Twentieth-Century America, 2nd edition
Published by Pearson (December 27, 2012) © 2013
- David Goldfield University of North Carolina, Charlotte
- Carl Abbott Portland State University
- Jo Ann E. Argersinger Southern Illinois University
- Peter H. Argersinger Southern Illinois University
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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.
Learning Goals
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 lives
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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