U.S. History

by American YAWP

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The American Yawp is a collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for general readers and college-level history courses. Over three hundred academic historians—scholars and experienced college-level instructors—have come together and freely volunteered their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century readers.

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Humanities, History
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Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: The New World
  7. 1.1: Introduction
  8. 1.2: The First Americans
  9. 1.3: European Expansion
  10. 1.4: Spanish Exploration and Conquest
  11. 1.5: Conclusion
  12. 1.6: Primary Sources
  13. 1.7: Reference Material
  14. 2: Colliding Cultures
  15. 2.1: Introduction
  16. 2.2: Spanish America
  17. 2.3: Spain's Rivals Emerge
  18. 2.4: English Colonization
  19. 2.5: Jamestown
  20. 2.6: New England
  21. 2.7: Conclusion
  22. 2.8: Primary Sources
  23. 2.9: Reference Materials
  24. 3: British North America
  25. 3.1: Introduction
  26. 3.2: Slavery and the Making of Race
  27. 3.3: Turmoil in Britain
  28. 3.4: New Colonies
  29. 3.5: Riot, Rebellion, and Revolt
  30. 3.6: Conclusion
  31. 3.7: Primary Sources
  32. 3.8: Reference Material
  33. 4: Colonial America
  34. 4.1: Introduction
  35. 4.2: Consumption and Trade in the British Atlantic
  36. 4.3: Slavery, Anti-Slavery, and Atlantic Exchange
  37. 4.4: Persuing Political, Religious, and Individual Freedom
  38. 4.5: Seven Years War
  39. 4.6: Pontiac's War
  40. 4.7: Conclusion
  41. 4.8: Primary Sources
  42. 4.9: Reference Material
  43. 5: The American Revolution
  44. 5.1: Introduction
  45. 5.2: The Origins of the American Revolution
  46. 5.3: The Causes of the American Revolution
  47. 5.4: Independence
  48. 5.5: The War for Independence
  49. 5.6: The Consequences of the American Revolution
  50. 5.7: Conclusion
  51. 5.8: Primary Sources
  52. 5.9: Reference Material
  53. 6: A New Nation
  54. 6.1: Introduction
  55. 6.2: Shay's Rebellion
  56. 6.3: The Constitutional Convention
  57. 6.4: Ratifying the Constitution
  58. 6.5: Rights and Compromises
  59. 6.6: Hamilton's Financial System
  60. 6.7: The Whiskey Rebellion and Jay's Treaty
  61. 6.8: The French Revolution and the Limits of Liberty
  62. 6.9: Religious Freedom
  63. 6.10: The Election of 1800
  64. 6.11: Conclusion
  65. 6.12: Primary Sources
  66. 6.13: Reference Material
  67. 7: The Early Republic
  68. 7.1: Introduction
  69. 7.2: Free and Enslaved Black Americans and the Challenge to Slavery
  70. 7.3: Jeffersonian Republicanism
  71. 7.4: Jefferson as President
  72. 7.5: Native American Power and the United States
  73. 7.6: The War of 1812
  74. 7.7: Conclusion
  75. 7.8: Primary Sources
  76. 7.9: References
  77. 8: The Market Revolution
  78. 8.1: Introduction
  79. 8.2: Early Republic Economic Development
  80. 8.3: The Decline of the Northern Kingdom and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
  81. 8.4: Changes in Labor Organization
  82. 8.5: Changes in Gender Roles and Family
  83. 8.6: The Rise of Industrial Labor in Antebellum America
  84. 8.7: Conclusion
  85. 8.8: Primary Sources
  86. 8.9: Reference Material
  87. 9: Democracy in America
  88. 9.1: Anti-Masons, Anti-Immigrants, and the Whig Coalition
  89. 9.2: Race and Jacksonian Democracy
  90. 9.3: Primary Sources
  91. 9.4: Reference Material
  92. 9.5: Introduction
  93. 9.6: Democracy in the Early Republic
  94. 9.7: The Missouri Crisis
  95. 9.8: The Rise of Andrew Jackson
  96. 9.9: The Nullification Crisis
  97. 9.10: The Eaton Affair and the Politics of Sexuality
  98. 9.11: The Bank War
  99. 9.12: The Panic of 1837
  100. 9.13: Rise of the Whigs
  101. 10: Religion and Reform
  102. 10.1: Introduction
  103. 10.2: Revival and Religious Change
  104. 10.3: Atlantic Origins of Reform
  105. 10.4: The Benevolent Empire
  106. 10.5: Antislavery and Abolitionism
  107. 10.6: Women's Rights in Antebellum America
  108. 10.7: Conclusion
  109. 10.8: Primary Sources
  110. 10.9: Reference Material
