The United States, 1865-1920 : reuniting a nation /: reuniting a nation. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adam Burns.
• Authors: Burns, Adam D
• Contents: List of illustrations Acknowledgements Chronology Who’s who; PART I ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT 1 INTRODUCTION 2 RECONSTRUCTING A NATION Reconstruction from Lincoln to Johnson Congressional Reconstruction Grant’s Reconstruction 3 THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION African American rights secured? White resistance Rebuilding a white South A New South? 4 THE COURSE OF WESTWARD EXPANSION Connecting the West Native Americans Life in the West 5 PARTY POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE Reestablishing Republican governance Republican factionalism grows The Cleveland era 6 ROBBER BARONS AND KNIGHTS OF LABOR Technology The robber barons Agrarian reaction Urban reaction 7 THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD Relations with the European empires Relations with Latin American nations Relations with the Asia-Pacific region 8 IMMIGRATION, ETHNICITY, AND THE CHANGING FACE OF THE NATION Scientific racism Immigration and new minorities The growth of black activism 9 BRYAN, ROOSEVELT, AND THE EVOLUTION OF PARTY POLITICS Populism and the rise of William Jennings Bryan The progressive movement Theodore Roosevelt: the accidental president Taft and the Republican split of 1912 10 WILSON AND THE GREAT WAR The New Freedom: domestic affairs before the war Wilson, Latin America, and neutrality The end of neutrality and peace without victory The home front 11 CONCLUSION: THE ELECTION OF 1920 AND THE END OF AN ERA PART II DOCUMENTS 1 Abraham Lincoln – "The Gettysburg Address" (1863) 2 Frederick Douglass – "What the Black Man Wants" (1865) 3 Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1868) 4 Andrew Johnson – Veto Message Regarding Rebel State Governments (1867) 5 "Civil Rights of Freedmen in Mississippi" (1865) 6 Tom Watson – "The Negro Question in the South" (1892) 7 Booker T. Washington – "Atlanta Compromise" Speech (1895) 8 Sitting Bull – Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee (1883) 9 Frederick Jackson Turner – "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) 10 Rutherford B. Hayes – Presidential Inaugural Address (1877) 11 "To Republicans and Independent Voters" (1884) 12 Populist Party Platform (1892) 13 Andrew Carnegie – "Wealth" (1889) 14 Samuel Gompers – Testimony before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor (1883) 15 Theodore Roosevelt – Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) 16 John Hay – The First "Open Door" Note (1899) 17 Philippine Declaration of Independence (1898) 18 Thomas Dixon – The Leopard’s Spots (1902) 19 Reports of the Dillingham Immigration Committee (1910) 20 W. E. B. Du Bois – "The Talented Tenth" (1903) 21 William Jennings Bryan – "Cross of Gold" Speech (1896) 22 Theodore Roosevelt – "The Man with the Muck-rake" (1906) 23 Woodrow Wilson – Address to Congress Leading to a War against Germany (1917) 24 Carrie Chapman Catt – Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment (1917) Glossary Guide to further reading References Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 973.8; United States -- History -- 1865-1921
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351057851; 9781351057868; 9781351057844; 9781351057875
• Related ISBNs: 9781138482418; 9781138482425
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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