America

by Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780393970630
• ISBN10: 0393970639
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Tells the story of America's history, focusing on the individuals and groups that shaped it

Table of Contents

List of Maps	xv
Preface	xvii
PART ONE / A NEW WORLD
Discovery and Settlement	5	(48)
Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations	6	(2)
The Collision of Cultures	8	(17)
Settling the Chesapeake	25	(5)
Settling New England	30	(8)
Renewed Settlement	38	(10)
Thriving Colonies	48	(2)
Further Reading	50	(3)
Colonial Ways of Life	53	(39)
The Shape of Early America	53	(8)
Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies	61	(7)
Society and Economy in New England	68	(9)
Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies	77	(3)
Colonial Cities	80	(2)
The Enlightenment	82	(2)
The Great Awakening	84	(6)
Further Reading	90	(2)
The Imperial Perspective	92	(24)
English Administration of the Colonies	93	(4)
The Habit of Self-Government	97	(3)
Troubled Neighbors	100	(8)
The Colonial Wars	108	(6)
Further Reading	114	(2)
From Empire to Independence	116	(35)
The Heritage of War	116	(2)
Western Lands	118	(1)
Grenville and the Stamp Act	119	(6)
Fanning the Flames	125	(5)
Discontent on the Frontier	130	(1)
A Worsening Crisis	131	(6)
Shifting Authority	137	(5)
Independence	142	(4)
Further Reading	146	(5)
PART TWO / BUILDING A NATION
The American Revolution	151	(37)
1776: Washington's Narrow Escape	152	(2)
American Society at War	154	(5)
1777: Setbacks for the British	159	(4)
1778: Both Sides Regroup	163	(4)
The War in the South	167	(4)
Negotiations	171	(2)
The Political Revolution	173	(4)
The Social Revolution	177	(7)
Emergence of an American Culture	184	(3)
Further Reading	187	(1)
Shaping a Federal Union	188	(25)
The Confederation	188	(11)
Adopting the Constitution	199	(12)
``A More Perfect Union''	211	(1)
Further Reading	212	(1)
The Federalists: Washington and Adams	213	(31)
A New Nation	213	(5)
Hamilton's Vision of America	218	(5)
The Republican Alternative	223	(3)
Crises Foreign and Domestic	226	(8)
The Adams Years	234	(8)
Further Reading	242	(2)
Republicanism: Jefferson and Madison	244	(29)
Jefferson in Power	244	(9)
Divisions in the Republican Party	253	(3)
War in Europe	256	(4)
The War Of 1812	260	(12)
Further Reading	272	(1)
Nationalism and Sectionalism	273	(28)
Economic Nationalism	273	(4)
``Good Feelings''	277	(4)
Speculation and Slavery	281	(3)
Judicial Nationalism	284	(3)
Nationalist Diplomacy	287	(2)
One-Party Politics	289	(7)
Further Reading	296	(5)
PART THREE / AN EXPANSIVE NATION
The Jacksonian Impulse	301	(29)
Setting the Stage	301	(5)
Nullification	306	(6)
Indian Policy	312	(3)
The Bank Controversy	315	(6)
Van Buren and the New Party System	321	(5)
Assessing the Jackson Years	326	(2)
Further Reading	328	(2)
The Dynamics of Growth	330	(29)
Agriculture and the National Economy	330	(3)
Transportation and the National Economy	333	(6)
The Growth of Industry	339	(7)
Immigration	346	(8)
Organized Labor	354	(2)
Jacksonian Inequality	356	(2)
Further Reading	358	(1)
An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform	359	(33)
Rational Religion	359	(2)
The Second Great Awakening	361	(7)
Romanticism in America	368	(3)
The Flowering of American Literature	371	(5)
Education	376	(3)
Some Movements for Reform	379	(11)
Further Reading	390	(2)
Manifest Destiny	392	(35)
The Westering Impulse	392	(3)
Moving West	395	(1)
The Indian and Spanish Frontier	396	(11)
Annexing Texas	407	(4)
Polk's Presidency	411	(3)
The Mexican War	414	(7)
Further Reading	421	(6)
PART FOUR / A HOUSE DIVIDED
The Old South: An American Tragedy	427	(30)
Myth, Reality, and the Old South	427	(5)
White Society in the South	432	(3)
Black Society in the South	435	(8)
The Culture of The Southern Frontier	443	(4)
Antislavery Movements	447	(8)
Further Reading	455	(2)
The Crisis of Union	457	(35)
Slavery in the Territories	457	(6)
The Compromise of 1850	463	(7)
Foreign Adventures	470	(1)
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis	471	(7)
The Deepening Sectional Crisis	478	(7)
The Center Comes Apart	485	(6)
Further Reading	491	(1)
The War of the Union	492	(40)
An Epic Struggle	492	(5)
A Modern War	497	(4)
The War's Early Course	501	(10)
Emancipation	511	(3)
Government During the War	514	(4)
The Faltering Confederacy	518	(6)
The Confederacy's Defeat	524	(6)
Further Reading	530	(2)
Reconstruction: North and South	532	(37)
The Battle Over Reconstruction	532	(11)
Reconstructing the South	543	(3)
Blacks in the Reconstructed South	546	(9)
The Grant Years	555	(8)
Further Reading	563	(6)
PART FIVE / GROWING PAINS
