American Pageant: A History of the Republic to 1877

by Bailey, Thomas A.

• ISBN13: 9780669397291
• ISBN10: 0669397296
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-05
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Preface	xxi
Part One Founding the New Nation	2	(162)
New World Beginnings, 33,000 B. C.---A.D. 1769	4	(21)
Makers of America The Spanish Conquistadores	16	(9)
The Planting of English America, 1500-1733	25	(17)
Makers of America The Iroquois	38	(4)
Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700	42	(22)
Makers of America The English	48	(14)
Varying Viewpoints Europeanizing America Or Americanizing Europe?	62	(2)
American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692	64	(18)
Makers Of America From African To African-American	70	(12)
Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775	82	(23)
Makers of America The Scots-Irish	86	(16)
Varying Viewpoints Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus?	102	(3)
The Duel for North America, 1608-1763	105	(16)
Makers of America The French	116	(5)
The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775	121	(21)
Varying Viewpoints Whose Revolution?	139	(3)
America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783	142	(22)
Makers of America The Loyalists	150	(14)
Part Two Building the New Nation	164	(194)
The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790	166	(23)
Varying Viewpoints The Constitution: Revolutionary Or Counterrevolutionary?	186	(3)
Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800	189	(21)
The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1812	210	(23)
The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824	233	(23)
Makers of America Settlers of The Old Northwest	246	(10)
The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy, 1824-1830	256	(18)
Jacksonian Democracy at Flood Tide, 1830-1840	274	(23)
Makers of America Mexican or Texican?	284	(10)
Varying Viewpoints What Was Jacksonian Democracy?	294	(3)
Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860	297	(32)
Makers of America The Irish	304	(4)
Makers of America The Germans	308	(21)
The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860	329	(29)
Makers of America The Oneida Community	344	(10)
Varying Viewpoints Reform: Who? What? How? And Why?	354	(4)
Part Three Testing the New Nation	358	(2)
The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860	360	(17)
Varying Viewpoints What Was The True Nature of Slavery?	377	(3)
Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848	380	(16)
Makers of America The Californios	396	(4)
Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854	400	(20)
Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861	420	(22)
Varying Viewpoints The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?	442	(2)
Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865	444	(17)
The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865	461	(24)
Varying Viewpoints What Were The Consequences of The Civil War?	485	(2)
The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877	487
Appendix
Declaration of Independence	A1
Constitution of the United States of America	A4
An American Profile: The United States and Its People	A21
Index	A34
Photograph Credits	A47