Exploring American Histories Volume 2 A Survey with Sources 2nd Edition Hewitt Test Bank

Table of Contents

The Combined Volume includes all chapters. 

Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-14.

Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-29.

[[*Indicates new to this edition]]

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader Thinking through Sources for Exploring American Histories, and the activities built for projects in the reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in the LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, timeline activities, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

CONTENTS

Guide to Analyzing Primary Sources

Preface

Versions and Supplements

Maps, Figures, and Tables

How to Use This Book 
1 Mapping Global Frontiers

to 1590

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Malintzin and Martin Waldseemüller

Native Peoples in the Americas

Native Peoples Develop Diverse Cultures

The Aztecs, the Maya, and the Incas

Native Cultures to the North

Europe Expands Its Reach

The Mediterranean World

Portugal Pursues Long-Distance Trade

European Encounters with West Africa

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 1.1 Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann, Universalis Cosmographia, 1507

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Worlds Collide

Europeans Cross the Atlantic

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Who Are These Native People?

Source 1.2 Christopher Columbus, Description of His First Encounter with Indians, 1492 | Source 1.3 Antonio Pigafetta Journal, 1521

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Europeans Explore the Americas

Mapmaking and Printing

The Columbian Exchange

Europeans Make Claims to North America

Spaniards Conquer Indian Empires

Spanish Adventurers Head North

Europeans Compete in North America

Spain Seeks Dominion in Europe and the Americas

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Indians in the New Spanish Empire
Source 1.4 Camilla Townsend, An Indian Woman Aids in the Conquest of Mexico, 2006 | Source 1.5 Jane E. Mangan, Indians Seek to Benefit from Spanish Conquest, 2005

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: A Transformed America

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 1

Indian and Spanish Encounters in the Americas, 1519–1530

Source 1.6 Hernán Cortés, Letter to King Charles I, 1520 | Source 1.7 Aztec Priests Respond to the Spanish, 1524 | Source 1.8 Hernán Cortés and Malintzin Meet Montezuma at Tenochtitlán, 1519 | Source 1.9 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, La Relación, c. 1528
Quizzes for Primary Source Project 1　LaunchPad
1. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 1: Mapping America　LaunchPad

Source 1.1　Christopher and Bartolomeo Columbus, Map of Europe and North Africa, c. 1490

Quiz for Source 1.1　LaunchPad

Source 1.2　Piri Reis Map, 1513

Quiz for Source 1.2　LaunchPad

Source 1.3　Dauphin Map of Canada, c. 1543

Quiz for Source 1.3　LaunchPad

Source 1.4　Map of Cuauhtinchan, 1550

Quiz for Source 1.4　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 1　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 1　LaunchPad

 

2 Colonization and Conflicts

1580–1680

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

John Smith and Anne Hutchinson

Religious and Imperial Transformations

The Protestant Reformation

Spain’s Global Empire Declines

France Enters the Race for Empire

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 2.1 A French Nun Reports a Huron Woman’s View of the Jesuits, 1640

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

The Dutch Expand into North America

The English Seek an Empire

The English Establish Jamestown

Tobacco Fuels Growth in Virginia

Expansion, Rebellion, and the Emergence of Slavery

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Indentured Servants In the Chesapeake

Source 2.2 Sarah Tailer Charges Captain and Mrs. Thomas Bradnox with Abuse, 1659 | *Source 2.3 Report of a Committee of the Assembly Concerning the Freedom of Elizabeth Key, 1656

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

The English Compete for West Indies Possessions

Pilgrims and Puritans Settle New England

Pilgrims Arrive in Massachusetts

The Puritan Migration

The Puritan Worldview

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Colonial Models of and for English Society
Source 2.4 Jack P. Greene, The Chesapeake as a Model of and for English Society , 1988 |Source 2.5 Alan Taylor, New England Puritans Develop Anglo-American Ideals, 2001

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Dissenters Challenge Puritan Authority

Wars in Old and New England

Conclusion: European Empires in North America

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 2

Metacom’s War

Source 2.6 William Nahaton, Petition to Free an Indian Slave, 1675 | Source 2.7 Benjamin Church, A Visit with Awashonks, Sachem of the Sakonnet,1716 | Source 2.8 John Easton, A Relation of the Indian War, | Source 2.9 Edward Randolph, Report on the War, 1676 | Source 2.10 Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of Captivity, 1682

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 2　LaunchPad

2. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 2: Comparing Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colonies　LaunchPad

Source 2.1 John Smith, The Commodities in Virginia, c. 1612

Quiz for Source 2.1　LaunchPad

Source 2.2 Powhatan’s Viewpoint, as reported by John Smith, 1608

Quiz for Source 2.2　LaunchPad

Source 2.3 Richard Frethorne, Letter Home from Virginia, 1623

Quiz for Source 2.3　LaunchPad

Source 2.4 John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630

Quiz for Source 2.4　LaunchPad

Source 2.5 Capt. John Underhill, Attack at Mystic Connecticut, 1638

Quiz for Source 2.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 2　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 2　LaunchPad

3 Colonial America amid Global Change

1680–1754

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

William Moraley Jr. and Eliza Lucas

Europeans Expand Their Claims

English Colonies Grow and Multiply

The Pueblo Revolt and Spain’s Fragile Empire

France Seeks Land and Control

European Wars and American Consequences

Colonial Conflicts and Indian Alliances

Indians Resist European Encroachment

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 3.1 The Tuscarora Appeal to the Pennsylvania Government, 1710

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Conflicts on the Southern Frontier

The Benefits and Costs of Empire

Colonial Traders Join Global Networks

Imperial Policies Focus on Profits

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Seaport Cities and Consumer Cultures

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The Middle Passage

Source 3.2 Plan of a Slave Ship, 1794 | Source 3.3 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Labor in North America

Finding Work in the Colonies

Coping with Economic Distress

Rural Americans Face Changing Conditions

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Individualism and Community in Colonial North America
Source 3.4 James T. Lemon, Individualism Flourishes in Pennsvylvania , 1972 |  Source 3.5 James A. Henretta, Ethnic and Religious Bonds Foster Community, 1978

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Slavery Takes Hold in the South

Africans Resist Their Enslavement

Conclusion: Changing Fortunes in British North America

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 3

Tobacco and Slaves

Source 3.6 Virginia Slave Laws, 1662 and 1667 | Source 3.7 Joseph Ball Instructs His Nephew on Managing Enslaved Workers, 1743 | Source 3.8 Enslaved Blacks Working on a Tobacco Plantation, c. 1750 | Source 3.9 Richard Corbin Describes How to Become a Successful Planter, 1759 | Source 3.10 Lieutenant Governor William Gooch to the Board of Trade, London, 1729
Quizzes for Primary Source Project 3　LaunchPad

3. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 3: The Atlantic Slave Trade　LaunchPad

Source 3.1 Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, 1798

Quiz for Source 3.1　LaunchPad

Source 3.2 Thomas Phillips, Voyage of the Hannibal, 1694

Quiz for Source 3.2　LaunchPad

Source 3.3 Willem Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, 1703

Quiz for Source 3.3　LaunchPad

Source 3.4 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789

Quiz for Source 3.4 LaunchPad

Source 3.5 Peter Blake, An Account of the Mortality of the Slaves Aboard the Ship James, 1675-1676

Quiz for Source 3.4　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 3　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 3　LaunchPad

4 Religious Strife and Social Upheavals

1680–1754

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Gilbert Tennent and Sarah Grosvenor

An Ungodly Society?

