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viii Contents Triumph of Industrial Capitalism Chapter 1: Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Reconstruction and Race, Controver ...

ix P r e f a c e P erhaps the most widely-used political slogan of the 1960s was “Power to the People.” It appeared on posters a ...

x PrefaCe groups, attacks on people for their sexual orientation, harassment of cultural non-nonconformists like hippies or Goth ...

America from Lincoln to Trump xi er, as a single unit really, to increase their wealth and power. Some critics called this “the ...

xii PrefaCe way they wanted, not simply follow orders from authority figures. Hippies did the same. Muhammad Ali, one of the gre ...

America from Lincoln to Trump xiii In order to show the development of power and the response of the peo- ple in American societ ...

xiv PrefaCe It concludes with an overview of the events following September 11th, 2001, a date which has transcendent meaning fo ...

1 c haPter 1 Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism T he Civil War left the South devastated—econom ...

2 ChaPter^1 This period of Reconstruction became vital to the future of the United States. The decisions made did not radically ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 3 After Lincoln’s assassination, his successor, President An ...

4 ChaPter^1 The Backlash Though the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments had great significance, other aspects of Reconstruction were ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 5 Democratic Party. The Klan and other racist terrorist grou ...

6 ChaPter^1 A New Kind of Slavery While ending slavery and gaining freedom can never be understated, the refusal to grant Blacks ...