These United States: The Questions of Our Past, Concise Edition, Volume 1:To 1877 (Chapters 1-16)

by Unger, Irwin

• ISBN13: 9780132299664
• ISBN10: 0132299666
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Written by a Pulitzer Prize winning author, this "concise" survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the crisis following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. This new third edition is updated to include the War on Terror, the Iraq War, the election of 2004, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and globalization.

Table of Contents

Maps,	xii
About the Author,	xiii
Preface,	xiv
Teaching and Learning Package,	xv
Acknowledgments,	xvi
1 THE NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS THE OLD
Why 1492?	1	(20)
THE NATIVE AMERICANS,	2	(4)
THE FIRST EUROPEAN "DISCOVERY",	6	(1)
THE RISE OF MODERN EUROPE,	6	(5)
EUROPEAN EXPANSION,	11	(6)
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE,	17	(3)
CONCLUSIONS,	20	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	20	(1)
2 THE OLD WORLD COMES TO AMERICA
What Brought Europeans and Africans to the New World?	21	(22)
THE ARISTOCRATIC IMPULSE,	22	(1)
THE PROFIT MOTIVE,	23	(4)
"THE BEST POOR MAN'S COUNTRY",	27	(3)
INVOLUNTARY IMMIGRANTS,	30	(3)
AMERICA AS RELIGIOUS HAVEN,	33	(7)
CONCLUSIONS,	40	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	41	(2)
3 COLONIAL SOCIETY
How Did Old World Life and Culture Change in the Wilderness?	43	(29)
A NEW MIXTURE IN NEW LAND,	44	(6)
REGIONS,	50	(2)
FAMILIES,	52	(4)
EVERYDAY LIFE,	56	(2)
GOVERNMENT,	58	(2)
RELIGION,	60	(5)
INTELLECTUAL AMERICA,	65	(3)
THE ARTS,	68	(2)
CONCLUSIONS,	70	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	71	(1)
4 MOVING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE
Why Did the Colonists Revolt?	72	(29)
THE COLONIAL ECONOMY,	73	(8)
COSTS AND BENEFITS OF EMPIRE BEFORE 1763,	81	(3)
THE CRISIS OF EMPIRE,	84	(15)
CONCLUSIONS,	99	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	100	(1)
5 THE REVOLUTION
How Did It Change America?	101	(24)
AMERICAN PROSPECTS,	102	(4)
THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE,	106	(2)
THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE,	108	(5)
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION,	113	(2)
SOCIAL CHANGE,	115	(5)
MAKING THE PEACE,	120	(3)
CONCLUSIONS,	123	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	124	(1)
6 THE ORIGINS OF THE CONSTITUTION
By Popular Demand?	125	(24)
AMERICA IN THE 1780's,	126	(7)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS,	133	(1)
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN,	134	(3)
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION,	137	(7)
RATIFICATION,	144	(4)
CONCLUSIONS,	148	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	148	(1)
7 THE FIRST PARTY SYSTEM
What Issues Divided the New Nation?	149	(20)
THE NEW GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED,	150	(4)
THE BEGINNINGS OF PARTIES,	154	(4)
RELATIONS WITH EUROPE,	158	(7)
REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH,	165	(3)
CONCLUSIONS,	168	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	168	(1)
8 THE JEFFERSONIANS IN OFFICE
How Did Power Affect Republican Ideology?	169	(21)
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON,	170	(3)
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND REPUBLICAN POLICY,	173	(11)
THE WAR OF 1812,	184	(4)
CONCLUSIONS,	188	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	189	(1)
9 THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE
What Made It Possible?	190	(23)
FACTORS OF PRODUCTION,	191	(9)
THE COURSE OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH,	200	(8)
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS,	208	(3)
CONCLUSIONS,	211	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	212	(1)
10 JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
