US History I & II YAWP
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3 Introduction to Reconstruction After the Civil War, much of the South lay in ruins. “It passes my comprehension to tell what became of our railroads,” one South Carolinian told a Northern reporter. “We had passably good roads, on which we could reach almost any part of the State, and the next week they were all gone—not simply broken up, but gone. Some of the material was burned, I know, but miles and miles of iron have actually disappeared, gone out of existence.” He might as well have been t
| Category | humanities |
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| Subject | History, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 83 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 3 Introduction to Reconstruction
- 6 Reconstruction and Women
- 9 The End of Reconstruction
- 10 Video: Reconstruction and 1876
- 11 Conclusion
- 16 Industrialization and Technological Innovation
- 17 Video: The Industrial Economy
- 19 Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration
- 21 Gender, Religion, Culture
- 25 Post–Civil War Westward Migration
- 27 The Indian Wars and Federal Peace Policies
- 29 The Allotment Era and Resistance in the Native West
- 30 Rodeos, Wild West Shows, and the Mythic American West
- 31 The West as History: The Turner Thesis
- 33 The March of Capital
- 37 William Jennings Bryan and the Politics of Gold
- 40 Conclusion
- 42 Introduction
- 45 Video: Progressive Presidents
- 46 Theodore Roosevelt and American Imperialism
- 47 Women and Imperialism
- 48 Immigration
- 49 Patterns of American Interventions
- 50 Conclusion
- 55 Women’s Movements
- 56 Video: Women’s Suffrage
- 57 Targeting the Trusts
- 59 Jim Crow and African American Life
- 72 Aftermath of World War I
- 73 Conclusion
- 74 Introduction
- 77 Culture of Consumption
- 79 “The New Woman”
- 80 “The New Negro”
- 81 Culture War
- 82 Fundamentalist Christianity
- 87 Introduction
- 90 Herbert Hoover and the Politics of the Depression
- 91 The Bonus Army
- 92 The Lived Experience of the Great Depression
- 93 Migration and Immigration during the Great Depression
- 94 Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the “First” New Deal
- 95 The New Deal in the South
- 96 Video: The New Deal
- 97 The New Deal of Appalachia
- 98 Voices of Protest
- 99 The “Second” New Deal (1935–1936)
- 100 Equal Rights and the New Deal
- 102 The Legacy of the New Deal
- 105 Introduction
- 106 Videos: World War II
- 108 The Origins of the European War
- 110 The United States and the Japanese War
- 112 The Wartime Economy
- 114 Race and World War II
- 122 Videos: The Cold War
- 123 Political, Economic, and Military Dimensions
- 124 The Arms Buildup, the Space Race, and Technological Advancement
- 130 Race and Education
- 131 Civil Rights in an Affluent Society
- 133 Gender and Culture in the Affluent Society
- 138 The Civil Rights Movement Continues
- 140 Culture and Activism
- 142 Foreign Affairs
- 143 Conclusion
- 144 Introduction
- 145 Vietnam
- 147 Race and Social and Cultural Anxieties
- 148 Deindustrialization and the Rise of the Sunbelt
- 149 Video: The Rise of Conservatism
- 151 Carter
- 153 Conclusion
- 155 Introduction
- 157 The Conservatism of Carter Years
- 158 The Election of 1980
- 160 Morning in America
- 162 Bad Times and Good Times
- 163 Culture Wars of the 1980s
- 166 Conclusion
- 168 Introduction
- 170 Video: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
- 174 The End of the Bush Years
- 176 The Obama Presidency