  111. 11: The Cotton Revolution
  112. 11.1: Introduction
  113. 11.2: The Importance of Cotton
  114. 11.3: Cotton and Slavery
  115. 11.4: The South and the City
  116. 11.5: Southern Cultures
  117. 11.6: Religion and Honor in the Slave South
  118. 11.7: Conclusion
  119. 11.8: Primary Sources
  120. 11.9: Reference Material
  121. 12: Manifest Destiny
  122. 12.1: Introduction
  123. 12.2: Antebellum Western Migration and Indian Removal
  124. 12.3: Life and Culture in the West
  125. 12.4: Texas, Mexico, and America
  126. 12.5: Manifest Destiny and the Gold Rush
  127. 12.6: The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny
  128. 12.7: Conclusion
  129. 12.8: Primary Sources
  130. 12.9: Reference Material
  131. 13: The Sectional Crisis
  132. 13.1: Introduction
  133. 13.2: Sectionalism in the Early Republic
  134. 13.3: The Crisis Joined
  135. 13.4: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
  136. 13.5: From Sectional Crisis to National Crisis
  137. 13.6: Conclusion
  138. 13.7: Primary Sources
  139. 13.8: Reference Material
  140. 14: The Civil War
  141. 14.1: Introduction
  142. 14.2: The Election of 1860 and Secession
  143. 14.3: A War for Union 1861-1863
  144. 14.4: War for Emancipation 1863-1865
  145. 14.5: Conclusion
  146. 14.6: Primary Sources
  147. 14.7: Reference Material
  148. 15: Reconstruction
  149. 15.1: Reference Material
  150. 15.2: Introduction
  151. 15.3: Politics of Reconstruction
  152. 15.4: The Meaning of Black Freedom
  153. 15.5: Reconstruction and Women
  154. 15.6: Racial Violence in Reconstruction
  155. 15.7: Economic Development during the Civil War and Reconstruction
  156. 15.8: The End of Reconstruction
  157. 15.9: Conclusion
  158. 15.10: Primary Sources
  159. 16: Capital and Labor
  160. 16.1: Reference Material
  161. 16.2: Introduction
  162. 16.3: The March of Capital
  163. 16.4: The Rise of Inequality
  164. 16.5: The Labor Movement
  165. 16.6: The Populist Movement
  166. 16.7: William Jennings Bryan and the Politics of Gold
  167. 16.8: The Socialists
  168. 16.9: Conclusion
  169. 16.10: Primary Sources
  170. 17: Conquering the West
  171. 17.1: Reference Material
  172. 17.2: Introduction
  173. 17.3: Post-Civil War Westward Migration
  174. 17.4: The Indian Wars and Federal Peace Policies
  175. 17.5: Beyond the Plains
  176. 17.6: Western Economic Expansion- Railroads and Cattle
  177. 17.7: The Allotment Era and Resistance in the Native West
  178. 17.8: Rodeos, Wild West Shows, and the Mythic American West
  179. 17.9: The West as History- the Turner Thesis
  180. 17.10: Primary Sources
  181. 18: Life in Industrial America
  182. 18.1: Introduction
  183. 18.2: Industrial and Technological Innovation
  184. 18.3: Immigration and Urbanization
  185. 18.4: The New South and the Problem of Race
  186. 18.5: Gender, Religion, and Culture
  187. 18.6: Conclusion
  188. 18.7: Primary Sources
  189. 18.8: Reference Material
  190. 19: American Empire
  191. 19.1: Introduction
  192. 19.2: Patterns of American Interventions
  193. 19.3: 1898
  194. 19.4: Theodore Roosevelt and American Imperialism
  195. 19.5: Women and Imperialism
  196. 19.6: Immigration
  197. 19.7: Conclusion
  198. 19.8: Primary Sources
  199. 19.9: Reference Material
  200. 20: The Progressive Era
  201. 20.1: Introduction
  202. 20.2: Mobilizing for Reform
  203. 20.3: Women's Movements
  204. 20.4: Targeting the Trusts
  205. 20.5: Progressive Environmentalism
  206. 20.6: Jim Crow and African American Life
  207. 20.7: Conclusion
  208. 20.8: Primary Sources
  209. 20.9: Reference Material
  210. 21: World War I and its Aftermath
  211. 21.1: Conclusion
  212. 21.2: Primary Sources
  213. 21.3: Reference Material
  214. 21.4: Introduction
  215. 21.5: Prelude to War
  216. 21.6: War Spreads through Europe
  217. 21.7: America Enters the War
  218. 21.8: On the Home Front
  219. 21.9: Before the Armistace
  220. 21.10: The War and the Influenza Epidemic
  221. 21.11: The Fourteen Points and the League of Nations
  222. 21.12: Aftermath of World War I
  223. 22: The New Era
  224. 22.1: Introduction
  225. 22.2: Republican White House, 1921-1933
  226. 22.3: Culture of Consumption
