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Table of Contents

The Combined Volume includes all chapters.

Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-14.

Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-29.

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CONTENTS

Guide to Analyzing Primary Sources

Preface 

Versions and Supplements 

Maps, Figures, and Tables 

How to Use This Book


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 LaunchPad

Source 14.1 Freedpeople Petition for Land, 1865 

Quiz for Guided Analysis LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 

　Quiz for Comparative Analysis LaunchPad

The Struggle for Universal Suffrage 

Remaking the South 

Whites Reconstruct the South 

Black Political Participation and Economic Opportunities 

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS LaunchPad
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 

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 14 LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 14.1　LaunchPad

Source 14.2 Lottie Rollin, Address on Universal Suffrage, 1870

Quiz for Source 14.2　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 14.3　LaunchPad

Source 14.4 James Shepherd Pike,　The Prostrate State, 1874

Quiz for Source 14.4　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 14.5　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

Source 15.1 Buffalo Hunting, c. 1875 

Quiz for Guided Analysis 　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 

Quiz for Comparative Analysis 　LaunchPad

Women Homesteaders 

Farming on the Great Plains 

Diversity in the Far West 

Mormons 

Californios 

The Chinese 

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Ambiguous Legacy of the West 

LearningCurve 　LaunchPad

Chapter Review 

Summative Quiz 　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 15 LaunchPad

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
Quiz 　for Primary Source Project 15　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 15.1　LaunchPad

Source 15.2 Black Migrants to Kansas, 1880

Quiz for Source 15.2　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 15.3　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 15.4　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 15.5　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

Leisure-Class Women

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

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: Industrial America 
LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review 
Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 16 LaunchPad

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

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 16　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 16.1　LaunchPad

Source 16.2 Testimony of North Carolina Industrial Workers, 1887

Quiz for Source 16.2　LaunchPad

Source 16.3 Sharecropper’s Contract, 1882

Quiz for Source 16.3　LaunchPad

Source 16.4 Mississippi Constitution, 1890

Quiz for Source 16.4　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 16.5　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Organizing Unions 

Clashes between Workers and Owners 

Working-Class Leisure in Industrial America 

Farmers Organize 

Farmers Unite 

Populists Rise Up 

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS LaunchPad

Farmers and Workers Organize: Two Views

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

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

The Depression of the 1890s 

Depression Politics 

Political Realignment in the Election of 1896 

The Decline of the Populists 

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: A Passion for Organization

LearningCurve　LaunchPad 

Chapter Review 

Summative Quiz 　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 17 LaunchPad

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
Quizzes for Primary Source Project 17　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 17.1　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 17.2　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 17.3　LaunchPad

Source 17.4 The People’s Party Tree, 1895

Quiz for Source 17.4　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 17.5　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

Source 18.1 Anzia Yerzierska, Immigrant Fathers and Daughters, 1925

Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

The Assimilation Dilemma 

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: A Nation of Cities

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad　

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 18 LaunchPad

"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

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 18　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 18.1　LaunchPad

Source 18.2 International Contest for the Heavyweight Championship, 1907

Quiz for Source 18.2　LaunchPad

Source 18.3 Joseph Rumshinsky, The Living Orphan, 1914

Quiz for Source 18.3　LaunchPad

Source 18.4 Hutchins Hapgood,　Types from City Streets, 1910

Quiz for Source 18.4　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 18.5　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

　Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

Muckrakers 

Humanitarian and Social Justice Reform 

Female Progressives and the Poor 

Fighting for Women’s Suffrage 

Progressivism and African Americans

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS LaunchPad

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 

　Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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  

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 19　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 19.1　LaunchPad

Source 19.2 Abstinence Poster, 1919

Quiz for Source 19.2　LaunchPad

Source 19.3 Indiana Sterilization Law, 1907

Quiz for Source 19.3　LaunchPad

Source 19.4 The Immigration Act of 1917

Quiz for Source 19.4　LaunchPad

Source 19.5 Sanitary Precaution, c. 1914

Quiz for Source 19.5　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

　Quiz for Guided Analysis　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Comparative Analysis　LaunchPad

Wilson and American Foreign Policy, 1912–1917 

Diplomacy and War 

*SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

Quizzes for Primary Source Project 20　LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Source 20.1　LaunchPad

Source 20.2 "Halt the Hun!" c. 1918

Quiz for Source 20.2　LaunchPad

Source 20.3 Advertisement in History Teacher’s Magazine, 1917

Quiz for Source 20.3　LaunchPad

Source 20.4 "He Will Come Back a Better Man!" 1918

Quiz for Source 20.4　LaunchPad

Source 20.5 George Creel, "The ‘Censorship’ Bugbear," 1920

Quiz for Source 20.5　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: The Transitional Twenties 

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

Chapter Review

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 21 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad
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 　

Quiz for Secondary Source Analysis　LaunchPad

Conclusion: New Deal Liberalism 

LearningCurve 　LaunchPad

Chapter Review 

Summative Quiz　LaunchPad

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 22 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

　　　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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

　　　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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad
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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad
　　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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 　LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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 LaunchPad

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

Nancy A. Hewitt

Nancy A. Hewitt (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor Emerita of History and of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her publications include Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds, for which she won the SHEAR prize in biography; Women’s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822–1872; Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s, and the second edition of A Companion to American Women’s History, edited with Anne M. Valk.

Steven F. Lawson

Steven F. Lawson (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. His research interests include U.S. politics since 1945 and the history of the civil rights movement, with a particular focus on black politics and the interplay between civil rights and political culture in the mid-twentieth century. He is the author of many works including Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941; Debating the Civil Rights Movement; Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944–1969; and In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982.

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