| Chapter 1
 Catalog
|
| The
Discovery of the Americas |
1 |
| The First
Inhabitants: Asian Migration |
2 |
| Great
Civilizations of Mexico and South America |
4 |
| North
American People and Societies |
5 |
| Europe
on the Eve of Exploration |
10 |
| The Renaissance:
New Thought and New Technology |
13 |
| European
Exploration and Expansion |
16 |
|
Exploration Prior to Columbus
|
16 |
|
Portugal
|
18 |
|
Spain
|
19 |
|
England
|
25 |
|
France and the Netherlands
|
26 |
| Africans |
27 |
| The Colombian
Exchange |
28 |
| Conclusion |
33 |
| Chronology |
34 |
| Suggested
Readings |
35 |
|
|
| Chapter 2
Catalog
|
| Colonization |
37 |
|
The British Colonies: An Overview
|
39 |
| Seventeenth-Century England |
39 |
|
The Economy
|
39 |
|
Internal Politics
|
40 |
|
External Politics: Mercantilism
|
42 |
|
Balance of Power
|
43 |
|
Religion
|
43 |
| The Chesapeake Bay |
45 |
|
Virginia: Jamestown, the First Colony
|
45 |
|
Success
|
47 |
|
Women and Africans
|
49 |
|
Religion in Virginia
|
50 |
|
Establishing the Institution of Slavery in Virginia
|
51 |
|
Bacon's Rebellion
|
52 |
| Maryland |
52 |
|
Religion
|
52 |
|
The Puritan Revolution
|
54 |
|
Economics
|
55 |
|
African Americans
|
55 |
| New England |
56 |
|
The Pilgrims
|
56 |
|
Pilgrim's Migration
|
56 |
|
Mayflower Compact
|
56 |
| Massachusetts Bay |
58 |
|
The Great Migration
|
59 |
|
Religion and the Civil Society
|
59 |
|
Splinter Groups
|
60 |
|
Puritans and Native Americans
|
62 |
|
Salem Witch Trials: Tituba
|
63 |
|
African Americans
|
65 |
| Rhode Island: A Haven |
66 |
| Connecticut and Constitutions |
67 |
| Pennsylvania |
68 |
| The Middle Colonies: New
York and New Jersey |
71 |
| Deep South: The Carolinas |
73 |
| Georgia |
75 |
| Conclusion |
77 |
| Chronology |
78 |
| Suggested Readings |
79 |
|
| Chapter 3
Catalog
|
| Colonial Society |
81 |
| Demographic and Social Features |
82 |
|
Population
|
82 |
|
Social Structure & Social Mobility
|
84 |
|
Women
|
87 |
| Economic Life and Regionalization |
88 |
|
The Backcountry
|
88 |
|
New England
|
89 |
|
Middle Colonies
|
91 |
|
Southern Colonies Chesapeake & Lower South
|
91 |
|
Southern Slave Societies
|
94 |
|
Colonial Cities
|
99 |
| Religion |
100 |
| Education |
106 |
| Government and Politics |
109 |
|
Local Governments
|
109 |
|
Colony Governments
|
109 |
|
Colonial Politics
|
111 |
|
Imperial Ties
|
112 |
| Conclusions |
113 |
| Chronology |
114 |
| Suggested Readings |
115 |
|
| Chapter 4
Catalog
|
| Toward Revolution |
117 |
| Awakening the American
Mind |
118 |
|
The American Enlightenment
|
118 |
|
The Great Awakening
|
119 |
| England's Administration
of the Colonies |
120 |
|
Imperial or Imperious Laws? The New Colonial System
|
120 |
|
The Zenger Case
|
121 |
|
Economic Tensions
|
122 |
| International Politics and
the World Picture |
122 |
|
King William's War
|
122 |
|
Queen Anne's War
|
123 |
|
King George's War
|
124 |
|
The French and Indian War
|
124 |
| "American" |
126 |
|
Adam's Rib
|
127 |
|
American Education, Literature and the Arts
|
129 |
| American Ideas of Empire |
130 |
| The Duties of a Citizen |
131 |
|
Never a Borrower or a Lender Be! (Poor Richard's
