The American Nation, Volume I: A History of the United States to 1877

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

• ISBN13: 9780321101419
• ISBN10: 0321101413
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Long-positioned and long-respected as a bestseller for the U.S. history survey course that focuses on political history as its framework, this textbook's most significant strength is its rich and distinctive prose. for this Eleventh Edition, co-authors Mark Carnes of Barnard College at Columbia University and John Garraty have collaborated to retell the story of Americas past. For the Eleventh Edition, the authors have written a new prologue on pre-Columbian America and the continents earliest human inhabitants, revised each chapter to incorporate recent research and scholarship, integrated more social and cultural history, selected many new illustrations and written informative new captions to engage students visually, introduced two new features, and updated the final chapter (33) to carry the story through the election of 2000, the beginnings of the Bush administration, and the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001, which have profoundly changed the American nation and its people.

Table of Contents

Maps and Graphs	xv
Features	xvii
To Our Readers	xix
Preface	xxi
PROLOGUE Beginnings	2
Passage to Alaska	3	(2)
The Demise of the Big Mammals	5	(1)
The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals, 9000 B.C.-1000 B.C.	6	(1)
The First Sedentary Communities, 1000 B.C.	7	(1)
Corn Transforms the Southwest	8	(2)
The Diffusion of Corn	10	(1)
Population Growth After 800 A.D.	11	(1)
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture	12	(1)
The Collapse of Urban Centers	13	(2)
American Beginnings in Eurasia and Africa	15	(1)
Europe in Ferment	15	(3)
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas	18	(30)
Columbus	20	(1)
Spain's American Empire	21	(1)
Indians and Europeans	22	(2)
Relativity of Cultural Values	24	(1)
Disease and Population Losses	25	(1)
Spain's European Rivals	26	(1)
The Protestant Reformation	26	(2)
English Beginnings in America	28	(1)
The Settlement of Virginia	29	(2)
``Purifying'' the Church of England	31	(1)
Bradford and Plymouth Colony	32	(4)
Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony	36	(1)
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson	37	(2)
Other New England Colonies	39	(1)
French and Dutch Settlements	39	(1)
Maryland and the Carolinas	40	(2)
The Middle Colonies	42	(3)
Indians and Europeans as ``Americanizers''	45	(3)
American Lives Tisquantum	34	(14)
American Society in the Making	48	(32)
What Is an American?	49	(1)
Spanish Settlement	50	(1)
The Chesapeake Colonies	51	(1)
The Lure of the Land	52	(1)
``Solving'' the Labor Shortage: Slavery	53	(1)
Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco	54	(2)
Bacon's Rebellion	56	(1)
The Carolinas	57	(2)
Home and Family in the South	59	(2)
Georgia and the Back Country	61	(1)
Puritan New England	61	(1)
The Puritan Family	61	(1)
Puritan Women and Children	62	(1)
Visible Puritan Saints and Others	63	(1)
Democracies Without Democrats	64	(1)
Dedham: A ``Typical'' Town	65	(1)
The Dominion of New England	66	(1)
Salem Bewitched	67	(3)
Higher Education in New England	70	(1)
Prosperity Undermines Puritanism	71	(1)
A Merchant's World	72	(2)
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis	74	(1)
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples	74	(1)
``The Best Poor Man's Country''	75	(1)
The Politics of Diversity	76	(1)
Rebellious Women	77	(3)
Re-Viewing The Past The Crucible	68	(12)
America in the British Empire	80	(32)
The British Colonial System	82	(1)
Mercantilism	83	(2)
The Navigation Acts	85	(1)
The Effects of Mercantilism	85	(2)
The Great Awakening	87	(1)
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards	88	(1)
The Enlightenment in America	89	(1)
Colonial Scientific Achievements	90	(1)
Repercussions of Distant Wars	91	(3)
The Great War for the Empire	94	(2)
The Peace of Paris	96	(1)
Putting the Empire Right	97	(1)
Tightening Imperial Controls	98	(2)
The Sugar Act	100	(1)
American Colonists Demand Rights	100	(1)
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling	101	(1)
Rioters or Rebels?	102	(1)
Taxation or Tyranny?	103	(1)
The Declaratory Act	104	(1)
The Townsend Duties	104	(1)
The Boston Massacre	105	(2)
The Pot Spills Over	107	(1)
The Tea Act Crisis	107	(1)
From Resistance to Revolution	108	(4)
American Lives Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi	92	(20)
The American Revolution	112	(28)
``The Shot Heard Round the World''	114	(1)
The Second Continental Congress	114	(1)