The Rise of Religious Anxieties

Cries of Witchcraft

Family and Household Dynamics

Women’s Changing Status

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 4.1 Abigail Faulkner Appeals Her Conviction for Witchcraft, 1692

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Working Families

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Elite Women’s Lives in the North American Colonies

Source 4.2 Isaac Royall and His Family, 1741 | Source 4.3 Eliza Lucas, Letter to Miss Bartlett, London, c. 1742

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Reproduction and Women’s Roles

The Limits of Patriarchal Order

Diversity and Competition in Colonial Society

Population Growth and Economic Competition

Increasing Diversity

Expansion and Conflict

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Finding a Middle Ground in New France
Source 4.4 Richard White, Cultural Accommodation on the Middle Ground, 1991 | Source 4.5 Brett Rushforth, Indian Slavery and Accommodation , 2014

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Religious Awakenings

The Roots of the Great Awakening

An Outburst of Revivals

Religious Dissension

Political Awakenings

Changing Political Relations

Dissent and Protest

Transforming Urban Politics

Conclusion: A Divided Society

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 4

Awakening Religious Tensions

Source 4.6 Nathan Cole, On George Whitefield Coming to Connecticut, 1740 | Source 4.7 Benjamin Franklin, On George Whitefield, the Great Revivalist, 1739 | Source 4.8 Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 1741 | Source 4.9 Newspaper Report on James Davenport, 1743 | Source 4.10 George Whitefield Preaching, c. 1760
Quizzes for Primary Source Project 4　LaunchPad

4. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 4: A New Commercial Culture in Boston　LaunchPad

Source 4.1 Ship Arrivals and Departures at Boston, 1707

Quiz for Source 4.1　LaunchPad

Source 4.2 Goods for Sale, 1720

Quiz for Source 4.2　LaunchPad

Source 4.3 Advertisement for Musical Instruments, 1716

Quiz for Source 4.3　LaunchPad

Source 4.4 Chest of Drawers, c. 1735–1739

Quiz for Source 4.4　LaunchPad

Source 4.5 Advertisement for Runaway Slave, 1744

Quiz for Source 4.5　LaunchPad

Source 4.6 Letter from a Boston Protester, 1737

Quiz for Source 4.6　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 4　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 4　LaunchPad

5 Wars and Empires

1754–1774

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

George Washington and Hermon Husband

Imperial Conflicts and Indian Wars, 1754–1763

The Opening Battles

A Shift to Global War

The Costs of Victory

Battles and Boundaries on the Frontier

Conflicts over Land and Labor Escalate

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 5.1 Hermon Husband, Causes of Armed Resistance in North Carolina, 1770

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Postwar British Policies and Colonial Unity

Common Grievances

Forging Ties across the Colonies

Great Britain Seeks Greater Control

Resistance to Britain Intensifies

The Stamp Act Inspires Coordinated Resistance

The Townshend Act
The Boston Massacre

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Protesting the Stamp Act

Source 5.2 London Merchants Petition to Repeal the Stamp Act, 1766 | Source 5.3 The Repeal, 1766

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Continuing Conflicts at Home

Tea and Widening Resistance

The Continental Congress and Colonial Unity

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Colonial Identities in Eighteenth Century British North America
Source 5.4 Gordon Wood, Britain’s Influence on Colonial Identities, 1993 | Source 5.5 John Butler, American Influences on Colonial Identities , 2000

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: Liberty within Empire

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 5

The Boston Massacre

Source 5.6 Deposition of William Wyatt, March 7, 1770 | Source 5.7 Account of Boston Massacre Funeral Procession, March 12, 1770 | Source 5.8 Paul Revere, Etching of the Boston Massacre, 1770 | Source 5.9 Account of Captain Thomas Preston, June 25, 1770 | Source 5.10 John Adams, Defense of the British Soldiers at Trial, October 1770

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 5　LaunchPad
5. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 5: Defining Liberty, Defining America　LaunchPad

Source 5.1 The Albany Plan of Union, 1754

Quiz for Source 5.1　LaunchPad

Source 5.2 Boycott Agreement of Women in Boston, 1770

Quiz for Source 5.2　LaunchPad

Source 5.3 Peter Bestes and Massachusetts Slaves, Letter to Local Representatives, 1773

Quiz for Source 5.3　LaunchPad

Source 5.4 Paul Revere, “The Able Doctor, or the American Swallowing the Bitter Draught,” 1774

Quiz for Source 5.4　LaunchPad

Source 5.5 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782

Quiz for Source 5.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 5　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 5　LaunchPad

6 The American Revolution

1775–1783

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Thomas Paine and Deborah Sampson

The Question of Independence

Armed Conflict Erupts

Building a Continental Army

Reasons for Caution and for Action

Declaring Independence

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 6.1 Thomas Paine, Common Sense, January 1776

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Choosing Sides

Recruiting Supporters

Choosing Neutrality

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

African Americans in New York City Amid the Upheavals of 1776

Source 6.2 Slaves Destroy Statue of King George III in New York City, 1776 | Source 6.3 A Fire Burns British-Occupied New York City, September 1776

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Committing to Independence

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Americans Decide to Revolt against British Rule
Source 6.4 Bernard Bailyn, The Importance of Ideas, 1967 | Source 6.5 Timothy H. Breen, Insurgents Mobilize, 2010

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Fighting for Independence, 1776–1777

British Troops Gain Early Victories

Patriots Prevail in New Jersey

A Critical Year of Warfare

Patriots Gain Critical Assistance

Surviving on the Home Front

Governing in Revolutionary Times

Colonies Become States

Patriots Divide over Slavery

France Allies with the Patriots

Raising Armies and Funds

Indian Affairs and Land Claims

Winning the War and the Peace, 1778–1781

Fighting in the West

War Rages in the South

An Uncertain Peace

A Surprising Victory

Conclusion: Legacies of the Revolution

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 6

Women in the Revolution

Source 6.6 Christian Barnes, Letter to Elizabeth Inman, April 29, 1775 | Source 6.7 Deborah Champion, Letter to Patience, October 2, 1775 | Source 6.8 Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776 | Source 6.9 Esther De Berdt Reed, The Sentiments of an American Woman, 1780 | Source 6.10 Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman, 1811

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 6　LaunchPad

6. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 6: Loyalists in the American Revolution　LaunchPad

Source 6.1 Joseph Galloway, Speech to Continental Congress, 1774

Quiz for Source 6.1　LaunchPad

Source 6.2 Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America, Impartially Stated, 1776

Quiz for Source 6.2　LaunchPad

Source 6.3 Hannah Griffits, Response to Thomas Paine, 1777

Quiz for Source 6.3　LaunchPad

Source 6.4 Joseph Brant (Mohawk) Expresses Loyalty to the Crown (1776)

Quiz for Source 6.4　LaunchPad

Source 6.5 Boston King, Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, 1798

Quiz for Source 6.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 6　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 6　LaunchPad

7 Forging a New Nation

1783–1800

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Daniel Shays and Alexander Hamilton

Financial, Frontier, and Foreign Problems

Continental Officers Threaten Confederation

Indians, Land, and the Northwest Ordinance

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 7.1 United Indian Nations Council, Message to Congress, 1786 
Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Depression and Debt

On the Political Margins

Separating Church and State

African Americans Struggle for Rights

Women Seek Wider Roles

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Women and Free Blacks Claim Rights in the Nation

Source 7.2 Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes, 1790 | Source 7.3 Petition from Free Blacks of Charleston, 1791

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Indebted Farmers Fuel Political Crises

Reframing the American Government

The Constitutional Convention of 1787

Americans Battle over Ratification

Organizing the Federal Government

Hamilton Forges an Economic Agenda

Years of Crisis, 1792–1796

Foreign Trade and Foreign Wars

The Whiskey Rebellion

Further Conflicts on the Frontier

The First Party System

The Adams Presidency

The Election of 1800

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Election of 1800 Initiates Partisan Campaigning
Source 7.4 Eric Burns, Federalists Attack Thomas Jefferson, 2006 | Source 7.5

John Ferling, Democratic-Republicans Attack John Adams, 2013

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: A Young Nation Comes of Age

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 7

Debating the Constitution in New York State

Source 7.6 James Madison, Federalist 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, November 1787 | Source 7.7 Melancton Smith, Antifederalist Argument at the New York State Convention, June 1788 | Source 7.9 Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Argument at the New York State Convention, June 1788 | Source 7.9 John Williams, Antifederalist Argument at the New York State Convention, June 1788 | Source 7.10 The Eleventh Pillar of the Great National Dome, 1788

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 7　LaunchPad

7. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 7: The Whiskey Rebellion　LaunchPad

Source 7.1 Resolution to the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1791

