American Nation, The: A History of the United States to 1877, Volume I, Primary Source Edition (Book Alone)

by Carnes, Mark C; Garraty, John A

• ISBN13: 9780321426079
• ISBN10: 032142607X
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

With 32 primary source documents, The American Nation, Twelfth Edition, Primary Source Edition, Volume One, has everything students need to master the course-a rich text with a clear, relevant, and balanced portrait of the social, economic, and cultural issues in U.S. history plus a wealth of original documents that help make the material come alive. In addition, "Document Analysis" questions encourage students to delve deeper into the documents and to explore how they relate to the events of the time. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Maps and Graphs	p. xix
Features	p. xxi
American Lives
Re-Viewing the Past
Mapping the Past
Debating the Past
Preface	p. xxiii
About the Authors	p. xxviii
Prologue: Beginnings	p. 2
Passage to Alaska	p. 3
The Demise of the Big Mammals	p. 5
The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals, 9000 B.C.E.-1000 B.C.E	p. 5
The First Sedentary Communities, 1000 B.C.E	p. 7
Corn Transforms the Southwest	p. 9
The Diffusion of Corn	p. 11
Population Growth After 800	p. 11
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture	p. 12
The Collapse of Urban Centers	p. 13
American Beginnings in Eurasia and Africa	p. 14
Europe in Ferment	p. 15
Debating the Past: Who-or what-killed the big mammals?	p. 6
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas	p. 18
Columbus	p. 20
Spain's American Empire	p. 22
Indians and Europeans	p. 23
Relativity of Cultural Values	p. 23
Disease and Population Losses	p. 25
Spain's European Rivals	p. 27
The Protestant Reformation	p. 27
English Beginnings in America	p. 29
The Settlement of Virginia	p. 30
"Purifying" the Church of England	p. 32
Bradford and Plymouth Colony	p. 33
Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony	p. 36
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson	p. 38
Other New England Colonies	p. 39
French and Dutch Settlements	p. 39
Maryland and the Carolinas	p. 40
The Middle Colonies	p. 42
Indians and Europeans as "Americanizers"	p. 43
American Lives: Tisquantum	p. 34
Debating the Past: How many Indians perished with European settlement?	p. 26
American Society in the Making	p. 48
What Is an American?	p. 50
Spanish Settlement	p. 50
The Chesapeake Colonies	p. 51
The Lure of Land	p. 53
"Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery	p. 54
Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco	p. 56
Bacon's Rebellion	p. 57
The Carolinas	p. 58
Home and Family in the South	p. 60
Georgia and the Back Country	p. 61
Puritan New England	p. 62
The Puritan Family	p. 62
Puritan Women and Children	p. 62
Visible Puritan Saints and Others	p. 63
Democracies Without Democrats	p. 64
The Dominion of New England	p. 65
Salem Bewitched	p. 65
Higher Education in New England	p. 66
Prosperity Undermines Puritanism	p. 70
A Merchant's World	p. 72
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis	p. 72
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples	p. 73
"The Best Poor Man's Country"	p. 74
The Politics of Diversity	p. 75
Rebellious Women	p. 76
Re-Viewing the Past: The Crucible	p. 68
Debating the Past: Were puritan communities peaceable?	p. 71
America in the British Empire	p. 78
The British Colonial System	p. 80
Mercantilism	p. 81
The Navigation Acts	p. 82
The Effects of Mercantilism	p. 83
The Great Awakening	p. 84
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards	p. 86
The Enlightenment in America	p. 86
Colonial Scientific Achievements	p. 88
Repercussions of Distant Wars	p. 89
The Great War for the Empire	p. 92
The Peace of Paris	p. 94
Putting the Empire Right	p. 95
Tightening Imperial Controls	p. 96
The Sugar Act	p. 97
American Colonists Demand Rights	p. 99
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling	p. 99
Rioters or Rebels?	p. 101
Taxation or Tyranny?	p. 101
The Declaratory Act	p. 102
The Townshend Duties	p. 102
The Boston Massacre	p. 103
The Pot Spills Over	p. 104
The Tea Act Crisis	p. 104
From Resistance to Revolution	p. 106
American Lives: Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi	p. 90
Debating the Past: Was economic gain the colonists' main motivation?	p. 87
The American Revolution	p. 110
"The Shot Heard Round the World"	p. 112
The Second Continental Congress	p. 112
The Battle of Bunker Hill	p. 113
The Great Declaration	p. 114
1776: The Balance of Forces	p. 116
Loyalists	p. 118
Early British Victories	p. 118
Saratoga and the French Alliance	p. 119
The War Moves South	p. 122
Victory at Yorktown	p. 123
The Peace of Paris	p. 126
Forming a National Government	p. 128
Financing the War	p. 129
State Republican Governments	p. 130
Social Reform	p. 130