Almanac)
|
132 |
|
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes
|
133 |
| The Formulation of the American
Position |
135 |
|
Colonial Conversation
|
135 |
|
The History of Liberty
|
136 |
|
The Situation at Hand
|
137 |
|
Practical Alternatives: A Native American Suggestion
for Unity
|
138 |
| Policy, Resistance, and
Bloodshed |
140 |
|
The Children of Liberty
|
141 |
|
The "Horrid Massacre"
|
142 |
|
The Fear of Anarchy
|
143 |
| The View from the Other
Side: The Tory Position |
144 |
| Conclusions |
147 |
| Chronology |
148 |
| Suggested Readings |
149 |
|
| Chapter 5
Catalog
|
| The New Nation
is Created |
151 |
| The Famous Tea Party |
152 |
| The British Empire Strikes
Back |
153 |
| A "Continental" Congress |
154 |
|
The Historical Perspective
|
154 |
|
The First Congress
|
156 |
| Shots Heard Around the
World |
158 |
| The Seat of Empire |
159 |
| The American Position |
160 |
| Bunker or Breed's Hill |
161 |
| A Last Olive Branch |
162 |
| Founding Fathers:Fractious
Friends |
164 |
| The Declaration of Independence |
168 |
| The Colonies Join Together |
169 |
| The War for Independence |
170 |
|
Help from Former Enemies:the Europeans join the American
Cause
|
170 |
|
The British Strategy
|
171 |
|
The American Response
|
172 |
|
Bloody Battles and Faulty Strategy
|
172 |
|
Yorktown, The Fighting Ends
|
174 |
| How Revolutionary was the
American War for Independence |
175 |
|
The Role of Men
|
175 |
|
"Please Remember the Ladies"
|
176 |
|
African-American Society
|
177 |
|
Native Americans
|
178 |
| Ideas Versus Reality |
178 |
|
united states or United States
|
178 |
| Peace and Independence |
180 |
| The Country Struggles to
Grow |
182 |
| The League of Friendship
Becomes a League of Competitors |
183 |
| The Constitutional Convention
of 1787 |
183 |
|
Getting Down to Business
|
184 |
| Agreeing to the New Plan |
186 |
| Conclusion |
188 |
| Chronology |
188 |
| Suggested Readings |
189 |
|
| Chapter 6
Catalog
|
| The Early
Republic |
191 |
|
Establishing the National Government
|
192 |
|
The Bill of Rights
|
193 |
|
Washington's Cabinet
|
193 |
| The Hamiltonian Program |
194 |
| The Whiskey Rebellion
|
196 |
| Political Parties Arise |
197 |
| Foreign Policy |
198 |
|
Citizen Genet
|
198 |
|
Jay Treaty
|
199 |
|
Pinckney Treaty
|
200 |
| Washington's Farewell Address |
200 |
| Election of 1796 |
201 |
| Foreign and Domestic Policy |
202 |
|
XYZ Affair
|
202 |
|
Quasi-War
|
202 |
|
Alien and Sedition Acts
|
203 |
|
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
|
203 |
|
Peace and Its Aftermath
|
204 |
| Election of 1800 |
205 |
| Jefferson as President |
205 |
|
Battle with the Courts
|
206 |
|
Chase Impeachment
|
206 |
|
Louisiana Purchase
|
207 |
|
Lewis and Clark
|
208 |
|
Burr Treason Trial
|
208 |
|
Tensions with England and France
|
209 |
|
Chesapeake Affair
|
211 |
|
Embargo of 1807
|
211 |
| Madison Administration |
212 |
|
War Hawks
|
213 |
|
Tecumseh and the Prophet
|
213 |
|
Declaration of War
|
213 |
|
War of 1812
|
213 |
|
Treaty of Ghent
|
215 |
| Era of Good Feelings |
216 |
|
Panic of 1819
|
216 |
| Missouri Compromise |
