Twentieth-century America

A compelling story of 20th century events and people, including those familiar and unfamiliar to students. The goal of this book is to emphasize what students need to know about America's past to function best in the society that emerged from the 20th century. The authors accomplish this by using a strong, clear narrative as well as integrating political and social history. Twentieth Century America fits the experiences of particular groups into the broader perspective of the American past while giving voice to minor and major players alike. The text is organized chronologically, so students can understand the sequence of events in history. Upon completing this book readers will be able to: * Recall the events and people that shaped 20th century American history * Understand how 20th century America fits into the whole of American history * Apply what they have learned to their own livesNote: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySearchLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205926290 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205926299.Found in this Section: 1. Brief Table of Contents 2. Full Table of Contents 1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Chapter 1: The American Journey in 1900 Chapter 2: Toward a Progressive Society Chapter 3: Progressive Politics: 1900-1916 Chapter 4: Creating an Empire: 1898-1917 Chapter 5: America and the Great War: 1914-1920 Chapter 6: Toward a Modern America: The 1920s Chapter 7: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression: 1929-1933 Chapter 8: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the New Deal: 1933-1939 Chapter 9: World War II: 1939-1945 Chapter 10: The Cold War at Home and Abroad: 1946-1952 Chapter 11: The Confident Years: 1953-1964 Chapter 12: Shaken to the Roots: 1965-1980 Chapter 13: The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World: 1981-1992 Chapter 14: Peace, Prosperity, Complacency:1993-2000 Chapter 15: An Uneasy New Century Bibliography Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts Credits Index 2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Chapter 1: The American Journey in 1900 New Industry Inventing Technology: The Electric Age The Corporation and Its Impact The Changing Nature of Work Out on the Farm Government Responds New Immigrants Cultural Connections in a New World The Job Nativism Settling the Race Issue Black Aspirations and White Backlash Lynch Law Segregation By Law Disfranchisement A National Consensus on Race Response of the Black Community Roots of the Great Migration New Cities Centers and Suburbs The New Middle Class A Consumer Society The Growth of Leisure Activities The Ideal City Attacking the American Indian Problem AMERICAN VIEWS Zitkala-Sa's View of Americanization An Emerging World Power MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Thomas Edison, The Success of the Electric Light (1880) The People's Party Platform (1892) Lee Chew, "Life of a Chinese Immigrant" (1903) Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) Ida B. Wells-Barnett, False Accusations (1895) Opinion of the Supreme Court for Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Richard K. Fox, Coney Island Frolics (1883). Accounts of the Wounded Knee Massacre (1890s). Audio Lynch Law in Georgia A Republican Textbook for Colored Voters Video The Great Migration Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 2: Toward a Progressive Society The Ferment of Reform The Context of Reform: Industrial and Urban Tensions Church and Campus Muckrakers The Gospel of Efficiency Labor Demands Its Rights Extending the Woman's Sphere Trans-Atlantic Influences Socialism Opponents of Reform Reforming Industrial Society Settlement Houses and Urban Reform Protective Legislation for Women and Children AMERICAN VIEWS Mother Jones and the Meaning of Child Labor in America Social Insurance Making the State a Parent Reshaping Public Education Challenging Gender Restrictions Reforming Country Life Moral Crusades and Social Control Controlling Immigrants Prohibition The Devil's Toothpicks Suppressing Prostitution Regulating Entertainment For Whites Only? Black Activism Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Personal Journey: Washington Gladden, "The World Is Beginning to See" (1909) Lincoln Steffens, from The Shame of the Cities (0000) Eugene V. Debs, The Outlook for Socialism in America (0000) Profile: Margaret Sanger The Niagara Movement, Declaration of Principles (1905) Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 3: Progressive Politics: 1900-1916 Reforming Politics and Government Woman Suffrage AMERICAN VIEWS The Need for Woman Suffrage Electoral Reform Municipal Reform Progressive State Government Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Presidency TR and the Modern Presidency Roosevelt and Labor Managing Natural Resources Corporate Regulation Lurching to the Left? Taft and the Tensions of Progressive Politics The Election of 1908 The Blundering President Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Reform The Election of 1912 Implementing the New Freedom The Expansion of Reform Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents National Woman Suffrage Association, Mother's Day Letter (0000) Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conservation (1910). Theodore Roosevelt, "The New Nationalism," (1910). Woodrow Wilson, from The New Freedom (1913). Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 4: Creating an Empire: 1898-1917 The Roots of Imperialism Ideological Arguments Strategic Concerns Economic Designs First Steps The Spanish-American War The Cuban Revolution Growing Tensions War and Empire The Treaty of Paris AMERICAN VIEWS A Southern Senator Opposes Annexation Imperial Ambitions: The United States and East Asia, 1899-1917 The Filipino-American War Rivalry with Japan and Russia Imperial Power: The United States and Latin America, 1899-1917 U.S. Rule in Puerto Rico Cuba as a U.S. Protectorate The Panama Canal Dollar Diplomacy Wilsonian Interventions Playing "An Ever Growing Part:" The United States and Europe, 1900-1914 Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Rudyard Kipling, Imperialism and the White Man's Burden (1899) Personal Journey: Josiah Strong, Our Country (1885) Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Interest of America in Sea Power (1897) Theodore Roosevelt, An Imperialist Views the World (0000) The Teller Amendment (1898) Liliuokalani, Hawaii's Story (0000) William McKinley, "Decision on the Philippines" (1899) Platform for the American Anti-Imperialist League (1899) Ernest Howard Crosby, "The Real 'White Man's Burden'" (1899) Theodore Roosevelt, from the Third Annual Message to Congress (1903) Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 5: America and the Great War: 1914-1920 Waging Neutrality The Origins of Conflict American Attitudes The Economy of War The Diplomacy of Neutrality The Battle over Preparedness The Election of 1916 Descent into War Waging War in America Managing the War Economy Women and Minorities: New Opportunities, Old Inequities Financing the War Conquering Minds Suppressing Dissent AMERICAN VIEWS Mobilizing America for Liberty Waging War and Peace Abroad The War to End All Wars The Fourteen Points The Paris Peace Conference Waging Peace at Home Battle over the League Economic Readjustment and Social Conflict The Red Scare The Election of 1920 Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Boy Scouts of America "Support the War Effort" (1917) Newton D. Baker, Treatment of German-Americans (1918) Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918) A. Mitchell Palmer on the Menace of Communism (1920) Images Closer Look: Mobilizing the Home Front Closer Look: African American Soldiers Return Home Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 6: Toward a Modern America: The 1920s The Economy That Roared Boom Industries Corporate Consolidation Open Shops and Welfare Capitalism Sick Industries The Business of Government Republican Ascendancy Government Corruption Coolidge Prosperity The Fate of Reform Cities and Suburbs Expanding Cities The Great Black Migration Barrios The Road to Suburbia Mass Culture in the Jazz Age Advertising the Consumer Society Leisure and Entertainment The New Morality The Searching Twenties Culture Wars Nativism and Immigration Restriction The Ku Klux Klan Prohibition and Crime Old-Time Religion and the Scopes Trial AMERICAN VIEWS Evangelism and the Search for Salvation A New Era in the World? War Debts and Economic Expansion Rejecting War Managing the Hemisphere Herbert Hoover and the Final Triumph of the New Era Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Edward Earle Purinton, Big Ideas from Big Business (1921) Robert and Helen Lynd, The Automobile Comes to Middletown (1924) Images Closer Look: Mobilizing the Home Front Closer Look: African American Soldiers Return Home Videos 1920's Media The Great Migration The Harlem Renaissance Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 7: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression: 1929-1933 CRASH! From Panic to Depression The Global Collapse Hard Times in Hooverville "Women's Jobs" and "Men's Jobs" Families in the Depression "Last Hired, First Fired" Deportation and Discrimination Discontent in the Depression Herbert Hoover and the Depression Self-Help, Popular Culture, and the Community Businesses and Bankers: Rejecting Voluntary Remedies The Failure of Voluntarism AMERICAN VIEWS An Ohio Mayor on Unemployment and Relief Repudiating Hoover: The Election of 1932 The Bonus Army The Election of 1932 Waiting for Roosevelt The Worsening Depression Financial Collapse Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Exploring America-The Dust Bowl Caroline Manning, The Immigrant Woman and Her Job (1930) Map