American Destiny Narrative of a Nation, Volume 1

by Carnes, Mark C.; Garraty, John A.

• ISBN13: 9780205790395
• ISBN10: 0205790399
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-24
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

American Destiny's pedagogical mission is to show readers how history connects to the experiences and expectations that mark their lives. The authors pursue that mission through a variety of distinctive features, including "American Lives" essays and "Re-Viewing the Past" movie essays. This book is the abridged version of The American Nation, 14thedition.

Author Biography

Mark C. Carnes

Mark C. Carnes received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his Ph.D in history from Columbia University. He has chaired both the history and American studies departments at Barnard College and Columbia University, where he serves as the Ann Whitney Olin professor of history. He is also the general editor of the American National Biography, whose 27th volume will appear in 2011. Carnes has published numerous books on American social and cultural history, including Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America (1989), Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (1995), Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America’s Past (2001) and Invisible Giants: 50 Americans That Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books (2002). Carnes also pioneered the Reacting to the Past pedagogy, which won the Theodore Hesburgh Award as the top outstanding pedagogical innovation in the nation (2004). In Reacting to the Past, college students play elaborate games, set in the past, their roles informed by classic texts. (For more on Reacting, see: www.barnard.edu/reacting.) In 2005 the American Historical Association named Carnes the recipient of the William Gilbert Prize for the best article on teaching history. His Mind Games: Rethinking Higher Education will be published in 2012.

 

John A. Garraty

John A. Garraty held a Ph.D from Columbia University and an L.H.D. from Michigan State University. He was the Gouverneur Morris professor emeritus of history at Columbia. He was also the author, co-author and editor of scores of books and articles, among them biographies of Silas Wright, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Perkins and Theodore Roosevelt. With Carnes, he co-edited the American National Biography. Garraty also contributed a volume — The New Commonwealth — to the New American Nation series and published a pioneering comparative study of the Great Depression.

