The Brief American Pageant A History of the Republic

by Kennedy, David M.; Cohen, Lizabeth; Bailey, Thomas; Piehl, Mel

• ISBN13: 9780618332687
• ISBN10: 0618332685
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-03
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

The Brief American Pageant retains the vivid chronological narrative of its full-length counterpart, focusing on the great public debates that have dominated American history. Engaging features draw students into the narrative, improving comprehension and increasing their interest in the material. "Varying Viewpoints" features explore the scholarly debates surrounding major historical issues, while "Makers of America" essays focus on the diverse ethnic, racial, and activist groups that compose America's pluralistic society. The authors reduced the total number of chapters to 42 by combining several chapters and streamlining material. The reorganization tightens the book's chronology and highlights a thematic update of the antebellum and Gilded Age/Progressive era periods. The authors integrated more coverage of hot research topics, including immigration, women's political participation, the environmental movement, American Indians, and western history. Throughout the text, social topics are thoroughly integrated into the political narrative. David Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, two of America's most prominent historians, bring the book's scholarship up to date while preserving the trademark writing style of late author Thomas Bailey. Mel Piehl, an experienced abridging editor, carefully prunes the manuscript, rewriting passages to reduce detail while preserving the successful approach of the full-length book.

Table of Contents

Preface	xii
Part One Founding the New Nation c. 33,000 B.C.--A.D. 1783	2	(100)
New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.--A.D. 1769	4	(14)
The geology of the New World
Native Americans before Columbus
Europeans and Africans
The ecological consequences of Columbus's discovery
Spain builds a New World empire
Makers of America The Spanish Conquistadores	14	(4)
The Planting of English America 1500--1733	18	(11)
England in the age of expansion
The planting of Jamestown, 1607
The growth of Virginia and Maryland
England in the Caribbean
Settling the Carolinas and Georgia
Makers of America The Iroquois	26	(3)
Settling the Northern Colonies 1619--1700	29	(14)
The Puritan faith
Plymouth Colony, 1620
The Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630
The expansion of New England
New Netherland becomes New York
Pennsylvania and the Middle Colonies
Makers of America The English	32	(10)
Varying Viewpoints Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe?	42	(1)
American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607--1692	43	(10)
Life and labor in the Chesapeake region
Indentured servants and Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676
Slavery and African-American culture
Families in New England
The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692
The changing New England way of life
Makers of America From African to African-American	48	(5)
Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700--1775	53	(14)
Population growth and ethnic diversity
Colonial society and economy
The Atlantic economy
The Great Awakening of the 1730s
Education and culture
Political patterns
Makers of America The Scots-Irish	56	(9)
Varying Viewpoints Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus?	65	(2)
The Duel for North America 1608--1763	67	(9)
New France
Anglo-French colonial rivalries
The French and Indian War, 1754--1763
The ousting of France from North America, 1763
The consequences of war
Makers of America The French	72	(4)
The Road to Revolution 1763--1775	76	(13)
The merits and menace of mercantilism
The Stamp Act crisis, 1765
The Townshend Acts, 1767
The Boston Tea Party, 1773
The Intolerable Acts and the Continental Congress, 1774
Lexington, Concord, and the gathering clouds of war, 1775
Varying Viewpoints Whose Revolution?	87	(2)
America Secedes from the Empire 1775--1783	89	(13)
Early skirmishes, 1775
American ``republicanism''
The Declaration of Independence, 1776
Patriots and Loyalists
The fighting fronts
The French alliance, 1778
Yorktown, 1781
The Peace of Paris, 1783
Makers of America The Loyalists	94	(8)
Part Two Building the New Nation 1776--1860	102	(114)
The Confederation and the Constitution 1776--1790	104	(16)
Changing political sentiments
Economic troubles
The Articles of Confederation, 1781--1788
The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
Shays's Rebellion, 1786
The Constitutional Convention, 1787
Ratifying the Constitution, 1787--1790
Varying Viewpoints The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary?	119	(1)
Launching the New Ship of State 1789--1800	120	(14)
Problems of the young Republic
The first presidency, 1789--1793
The Bill of Rights, 1791
Hamilton's economic policies
The emergence of political parties
