Maps | p. xv |
Graphs | p. xvii |
Feature Essays | p. xix |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
Debating the Past | |
Preface | p. xxi |
Supplements for Instructors and Students | p. xxv |
About the Authors | p. xxviii |
Prologue: Beginnings | p. 1 |
First Peoples | p. 2 |
The Demise of the Big Mammals | p. 2 |
The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals | p. 4 |
The First Sedentary Communities | p. 5 |
The Maize Revolution | p. 7 |
The Diffusion of Corn | p. 9 |
Population Growth After 800 | p. 9 |
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture | p. 10 |
The Collapse of Urban Centers | p. 12 |
Eurasia and Africa | p. 13 |
Europe in Ferment | p. 14 |
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas | p. 17 |
Sightings | p. 18 |
Columbus's Greatest Triumph-and Error | p. 18 |
Spain's American Empire | p. 21 |
Extending Spain's Empire to the North | p. 23 |
Disease and Population Losses | p. 25 |
Ecological Imperialism | p. 25 |
Spain's European Rivals | p. 27 |
The Protestant Reformation | p. 28 |
English Beginnings in America | p. 29 |
The Settlement of Virginia | p. 30 |
"Purifying" the Church of England | p. 33 |
Bradford and Plymouth Colony | p. 35 |
Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony | p. 36 |
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson | p. 39 |
Other New England Colonies | p. 41 |
Pequot War and King Philip's War | p. 41 |
Maryland and the Carolinas | p. 42 |
French and Dutch Settlements | p. 44 |
The Middle Colonies | p. 45 |
Cultural Collisions | p. 47 |
Cultural Fusions | p. 49 |
American Society in the Making | p. 52 |
Settlement of New France | p. 53 |
Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California | p. 54 |
The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard | p. 56 |
The Chesapeake Colonies | p. 57 |
The Lure of Land | p. 57 |
"Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery | p. 58 |
Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco | p. 59 |
Bacon's Rebellion | p. 61 |
The Carolinas | p. 63 |
Home and Family in the South | p. 65 |
Georgia and the Back Country | p. 66 |
Puritan New England | p. 68 |
Puritan Women and Children | p. 69 |
Visible Puritan Saints and Others | p. 70 |
Democracies Without Democrats | p. 71 |
The Dominion of New England | p. 72 |
Salem Bewitched | p. 74 |
A Merchant's World | p. 76 |
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis | p. 77 |
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples | p. 80 |
The Best Poor Man's Country | p. 82 |
The Politics of Diversity | p. 82 |
Becoming Americans | p. 84 |
America in the British Empire | p. 86 |
The British Colonial System | p. 87 |
Mercantilism | p. 89 |
The Navigation Acts | p. 90 |
The Effects of Mercantilism | p. 92 |
The Great Awakening | p. 93 |
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards | p. 96 |
The Enlightenment in America | p. 97 |
Colonial Scientific Achievements | p. 99 |
Repercussions of Distant Wars | p. 100 |
The Great War for the Empire | p. 102 |
Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris | p. 105 |
Burdens of an Expanded Empire | p. 106 |
Tightening Imperial Controls | p. 108 |
The Sugar Act | p. 110 |
American Colonists Demand Rights | p. 111 |
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling | p. 112 |
Rioters or Rebels? | p. 114 |
Taxation or Tyranny? | p. 115 |
The Declaratory Act | p. 116 |
The Townshend Duties | p. 117 |
The Boston Massacre | p. 118 |
The Pot Spills Over | p. 120 |
The Tea Act Crisis | p. 121 |
From Resistance to Revolution | p. 122 |
The American Revolution | p. 126 |
The Shot Heard Round the World | p. 127 |
The Second Continental Congress | p. 129 |
The Battle of Bunker Hill | p. 129 |
The Great Declaration | p. 130 |
1776: The Balance of Forces | p. 134 |
Loyalists | p. 136 |
Early British Victories | p. 137 |
Saratoga and the French Alliance | p. 139 |
The War Moves South | p. 142 |
Victory at Yorktown | p. 143 |
Negotiating a Favorable Peace | p. 145 |
National Government Under the Articles of Confederation | p. 147 |
Financing the War | p. 150 |
State Republican Governments | p. 152 |