Quiz for Source 7.1　LaunchPad

Source 7.2 “An Exciseman,” c. 1791

Quiz for Source 7.2　LaunchPad

Source 7.3 George Washington, Proclamation Against the Rebels, 1794

Quiz for Source 7.3　LaunchPad

Source 7.4 Alexander Hamilton, Letter to George Washington, August 5, 1794

Quiz for Source 7.4　LaunchPad

Source 7.5 James Madison, Letter to James Monroe, December 4, 1794

Quiz for Source 7.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 6　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 6　LaunchPad

8 The Early Republic

1790–1820

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Parker Cleaveland and Sacagawea

The Dilemmas of National Identity

Education for a New Nation

Literary and Cultural Developments

*Religious Renewal

The Racial Limits of an American Culture

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 8.1 Samuel Jennings, Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, 1792

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

A New Capital for a New Nation

Extending Federal Power

A New Administration Faces Challenges

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

White Responses to Black Rebellion

Source 8.2 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to U.S. Minister to Great Britain Rufus King, July 1802 | Source 8.3 Leonora Sansay, Letter to Aaron Burr, November 1802

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Acquiring the Louisiana Territory

The Supreme Court Extends Its Reach

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Religion and Politics in the Early Republic

Source 8.4 Nathan O. Hatch, Religion as a Democratizing Force, 1989 |

Source 8.5 Amanda Porterfield, Religion Sows Doubt and Nurtures Partisanship, 2012

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Democratic-Republicans Expand Federal Powers

Remaking America’s Economic Character

The U.S. Population Grows and Migrates

Technology Reshapes Agriculture and Industry

Transforming Household Production

Technology, Cotton, and Slaves

Conclusion: New Identities and New Challenges

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 8

The Corps of Discovery: Paeans to Peace and Instruments of War

Source 8.6 William Clark, Journal, October 12, 1804 | Source 8.7 Charles McKenzie, Narrative of a Fur Trader, November 1804 | Source 8.8 William Clark, Journal, November 18, 1804 | Source 8.9 William Clark, Journal, January 28, 1805, and Meriwether Lewis, February 1, 1805 | Source 8.10 Meriwether Lewis, Journal, August 20, 1805

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 8　LaunchPad

8. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 8: Race Relations in the Early Republic　LaunchPad

Source 8.1 Andrew Jackson, Runaway Slave Advertisement, 1804

Quiz for Source 8.1　LaunchPad

Source 8.2 Robert Sutcliff, Travels in Some Parts of North America, 1812

Quiz for Source 8.2　LaunchPad

Source 8.3 Richard Allen, Excerpt from　The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen, 1833

Quiz for Source 8.3　LaunchPad

Source 8.4 Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization, 1817

Quiz for Source 8.4　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 8　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 8　LaunchPad

 

9 Defending and Redefining the Nation

1809–1832

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Dolley Madison and John Ross

Conflicts at Home and Abroad

Tensions at Sea and on the Frontier

War Erupts with Britain

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 9.1 Tecumseh, Speech to William Henry Harrison, 1810

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

National Expansion and Regional Economies

Governments Fuel Economic Growth

Americans Expand the Nation’s Borders

Regional Economic Development

Economic and Political Crises

The Panic of 1819

Slavery in Missouri

The Expansion and Limits of American Democracy

Expanding Voting Rights

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Protesting the Missouri Compromise

Source 9.2 Timothy Claimright, Maine Not to be Coupled with the Missouri Question, 1820 | Source 9.3 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes, 1820

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Racial Restrictions and Antiblack Violence

Political Realignments

The Presidential Election of 1828

Jacksonian Politics in Action

A Democratic Spirit?

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Expanding American Democracy for Whom?

Source 9.4 Alexander Keyssar, Broadening the Franchise, 2000

| Source 9.5 James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, The Limits of Democratic Expansion, 1997

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Confrontations over Tariffs and the Bank

Contesting Indian Removal

Conclusion: The Nation Faces New Challenges

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 9

The Election of 1828

Source 9.6 Proceedings of the Anti-Jackson Convention in Richmond, 1828 | Source 9.7 John Binns, Monumental Inscriptions, 1828 | Source 9.8 New Jersey Pro-Jackson Convention, 1828 | Source 9.9 Resolution of the Albany County Republican Convention, 1828 | Source 9.10 President Andrew Jackson’s First Inauguration, 1829

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 9　LaunchPad

9. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 9: The Panic of 1819　LaunchPad

Source 9.1 Auction in Chatham Square Street, 1820

Quiz for Source 9.1　LaunchPad

Source 9.2 James Flint, Account of the Panic, 1820

Quiz for Source 9.2　LaunchPad

Source 9.3 Virginia Agricultural Society, Antitariff Petition, 1820

Quiz for Source 9.3　LaunchPad

Source 9.4 James Kent, Arguments against Expanding Male Voting Rights, 1821

Quiz for Source 9.4　LaunchPad

Source 9.5 Nathan Sanford, Arguments for Expanding Male Voting Rights, 1821

Quiz for Source 9.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 9　　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 9　LaunchPad

10 Social and Cultural Ferment in the North

1820–1850 

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Charles Grandison Finney and Amy Kirby Post

*The Market Revolution

*Creating an Urban Landscape

The Lure of Urban Life
Roots of Urban Disorder

The New Middle Class

*GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 10.1 1850 U.S Census of the Isaac and Amy Post Household

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

The Rise of Industry

Factory Towns and Women Workers

The Decline of Craft Work and Workingmen’s Responses

The Panic of 1837

Saving the Nation from Sin

The Second Great Awakening

New Visions of Faith and Reform

Transcendentalism

Organizing for Change

Varieties of Reform

The Problem of Poverty

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

How Can We Help the Poor?

Source 10.2 Matthew Carey, Appeal to the Wealthy of the Land, 1833 | Source 10.3 Emily G. Kempshall, Letter to Rochester Female Charitable Society, 1838

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

The Temperance Movement

Utopian Communities

Abolitionism Expands and Divides

The Beginnings of the Antislavery Movement

Abolition Gains Ground and Enemies

Abolitionism and Women’s Rights

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Religion, Race, and the Call to End Slavery

Source 10.4 Lawrence J. Friedman, The Religious Roots of Immediate Abolition, (1982) | Source 10.5 Manisha Sinha, The Black Roots of Immediate Abolition, (2016)

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

The Rise of Antislavery Parties

Conclusion: From the North to the Nation

Learning Curve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz 　LaunchPad

 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 10

Religious Faith and Women’s Activism

Source 10.6 Charles G. Finney, An Influential Woman Converts, 1830 | Source 10.7 Elizabeth Emery and Mary P. Abbott, Founding a Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1836 | Source 10.8 Maria Stewart, On Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, 1831 | Source 10.9 Congregational Pastoral Letter, 1837 | Source 10.10 Sarah Grimké, Response to the Pastoral Letter, 1837

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 10　LaunchPad

10. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 10: Debating Abolition　LaunchPad

Source 10.1 William Lloyd Garrison, On the Constitution and the Union, 1832

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Source 10.2 Angelina Grimké, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, 1836

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Source 10.3 Stephen Symonds Foster, The Brotherhood of Thieves, 1843

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Source 10.4 Liberty Party Platform, 1844

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Source 10.5 Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and the Constitution, 1851

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 10　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 10　LaunchPad

11 Slavery Expands South and West

1830–1850

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

James Henry Hammond and Solomon Northup

Planters Expand the Slave System

A Plantation Society Develops in the South

Urban Life in the Slave South

The Consequences of Slavery’s Expansion

Slave Society and Culture

Slaves Fuel the Southern Economy

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 11.1 Edward Strutt Abdy, Description of Washington D.C., Slave Pen, 1833

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Developing an African American Culture

Resistance and Rebellion

Planters Tighten Control

Harsher Treatment for Southern Blacks

White Southerners without Slaves

Planters Seek to Unify Southern Whites

Democrats Face Political and Economic Crises

The Battle for Texas

Indians Resist Removal

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Two Views on Texas Independence

