U.s. history

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0.1 About openstax

0.2 About openstax’s resources

0.3 Customization

0.5 About U.S. History

0.6 Coverage and scope

0.7 Pedagogical foundation

0.8 Questions for each level of learning

0.9 About our team

0.10 Senior contributing authors

0.12 Ancillaries

1 The declaration of independence

2 The constitution of the united states

3 Presidents of the united states of america

4 U.s. political map

5 U.s. topographical map

6 United states population chart

7 Further reading

7.1 The pre-columbian world and early globalization

7.2 The colonial americas

7.3 Reform, protest, and revolution

7.4 The early republic

7.5 Industrialization and transformation

7.6 Jacksonian democracy

7.7 The antebellum south

7.8 Reform and abolition

7.9 Civil war and reconstruction

7.10 Westward expansion

7.11 From the gilded age to the progressive era

7.12 Imperial expansion and the first world war

7.13 The roaring twenties

7.14 The great depression and the new deal

7.15 World war, cold war, and american prosperity

7.16 From camelot to culture wars

7.17 Twenty-first-century problems

The americas, europe, and africa before 1492

2 Europe on the brink of change

2.1 Life in feudal europe

2.2 The church and society

2.3 Christianity encounters islam

2.4 Jerusalem and the crusades

2.5 The iberian peninsula

2.6 Section summary

3 West africa and the role of slavery

Early globalization: the atlantic world, 1492–1650

1 Portuguese exploration and spanish conquest

2 Religious upheavals in the developing atlantic world

2.1 Martin luther

2.2 John calvin

2.3 Protestantism in england

2.4 Religious war

2.5 Section summary

3 Challenges to spain’s supremacy

4 New worlds in the americas: labor, commerce, and the columbian exchange

4.1 Labor systems

4.2 Commerce in the new world

4.3 The columbian exchange

4.4 Section summary

Creating new social orders: colonial societies, 1500–1700

1 Spanish exploration and colonial society

1.1 St. augustine, florida

1.2 Santa fe, new mexico

1.3 Section summary

2 Colonial rivalries: dutch and french colonial ambitions

2.1 Fur trading in new netherland

2.2 Commerce and conversion in new france

2.3 Section summary

3 English settlements in america

3.1 The diverging cultures of the new england and chesapeake colonies

3.2 The chesapeake colonies: virginia and maryland

3.3 Early struggles and the development of the tobacco economy

3.4 The anglo-powhatan wars

3.5 The rise of slavery in the chesapeake bay colonies

3.6 Puritan new england

3.7 Plymouth: the first puritan colony

3.8 “a city upon a hill”

