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PART I: ANTEBELLUM AMERICA

The Growing West and North

Growth and Expansion	1
Population and Immigration	2
The Growth of Cities	5
Transportation Advances	6
Agricultural Expansion	8
The Development of Northern Manufacturing	9
Rough and Tumblers	11
Life in the North: 1840-1860	12
Social Classes	12
Free Blacks in Northern Cities	15
The Lives of Women	18
Life, Leisure and Popular Culture	24
Documents	30
From a Broken Sawmill Blade to a Steel Plow	30
"True Womanhood"	32
A Voice of Protest Against the Treatment of Female Workers	32

Chapter 2

The American South and Its Singular Society

Southern "Backwardness"	35
"King Cotton" and the Southern Economy	36
The Lives of Southern Whites	38
The Lives of Southern Blacks	41
The Old Plantation and the Modern World	46
Southern Women: White and Black	47
The Case of the White Slave	49
South vs. North	50
Documents	53
White Views on Slavery	53
Plantation Song: "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night!" 1853	53
"Slavery as a Positive Good," Speech by John C. Calhoun in the U.S. Senate, 1837	54
Black Views on Slavery	57
Deep River	58
Go Down, Moses	58
Daniel	60
Narratives and Folk Tales	60
The Coon and the Dog	60
The Rabbit and the Tortoise	60
Papa's Death	60
Prayers	61
Marrying	61
Solomon in Hell	61

Chapter 3

The Age of Reform

An Era of Reform	63
Revivalism and the Second Great Awakening	63
Moral Reform	65
Sabbatarians	66
Temperance	66
Rehabilitation	68
Public Education	69
Writers, Thinkers , and Dissenters	72
Emerson and the Transcendentalists	72
Walt Whitman: Songs of American and the Self	73
The Skeptical View: Hawthorne and Melville	73
Radical Dissenters	75
Communitarians	75
The Mormons	77
The Struggle Against Slavery	79
The Early Antislavery movement	79
Colonization	80
Militant Abolitionists	81
Anti-Abolitionists in the North	83
Political Abolitionism	84
The Proslavery Justification	85
Black Abolitionists	86
Sojourner Truth	88
The Rise of the Women's Rights Movement	89
Women and the Antislavery Crusade	89
The Struggle for Legal Rights	90
The Women's Rights Movement	91
The Impact of Reform	93
Documents	95
Protesting the "Gag" Rule in the U.S. House of Representatives and Mail Censorship	95
On the Way to Liberia, a Letter to a Former Mistress (1833)	97

Part II: The Road to War

Storm Clouds Gather: Manifest Destiny, Expansion, and Division

Manifest Destiny and Expansion	101
The Election of 1840	102
The Saga of the Amistad	104
Manifest Destiny and Texas	105
Expansionism and the Election of 1844	107
The Mexican War	109
The Wilmot Proviso	114
The Election of 1848	115
The Gold Rush and the Westward Migration	116
Political Efforts to Deal with the Issue	119
The Compromise of 1850	119
The fugitive Slave Law	122
Uncle Tom's Cabin	125
The Election of 1852	126
The Rise of the Know-Nothings	127
Documents	129
The Mexican War	129
Polk's War Message	129
The Mexican War is on Behalf of Slavery	132

Chapter 5

The Storm Cloud Burst

Territorial Issues and Kansas-Nebraska	135
The Rise of the Republican Party	137
"Bleeding Kansas"	138
The Crime Against Kansas/The Crime Against Sumner	141
The Dred Scott Decision	142
Lincoln, Douglas and their Debates	145
Sectional Division Increases	148
The March to War	149
John Brown's Raid	150
The Election of 1860	151
Secession and the Fall of the House Divided	153
Documents	159
Letters From the Conflict in Kansas	159
Letter from John Lawrie: A Northerner's View	159
Letter from Axallas John Hoole: A Southerner's View	160
Lincoln and Douglas Debate	163
John Brown's Raid: Two Views of African Americans	164
Slavery is the Cornerstone of Our Confederacy	165

Part III: THE CIVIL WAR

THE CIVIL WAR BEGINS

The War Begins	171
The First Battle of Bull Run	172
A Brother's War	176
George McClellan: The Union's Hope	177
The Border States	178
The Two Sides	181
Northern Advantages	181
Southern Advantages	182
Rival Governments	184
The Two Leaders	187
Europe and the War	189
Seward's Early Ideas	189
The Blockade and Diplomatic Issues	190
The Trent Affair	191
The War Stalls	192
Documents	194
First Battle of Bull Run	194
The Significance of Slavery	189
A Union General on the Significance of Slaves	196
A Southern Newspaper on the "Advantages of Slavery	197
A Northern General on Slavery as a Military Question	197
The Struggle to Allow Black Troops in the Union Army	198
Newspaper Editorial to Allow Black Troops in the Union Army	198
Public Opposition to Use of Black Troops	199

