Detailed Contents
Maps and Graphs
Feature Essays
Re-viewing the Past
Debating the Past
Preface
Prologue Beginnings
First Peoples
The Demise of the Big Mammals
The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals The First Sedentary Communities The Maize Revolution The Diffusion of Corn Population Growth After 800
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture The Collapse of Urban Centers Eurasia and Africa Europe in Ferment DEBATING THE PAST Who-or What-Killed the Big Mammals?
Chapter 1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas
Sightings Columbus's Great Triumph-and Error Spain's American Empire
Extending Spain's Empire to the North Disease and Population Losses Ecological Imperialism Spain's European Rivals The Protestant Reformation English Beginnings in America The Settlement of Virginia Purifying the Church of England Bradford and Plymouth Colony Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson Other New England Colonies Pequot War and King Philip's War Maryland and the Carolinas French and Dutch Settlements The Middle Colonies Cultural Collisions Cultural Fusions DEBATING THE PAST How Many Indians Perished with European Settlement?
Chapter 2 American Society in the Making
Settlement of New France Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard The Chesapeake Colonies The Lure of Land Solving the Labor Shortage: Slavery Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco Bacon's Rebellion The Carolinas Home and Family in the South Georgia and the Back Country Puritan New England Puritan Women and Children Visible Puritan Saints and Others Democracies Without Democrats The Dominion of New England Salem Bewitched A Merchant's World The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples The Best Poor Man's Country
The Politics of Diversity
Becoming Americans
Re-Viewing the Past
The Crucible
DEBATING THE PAST
Were Puritan Communities Peaceable?
Chapter 3 America in the British Empire
The British Colonial System
Mercantilism
The Navigation Acts
The Effects of Mercantilism
The Great Awakening
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards
The Enlightenment in America
Colonial Scientific Achievements
Repercussions of Distant Wars
The Great War for the Empire
Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris
Burdens of an Expanded Empire
Tightening Imperial Controls
The Sugar Act
American Colonists Demand Rights
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling
Rioters or Rebels?
Taxation or Tyranny?
The Declaratory Act
The Townshend Duties
The Boston Massacre
The Pot Spills Over
The Tea Act Crisis
From Resistance to Revolution
DEBATING THE PAST
Was Economic Gain the Colonists' Main Motivation?
Chapter 4 The American Revolution
The Shot Heard Round the World
The Second Continental Congress
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The Great Declaration
1776: The Balance of Forces
Loyalists
Early British Victories
Saratoga and the French Alliance
The War Moves South
Victory at Yorktown
Negotiating a Favorable Peace
National Government Under the Articles of Confederation Financing the War State Republican Governments Social Reform Effects of the Revolution of Women Growth of a National Spirit The Great Land Ordinances National Heroes Re-Viewing the Past The Patriot DEBATING THE PAST Was the American Revolution Rooted in Class Struggle?
Chapter 5 The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant
Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation Daniel Shays's Little Rebellion
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution
The Great Convention
The Compromises that Produced the Constitution Ratifying the Constitution Washington as President Congress Under Way Hamilton and Financial Reform The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground Revolution in France Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties
1794: Crisis and Resolution
Jay's Treaty
1795: All's Well That Ends Well
Washington's Farewell
The Election of 1796
The XYZ Affair
The Alien and Sedition Acts
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves
DEBATING THE PAST
What Ideas Shaped the Constitution?
Chapter 6 Jeffersonian Democracy
Jefferson Elected President
The Federalist Contribution
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist
Jefferson as President
Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary
The Barbary Pirates
The Louisiana Purchase
The Federalists Discredited
Lewis and Clark
The Burr Conspiracy
Napoleon and the British
The Impressment Controversy
The Embargo Act
Jeffersonian Democracy
DEBATING THE PAST
Did Thomas Jefferson Father a Child by His Slave?
