U.S. History II 1877-present
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U.S. History II 1877-present: A Milestone Documents E-text is a peer-reviewed textbook originally created for the Milestone Documents course service. The book contains 15 chapters arranged in roughly chronological order. Together, the chapters offer a comprehensive textbook covering the period from Reconstruction through the present day. It is suitable for instructors and students from high school through lower undergraduate levels.
U.S. History II 1877-present: A Milestone Documents E-text is a peer-reviewed textbook originally created for the Milestone Documents course service. The book contains 15 chapters arranged in roughly chronological order. Together, the chapters offer a comprehensive textbook covering the period from Reconstruction through the present day. It is suitable for instructors and students from high school through lower undergraduate levels.
Unit 1: Industrialization
The Labor Question John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil
Henry Ford’s Assembly Line
The Bonsack Cigarette Rolling Machine
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Haymarket Riot
Industrial Workers of the World
Unit 1 Review
Unit 2: Immigration: Atlantic and Pacific
Ellis Island
The Gentlemen’s Agreement
The Literacy Test
Unit 2 Review
Unit 3: The Growth of Cities and Social Reform
Louis Sullivan
The Electric Streetcar
Sewer Socialists
Unit 3 Review
Unit 4: American Empire
Westward Expansion
The Refrigerated Railway Car
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
Wounded Knee
Unit 4 Review
Unit 5: Political and Business Reform: Populists and Progressives
Granger Laws
“Free Silver”
Robert La Follette
Unit 5 Review
Unit 6: The United States and World War I
The Sinking of the Lusitania
Trench Warfare
The Committee on Public Information
Unit 6 Review
Unit 7: The 1920s: Looking Forward, Looking Backward
The Volstead Act
The Florida Land Boom
Charles Lindbergh
Unit 7 Review
Unit 8: The Great Depression
Bonus March
Breadlines
The Dust Bowl
Unit 8 Review
Unit 9: The New Deal
The Court-packing Plan
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
Unit 9 Review
Unit 10: The United States and World War II
The Manhattan Project
Henry J. Kaiser
The Battle of the Bulge
Unit 10 Review
Unit 11: The United States and the Cold War
The “Iron Curtain”
The “Kitchen” Debate
The Berlin Wall
Unit 11 Review
Unit 12: Civil Rights in the United States
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Myers Family of Levittown, Pennsylvania
Voting Rights Act
Unit 12 Review
Unit 13: The Counterculture
The Vietnam War
Timothy Leary
Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
Woodstock
Unit 13 Review
Unit 14: Conservatism and Reaganism
The John Birch Society
Anita Bryant
The Moral Majority
Unit 14 Review
Unit 15: Clinton, Bush, Obama, and the Age of Terror
