Skip to content


Choose a Chapter | Purchase the eBook

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. Roots of rebellion
    1. Youth revolt
      1. Baby-boomers as young adults
      2. Sit-ins and end of apathy
    2. New Left
      1. Students for a Democratic Society
        1. Port Huron Statement
        2. Participatory democracy
      2. Antiwar protests
      3. 1968
        1. Columbia University uprising
        2. Democratic convention in Chicago
        3. Fracturing of SDS
      4. End of New Left
    3. Counterculture
      1. Descendants of the Beats
      2. Contrasted with New Left
      3. Drugs, communes, hedonism
      4. Rock music
        1. Woodstock
        2. Altamont
    4. Feminism
      1. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
      2. National Organization for Women
      3. Federal actions
        1. Affirmative action
        2. Roe v. Wade
        3. Equal Rights Amendment’s failure
      4. Divisions and reactions
    5. Minorities
      1. Hispanic rights
        1. Effects of World War II
        2. Activism in 1950s and 1960s
        3. Use of term Chicano
        4. United Farm Workers
          1. César Chavez
          2. Migrant workers
          3. Grape strike and boycott
        5. Growth of population
      2. American Indians
        1. Emergence of Indian rights
        2. American Indian Movement
        3. Legal actions
      3. Gay rights
        1. Stonewall Inn raid
        2. Gay Liberation Front
        3. Gay rights movement
        4. AIDS
  2. Nixon and Vietnam
    1. Policy of gradual withdrawal
    2. Movement on three fronts
      1. Insistence on Communist withdrawal from South Vietnam
      2. Efforts to undercut unrest in the United States
        1. Vietnamization
        2. Lottery and volunteer army
      3. Expanded air war
    3. Occasions for public outcry against the war
      1. My Lai massacre
      2. Cambodian “incursion”
        1. Campus riots
        2. Public reaction
      3. Pentagon Papers
        1. Method of disclosure
        2. Revelations of the papers
        3. Supreme Court ruling
    4. American withdrawal
      1. Kissinger’s efforts before the 1972 election
      2. Christmas bombings
      3. Final acceptance of peace
      4. U.S. withdrawal in March 1973
    5. Ultimate victory of the North: March–April 1975
    6. Assessment of the war
      1. Communist control
      2. Failure to transfer democracy
      3. Erosion of respect for the military
      4. Drastic division of the American people
      5. Impact on future foreign policy
  3. Nixon and Middle America
    1. Cabinet and staff
    2. Domestic affairs
      1. Continuance of civil rights progress
        1. Southern strategy
        2. Voting Rights Act continued over a veto
        3. Courts uphold integration
          1. In Mississippi
          2. School busing
        4. Limitation on busing
        5. The Bakke decision
      2. Democratic legislation
        1. Twenty-first Amendment
        2. Occupational Safety and Health Act
      3. Revenue sharing
      4. Other domestic legislation
    3. The economic malaise
      1. The causes of “stagflation”
      2. Nixon’s efforts to improve the economy
        1. Reducing the federal deficit
        2. Reducing the money supply
        3. Wage and price controls
  4. Nixon’s triumphs
    1. Nixon Doctrine
    2. Rapprochement with China
    3. Détente with the Soviet Union
      1. The visit to Moscow
      2. The SALT agreement
      3. Trade agreements
    4. Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East
    5. Election of 1972
      1. Removal of the Wallace threat
      2. The McGovern candidacy
      3. Results of the election
  5. Watergate
    1. Burglary
    2. Unraveling the cover-up
      1. Judge Sirica’s role
      2. Nixon’s personal role
      3. April resignations
      4. Discovery of the tapes
      5. The Court decides against the president
      6. Articles of impeachment
      7. The resignation
    3. The aftermath of Watergate
      1. Ford’s selection
      2. The Nixon pardon
      3. Resiliency of American institutions
      4. War Powers Act
      5. Campaign financing legislation
      6. Freedom of Information Act
  6. An unelected president
    1. Ford administration
      1. Drift at the end of Nixon administration
      2. Battle with the economy
      3. Diplomatic accomplishments
    2. Election of 1976
      1. Ford’s nomination
      2. Rise of Jimmy Carter
      3. Carter’s victory
  7. Carter presidency
    1. Early domestic moves
      1. Appointments
      2. Amnesty for draft dodgers
      3. Environmental legislation
      4. Energy crisis
    2. Foreign policy initiatives
      1. Human rights
      2. Camp David Agreement
    3. Stagflation
    4. Iranian crisis
      1. Background
      2. Efforts to aid the hostages
      3. End of 444-day crisis

Section Menu

Organize

Learn

Connect

Multimedia

Norton Gradebook

Instructors now have an easy way to collect students’ online quizzes with the Norton Gradebook without flooding their inboxes with e-mails.

Students can track their online quiz scores by setting up their own Student Gradebook.