New Frontiers: South and West	569	(33)
The New South	570	(12)
The New West	582	(17)
Further Reading	599	(3)
The Rise of Big Business	602	(29)
The Post-Civil War Economy	602	(7)
Entrepreneurs	609	(6)
Advances For Labor	615	(14)
Further Reading	629	(2)
The Emergence of Modern America	631	(32)
America's Move to Town	632	(3)
The New Immigration	635	(9)
Education and the Professions	644	(3)
Theories of Social Change	647	(2)
Realism in Fact and Fiction	649	(5)
The Social Gospel	654	(3)
Early Efforts At Urban Reform	657	(4)
Further Reading	661	(2)
Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt	663	(36)
Paradoxical Politics	663	(3)
Corruption and Reform	666	(12)
The Problems of Farmers	678	(2)
Agrarian Revolt	680	(13)
Further Reading	693	(6)
PART SIX / MODERN AMERICA
The Course of Empire	699	(28)
Toward the New Imperialism	699	(3)
Steps to World Power	702	(2)
The Spanish-American War	704	(12)
Imperial Rivalries in East Asia	716	(1)
An American Original	717	(3)
Roosevelt's Foreign Policy	720	(6)
Further Reading	726	(1)
Progressivism: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson	727	(31)
Elements of Reform	727	(4)
The Features of Progressivism	731	(3)
Roosevelt's Progressivism	734	(4)
Roosevelt's Second Term	738	(2)
From Roosevelt to Taft	740	(4)
Wilson's Progressivism	744	(11)
The Limits of Progressivism	755	(1)
Further Reading	756	(2)
Wilson and the Great War	758	(36)
Wilson and Foreign Affairs	758	(4)
The Great War and America	762	(8)
America's Entry	770	(7)
``The Decisive Power''	777	(4)
The Fight for Peace at Home and Abroad	781	(6)
Lurching From War to Peace	787	(6)
Further Reading	793	(1)
The Modern Temper	794	(21)
Reaction in the Twenties	794	(7)
Social Tensions	801	(7)
The Culture of Modernism	808	(6)
Further Reading	814	(1)
Republican Resurgence and Decline	815	(28)
Progressivism Transformed	815	(1)
``Normalcy''	816	(8)
The New Era	824	(8)
President Hoover, The Engineer	832	(10)
Further Reading	842	(1)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal	843	(39)
From Hooverism to the New Deal	844	(7)
Recovery Through Regulation	851	(7)
Launching the Second New Deal	858	(10)
Second-Term Setbacks and Initiatives	868	(5)
The Legacy Of The New Deal	873	(2)
Culture in the Thirties	875	(5)
Further Reading	880	(2)
From Isolation to Global War	882	(25)
Postwar Isolationism	882	(5)
War Clouds	887	(7)
The Storm in Europe	894	(6)
The Storm in the Pacific	900	(5)
Further Reading	905	(2)
The World at War	907	(44)
America's Early Battles	907	(2)
Mobilization at Home	909	(11)
The Allied Drive Toward Berlin	920	(10)
Leapfrogging to Tokyo	930	(4)
A New Age is Born	934	(11)
Further Reading	945	(6)
PART SEVEN / THE AMERICAN AGE
The Fair Deal and Containment	951	(30)
Demobilization Under Truman	952	(5)
The Cold War	957	(9)
Harry Gives 'EM Hell	966	(4)
The Cold War Heats Up	970	(10)
Further Reading	980	(1)
Through the Picture Window: Society And Culture, 1945--1960	981	(24)
People of Plenty	982	(9)
A Conforming Culture	991	(4)
Cracks in the Picture Window	995	(7)
A Paradoxical Era	1002	(1)
Further Reading	1003	(2)
Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years	1005	(30)
``Time for a Change''	1005	(15)
Civil Rights in the Fifties	1020	(5)
A Season of Troubles	1025	(6)
Assessing the Eisenhower Years	1031	(2)
Further Reading	1033	(2)
New Frontiers: Kennedy and Johnson	1035	(36)
The New Frontier	1036	(7)
Foreign Frontiers	1043	(5)
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society	1048	(8)
From Civil Rights to Black Power	1056	(4)
The Tragedy of Vietnam	1060	(6)
Sixties Crescendo	1066	(3)
Further Reading	1069	(2)
Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s	1071	(40)
The Roots of Rebellion	1071	(16)
Nixon and Vietnam	1087	(5)
Nixon and Middle America	1092	(4)
Nixon Triumphant	1096	(2)
Watergate	1098	(4)
An Unelected President	1102	(2)
The Carter Interregnum	1104	(5)
Further Reading	1109	(2)
A New Gilded Age	1111	(38)
The Reagan Restoration	1111	(11)
Reagan's Second Term	1122	(11)
The Bush Years	1133	(14)
Further Reading	1147	(2)
Cultural Politics	1149
America's Changing Face: The 1990 Census	1152
Bush to Clinton	1158
Democratic Resurgence	1163
The Republican Agenda	1175
Further Reading	1184
Appendix
The Declaration of Independence	A1
Articles of Confederation	A6
The Constitution of the United States	A14
Presidential Elections	A34
Admission of States	A42
Population of the United States	A43
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820--1990	A44
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-1989	A46
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State	A53
Chronology of Significant Events	A58
Illustration Credits	A69
Index	A73