The United States: A brief Narrative History

by Hullar, Link

• ISBN13: 9780882952291
• ISBN10: 0882952293
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: Harlan Davidson

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction America's First Nations	1	(13)
Philip Weeks
The First Americans
The Archaic Age
Early Indians of the West
Early Indians of the East
Variety and Indian Societies
Eastern Woodland Indians
Indians of the Great Plains
Indians of the Southwest
Changes Coming
Chapter Review	14	(1)
Discovery, Exploration, and Colonization	15	(10)
Background to ``Discovery''
Portugal and Spain
The New World
The Conquistadors
The French
England: Exploration and Settlement
Jamestown, Virginia, and the Southern Colonies
Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the New England Colonies
Pennsylvania and the Middle Colonies
Great Britain and the Colonies
Chapter Review	24	(1)
Revolution and Independence	25	(10)
The French and Indian War
Social and Intellectual Movements
The Road to Revolution
From Agitation to Revolution
Independence and Revolution
The American Revolution
The Treaty of Paris
Chapter Review	33	(2)
The Young Republic	35	(13)
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitutional Convention
The Genesis of Political Parties
The Washington and Adams Administrations
Chapter Review	47	(1)
Jefferson and the Democratic Republic	48	(10)
The Revolution of 1800
The Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
Barbary Pirates
Burr, Hamilton, and Conspiracy
John Marshall and the Supreme Court
Jefferson and Foreign Affairs
James Madison
Causes of the War of 1812
The War against England
The Indian War
Treaty of Ghent
Results of the War of 1812
James Monroe
Chapter Review	57	(1)
The Age of Jackson	58	(11)
Jacksonian America
Sectional Developments
Henry Clay and the American System
John Quincy Adams and the Election of 1824
Andrew Jackson
The Jackson Presidency (1829--1837)
Martin Van Buren
The Election of 1840, Harrison and Tyler
Society and Culture in Jacksonian America
Chapter Review	67	(2)
The West (Pre--Civil War)	69	(6)
Manifest Destiny
Early Explorations and the Fur Trade
Oregon and California
The Republic of Texas
Annexation and the War with Mexico
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Aftermath of War
Chapter Review	74	(1)
Sectional Conflict	75	(10)
The Old South
Abolitionism
Conflict and Compromise
The Road to Civil War
The Crisis of Leadership and the Election of 1860
Chapter Review	83	(2)
Civil War and Reconstruction	85	(9)
Disunion and War
The Two Sides
War
Lincoln, Johnson, the Radicals, and Reconstruction
North and South in the Reconstruction Era
The Grant Administration
Chapter Review	93	(1)
The West (Post--Civil War)	94	(7)
Turner and the Frontier
The Plains Indians
Miners and Boomtowns
Cattle and Cowboys
The Plains Wars
Settlers
The Wild West
Chapter Review	100	(1)
The Gilded Age and Imperial America	101	(14)
The Corporation
Captains of Industry and the American Dream
Survival of the Fittest?
The New Immigration
The Rise of Big Labor
The American Empire
Chapter Review	114	(1)
Populism, Progressivism, and the Great War	115	(15)
Populism
Why Progressivism?
The Progressive Agenda
The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
Wilson and the Great War
Chapter Review	128	(2)
Boom, Bust, and the New Deal	130	(13)
The Jazz Age
Three Republican Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Chapter Review	142	(1)
World War II and the Origins of the Cold War	143	(15)
The Road to Pearl Harbor
The War in Europe
The Pacific War and the Nuclear Age
The Home Front
The Long Cold War Begins
Chapter Review	156	(2)
Postwar America: The Fifties and Sixties	158	(16)
The Cold War Gets Hot
The Eisenhower Years (1953--1961)
The New Frontier
The Great Society
The Mood Turns Sour: Vietnam and the Late 1960s
Chapter Review	172	(2)
Retrenchment: The Seventies and Eighties	174	(12)
The Counterculture Fades---and Feminism Rises
Nixon's Foreign Policy and the End of Idealism: Watergate
The Ford and Carter Years
The Reagan Years
Chapter Review	185	(1)
Post---Cold War America: Cold War Ends, War on Terror Begins	186	(13)
A New World
The Clinton Years
Bush and the War on Terror
September 11
War in Iraq
The 2004 Election
Chapter Review	198	(1)
Appendix A The Declaration of Independence	199	(4)
Appendix B The Constitution of the United States	203	(22)
Appendix C Presidents of the United States of America	225	(2)
Index	227