The American Story, Combined Volume (Penguin Academics Series)

by Divine, Robert A.; Breen, T. H.; Fredrickson, George M.; Williams, R. Hal; Gross, Ariela J.; Brands, H. W.

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Maps, Figures, and Tables

xiii

Preface

xvii

CHAPTER 1 NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS

(28)

Native American Histories Before Conquest

(6)

A World Transformed

(3)

West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies

(3)

Europe on the Eve of Conquest

(2)

Imagining a New World

(5)

The French Claim Canada

(2)

The English Enter the Competition

(3)

An Unpromising Beginning: The Lost Colony

(1)

Marketing Dreams of Empire

(2)

CHAPTER 2 ENGLAND'S COLONIAL EXPERIMENTS: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

(30)

Breaking Away

(2)

The Chesapeake: The Promise of Wealth

(8)

Reforming England in America

(8)

Living with Diversity: The Middle Colonies

(3)

Quakers in America

(3)

Planting the Carolinas

(2)

The Founding of Georgia

(2)

Rugged and Laborious Beginnings

(1)

CHAPTER 3 PUTTING DOWN ROOTS: FAMILIES IN AN ATLANTIC EMPIRE

(22)

Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century

(5)

The Planters' World

(4)

Race and Freedom in British America

(4)

Commercial Blueprint for Empire

(1)

Ruling Elites in Revolt, 1676-1691

(6)

Common Experiences, Separate Cultures

(1)

CHAPTER 4 COLONIES IN AN EMPIRE: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA

(28)

Experiencing Diversity

(1)

Convicts Sent to America

(1)

Ethnic Cultures of the Backcountry

(3)

Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century

(2)

British Colonies in an Atlantic World

(4)

Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies

(4)

Clash of Political Cultures

(3)

Century of Imperial War

100

(7)

Rule Britannia?

107

(2)

CHAPTER 5 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: FROM ELITE PROTEST TO POPULAR REVOLT, 1763-1783

109

(30)

Contested Meanings of Empire

110

(5)

The Army as Provocation: Eroding the Bonds of Empire

115

(10)

Decision for Independence

125

(4)

Fighting for Independence

129

(7)

The Loyalist Dilemma

136

(1)

Winning the Peace

137

(1)

Post-Colonial Challenge

138

(1)

CHAPTER 6 THE REPUBLICAN EXPERIMENT

139

(28)

A New Political Culture

140

(1)

Living in the Shadow of Revolution

141

(6)

The States: Putting Republicanism into Practice

147

(3)

Stumbling Toward a New National Government

150

(4)

Strengthening Federal Authority

154

(2)

"Have We Fought for This?"

156

(7)

Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification

163

(3)

A New Beginning

166

(1)

CHAPTER 7 DEMOCRACY IN DISTRESS: THE VIOLENCE OF PARTY POLITICS, 1788-1800

167

(26)

Power of Public Opinion

167

(2)

Establishing a New Government

169

(3)

Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton

172

(2)

Hamilton's Plan for Economic Development

174

(4)

Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs

178

(4)

Popular Political Culture

182

(3)

The Adams Presidency

185

(5)

The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800

190

(2)

Danger of Political Extremism

192

(1)

CHAPTER 8 REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY: THE JEFFERSONIAN VISION

193

(26)

Regional Identities in a New Republic

194

(4)

Jefferson as President

198

(6)

Jefferson's Critics

204

(5)

Embarrassments Overseas

209

(6)

The Strange War of 1812

215

(2)

Republican Legacy

217

(2)

CHAPTER 9 NATION BUILDING AND NATIONALISM

219

(23)

Expansion and Migration

220

(6)

Transportation and the Market Economy

226

(7)

The Politics of Nation Building After the War of 1812

233

(9)

CHAPTER 10 THE TRIUMPH OF WHITE MEN'S DEMOCRACY

242

(24)

Democracy in Theory and Practice

243

(6)

Jackson and the Politics of Democracy

249

(8)

The Bank War and the Second Party System

257

(6)

Heyday of the Second Party System

263

(2)

Tocqueville's Wisdom

265

(1)

CHAPTER 11 SLAVES AND MASTERS

266

(24)

The Divided Society of the Old South

267

(1)

The World of Southern Blacks

268

(8)

White Society in the Antebellum South

276

(7)

Slavery and the Southern Economy

283

(5)

Worlds in Conflict

288

(2)

CHAPTER 12 THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION

290

(23)

The Rise of Evangelicalism

291

(5)

Domesticity and Changes in the American Family

296

(4)

Institutional Reform

300

(4)

Reform Turns Radical

304

(8)

Counterpoint on Reform

312

(1)

CHAPTER 13 AN AGE OF EXPANSIONISM

313

(23)

Movement to the Far West

314

(6)

Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War

320

(7)

Internal Expansionism

327

(8)

The Costs of Expansion

335

(1)

CHAPTER 14 THE SECTIONAL CRISIS

336

(24)

The Compromise of 1850

337

(5)

Political Upheaval, 1852-1856

342

(7)

The House Divided, 1857-1860

349

(9)

Explaining the Crisis

358

(2)

CHAPTER 15 SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR

360

(27)

The Storm Gathers

362

(5)

Adjusting to Total War

367

(8)

Fight to the Finish

375

(8)

Effects of the War

383

(4)

CHAPTER 16 THE AGONY OF RECONSTRUCTION

387

(28)

The President Versus Congress

389

(8)

Reconstructing Southern Society

397

(6)