3.9 Puritan relationships with native peoples

3.10 Section summary

4 The impact of colonization

Rule britannia! the english empire, 1660–1763

1 Charles ii and the restoration colonies

1.2 The carolinas

1.3 New york and new jersey

1.4 Pennsylvania

1.6 Section summary

2 The glorious revolution and the english empire

3 An empire of slavery and the consumer revolution

4 Great awakening and enlightenment

5 Wars for empire

5.1 Generations of warfare

5.2 The french and indian war

5.3 Section summary

Imperial reforms and colonial protests, 1763-1774

1 Confronting the national debt: the aftermath of the french and indian

2 The stamp act and the sons and daughters of liberty

3 The townshend acts and colonial protest

4 The destruction of the tea and the coercive acts

5 Disaffection: the first continental congress and american identity

America's war for independence, 1775-1783

1 Britain’s law-and-order strategy and its consequences

1.1 On the eve of revolution

1.2 The outbreak of fighting

1.3 Common sense

1.4 The declaration of independence

1.5 Section summary

2 The early years of the revolution

2.1 The british strategy in the middle colonies

2.2 George washington and the continental army

2.3 Philadelphia and saratoga: british and american victories

2.4 Section summary

3 War in the south

3.1 Georgia and south carolina

3.3 The treaty of paris

3.4 Section summary

4 Identity during the american revolution

Creating republican governments, 1776–1790

1 Common sense: from monarchy to an american republic

1.1 Republicanism as a political philosophy

1.3 Section summary

2 How much revolutionary change?

3 Debating democracy

3.1 The state constitutions

3.2 The articles of confederation

3.3 Shays’ rebellion

3.4 Section summary

4 The constitutional convention and federal constitution

Growing pains: the new republic, 1790–1820

1 Competing visions: federalists and democratic-republicans

1.1 Federalists in power

1.2 The bill of rights

1.3 Alexander hamilton’s program

1.4 The report on public credit

1.5 The report on a national bank

1.6 The report on manufactures

1.7 The democratic-republican party and the first party system

1.8 Defining citizenship

1.9 Section summary

2 The new american republic

3 Partisan politics

3.1 The presidency of john adams

3.2 The alien and sedition acts

3.3 The revolution of 1800 and the presidency of thomas jefferson

3.4 Partisan acrimony

3.5 The louisiana purchase

3.6 Section summary

4 The united states goes back to war

4.1 The embargo of 1807

4.2 Tecumseh and the western confederacy

4.3 The war of 1812

4.4 Epilogue: the battle of new orleans

4.5 Section summary

Industrial transformation in the north, 1800–1850

1 Early industrialization in the northeast

1.1 From artisans to wage workers

1.2 The rise of manufacturing

1.3 The rise of consumerism

1.4 The work experience transformed

1.5 Workers and the labor movement

1.6 Section summary

2 A vibrant capitalist republic

3 On the move: the transportation revolution

4 A new social order: class divisions

4.1 The economic elite

4.2 The middle class

4.3 The working class

4.4 Section summary

Jacksonian democracy, 1820–1840

1 A new political style: from john quincy adams to andrew jackson

1.1 The decline of federalism

1.2 Democratic reforms

1.3 Party politics and the election of 1824

1.4 The presidency of john quincy adams

1.5 Section summary

2 The rise of american democracy

3 The nullification crisis and the bank war

4 Indian removal

4.1 Indians in popular culture

4.2 The indian removal act

4.3 Black hawk’s war

4.4 Section summary

5 The tyranny and triumph of the majority

5.1 Alexis de tocqueville

5.2 The 1840 election

5.3 Section summary

A nation on the move: westward expansion, 1800–1860

1 Lewis and clark

1.1 Jefferson’s corps of discovery heads west

1.2 Spanish florida and the adams-onís treaty

1.3 Section summary

2 The missouri crisis

3 Independence for texas

3.1 American settlers move to texas

3.2 The texas war for independence

3.3 Remember the alamo!

3.4 The lone star republic

3.5 Section summary

4 The mexican-american war, 1846–1848

4.1 James k. polk and the triumph of expansion

4.2 War with mexico, 1846–1848

4.3 California and the gold rush

4.4 Section summary

5 Free soil or slave? the dilemma of the west

5.1 The liberty party, the wilmot proviso, and the antislavery movement

5.2 The free-soil party and the election of 1848

5.3 The compromise of 1850

5.4 Section summary

Cotton is king: the antebellum south, 1800–1860

1 The economics of cotton

2 African americans in the antebellum united states

3 Wealth and culture in the south

4 The filibuster and the quest for new slave states

Antebellum idealism and reform impulses, 1820–1860

1 An awakening of religion and individualism

2 Antebellum communal experiments

3 Reforms to human health

3.2 Reforms for the body and the mind

3.3 Section summary

4 Addressing slavery

4.1 “reforms” to slavery

4.2 Abolitionism

4.3 William lloyd garrison and antislavery societies

4.4 Frederick douglass

4.5 Section summary

