Making America A History of the United States, Volume 2: From 1865

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Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-01-01
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise American society. MAKING AMERICA provides a clear, helpful text with a strongly chronological narrative and an integrated program of learning aids that make the historical content vivid and comprehensible to readers at all levels of preparedness.

Table of Contents

Reconstruction: High Hopes and Shattered Dreams, 1865-1877
The Nation Industrializes, 1865-1900
Life in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900
Politics and Foreign Relations in a Rapidly Changing Nation, 1865-1902
The Progressive Era, 1900-1917
The United States in a World at War, 1913-1920
Prosperity Decade, 1920-1928
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
America's Rise to World Leadership, 1929-1945
Truman and Cold War America, 1945-1952
Quest for Consensus, 1952-1960
Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960-1968
America Under Stress, 1967-1976
New Economic and Political Alignments, 1976-1992
Conflicting Visions of America
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