Effects of the Revolution on Women	p. 132
Growth of a National Spirit	p. 133
The Great Land Ordinances	p. 134
National Heroes	p. 137
A National Culture	p. 137
Re-Viewing the Past: The Patriot	p. 124
Debating the Past: Was the American Revolution rooted in class struggle?	p. 128
The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant	p. 140
Border Problems	p. 142
Foreign Trade	p. 143
The Specter of Inflation	p. 143
Daniel Shays's "Little Rebellion"	p. 144
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution	p. 145
The Great Convention	p. 145
The Compromises That Produced the Constitution	p. 146
Ratifying the Constitution	p. 149
Washington as President	p. 151
Congress Under Way	p. 154
Hamilton and Financial Reform	p. 155
The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground	p. 157
Revolution in France	p. 158
Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties	p. 159
1794: Crisis and Resolution	p. 160
Jay's Treaty	p. 160
1795: All's Well That Ends Well	p. 161
Washington's Farewell	p. 162
The Election of 1796	p. 162
The XYZ Affair	p. 163
The Alien and Sedition Acts	p. 165
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves	p. 165
Mapping the Past: Depicting History with Maps	p. 152
Debating the Past: What ideas shaped the Constitution?	p. 148
Jeffersonian Democracy	p. 168
The Federalist Contribution	p. 170
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist	p. 170
Jefferson as President	p. 172
Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary	p. 173
The Barbary Pirates	p. 174
The Louisiana Purchase	p. 175
The Federalists Discredited	p. 177
Lewis and Clark	p. 178
Jeffersonian Democracy	p. 182
The Burr Conspiracy	p. 182
Napoleon and the British	p. 184
The Impressment Controversy	p. 185
The Embargo Act	p. 186
Mapping the Past: A Water Route to the Pacific?	p. 180
Debating the Past: Did Thomas Jefferson father a child by his slave?	p. 171
National Growing Pains	p. 190
Madison in Power	p. 191
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance	p. 192
Depression and Land Hunger	p. 193
Opponents of War	p. 195
The War of 1812	p. 195
Britain Assumes the Offensive	p. 199
"The Star Spangled Banner"	p. 199
The Treaty of Ghent	p. 200
The Hartford Convention	p. 201
The Battle of New Orleans	p. 201
Victory Weakens the Federalists	p. 202
Anglo-American Rapprochement	p. 203
The Transcontinental Treaty	p. 204
The Monroe Doctrine	p. 204
The Era of Good Feelings	p. 206
New Sectional Issues	p. 208
Northern Leaders	p. 210
Southern Leaders	p. 212
Western Leaders	p. 213
The Missouri Compromise	p. 214
The Election of 1824	p. 215
John Quincy Adams as President	p. 216
Calhoun's Exposition and Protest	p. 217
The Meaning of Sectionalism	p. 220
Mapping the Past: North-South Sectionalism Intensifies	p. 218
Debating the Past: How did Indians and settlers interact?	p. 194
Toward a National Economy	p. 222
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution	p. 223
Birth of the Factory	p. 224
An Industrial Proletariat?	p. 228
Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers	p. 228
Irish and German Immigrants	p. 230
The Persistence of the Household System	p. 230
Rise of Corporations	p. 231
Cotton Revolutionizes the South	p. 232
Revival of Slavery	p. 233
Roads to Market	p. 235
Transportation and the Government	p. 237
Development of Steamboats	p. 237
The Canal Boom	p. 240
New York City: Emporium of the Western World	p. 242
The Marshall Court	p. 244
Mapping the Past: The Making of the Working Class	p. 226
Debating the Past: Was early nineteenth-century America transformed by a "market revolution"?	p. 238
Jacksonian Democracy	p. 248
"Democratizing" Politics	p. 250
1828: The New Party System in Embryo	p. 251
The Jacksonian Appeal	p. 252
The Spoils System	p. 253
President of All the People	p. 253
Sectional Tensions Revived	p. 254
Jackson: "The Bank ... I Will Kill It!"	p. 254
Jackson's Bank Veto	p. 255
Jackson Versus Calhoun	p. 257
Indian Removals	p. 258
The Nullification Crisis	p. 260
Boom and Bust	p. 262
Jacksonianism Abroad	p. 263
The Jacksonians	p. 263
Rise of the Whigs	p. 265
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson	p. 265
The Log Cabin Campaign	p. 267
American Lives: Horace Greeley	p. 268
Debating the Past: For whom did Jackson fight?	p. 264
The Making of Middle-Class America	p. 272
Tocqueville and Beaumont in America	p. 273
Tocqueville in Judgment	p. 274
A Restless People	p. 275
The Family Recast	p. 276
The Second Great Awakening	p. 277
The Era of Associations	p. 279
Backwoods Utopias	p. 280
The Age of Reform	p. 282
"Demon Rum"	p. 284
The Abolitionist Crusade	p. 285
Women's Rights	p. 289
American Lives: Sojourner Truth	p. 286
Debating the Past: Did the antebellum reform movement improve society?	p. 283
An American Culture	p. 294
In Search of Native Grounds	p. 295
