt: The Big Stick
Taft: Dollar Diplomacy
Wilson: Moralism and Intervention in Mexico
THE GREAT WAR
The Guns of August
American Neutrality
Preparedness and Peace
Safe for Democracy
AMERICAN MOBILIZATION
Selling the War
Fading Opposition to War
"You're in the Army Now"
Racism in the Military
Americans in Battle
The Russian Revolution, the Fourteen Points, and Allied Victory
OVER HERE
Organizing the Economy
The Government-Business Partnership
Labor and the War
Women at Work
Woman Suffrage
Prohibition
Public Health and the Influenza Pandemic
REPRESSION AND REACTION
Muzzling Dissent: The Espionage and Sedition Acts
The Great Migration and Racial Tensions
Labor Strife
AN UNEASY PEACE
Peacemaking and the Specter of Bolshevism
Wilson in Paris
The Treaty Fight
The Red Scare
The Election of 1920
23 The Twenties, 1920-1929
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The Movie Audience and Hollywood
POSTWAR PROSPERITY AND ITS PRICE
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Modern Corporation
Welfare Capitalism
The Auto Age
Cities and Suburbs
THE STATE, THE ECONOMY, AND BUSINESS
Harding and Coolidge
Herbert Hoover and the "Associative State"
War Debts, Reparations, Keeping the Peace
Global Commerce and U.S. Foreign Policy
Weakened Agriculture, Ailing Industries
