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" The American journey : "
David Goldfield ... [et al.].
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785983
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b605998
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David Goldfield ... [et al.].
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The American journey : : a history of the United States\ David Goldfield ... [et al.].
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Brief 6th ed
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Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011
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xlv, 909 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
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0205010598
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: 0205010601
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: 9780205010592
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: 9780205010608
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: 9780205010615
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Unit 1: Worlds apart --; Native American societies before 1492 --; West African societies --; Western Europe on the eve of exploration --; Contact --; Competition for a continent. Unit 2: Transplantation and adaptation, 1600-1685 --; The French in North America --; The Dutch overseas empire --; English settlement in the Chesapeake --; The founding of New England --; Competition in the Caribbean --; The restoration colonies. Unit 3: A meeting of cultures --; Indians and Europeans --; Africans and Europeans --; European laborers in early America --; The voyage to slavery. Unit 4: English colonies in an age of empire, 1600s-1763 --; Economic development and imperial trade in the British colonies --; The transformation of culture --; The colonial political world --; Expanding empires --; A century of warfare. Unit 5: Imperial breakdown, 1763-1774 --; The crisis of imperial authority --; Republican ideology and colonial protest --; The Stamp Act crisis --; The Townshend crisis --; Domestic divisions --; The final imperial crisis. Unit 6: The war for independence, 1774-1783 --; From rebellion to war --; The Continental Congress becomes a national government --; The combatants --; The war in the north, 1776-1777 --; The war widens, 1778-1781 --; The war and society, 1775-1783 --; The American victory, 1782-1783 --; Democratic roots in New England soil. Unit 7: The first republic, 1776-1789 --; The new order of Republicanism --; Problems at home --; Diplomatic weaknesses --; Toward a new union. Unit 8: A new republic and the rise of parties, 1789-1800 --; Washington's America --; Forging a new government --; The emergence of parties --; The last Federalist administration --; Nullification as a destructive force in U.S. politics. Unit 9: The triumph and collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800-1824 --; Jefferson's presidency --; Madison and the coming of war --; The War of 1812 --; The era of good feelings --; The breakdown of unity. Unit 10: The Jacksonian era, 1824-1845 --; The egalitarian impulse --; Jackson's presidency --; Van Buren and hard times --; The rise of the Whig party --; The Whigs in power --; Jacksonian democracy and American politics. Unit 11: Slavery and the old south, 1800-1860 --; The lower south --; The upper south --; Slave life and culture --; Free society --; The proslavery argument. Unit 12: The market revolution and social reform, 1815-1850 --; Industrial change and urbanization --; Reform and moral order --; Institutions and social improvement --; Abolitionism and women's rights --; The second Great Awakening and religious diversity in America. Unit 13: The way west --; The agricultural frontier --; The frontier of the Plains Indians --; The Mexican borderlands --; Politics, expansion, and war. Unit 14: The politics of sectionalism, 1846-1861 --; Slavery in the territories --; Political realignment --; Know-nothings and Republicans: religion and politics --; The road to disunion. Unit 15: Battle cries and freedom songs: the Civil War, 1861-1865 --; Mobilization, north and south --; The early war, 1861-1862 --; Turning points, 1862-1863 --; War transforms the north --; The Confederacy disintegrates --; The Union prevails, 1864-1865. Unit 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877 --; White southerners and the ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865 --; More than freedom: African American aspirations in 1865 --; Federal reconstruction, 1865-1870 --; Counter-reconstruction, 1870-1874 --; Redemption, 1874-1877 --; Modest gains --; Realities of freedom. Unit 17: A new south: economic progress and social tradition, 1877-1900 --; The 'newness' of the new south --; The southern agrarian revolt --; Women in the new south --; Settling the race issue. Unit 18: Industry, immigrants, and cities, 1870-1900 --; New industry --; New immigrants --; New cities. Unit 19: Transforming the west, 1865-1890 --; Subjugating Native Americans --; Exploiting the mountains: the mining bonanza --; Using the grass: the cattle kingdom --; Working the earth: homesteaders and agricultural expansion. Unit 20: Politics and government, 1877-1900 --; The structure and style of politics --; The limits of government --; Public policies and national elections --; The crisis of the 1890s --; Currency reform. Unit 21: The Progressive era, 1900-1917 --; The ferment of reform --; Reforming society --; Reforming politics and government --; Theodore Roosevelt and the progressive presidency --; Woodrow Wilson and progressive reform. Unit 22: Creating an empire, 1865-1917 --; The roots of imperialism --; First steps --; The Spanish-American War --; Imperial ambitions: the United States and east Asia, 1899-1917 --; Imperial power: the United States and Latin American, 1899-1917 --; Engaging Europe: new concerns, old constraints. Unit 23: America and the Great War, 1914-1920 --; Waging neutrality --; Waging war in America --; Waging war and peace abroad --; Waging peace at home. Unit 24: Toward a modern America: the 1920s --; The economy that roared --; The business of government --; Cities and suburbs --; Mass culture in the Jazz age --; Culture wars --; A new era in the world? --; Herbert Hoover and the final triumph of the new era --; The Scopes monkey trial as a harbinger of change. Unit 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939 --; Hard times in Hooverville --; Herbert Hoover and the Depression --; Launching the New Deal --; Consolidating the New Deal --; The New Deal and American life --; Ebbing of the New Deal --; Good neighbors and hostile forces. Unit 26: World War II, 1939-1945 --; The dilemmas of neutrality --; Holding the line --; Mobilizing for victory --; The home front --; War and peace. Unit 27: The Cold War at home and abroad, 1946-1952 --; Launching the great boom --; Truman, Republicans, and the Fair Deal --; Confronting the Soviet Union --; Cold War and hot war --; The second Red Scare. Unit 28: The confident years, 1953-1964 --; A decade of affluence --; Facing off with the Soviet Union --; John F. Kennedy and the Cold War --; Righteousness like a mighty stream: the struggle for civil rights --; "Let us continue" --; The quest for African American equality: Washington, Du Bois, and King. Unit 29: Shaken to the roots, 1965-1980 --; The end of consensus --; Cities under stress --; The year of the gun --; Nixon, Watergate, and the crisis of the early 1970s --; Jimmy Carter: idealism and frustration in the White House. Unit 30: The Reagan revolution and a changing world, 1981-1992 --; Reagan's domestic revolution --; The climax of the Cold War --; Growth in the Sunbelt --; Values in collision. Unit 31: Complacency, crisis, and global reengagement, 1993-2010 --; Politics of the center --; A new economy? --; Broadening democracy --; Edging into a new century --; Paradoxes of power --; The threat of war to democratic institutions.
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United States -- History -- Textbooks.
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United States.
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E178.1D385 2011
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David R Goldfield
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et al
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