The Romantic View of Life	p. 297
Emerson and Thoreau	p. 298
Edgar Allan Poe	p. 300
Nathaniel Hawthorne	p. 300
Herman Melville	p. 301
Walt Whitman	p. 302
The Wider Literary Renaissance	p. 304
Domestic Tastes	p. 305
Education for Democracy	p. 306
Reading and the Dissemination of Culture	p. 307
The State of the Colleges	p. 309
Civic Cultures	p. 312
American Humor	p. 312
Mapping the Past: Nature as a Civilizing Force	p. 310
Debating the Past: Was there an "American Renaissance"?	p. 303
Westward Expansion	p. 316
Tyler's Troubles	p. 317
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty	p. 318
The Texas Question	p. 319
Manifest Destiny	p. 321
Life on the Trail	p. 321
California and Oregon	p. 324
The Election of 1844	p. 325
Polk as President	p. 326
War with Mexico	p. 327
To the Halls of Montezuma	p. 329
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	p. 331
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States	p. 332
Slavery: The Fire Bell in the Night Rings Again	p. 332
The Election of 1848	p. 333
The Gold Rush	p. 334
The Compromise of 1850	p. 335
Mapping the Past: Fertility and the Frontier	p. 322
Debating the Past: Did the frontier change women's roles?	p. 326
The Sections Go Their Ways	p. 340
The South	p. 341
The Economics of Slavery	p. 342
Antebellum Plantation Life	p. 344
The Sociology of Slavery	p. 345
Psychological Effects of Slavery	p. 348
Manufacturing in the South	p. 348
The Northern Industrial Juggernaut	p. 349
A Nation of Immigrants	p. 350
How Wage Earners Lived	p. 351
Progress and Poverty	p. 354
Foreign Commerce	p. 355
Steam Conquers the Atlantic	p. 355
Canals and Railroads	p. 357
Financing the Railroads	p. 358
Railroads and the Economy	p. 359
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict	p. 361
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War	p. 362
Mapping the Past: Irish and German Immigration	p. 352
Debating the Past: Did slaves and masters form emotional bonds?	p. 349
The Coming of the Civil War	p. 364
The Slave Power Comes North	p. 365
Uncle Tom's Cabin	p. 366
Diversions Abroad: The "Young America" Movement	p. 368
Stephen Douglas: "The Little Giant"	p. 370
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	p. 371
Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System	p. 373
"Bleeding Kansas"	p. 374
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism	p. 376
Buchanan Tries His Hand	p. 377
The Dred Scott Decision	p. 377
The Lecompton Constitution	p. 379
The Emergence of Lincoln	p. 379
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates	p. 381
John Brown's Raid	p. 383
The Election of 1860	p. 383
The Secession Crisis	p. 386
Mapping the Past: Runaway Slaves: Hard Realities	p. 368
Debating the Past: Was the Civil War avoidable?	p. 374
The War to Save the Union	p. 390
Lincoln's Cabinet	p. 392
Fort Sumter: The First Shot	p. 392
The Blue and the Gray	p. 393
The Test of Battle: Bull Run	p. 395
Paying for the War	p. 396
Politics as Usual	p. 397
Behind Confederate Lines	p. 398
War in the West: Shiloh	p. 399
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior	p. 400
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam	p. 401
The Emancipation Proclamation	p. 402
The Draft Riots	p. 403
The Emancipated People	p. 404
African American Soldiers	p. 405
Antietam to Gettysburg	p. 408
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg	p. 410
Economic and Social Effects, North and South	p. 411
Women in Wartime	p. 412
Grant in the Wilderness	p. 414
Sherman in Georgia	p. 415
To Appomattox Court House	p. 417
Winners, Losers, and the Future	p. 419
Re-Viewing the Past: Glory	p. 406
Re-Viewing the Past: Cold Mountain	p. 420
Debating the Past: Why did the South lose the Civil War?	p. 418
Reconstruction and the South	p. 424
Presidential Reconstruction	p. 425
Republican Radicals	p. 427
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction	p. 428
The Fourteenth Amendment	p. 430
The Reconstruction Acts	p. 430
Congress Supreme	p. 431
The Fifteenth Amendment	p. 431
"Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers	p. 435
The Ravaged Land	p. 436
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System	p. 438
The White Backlash	p. 440
Grant as President	p. 441
The Disputed Election of 1876	p. 442
The Compromise of 1877	p. 443
Mapping the Past: The Politics of Reconstruction	p. 432
Debating the Past: Were Reconstruction governments corrupt?	p. 434
Appendix	p. A1
The Declaration of Independence	p. A3
The Articles of Confederation	p. A5
The Constitution of the United States of America	p. A9
Amendments to the Constitution	p. A14
Presidential Elections, 1789-2004	p. A19
Present-day United States	p. A32
Present-day World	p. A34
Picture Credits	p. C1
Index	p. I1
Primary Source Documents	p. D1
How to Analyze Primary Source Documents	p. D3
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