The Battle of Bunker Hill	115	(1)
The Great Declaration	116	(2)
1776: The Balance of Forces	118	(1)
Loyalists	119	(1)
Early British Victories	120	(1)
Saratoga and the French Alliance	121	(3)
The War Moves South	124	(1)
Victory at Yorktown	124	(1)
The Peace of Paris	125	(4)
Forming a National Government	129	(1)
Financing the War	130	(1)
State Republican Governments	131	(1)
Social Reform	131	(2)
Effects of the Revolution on Women	133	(1)
Growth of a National Spirit	134	(1)
The Great Land Ordinances	135	(1)
National Heroes	136	(1)
A National Culture	137	(3)
Re-Viewing The Past The Patriot	126	(14)
The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant	140	(30)
Border Problems	141	(1)
Foreign Trade	142	(1)
The Specter of Inflation	143	(1)
Daniel Shays's ``Little Rebellion''	144	(1)
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution	145	(1)
The Great Convention	145	(1)
The Compromises That Produced the Constitution	146	(4)
Ratifying the Constitution	150	(5)
Washington as President	155	(1)
Congress Under Way	156	(1)
Hamilton and Financial Reform	156	(3)
The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground	159	(1)
Revolution in France	159	(2)
Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties	161	(1)
1794: Crisis and Resolution	162	(1)
Jay's Treaty	162	(1)
1795: All's Well That Ends Well	162	(1)
Washington's Farewell	163	(2)
The Election of 1796	165	(1)
The XYZ Affair	165	(1)
The Alien and Sedition Acts	166	(1)
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves	167	(3)
Mapping the Past East Versus West: Political Conflict in the New Nation	152	(18)
Jeffersonian Democracy	170	(24)
The Federalist Contribution	173	(1)
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist	174	(1)
Jefferson as President	174	(2)
Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary	176	(1)
The Barbary Pirates	177	(1)
The Louisiana Purchase	177	(3)
Federalism Discredited	180	(1)
Lewis and Clark	181	(3)
Jeffersonian Democracy	184	(2)
Domestic Concerns Vex Jefferson	186	(1)
The Burr Conspiracy	187	(1)
Napoleon and the British	187	(1)
The Impressment Controversy	188	(2)
The Embargo Act	190	(4)
Mapping the Past A Water Route to the Pacific?	182	(12)
National Growing Pains	194	(30)
Madison in Power	195	(1)
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance	196	(1)
Depression and Land Hunger	197	(1)
Opponents of War	198	(1)
The War of 1812	198	(3)
Britain Assumes the Offensive	201	(1)
``The Star Spangled Banner''	201	(1)
The Treaty of Ghent	202	(1)
The Hartford Convention	203	(1)
The Battle of New Orleans	203	(1)
Victory Weakens the Federalists	204	(1)
Anglo-American Rapprochement	205	(1)
The Transcontinental Treaty	206	(1)
The Monroe Doctrine	206	(2)
The Era of Good Feelings	208	(1)
New Sectional Issues	209	(4)
Northern Leaders	213	(1)
Southern Leaders	214	(1)
Western Leaders	215	(1)
The Missouri Compromise	216	(2)
The Election of 1824	218	(1)
John Quincy Adams as President	219	(1)
Calhoun's Exposition and Protest	219	(3)
The Meaning of Sectionalism	222	(2)
Mapping the Past North-South Sectionalism Intensifies	220	(4)
Toward a National Economy	224	(24)
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution	225	(1)
America's Industrial Revolution	226	(1)
Birth of the Factory	227	(3)
An Industrial Proletariat?	230	(2)
Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers	232	(1)
Irish and German Immigrants	232	(1)
The Persistence of the Household System	233	(1)
Rise of Corporations	233	(1)
Cotton Revolutionizes the South	234	(2)
Revival of Slavery	236	(2)
Roads to Market	238	(1)
Transportation and the Government	239	(1)
Development of Steamboats	240	(1)
The Canal Boom	241	(1)
New York City: Emporium of the Western World	242	(2)
The Marshall Court	244	(4)
Mapping the Past The Making of the Working Class	228	(20)
Jacksonian Democracy	248	(24)
``Democratizing'' Politics	250	(1)
1828: The New Party System in Embryo	251	(1)
The Jacksonian Appeal	252	(1)
The Spoils System	253	(1)
President of All the People	254	(1)
Sectional Tensions Revived	254	(1)
Jackson: ``The Bank ... I Will Kill It!''	255	(1)
Jackson's Bank Veto	256	(1)
Jackson Versus Calhoun	257	(1)
Indian Removals	258	(2)
The Nullification Crisis	260	(2)
Boom and Bust	262	(1)
Jacksonianism Abroad	263	(1)
The Jacksonians	263	(1)
Rise of the Whigs	264	(1)
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson	264	(2)
The Log Cabin Campaign	266	(6)
American Lives Horace Greeley	268	(4)
The Making of Middle-Class America	272	(20)
Tocqueville and Beaumont in America	274	(1)
Tocqueville in Judgment	274	(1)
A Restless People	275	(1)
The Family Recast	276	(1)
