17 RECONSTRUCTING THE UNION 1865-1877 AN AMERICAN STORY: A Secret Sale at Davis Bend Presidential Reconstruction Lincoln''s 10 Percent Plan Reconstruction under Andrew Johnson The Failure of Johnson''s Program Johnson''s Break with Congress The Fourteenth Amendment The Election of 1866 Congressional Reconstruction Post-Emancipation Societies in the Americas The Land Issue Impeachment Reconstruction in the South Black and White Republicans Reforms under the New State Governments Economic Issues and Corruption Black Aspirations Experiencing Freedom The Black Family The Schoolhouse and the Church New Working Conditions Planters and a New Way of Life The Abandonment of Reconstruction The Grant Administration Growing Northern Disillusionment The Triumph of White Supremacy HISTORIAN''S TOOLBOX Dressed to Kill The Disputed Election of 1876 Racism and the Failure of Reconstruction CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-46975] 18 THE NEW SOUTH AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST 1870-1890 AN AMERICAN STORY: "Come West" The Southern Burden Tenancy and Sharecropping Southern Industry The Sources of Southern Poverty Life in the New South Rural Life The Church Segregation Western Frontiers Western Landscapes Indian Peoples and the Western Environment Whites and the Western Environment: Competing Visions The War for the West Contact and Conflict Custer''s Last Stand--and the Indians'' HISTORIAN''S TOOLBOX Picturing Custer''s Defeat, Indian Style Killing with Kindness Borderlands Ethno-Racial Identity in the New West Boom and Bust in the West Mining Sets a Pattern The Transcontinental Railroad Cattle Kingdom The Final Frontier Farming on the Plains A Plains Existence The Urban Frontier The West and the World Economy Packaging and Exporting the "Wild West" CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING 19 THE NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDER 1870-1900 AN AMERICAN STORY: Scampering through America The Development of Industrial Systems Natural Resources and Industrial Technology Systematic Invention Transportation and Communication Finance Capital The Corporation An International Pool of Labor Railroads: America''s First Big Business A Managerial Revolution Competition and Consolidation The Challenge of Finance The Growth of Big Business Strategies of Growth Carnegie Integrates Steel Rockefeller and the Great Standard Oil Trust The Mergers of J. Pierpont Morgan Corporate Defenders Corporate Critics The Costs of Doing Business The Workers'' World Industrial Work Children, Women, and African Americans at Work The American Dream of Success The Systems of Labor Early Unions HISTORIAN''S TOOLBOX Digital Detecting The Knights of Labor The American Federation of Labor The Limits of Industrial Systems Management Strikes Back CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING 20 THE RISE OF AN URBAN ORDER 1870-1900 AN AMERICAN STORY: "The Dogs of Hell" A New Urban Age The Urban Explosion The Great Global Migration Holding the City Together Bridges and Skyscrapers Slum and Tenement Running and Reforming the City Boss Rule Rewards, Accomplishments, and Costs Nativism, Revivals, and the Social Gospel The Social Settlement Movement City Life The Immigrant in the City Urban Middle-Class Life MANY HISTORIES City Scenes Victorianism and the Pursuit of Virtue Challenges to Convention The Decline of "Manliness" City Culture Public Education in an Urban Industrial World Higher Learning and the Rise of the Professional Higher Education for Women A Culture of Consumption Leisure Arts and Entertainment CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING 21 REALIGNMENT AT HOME AND EMPIRE ABROAD 1877-1900 AN AMERICAN STORY: "The World United at Chicago" The Politics of Paralysis Political Stalemate The Parties The Issues The White House from Hayes to Harrison Ferment in the States and Cities The Revolt of the Farmers The Harvest of Discontent The Origins of the Farmers'' Alliance The Alliance Peaks The Election of 1892 The New Realignment The Depression of 1893 MANY HISTORIES What Should the Government Do? The Rumblings of Unrest The Battle of the Standards Campaign and Election The Rise of Jim Crow Politics