By the end of this section, you will be able to:Understand the origins and growth of the women’s rights movementIdentify the different strands of the early African American civil rights movement

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify specific examples of grassroots Progressivism relating to the spread of democracy, efficiency in government, and social justiceDescribe the more radical movements associated with the Progressive Era

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the key features of Theodore Roosevelt’s “Square Deal”Explain the key features of William Howard Taft’s Progressive agendaIdentify the main pieces of legislation that Woodrow Wilson’s “New Freedom” agenda comprised

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe the role that muckrakers played in catalyzing the Progressive EraExplain the main features of Progressivism

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the factors responsible for Richard Nixon’s election in 1968Describe the splintering of the Democratic Party in 1968Discuss Richard Nixon’s economic policiesDiscuss the major successes of Richard Nixon’s foreign policy

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe the counterculture of the 1960sExplain the origins of the American Indian Movement and its major activitiesAssess the significance of the gay rights and women’s liberation movements

Identity Politics in a Fractured SocietyComing Apart, Coming TogetherVietnam: The Downward SpiralWatergate: Nixon’s Domestic NightmareJimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain why Gerald Ford lost the election of 1976Describe Jimmy Carter’s domestic and foreign policy achievementsDiscuss how the Iranian hostage crisis affected the Carter presidency

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe the events that fueled antiwar sentiment in the Vietnam eraExplain Nixon’s steps to withdraw the United States from the conflict in South Vietnam

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe the actions that Nixon and his confederates took to ensure his reelection in 1972Explain the significance of the Watergate crisisDescribe Gerald Ford’s domestic policies and achievements in foreign affairs

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Understand how the economic and political climate of the day promoted the formation of the farmers’ protest movement in the latter half of the nineteenth centuryExplain how the farmers’ revolt moved from protest to politics

Political Corruption in Postbellum AmericaKey Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and GoldFarmers Revolt in the Populist EraSocial and Labor Unrest in the 1890s

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Discuss the national political scene during the Gilded AgeAnalyze why many critics considered the Gilded Age a period of ineffective national leadership

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain how the Depression of 1893 helped the Populist Party to grow in popularity in the 1890sUnderstand the forces that contributed to the Populist Party’s decline following the 1896 presidential election

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the difference between the spoils system and civil service, and discuss the importance of this issue in the period from 1872 to 1896Recognize the ways in which the issue of tariffs impacted different sectors of the economy in late nineteenth-century AmericaExplain why Americans were split on the issue of a national gold standard versus free coinage of silverExplain why political patronage was a key issue for political parties in the late nineteenth century

The Challenges of PeacetimeThe Cold WarThe American DreamPopular Culture and Mass MediaThe African American Struggle for Civil Rights

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe Americans’ different responses to rock and roll musicDiscuss the way contemporary movies and television reflected postwar American society