Source 11.2 Colonel William Travis, Appeal for Reinforcements, March 3, 1836 | Source 11.3 Benjamin Lundy, The War in Texas, 1836

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Van Buren and the Panic of 1837

The Whigs Win the White House

The National Government Looks to the West

Expanding to Oregon and Texas

Pursuing War with Mexico

Debates over Slavery Intensify

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Families in Slavery

Source 11.4 Robert William Fogelman and Stanley L. Engerman, Fogel and Engerman, Planters Shape Slave Families, (1974) | Source 11.5 Deborah Gray White, The Roles of Enslaved Women, (1985)

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Conclusion: Geographical Expansion and Political Division

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 11

Lives in Slavery

Source 11.6 William Wells Brown, Memories of Childhood | Source 11.7 Harriet Jacobs, A Girl Threatened by Sexual Exploitation | Source 11.8 Solomon Northup, Endless Labor and Constant Fear | Source 11.9 Friedrich Shulz, The Slave Market | Source 11.10 Mary Reynolds, Recalling Work, Punishment, and Faith c. 1850s

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11. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 11: The Cherokee Removal　LaunchPad

Source 11.1 Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message, 1831

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Source 11.2 Petition of the Women’s Councils to the Cherokee National Council, 1831

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Source 11.3 John Marshall, Majority Opinion, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831

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Source 11.4 Andrew Jackson as the Great Father, c. 1835

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Source 11.5 John Ross, On the Treaty of New Echota, 1836

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 11

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 11　LaunchPad

 

12 Imperial Ambitions and Sectional Crises

1842–1861

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

John C. Frémont and Dred Scott

Claiming the West

Traveling the Overland Trail

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 12.1 Elizabeth Smith Geer, Oregon Trail Diary, 1847

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The Gold Rush

A Crowded Land

Expansion and the Politics of Slavery

California and the Compromise of 1850

The Fugitive Slave Act Inspires Northern Protest

Pierce Encourages U.S. Expansion

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The Fugitive Slave Law Contested

Source 12.2 William C. Nell, Meeting of Colored Citizens of Boston, September 30, 1850 | Source 12.3 President Millard Fillmore, Proclamation 56 Calling on Citizens to Assist in the Recapture of a Fugitive Slave, February 18, 1851

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Sectional Crises Intensify

Popularizing Antislavery Sentiment

The Kansas-Nebraska Act Stirs Dissent

Bleeding Kansas and the Election of 1856

The Dred Scott Decision

From Sectional Crisis to Southern Secession

John Brown’s Raid

The Election of 1860

The Lower South Secedes

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
White Southerners Decide To Secede

Source 12.4  Michael P. Johnson, Georgians Choose Secession, 1977 | Source 12.5

J. Mills Thorton, Alabamans Move toward Secession, 1978

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Conclusion: A Nation Divided

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

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PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 12

Visions of John Brown

Source 12.6 State Register (Springfield, Illinois), The Irrepressible Conflict, 1859 | Source 12.7 Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown, 1859 | Source 12.8 Reverend J. Sella Martin, Day of Mourning Speech, December 2, 1859 | Source 12.9 A Southern Paper Reacts to Brown’s Execution, December 3, 1859 | Source 12.10 Currier and Ives, John Brown on His Way to Execution, 1863

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12. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 12: Sectional Politics and the Rise of the Republican Party　LaunchPad

Source 12.1 Abraham Lincoln, On Slavery, 1854

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Source 12.2 Republican Party Platform, 1856

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Source 12.3 Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas, 1856

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Source 12.4 Lydia Maria Child, Letter to Mrs. S.B. Shaw and Miss Lucy Osgood, 1856

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Source 12.5 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 12　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 12　LaunchPad　

 

13 Civil War

1861–1865

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Frederick Douglass and Rose O’Neal Greenhow

The Nation Goes to War, 1861

The South Embraces Secession

Both Sides Prepare for War

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 13.1 Robert Toombs, Supporting Secession in Georgia, 1860

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Military Conflict and Political Strife, 1861–1862

The Wartime Roles of African Americans and Indians

Union Politicians Consider Emancipation

War Transforms the North and the South

Life and Death on the Battlefield

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Photographers Bring the War Home

Source 13.2 Union Soldiers in Camp, c. 1863 | Source 13.3 Battlefield Dead at Antietam, 1862

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The Northern Economy Expands

Urbanization and Industrialization in the South

Women Aid the War Effort

Dissent and Protest in the Midst of War

The Tide of War Turns, 1863–1865

Key Victories for the Union

African Americans Contribute to Victory

The Final Battles of a Hard War

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Why Union Soldiers Fought the Civil War

Source 13.4  Chandra Manning, The Fight Against Slavery (2007) | Source 13.5

Gary Gallagher, The Fight to Save the Union (2011)

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The War Comes to an End

Conclusion: An Uncertain Future

LearningCurve LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 13

First-hand Accounts of the Civil War Letters and Journals

Source 13.6 Frederick Spooner, Letter to His Brother Henry, April 30, 1861 | Source 13.7 John Hines, Letter to His Parents, April 22, 1862 | Source 13.8 Suzy King Taylor, Caring for the Thirty-third U.S. Colored Troops, 1863 | Source 13.9 Thomas Freeman, Letter to His Brother-in-Law, March 26, 1864 | Source 13.10 Eliza Frances Andrews, On Union Prisoners of War, 1865

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13. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 13: Home-Front Protest during the Civil War　LaunchPad

Source 13.1 “Sowing and Reaping,” 1863

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Source 13.2 Testimony of New York City Draft Riot Victim Mrs. Statts, Collected by the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots, 1863

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Source 13.3 Clement L. Vallandigham, The Civil War in America, 1863

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Source 13.4 Calls for Peace in North Carolina, 1863

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Source 13.5 Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Diary, 1864

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 13　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 13　LaunchPad

14 Emancipation and Reconstruction

1863–1877

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Jefferson Long and Andrew Johnson

Emancipation

African Americans Embrace Freedom

Reuniting Families Torn Apart by Slavery

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 14.1 Freedpeople Petition for Land, 1865

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Freedom to Learn

Freedom to Worship and the Leadership Role of Black Churches

National Reconstruction

Abraham Lincoln Plans for Reunification

Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction

Johnson and Congressional Resistance

Congressional Reconstruction

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Debating the Freedmen’s Bureau

Source 14.2 Colonel Eliphalet Whittlesey, Report on the Freedman’s Bureau, 1865 | Source 14.3 Democratic Flier Opposing the Freedman’s Bureau Bill, 1866

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The Struggle for Universal Suffrage

Remaking the South

Whites Reconstruct the South

Black Political Participation and Economic Opportunities

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Race and Reconstruction

Source 14.4  William A. Dunning, Radical Reconstruction (1907) | Source 14.5

John Hope Franklin, The South’s New Leaders (1961)

Sharecropping Agreement, 1870

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White Resistance to Congressional Reconstruction

The Unraveling of Reconstruction

The Republican Retreat

Congressional and Judicial Retreat

The Presidential Compromise of 1876

Conclusion: The Legacies of Reconstruction

LearningCurve LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 14

Testing and Contesting Freedom

Source 14.6 Mississippi Black Code, 1865 | Source 14.7 Richard H. Cain, Federal Aid for Land Purchase, 1868 | *Source 14.8  Willis B. Bocock and Black Laborers, Sharecropping Agreement, 1870 | Source 14.9 Ellen Parton, Testimony on Klan Violence, 1871 | Source 14.10 Thomas Nast, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State, 1874

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14. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 14: Reconstruction in South Carolina　LaunchPad

Source 14.1 Colored People’s Convention of South Carolina, Memorial to Congress, 1865

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Source 14.2 Lottie Rollin, Address on Universal Suffrage, 1870

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Source 14.3 Robert Brown Elliott, In Defense of the Civil Rights Bill, 1874

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Source 14.4 James Shepherd Pike,　The Prostrate State, 1874

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Source 14.5 Harper’s Weekly, “Worse than Slavery” Political Cartoon, 1874

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 14　LaunchPadEssay Questions for Thinking through Sources 14　LaunchPad