Social Reform | p. 153 |
Effects of the Revolution on Women | p. 155 |
Growth of a National Spirit | p. 157 |
The Great Land Ordinances | p. 158 |
National Heroes | p. 160 |
The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant | p. 162 |
Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation | p. 163 |
Daniel Shays's "Little Rebellion" | p. 164 |
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution | p. 165 |
The Great Convention | p. 166 |
The Compromises That Produced the Constitution | p. 168 |
Ratifying the Constitution | p. 171 |
Washington as President | p. 173 |
Congress Under Way | p. 175 |
Hamilton and Financial Reform | p. 176 |
The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground | p. 180 |
Revolution in France | p. 181 |
Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties | p. 182 |
1794: Crisis and Resolution | p. 183 |
Jay's Treaty | p. 184 |
1795: All's Well That Ends Well | p. 185 |
Washington's Farewell | p. 186 |
The Election of 1796 | p. 187 |
The XYZ Affair | p. 189 |
The Alien and Sedition Acts | p. 190 |
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves | p. 191 |
Jeffersonian Democracy | p. 194 |
Jefferson Elected President | p. 195 |
The Federalist Contribution | p. 196 |
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist | p. 197 |
Jefferson as President | p. 199 |
Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary | p. 200 |
The Barbary Pirates | p. 201 |
The Louisiana Purchase | p. 202 |
The Federalists Discredited | p. 206 |
Lewis and Clark | p. 207 |
The Burr Conspiracy | p. 209 |
Napoleon and the British | p. 211 |
The Impressment Controversy | p. 212 |
The Embargo Act | p. 213 |
Jeffersonian Democracy | p. 216 |
National Growing Pains | p. 218 |
Madison in Power | p. 219 |
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance | p. 220 |
Depression and Land Hunger | p. 222 |
Opponents of War | p. 222 |
The War of 1812 | p. 224 |
Britain Assumes the Offensive | p. 227 |
The Star Spangled Banner | p. 228 |
The Treaty of Ghent | p. 230 |
The Hartford Convention | p. 231 |
The Battle of New Orleans | p. 232 |
Victory Weakens the Federalists | p. 233 |
Anglo-American Rapprochement | p. 234 |
The Transcontinental Treaty | p. 235 |
The Monroe Doctrine | p. 236 |
The Era of Good Feelings | p. 238 |
New Sectional Issues | p. 240 |
The Missouri Compromise | p. 241 |
The Election of 1824 | p. 244 |
John Quincy Adams as President | p. 246 |
Calhoun's Exposition and Protest | p. 246 |
The Meaning of Sectionalism | p. 248 |
Toward a National Economy | p. 250 |
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution | p. 251 |
Birth of the Factory | p. 252 |
An Industrial Proletariat? | p. 253 |
Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers | p. 255 |
Irish and German Immigrants | p. 256 |
The Persistence of the Household System | p. 257 |
Rise of Corporations | p. 258 |
Cotton Revolutionizes the South | p. 258 |
Revival of Slavery | p. 261 |
Roads to Market | p. 264 |
Transportation and the Government | p. 266 |
Development of Steamboats | p. 267 |
The Canal Boom | p. 267 |
New York City: Emporium of the Western World | p. 268 |
The Marshall Court | p. 270 |
Jacksonian Democracy | p. 276 |
"Democratizing" Politics | p. 277 |
1828: The New Party System in Embryo | p. 278 |
The Jacksonian Appeal | p. 280 |
The Spoils System | p. 280 |
President of All the People | p. 281 |
Jackson: "The Bank... I Will Kill It!" | p. 282 |
Jackson's Bank Veto | p. 284 |
Jackson Versus Calhoun | p. 286 |
Indian Removals | p. 287 |
The Nullification Crisis | p. 289 |
Boom and Bust | p. 292 |
The Jacksonians | p. 293 |
Rise of the Whigs | p. 294 |
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson | p. 296 |
The Log Cabin Campaign | p. 297 |
The Making of Middle-Class America | p. 300 |
Tocqueville: Democracy in America | p. 301 |
The Family Recast | p. 302 |
The Second Great Awakening | p. 304 |
Backwoods Utopias | p. 306 |
The Age of Reform | p. 309 |
"Demon Rum" | p. 311 |
The Abolitionist Crusade | p. 313 |
Women's Rights | p. 316 |
The Romantic View of Life | p. 318 |
Emerson and Thoreau | p. 319 |