Interactive Map-The Great Depression Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 8: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the New Deal: 1933-1939 Launching the New Deal "Action Now!" Creating Jobs Helping Some Farmers The Flight of the Blue Eagle Critics Right and Left Consolidating the New Deal Weeding Out and Lifting Up Expanding Relief The Roosevelt Coalition and the Election of 1936 The New Deal and American Life Labor on the March Women and the New Deal Minorities and the New Deal The New Deal: North, South, East, and West AMERICAN VIEWS The Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the New Deal for Native Americans The New Deal and Public Activism Ebbing of the New Deal Challenging the Court More Hard Times Political Stalemate Good Neighbors and Hostile Forces Neutrality and Fascism Edging Toward Involvement Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Luther C. Wandall, A Negro in the CCC (1935) E.E. Lewis, Black Cotton Farmers and the AAA (1935) Profile: John Lewis Frances Perkins, Social Insurance for U.S. (1936) Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933) Image Closer Look: Homeless Shantytown, Seattle, 1937 Video Dorothea Lange and Migrant Mother Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 9: World War II: 1939-1945 The Dilemmas of Neutrality The Roots of War Hitler's War in Europe Trying to Keep Out Edging Toward Intervention December 7, 1941 Holding the Line Stopping Germany The Survival of Britain Retreat and Stabilization in the Pacific Mobilizing for Victory Organizing the Economy The Enlistment of Science Men and Women in the Military The Home Front Women in the Workforce Ethnic Minorities in the War Effort Clashing Cultures Internment of Japanese Americans AMERICAN VIEWS The Internment of Japanese Americans in 1942 The End of the New Deal War and Peace Turning the Tide in Europe Operation OVERLORD Victory and Tragedy in Europe The Pacific War Searching for Peace How the Allies Won Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Charles Lindberg, Radio Address, 1941 Manhattan Project Notebook (1945) Audio Obey the Ration laws Map World War II, Pacific Theater Video Hitler and Roosevelt The Desegregation of the Military and Blacks in Combat Truman on the End of World War II Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 10: The Cold War at Home and Abroad: 1946-1952 Launching the Great Boom Reconversion Chaos Economic Policy The GI Bill Assembly-Line Neighborhoods Consumer Boom and Baby Boom Truman, Republicans, and the Fair Deal Truman's Opposition Whistle-Stopping Across America Truman's Fair Deal Confronting the Soviet Union The End of the Grand Alliance The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan Soviet Reactions American Rearmament Cold War and Hot War The Nuclear Shadow AMERICAN VIEWS Deciding on a Nuclear Arms Race The Cold War in Asia NSC-68 and Aggressive Containment War in Korea, 1950-1953 The Politics of War The Second Red Scare 303 The Communist Party and the Loyalty Program Naming Names to Congress Subversion Trials Senator McCarthy on Stage Understanding McCarthyism Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944) "The Legal Attack to Secure Civil Rights" (1942) George Marshall, The Marshall Plan (1947) National Security Council Memorandum 68 (1950) Ronald Reagan, Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee (1947) Joseph P. McCarthy speech Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954) Video The Desegregation of the Military and Blacks in Combat President Truman and the Threat of Communism Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 11: The Confident Years: 1953-1964 A Decade of Affluence What's Good for General Motors Beating Polio Reshaping Urban America Comfort on Credit The New 1950s Family Inventing Teenagers Turning to Religion The Gospel of Prosperity Facing Off with the Soviet Union Why We Liked Ike A Balance of Terror Containment in Action Global Standoff John F. Kennedy and the Cold War The Kennedy Mystique Kennedy's Mistakes Getting into Vietnam Missile Crisis: A Line Drawn in the Waves Science and Foreign Affairs Righteousness Like a Mighty Stream: The Struggle for Civil Rights Getting to the Supreme Court Deliberate Speed Public Accommodations The March on Washington, 1963 Religious Belief and Civil Rights AMERICAN VIEWS Dwight D. Eisenhower and Billy Graham Consider Desegregation "Let Us Continue" Dallas, 1963 War on Poverty Civil Rights, 1964-1965 War, Peace, and the Landslide of 1964 War on Poverty Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Exploring America: The Consumer Society, 1950-1960 Ladies Home Journal, "Young Mother" (1956) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Bus Boycott (0000) Julian Bond, Sit-ins and the Origins of SNCC (1960) Lyndon Johnson, "The War on Poverty" (1964) Civil Rights Act of 1964 Fannie Lou Hamer, Voting Rights in Mississippi (1962-1964) Video Ike for