Volume 2 Building the American Republic

Volum e 2

Building

the

American

Republic

A N a r r at i v e

History from 1877

Jane Dailey

The University of Chicago Press

C h icago a n d Lo n do n

This is volume 2 of a two-volume narrative history of America by Harry L.

Watson and Jane Dailey. Volume 1 is written by Watson; volume 2 is

written by Dailey. To read digital editions of both volumes and more,

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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

? 2018 by Jane Dailey

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ISBN-?13: 978-?0-?226-?30079-?5 (cloth)

ISBN-?13: 978-?0-?226-?30082-?5 (paper)

ISBN-?13: 978-?0-?226-?30096-?2 (e-?book)

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226300962.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Watson, Harry L. | Dailey, Jane Elizabeth, 1963¨C

Title: Building the American republic.

Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: lccn 2017026856 | isbn 9780226300481 (vol. 1 ; cloth :

alk. paper) | isbn 9780226300511 (vol. 1 ; pbk. : alk. paper) |

isbn 9780226300658 (vol. 1 ; e-book) | isbn 9780226300795 (vol. 2 ;

cloth : alk. paper) | isbn 9780226300825 (vol. 2 ; pbk. : alk. paper) |

isbn 9780226300962 (vol. 2 ; e-book)

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Contents

Pr efac e xv

1 ¡¤ Incorporation, 1877¨C1900 1

In Motion

Iron Horses

¡°Vast, Trackless Spaces¡±: The Trans-?Mississippi West

Manifest Destiny

Immigration, Migration, and Urbanization

The Labor Question

Free Labor

Risk Management

From Strife to Cooperation

Labor Politics

Labor Wars

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Enlightened Selfishness: Reforming Politics and People

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Patronage Politics

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The Business of Government

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Farmers20

The Farmers¡¯ Alliance

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Upheavals

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Organized Women

Onward Christian Soldiers

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Pullman26

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The Great Commoner

The Election of 1896

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Race and Equality in the Turn-?of-?the-?Century South

Wrestling with the Fourteenth Amendment

The Politics of White Supremacy

Making Jim Crow

The New South

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2 ¡¤ Interconnected, 1898¨C1914 39

Into the Open Arena of the World

The Spanish-?American War

American Empire

The Civilization Trust

America in the World

The Republican Roosevelt

Taking on the Trusts

Trains and Coal

The People¡¯s Welfare

¡°English Economics¡± and Its Critics

Perpetual Censors

America in the World, 1901¨C1912

Duty, Dollars, and Destiny

The Best Herder of Emperors since Napoleon

Dollar Diplomacy

Americans Abroad

The Progressive Era

The Progressives

Petticoat Politicians and Sewer Socialists

The Panic of 1907

Republican Fracture, 1908¨C1912

New Freedoms

The Revolution of 1913, Part 1: Money

The Revolution of 1913, Part 2: Banks

The Revolution of 1913, Part 3: Jim Crow Comes to Washington

The Revolution of 1913, Part 4: Foreign Policy

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3 ¡¤ War, 1914¨C1924 75

The War to End All Wars

A Less-?than-?Principled Neutrality

Be Prepared

America Enters the War

A War of Ideals

Perilous Times: The United States at War

The Espionage Act of 1917

Forging Consensus at Home

America¡¯s Moment

Meester Veelson

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Progressives at High Tide

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The Wartime State

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Mobility and Mobs, Law and Lawlessness

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Operation Occupy the White House: Militant Woman Suffrage

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Prohibition94

Reconstruction

Rival Utopias

We Return Fighting

Red Scare

Discovering the First Amendment

Illegal Activities

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4 ¡¤ Vertigo, 1920¨C1928 105

The Roaring Twenties

Engines of Growth

¡°Businessmen¡¯s Government¡±

The Countryside

Get Rich Quick

Modern Women

From Women¡¯s Rights to Feminism

Obscene Literatures and Articles of Immoral Use

Reproductive Politics

Work and Home Life

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