Adam Burns

The United States, 1865-1920

Reuniting a Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

The United States, 1865-1920: Reuniting a Nation explores how the U.S. attempted to heal Civil War-era divisions, as well as maintain and strengthen its unity as new rifts developed in the conflictâ s aftermath.

Produktdetails

• Seminar Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 233mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781138482425
• ISBN-10: 1138482420
• Artikelnr.: 59365947

Autorenporträt

Adam Burns is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of American Imperialism (2017) and William Howard Taft and the Philippines: A Blueprint for Empire (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

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