The Second Great Awakening	277	(4)
The Era of Associations	281	(1)
Backwoods Utopias	281	(2)
The Age of Reform	283	(1)
``Demon Rum''	284	(1)
The Abolitionist Crusade	285	(3)
Women's Rights	288	(4)
Mapping the Past Fertility and the Frontier	278	(14)
A Democratic Culture	292	(22)
In Search of Native Grounds	293	(2)
The Romantic View of Life	295	(1)
Emerson and Thoreau	296	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe	297	(1)
Nathaniel Hawthorne	298	(1)
Herman Melville	299	(1)
Walt Whitman	300	(1)
The Wider Literary Renaissance	301	(1)
Domestic Tastes	302	(1)
Education for Democracy	303	(2)
Reading and the Dissemination of Culture	305	(3)
The State of the Colleges	308	(1)
Civic Cultures	309	(1)
Scientific Stirrings	310	(1)
American Humor	311	(3)
American Lives Sojourner Truth	306	(8)
Expansion and Slavery	314	(24)
Tyler's Troubles	316	(1)
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty	316	(1)
The Texas Question	317	(1)
Manifest Destiny	318	(1)
Life on the Trail	319	(1)
California and Oregon	320	(1)
The Election of 1844	321	(1)
Polk as President	322	(1)
War with Mexico	323	(2)
To the Halls of Montezuma	325	(1)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	326	(1)
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States	327	(3)
Slavery: The Fire Bell in the Night Rings Again	330	(1)
The Election of 1848	331	(1)
The Gold Rush	331	(1)
The Compromise of 1850	332	(6)
Mapping the Past Irish and German Immigration	328	(10)
The Sections Go Their Ways	338	(26)
The South	340	(1)
The Economics of Slavery	340	(2)
Antebellum Plantation Life	342	(1)
The Sociology of Slavery	343	(4)
Psychological Effects of Slavery	347	(2)
Manufacturing in the South	349	(1)
The Northern Industrial Juggernaut	350	(1)
A Nation of Immigrants	351	(1)
How Wage Earners Lived	352	(1)
Progress and Poverty	353	(2)
Foreign Commerce	355	(1)
Steam Conquers the Atlantic	355	(1)
Canals and Railroads	356	(1)
Financing the Railroads	357	(1)
Railroads and the Economy	358	(2)
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict	360	(1)
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War	360	(4)
Re-Viewing the Past Amistad	344	(20)
The Coming of the Civil War	364	(26)
The Slave Power Comes North	365	(1)
Uncle Tom's Cabin	366	(1)
Diversions Abroad: The ``Young America'' Movement	367	(3)
Douglas: ``The Little Giant''	370	(1)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	371	(2)
Know-Nothings and Republicans	373	(1)
``Bleeding Kansas''	374	(2)
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism	376	(1)
Buchanan Tries His Hand	377	(1)
The Dred Scott Decision	377	(2)
The Lecompton Constitution	379	(1)
The Emergence of Lincoln	379	(2)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates	381	(2)
John Brown's Raid	383	(1)
The Election of 1860	384	(2)
The Secession Crisis	386	(4)
Mapping the Past Runaway Slaves: Hard Realities	368	(22)
The War to Save the Union	390	(30)
Lincoln's Cabinet	391	(1)
Fort Sumter: The First Shot	392	(1)
The Blue and the Gray	393	(2)
The Test of Battle: Bull Run	395	(1)
Paying for the War	396	(1)
Politics as Usual	396	(2)
Behind Confederate Lines	398	(1)
War in the West: Shiloh	398	(1)
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior	399	(2)
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam	401	(1)
The Emancipation Proclamation	402	(2)
The Draft Riots	404	(1)
The Emancipated People	404	(1)
African American Soldiers	404	(4)
Antietam to Gettysburg	408	(1)
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg	409	(2)
Economic and Social Effects, North and South	411	(1)
Women in Wartime	412	(1)
Grant in the Wilderness	413	(1)
Sherman in Georgia	414	(2)
To Appomattox Court House	416	(1)
Winners, Losers, and the Future	416	(4)
Re-Viewing the Past Glory	406	(14)
Reconstruction and the South	420
Presidential Reconstruction	422	(1)
Republican Radicals	423	(3)
The Fourteenth Amendment	426	(1)
The Reconstruction Acts	426	(1)
Congress Takes Charge	427	(1)
The Fifteenth Amendment	428	(1)
``Black Republican'' Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers	429	(4)
The Ravaged Land	433	(2)
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System	435	(2)
The White Backlash	437	(1)
Grant as President	438	(2)
The Disputed Election of 1876	440	(1)
The Compromise of 1877	441
Mapping the Past The Politics of Reconstruction	430
Appendix	1	(1)
The Declaration of Independence	3	(2)
The Articles of Confederation	5	(4)
The Constitution of the United States of America	9	(5)
Amendments to the Constitution	14	(5)
Presidential Elections, 1789-2000	19	(5)
Present Day United States	24	(2)
Present Day World	26
Picture Credits	1	(1)
Index	1