What Was It and How Did It Change Political Life?	213	(21)
THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS,	214	(5)
JACKSON COMES TO POWER,	219	(3)
KING ANDREW,	222	(9)
WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS AFTER JACKSON,	231	(1)
CONCLUSIONS,	232	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	233	(1)
11 THE MEXICAN WAR AND EXPANSIONISM
Greed, Manifest Destiny, or Inevitability?	234	(23)
THE OREGON COUNTRY,	236	(3)
THE MEXICAN BORDERLANDS,	239	(3)
THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS,	242	(2)
EXPANSIONISM: ADVOCATES AND OPPONENTS,	244	(3)
MOVING TOWARD WAR,	247	(4)
WAR WITH MEXICO,	251	(5)
CONCLUSIONS,	256	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	256	(1)
12 AMERICANS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
What Were They Really Like?	257	(23)
THE MOVING FRONTIER,	258	(3)
NEW PRESSURES IN THE NORTHEAST,	261	(6)
THE ARTS IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA,	267	(4)
THE PERFECT SOCIETY,	271	(7)
CONCLUSIONS,	278	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	279	(1)
13 THE OLD SOUTH
What Is Myth and What Was Real?	280	(17)
AN UNEXPECTED DIVERSITY,	281	(3)
LIFE UNDER SLAVERY,	284	(5)
THE SOUTHERN MIND,	289	(7)
CONCLUSIONS,	296	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	296	(1)
14 THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR
What Caused the Division?	297	(30)
A HOUSE DIVIDING,	298	(3)
THE DILEMMA OF TERRITORIAL EXPANSION,	301	(7)
WORSENING TENSIONS,	308	(6)
REPUBLICANS AND THE WORSENING CRISIS,	314	(11)
CONCLUSIONS,	325	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	326	(1)
15 THE CIVIL WAR
How Did the War Change the Nation?	327	(26)
NORTH VERSUS SOUTH,	328	(3)
THE WAR BEGINS,	331	(5)
WAR AND SOCIETY,	336	(10)
THE LAST YEARS OF BATTLE,	346	(5)
CONCLUSIONS,	351	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	351	(2)
16 RECONSTRUCTION
What Went Wrong?	353	(32)
THE LEGACY OF WAR,	354	(2)
ISSUES AND ATTITUDES,	356	(2)
PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION,	358	(6)
CONGRESS TAKES OVER,	364	(3)
CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION,	367	(3)
RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SOUTH,	370	(12)
CONCLUSIONS,	382	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	383	(2)
17 THE TRIUMPH OF INDUSTRIALISM
What Were the Causes, What Were the Costs?	385	(27)
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY,	386	(6)
THE SPOILERS,	392	(2)
THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATION,	394	(2)
THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT,	396	(3)
THE WAGE EARNERS,	399	(4)
WORKING-CLASS PROTEST,	403	(8)
CONCLUSIONS,	411	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	411	(1)
18 AGE OF THE CITY
What Did Cities Offer? And to Whom?	412	(22)
IMMIGRATION,	413	(7)
THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT,	420	(4)
CITY GOVERNMENT,	424	(3)
BETTER PLACE TO LIVE,	427	(5)
CONCLUSIONS,	432	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	432	(2)
19 THE TRANS-MISSOURI WEST
Another Colony?	434	(26)
SETTLEMENT OF THE LAST WEST,	435	(2)
NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE LAST WEST,	437	(8)
THE MINING FRONTIER,	445	(3)
THE CATTLE KINGDOM,	448	(2)
WESTERN LAND POLICIES,	450	(2)
FARMING IN THE LAST WEST,	452	(2)
FARM DISCONTENT AND WESTERN REVOLT,	454	(3)
THE GRANGERS,	457	(2)
CONCLUSIONS,	459	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	459	(1)
20 THE GILDED AGE
How "Gilded" Was It?	460	(32)
POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE,	461	(3)
THE BASES FOR PARTY AFFILIATION,	464	(3)
PARTY REALIGNMENTS,	467	(6)
CULTURE IN THE AGE OF THE DYNAMO,	473	(17)
CONCLUSIONS,	490	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	491	(1)
21 THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
Why Did the United States Look Abroad?	492	(20)
THE BACKGROUND,	493	(1)