 

15 The West

1865–1896

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Annie Oakley and Geronimo

Opening the West

The Great Plains

Federal Policy and Foreign Investment

Indians and Resistance to Expansion

Indian Civilizations

Changing Federal Policy toward Indians

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 15.1 Buffalo Hunting, c. 1875

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Indian Defeat

Reforming Indian Policy

Indian Assimilation and Resistance

The Mining and Lumber Industries

The Business of Mining

Life in the Mining Towns

The Lumber Boom

The Cattle Industry and Commercial Farming

The Life of the Cowboy

The Rise of Commercial Ranching

Commercial Farming

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Cowboy Myths and Realities

Source 15.2 Poster Advertising Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 1893 | Source 15.3 George C. Duffield, Diary of a Real Cowboy, 1866

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Women Homesteaders

Farming on the Great Plains

Diversity in the Far West

Mormons

Californios

The Chinese

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Significance of the Frontier
Source 15.4 Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893 | Source 15.5 Patricia Nelson Limerick, Deemphasizing the Concept of the Frontier, 1987

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Conclusion: The Ambiguous Legacy of the West

LearningCurve 　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz 　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 15

American Indians and Whites in the West 000

Source 15.6 James Michael Cavanaugh, Support for Indian Extermination, 1868 | Source 15.7 Helen Hunt Jackson, Challenges to Indian Policy, 1881 | Source 15.8 Thomas Nast, “Patience until the Indian Is Civilized—So to Speak,” 1878 | Source 15.9 Zitkala-Ša, Life at an Indian Boarding School, 1921 | Source 15.10 Chief Joseph, Views on Indian Affairs, 1879
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15. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 15: Women in the West　LaunchPad

Source 15.1 Martha Jane Cannary Burk, The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, 1896

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Source 15.2 Black Migrants to Kansas, 1880

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Source 15.3 Zitkala-Ŝa (Gertrude Bonnin), “Impressions of an Indian Childhood,” 1921

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Source 15.4 Abigail Scott Duniway, Speaking Out for the Right to Vote, 1914

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Source 15.5 Caroline Nichols Churchill, Fighting for Woman Suffrage in Colorado, 1909

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 15　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 15　LaunchPad

16 Industrial America

1877–1900

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Andrew Carnegie and John Sherman

America Industrializes

The New Industrial Economy

Innovation and Inventions

Building a New South

Industrial Consolidation

The Growth of Corporations

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 16.1 Horace Taylor, What a Funny Little Government, 1900

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Laissez-Faire, Social Darwinism, and Their Critics

The Doctrines of Success

Challenges to Laissez-Faire

Society and Culture in the Gilded Age

Wealthy and Middle-Class Leisure-Time Pursuits

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Leisure-Class Women

Source 16.2 The Delineator, 1900 | Source 16.3 Alice Austen and Trude Eccleston, 1891

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Changing Gender Roles

Black America and Jim Crow

National Politics in the Era of Industrialization

The Weak Presidency

Congressional Inefficiency

The Business of Politics

An Energized and Entertained Electorate

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Robber Baron or Captain of Industry?
Source 16.4 Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons, 1934 | Source 16.5 Ron Chernow, John D. Rockefeller, Industrial Statesman, 1998

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Conclusion: Industrial America 
LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review 
Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 16

Debates about Laissez-Faire

Source 16.6 William Graham Sumner, A Defense of Laissez-Faire, 1883 | Source 16.7 Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000–1887, 1888 | Source 16.8 Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889 | Source 16.9 Henry Demarest Lloyd, Critique of Wealth, 1894

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16. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 16: Labor and Race in the New South　LaunchPad

Source 16.1 Henry Grady, The New South, 1890

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Source 16.2 Testimony of North Carolina Industrial Workers, 1887

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Source 16.3 Sharecropper’s Contract, 1882

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Source 16.4 Mississippi Constitution, 1890

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Source 16.5 Justice Henry Billings Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 16　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 16　LaunchPad　

17 Workers and Farmers in the Age of Organization

1877–1900

Guided Reading Exercises　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

John McLuckie and Mary Elizabeth Lease

Working People Organize

The Industrialization of Labor

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 17.1 John Morrison, Testimony on the Impact of Mechanization, 1883

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Organizing Unions

Clashes between Workers and Owners

Working-Class Leisure in Industrial America

Farmers Organize

Farmers Unite

Populists Rise Up

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Farmers and Workers Organize: Two Views

Source 17.2 Walter Huston, Here Lies Prosperity, 1895 | Source 17.3 Populist Party Platform, 1892

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The Depression of the 1890s

Depression Politics

Political Realignment in the Election of 1896

The Decline of the Populists

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Agrarian Myth and Populism
Source 17.4  Richard Hofstadter, The Agrarian Myth, 1955 | Source 17.5 Charles Postel, The Populist Vision, 2007

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Conclusion: A Passion for Organization

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz 　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 17

The Pullman Strike of 1894

Source 17.6 George Pullman, Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission, 1894 | Source 17.7 Eugene V. Debs, On Radicalism, 1902 | Source 17.8 Jennie Curtis, Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission, 1894 | Source 17.9 Report from the Commission to Investigate the Chicago Strike, 1895
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17. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 17: The Meanings of Populism　LaunchPad

Source 17.1 Frank Doster, Labor Day Speech, 1894

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Source 17.2 Thomas E. Watson, The Negro Question in the South, 1892

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Source 17.3 “Smith Wants Fair Division of Pie!” Political Cartoon, 1900?

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Source 17.4 The People’s Party Tree, 1895

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Source 17.5 William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, 1896

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 17　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 17　LaunchPad

18 Cities, Immigrants, and the Nation

1880–1914

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Beryl Lassin and Maria Vik Takacs

A New Wave of Immigrants

Immigrants Arrive from Many Lands

Creating Immigrant Communities

Hostility toward Recent Immigrants

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 18.1 Anzia Yerzierska, Immigrant Fathers and Daughters, 1925

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The Assimilation Dilemma

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The Chinese in America

Source 18.2 Saum Song Bo, “A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty”1885 | Source 18.3 Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886

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Becoming an Urban Nation

The New Industrial City 
Cities Expand Upward and Outward

How the Other Half Lived

Urban Politics at the Turn of the Century

Political Machines and City Bosses

Urban Reformers

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Immigration, Nativism, and Whiteness
Source 18.4 John Higham, Nativism and Race, 1955 |  Source 18.5 Katherine Benton-Cohen, Nativism, Mexicans, and Whitness, 2009

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Conclusion: A Nation of Cities

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad　

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 18

“Melting Pot” or “Vegetable Soup”?

Source 18.6 Israel Zangwill, The Melting-Pot, 1908 | Source 18.7 ”The Mortar of Assimilation—And the One Element That Won’t Mix,” 1889 | Source 18.8 ”Be Just—Even to John Chinaman,” 1893 | Source 18.9 Alfred P. Schultz, The Mongrelization of America, 1908 | Source 18.10 Randolph S. Bourne, Trans-national America, 1916

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18. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 18: Class and Leisure in the American City　LaunchPad

Source 18.1 Elephant Ride at Coney Island, 1911

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Source 18.2 International Contest for the Heavyweight Championship, 1907

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Source 18.3 Joseph Rumshinsky, The Living Orphan, 1914

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Source 18.4 Hutchins Hapgood,　Types from City Streets, 1910

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Source 18.5 Thorstein Veblen,　The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 18　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 18　LaunchPad
19 Progressivism and the Search for Order

1900–1917

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Gifford Pinchot and Gene Stratton-Porter

The Roots of Progressivism

Progressive Origins

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 19.1 Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis, 1907

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Muckrakers

Humanitarian and Social Justice Reform

Female Progressives and the Poor

Fighting for Women’s Suffrage

Progressivism and African Americans

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Addressing Racial Inequality

Source 19.2 Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise, 1895 | Source 19.3 Ida B. Wells, A Critique of Booker T. Washington, 1904

