American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Volume I (to 1877) (Penguin Academics Series)

by Carnes, Mark C.; Garraty, John A.

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2nd

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9780321316356

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0321316355

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1/1/2006

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With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework,American Destiny: Narrative of a Nationdescribes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people.In richly detailed prose, the book examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped this country. This elegantly written, high-quality text offers a low-price alternative to traditional U.S. history survey textbooks.

Maps and Graphs

xvii

Feature Essays

xix

Re-Viewing the Past Debating the Past

Preface

xxi

Prologue Beginnings

(1)

Passage to Alaska

(1)

The Demise of the Big Mammals

(2)

The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals, 9000 B.C.E.-1000 B.C.E.

(1)

The First Sedentary Communities, 1000 B.C.E.

(3)

Corn Transforms the Southwest

(2)

The Diffusion of Corn

(1)

Population Growth After 800

(1)

Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture

(2)

The Collapse of Urban Centers

(2)

American Beginnings in Eurasia and Africa

(1)

Europe in Ferment

(2)

Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas

(30)

Columbus

(3)

Spain's American Empire

(1)

Indians and Europeans

(1)

Relativity of Cultural Values

(1)

Disease and Population Losses

(1)

Early English Settlement

(2)

The Settlement of Virginia

(4)

``Purifying'' the Church of England

(1)

Bradford and Plymouth Colony

(2)

Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony

(2)

Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

(3)

Other New England Colonies

(1)

French and Dutch Settlements

(1)

Maryland and the Carolinas

(2)

The Middle Colonies

(3)

Indians and Europeans as ``Americanizers''

(3)

American Society in the Making

(33)

Spanish Settlement

(2)

The Chesapeake Colonies

(2)

The Lure of Land

(1)

``Solving'' the Labor Shortage: Slavery

(2)

Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco

(1)

Bacon's Rebellion

(2)

The Carolinas

(3)

Home and Family in the South

(1)

Georgia and the Back Country

(2)

Puritan New England

(1)

Puritan Women and Children

(1)

Visible Puritan Saints and Others

(1)

Democracies Without Democrats

(1)

The Dominion of New England

(2)

Salem Bewitched

(2)

Prosperity Undermines Puritanism

(1)

A Merchant's World

(3)

The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis

(1)

The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples

(2)

``The Best Poor Man's Country''

(1)

The Politics of Diversity

(3)

America in the British Empire

(42)

The British Colonial System

(3)

Mercantilism

(1)

The Navigation Acts

(1)

The Effects of Mercantilism

(2)

The Great Awakening

(3)

The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards

(2)

The Enlightenment in America

(1)

Colonial Scientific Achievements

(2)

Repercussions of Distant Wars

(2)

The Great War for the Empire

(3)

The Peace of Paris

100

(1)

Putting the Empire Right

101

(2)

Tightening Imperial Controls

103

(3)

The Sugar Act

106

(1)

American Colonists Demand Rights

107

(1)

The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling

108

(2)

Rioters or Rebels?

110

(1)

Taxation or Tyranny?

111

(1)

The Declaratory Act

112

(1)

The Townshend Duties

113

(1)

The Boston Massacre

114

(2)

The Pot Spills Over

116

(1)

The Tea Act Crisis

117

(1)

From Resistance to Revolution

118

(4)

The American Revolution

122

(37)

``The Shot Heard Round the World''

123

(1)

The Second Continental Congress

124

(1)

The Battle of Bunker Hill

125

(1)

The Great Declaration

125

(5)

1776: The Balance of Forces

130

(2)

Loyalists

132

(1)

Early British Victories

133

(1)

Saratoga and the French Alliance

134

(4)

The War Moves South

138

(1)

Victory at Yorktown

139

(2)

The Peace of Paris

141

(2)

Forming a National Government

143

(3)

Financing the War

146

(2)

State Republican Governments

148

(1)

Social Reform

149

(2)

Effects of the Revolution on Women

151

(2)

Growth of a National Spirit

153

(2)

The Great Land Ordinances

155

(1)

National Heroes

156

(3)