The impact of the French Revolution
Jay's Treaty, 1794
President Adams keeps the peace
The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 1798--1799
Federalists versus Republicans
The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800--1812	134	(12)
The ``Revolution of 1800''
The Jefferson presidency
John Marshall and the Supreme Court
The Louisiana Purchase, 1803
The Embargo, 1807--1809
Napoleon manipulates Madison
Battle with the Shawnees
A declaration of war
The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812--1824	146	(15)
Invasion of Canada, 1812
The war on land and sea
The Treaty of Ghent, 1814
The Hartford Convention, 1814--1815
A new national identity
``The American System''
James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings
Westward expansion
The Missouri Compromise, 1820
The Supreme Court under John Marshall
Canada and Florida
The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
Makers of America Settlers of the Old Northwest	154	(7)
The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824--1840	161	(20)
The ``corrupt bargain'' of 1824
President John Quincy Adams, 1825--1829
The triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828
The ``Tariff of Abominations,'' 1828
The spoils system
The South Carolina nullification crisis, 1832--1833
Indian removal
Jackson's war on the Bank of the United States
The emergence of the Whig Party, 1836
Martin Van Buren and the depression of 1837
The Texas revolution
William Henry Harrison's ``log cabin'' campaign, 1840
The establishment of the two-party system
Makers of America Mexican or Texican?	174	(5)
Varying Viewpoints What Was Jacksonian Democracy?	179	(2)
Forging the National Economy 1790--1860	181	(19)
The westward movement
Irish and German immigrants
Nativism and assimilation
The coming of the factory system
Women and the economy
The ripening of commercial agriculture
The transportation revolution
Overseas trade and communication
Makers of America The Irish	186	(4)
Makers of America The Germans	190	(10)
The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790--1860	200	(16)
Religious revivals
The Mormons
Educational advances
The roots of reform
Women's roles and women's rights
Utopian experiments
A national literature
Makers of America The Oneida Community	210	(5)
Varying Viewpoints Reform: Who? What? How? and Why?	215	(1)
Part Three Testing the New Nation 1820--1877	216	(90)
The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793--1860	218	(12)
The economy of the Cotton Kingdom
Poor whites and free blacks
The plantation system
The human face of the ``peculiar institution''
The abolitionist crusade
Southern and northern responses to abolitionism
Varying Viewpoints What Was the True Nature of Slavery?	229	(1)
Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841--1848	230	(10)
``Tyler Too'' becomes President, 1841
The annexation of Texas, 1845
Oregon and California
James K. Polk, the ``dark horse'' of 1844
War with Mexico, 1846--1848
Makers of America The Californios	240	(1)
Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848--1854	240	(2)
``Popular sovereignty''
The Compromise of 1850
The inflammatory Fugitive Slave Law
President Pierce and expansion, 1853--1857
Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Drifting Toward Disunion 1854--1861	242	(25)
Uncle Tom's Cabin and the spread of abolitionist sentiment in the North
The contest for Kansas
The election of James Buchanan, 1856
The Dred Scott case, 1857
The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859
Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860
Secession
Varying Viewpoints The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?	254	(13)
Girding for War: The North and the South 1861--1865	267	(10)
The attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861
The crucial border states
The balance of forces
Diplomacy and the threat of European intervention
Lincoln and civil liberties
Men in uniform
Wartime finance and economy
Women and the war
The fate of the South
The Furnace of Civil War 1861--1865	277	(16)
Bull Run ends the ``ninety-day war''
The Peninsula Campaign
The Union wages total war
The battle of Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
Black soldiers
Confederate high tide at Gettysburg
Politics in wartime
Appomattox, 1865
The assassination of Lincoln, April 1865
The legacy of war
Varying Viewpoints What Were the Consequences of the Civil War?	291	(2)
The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865--1877	293	(13)
The defeated South
The freed slaves
President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies
Moderate and radical Republicans
Congressional Reconstruction policies
Military Reconstruction, 1867--1877
Freed people enter politics
``Black Reconstruction'' and the Ku Klux Klan
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
The legacy of Reconstruction
Varying Viewpoints How Radical was Reconstruction?	305	(1)
Part Four Forging an Industrial Society 1865--1899	306	(84)
Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869--1896	308	(17)
Ulysses S. Grant, soldier-president
Corruption and reform in the post-Civil War era
The depression of the 1870s
Political parties and partisans
The Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction
Class conflict and ethnic clashes
Civil service reform
Grover Cleveland and the tariff
President Harrison and the ``Billion-Dollar'' Congress
Populists
Cleveland regains the White House
Makers of America The Chinese	316	(8)
Varying Viewpoints The Populists: Radicals or Reactionaries?	324	(1)
Industry Comes of Age 1865--1900	325	(17)
The railroad boom
Speculators and financiers
Early efforts at government regulation
Lords of industry
Industry in the South
Workers and unions
Makers of America The Knights of Labor	338	(2)
Varying Viewpoints Industrialization: Boon or Blight?	340	(2)
America Moves to the City 1865--1900	342	(18)
The rise of the city
Skyscrapers, tenements, and suburbs
The ``New Immigrants''
New jobs for women
Nativists and immigration restriction
Churches in the city
Black leaders: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois
Literary achievements
The ``New Woman'' and the new morality
Art and entertainment in urban America
Makers of America The Italians	346	(14)
The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution 1865--1896	360	(19)
The conquest of the Indians
The mining and cattle frontiers
The industrialization of agriculture
Farmers protest
Challenge from the People's Party
Panic and depression
Bryan versus McKinley, 1896
Makers of America The Plains Indians	364	(14)
Varying Viewpoints Was the West Really ``Won''?	378	(1)
The Path of Empire 1890--1899	379	(11)
The sources of American expansionism
Cleveland and the Venezuelan boundary dispute, 1895--1896
The Hawaii question
The explosion of the Maine, February 15, 1898
The Spanish-American War, 1898
The invasion of Cuba
Acquiring Puerto Rico (1898) and the Philippines (1899)
Makers of America The Puerto Ricans	386	(4)
Part Five Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad 1899--1945	390	(126)
America on the World Stage 1899--1909	392	(11)
Crushing the Filipino insurrection
The Open Door notes, 1899 and 1900
TR becomes president, 1901
The Panama Canal
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
Roosevelt and East Asia
Makers of America The Filipinos	394	(8)
Varying Viewpoints Why Did America Become a World Power?	402	(1)
Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901--1912	403	(14)
Campaigning against social injustice
The muckrakers
The politics of progressivism
Women battle for the vote and against the saloon
Roosevelt, labor, and the trusts
Consumer protection
Conservation
Roosevelt's legacy
The troubled presidency of William Howard Taft
Roosevelt breaks with Taft
Makers of America The Environmentalists	412	(5)
Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad 1912--1916	417	(12)
The election of 1912: The New Freedom versus the New Nationalism
Wilson, the tariff, the banks, and the trusts
Wilson's diplomacy in Mexico
War in Europe and American neutrality
The reelection of Wilson, 1916
Varying Viewpoints Who Were the Progressives?	427	(2)
The War to End War 1917--1918	429	(14)
German submarines push America into war, 1917
Wilsonian idealism and the Fourteen Points
Propaganda and civil liberties
Workers, blacks, and women on the home front
Drafting soldiers
The American forces fight in France
Wilsonian peacemaking in Paris
The Senate rejects the Versailles Treaty
Varying Viewpoints Woodrow Wilson: Realist or Idealist?	442	(1)
American Life in the ``Roaring Twenties'' 1919--1929	443	(14)
The ``red scare,'' 1919--1920
Immigration restriction, 1921--1924
Prohibition and gangsterism
The emergence of a mass-consumption economy
The automobile age
Radio and the movies
Music and literature in the jazz age
The economic boom
Makers of America The Poles	446	(11)
The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920--1932	457	(13)
The Republicans return to power, 1921
Disarmament and isolation
The Harding scandals
Calvin Coolidge's foreign policies
The international debt snarl
Herbert Hoover, cautious progressive
The great crash, 1929
Hoover and the Great Depression
Aggression in Asia
The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933--1939	470	(18)
Franklin D. Roosevelt as president
The Hundred Days Congress, 1933
The National Recovery Administration, 1933--1935
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1933--1936
The Tennessee Valley Authority
The Social Security Act, 1935
Gains for organized labor
The election of 1936 and the ``Roosevelt coalition''
The Supreme Court fight, 1937
The New Deal assessed
Makers of America The Dust Bowl Migrants	478	(8)
Varying Viewpoints How Radical Was the New Deal?	486	(2)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933--1941	488	(11)
Roosevelt's early foreign policies
German and Japanese aggression
The Neutrality Acts, 1935--1939
The destroyer-bases deal with Britain, 1940