  227. 22.4: Culture of Escape
  228. 22.5: "The New Woman"
  229. 22.6: "The New Negro"
  230. 22.7: Culture War
  231. 22.8: Fundamentalist Christianity
  232. 22.9: Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
  233. 22.10: Conclusion
  234. 22.11: Primary Sources
  235. 22.12: Reference Material
  236. 23: The Great Depression
  237. 23.1: Voices of Protest
  238. 23.2: The “Second” New Deal (1935-1936)
  239. 23.3: Equal Rights and the New Deal
  240. 23.4: The End of the New Deal (1937-1939)
  241. 23.5: The Legacy of the New Deal
  242. 23.6: Primary Sources
  243. 23.7: Reference Material
  244. 23.8: Introduction
  245. 23.9: The Origins of the Great Depression
  246. 23.10: Herbert Hoover and the Politics of the Depression
  247. 23.11: The Bonus Army
  248. 23.12: The Lived Experience of the Great Depression
  249. 23.13: Migration and the Great Depression
  250. 23.14: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the “First” New Deal
  251. 23.15: The New Deal in the South
  252. 23.16: The New Deal in Appalachia
  253. 24: World War II
  254. 24.1: Introduction
  255. 24.2: The Origins of the Pacific War
  256. 24.3: The Origins of the European War
  257. 24.4: The United States and the European War
  258. 24.5: The United States and the Japanese War
  259. 24.6: Soldiers' Experiences
  260. 24.7: The Wartime Economy
  261. 24.8: Women and World War II
  262. 24.9: Race and World War II
  263. 24.10: Toward a Postwar World
  264. 24.11: Conclusion
  265. 24.12: Primary Sources
  266. 24.13: Reference Material
  267. 25: The Cold War
  268. 25.1: Introduction
  269. 25.2: Political, Economic, and Military Dimension
  270. 25.3: The Arms Buildup, the Space Race, and Technological Advancement
  271. 25.4: The Cold War Red Scare, McCarthyism, and Liberal Anti-Communism
  272. 25.5: Decolonization and the Global Reach of the ‘American Century’
  273. 25.6: Conclusion
  274. 25.7: Primary Sources
  275. 25.8: Reference Material
  276. 26: The Affluent Society
  277. 26.1: Introduction
  278. 26.2: The Rise of the Suburbs
  279. 26.3: Race and Education
  280. 26.4: Civil Rights in an Affluent Society
  281. 26.5: Gender and Culture in the Affluent Society
  282. 26.6: Politics and Ideology in the Affluent Society
  283. 26.7: Conclusion
  284. 26.8: Primary Sources
  285. 26.9: Reference Material
  286. 27: The Sixties
  287. 27.1: Reference Material
  288. 27.2: Introduction
  289. 27.3: Kennedy and Cuba
  290. 27.4: The Civil Rights Movement Continues
  291. 27.5: Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
  292. 27.6: The Origins of the Vietnam War
  293. 27.7: Culture and Activism
  294. 27.8: Beyond Civil Rights
  295. 27.9: Conclusion
  296. 27.10: Primary Sources
  297. 28: The Unraveling
  298. 28.1: Primary Sources
  299. 28.2: Reference Material
  300. 28.3: Introduction
  301. 28.4: The Strain of Vietnam
  302. 28.5: Racial, Social, and Cultural Anxieties
  303. 28.6: The Crisis of 1968
  304. 28.7: The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon
  305. 28.8: Deindustrialization and Rise of the Sunbelt
  306. 28.9: The Politics of Love, Sex, and Gender
  307. 28.10: The Misery Index
  308. 28.11: Conclusion
  309. 29: The Triumph of the Right
  310. 29.1: Introduction
  311. 29.2: Conservative Ascendance
  312. 29.3: The Conservatism of the Carter Years
  313. 29.4: The Election of 1980
  314. 29.5: The New Right in Power
  315. 29.6: Morning in America
  316. 29.7: African American Life in Reagan’s America
  317. 29.8: Bad Times and Good Times
  318. 29.9: Culture Wars of the 1980s
  319. 29.10: The New Right Abroad
  320. 29.11: Conclusion
  321. 29.12: Primary Sources
  322. 29.13: Reference Material
  323. 30: The Recent Past
  324. 30.1: Introduction
  325. 30.2: American Politics before September 11, 2001
  326. 30.3: September 11 and the War on Terror
  327. 30.4: The End of the Bush Years
  328. 30.5: The Great Recession
  329. 30.6: The Obama Years
  330. 30.7: Stagnation
  331. 30.8: New Horizons
  332. 30.9: Conclusion
  333. 30.10: Primary Sources
  334. 30.11: Reference Material
  335. Back Matter
  336. Index
  337. Glossary
  338. Detailed Licensing