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9780495566090

The American Past A Survey of American History, Enhanced Edition

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    9780495566090

  • ISBN10:

    0495566098

  • Edition: 8th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-01-11
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Author Joseph R. Conlin's award-winning teaching and writing styles are reflected in this colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that have shaped this nation's past. Organized into short, easy-to-read chapters, this text sets the story in a political context, weaving in social, cultural, economic, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military events along the way. American history has never been so eye-opening--and enjoyable. This Enhanced Edition also shows you how to use the maps, images, and charts in the book to gain an edge in your studies. A brief introduction to the text--"Studying from Primary Source Materials"--reveals some of the tricks to uncovering the past that your instructor wants you to know. "Discovery" sections at the end of every chapter assist you in practicing these skills, helping you to connect the text's main ideas and excel in your course.

Table of Contents

Discoveries: Indians, Europeans, and the Americas About 15,000 B.C. to A.D. 1550
Settlements Across the Sea: The Reasons, the Failures, and a Success 1550-1624
Thirteen Colonies: England's American Empire 1620-1732
English Intentions, American Facts of Life: Colonial Society in the 1600s
Other Americans: Colonial Indians and Africans
Competition for a Continent: French America and British America, 1608-1763
Family Quarrels: Dissension in the Colonies, 1763-1770
From Riot to Rebellion: The Road to Independence 1770-1776
The War for Independence: Winning the Revolution 1776-1781
Inventing a Country: American Constitutions 1781-1789
We the People: Putting the Constitution to Work 1789-1800
Jeffersonian America: Expansion and Frustration 1800-1815
Beyond the Appalachians: The West in the Early Nineteenth Century
Nation Awakening: Political and Economic Development 1815-1824
The People's Hero: Andrew Jackson and a New Era 1824-1830
In the Shadow of Old Hickory: Personalities and Politics 1830-1842
Religion and Reform: Evangelicals and Enthusiasts, 1800-1850
A Different Country: The South and Slavery
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery as It Was Perceived Slavery as It Was
From Sea to Shining Sea: American Expansion 1820-1848
Apples of Discord: The Poisoned Fruits of Victory 1844-1854
The Collapse of the Union: From Debate to Violence 1854-1861
Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities: The Civil War through 1862
Driving Old Dixie Down: General Grant's War of Attrition 1863-1865
Aftermath: Reconstructing the Union Failing the Freedmen 1865-1877
Parties, Patronage, and Pork: Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century
Technology, Industry, and Business: Economic Revolution in the Late Nineteenth Century
Living with Leviathan: Reactions to Big Business and Great Wealth
We Who Built America: Factories and Immigrants
Urban America: The Growth of Big Cities and Big City Problems
The Last Frontier: Winning the Last of the West 1865-1900
Stressful Times Down Home: American Agriculture 1865-1896
The Days of McKinley: The United States as a World Power 1896-1903
The World of Teddy Roosevelt: American Society and Culture in Transition 1890-1917
Age of Reform: The Progressives
The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
Over There: The United States and the First World War 1914-1918
Over Here: World War I at Home 1917-1920
Troubled Years: America after the Great War 1919-1923
Calvin Coolidge and the New Era: When America Was a Business 1923-1929
Hard Times: The Great Depression 1930-1933
Rearranging America: FDR and the New Deal 1933-1938
The Second Great War: America and the World 1933-1942
World War II: The Pinnacle of Power 1942-1945
Cold War: The United States and the Nuclear Age 1946-1952
"Happy Days": Popular Culture in the Fifties, 1947-1963
Cold War and Civil Rights: The Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 1953-1963
Johnson's Great Society: Reform and Conflict 1961-1968
The Presidency in Crisis: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations 1968-1980
Morning in America: The Age of Reagan 1980-1993
The Millennium Years: Decadence? Renewal? 1993-2006
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