American History: A Survey, Volume 1 MP w/Powerweb

by BRINKLEY A

• ISBN13: 9780072490510
• ISBN10: 0072490519
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-31
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Highly-respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, American History: A Survey provides students and instructors with a comprehensive account of the American past in which no single approach or theme predominates. From its first edition, this text has included a scrupulous account of American political and diplomatic history. Today, however, the book explores areas of history such as social, cultural, urban, racial and ethnic history, more history of the West and South, environmental history, and the history of women and gender. In addition, American history has not evolved in a vacuum, but as part of a larger global world. The eleventh edition of this text places American history into that global context, making connections for students who live in an ever-expanding world themselves.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One: THE MEETING OF CULTURES

Significant Events

America Before Columbus

The Civilizations of the South/The Civilizations of the North/Tribal Cultures

Europe Looks Westward

Commerce and Nationalism/Christopher Columbus/The Conquistadors/The Spanish Empire/Spanish America/Northern Outposts/The Empire at High Tide/Biological and Cultural Exchanges/Africa and America

The Arrival of the English

The Commercial Incentive/The Religious Incentive/The English in Ireland/The French and the Dutch in America/The First English Settlements/Roanoke

Where Historians Disagree: Why Do Historians So Often Differ?

Where Historians Disagree: The American Population Before Columbus

America in the World: The Atlantic Context of Early American History

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Two: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS

Significant Events

The Early Chesapeake

The Founding of Jamestown/Reorganization/Tobacco/Expansion/Exchanges of Agricultural Technology/Maryland and the Calverts/Turbulent Virginia/Bacon's Rebellion

The Growth of New England

Plymouth Plantation/The Expansion of New England/Settlers and Natives/The Pequot War, King Philip's War, and the Technology of Battle

The Restoration Colonies

The English Civil War/The Carolinas/New Netherland, New York, and New Jersey/The Quaker Colonies

Borderlands and Middle Grounds

The Caribbean Islands/Masters and Slaves in the Caribbean/Borderlands and Middle Grounds/The Southwestern Borderlands/The Southeast Borderlands/The Founding of Georgia/Middle Grounds

The Evolution of the British Empire

The Drive for Reorganization/The Dominion of New England/The "Glorious Revolution"

The American Environment: The Other Pilgrims

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Three: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICA

Significant Events

The Colonial Population

Indentured Servitude/Birth and Death/Medicine in the Colonies/Women and Families in the Chesapeake/Women and Families in New England/The Beginnings of Slavery in British America/Changing Sources of European Immigration

The Colonial Economies

The Southern Economy/Northern Economic and Technological Life/The Extent and Limits of Technology/The Rise of Colonial Commerce/The Rise of Consumerism

Patterns of Society

The Plantation/Plantation Slavery/The Puritan Community/The Witchcraft Phenomenon/Cities

Awakenings and Enlightenment

The Pattern of Religions/The Great Awakening/The Enlightenment/Education/The Spread of Science/Concepts of Law and Politics

Where Historians Disagree: The Origins of Slavery

Patterns of Popular Culture: Colonial Almanacs

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Four: THE EMPIRE IN TRANSITION

Significant Events

Loosening Ties

A Tradition of Neglect/The Colonies Divided

The Struggle for the Continent

New France and the Iroquois Nation/Anglo-French Conflicts/The Great War for the Empire

The New Imperialism

Burdens of Empire/The British and the Tribes/The Colonial Response

Stirrings of Revolt

The Stamp Act Crisis/The Townshend Program/The Boston Massacre/The Philosophy of Revolt/The Tea Excitement

Cooperation and War

New Sources of Authority/Lexington and Concord

Patterns of Popular Culture: Taverns in Revolutionary Massachusetts

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Five: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Significant Events

The States United

Defining American War Aims/The Decision for Independence/Responses to Independence/Mobilizing for War

The War for Independence

The First Phase: New England/The Second Phase: The Mid-Atlantic Region/The Iroquois and the British/Securing Aid from Abroad/The Final Phase: The South/Winning the Peace

War and Society

Loyalists and Minorities/The War and Slavery/Native Americans and the Revolution/Women's Rights and Women's Roles/The War Economy

The Creation of State Governments

The Assumptions of Republicanism/The First State Constitutions/Revising State Governments/Toleration and Slavery

