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

1.1 The first americans: the olmec

1.5 North american indians

1.6 Indians of the eastern woodland

1.7 Section summary

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

3.1 English exploration

3.2 French exploration

3.3 Dutch colonization

3.4 Section summary

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

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

2.1 James ii and the glorious revolution

2.2 English liberty

2.3 Section summary

3 An empire of slavery and the consumer revolution

4 Great awakening and enlightenment

5 Wars for empire

Imperial reforms and colonial protests, 1763-1774

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

1.1 Problems on the american frontier

1.2 The british national debt

1.3 Imperial reforms

1.4 Section summary

2 The stamp act and the sons and daughters of liberty

2.1 The stamp act and the quartering act

2.2 Colonial protest: gentry, merchants, and the stamp act congress

2.3 Mobilization: popular protest against the stamp act

2.4 The declaratory act

2.5 Section summary

3 The townshend acts and colonial protest

4 The destruction of the tea and the coercive acts

4.1 Smoldering resentment

4.2 The tea act of 1773

4.3 Colonial protest: the destruction of the tea

4.4 Parliament responds: the coercive acts

4.5 Section summary

5 Disaffection: the first continental congress and american identity

5.1 Section summary

America's war for independence, 1775-1783

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

2 The early years of the revolution

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

2 How much revolutionary change?

2.1 The status of women

2.2 The meaning of race

2.6 Religion and the state

2.7 Section summary

3 Debating democracy

4 The constitutional convention and federal constitution

Growing pains: the new republic, 1790–1820

1 Competing visions: federalists and democratic-republicans

2 The new american republic

2.1 The french revolution

2.2 The citizen genêt affair and jay’s treaty

2.3 The french revolution’s caribbean legacy

2.4 The whiskey rebellion

2.5 Washington’s indian policy

2.6 Section summary

3 Partisan politics

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

2 A vibrant capitalist republic

3 On the move: the transportation revolution

3.1 Roads and canals

3.3 Americans on the move

3.4 Section summary

4 A new social order: class divisions

Jacksonian democracy, 1820–1840

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

2 The rise of american democracy

3 The nullification crisis and the bank war

3.1 The nullification crisis

3.2 The bank war

3.4 Section summary

4 Indian removal

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

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

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

2.1 Life as a slave

2.2 The free black population

2.3 Slave revolts

2.4 Slave markets

2.5 Section summary

3 Wealth and culture in the south

3.1 Slavery and the white class structure

3.2 Honor in the south

3.3 Gender and the southern household

3.4 Defending slavery

3.5 Section summary

4 The filibuster and the quest for new slave states

4.1 Section summary

Antebellum idealism and reform impulses, 1820–1860

1 An awakening of religion and individualism

2 Antebellum communal experiments

3 Reforms to human health

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

Troubled times: the tumultuous 1850s

1 The compromise of 1850

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

3.2 The lincoln-douglas debates

3.3 Section summary

4 John brown and the election of 1860

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

4 The union triumphant

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

3 Radical reconstruction, 1867–1872

4 The collapse of reconstruction

Go west young man! westward expansion, 1840-1900

1 The westward spirit

1.1 Manifest destiny

1.2 Federal government assistance

1.3 Who were the settlers?

1.4 Section summary

2 Homesteading: dreams and realities

3 Making a living in gold and cattle

4 The loss of american indian life and culture

4.1 Claiming land, relocating landowners

4.2 American indian submission

4.3 Americanization

4.4 Section summary

5 The impact of expansion on chinese immigrants and hispanic citizens

5.1 Chinese immigrants in the american west

5.2 Hispanic americans in the american west

5.3 Section summary

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

4.1 Section summary

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

3 Relief from the chaos of urban life

3.1 The life and struggles of the urban working class

3.2 Machine politics

3.3 Popular culture and entertainment

3.4 The upper class in the cities

3.5 A new middle class

3.6 New roles for middle-class women

3.7 Education and the middle class

3.8 “city beautiful”

3.9 Section summary

4 Change reflected in thought and writing

4.2 Critics of modern america

4.3 Section summary

Politics in the gilded age, 1870-1900

1 Political corruption in postbellum america

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

4.1 From farmers’ hardships to a national depression

4.2 The election of 1896

4.3 Section summary

Leading the way: the progressive movement, 1890-1920

1 The origins of the progressive spirit in america

2 Progressivism at the grassroots level

2.1 Expanding democracy

2.2 Expertise and efficiency

2.4 Radical progressives

2.5 Section summary

3 New voices for women and african americans

4 Progressivism in the white house

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

3.2 The open door notes

3.3 Section summary

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

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

3.1 New opportunities born from war

3.2 Women in wartime

3.3 African americans in the crusade for democracy

3.4 The last vestiges of progressivism

3.5 Section summary

4 From war to peace

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

2.2 The ku klux klan

2.3 Faith, fundamentalism, and science

2.4 Section summary

3 A new generation

4 Republican ascendancy: politics in the 1920s

4.1 Warren harding and the return to normalcy

4.2 A man of few words

4.3 The election of 1928

4.4 Section summary

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

3.1 Starving to death

3.2 Black and poor: african americans and the great depression

3.3 Environmental catastrophe meets economic hardship: the dust bowl

3.4 Changing values, changing culture

3.5 Section summary

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

2 The first new deal

2.1 Reform: the banking crisis

2.2 The first hundred days

2.3 Relief: employment for the masses

2.4 Rescuing farms and factories

2.5 Regional planning

2.6 Assessing the first new deal

2.7 Section summary

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

3.1 Wartime diplomacy

3.2 The invasion of europe

3.4 Confronting the holocaust

3.5 Yalta and preparing for victory

3.6 Section summary

4 The pacific theater and the atomic bomb

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

1 The challenges of peacetime

1.1 Demobilization and the return to civilian life

1.2 The gi bill of rights

1.3 The return of the japanese

1.4 The fair deal

1.5 Section summary

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

3.1 We like ike

3.2 Suburbanization

3.3 The organization man

3.4 Section summary

4 Popular culture and mass media

5 The african american struggle for civil rights

5.1 Early victories

5.2 Desegregation and integration

5.3 White responses

5.4 The montgomery bus boycott

5.5 Section summary

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

3 The civil rights movement marches on

4 Challenging the status quo

Political storms at home and abroad, 1968-1980

1 Identity politics in a fractured society

2 Coming apart, coming together

3 Vietnam: the downward spiral

4 Watergate: nixon’s domestic nightmare

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

4 Bill clinton and the new economy

The challenges of the twenty-first century

1 The war on terror

2 The domestic mission

2.1 Opening and closing the gap

2.2 The 2004 election and bush’s second term

2.4 A failed domestic agenda

2.5 Hurricane katrina

2.6 The great recession

2.7 Banks gone wild

2.8 Banks gone broke

2.9 Section summary

3 New century, old disputes

4 Hope and change

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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