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Chapter 17. Reconstruction, 1863—1877        17—1    Charlotte Forten, Life on the Sea Islands, 1864      17—2    Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865      17—3    The Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, 1865      17—4    Black Code of Mississippi, 1865      17—5    Frederick Douglass, Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1865      17—6    The Civil Rights Act of 1866      17—7    President Johnson’s Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866      17—8    The First Reconstruction Act, 1867      17—9    Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868      17—10  Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, 1876      17—11  A Sharecrop Contract, 1882            Chapter 18. Conquest and Survival: Communities in the Trans-Mississippi, 1860-1900        18—1    The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889      18—2    The Homestead Act, 1862      18—3    Helen Hunt Jackson, The Thrill of Western Railroading, 1878      18—4    Bill Haywood, Miners and Cowboys, 1887     18—5    Red Cloud, Speech at Cooper Union, New York, 1870      18—6    Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor, 1881      18—7    The Dawes General Allotment (Severalty) Act, 1887      18—8    D. W. C. Duncan, How Allotment Impoverishes the Indian, 1906      18—9    Charles and Nellie Wooster, Letters from the Frontier, 1872      18—10  John Wesley Powell, Report on the Arid Lands of the West, 1879        Chapter 19. The Incorporation of America, 1860—1900        19—1    Paul Bourget, The Traffic in Meat, 1894      19—2    Andrew Carnegie, Wealth, 1889      19—3    John Morrison, Testimony of a Machinist, 1883      19—4    Terence V. Powderly, The Knights of Labor, 1889      19—5    Samuel Gompers, Testimony on Labor Unions, 1883       19—6    Lee Chew, Experiences of a Chinese Immigrant, 1903      19—7    John Hill, Testimony on Southern Texile Industry, 1883      19—8    Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption, 1899      19—9    M. Carey Thomas, Higher Education for Women, 1901     19—10  B. F. Keith, The Vogue of Vaudeville, 1898        Chapter 20. Commonwealth and Empire, 1870s—1900s        20—1    Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888      20—2    E. L. Godkin, A Great National Disgrace, 1877      20—3    Roscoe Conkling, Defense of the Spoils System, 1877      20—4    Populist Party Platform, 1892      20—5    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Solitude of Self, 1890      20—6    Pullman Strikers’ Statement, 1894      20—7    Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power, 1895      20—8    Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893     20—9    Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, 1899      20—10  George F. Hoar, Against Imperialism, 1902          Chapter 21. Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900—1920        21—1    Jane Addams, The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements, 1892      21—2    George Washington Plunkitt; Honest Graft, 1905      21—3    Louis Brandeis, The Living Law, 1916      21—4    Margaret Sanger, The Case for Birth Control, 1917      21—5    Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895      21—6    Ida B. Wells, A Red Record, 1895      21—7    The Niagara Movement, Declaration of Principles, 1905      21—8    Declaration of the Conservation Conference, 1908      21—9    Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913          Chapter 22. World War I, 1914—1918        22—1    The President’s Commission at Bisbee, 1917      22—2    Theodore Roosevelt, Corollary to The Monroe Doctrine, 1904     22—3    Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress, 1917     22—4    George Norris, Against Entry into War, 1917      22—5    George Creel, How We Advertised America, 1920      22—6    Diary of an Unknown Aviator, 1918      22—7    Anna Howard Shaw, Woman’s Committee of the Council of National Defense, 1917     22—8    Eugene v. Debs, Statement to the Court, 1918      22—9    Letters from the Great Migration, 1916—1917      22—10  Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points, 1918                    Chapter 23. The Twenties, 1921—1929        23—1    Motion Picture Diaries      23—2    Herbert Hoover, American Individualism, 1922    23—3    Bruce Barton, Jesus Christ as Businessman, 1925      23—4    Eleanor Wembridge, Petting and Necking, 1925      23—5    Paul Morand, Speakeasies in New York, 1929      23—6    U.S. Congress, Debating Immigration Restriction, 1921      23—7    Hiram Evans, The Klan’s Fight for Americanism, 1926      23—8    Charles S. Johnson, The City Negro, 1925     23—9    Sinclair Lewis, Our Ideal Citizen, 1922          Chapter 24. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929—1939        24—1    Bob Stinson, Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936      24—2    Meridel Le Sueur, Women on the Breadlines, 1932      24—3    Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933      24—4    Huey Long, Share Our Wealth, 1935      24—5    National Labor Relations Act, 1935      24—6    U.S. Senate, Investigation of Strikebreaking, 1939      24—7    Republican Party Platform, 1936      24—8    Carey Mc Williams, Okies in California, 1939      24—9    Hiram Sherman, The Federal Theater Project, 1936          Chapter 25. World War II, 1930s—1945        25—1    Bernice Brode, Tales of Los Alamos, 1943      25—2    Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms, 1941      25—3    Burton K. Wheeler, Radio Address on Lend-Lease, 1941      25—4    Ernie Pyle, The Toughest Beachhead in the World, 1944      25—5    R. L. Duffus, A City that Forges Thunderbolts, 1943      25—6    Virginia Snow Wilkinson, From Housewife to Shipfitter, 1943      25—7    Earl B. Dickerson, The Fair Employment Practices Committee, 1941—43      25—8    Barbara Wooddall and Charles Taylor, Letters to and from the Front, 1941—1944  25—9    Korematsu v. United States, 1944                    Chapter 26. The Cold War, 1945—1952        26—1    Clark Clifford,  Memorandum to President Truman, 1946      26—2    Henry Wallace, Letter to President Truman, 1946      26—3    The Truman Doctrine, 1947      26—4    The Truman Loyalty Order, 1947      26—5    American Medical Association, Campaign against Compulsory Health Insurance, 1949 26—6    Ronald Reagan and Albert Maltz, Testimony before HUAC, 1947      26—7    Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950      26—8    The Advertising Council, The Miracle of America, 1948      26—9    NSC—68, 1950          Chapter 27. America at Midcentury, 1952—1963        27—1    The Teenage Comumer, 1959      27—2    Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, 1961      27—3    John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961      27—4    Newton Minow, Address to the NationalAssociation of Broadcasters, 1961      27—5    John K. Galbreath, The Affluent Society, 1958      27—6    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962      27—7    Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957      27—8    Betty Friedan, The Problem That Has No Name, 1963      27—9    Jerry Lee Lewis and Sam Phillips Discuss “Great Balls of Fire,” 1957      27—10  John F. Kennedy, Speech at American University, 1963          Chapter 28. Civil Rights and the Great Society, 1945—1966        28—1    Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955      28—2    Brown v. Board of Education, 1954      28—3    Southern Manifesto on Integration, 1956      28—4    Julian Bond, Sit-ins and the Origins of SNCC, 1960      28—5    Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963     28—6    Fannie Lou Hamer, Voting Rights in Mississippi 1962—1964      28—7    Letters from Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964      28—8    Casey Hadon and Mary King, Sex and Caste, 1965      28—9    The Civil Rights Act, 1964      28—10  Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962                      Chapter 29. War Abroad, War at Home, 1965—1974        29—1    Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962      29—2    Lyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society, 1964      29—3    Lyndon B. Johnson, Why We Are in Vietnam, 1965      29—4    Stokely Carmichael, Black Power, 1966      29—5    Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience and the Vietnam War, 1967      29—6    Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, 1968      29—7    Robin Morgan, Radical Feminism, 1975      29—8    Spiro Agnew, The Dangers of Constant Carnival, 1969      29—9    John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1971      29—10  Roe v. Wade, 1973      29—11  Articles of Impeachment against Richard M. Nixon, 1974          Chapter 30. The Over-Extended Society, 1974—1980        30—1    Town Meeting, Middletown, Pennsylvania, 1979      30—2    William Julius Wilson, The Urban Underclass, 1980     30—3    Affirmative Action in Atlanta, 1974      30—4    Lois Gibbs, Love Canal 1978      30—5    Jimmy Carter, The Crisis of Conscience, 1979      30—6    Presidential Press Conference, 1979      30—7    Richard Viguerie, Why the New Right Is Winning 1981          Chapter 31. The Conservative Ascendancy, 1980—1992        31—1    Jesse Jackson, Common Ground, 1988      31—2    Cecelia Rosa Avila, Third Generation Mexican American, 1988      31—3    Howard Rheingold, Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, 1993     31—4    America Enters a New Century with Terror, 2001