President: Eisenhower Campaign Ad, 1952 Eisenhower's Special Message to Congress on the Middle East, 1957 President John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech at the March on Washington (1963) Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 12: Shaken to the Roots: 1965-1980 Deeper into Vietnam Escalation Fighting in 'Nam Voices of Dissent New Voices New Left and Community Activism Youth Culture and Counterculture Sounds of Change Communes Grassroots Conservatism The Feminist Critique Coming Out Diagnosing an Urban Crisis Conflict in the Streets Minority Self-Determination Suburban Independence: The Outer City The Year of the Gun, 1968 The Tet Offensive LBJ's Exit Red Spring Violence and Politics: King, Kennedy, and Chicago Nixon and Watergate Getting Out of Vietnam, 1969-1975 Coming to Terms with the Vietnam War Nixon and the Wider World Courting Middle America Oil, OPEC, and Stagflation Americans as Environmentalists From Dirty Tricks to Watergate The Ford Footnote Jimmy Carter: Idealism and Frustration in the White House Carter, Energy, and the Economy Closed Factories and Failing Farms Closed Factories and Failing Farms New Crises Abroad Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) Donald Wheeldin, "The Situation in Watts Today" (1967) Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, from Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America (1967) Cesar Chavez, "He Showed Us the Way" (1978) Exploring America: American Indian Movement. Audio Malcolm X, Message to the Grassroots Video Protests Against the Vietnam War Richard Nixon, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter and the "Crisis of Confidence" Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 13: The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World: 1981-1992 Reagan's Domestic Revolution Reagan's Majority Conservatism Worldviews Reaganomics: Deficits and Deregulation Crisis for Organized Labor An Acquisitive Society Mass Media and Fragmented Culture Poverty amid Prosperity Consolidating the Revolution: George H. W. Bush The Climax of the Cold War Confronting the Soviet Union Risky Business: Foreign-Policy Adventures Embracing Perestroika Crisis and Democracy in Eastern Europe The Persian Gulf War Growth in the Sunbelt The Defense Economy New Americans Old Gateways and New The Graying of America Values in Collision Women's Rights and Public Policy AIDS and Gay Activism Churches in Change Culture Wars AMERICAN VIEWS The Religious Imperative in Politics Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents T. Boone Pickens, "My Case for Reagan" (1984) Riberts. The Supply-Side Revolution (1984) Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers Strike (1981) Patricia Morrisroe, "Yuppies: The New Class" (1985) Exploring America: Growing Poverty The Middle East in the 1980s and 1990 Cecelia Rosa Avila, Third Generation Mexican-American (1988) Jesse Jackson, Common Ground (1988) Map America's Move to the Sunbelt, 1970-1981 Video Ronald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax Cuts Oliver North Hearing President Bush on the Gulf War Evangelical Religion and Politics, Then and Now Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 14: Peace, Prosperity, Complacency:1993-2000 The Politics of the Center The Election of 1992: A New Generation Policing the World Clinton's Neoliberalism Contract with America and the Election of 1996 The Dangers of Everyday Life Morality and Partisanship A New Economy? The Prosperous 1990s The Service Economy The High-Tech Sector AMERICAN VIEWS Creating and Working in the New Economy An Instant Society In the World Market Broadening Democracy Women from the Grass Roots to Congress Minorities at the Ballot Box Rights and Opportunities Americans in 2000 MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Clinton Health Care Reform Proposals (1983) Republican Contract with America (1984) U.S. v. Timothy McVeigh (1997) Articles of Impeachment against William Jefferson Clinton (1998) Video Bill Clinton Sells Himself to America, Presidential Campaign Ad, 1992 Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Chapter 15: An Uneasy New Century Edging into a New Century The 2000 Election Reaganomics Revisited Downsized Diplomacy Paradoxes of Power 9/11/01 Security and Conflict Iraq and Conflicts in the Middle East Turmoil at Home Hurricane and Financial Storm The Obama Phenomenon Disengagement and Changes in the Middle East Partisan Politics Conclusion MySearchLab Connections: Sources Online Documents Al Gore, Global Warming (2006) George W. Bush, Address to Congress (2001) George W. Bush, Address to the Nation on the Iraq Invasion (2003) Video The Historical Significance of the 2008 Presidential Election Map Present-day Africa and the Middle East Research and Explore Review Questions Key Terms Recommended Readings Bibliography Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts Credits Index