An American History
A-62 ★ GLOSSARY Englanders and the dispossession of the region’s Indians. Knights of Labor Founded in 1869, the first national u ...
xiv ★ TABLES AND FIGURES TABLES AND FIGURES CHAPTER 16 Table 16.1 Indicators of Economic Change, 1870–1920 606 CH A P T ER 17 Ta ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-63 erty by limiting the power of government to interfere with the natural rights of cit- izens; in the twentieth ce ...
ERIC FONER is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia Univer- sity, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. In his teaching a ...
A-64 ★ GLOSSARY the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Marsh ...
Give Me Liberty! An American History is a survey of American history from the earliest days of European exploration and conquest ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-65 mill girls Women who worked at textile mills during the Industrial Revolution who enjoyed new freedoms and indep ...
Borderlands is a more complex idea that has influenced much recent histor- ical scholarship. Borders are lines dividing one coun ...
A-66 ★ GLOSSARY National Defense Education Act 1958 law passed in reaction to America’s perceived inferiority in the space race; ...
xviii ★ PREFACE in the early nineteenth century despite the existence of slavery on one side and free labor on the other. Chapte ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-67 for one legislative body with equal repre- sentation for each state. New Left Radical youth protest move- ment o ...
PREFACE ★ xix the recent past as “ancient history” and sometimes seeing history as a burden to be overcome, a prison from which ...
A-68 ★ GLOSSARY by Middle Eastern producers, in Octo- ber 1973 in response to U.S. and western European support for Israel in th ...
xx ★ PREFACE and to their interconnections. The narrative brings together major events and prominent leaders with the many group ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-69 Philippine War American military cam- paign that suppressed the movement for Philippine independence after the S ...
PREFACE ★ xxi Indeed, the history of the United States is, in part, a story of debates, disa- greements, and struggles over free ...
A-70 ★ GLOSSARY ently inferior to white people, as well as the belief that slavery, in creating a perma- nent underclass of labo ...
xxii ★ PREFACE conceptions of economic freedom came to the fore: “liberty of contract” in the Gilded Age, “industrial freedom” ( ...
GLOSSARY ★ A-71 Revolution of 1800 First time that an American political party surrendered power to the opposition party; Jeffer ...
Freedom is the oldest of clichés and the most modern of aspirations. At var- ious times in our history, it has served as the ral ...
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