217 |
|
Florida
|
218 |
|
Monroe Doctrine
|
219 |
| John Quincy Adams Administration |
220 |
|
Election of 1824 and the Corrupt Bargain
|
221 |
| Marshall Court |
222 |
| Life in the Early Republic |
223 |
| Conclusion |
225 |
| Chronology |
226 |
| Suggested Readings |
227 |
|
| Chapter 7
Catalog
|
| Claiming the
Commons: Constructing an American Identity |
229 |
|
Politics
|
229 |
| The "Common Man" Rhetoric |
230 |
| Voting Rights |
231 |
|
Qualifications for Full Citizenship
|
232 |
|
Public Action Conventions
|
233 |
|
Politics and Manliness
|
233 |
|
Dorr's War
|
234 |
| The Second American Party
System |
241 |
|
Whigs
|
235 |
|
From Jacksonians to Democrats
|
236 |
| Andrew Jackson's Presidency |
237 |
|
Rachel and "Peggy"
|
238 |
|
Kitchen Cabinet
|
239 |
|
Political Reforms
|
239 |
|
Veto Power
|
240 |
| South Carolina Nullification
Crisis |
243 |
|
Haynes-Webster Debates
|
243 |
| Indian Removal |
245 |
|
"Domestic Dependent Nations"
|
246 |
|
Black Hawk War in the West and Seminoles
in the South
|
247 |
|
Forced March on "Trail of Tears" and
"Relocation" to Indian Territory
|
248 |
| Election of 1836 |
249 |
| Yankee Know-How and the
Market Economy |
250 |
| Free Labor |
251 |
|
The Merchant Class and "Wage Slavery"
|
252 |
|
Rural Manufacturing "Domestic" System
|
253 |
|
Waltham System
|
253 |
|
Turn Outs
|
255 |
| Conclusion |
256 |
| Chronology |
258 |
| Suggested Readings |
259 |
|
| Chapter 8
Catalog
|
| Age of Reform |
261 |
|
An Era of Reform
|
261 |
|
Revivalism and the Second Great Awakening
|
262 |
|
Moral Reform
|
263 |
|
Sabbatarians
|
264 |
|
Temperance
|
264 |
|
Rehabilitation
|
265 |
|
Public Education
|
266 |
| Writers, Thinkers, and
Dissenters |
268 |
|
Early Writers
|
269 |
|
Poe: The Darker Side
|
269 |
|
Emerson and the Transcendentalists
|
270 |
|
Walt Whitman: Songs of America and
the Self
|
271 |
|
The Skeptical View: Hawthorne and Melville
|
271 |
| Radical Dissenters |
272 |
|
Communitarians
|
272 |
|
The Mormons
|
274 |
| The Struggle Against Slavery |
275 |
|
The Early Antislavery Movement
|
275 |
|
Colonization
|
275 |
|
Militant Abolitionists
|
276 |
|
Anti-Abolitionist Feeling in the North
|
277 |
|
Political Abolitionism
|
278 |
|
The Proslavery Justification
|
279 |
|
Black Abolitionists
|
279 |
| The Rise of the Women's
Rights Movement |
281 |
|
Women and the Antislavery Crusade
|
281 |
|
The Struggle for Legal Rights
|
282 |
|
The Women's Rights Movement
|
282 |
| Conclusion |
284 |
| Chronology |
285 |
| Suggested Readings |
285 |
|
| Chapter 9
Catalog
|
| American Life
1840-1860 |
287 |
|
Growth and Expansion
|
288 |
|
Population and Immigration
|
288 |
|
The Growth of Cities
|
290 |
|
Transportation Advances
|
292 |
|
Agricultural Expansion
|
293 |
|
The Development of Northern Manufacturing
|
294 |
| Life in the North: 1840-1860 |
295 |
|
Social Classes
|
295 |
|
Free Blacks in Northern Cities
|
297 |
|
The Lives of Women
|
298 |
|
Life, Leisure and Popular Culture
|
302 |
| Southern Life and Society |
306 |
|
"King Cotton" and the Southern Economy
|
307 |
|
The Live of Southern Whites
|
308 |
|
The Lives of Southern Blacks
|
310 |