5 Women’s rights

5.1 The grimké sisters

5.2 The declaration of rights and sentiments

5.3 Republican motherhood in the antebellum years

5.4 Section summary

Troubled times: the tumultuous 1850s

1 The compromise of 1850

1.1 Brokering the compromise

1.2 The fugitive slave act and its consequences

1.3 Section summary

2 The kansas-nebraska act and the republican party

2.1 The kansas-nebraska act

2.2 Bleeding kansas

2.3 The presidential election of 1856

2.4 Section summary

3 The dred scott decision and sectional strife

4 John brown and the election of 1860

4.2 The election of 1860

4.3 Section summary

The civil war, 1860–1865

1 The origins and outbreak of the civil war

2 Early mobilization and war

3 1863: the changing nature of the war

3.1 Mass mobilization

3.2 Confederate mobilization

3.3 Union mobilization

3.4 Women’s mobilization

3.5 Emancipation

3.6 Union advances

3.7 Section summary

4 The union triumphant

4.1 The relationship with europe

4.2 African american soldiers

4.3 The campaigns of 1864 and 1865

4.4 The election of 1864

4.5 The war ends

4.6 Section summary

The era of reconstruction, 1865–1877

1 Restoring the union

1.1 The president’s plan

1.2 The thirteenth amendment

1.3 Andrew johnson and the battle over reconstruction

1.4 Section summary

2 Congress and the remaking of the south, 1865–1866

2.1 The freedmen’s bureau

2.2 Black codes

2.3 The fourteenth amendment

2.4 Section summary

3 Radical reconstruction, 1867–1872

4 The collapse of reconstruction

Go west young man! westward expansion, 1840-1900

1 The westward spirit

2 Homesteading: dreams and realities

2.1 The difficult life of the pioneer farmer

2.2 An even more challenging life: a pioneer wife

2.3 Section summary

3 Making a living in gold and cattle

3.1 The california gold rush and beyond

3.2 The cattle kingdom

3.3 Violence in the wild west: myth and reality

3.4 Section summary

4 The loss of american indian life and culture

5 The impact of expansion on chinese immigrants and hispanic citizens

Industrialization and the rise of big business, 1870-1900

1 Inventors of the age

2 From invention to industrial growth

2.1 Railroads and robber barons

2.2 Giants of wealth: carnegie, rockefeller, and morgan

2.3 Andrew carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

2.4 John d. rockefeller and business integration models

2.5 J. pierpont morgan

2.6 Section summary

3 Building industrial america on the backs of labor

3.1 Working-class life

3.2 Worker protests and violence

3.3 Worker organization and the struggles of unions

3.4 Models of organizing: the knights of labor and american federation of

3.5 The decline of labor: the homestead and pullman strikes

3.6 Section summary

4 A new american consumer culture

The growing pains of urbanization, 1870-1900

1 Urbanization and its challenges

1.1 The keys to successful urbanization

1.2 Electric lighting

1.3 Communications improvements

1.4 Intracity transportation

1.5 The rise of skyscrapers

1.6 The immediate challenges of urban life

1.7 Section summary

2 The african american “great migration” and new european immigration

2.1 The african american “great migration”

2.2 The changing nature of european immigration

2.3 Section summary

3 Relief from the chaos of urban life

4 Change reflected in thought and writing

Politics in the gilded age, 1870-1900

1 Political corruption in postbellum america

1.1 The gilded age

1.2 The election of 1876 sets the tone

1.3 Section summary

2 The key political issues: patronage, tariffs, and gold

2.1 Patronage: the spoils system vs civil service

2.2 An assassin’s bullet sets the stage for civil service reform

2.3 Tariffs in the gilded age

2.4 Monetary policies and the issue of gold vs silver

2.5 Section summary

3 Farmers revolt in the populist era

4 Social and labor unrest in the 1890s

Leading the way: the progressive movement, 1890-1920

1 The origins of the progressive spirit in america

2 Progressivism at the grassroots level

3 New voices for women and african americans

4 Progressivism in the white house

4.1 Busting the trusts

4.2 The square deal

4.3 The taft presidency

4.4 The 1912 presidential election

4.5 Wilson’s new freedom

4.6 The final vestiges of progressivism

4.7 Section summary

Age of empire: american foreign policy, 1890-1914

1 Turner, mahan, and the roots of empire

2 The spanish-american war and overseas empire

3 Economic imperialism in east asia

4 Roosevelt’s “big stick” foreign policy

4.1 The construction of the panama canal

4.2 The roosevelt corollary

4.3 American intervention in the russo-japanese war

4.4 Section summary

5 Taft’s “dollar diplomacy”

Americans and the great war, 1914-1919

1 American isolationism and the european origins of war

1.1 Woodrow wilson’s new freedom

1.2 War erupts in europe

1.3 The challenge of neutrality

1.4 Section summary

2 The united states prepares for war

2.1 The ingredients of war

2.2 Controlling dissent

2.3 Section summary

3 A new home front

4 From war to peace

4.1 Winning the war

4.2 The battle for peace

