Michael S. Mayer The University of Montana
INSTRUCTOR’S RESOURCE MANUAL
THE AMERICAN NATION A History of the United States FOURTEENTH EDITION Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty G
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CONTENTS PROLOGUE
Beginnings
1
CHAPTER 1
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas
12
CHAPTER 2
American Society in the Making
22
CHAPTER 3
America in the British Empire
36
CHAPTER 4
The American Revolution
48
CHAPTER 5
The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant
58
CHAPTER 6
Jeffersonian Democracy
69
CHAPTER 7
National Growing Pains
79
CHAPTER 8
Toward a National Economy
91
CHAPTER 9
Jacksonian Democracy
100
CHAPTER 10
The Making of Middle-Class America
110
CHAPTER 11
Westward Expansion
128
CHAPTER 12
The Sections Go Their Own Ways
137
CHAPTER 13
The Coming of the Civil War
146
CHAPTER 14
The War to Save the Union
156
CHAPTER 15
Reconstruction and the South
169
CHAPTER 16
The Conquest of the West
178
CHAPTER 17
An Industrial Giant Emerges
187
CHAPTER 18
American Society in the Industrial Age
197
CHAPTER 19
Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century
207
CHAPTER 20
From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896
217
CHAPTER 21
The Age of Reform
229
CHAPTER 22
From Isolation to Empire
240
CHAPTER 23
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War
251
CHAPTER 24
Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment
262
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CHAPTER 25
From “Normalcy” to Economic Collapse: 1921–1933
270
CHAPTER 26
The New Deal: 1933–1941
279
CHAPTER 27
War and Peace: 1941–1945
289
CHAPTER 28
Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946–1960
298
CHAPTER 29
From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975
311
CHAPTER 30
Running on Empty: 1975–1991
331
CHAPTER 31
From Boomers to Millennials
348
CHAPTER 32
Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present
364
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INTRODUCTION The purpose of this manual is to aid teachers using Mark C. Carnes and John A. Garraty’s The American Nation as the basic text in survey courses. For each of the 32 chapters, the Instructor’s Manual provides these features: Chapter Overview: A summary of each section of the chapter divided by the same headings used in the text. Points for Mastery: Main points covered by the text that students should master. Converted into question form, these may be used as essay questions. Points for Further Discussion: Questions that go beyond the material presented in the text. Students should be able to answer these questions based on the information in the text, even though the answer is not specifically found in the text itself. Lecture Supplement: Brief essays providing information on topics either mentioned in the text and not developed or on topics related to information included in the text. They are designed to supplement lectures or to be developed into full lectures themselves. Toward the latter end, each lecture supplement includes a bibliography. Many of the topics included in the lecture supplements are designed to go beyond the subjects covered in the text; some present different interpretations from those found in the text. Documents: Two or more documents relating to a single topic. The documents are introduced and put into context in a brief introductory section. Like the lecture topics, the document sections are designed to take students and teachers beyond the subjects covered in the text or to amplify subjects included in the text. Each packet of documents includes a set of questions designed to focus attention on the main issues presented by the documents. Many of the document packets focus on the experiences of ordinary people, minorities, family issues, gender issues, and related topics. These documents can be used as classroom exercises, as essay assignments, as take-home exams, as lecture supplements, or as the basis for full lectures. The introductory passage contains bibliographical references to aid in the use of developing these document packets into lectures. The Instructor’s Manual has been designed to meet the needs of both the novice and the more experienced instructor. Beginning instructors often need lecture material more than anything else. Not only do the lecture supplements provide this, but the document packets are designed to help in this regard as well. More experienced instructors may be less familiar with some of the subjects covered in the lecture supplements and documents packets. These sections provide the means to incorporate new material into lectures or to develop lectures on new topics. More experienced instructors may also wish to use the documents as means of testing students’ analytical skills or presenting issues to students in new ways. In any case, the Instructor’s Manual is designed to provide additional information and to amplify the material found in the text. It also intends to suggest different ways of approaching the material in survey courses. Michael S. Mayer
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