The Search for a National Government

The Confederation/Diplomatic Failures/The Confederation and the Northwest/Indians and the Western Lands/Debts, Taxes, and Daniel Shays

Where Historians Disagree: The American Revolution

America in the World: The Age of Revolution

The American Environment: The Grid

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Six: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW REPUBLIC

Significant Events

Framing a New Government

Advocates of Centralization/A Divided Convention/Compromise/The Constitution of 1787/Federalists and Antifederalists/Completing the Structure

Federalists and Republicans

Hamilton and the Federalists/Enacting the Federalist Program/The Republican Opposition

Establishing National Sovereignty

Securing the Frontier/Native Americans and the New Nation/Maintaining Neutrality/Jay's Treaty and Pinckney's Treaty

The Downfall of the Federalists

The Election of 1796/The Quasi War with France/Repression and Protest/The "Revolution" of 1800

Where Historians Disagree: The Background of the Constitution

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Seven: THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA

Significant Events

The Rise of Cultural Nationalism

Patterns of Education/Medicine and Science/Cultural Aspirations in the New Nation/Religious Skepticism/The Second Great Awakening

Stirrings of Industrialism

The Industrial Revolution in England/Technology in America/Transportation Innovations/The Rising Cities

Jefferson the President

The Federal City and the "People's President"/Dollars and Ships/Conflict with the Courts

Doubling the National Domain

Jefferson and Napoleon/The Louisiana Purchase/Lewis and Clark Explore the West/The Burr Conspiracy

Expansion and War

Conflict on the Seas/Impressment/'Peaceable Coercion'/Tecumseh and the Prophet/Florida and War Fever

The War of 1812

Battles with Tribes/Battles with the British/The Revolt of New England/The Peace Settlement

Patterns of Popular Culture: Horse Racing

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Eight: VARIETIES OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM

Significant Events

A Growing Economy

Banking, Currency, and Protection/Transportation

Expanding Westward

The Great Migrations/White Settlers in the Old Northwest/The Plantation System in the Southwest/Trade and Trapping in the Far West/Eastern Images of the West

The "Era of Good Feelings"

The End of the First Party System/John Quincy Adams and Florida/The Panic of 1819

Sectionalism and Nationalism

The Missouri Compromise/Marshall and the Court/The Court and the Tribes/The Latin American Revolution and the Monroe Doctrine

The Revival of Opposition

The "Corrupt Bargain"/The Second President Adams/Jackson Triumphant

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Nine: JACKSONIAN AMERICA

Significant Events

The Rise of Mass Politics

The Expanding Electorate/The Legitimization of Party/"President of the Common Man"

Our Federal Union

Calhoun and Nullification/The Rise of Van Buren/The Webster-Hayne Debate/The Nullification Crisis

The Removal of the Indians

White Attitudes Towards the Tribes/The Black Hawk War/The "Five Civilized Tribes"/Trails of Tears/The Meaning of Removal

Jackson and the Bank War

Biddle's Institution/The Taney Court

The Changing Face of American Politics

Democrats and Whigs/Van Buren and the Panic of 1837/The Log Cabin Campaign/The Frustration of the Whigs/Whig Diplomacy

Where Historians Disagree: The "Age of Jackson"

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Penny Press

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Ten: AMERICA'S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION

Significant Events

The Changing American Population

The American Population, 1820-1840/Immigration and Urban Growth, 1840-1860/The Rise of Nativism

Transportation, Communications, and Technology

The Canal Age/The Early Railroads/The Triumph of the Rails/Innovations in Communications and Journalism

Commerce and Industry

The Expansion of Business, 1820-1840/The Emergence of the Factory/Advances in Technology/Innovations in Corporate Organization

Men and Women at Work

Recruiting a Native Work Force/The Immigrant Work Force/The Factory System and the Artisan Tradition/Fighting for Control

Patterns of Industrial Society

The Rich and the Poor/Social Mobility/Middle-Class Life/The Changing Family/Women and the 'Cult of Democracy'/Leisure Activities

The Agricultural North

Northeastern Agriculture/The Old Northwest/Rural Life

The American Environment: The Flow of Water

Patterns of Popular Culture: Shakespeare in America

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Eleven: COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD SOUTH

Significant Events

The Cotton Economy

The Rise of King Cotton/Southern Trade and Industry/Sources of Southern Difference

