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1 The Collision Of Cultures
2 Britain And Its Colonies
3 Colonial Ways Of Life
4 The Imperial Perspective
5 From Empire To Independence
6 The American Revolution
7 Shaping A Federal Union
8 The Federalist Era
9 The Early Republic
10 Nationalism And Sectionalism
11 The Jacksonian Impulse
12 The Dynamics Of Growth
13 An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, And Reform
14 Manifest Destiny
15 The Old South
16 The Crisis Of Union
17 The War Of The Union
18 Reconstruction: North And South
19 New Frontiers: South And West
20 Big Business And Organized Labor
21 The Emergence Of Urban America
22 Gilded-age Politics And Agrarian Revolt
23 An American Empire
24 The Progressive Era
25 America And The Great War
26 The Modern Temper
27 Republican Resurgence And Decline
28 New Deal America
29 From Isolation To Global War
30 The Second World War
31 The Fair Deal And Containment
32 Through The Picture Window: Society And Culture, 1945–1960
33 Conflict And Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years
34 New Frontiers: Politics And Social Change In The 1960s
35 Rebellion And Reaction In The 1960s And 1970s
36 A Conservative Insurgency
37 Triumph And Tragedy: America At The Turn Of The Century

  1. The war’s aftermath
    1. The North
      1. Friendly to business
      2. National power centralized
        1. Morrill Tariff
        2. National Banking Act
        3. Transcontinental railroad
        4. Homestead Act
        5. Morrill Land Grant Act
    2. The South
      1. Property destroyed
      2. Slaves freed
      3. Confederates embittered
    3. The freed slaves
      1. New status
        1. Legal rights
        2. Lack of property
      2. Freedmen’s Bureau
        1. Help freedmen
        2. Limited powers
  2. Battle over Reconstruction
    1. Lincoln’s plan
      1. Provisions
      2. Implementation
    2. Congressional reaction
      1. Radical critics
      2. Wade-Davis Bill
      3. Lincoln’s response
    3. Assassination of Lincoln
    4. Johnson’s plan
      1. Johnson’s background
        1. Tennessee
        2. Jacksonian
        3. Unionist
      2. Ideas on Union
        1. Indestructible
        2. No Reconstruction
      3. Similar to Lincoln’s plan
    5. Southern resistance
      1. Elects ex-Confederates
      2. “Black codes”
    6. Congressional Radicals
      1. Joint Committee on Reconstruction
        1. Role of Radicals
        2. Thaddeus Stevens
      2. Motivation
        1. Humanitarianism
        2. Bitterness
        3. Black vote
      3. Constitutional theory
    7. Johnson vs. Congress
      1. Veto of Freedmen’s Bureau extension
      2. Johnson attacks Radicals
      3. Veto of Civil Rights Act overridden
      4. The Fourteenth Amendment
  3. Congressional Reconstruction
    1. Elections of 1866
    2. Legislation
      1. Military Reconstruction Act
      2. Command of the Army Act
      3. Tenure of Office Act
      4. Limits on Supreme Court review
    3. Impeachment and trial of Johnson
      1. Mutual hostility
      2. Initial effort failed
      3. Violation of Tenure in Office Act
      4. Political purposes
      5. Trial
      6. Effects of trial
    4. Republican rule in South
      1. Readmission of states
      2. Role of Union League
  4. The reconstructed South
    1. Attitudes of whites
    2. The life of freedmen
      1. Military experience
      2. Independent organizations
      3. Families reaffirmed
      4. Farm workers
        1. Wage laborers
        2. Tenant farmers
      5. Schools
    3. Black political life
      1. Illiterate and inexperienced
      2. Increasing participation
      3. Divisions among blacks
      4. Limited political role
    4. White Republicans in South
      1. Carpetbaggers
      2. Scalawags
    5. The Radicals’ record
  5. The Grant years
    1. The election of 1868
      1. Reasons for support of Grant
      2. The Grant ticket and platform
      3. Democratic programs and candidates
      4. Results
      5. The character of Grant’s leadership
    2. Proposal to pay the government debt
    3. Scandals
      1. Jay Gould’s effort to corner the gold market
      2. The Crédit-Mobilier exposure
      3. Secretary of War and the Indian Bureau
      4. “Whiskey Ring”
      5. Grant’s personal role in the scandals
    4. White terror
      1. Ku Klux Klan
      2. Enforcement Acts
    5. Conservative resurgence
      1. Weakened morale
      2. Mobilized white vote
      3. Decline of northern concern
    6. Reform and the election of 1872
      1. Liberal Republicans nominate Greeley in 1872
      2. Grant’s advantages
    7. Economic panic
      1. Causes for the depression
      2. Severity of the depression
      3. Democratic control of the House in 1874
      4. Reissue of greenbacks
      5. Resumption of specie payments approved in 1875
  6. The Compromise of 1877
    1. Election of 1876
      1. Republicans nominate Hayes
      2. Democrats run Tilden
      3. Parties’ stances
      4. Uncertain results
    2. Electoral Commission
    3. Compromises
    4. End of Reconstruction

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