The United States: A Brief Narrative History

by Hullar, Link; Nelson, Scott A.

• ISBN13: 9780882959597
• ISBN10: 088295959X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Harlan Davidson

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Discovery, Exploration, and Colonization	1	(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	10	(1)
Revolution and Independence	11	(9)
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	19	(1)
The Young Republic	20	(12)
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitutional Convention
The Genesis of Political Parties
The Washington and Adams Administrations
Chapter Review	31	(1)
Jefferson and the Democratic Republic	32	(11)
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	42	(1)
The Age of Jackson	43	(10)
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	52	(1)
The West (Pre-Civil War)	53	(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	58	(1)
Sectional Conflict	59	(9)
The Old South
Abolitionism
Conflict and Compromise
The Road to Civil War
The Crisis of Leadership and the Election of 1860
Chapter Review	67	(1)
Civil War and Reconstruction	68	(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	76	(1)
The West (Post-Civil War)	77	(6)
Turner and the Frontier
The Plains Indians
Cattle and Cowboys
The Plains Wars
Settlers
The Wild West
Chapter Review	82	(1)
The Gilded Age and Imperial America	83	(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	96	(1)
Populism, Progressivism, and the Great War	97	(15)
Populism
Why Progressivism?
The Progressive Agenda
The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
Wilson and the Great War
Chapter Review	110	(2)
Boom, Bust, and the New Deal	112	(13)
The Jazz Age
Three Republican Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Chapter Review	124	(1)
World War II and the Origins of the Cold War	125	(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	138	(2)
Postwar America	140	(17)
The Fifties and Sixties
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	155	(2)
Retrenchment: The Seventies and Eighties	157	(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	168	(1)
Post-Cold War America	169	(9)
A New World
The Clinton Years
Chapter Review	177	(1)
Appendix A The Declaration of Independence	178	(4)
Appendix B The Constitution of the United States	182	(22)
Appendix C Presidents of the United States of America	204	(2)
Index	206