4.3 The paris peace conference

4.4 Ratification of the treaty of versailles

4.5 Section summary

5 Demobilization and its difficult aftermath

5.1 Disorder and fear in america

5.2 A return to normalcy

5.3 Section summary

The jazz age: redefining the nation, 1919-1929

1 Prosperity and the production of popular entertainment

2 Transformation and backlash

3 A new generation

3.1 A new morality

3.2 The “new woman”

3.3 The harlem renaissance and the new negro

3.4 Prohibition

3.5 The lost generation

3.6 Section summary

4 Republican ascendancy: politics in the 1920s

Brother, can you spare a dime? the great depression, 1929-1932

1 The stock market crash of 1929

1.1 The early days of hoover’s presidency

1.2 The great crash

1.3 What was the crash?

1.4 Causes of the crash

1.5 In the aftermath of the crash

1.6 The new reality for americans

1.7 Section summary

2 President hoover’s response

3 The depths of the great depression

4 Assessing the hoover years on the eve of the new deal

4.1 Hoover’s foreign policy

4.2 Hoover and civil rights

4.3 A final assessment

4.4 Section summary

Franklin roosevelt and the new deal, 1932-1941

1 The rise of franklin roosevelt

1.1 The election of franklin roosevelt

1.2 The interregnum

1.3 Inauguration day: a new beginning

1.4 Section summary

2 The first new deal

3 The second new deal

3.1 Challenges from critics on all sides

3.2 Answering the challenge

3.3 The final pieces

3.4 In the final analysis

3.5 African americans under the new deal

3.6 Women and the new deal

3.7 Section summary

Fighting the good fight in world war ii, 1941-1945

1 The origins of war: europe, asia, and the united states

1.2 The march toward war

1.3 Totalitarianism in europe

1.5 From neutrality to engagement

1.6 War begins in europe

1.7 The atlantic charter

1.8 A date which will live in infamy

1.9 Section summary

2 The home front

2.1 Mobilizing a nation

2.2 Employment and migration patterns in the united states

2.3 Women in the war: rosie the riveter and beyond

2.4 The culture of war: entertainers and the war effort

2.6 African americans and double v

2.7 The zoot suit riots

2.9 Section summary

3 Victory in the european theater

4 The pacific theater and the atomic bomb

Post-war prosperity and cold war fears, 1945-1960

1 The challenges of peacetime

2.1 From isolationism to engagement

2.2 Containment abroad

2.3 The truman doctrine

2.4 The marshall plan

2.5 Showdown in europe

2.6 Containment at home

2.7 To the trenches again

2.8 Section summary

3 The american dream

4 Popular culture and mass media

5 The african american struggle for civil rights

Contesting futures: america in the 1960s

1 The kennedy promise

1.1 The new frontier

1.2 Kennedy the cold warrior

1.5 Tentative steps toward civil rights

1.6 Tragedy in dallas

1.7 Section summary

2 Lyndon johnson and the great society

2.1 The great society

2.2 Johnson’s commitment to civil rights

2.3 Increased commitment in vietnam

2.4 The end of the great society

2.5 Section summary

3 The civil rights movement marches on

4 Challenging the status quo

4.1 The new left

4.2 Women’s rights

4.3 Section summary

Political storms at home and abroad, 1968-1980

1 Identity politics in a fractured society

1.1 Hippies and the counterculture

1.2 American indian protest

1.4 Maybe not now

1.5 Section summary

2 Coming apart, coming together

3 Vietnam: the downward spiral

4 Watergate: nixon’s domestic nightmare

4.1 The election of 1972

4.2 High crimes and misdemeanors

4.3 The watergate crisis

4.4 Ford not a lincoln

4.5 Section summary

5 Jimmy carter in the aftermath of the storm

5.1 The election of 1976

5.2 On the inside

5.3 Carter and a new direction in foreign affairs

5.4 Hostages to history

5.5 Section summary

From cold war to culture wars, 1980-2000

1 The reagan revolution

2 Political and cultural fusions

2.1 Creating conservative policy

2.2 Conservative christians and family values

2.3 The aids crisis

2.4 The war on drugs and the road to mass incarceration

2.5 Section summary

3 A new world order

3.1 The middle east and central america

3.2 The cold war waxes and wanes

3.3 “no new taxes”

3.4 American global power in the wake of the cold war

3.5 A changing domestic landscape

3.6 Section summary

4 Bill clinton and the new economy

4.1 The road to the white house

4.2 “it’s the economy, stupid”

4.3 Domestic issues

4.4 Healthcare reform

4.5 Don’t ask, don’t tell

4.6 Domestic terrorism

4.7 Clinton and american hegemony

4.8 Impeachment

4.9 The election of 2000

4.10 Section summary

The challenges of the twenty-first century

1 The war on terror

2 The domestic mission

3 New century, old disputes

4 Hope and change

4.1 Obama takes office

4.2 Economic and healthcare reforms

4.3 The election of 2012

4.4 Ongoing challenges

4.5 Learning and earning

4.6 Lgbt rights

4.8 America and the world

4.9 Section summary

Source: OpenStax, U.s. history. OpenStax CNX. Jan 12, 2015 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11740/1.3

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