White Society in the South

The Planter Class/Honor/The "Southern Lady"/The Plain Folk

Slavery: The "Peculiar Institution"

Varieties of Slavery/Life Under Slavery/Slavery in the Cities/Free African Americans/The Slave Trade/Slave Resistance

The Culture of Slavery

Language and Music/African-American Religion/The Slave Family

Where Historians Disagree: The Character of Slavery

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Slaves' Music

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Twelve: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM

Significant Events

The Romantic Impulse

Nationalism and Romanticism in American Painting/Literature and Other Quest for Liberation/Literature in the Antebellum South/The Transcendentalists/The Defense of Nature/Visions of Utopia/Redefining Gender Roles/The Mormons

Remaking Society

Revivalism, Morality, and Order/The Temperance Crusade/Health Fads and Phrenology/Medical Science/Reforming Education/Rehabilitation/The Indian Reservation/The Rise of Feminism

The Crusade Against Slavery

Early Opposition to Slavery/Garrison and Abolitionism/Black Abolitionists/Anti-Abolitionism/Abolitionism Divided

America in the World: The Abolition of Slavery

Patterns of Popular Culture: Sentimental Novels

Conclusion

For Further Reading

Chapter Thirteen: THE IMPENDING CRISIS

Significant Events

Looking Westward

Manifest Destiny/Americans in Texas/Tensions Between the United States and Mexico/Oregon/The Westward Migration/Life on the Trail

Expansion and War

The Democrats and Expansion/The Southwest and California/The Mexican War

The Sectional Debate

Slavery and the Territories/The California Gold Rush/Rising Sectional Tensions/The Compromise of 1850

The Crises of the 1850s

The Uneasy Truce/"Young America"/Slavery, Railroads, and the West/The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy/"Bleeding Kansas"/The Free-Soil Ideology/The Pro-Slavery Argument/Buchanan and Depression/The Dred Scott Decision/Deadlock over Kansas/The Emergence of Lincoln/John Brown's Raid/The Election of Lincoln

Patterns of Popular Culture: Lyceums

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Fourteen: THE CIVIL WAR

Significant Events

The Secession Crisis

The Withdrawal of the South/The Failure of Compromise/Fort Sumter/The Opposing Sides

The Mobilization of the North

Economic Measures/Raising the Union Armies/Wartime Politics/The Politics of Emancipation/African Americans and the Union Cause/The War and Economic Development/Women, Nursing, and the War

The Mobilization of the South

The Confederate Government/Money and Manpower/States' Rights versus Centralization/Economic and Social Effects of the War

Strategy and Diplomacy

The Commanders/The Role of Sea Power/Europe and the Disunited States/The American West and the War

The Course of Battle

The Technology of Battle/The Opening Clashes, 1861/The Western Theater/The Virginia Front, 1862/1863, Year of Decision/The Last Stage, 1864-1865

Where Historians Disagree: The Causes of the Civil War

America in the World: The Consolidation of Nations

Patterns of Popular Culture: Baseball and the Civil War

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH

Significant Events

The Problems of Peacemaking

The Aftermath of War and Emancipation/Competing Notions of Freedom/Issues of Reconstruction/Plans for Reconstruction/The Death of Lincoln/Johnson and "Restoration"

Radical Reconstruction

The Black Codes/The Fourteenth Amendment/The Congressional Plan/The Impeachment of the President

The South in Reconstruction

The Reconstruction Governments/Education/Landownership and Tenancy/The Crop-Lien System/The African-American Family in Freedom

The Grant Administration

The Soldier President/The Grant Scandals/The Greenback Question/Republican Diplomacy

The Abandonment of Reconstruction

The Southern States "Redeemed"/The Ku Klux Klan Acts/Waning Northern Commitment/The Compromise of 1877/The Legacies of Reconstruction

The New South

The "Redeemers"/Industrialization and the "New South"/Tenants and Sharecroppers/African Americans and the New South/The Birth of Jim Crow

Where Historians Disagree: Reconstruction

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Minstrel Show

Where Historians Disagree: The Origins of Segregation

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Appendixes

The United States

Topographical Map of the United States

The World

United States Territorial Expansion, 1783-1898

The Declaration of Independence

The Constitution of the United States of America

Presidential Elections

Vice Presidents and Cabinet Members

Population of the United States, 1790-2000

Employment, 1870-2000

Production, Trade, and Federal Spending/Debt, 1790-2000

Index