The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant

159

(32)

Border Problems

159

(1)

Foreign Trade

160

(2)

Daniel Shays's, ``Little Rebellion''

162

(1)

To Philadelphia, and the Constitution

163

(1)

The Great Convention

163

(3)

The Compromises That Produced the Constitution

166

(3)

Ratifying the Constitution

169

(2)

Washington as President

171

(2)

Congress Under Way

173

(1)

Hamilton and Financial Reform

174

(4)

The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground

178

(1)

Revolution in France

179

(1)

Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties

180

(1)

1794: Crisis and Resolution

181

(1)

Jay's Treaty

182

(1)

1795: All's Well That Ends Well

182

(1)

Washington's Farewell

183

(2)

The Election of 1796

185

(1)

The XYZ Affair

186

(2)

The Alien and Sedition Acts

188

(1)

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves

188

(3)

Jeffersonian Democracy

191

(25)

The Federalist Contribution

192

(1)

Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist

193

(2)

Jefferson as President

195

(1)

Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary

196

(2)

The Barbary Pirates

198

(1)

The Louisiana Purchase

198

(4)

The Federalists Discredited

202

(2)

Lewis and Clark

204

(2)

Jeffersonian Democracy

206

(1)

The Burr Conspiracy

207

(1)

Napoleon and the British

208

(2)

The Impressment Controversy

210

(1)

The Embargo Act

211

(5)

National Growing Pains

216

(32)

Madison in Power

216

(1)

Tecumesh and Indian Resistance

217

(1)

Depression and Land Hunger

218

(3)

Opponents of War

221

(1)

The War of 1812

221

(4)

Britain Assumes the Offensive

225

(2)

``The Star Spangled Banner''

227

(1)

The Treaty of Ghent

228

(1)

The Hartford Convention

229

(1)

The Battle of New Orleans

229

(2)

Victory Weakens the Federalists

231

(1)

Anglo-American Rapprochement

232

(1)

The Transcontinental Treaty

232

(1)

The Monroe Doctrine

233

(3)

The Era of Good Feelings

236

(1)

New Sectional Issues

237

(2)

The Missouri Compromise

239

(3)

The Election of 1824

242

(2)

John Quincy Adams as President

244

(1)

Calhoun's Exposition and Protest

244

(2)

The Meaning of Sectionalism

246

(2)

Toward a National Economy

248

(26)

Gentility and the Consumer Revolution

248

(1)

Birth of the Factory

249

(2)

An Industrial Proletariat?

251

(1)

Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers

252

(2)

Irish and German Immigrants

254

(1)

The Persistence of the Household System

255

(1)

Rise of Corporations

255

(1)

Cotton Revolutionizes the South

256

(2)

Revival of Slavery

258

(3)

Roads to Market

261

(2)

Transportation and the Government

263

(1)

Development of Steamboats

264

(2)

The Canal Boom

266

(1)

New York City: Emporium of the Western World

267

(1)

The Marshall Court

268

(6)

Jacksonian Democracy

274

(25)

``Democratizing'' Politics

275

(1)

1828: The New Party System in Embryo

276

(2)

The Jacksonian Appeal

278

(1)

The Spoils System

278

(1)

President of All the People

279

(1)

Jackson: ``The Bank . . . I Will Kill It!''

280

(2)

Jackson's Bank Veto

282

(2)

Jackson Versus Calhoun

284

(1)

Indian Removals

285

(2)

The Nullification Crisis

287

(2)

Boom and Bust

289

(1)

The Jacksonians

290

(1)

Rise of the Whigs

291

(2)

Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson

293

(2)

The Log Cabin Campaign

295

(4)

The Making of Middle-Class America

299

(22)

Tocqueville in Judgment

300

(1)

A Restless People

300

(2)

The Family Recast

302

(1)

The Second Great Awakening

303

(2)

The Era of Associations

305

(1)

Backwoods Utopias

306

(3)

The Age of Reform

309

(3)

``Demon Rum''

312

(1)

The Abolitionist Crusade

313

(3)

Women's Rights

316

(5)

An American Culture

321

(15)

