Adam Burns

The United States, 1865-1920 (eBook, ePUB)

Reuniting a Nation

• Format: ePub

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 conflict's aftermath.

Taking a broadly thematic approach to the period, Adam Burns examines the development of the United States from political, social, and foreign relations perspectives. Concise and accessible, the volume uses a variety of primary source documents to help stimulate discussion and encourage the use of historical evidence as support for different interpretations of the era.

By exploring controversies over issues such as citizenship, ethnicity, regionalism, and economic disparity, all of which resonate strongly in the nation's political discourse today, the book will be an important staple for undergraduate students of American History and the period that followed the Civil War, as well as general enthusiasts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351057851
• Artikelnr.: 59310901

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