Retreat from Reconstruction

403

(6)

Reunion and the New South

409

(5)

Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished Revolution"

414

(1)

CHAPTER 17 THE WEST: EXPLOITING AN EMPIRE

415

(24)

Beyond the Frontier

416

(1)

Crushing the Native Americans

417

(7)

Settlement of the West

424

(5)

The Bonanza West

429

(8)

The Meaning of the West

437

(2)

CHAPTER 18 THE INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

439

(25)

Industrial Development

440

(1)

An Empire on Rails

441

(5)

An Industrial Empire

446

(7)

The Sellers

453

(2)

The Wage Earners

455

(7)

Industrialization's Benefits and Costs

462

(2)

CHAPTER 19 TOWARD AN URBAN SOCIETY, 1877-1900

464

(26)

The Lure of the City

465

(8)

Social and Cultural Change, 1877-1900

473

(10)

The Stirrings of Reform

483

(5)

The Pluralistic Society

488

(2)

CHAPTER 20 POLITICAL REALIGNMENTS IN THE 1890's

490

(27)

Politics of Stalemate

491

(5)

Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress

496

(2)

The Rise of the Populist Movement

498

(5)

The Crisis of the Depression

503

(4)

Changing Attitudes

507

(3)

The Presidential Election of 1896

510

(4)

The McKinley Administration

514

(1)

A Decade's Dramatic Changes

515

(2)

CHAPTER 21 TOWARD EMPIRE

517

(25)

America Looks Outward

519

(7)

War with Spain

526

(8)

Acquisition of Empire

534

(7)

Outcome of the War with Spain

541

(1)

CHAPTER 22 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

542

(25)

The Changing Face of Industrialism

544

(4)

Society's Masses

548

(8)

Conflict in the Workplace

556

(4)

A New Urban Culture

560

(6)

A Ferment of Discovery and Reform

566

(1)

CHAPTER 23 FROM ROOSEVELT TO WILSON IN THE AGE OF PROGRESSIVISM

567

(31)

The Spirit of Progressivism

569

(7)

Reform in the Cities and States

576

(3)

The Republican Roosevelt

579

(3)

Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height

582

(4)

The Ordeal of William Howard Taft

586

(5)

Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom

591

(5)

The Fruits of Progressivism

596

(2)

CHAPTER 24 THE NATION AT WAR

598

(28)

A New World Power

600

(3)

Foreign Policy Under Wilson

603

(2)

Toward War

605

(7)

Over There

612

(2)

Over Here

614

(6)

The Treaty of Versailles

620

(4)

Postwar Disillusionment

624

(2)

CHAPTER 25 TRANSITION TO MODERN AMERICA

626

(21)

The Second Industrial Revolution

627

(4)

City Life in the Jazz Age

631

(5)

The Rural Counterattack

636

(5)

Politics of the 1920's

641

(5)

The Old and the New

646

(1)

CHAPTER 26 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL

647

(25)

The Great Depression

648

(3)

Fighting the Depression

651

(8)

Roosevelt and Reform

659

(3)

Impact of the New Deal

662

(5)

End of the New Deal

667

(3)

Evaluation of the New Deal

670

(2)

CHAPTER 27 AMERICA AND THE WORLD, 1921-1945

672

(28)

Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry

673

(3)

Isolationism

676

(3)

The Road to War

679

(5)

Turning the Tide Against the Axis

684

(3)

The Home Front

687

(6)

Victory

693

(6)

The Transforming Power of War

699

(1)

CHAPTER 28 THE ONSET OF THE COLD WAR

700

(28)

The Cold War Begins

701

(4)

Containment

705

(4)

The Cold War Expands

709

(5)

The Cold War at Home

714

(6)

Eisenhower Wages the Cold War

720

(6)

The Continuing Cold War

726

(2)

CHAPTER 29 AFFLUENCE AND ANXIETY

728

(17)

The Postwar Boom

730

(2)

The Good Life?

732

(4)

Farewell to Reform

736

(3)

The Struggle over Civil Rights

739

(4)

The Continuing Civil Rights Movement

743

(2)

CHAPTER 30 THE TURBULENT SIXTIES

745

(34)

Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War

747

(6)

The New Frontier at Home

753

(6)

"Let Us Continue"

759

(6)

Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War

765

(4)

Years of Turmoil

769

(5)

The Return of Richard Nixon

774

(3)

The End of an Era

777

(2)

CHAPTER 31 A CRISIS IN CONFIDENCE, 1969-1980

779

(25)

Nixon in Power

780

(5)

The Crisis of Democracy

785

(2)

Energy and the Economy

787

(5)

Private Lives-Public Issues

792

(4)

Politics After Watergate

796

(2)

The Decline of American Power

798

(6)

CHAPTER 32 THE REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE, 1980-1992

804

(27)

Reagan in Power

806

(5)

Reaganomics

811

(3)

Reagan and the World

814

(6)

Social Dilemmas

820

(3)

Passing the Torch to Bush

823

(5)

Waging Peace

828

(3)

CHAPTER 33 AMERICA IN FLUX

831

The Changing American Population

833

(7)

Democratic Revival

840

(8)

Clinton and the World

848

(5)

The End of the Century

853

(5)

The New Millennium

858

(11)

The American Century?

869

(1819043304)

APPENDIX

A-1

The Declaration of Independence

A-3

The Constitution of the United States of America

A-6

Amendments to the Constitution

A-14

Comparative Chronology

A-21

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