|
Southern Women: White and Black
|
314 |
|
South vs. North
|
315 |
| Conclusion |
316 |
| Chronology |
317 |
| Suggested Readings |
317 |
|
| Chapter 10
Catalog
|
| The Road to
War |
319 |
|
Manifest Destiny and Expansion
|
320 |
|
The Election of 1840
|
321 |
|
Manifest Destiny and Texas
|
322 |
|
Expansionism and the Election of 1844
|
324 |
|
The Mexican War
|
325 |
|
The Wilmot Proviso
|
328 |
|
The Election of 1848
|
329 |
|
The Gold Rush and the Westward Migration
|
330 |
| Political Efforts to Deal
with the Issue |
332 |
|
The Compromise of 1850
|
332 |
|
The Fugitive Slave Law
|
335 |
| The Disintegration of the
Political System |
337 |
|
The Election of 1852
|
338 |
|
The Rise of the Know-Nothings
|
338 |
|
Territorial Issues and Kansas-Nebraska
|
339 |
|
The Rise of the Republican Party
|
340 |
|
"Bleeding Kansas"
|
341 |
|
The Dred Scott Decision
|
343 |
|
Lincoln, Douglas and Their Debates
|
345 |
|
Sectional Division Increases
|
348 |
| The March to War |
348 |
|
John Brown's Raid
|
348 |
|
The Election of 1860
|
349 |
|
Secession and the Fall of the House
Divided
|
350 |
| Conclusion |
353 |
| Chronology |
355 |
| Suggested Readings |
355 |
|
| Chapter 11
Catalog
|
| The Civil
War |
357 |
|
The War Begins
|
357 |
|
The First Battle of Bull Run
|
359 |
|
George McClellan: The Union's Hope
|
361 |
|
The Border States
|
363 |
| The Two Sides |
364 |
|
Northern Advantages
|
364 |
|
Southern Advantages
|
365 |
|
Rival Governments
|
366 |
|
The Two Leaders
|
369 |
| Europe and the War |
370 |
|
Seward's Early Ideas
|
370 |
|
The Blockade and Diplomatic Issues
|
371 |
|
The Trent Affair
|
371 |
| The War Intensifies |
372 |
|
Unconditional Surrender in the West
|
372 |
|
Naval Warfare: The Ironclads
|
373 |
|
Virginia: 1862
|
375 |
|
Antietam
|
377 |
|
Fredericksburg
|
378 |
| The Home Front |
380 |
|
Politics During the War
|
380 |
|
Emancipation
|
380 |
|
The Wartime Economies
|
382 |
|
Women on the Home Front
|
383 |
|
Riots and Discontent
|
384 |
| Life on the Battlefield |
385 |
|
Billy Yank and Johnny Reb
|
385 |
|
Black Troops
|
387 |
|
Prisoners of War
|
388 |
|
Medical Care
|
388 |
|
Women on the Battlefield
|
389 |
| 1863: The Tide of War Turns |
391 |
|
Gettysburg
|
393 |
|
Vicksburg
|
394 |
|
Chattanooga
|
395 |
|
The Gettysburg Address
|
395 |
| 1864-5: The Final Stages |
396 |
|
Battles in the East:1864
|
397 |
|
Beginning of the End: 1864
|
399 |
| The War Finally Ends |
400 |
|
The Election of 1864
|
401 |
|
The Thirteenth Amendment
|
402 |
|
Sherman's March Through the Carolinas
|
402 |
|
Appomattox
|
404 |
| Conclusion |
405 |
| Chronology |
407 |
| Suggested Readings |
407 |
|
| Chapter 12
Catalog
|
| Reconstruction:
The Turning Point That Never Turned |
409 |
|
Wartime Reconstruction
|
411 |
| Presidential Reconstruction |
413 |
|
Southern Defiance and the Black Codes
|
414 |
|
The Split Between President and Congress
|
415 |
|
The Fourteenth Amendment
|
416 |
|
Reconstruction Acts
|
418 |
|
Presidential Impeachment
|
420 |
|
The Election of 1868
|
420 |
|
The Fifteenth Amendment
|
422 |
| Radical Reconstruction:
Myth and Reality |
422 |
|
Blacks and Reconstruction