Edgar Allan Poe | p. 320 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | p. 321 |
Herman Melville | p. 321 |
Walt Whitman | p. 322 |
Education for Democracy | p. 324 |
The State of the Colleges | p. 325 |
Westward Expansion | p. 328 |
Tyler's Troubles | p. 329 |
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty | p. 330 |
The Texas Question | p. 330 |
Manifest Destiny | p. 332 |
Life on the Trail | p. 332 |
California and Oregon | p. 334 |
The Election of 1844 | p. 335 |
Polk as President | p. 336 |
War with Mexico | p. 337 |
To the Halls of Montezuma | p. 338 |
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | p. 340 |
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States | p. 341 |
Slavery: The Storm Clouds Gather | p. 342 |
The Election of 1848 | p. 343 |
The Gold Rush | p. 344 |
The Compromise of 1850 | p. 346 |
The Sections Go Their Ways | p. 350 |
The Economics of Slavery | p. 351 |
The Sociology of Slavery | p. 353 |
Psychological Effects of Slavery | p. 356 |
Manufacturing in the South | p. 358 |
The Northern Industrial Juggernaut | p. 358 |
A Nation of Immigrants | p. 360 |
How Wage Earners Lived | p. 360 |
Foreign Commerce | p. 362 |
Steam Conquers the Atlantic | p. 363 |
Canals and Railroads | p. 364 |
Financing the Railroads | p. 365 |
Railroads and the Economy | p. 366 |
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict | p. 369 |
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War | p. 370 |
The Coming of the Civil War | p. 372 |
The Slave Power Comes North | p. 373 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | p. 373 |
Diversions Abroad: The "Young America" Movement | p. 374 |
Stephen Douglas: "The Little Giant" | p. 376 |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act | p. 377 |
Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System | p. 379 |
"Bleeding Kansas" | p. 380 |
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism | p. 383 |
Buchanan Tries His Hand | p. 384 |
The Dred Scott Decision | p. 385 |
The Proslavery Lecompton Constitution | p. 387 |
The Emergence of Lincoln | p. 388 |
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | p. 389 |
John Brown's Raid | p. 392 |
The Election of 1860 | p. 393 |
The Secession Crisis | p. 396 |
The War to Save the Union | p. 400 |
Lincoln's Cabinet | p. 401 |
Fort Sumter: The First Shot | p. 402 |
The Blue and the Gray | p. 402 |
The Test of Battle: Bull Run | p. 405 |
Paying for the War | p. 407 |
Politics as Usual | p. 407 |
Behind Confederate Lines | p. 408 |
War in the West: Shiloh | p. 410 |
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior | p. 411 |
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam | p. 413 |
The Emancipation Proclamation | p. 414 |
The Draft Riots | p. 416 |
The Emancipated People | p. 416 |
African American Soldiers | p. 417 |
Antietam to Gettysburg | p. 418 |
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg | p. 422 |
Economic and Social Effects, North and South | p. 423 |
Women in Wartime | p. 424 |
Grant in the Wilderness | p. 426 |
Sherman in Georgia | p. 427 |
To Appomattox Court House | p. 430 |
Winners, Losers, and the Future | p. 430 |
Reconstruction and the South | p. 435 |
The Assassination of Lincoln | p. 436 |
Presidential Reconstruction | p. 436 |
Republican Radicals | p. 439 |
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction | p. 440 |
The Fourteenth Amendment | p. 441 |
The Reconstruction Acts | p. 442 |
Congress Supreme | p. 443 |
The Fifteenth Amendment | p. 444 |
"Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers | p. 445 |
The Ravaged Land | p. 448 |
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System | p. 450 |
The White Backlash | p. 452 |
Grant as President | p. 454 |
The Disputed Election of 1876 | p. 455 |
The Compromise of 1877 | p. 457 |
Appendix | p. A-1 |
The Declaration of Independence | p. A-3 |
The Constitution of the United States of America | p. A-6 |
Amendments to the Constitution | p. A-14 |
Supplementary Reading | p. A-21 |
Present-Day United States | p. A-42 |
Present-Day World | p. A-44 |
Credits | p. C-1 |
Index | p. I-1 |
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