U.S. History II 1877-present  
A Milestone Documents E-text
Author(s): Jonathan Rees
Published by Schlager Group Inc.
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ISBN: 9781961844551
Pages: 216

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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 twenty-first century. It is suitable for instructors and students from high school through lower undergraduate levels.

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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 twenty-first century. It is suitable for instructors and students from high school through lower undergraduate levels.

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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

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