|
423 |
|
Republican Rule in the South
|
427 |
| The Grant Administration
and Northern Politics |
428 |
|
Government Corruption
|
428 |
|
Foreign Policy in the Grant Years
|
429 |
|
Women and Reconstruction
|
429 |
|
The Election of 1872
|
430 |
| Retreat from Reconstruction |
430 |
|
Increase in Terrorism
|
431 |
|
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
|
432 |
|
The "Redeemers" Regain Power
|
432 |
|
The Disputed Centennial Election
|
432 |
| The New South |
434 |
|
Agriculture in the New South
|
435 |
|
Industry in the New South
|
436 |
|
The Rise of Jim Crow
|
436 |
| Conclusion |
437 |
| Chronology |
438 |
| Suggested Readings |
439 |
|
| Chapter 13
Catalog
|
| The Rise of
Industrial America & the Politics of the New Order |
441 |
|
Old Industries Transformed, New Industries Born
|
445 |
|
The Railroads: The United States' First Big Business
|
445 |
|
The Panic of 1873
|
447 |
| Andrew Carnegie and the
Rise of the Steel Industry |
448 |
| John D. Rockefeller, Standard
Oil and the Trust |
449 |
|
The Emergence of Mass Marketing
|
454 |
| From Competition to Consolidation:
The Rise of the Corporation |
456 |
| J.P. Morgan and Finance
Capitalism |
457 |
| Social Darwinism and the
Gospel of Wealth |
459 |
| Internal Migration and
European Immigration |
460 |
|
Why They Came
|
462 |
|
Immigrant Labor
|
464 |
|
From the Farm to the City
|
466 |
| Laissez Faire in Theory
and Practice |
466 |
|
Labor Strife
|
467 |
|
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
|
468 |
|
Haymarket Square
|
470 |
|
Henry George
|
471 |
|
Edward Bellamy
|
471 |
|
The Homestead Steel Strike
|
472 |
|
The Pullman Strike
|
472 |
| Gilded Age Politics |
473 |
|
The Political Culture of the Gilded
Age
|
474 |
|
Patronage Politics in the States
|
475 |
|
The Shadow Presidents
|
477 |
| 1884: The Democrats Finally
Win the Big One |
480 |
|
Grover Cleveland in the White House
|
480 |
|
Tariffs and Pensions
|
481 |
| The 1888 Election |
482 |
|
The Plutocrats and the GAR Strike
Back
|
482 |
| The Railroads, the Trusts,
and the Federal Government |
482 |
|
The Fight for Free Silver
|
484 |
|
The Depression of 1893-1897
|
485 |
| Conclusion |
486 |
| Chronology |
488 |
| Suggested Readings |
489 |
|
| Chapter 14
Catalog
|
| The Trans-Missouri
West: The Last Frontier |
491 |
|
The Struggle of Native Americans
|
492 |
|
Native Societies
|
492 |
|
Destruction of the Buffalo
|
495 |
|
Indian Wars
|
495 |
|
Wounded Knee: The Final "Battle"
|
498 |
|
The Reformers and Their Vision
|
500 |
| Migration to the West |
503 |
|
Chinese Immigrants
|
503 |
|
Hispanics in the West
|
505 |
|
Other Minorities in the West
|
506 |
| The Mining Frontier |
507 |
| The Cattle Kingdom |
509 |
|
Boom Towns, Cities and Lawlessness
|
511 |
| The Western Farmer |
513 |
|
Farmers Settle the Plains
|
513 |
|
Farming on the Plains: Overcoming Problems
|
514 |
|
The Role of Women
|
515 |
|
Farmers' Grievance and Politics
|
516 |
|
The Populist Movement
|
517 |
|
The Election of 1896
|
519 |
| The West in Culture, Myth
and Imagination |
520 |
| Conclusion |
522 |
| Chronology |
523 |
| Suggested Readings |
523 |
|