Table of Contents

Maps, Graphs, and Features	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Supplements for Instructors and Students	p. xviii
Acknowledgments	p. xxii
About the Authors	p. xxiv
Prologue: Beginnings	p. 1
First Peoples	p. 1
The Demise of the Big Mammals	p. 2
The Archaic Period: Surviving without Big Mammals	p. 2
The Maize Revolution	p. 4
The Diffusion of Corn	p. 5
Population Growth after AD 800	p. 6
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture	p. 7
The Collapse of Urban Centers	p. 8
Eurasia and Africa	p. 9
Europe in Ferment	p. 11
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas	p. 14
Columbus's Great Triumph-and Error	p. 15
Spain's American Empire	p. 17
Extending Spain's Empire to the North	p. 19
Disease and Population Losses	p. 20
Ecological Imperialism	p. 21
Spain's European Rivals	p. 24
The Protestant Reformation	p. 24
English Beginnings in America	p. 25
The Settlement of Virginia	p. 27
ôPurifyingö the Church of England	p. 30
Bradford and Plymouth Colony	p. 31
Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony	p. 32
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson	p. 34
Other New England Colonies	p. 35
Pequot War and King Philip's War	p. 36
Maryland and the Carolinas	p. 37
French and Dutch Settlements	p. 38
The Middle Colonies	p. 39
Cultural Clisions	p. 40
Cultural Fusions	p. 44
American Society in the Making	p. 48
Settlement of New France	p. 49
Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California	p. 49
The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard	p. 52
The Chesapeake Colonies	p. 53
The Lure of Land	p. 54
ôSolvingö the Labor Shortage: Slavery	p. 55
Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco	p. 57
Bacon's Rebellion	p. 59
The Carolinas	p. 60
Home and Family in the South	p. 61
Georgia and the Back Country	p. 62
Puritan New England	p. 63
Democracies without Democrats	p. 65
The Dominion of New England	p. 66
Salem Bewitched	p. 66
A Merchant's World	p. 68
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis	p. 70
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples	p. 71
ôThe Best Poor Man's Countryö	p. 73
The Politics of Diversity	p. 73
Becoming Americans	p. 77
America in the British Empire	p. 79
The British Colonial System	p. 80
Mercantilism	p. 81
The Navigation Acts	p. 82
The Effects of Mercantilism	p. 83
The Great Awakening	p. 85
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards	p. 87
The Enlightenment in America	p. 88
Colonial Scientific Achievements	p. 89
Repercussions of Distant Wars	p. 90
The Great War for the Empire	p. 91
Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris	p. 95
Burdens of an Expanded Empire	p. 95
Tightening Imperial Controls	p. 97
The Sugar Act	p. 99
American Colonists Demand Rights	p. 100
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling	p. 100
Rioters or Rebels?	p. 102
The Declaratory Act	p. 103
The Townshend Duties	p. 104
The Boston Massacre	p. 105
The Boiling Pot Spills Over	p. 106
The Tea Act Crisis	p. 106
From Resistance to Revolution	p. 108
The American Revolution	p. 112
The Shot Heard Round the World	p. 113
The Second Continental Congress	p. 114
The Battle of Bunker Hill	p. 115
The Great Declaration	p. 116
1776: The Balance of Forces	p. 119
Loyalists	p. 120
The British Take New York City	p. 120
Saratoga and the French Alliance	p. 123
The War Moves South	p. 125
Victory at Yorktown	p. 126
Negotiating a Favorable Peace	p. 128
National Government under the Articles of Confederation	p. 130
Financing the War	p. 131
State Republican Governments	p. 131
Social Reform and Antislavery	p. 132
Women and the Revolution	p. 134
Growth of a National Spirit	p. 135
The Great Land Ordinances	p. 136
National Heroes	p. 140
The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant	p. 143
Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation	p. 144
Daniel Shays's ôLittle Rebellionö	p. 145
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution	p. 146
The Great Convention	p. 147
The Compromises That Produced the Constitution	p. 148
Ratifying the Constitution	p. 151
Washington as President	p. 153
Congress under Way	p. 155
Hamilton and Financial Reform	p. 155
The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground	p. 159
Revolution in France	p. 159
Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties	p. 161
1794: Crisis and Resolution	p. 162
Jay's Treaty	p. 163
1795: All's Well That Ends Well	p. 164
Washington's Farewell	p. 165
The Election of 1796	p. 165
The XYZ Affair	p. 166
The Alien and Sedition Acts	p. 167
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves	p. 168
Jeffersonian Democracy	p. 171
Jefferson Elected President	p. 172
The Federalist Contribution	p. 173
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist	p. 173
Jefferson as President	p. 174
Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary	p. 176
The Barbary Pirates	p. 177
The Louisiana Purchase	p. 177
The Federalists Discredited	p. 181
Lewis and Clark	p. 183
The Burr Conspiracy	p. 184
Napoleon and the British	p. 185
The Impressment Controversy	p. 187
The Embargo Act	p. 187
Jeffersonian Democracy	p. 190
National Growing Pains	p. 193
Madison in Power	p. 194
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance	p. 194
Depression and Land Hunger	p. 196
Opponents of War	p. 196
The War of 1812	p. 197
Britain Assumes the Offensive	p. 201
ôThe Star Spangled Bannerö	p. 202
The Treaty of Ghent	p. 203
The Hartford Convention	p. 203
The Battle of New Orleans and the End of the War	p. 204