Chapter 7

THE WAR INTENSIFIES

Unconditional Surrender in the West	201
The General's Wife	205
Naval Warfare: The Ironclads	206
Virginia: 1862	208
Antietam	211
Fredericksburg	213
The Home Front	214
Politics During the War	214
Emancipation	215
The Wartime Economies	218
Women on the Home Front	219
Riots and Discontent	221
Grant's Notorious Order # 11	223
Life on the Battlefield	224
Billy Yank and Johnny Reb	224
Black Troops	225
Prisoners of War	228
Medical Care	229
Women on the Battlefield	231
Documents	234
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)	234
Black Troops in Combat	236
Reminiscence of a Former Black Soldiers in the Union Army	236
Letter written by an Unnamed Soldier in the Massachusetts Fifty-fifth Infantry	236
Black Soldiers Triumph at Battle of Petersburg, July 1864	237
The Home Front	238
The New York City Draft Riots	238
Response of a Rioters	239

Chapter 8

THE TIDE OF WAR TURNS

Greatest Victory	241
Chancellorsville	241
The Death of Stonewall Jackson	243
Gettysburg	243
Vicksburg	245
Chattanooga	246
The Gettysburg Address	247
1864-5: The Final Stage	247
Battles in the East:1864	249
Beginning of the End: 1864	253
The War Finally Ends	254
The Election of 1864	255
The Thirteenth Amendment	256
Sherman's March Through the Carolinas	257
Appomattox	257
Lincoln's Assassination	260
Documents	264
The Gettysburg Address (1863)	264
Problems in the South	265
Diary of a Georgia Girl (1864)	265
The Dispute Over Using Black Troops in the South	267
Opposition to the Idea	267
A Woman Favors the Idea	268
Confederate Congress Approves the Use of Black Troops	268
Recollection of the War's Horrors: 1875	269
Walt Whitman	269
Second Inaugural Address (1865)	270

PART IV: RECONSTRUCTION: The Turning Point That Never Turned

RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION

Wartime Reconstruction	275
Presidential Reconstruction	279
Southern Defiance and the Black Codes	280
The Split Between President and Congress	281
The Fourteenth Amendment	283
The New Orleans Riots and the Growth of Violence in the Reconstruction South	285
Reconstruction Acts	287
Presidential Impeachment	289
The Election of 1868	290
The Fifteenth Amendment	292
Radical Republicans: Myth and Reality	293
Blacks and Reconstruction	294
Republican Rule in the South	299
The Grant Administration and Northern Politics	301
Government Corruption	301
Foreign Policy in the Grant Years	302
"Liberal" Republicans	303
Documents	304
To My Old Master, Colonel P.. H. Anderson, Big Springs, TN	304
The Black Codes	306
The Black Code of St. Landry's Parish, 1865	306
The Issue of Land for the Freed Slaves	308
From a Speech by Thaddeus Stevens, 1865	308
New York Times, July 9, 1867	309
Conversation between a Freedman and a General at Fort Smith, Arkansas	309
Educating the Freed People	310
Dedicated Teachers and Determined Students, 1869	310

Chapter 10

RETREAT FROM RECONSTRUCTION

Women and Reconstruction	313
The Election of 1872	314
Retreat from Reconstruction	315
Increase in Terrorism	315
The Civil Rights Act of 1875	317
The "Redeemers" Regain Power	318
The Disputed Centennial Election	318
The Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876	321
The New South	324
Agriculture in the New South	325
Industry in the New South	326
The Rise of Jim Crow	327
Documents	330
The Split Between Advocates of Women's Rights and Black Rights	330
A petition drafted after the Civil War by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, leaders of the women's movement and also abolitionists	330
Letter to Susan B. Anthony from abolitionist and advocate of suffrage for ex-slaves Gerritt Smith, December 30, 1868	330
Response by Elizabeth Cady Stanton	330
"Being Persons, Then, Women are Citizens	331
Differing Views About Blacks in Reconstruction in the South	332
From the Novel, A Fool's Errand	333
From the Novel, The Clansman	333
From the Autobiography of John Roy Lynch, an ex-salve appointed justice-of-the-peace in Natchez, Mississippi	334
Retreat from Reconstruction	335
An excerpt from the speech of black Congressman Richard Harvey Cain of South Carolina on the floor of the House in support of the Civil Rights Act of 1875	335
Political Terrorism by the Ku Klux Klan	336
1876 Democratic Party campaign plan formulated by ex-Confederate General Martin W. Gary	337

Conclusion

CONCLUSION

The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction	339
The Confederate Flag in the Year 2000	341
Race in America 2000	342
Bibliography	343
Chronology	348
Web Sites	351
Index	354

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