In Search of Native Grounds

321

(2)

The Romantic View of Life

323

(1)

Emerson and Thoreau

323

(2)

Edgar Allan Poe

325

(2)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

327

(1)

Herman Melville

327

(2)

Walt Whitman

329

(1)

Education for Democracy

330

(2)

Reading and the Dissemination of Culture

332

(1)

The State of the Colleges

333

(3)

Westward Expansion

336

(23)

Tyler's Troubles

336

(1)

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty

337

(1)

The Texas Question

338

(1)

Manifest Destiny

339

(1)

Life on the Trail

340

(1)

California and Oregon

340

(2)

The Election of 1844

342

(2)

Polk as President

344

(1)

War with Mexico

345

(1)

To the Halls of Montezuma

346

(3)

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

349

(1)

The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States

350

(1)

Slavery: The Fire Bell in the Night Rings Again

350

(2)

The Election of 1848

352

(1)

The Gold Rush

353

(2)

The Compromise of 1850

355

(4)

The Sections Go Their Ways

359

(23)

The Economics of Slavery

359

(2)

The Sociology of Slavery

361

(4)

Psychological Effects of Slavery

365

(2)

Manufacturing in the South

367

(1)

The Northern Industrial Juggernaut

368

(1)

A Nation of Immigrants

369

(1)

How Wage Earners Lived

370

(1)

Foreign Commerce

371

(1)

Steam Conquers the Atlantic

372

(2)

Canals and Railroads

374

(1)

Financing the Railroads

375

(1)

Railroads and the Economy

376

(3)

Railroads and the Sectional Conflict

379

(1)

The Economy on the Eve of Civil War

380

(2)

The Coming of the Civil War

382

(29)

The Slave Power Comes North

382

(1)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

383

(1)

Diversions Abroad: The ``Young America'' Movement

384

(1)

Stephen Douglas: ``The Little Giant''

385

(1)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

386

(3)

Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System

389

(1)

``Bleeding Kansas''

390

(3)

Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism

393

(1)

Buchanan Tries His Hand

394

(1)

The Dred Scott Decision

395

(2)

The Lecompton Constitution

397

(1)

The Emergence of Lincoln

398

(1)

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

399

(3)

John Brown's Raid

402

(2)

The Election of 1860

404

(3)

The Secession Crisis

407

(4)

The War to Save the Union

411

(36)

Lincoln's Cabinet

411

(1)

Fort Sumter: The First Shot

412

(1)

The Blue and the Gray

413

(3)

The Test of Battle: Bull Run

416

(1)

Paying for the War

417

(1)

Politics as Usual

418

(1)

Behind Confederate Lines

419

(1)

War in the West: Shiloh

420

(1)

McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior

421

(2)

Lee Counterattacks: Antietam

423

(2)

The Emancipation Proclamation

425

(2)

The Draft Riots

427

(1)

The Emancipated People

427

(1)

African American Soldiers

428

(1)

Antietam to Gettysburg

429

(3)

Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg

432

(2)

Economic and Social Effects, North and South

434

(2)

Women in Wartime

436

(2)

Grant in the Wilderness

438

(1)

Sherman in Georgia

439

(2)

To Appomattox Court House

441

(2)

Winners, Losers, and the Future

443

(4)

Reconstruction and the South

447

Presidential Reconstruction

448

(2)

Republican Radicals

450

(1)

Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction

451

(1)

The Fourteenth Amendment

452

(1)

The Reconstruction Acts

453

(1)

Congress Supreme

454

(1)

The Fifteenth Amendment

455

(1)

``Black Republican'' Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers

456

(3)

The Ravaged Land

459

(2)

Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System

461

(2)

The White Backlash

463

(2)

Grant as President

465

(1)

The Disputed Election of 1876

466

(3)

The Compromise of 1877

469

Appendix

(1)

The Declaration of Independence

(3)

The Constitution of the United States of America

(8)

Amendments to the Constitution

(7)

Supplementary Reading

(26)

Suggested Web Sites

(21)

Present-day United States

(2)

Present-day World

Credits

(1)

Index