Anglo-American Rapprochement	p. 206
The Transcontinental Treaty	p. 206
The Monroe Doctrine	p. 207
The Era of Good Feelings	p. 210
New Sectional Issues	p. 211
New Leaders	p. 214
The Missouri Compromise	p. 216
The Election of 1824	p. 219
John Quincy Adams as President	p. 220
Calhoun's Exposition and Protest	p. 220
The Meaning of Sectionalism	p. 221
Toward a National Economy	p. 224
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution	p. 225
Birth of the Factory	p. 226
An Industrial Proletariat?	p. 227
Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers	p. 229
Irish and German Immigrants	p. 230
The Persistence of the Household System	p. 231
Rise of Corporations	p. 231
Cotton Revolutionizes the South	p. 232
Revival of Slavery	p. 235
Roads to Market	p. 236
Transportation and the Government	p. 238
Development of Steamboats	p. 239
The Canal Boom	p. 240
New York City: Emporium of the Western World	p. 241
The Marshall Court	p. 243
Jacksonian Democracy	p. 247
ôDemocratizingö Politics	p. 248
1828: The New Party System in Embryo	p. 249
The Jacksonian Appeal	p. 250
The Spoils System	p. 251
President of All the People	p. 252
Sectional Tensions Revived	p. 253
Jackson: ôThe Bank … I Will Kill It!ö	p. 253
Jackson's Bank Veto	p. 255
Jackson versus Calhoun	p. 256
Indian Removals	p. 257
The Nullification Crisis	p. 260
Boom and Bust	p. 262
The Jacksonians	p. 263
Rise of the Whigs	p. 263
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism without Jackson	p. 265
The Log Cabin Campaign	p. 268
The Making of Middle-Class America	p. 271
Tocqueville: Democracy in America	p. 272
The Family Recast	p. 273
The Second Great Awakening	p. 274
The Era of Associations	p. 276
Backwoods Utopias	p. 277
The Age of Reform	p. 279
ôDemon Rumö	p. 281
The Abolitionist Crusade	p. 282
Women's Rights	p. 285
The Romantic View of Life	p. 288
Emerson and Thoreau	p. 289
Edgar Allan Poe	p. 290
Nathaniel Hawthorne	p. 291
Herman Melville	p. 292
Walt Whitman	p. 292
Reading and the Dissemination of Culture	p. 294
Education for Democracy	p. 294
The State of the Colleges	p. 296
Westward Expansion	p. 299
Tyler's Troubles	p. 299
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty	p. 300
The Texas Question	p. 301
Manifest Destiny	p. 303
Life on the Trail	p. 303
California and Oregon	p. 304
The Election of 1844	p. 307
Polk as President	p. 307
War with Mexico	p. 308
To the Halls of Montezuma	p. 310
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	p. 312
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States	p. 312
Slavery: Storm Clouds Gather	p. 313
The Election of 1848	p. 314
The Gold Rush	p. 316
The Compromise of 1850	p. 317
The Sections Go Their Own Ways	p. 323
The South	p. 324
The Economics of Slavery	p. 324
Antebellum Plantation Life	p. 327
The Sociology of Slavery	p. 328
Psychological Effects of Slavery	p. 330
Manufacturing in the South	p. 333
The Northern Industrial Juggernaut	p. 334
A Nation of Immigrants	p. 335
How Wage Earners Lived	p. 335
Progress and Poverty	p. 337
Foreign Commerce	p. 338
Steam Conquers the Atlantic	p. 339
Canals and Railroads	p. 339
Financing the Railroads	p. 340
Railroads and the Economy	p. 341
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict	p. 344
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War	p. 345
The Coming of the Civil War	p. 347
Slave-Catchers Come North	p. 348
Uncle Tom's Cabin	p. 350
Diversions Abroad: The ôYoung Americaö Movement	p. 351
Stephen Douglas: ôThe Little Giantö	p. 352
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	p. 353
Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System	p. 355
ôBleeding Kansasö	p. 356
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism	p. 358
Buchanan Tries His Hand	p. 359
The Dred Scott Decision	p. 360
The Proslavery Lecompton Constitution	p. 362
The Emergence of Lincoln	p. 363
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates	p. 364
John Brown's Raid	p. 366
The Election of 1860	p. 367
The Secession Crisis	p. 371
The War to Save the Union	p. 375
Lincoln's Cabinet	p. 375
Fort Sumter: The First Shot	p. 376
The Blue and the Gray	p. 378
The Test of Battle: Bull Run	p. 380
Paying for the War	p. 381
Politics as Usual	p. 382
Behind Confederate Lines	p. 383
War in the West: Shiloh	p. 384
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior	p. 385
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam	p. 387
The Emancipation Proclamation	p. 388
The Draft Riots	p. 391
The Emancipated People	p. 392
African American Soldiers	p. 392
Antietam to Gettysburg	p. 393
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg	p. 395
Economic and Social Effects, North and South	p. 396
Women in Wartime	p. 397
Grant in the Wilderness	p. 398
Sherman in Georgia	p. 400
To Appomattox Court House	p. 403
Winners, Losers, and the Future	p. 403
Reconstruction and the South	p. 409
The Assassination of Lincoln	p. 410
Presidential Reconstruction	p. 411
Republican Radicals	p. 413
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction	p. 413
The Fourteenth Amendment	p. 415
The Reconstruction Acts	p. 416
Congress Supreme	p. 416
The Fifteenth Amendment	p. 417
ôBlack Republicanö Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers	p. 419
The Ravaged Land	p. 421
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System	p. 422
The White Backlash	p. 424
Grant as President	p. 426
The Disputed Election of 1876	p. 427
The Compromise of 1877	p. 429
Appendix A-1
Credits C-1
Glossary G-1
Index I-1
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