Chapter 7 National Growing Pains
Madison in Power
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance
Depression and Land Hunger
Opponents of War
The War of 1812
Britain Assumes the Offensive
The Star Spangled Banner
The Treaty of Ghent
The Hartford Convention
The Battle of New Orleans
Victory Weakens the Federalists
Anglo-American Rapprochement
The Transcontinental Treaty
The Monroe Doctrine
The Era of Good Feelings
New Sectional Issues
The Missouri Compromise
The Election of 1824
John Quincy Adams as President
Calhoun's Exposition and Protest
The Meaning of Sectionalism
DEBATING THE PAST
How Did Indians and Settlers Interact?
Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution
Birth of the Factory
An Industrial Proletariat?
Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers
Irish and German Immigrants
The Persistence of the Household System
Rise of Corporations
Cotton Revolutionizes the South
Revival of Slavery
Roads to Market
Transportation and Government
Development of Steamboats
The Canal Boom
New York City: Emporium of the Western World
The Marshall Court
DEBATING THE PAST
Did a Market Revolution Transform Early Nineteenth-Century America?
Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy
Democratizing Politics
1828: The New Party System in Embryo
The Jacksonian Appeal
The Spoils System
President of All the People
Jackson: The Bank . . . I Will Kill It!
Jackson's Bank Veto
Jackson Versus Calhoun
Indian Removals
The Nullification Crisis
Boom and Bust
The Jacksonians
Rise of the Whigs
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson
The Log Cabin Campaign
DEBATING THE PAST
For Whom Did Jackson Fight?
Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America
Tocqueville: Democracy in America
The Family Recast
The Second Great Awakening
Backwoods Utopias
The Age of Reform
Demon Rum
The Abolitionist Crusade
Women's Rights
The Romantic View of Life
Emerson and Thoreau
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Education for Democracy
The State of the Colleges
DEBATING THE PAST
Did the Antebellum Reform Movement Improve Society?
Chapter 11 Westward Expansion
Tyler's Troubles
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty
The Texas Question
Manifest Destiny
Life on the Trail
California and Oregon
The Election of 1844
Polk as President
War with Mexico
To the Halls of Montezuma
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States
Slavery: Storm Clouds Gather
The Election of 1848
The Gold Rush
The Compromise of 1850
DEBATING THE PAST
Did the Frontier Change Women's Roles?
Chapter 12 The Sections Go Their Ways
The Economics of Slavery
The Sociology of Slavery
Psychological Effects of Slavery
Manufacturing in the South
The Northern Industrial Juggernaut
A Nation of Immigrants
How Wage Earners Lived
Foreign Commerce
Steam Conquers the Atlantic
Canals and Railroads
Financing the Railroads
Railroads and the Economy
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War
DEBATING THE PAST
Did Slaves and Masters Form Emotional Bonds?
Chapter 13 The Coming of the Civil War
The Slave Power Comes North
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Diversions Abroad: The Young America Movement
Stephen Douglas: The Little Giant
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System
Bleeding Kansas
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism
Buchanan Tries His Hand
The Dred Scott Decision
The Proslavery Lecompton Constitution
The Emergence of Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Brown's Raid
The Election of 1860
The Secession Crisis
DEBATING THE PAST
Was the Civil War Avoidable?
Chapter 14 The War to Save the Union
Lincoln's Cabinet
Fort Sumter: The First Shot
The Blue and the Gray
The Test of Battle: Bull Run
Paying for the War
Politics as Usual
Behind Confederate Lines
War in the West: Shiloh
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Draft Riots
The Emancipated People
African American Soldiers
Antietam to Gettysburg
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg
Economic and Social Effects, North and South
Women in Wartime
Grant in the Wilderness
Sherman in Georgia
To Appomattox Court House
Winners, Losers, and the Future
Re-Viewing the Past
Glory
DEBATING THE PAST
Why Did the South Lose the Civil War?
Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South
The Assassination of Lincoln
Presidential Reconstruction
Republican Radicals
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Reconstruction Acts
Congress Supreme
The Fifteenth Amendment
Black Republican Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
The Ravaged Land
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System
The White Backlash
Grant as President
The Disputed Election of 1876
The Compromise of 1877
DEBATING THE PAST
Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt?
Appendix
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America
Amendments to the Constitution
Supplementary Reading
Present-day United States
Present-day World
Credits
Index
