America Past and Present Chapters 14-24

* All new essays are asterisked below. 14. The Sectional Crisis. The Compromise of 1850. Political Upheaval, 1852-1856. The House Divided, 1857-1860. Explaining the Crisis. * Feature Essay: The Enigma of John Brown. * Law and Society III: The Case of Dred and Harriet Scott: Blurring the Borders of Politics and Justice. 15. Secession and the Civil War. The Storm Gathers. Adjusting to Total War. Fight to the Finish. Feature Essay: Soldiering in the Civil War. 16. The Agony of Reconstruction. The President Versus Congress. Reconstruction in the South. The Age of Grant. Reunion and the New South. Feature Essay: Changing Views of Reconstruction. Law and Society IV: The Beecher-Tilton Adultery Trial: Public Image Versus Private Conduct. 17. The West: Exploiting an Empire. Beyond the Frontier. Crushing the Native Americans. Settlement of the West. The Bonanza West. Feature Essay: Blacks in Blue: The Buffalo Soldiers in the West. 18. The Industrial Society. Industrial Development. An Empire on Rails. An Industrial Empire. The Sellers. The Wage Earners. Feature Essay: The Machine That Talks. 19. Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900. The Lure of the City. Social and Cultural Change, 1877-1900. The Stirrings of Reform. Feature Essay: Revivalism in the Modern City. * Law and Society V: Plessy v. Ferguson: The Shaping of Jim Crow. 20. Political Realignments in the 1890s. Politics of Stalemate. Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress. The Rise of the Populist Movement. The Crisis of the Depression. Changing Attitudes. The Presidential Election of 1896. The McKinley Administration. Feature Essay: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 21. Toward Empire. America Looks Outward. War with Spain. Debate over Empire. * Feature Essay: Americans by the Numbers: The 1890 Census. 22. The Progressive Era. The Changing Face of Industrialism. Society's Masses. Conflict in the Workplace. A New Urban Culture. Feature Essay: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement. 23. From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism. The Spirit of Progressivism. Reform in the Cities and States. The Republican Roosevelt. Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height. The Ordeal of William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom. Feature Essay: Madam C. J. Walker. Law and Society VI: Muller v. Oregon: Expanding the Definition of Acceptable Evidence. 24. The Nation at War. A New World Power. Foreign Policy Under Wilson. Toward War. Over There. Over Here. The Treaty of Versailles. Feature Essay: Measuring the Mind.Divine, Robert A. is the author of 'America Past and Present Chapters 14-24', published 2001 under ISBN 9780321091567 and ISBN 0321091566.