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Progressivism and Indians

Morality and Social Control

Prohibition

Prostitution, Narcotics, and Juvenile Delinquency

Birth Control

Immigration Restriction

Good Government Progressivism 

Municipal and State Reform

Conservation and Preservation of the Environment

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Progressivism in White and Black
Source 19.4 C. Van Woodward, Progressivism for Whites Only, 1951 | Source 19.5 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Southern Black Women and Progressivism, 1996

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Presidential Progressivism

Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal

Taft Retreats from Progressivism

The Election of 1912

Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Agenda

Conclusion: The Progressive Legacy

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad　

 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 19

Muller v. Oregon, 1908

Source 19.6 Theodore Roosevelt, “On American Motherhood,” 1905 | Source 19.7 William D. Fenton and Henry H. Gilfry, Brief for Plaintiff in Error, Muller v. Oregon, 1907 | Source 19.8 Louis D. Brandeis, Brief for Defendant in Error, Muller v. Oregon, 1908 | Source 19.9 David J. Brewer, Opinion in Muller v. Oregon, 1908 | Source 19.10 Louisa Dana Haring, Letter, “Equality before the Law,” 1908

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19. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 19: Progressivism and Social Control　LaunchPad

Source 19.1 Frances Willard, On Behalf of Home Protection, 1884

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Source 19.2 Abstinence Poster, 1919

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Source 19.3 Indiana Sterilization Law, 1907

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Source 19.4 The Immigration Act of 1917

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Source 19.5 Sanitary Precaution, c. 1914

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 19　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 19　LaunchPad

20 Empire and Wars

1898–1918

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Alfred Thayer Mahan and José Martí

The Awakening of Imperialism

The Economics of Expansion

Cultural Justifications for Imperialism

Gender and Empire

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 20.1 Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden,” 1899

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The War with Spain

Revolution in Cuba

The War of 1898

The Pacification of Cuba

The Philippine War

Extending U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913

Theodore Roosevelt and “Big Stick” Diplomacy

Opening the Door in China

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Fighting in the Philippines

Source 20.2 President McKinley Defends His Decision | Source 20.3 William Carson, “A Bigger Job Than He Thought For,” 1899

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Wilson and American Foreign Policy, 1912–1917

Diplomacy and War

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The U.S. Chooses to Enter World War I
Source 20.4 Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and Neutrality, 1963   | Source 20.5 John Whiteclay Chambers II, Woodrow Wilson’s Unneutral Neutrality, 2000

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Making the World Safe for Democracy

Fighting the War at Home

Government by Commission

Winning Hearts and Minds

Waging Peace

The Failure of Ratification

Conclusion: A U.S. Empire

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 20

Imperialism versus Anti-Imperialism

Source 20.6 The Hawaiian Memorial, 1897 | Source 20.7 Albert Beveridge, The March of the Flag, 1898 | Source 20.8 ”There’s Plenty of Room at the Table,” 1906 | Source 20.9 Anti-Imperialism Letter, 1899

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20. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 20: The Committee on Public Information and Wartime Propaganda　LaunchPad

Source 20.1 Peom Read by Four-Minute Men, “It’s Duty Boy,” c. 1918

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Source 20.2 “Halt the Hun!” c. 1918

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Source 20.3 Advertisement in History Teacher’s Magazine, 1917

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Source 20.4 “He Will Come Back a Better Man!” 1918

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Source 20.5 George Creel, “The ‘Censorship’ Bugbear,” 1920

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Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 20　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 20　LaunchPad　

21 The Twenties

1919–1929

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

D. C. Stephenson and Ossian Sweet

Social Turmoil

The Red Scare, 1919–1920

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 21.1 A. Mitchell Palmer, The Case against the Reds, 1920

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Racial Violence in the Postwar Era

Prosperity, Consumption, and Growth

Government Promotion of the Economy

Americans Become Consumers

Urbanization

Perilous Prosperity

Challenges to Social Conventions

Breaking with the Old Morality

The Harlem Renaissance

Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism

Culture Wars

Prohibition

Nativists versus Immigrants

Resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan

Fundamentalism versus Modernism

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Men and Women of the KKK

Source 21.2 Gerald W. Johnson, The Ku Kluxer, 1924 | Source 21.3 Women of the Ku Klux Klan, 1927

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Politics and the Fading of Prosperity

The Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party

Lingering Progressivism

Financial Crash

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Impact of Prohibition

Source 21.4 Andrew Sinclair, The Excesses of Prohibition, 1962 |

Source 21.5 Lisa McGirr, The National State and Crime Control, 2016

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Conclusion: The Transitional Twenties

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 21

The New Negro and the Harlem Renaissance

Source 21.6 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen, “The New Negro—What Is He?” 1919 | Source 21.7 Claude McKay, If We Must Die, 1919 | Source 21.8 Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” 1921 | Source 21.9 Aaron Douglas, Illustration, The New Negro, 1925 | Source 21.10 Bessie Smith, “Down-Hearted Blues,” 1923

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 21　LaunchPad

21. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories,　Primary Source Project 21: The Scopes “Monkey Trial”　LaunchPad

Source 21.1 The Butler Act, 1925

Quiz for Source 21.1　LaunchPad

Source 21.2 Clarence Darrow, Trial Speech, 13 July 1925

Quiz for Source 21.2　LaunchPad

Source 21.3 William Jennings Bryan, Trial Speech, 16 July 1925

Quiz for Source 21.3　LaunchPad

Source 21.4 Cartoon from the Chicago Defender, 20 June 1925

Quiz for Source 21.4　LaunchPad

Source 21.5　Poem by Mrs. E.P. Blair,　Nashville Tennessean, 29 June 1925

Quiz for Source 21.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 21　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 21　LaunchPad

22 Depression, Dissent, and the New Deal

1929–1940

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Eleanor Roosevelt and Luisa Moreno

The Great Depression

Hoover Faces the Depression

Hoovervilles and Dust Storms

Challenges for Minorities

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 22.1 Plea from the Scottsboro Prisoners, 1932

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Families under Strain

Organized Protest

The New Deal

Roosevelt Restores Confidence

Steps toward Recovery

Direct Assistance and Relief

New Deal Critics

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt

Source 22.2 Mildred Isbell to Mrs. Roosevelt, January 1, 1936 | Source 22.3 Minnie Harden to Mrs. Roosevelt, December 14, 1937

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

The New Deal Moves to the Left

Expanding Relief Measures

Establishing Social Security 

Organized Labor Strikes Back

A Half Deal for Minorities

Decline of the New Deal

SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
New Deal or Raw Deal

Source 22.4  William E. Leuchtenburg, The Roosevelt Reconstruction, 1963 | Source 22.5 Barton J. Bernstein, The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform, 1969

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Conclusion: New Deal Liberalism

LearningCurve 　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 22

The Depression in Rural America

Source 22.6 Ann Marie Low, Dust Bowl Diary, 1934 | Source 22.7 John P. Davis, A Black Inventory of the New Deal, 1935 | Source 22.8 A Sharecropper’s Family in Washington County, Arkansas, 1935 | Source 22.9 Martin Torres, Protest Against Maltreatment of Mexican Laborers in California, 1934 | Source 22.10 Otis Nation, Testimony to the Great Plains Committee, 1937

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 22　LaunchPad

22. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 22: Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and its Critics　LaunchPad

Source 22.1 Franklin Roosevelt, Fireside Chat transcript, May 7, 1933

Quiz for Source 22.1　LaunchPad

Source 22.2 “Give a Man a Job!” transcript 1933

Quiz for Source 22.2　LaunchPad

Source 22.3 Packing the Supreme Court: Two Views, Political Cartoons, 1937

Quiz for Source 22.3　LaunchPad

Source 22.4 Republican Party National Platform, 1936

Quiz for Source 22.4　LaunchPad

Source 22.5 Huey P. Long, Criticism of Franklin Roosevelt, 1935

Quiz for Source 22.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 22　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 22　LaunchPad　

23 World War II

1933–1945

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Fred Korematsu

The Road toward War

The Growing Crisis in Europe

The Challenge to Isolationism

The United States Enters the War

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 23.1 Monica Sone, Memories of Pearl Harbor

