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Chapter 1 - 'Men Prone to Wonder': America Before 1600 Chapter 2 - The European Settlement of North America: The Atlantic Coast to 1660 Chapter 3 - Empires: 1660-1702 Chapter 4 - Benjamin Franklin's World: Colonial North America, 1702-1763 Chapter 5 - Toward Independence, 1764-1783 Chapter 6 - Inventing the American Republic: The States Chapter 7 - Inventing the American Republic: The Nation Chapter 8 - Establishing the New Nation Chapter 9 - The Fabric of Change, 1800-1815 Chapter 10 - A New Epoch: 1815-1828 Chapter 11 - Political Innovation in a Mechanical Age: 1828-1840 Chapter 12 - Worker Worlds in Antebellum America Chapter 13 - The Benevolent Empire: Religion and Reform, 1825-1846 Chapter 14 - National Expansion, Sectional Division: 1839-1850 Chapter 15 - A House Dividing: 1851-1860 Chapter 16 - Civil War: 1861-1865 Chapter 17 - Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Chapter 18 - The Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry: 1870-1900 Chapter 19 - An Industrial Society: 1870-1910 Chapter 20 - Politics, Industrialism, and the State: 1876-1900 Chapter 21 - A New Place in the World: 1865-1914 Chapter 22 - The Progressive Era Chapter 23 - War, Prosperity, and the Metropolis: 1914-1929 Chapter 24 - The New Deal Chapter 25 - Whirlpool of War Chapter 26 - Fighting for Freedom Chapter 27 - From Hot War to Cold War Chapter 28 - Korea, Eisenhower, and Affluence Chapter 29 - Renewal of Reform Chapter 30 - Years of Rage Chapter 31 - Conservative Revival Chapter 32 - The Reagan Revolution Chapter 33 - Inventing a New Order
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I) Integration and Segmentation
  1. Integration and Segmentation
    1. National Integration
      1. Examples and reasons
        1. mail and telegraph
        2. common habits and consumer goods
        3. mobility
      2. Erosion of local communities
      3. Nationalization of work and social life
    2. The Jim Crow South
      1. White actions
        1. increasing de facto and de jure segregation
        2. lynching and other anti-black violence
      2. African American reaction
        1. resistance vs. acquiescence
        2. Booker T. Washington
        3. W. E. B. Du Bois
      3. Supreme Court upholds segregation
    3. Reforming Native Americans
      1. The "Peace Policy"
        1. stress on civilization and Christianization
        2. upsurge in war on the Great Plains
        3. destruction of the buffalo
      2. Assimilation Policy
        1. elements of the policy
        2. benefits settlers and railroad corporations more than Indians
      3. Emerging belief in the biological inferiority of Indians leads to second-class citizenship
    4. Strangers in the Land
      1. Mixed reaction of native-born Americans to immigrants
      2. Hostility directed toward non-European immigrants
        1. Chinese
        2. Japanese
        3. Mexicans
      3. Nativism directed at European immigrants
        1. fear of radicals and union organizers
        2. anti-Catholicism
        3. fear of "race suicide" and the eugenics movement
  2. Life on the Farm
    1. Changes
      1. New markets
      2. Technological innovations reduce drudgery, increase productivity
      3. More contact with urban world
      4. Mail-order catalogs change consumption patterns
    2. Continuities
      1. Seasonal rhythms
      2. Gendered division of labor
    3. Regional Variations
      1. Great Plains
      2. The South
    4. Migration to Cities
      1. Push factors
      2. Pull factors
  3. The Rise of the City
    1. An Urban Society
      1. Explosive growth of cities
      2. Types of cities
        1. metropolises
        2. "specialist" cities
    2. Cities and Technology
      1. New modes of transportation
        1. horse-drawn streetcars
        2. elevated trains
        3. cable cars
        4. electrified streetcars
        5. subways
      2. Bridges
      3. The "balloon frame" house
      4. Streetcar suburbs
    3. The Immigrant City
      1. Living conditions in ethnic neighborhoods
        1. overcrowding
        2. disease
        3. unsteady, low-wage work
      2. Social life
        1. community-wide organizations
        2. men and saloons
        3. women
        4. children
    4. The City of Lights
      1. Downtowns
        1. skyscrapers
        2. department stores
      2. Improvements in physical infrastructure
        1. electric lighting
        2. paved streets
        3. water and sewer lines
    5. Public Health and the City of Disease
      1. Infectious diseases and death rates
      2. "Anticontagionists"
      3. Scientific medicine
  4. Women in Industrial Society
    1. Education
      1. More women attend high school and college
      2. Reasons
    2. Work
      1. Rise in participation in paid labor force
      2. Reasons
      3. Cultural resistance
    3. Family
      1. Declining fertility rates
      2. Tighter abortion and birth control laws
      3. Impact of new household technologies
    4. The New Woman
      1. Clubs and associations
      2. Women’s Christian Temperance Union
  5. The World Viewed
    1. Education
      1. Public schools
      2. Kindergartens
      3. Universities
    2. Science and Society
      1. Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species
        1. challenge to religious views of the world
        2. model of an empirical approach to knowledge
      2. Social Darwinism and its critics
        1. Herbert Spencer
        2. William Graham Sumner
        3. Frank Lester Ward
      3. Intellectual approaches to industrialization and political unrest
      4. Debates over gender and racial inequality
    3. Religion
      1. A potent force
      2. The challenge of Darwinism
        1. Protestant conservatives vs. modernists
        2. Reform Jewish reaction
        3. Christian Scientists
      3. The challenge of industrial capitalism
        1. Gospel of Wealth
        2. Social Gospel
        3. Jewish and Catholic reactions
    4. Law, Philosophy, Art
      1. Oliver Wendell Holmes and the law
      2. Pragmatic philosophers:William James and John Dewey
      3. Realism in art and literature
      4. The emergence of cultural hierarchy
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