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9781457613456

The American Promise Value Edition, Combined Version A History of the United States

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    9781457613456

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    145761345X

  • Edition: 5th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-05-04
  • Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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The new two-color Value Edition of The American Promiseis the ideal solution for instructors and students who want a full-length narrative at a low price. A clear political framework supports a dynamic social and cultural story enlivened by the voices of hundreds of Americans who help students connect with history and grasp important concepts. With the complete supplements package from the full text, the Value Edition offers everything cost-conscious instructors and students want and need for their U.S. history courses.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Ancient America: Before 1492
Opening Vignette: An archeological dig helps uncover ancient North American traditions
Archaeology and History
The First Americans
Archaic Hunters and Gatherers
Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms
Native Americans in the 1490s
The Mexica: A Mesoamerican Culture
Conclusion: The World of Ancient Americans
Reviewing the Chapter

Chapter 2
Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492-1600
Opening Vignette: Queen Isabella of Spain supports Christopher Columbus’s risky plan to sail west across the Atlantic
Europe in the Age of Exploration
A Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic
Spanish Exploration and Conquest
The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe
Conclusion: The Promise of the New World for Europeans
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 3
The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700
Opening Vignette: Pocahontas "rescues" John Smith
An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay
A Tobacco Society
Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake
Toward a Slave Labor System
Conclusion: The Growth of English Colonies Based on Export Crops and Slave Labor
Reviewing the Chapter