Quiz for Guided Analysis LaunchPad

The Home-Front Economy

Managing the Wartime Economy

New Opportunities for Women

Everyday Life on the Home Front

Fighting for Equality at Home

The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

Struggles for Mexican Americans

American Indians

The Ordeal of Japanese Americans

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Japanese American Internment

Source 23.2 Charles Kikuchi, Internment Diary, 1942 | Source 23.3 Justice Hugo Black, Korematsu v. United States, 1944

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Global War

War in Europe

War in the Pacific

Ending the War

Evidence of the Holocaust

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust

Source 23.4  David S. Wyman, FDR Abandoned the Jews, 1984

Source 23.5 Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, FDR Did Not Abandon the Jews, 2013

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Impact of World War II

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 23

The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

Source 23.6 Petition to the President of the United States, July 17, 1945 | Source 23.7 President Harry S. Truman, Press Release on the Atomic Bomb, August 6, 1945 | Source 23.8 Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 | Source 23.9 U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 1946 | Source 23.10 Father Johannes Siemes, Eyewitness Account of the Hiroshima Bombing, 1945

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 23 　LaunchPad

23. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 23: Anti-Japanese Prejudice during World War II　　LaunchPad

Source 23.1 Monica Sone Remembers Pearl Harbor, 1953

Quiz for Source 23.1　LaunchPad

Source 23.2 Poster to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry, 1942

Quiz for Source 23.2　LaunchPad

Source 23.3 Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, Hirabayashi v. United States Decision, 1943

Quiz for Source 23.3　LaunchPad

Source 23.4 Justice Frank Murphy, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States, 1944

Quiz for Source 23.4　LaunchPad

Source 23.5 Jishiro Miyauchi, Heart Mountain, Wyoming Internee Camp, 1943

Quiz for Source 23.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 23　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 23　LaunchPad

24 The Opening of the Cold War

1945–1961

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

George Kennan and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

The Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1947

Mutual Misunderstandings

The Truman Doctrine

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 24.1 Henry Wallace, The Way to Peace, 1946

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

The Marshall Plan and Economic Containment

The Cold War Hardens, 1948–1953

Military Containment

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The Marshall Plan and the Soviet Union

Source 24.2 George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan, 1947 | Source 24.3 Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Objections to the Marshall Plan, 1947

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

The Korean War

The Korean War and the Imperial Presidency

Combating Communism at Home, 1945–1954

Loyalty and the Second Red Scare

McCarthyism

The Cold War Expands, 1953 –1961

Nuclear Weapons and Containment

Interventions in the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa

Early Intervention in Vietnam, 1954–1960

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Causes of the Cold War

Source 24.4  William Appleman Williams, Expanding the Economic Open Door, 1959
Source 24.5 John Lewis Gaddis, Competing Ideologies, 1972

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Cold War and Anticommunism

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 24

McCarthyism and the Hollywood Ten

Source 24.6 Ronald Reagan, Testimony before HUAC, 1947 | Source 24.7 John Howard Lawson, Testimony before HUAC, 1947 | Source 24.8 The Waldorf Statement and the Introduction of the Blacklist, 1947 | Source 24.9 Herblock, “Fire!” 1949 | Source 24.10 Lillian Hellman, Letter to HUAC, 1952

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 24 LaunchPad

24. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 24: The Korean War　LaunchPad

Source 24.1 Sidney W. Souers, NSC 48, December 1949

Quiz for Source 24.1　LaunchPad

Source 24.2 Terenti Shtykov, Telegram, January 19, 1950

Quiz for Source 24.2　LaunchPad

Source 24.3 Harry Truman, Radio Address on Korea, April 11, 1951

Quiz for Source 24.3　LaunchPad

Source 24.4 Douglas MacArthur, Speech before Congress, April 19, 1951

Quiz for Source 24.4　LaunchPad

Source 24.5 Herbert Block, “We’ve Been Using More of a Roundish One,”　Washington Post, May 1951

Quiz for Source 24.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 24　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 24　LaunchPad

 

25 Troubled Innocence

1945–1961

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Alan Freed and Grace Metalious

Peacetime Transition and the Boom Years

Peacetime Challenges, 1945–1948

Economic Conversion and Labor Discontent

Truman, the New Deal Coalition, and the Election of 1948

Economic Boom

Baby Boom

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 25.1 Adlai E. Stevenson, “A Purpose for Modern Woman,”1955

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Changes in Living Patterns

The Culture of the 1950s

The Rise of Television

Wild Ones on the Big Screen

The Influence of Teenage Culture

The Lives of Women

Religious Revival

Beats and Other Nonconformists

The Growth of the Civil Rights Movement

The Rise of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

School Segregation and the Supreme Court

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

White Resistance to Desegregation

The Sit-Ins

The Civil Rights Movement and Minority Struggles in the West

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The Civil Rights Movement and Its Opponents

Source 25.2 The Southern Manifesto, 1956 | Source 25.3 Ella Baker, “Bigger Than a Hamburger,”1960

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Domestic Politics in the Eisenhower Era

Modern Republicanism

The Election of 1960

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

When Did the Civil Rights Movement Begin?

Source 25.4  Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, The Long Civil Rights Movement, 2005
Source 25.5 Steven F. Lawson, The Short Civil Rights Movement, 2011

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: Postwar Politics and Culture

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summartive Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 25

Teenagers in Postwar America

Source 25.6 Dick Clark,Your Happiest Years, 1959 | Source 25.7 Charlotte Jones, Letter on Elvis, 1957 | Source 25.8 The Desegregation of Central High School, 1957 | Source 25.9 Gloria Lopez-Stafford, A Mexican-American Childhood in El Paso, Texas, 1949 | Source 25.10 ”Why No Chinese American Delinquents?” 1955

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 25 　LaunchPad

25. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 25: The Postwar Suburbs　LaunchPad

Source 25.1 Metropolitan Highway Construction: Boston transcript, 1955

Quiz for Source 25.1　LaunchPad

Source 25.2 In the Suburbs transcript, 1957

Quiz for Source 25.2　LaunchPad

Source 25.3 Harry Henderson, “The Mass-Produced Suburbs,” 1953

Quiz for Source 25.3　LaunchPad

Source 25.4 Malvina Reynolds, “Little Boxes,” 1962

Quiz for Source 25.4　LaunchPad

Source 25.5 Jackie Robinson, Testimony before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1959

Quiz for Source 24.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 25　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 25　LaunchPad　

26 Liberalism and Its Challengers

1960–1973

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Earl Warren and Bayard Rustin

The Politics of Liberalism

Kennedy’s New Frontier

Kennedy, the Cold War, and Cuba

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 26.1 Edmund Valtman, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

The Civil Rights Movement Intensifies, 1961–1968

Freedom Rides

Kennedy Supports Civil Rights

Freedom Summer and Voting Rights

From Civil Rights to Black Power

Federal Efforts toward Social Reform, 1964–1968

The Great Society

The Warren Court

The Vietnam War, 1961–1969

Kennedy’s Intervention in South Vietnam

Johnson Escalates the War in Vietnam

Challenges to the Liberal Establishment

The New Left

The Counterculture

Liberation Movements

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Chicano and Native American Freedom Movements

Source 26.2 Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán, 1969 | Source 26.3 The Alcatraz Proclamation, 1969

Quiz for Comparative Analysis 　LaunchPad

The Revival of Conservatism

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Race and Class in Second Wave Feminism

Source 26.4  Anne Valk, Feminist Interactions, 2008
Source 26.5 Linda Gordon, Race, Class, and Feminism, 2014

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: Liberalism and Its Discontents

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 26

Freedom Summer

Source 26.6 Prospectus for Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 | Source 26.7 Nancy Ellin, Letter Describing Freedom Summer, 1964 | Source 26.8 White Southerners Respond to Freedom Summer, 1964 | Source 26.9 Fannie Lou Hamer, Address to the Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee, 1964 | Source 26.10 Lyndon B. Johnson, Monitoring the MFDP Challenge, 1964

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 26　LaunchPad

26. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 26: Debating the Vietnam War　LaunchPad

Source 26.1 Telephone Conversations Between Lyndon Johnson and Senator Richard Russell, May 27, 1964