THE BEGINNINGS OF OVERSEAS EXPANSION,	494	(4)
HAWAII AND VENEZUELA,	498	(3)
CUBA LIBRE,	501	(3)
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR,	504	(3)
IMPERIAL AMERICA,	507	(3)
CONCLUSIONS,	510	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	511	(1)
22 PROGRESSIVISM
What Were Its Roots and What Were Its Accomplishments?	512	(28)
UNCERTAINTIES,	513	(4)
THE OPINION MAKERS,	517	(1)
PROGRESSIVISM ENTERS POLITICS,	518	(6)
PROGRESSIVISM GOES NATIONAL,	524	(11)
THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION,	535	(3)
CONCLUSIONS,	538	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	539	(1)
23 WORLD WAR I
Idealism, National Interest, or Neutral Rights?	540	(26)
WILSON AND THE WORLD ORDER,	541	(4)
NEUTRALITY AND PUBLIC OPINION,	545	(2)
NEUTRAL RIGHTS,	547	(7)
THE WAR,	554	(1)
THE WAR EFFORT AT HOME,	555	(5)
MAKING THE PEACE,	560	(4)
CONCLUSIONS,	564	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	565	(1)
24 THE TWENTIES
Happy Adolescence or Decade of Stress?	566	(23)
THE SWING TO THE POLITICAL RIGHT,	567	(3)
"NEW ERA" PROSPERITY,	570	(4)
OLD AND NEW AMERICA,	574	(9)
CONFRONTATION,	583	(4)
CONCLUSIONS,	587	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	588	(1)
25 THE NEW DEAL
Too Far or Not Far Enough?	589	(26)
BOOM AND BUST,	590	(5)
HOOVER AND THE DEPRESSION,	595	(4)
FDR'S NEW DEAL,	599	(5)
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES,	604	(4)
THE SOCIAL WELFARE STATE,	608	(3)
END OF THE NEW DEAL,	611	(2)
CONCLUSIONS,	613	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	614	(1)
26 WORLD WAR II
Blunder, or Decision in the National Interest?	615	(30)
SEEDS OF CONFLICT,	616	(6)
THE EROSION OF AMERICAN NEUTRALITY,	622	(6)
THE HOME FRONT,	628	(6)
THE FIGHTING FRONTS,	634	(9)
CONCLUSIONS,	643	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	644	(1)
27 POSTWAR AMERICA
Why So Security Conscious?	645	(36)
THE POLITICS OF DEAD CENTER,	646	(6)
THE GOOD LIFE,	652	(4)
O THE OTHER HALF,	656	(4)
THE COLD WAR,	660	(12)
SECOND "RED SCARE",	672	(6)
CONCLUSIONS,	678	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	679	(2)
28 THE DISSENTING SIXTIES
Why Protest in the "Great Society"?	681	(34)
POLITICS IN CAMELOT,	682	(9)
THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY,	691	(3)
THE JOHNSON YEARS,	694	(4)
THE RISE OF DISSENT,	698	(6)
LIBERATION,	704	(2)
QUAGMIRE IN VIETNAM,	706	(4)
THE 1968 ELECTION,	710	(3)
CONCLUSIONS,	713	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	714	(1)
29 THE UNCERTAIN SEVENTIES
Why Did the Right Fail?	715	(32)
THE NIXON PRESIDENCY,	716	(9)
WATERGATE,	725	(5)
SEVENTIES DISCONTENTS,	730	(8)
THE ENERGY CRISIS AND ECONOMIC MALAISE,	738	(3)
THE CARTER YEARS,	741	(5)
CONCLUSIONS,	746	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	746	(1)
30 THE "REAGAN REVOLUTION"
What Was It? What Did It Accomplish?	747	(23)
THE FIRST TERM,	748	(10)
THE SECOND FOUR YEARS,	758	(9)
CONCLUSIONS,	767	(2)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	769	(1)
31 UNITED AMERICA?
Would Diversity and the War on Terror Change America?	770
THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH,	771	(3)
THE GULF WAR,	774	(4)
THE ELECTION OF 1992,	778	(3)
CLINTON'S FIRST TERM,	781	(8)
RACE, GENDER, AND NATIONALITY,	789	(14)
THE NEW ECONOMY,	803	(5)
ELECTION 2000,	808	(2)
BUSH AND THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM,	810	(6)
THE WAR IN IRAQ,	816	(6)
ENRON AND THE END OF THE "NEW ECONOMY" ERA,	822	(1)
REELECTION AND SECOND TERM,	823	(2)
SECOND TERM,	825	(6)
CONCLUSIONS,	831	(1)
ONLINE RESOURCES,	832
APPENDIX	A1
The Declaration of Independence,	A1
The Constitution of the United States of America,	A5
Presidential Elections,	A18
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court,	A22
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Cabinet Members,	A23
BIBLIOGRAPHIES	B1
PHOTO CREDITS	C1
INDEX	I1
U.S. HISTORY DOCUMENTS CD-ROM	CD1