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Introduction Few times in U.S. history have been as turbulent and transformative as the Civil War and the twelve years that followed. Between 1865 and 1877, one president was murdered and another impeached. The Constitution underwent a major revision with the addition of three amendments. The effort to impose Union control and create equality in the defeated South ignited a fierce backlash as various terrorist and vigilante organizations, most notably the Ku Klux Klan, battled to maintain a pre–

Chapters

• 1.1 Restoring the Union
• 1.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
• 1.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
• Key Terms
• Introduction
• 2.1 The Westward Spirit
• 2.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
• Key Terms
• Review Questions
• Not all of Edison’s ventures were successful. Read about Edison’s Folly to learn
• 3.4 A New American Consumer Culture
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 4.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
• The global timeline of immigration at the Library of Congress offers a summary o
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Critical Thinking Questions
• Introduction
• 5.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
• 5.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions
• Introduction
• 6.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
• 6.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Explore the resources at U.S. History Scene to better understand the long and in
• 7.5 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions
• Introduction
• 8.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 9.2 Transformation and Backlash
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 10.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• 11.3 The Second New Deal
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 12.2 The Home Front
• 12.3 Victory in the European Theater
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 13.4 Popular Culture and Mass Media
• 13.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
• Key Terms
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 15.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
• Key Terms
• Critical Thinking Questions
• Introduction
• 16.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
• 16.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
• Summary
• Review Questions
• 17.1 The War on Terror
• Summary
• Review Questions

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