The Lend-Lease Act, 1941
The Atlantic Charter, 1941
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Makers of America Refugees from the Holocaust	492	(7)
America in World War II 1941--1945	499	(17)
The internment of Japanese-Americans
Mobilizing the economy
Women in wartime
The war's effects on African-Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican-Americans
The social and economic impact of war
Turning the Japanese tide in the Pacific
Campaigns in North Africa (1942) and Italy (1943)
``D-Day'' in Normandy (France), June 6, 1944
Germany surrenders, May 1945
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945
Makers of America The Japanese	502	(11)
Varying Viewpoints World War II: Triumph or Tragedy?	513	(3)
Part Six Making Modern America 1945 to the Present	516
The Cold War Begins 1945--1952	518	(17)
Postwar prosperity
The rise of the ``Sunbelt'' and the suburbs
The postwar baby boom
Harry S Truman as president
The Yalta Conference, February 1945
Origins of the Cold War
The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations
The containment doctrine
The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO
Anticommunism at home
The outbreak of the Korean War, 1950
Makers of America The Suburbanites	522	(12)
Varying Viewpoints Who Was to Blame for the Cold War?	534	(1)
The Eisenhower Era 1952--1960	535	(16)
The election of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952
The menace of McCarthyism
Desegregating the South
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the seeds of the civil rights revolution
The emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eisenhower Republicanism
The fluctuating Cold War
John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon for the presidency, 1960
Changing economic roles for men and women
The flowering of consumer culture in the 1950s
Postwar literature
Makers of America The Great African-American Migration	540	(11)
The Stormy Sixties 1960--1968	551	(17)
The Kennedy spirit
The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) and the missile crisis (1962) in Cuba
The struggle for civil rights
Kennedy assassinated, November 22, 1963
Lyndon Baines Johnson and the ``Great Society''
The civil rights revolution explodes
The Vietnam disaster
The election of Richard Nixon, 1968
The cultural upheavals of the 1960s
Varying Viewpoints The Sixties: Constructive or Destructive?	566	(2)
The Stalemated Seventies 1968--1980	568	(17)
The end of the postwar economic boom
Nixon and the Vietnam War
New policies toward China and the Soviet Union
Nixon and the Supreme Court
Nixon's domestic program
Nixon trounces McGovern, 1972
The Watergate scandal
Israelis, Arabs, and oil
Nixon resigns
The Ford interlude
The election of Jimmy Carter, 1976
Carter's diplomatic successes in Panama and the Middle East
The energy crisis and inflation
The Iranian hostage humiliation
Makers of America The Vietnamese	578	(4)
Makers of America The Feminists	582	(3)
The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980--2002	585	(27)
The ``New Right'' and Reagan's election, 1980
Budget battles and tax cuts
Reagan and the Soviets
The Iran-contra scandal
Reagan's economic legacy
Reagan and the ``social issues''
The election of George Bush, 1988
The end of the Cold War
The Persian Gulf War, 1991
Bush's battles at home
The election of Bill Clinton, 1992
Republicans win control of Congress, 1994
The reelection of Clinton, 1996
Clinton's foreign policy
The Clinton impeachment trial
The 2000 election
September 11, 2001, and its consequences
Varying Viewpoints Where Did Modern Conservatism Come From?	611	(1)
The American People Face a New Century	612
The past and the future
The emergence of a ``postindustrial'' economy
Widening inequality
The feminist revolution
The transformation of the family
The newest immigrants
Cities and suburbs
Minorities in modern America
American culture in the new century
The American prospect
Makers of America The Latinos	620
Appendix	1	(57)
Suggested Readings	1	(24)
Declaration of Independence	25	(3)
Constitution of the United States of America	28	(18)
An American Profile: The United States and Its People	46	(12)
Population, Percentage Change, and Racial Composition for the United States, 1790--2000	46	(1)
Changing Characteristics of the U.S. Population	47	(1)
Changing Lifestyles in Modern America	47	(1)
Characteristics of the U.S. Labor Force	48	(1)
Leading Economic Sectors	48	(1)
Per-Capita Disposable Personal Income in Constant (1996) Dollars, 1940--2000	49	(1)
Comparative Tax Burdens	49	(1)
The Federal Budget Dollar and How It Is Spent, by Major Category	49	(1)
The U.S. Balance of Trade, 1900-2000	50	(1)
Tariff Levies on Dutiable Imports, 1821--2000	50	(1)
Gross Domestic Product in Current and Constant (1985) Dollars	51	(1)
Presidential Elections	52	(3)
Presidents and Vice Presidents	55	(2)
Admission of States	57	(1)
Estimates of Total Costs and Number of Battle Deaths of Major U.S. Wars	57	(1)
Photograph Credits	58	(3)
Index	61