Quiz for Source 26.1　LaunchPad

Source 26.2 Lyndon Johnson, “Peace Without Conquest,” Speech at Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 1965

Quiz for Source 26.2　LaunchPad

Source 26.3 Herbert Block, “Our Position Hasn’t Changed At All,”　Washington Post, June 17, 1965

Quiz for Source 26.3　LaunchPad

Source 26.4 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, “Statement on Vietnam,” January 6, 1966

Quiz for Source 26.4　LaunchPad

Source 26.5 Robert F. Kennedy, “Vietnam Illusions,” Feburary 8, 1968

Quiz for Source 26.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 26　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 26　LaunchPad

27 The Swing toward Conservatism

1968–1980

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

*Allan Bakke and Louise Day Hicks

Nixon: War and Diplomacy, 1969–1974

The Election of 1968

The Failure of Vietnamization

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 27.1 Richard Nixon, Speech Accepting the Republican Nomination for President, August 8, 1968

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

The Cold War Thaws

Crisis in the Middle East and at Home
Nixon and Politics

Pragmatic Conservatism

The Nixon Landslide and Watergate Scandal, 1972–1974

*The Presidency of Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter and the Limits of Affluence

The Perils of Détente

Challenges in the Middle East
The Persistence of Liberalism in the 1970s

*Popular Culture

*Women’s Movement

*Environmentalism

Racial Struggles Continue

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Women of Color and Feminism

Source 27.2 Workshop Resolutions, First National Chicana Conference, 1971 | Source 27.3 Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement, 1977

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

*The New Right Rises 

*Tax Revolt

*Neo Conservatism

*Christian Conservatism
*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Rise of the New Right
Source 27.4 Dan T. Carter, George Wallace, Race, and the New Right, 1996
Source 27.5 Daniel K. Williams, The Christian Right, 2010

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Swing toward Conservatism

LearningCurve Quiz　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 27

The New Right and Its Critics

Source 27.6 Proposition 13, California, 1978 | Source 27.7 Phyllis Schlafly, “What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women?” 1972 | *Source 27.8 Gloria Steinem, Testimony on the Equal Rights Amendment, May 6, 1970 | Source 27.9 Paul Weyrich, Building the Moral Majority, 1979 | Source 27.10 A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Moral Majority Threatens Freedom, 1981

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 27　LaunchPad

27. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 27: Women’s Liberation　LaunchPad

Source 27.1 No More Miss America! 1968

Quiz for Source 27.1　LaunchPad

Source 27.2 Ms. Magazine Cover, 1972

Quiz for Source 27.2　LaunchPad

Source 27.3 National Black Feminist Organization, Statement of Purpose, 1973

Quiz for Source 27.3　LaunchPad

Source 27.4 Pat Mainardi, “The Politics of Housework,” 1970

Quiz for Source 27.4　LaunchPad

Source 27.5 Phyllis Schlafly, “What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women?” 1972

Quiz for Source 27.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 27　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 27　LaunchPad　

28 The Triumph of Conservatism, the End of the Cold War, and the Rise of the New World Order, 1980-1992
Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

George Shultz and Barbara Deming

*The Reagan Revolution

Reagan and Reaganomics

The Implementation of Social Conservatism

Reagan and the End of the Cold War, 1981–1988

“The Evil Empire”

Human Rights and the Fight against Communism

Fighting International Terrorism

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 28.1 Robert Ode, Iran Hostage Diary, 1979–1980 
Quiz for Guided Reading Analysis　LaunchPad

The Nuclear Freeze Movement

The Road to Nuclear De-escalation

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The Nuclear Freeze Movement

Source 28.2 New Jersey Referendum on Nuclear Freeze, 1982 | Source 28.3 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Pastoral Letter on War and Peace, 1983 
Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

The Presidency of George H. W. Bush 

*”Kinder and Gentler” Conservatism

The Breakup of the Soviet Union

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The End of the Cold War

Source 28.4  John Spanier, Gorbachev Needed to End the Cold War, 1992
Source 28.5 Beth Fischer, Reagan Ends the Cold War, 1997

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Globalization and the New World Order

Managing Conflict after the Cold War

*The 1992 Election

Conclusion: Conservative Ascendancy and the End of the Cold War 
LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review 
Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 28

The Iran-Contra Affair

Source 28.6 The Boland Amendments, 1982 and 1984 | Source 28.7 CIA Freedom Fighter’s Manual, 1983 | Source 28.8 Ronald Reagan, Speech on the Iran-Contra Affair, 1987 | Source 28.9 Oliver North, Testimony to Congress, July 1987 | Source 28.10 George Mitchell, Response to Oliver North, 1987
Quizzes for Primary Source Project 28　LaunchPad

28.　Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories,　Primary Source Project 28: Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War　LaunchPad

Source 28.1 Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, 1983

Quiz for Source 28.1　LaunchPad

Source 28.2 Geraldine Ferraro, Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, 1984

Quiz for Source 28.2　LaunchPad

Source 28.3 Tony Auth, Cartoon,　Philadelphia Inquirer, [[Date]]

Quiz for Source 28.3　LaunchPad

Source 28.4 Ronald Reagan, Address at Moscow State University, 1988

Quiz for Source 28.4　LaunchPad

Source 28.5 Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech Before the Central Committee, January 27, 1987

Quiz for Source 28.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 28　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 28　LaunchPad　

 

29 The Challenges of a Globalized World

1993 to the present

Guided Reading Exercise　LaunchPad

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Bill Gates and Kristen Breitweiser

Transforming American Business and Society

The Computer Revolution

Business Consolidation

The Changing American Population

Political Divisions and Globalization in the Clinton Years

Domestic and Economic Policy during the Clinton Administration

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Source 29.1 Bo Yee, The New American Sweatshop, 1994 
Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Global Challenges

The Presidency of George W. Bush

Bush and Compassionate Conservatism

The Iraq War

Bush’s Second Term

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The War in Iraq

Source 29.2 George W. Bush, Declaration of Victory in Iraq, May 1, 2003 | Source 29.3 Farnaz Fassihi, Report from Baghdad, 2004 
Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

The Challenges Faced by President Barack Obama

The Great Recession

Obama and Domestic Politics 
*Obama and the World

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Presidency of Barack Obama

Source 29.4  Frederick C. Harris, Decline of Black Politics, 2012 | Source 29.5  Randall Kennedy, The Importance of Symbolism, 2011

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

*The Presidency of Donald Trump
*The 2016 Election

*The Trump Presidency

*Women Reshape the Political Culture

Conclusion: Technology and Terror in a Global Society 
LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review 
Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 29

The Uses of September 11

Source 29.6 Diana Hoffman, “The Power of Freedom,” 2002 | Source 29.7 Khaled Abou El Fadl, Response to September 11, 2001 | Source 29.8 Anti-Muslim Discrimination, 2011 | Source 29.9 Edward Snowden, Interview, 2014 | Source 29.10 Alice M. Greenwald, Message from the Director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum
Quizzes for Primary Source Project 29　LaunchPad

29. Primary Source Projects for Exploring American Histories, Primary Source Project 29: The Environment and Federal Policy in the Twenty-First Century　LaunchPad

Source 29.1 George W. Bush, Press Release on Global Climate Change, 2001

Quiz for Source 29.1　LaunchPad

Source 29.2 Lester Brown, Outgrowing the Earth, 2004

Quiz for Source 29.2　LaunchPad

Source 29.3 Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, 2012

Quiz for Source 29.3　LaunchPad

Source 29.4 Donald Trump Withdraws from the Paris Climate Accord, 2017

Quiz for Source 29.4　LaunchPad

Source 29.5 Connor Maxwell and Cathleen Kelly, Hurricane Maria and the Need for Environmental Justice in Puerto Rico, 2017

Quiz for Source 29.5　LaunchPad

Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 29　LaunchPad

Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 29　LaunchPad

 

Appendix

The Declaration of Independence

The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union

The Constitution of the United States (including six unratified amendments)

Admission of the States to the Union

Presidents of the United States

Glossary of Key Terms

Credits

Index