Type:
Solution Manual
Resource:
America Past and Present, Brief Edition, Volume 2
Edition:
8th Edition
Author(s):
Robert A. Divine T. H. H. Breen George M. Fredrickson R. Hal Williams Ariela J. Gross H. W. A. Brands
INSTRUCTOR’S MANUAL Vincent Mikkelsen Florida State University
AMERICA: PAST AND PRESENT NINTH EDITION
Robert A. Divine University of Texas
T.H. Breen Northwestern University
George M. Frederickson Late of Stanford University
R. Hal Williams Southern Methodist University
Ariela J. Gross University of Southern California
H.W. Brands University of Texas
CONTENTS
Preface
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About the Authors of Chapters 1–8
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Chapter 1, New World Encounters
3
Chapter 2, New World Experiments: England’s Seventeenth-Century Colonies
15
Chapter 3, Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society
27
Chapter 4, Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America
39
Chapter 5, The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763–1983
52
Chapter 6, The Republican Experiment
65
Chapter 7, Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788–1800
77
Chapter 8, Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision
90
About the Authors of Chapters 9–16
102
Chapter 9, Nation Building and Nationalism
104
Chapter 10, The Triumph of White Men’s Democracy
115
Chapter 11, Slaves and Masters
126
Chapter 12, The Pursuit of Perfection
137
Chapter 13, An Age of Expansionism
148
Chapter 14, The Sectional Crisis
160
Chapter 15, Secession and the Civil War
173
Chapter 16, The Agony of Reconstruction
185
About the Authors of Chapters 17–24
197
Chapter 17, The West: Exploiting an Empire
199
Chapter 18, The Industrial Society
211
Chapter 19, Toward an Urban Society, 1877–1900
222
Chapter 20, Political Realignments in the 1890s
233
Chapter 21, Toward Empire
246
Chapter 22, The Progressive Era
257
Chapter 23, From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism
266
Chapter 24, The Nation at War
279
About the Authors of Chapters 25–32
291
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Chapter 25, Transition to Modern America
293
Chapter 26, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
305
Chapter 27, America and the World, 1921–1945
317
Chapter 28, The Onset of the Cold War
330
Chapter 29, Affluence and Anxiety
343
Chapter 30, The Turbulent Sixties
353
Chapter 31, The Rise of a New Conservatism, 1969–1988
369
Chapter 32, To the Twenty-First Century, 1989–2009
384
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PREFACE This Instructor’s Resource Manual is designed to make your teaching life easier but it is neither possible nor desirable to make that life too easy. Teaching, especially in the liberal arts, is a unique challenge that demands a highly individual effort. Students will probably always remember those aspects of American history that you in some way made memorable. The rich narrative of America: Past and Present, will help you create this sort of impact in the classroom and the Instructor’s Resource Manual is designed to help you make the fullest possible use of the text. For that purpose, the Manual consists of four sections:
ABOUT THE AUTHORS The scholars who wrote America: Past and Present are among the nation’s active and influential historians. Each author has provided a short personal statement of his approach to history. These statements will prove especially useful if you wish to add an historiographical dimension to your use of the text. They also testify to the collegiality that exists between you and the authors. Physical distance and the impersonality of the printed page may obscure the truth that you and the authors are bound together in an important enterprise: the education of the citizens of a free republic, and the authors have taken this opportunity to speak directly with you.
TOWARD DISCUSSION Textbooks must be inclusive and each chapter must cover a great amount of material. You may wish at some points to go into greater depth and the Manual has given you a start in that direction by adding an interpretive essay about one of the key topics covered in each chapter. It is not the purpose of these essays to add to the factual information contained in the text but to form a solid foundation for your own lecture or discussion.
RELIVING THE PAST Too many students think of history as “just dates” and never come to realize that people in the past actually lived, loved, laughed, hoped, slept, ate, and suffered toothaches. The Manual therefore includes for each chapter a pair of anecdotes that can be used to help students see beyond the haze of dates and facts to the real life of the past. The Manual has selected scenes that are especially dramatic, colorful, or illustrative in order to stimulate the interest of your students, and, if such a technique interests you, the primary sources cited in this section will serve as a handy bibliography of the most accessible first-hand accounts of the American past.
SUMMARIES The heart of the Instructor’s Resource Manual is a summary of each chapter. The summaries of necessity omit most of the illustrative material in the text, but all of the important points are summarized. This section can be used to reinforce your understanding of the text. It would be as if you and a colleague had read the same material, and had a conversation about the main points being made.
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