Chapter 4
The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700
Opening Vignette: Roger Williams is banished from Puritan Massachusetts
Puritans and the Settlement of New England
The Evolution of New England Society
The Founding of the Middle Colonies
The Colonies and the English Empire
Conclusion: An English Model of Colonization in North America
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 5
Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701-1770
Opening Vignette: The Robin Johns experience horrific turns of fortune in the Atlantic slave trade
A Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North America
New England: From Puritan Settlers to Yankee Traders
The Middle Colonies: Immigrants, Wheat, and Work
The Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery
Unifying Experiences
Conclusion: The Dual Identity of British North American Colonists
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 6
The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754-1775
Opening Vignette: Loyalist governor Thomas Hutchinson stands his ground in radical Massachusetts
The Seven Years’ War, 1754-1763
The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763-1765
The Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767-1770
The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts, 1770-1774
Domestic Insurrections, 1774-1775
Conclusion: The Long Road to Revolution
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 7
The War for America, 1775-1783
Opening Vignette: Deborah Sampson masquerades as a man to join the Continental army
The Second Continental Congress
The First Year of War, 1775-1776
The Home Front
The Campaigns of 1777-1779: The North and West
The Southern Strategy and the End of the War
Conclusion: Why the British Lost
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 8
Building a Republic, 1775-1789
Opening Vignette: James Madison comes of age in the midst of revolution
The Articles of Confederation
The Sovereign States
The Confederation’s Problems
The United States Constitution
Ratification of the Constitution
Conclusion: The "Republican Remedy"
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 9
The New Nation Takes Form, 1789-1800
Opening Vignette: Brilliant and brash, Alexander Hamilton becomes a polarizing figure in the 1790s
The Search for Stability
Hamilton’s Economic Policies
Conflict on America’s Borders and Beyond
Federalists and Republicans
Conclusion: Parties Nonetheless
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 10
Republicans in Power, 1800-1824
Opening Vignette: The Shawnee chief Tecumseh attempts to forge a pan-Indian confederacy
Jefferson’s Presidency
Opportunities and Challenges in the West
Jefferson, the Madisons, and the War of 1812
Women’s Status in the Early Republic
Monroe and Adams
Conclusion: Republican Simplicity Becomes Complex
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 11
The Expanding Republic, 1815-1840
Opening Vignette: The Grimke sisters speak out against slavery
The Market Revolution
The Spread of Democracy
Jackson Defines the Democratic Party
Cultural Shifts, Religion, and Reform
Van Buren’s One-Term Presidency
Conclusion: The Age of Jackson or the Era of Reform?
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 12
The New West and the Free North, 1840-1860
Opening Vignette: With the support of his wife, Abraham Lincoln struggles to survive in antebellum America
Economic and Industrial Evolution
Free Labor: Promise and Reality
The Westward Movement
Expansion and the Mexican-American War
Reforming Self and Society
Conclusion: Free Labor, Free Men
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 13
The Slave South, 1820-1860
Opening Vignette: Slave Nat Turner leads a revolt to end slavery
The Growing Distinctiveness of the South
Masters and Mistresses in the Big House
Slaves in the Quarter
The Plain Folk
Black and Free: On the Middle Ground
The Politics of Slavery
Conclusion: A Slave Society
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 14
The House Divided, 1846-1861
Opening Vignette: Abolitionist John Brown takes his war against slavery to Harpers Ferry, Virginia
The Bitter Fruits of War
The Sectional Balance Undone
Realignment of the Party System
Freedom under Siege
The Union Collapses
Conclusion: Slavery, Free Labor, and the Failure of Political Compromise
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 15
The Crucible of War, 1861-1865
Opening Vignette: Runaway slave William Gould enlists in the U.S. navy
"And the War Came"
The Combatants
Battling It Out, 1861-1862
Union and Freedom
The South at War
The North at War
Grinding Out Victory, 1863-1865
Conclusion: The Second American Revolution
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 16
Reconstruction, 1863-1877
Opening Vignette: James T. Rapier emerges in the early 1870s as Alabama’s most prominent black leader
Wartime Reconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
The Struggle in the South
Reconstruction Collapses
Conclusion: "A Revolution But Half Accomplished"  
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 17
The Contested West, 1865-1900
Opening Vignette: Frederick Jackson Turner delivers his "frontier thesis"
Conquest and Empire in the West
Forced Assimilation and Resistance Strategies
Gold Fever and the Mining West
Land Fever
Conclusion: The West in the Gilded Age
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 18
Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900
Opening Vignette: Mark Twain and the Gilded Age
Old Industries Transformed, New Industries Born
From Competition to Consolidation
Politics and Culture
Presidential Politics
Economic Issues and Party Realignment
Conclusion: Business Dominates an Era
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 19
The City and Its Workers, 1870-1900
Opening Vignette: Workers build the Brooklyn Bridge
The Rise of the City
At Work in Industrial America
Workers Organize
At Home and at Play
City Growth and City Government
Conclusion: Who Built the Cities?
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 20
Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890-1900
Opening Vignette: Frances Willard participates in the creation of the Populist Party in 1892
The Farmers’ Revolt
The Labor Wars
Women’s Activism
Depression Politics
The United States and the World
War and Empire
Conclusion: Rallying around the Flag
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 21
Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890-1916
Opening Vignette: Jane Addams founds Hull House
Grassroots Progressivism
Progressivism: Theory and Practice
Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide
The Limits of Progressive Reform
Conclusion: The Transformation of the Liberal State
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 22
World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad, 1914-1920
Opening Vignette: Doughboy George "Brownie" Browne sees combat on the frontlines in France
Woodrow Wilson and the World
"Over There"
The Crusade for Democracy at Home
A Compromised Peace
Democracy at Risk
Conclusion: Troubled Crusade
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 23
From New Era to Great Depression, 1920-1932
Opening Vignette: Henry Ford puts America on wheels
The New Era
The Roaring Twenties
Resistance to Change
The Great Crash
Life in the Depression
Conclusion: Dazzle and Despair
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 24
The New Deal Experiment, 1932-1939
Opening Vignette: ÒMigrant MotherÓ Florence Owens struggles to survive in the Great Depression
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in Government
Launching the New Deal
Challenges to the New Deal
Toward a Welfare State
The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock
Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of the New Deal
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 25
The United States and the Second World War, 1939-1945
Opening Vignette: Colonel Paul Tibbets drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
Peacetime Dilemmas
The Onset of War
Mobilizing for War
Fighting Back
The Wartime Home Front
Toward Unconditional Surrender
Conclusion: Allied Victory and America’s Emergence as a Superpower
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 26
Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945-1953
Opening Vignette: Helen Gahagan Douglas, congresswoman and loyal Truman ally, supports the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, and the war in Korea
From the Grand Alliance to Containment
Truman and the Fair Deal at Home
The Cold War Becomes Hot: Korea Conclusion: The Cold War’s Costs and Consequences
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 27
The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952-1960
Opening Vignette: Vice President Richard Nixon debates Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way"
Liberation Rhetoric and the Practice of Containment
New Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of Abundance
The Culture of Abundance
The Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement
Conclusion: Peace and Prosperity Mask Unmet Challenges
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 28
Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960-1974
Opening Vignette: Fannie Lou Hamer leads grassroots struggles of African Americans for voting rights and political empowerment
Liberalism at High Tide
The Second Reconstruction
A Multitude of Movements
The New Wave of Feminism
Liberal Reform in the Nixon Administration
Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of Liberalism
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 29
Vietnam and the End of the Cold War Consensus, 1961-1975
Opening Vignette: Lieutenant Frederick Downs, Jr., is wounded in Vietnam and returns home to a country divided over the war
New Frontiers in Foreign Policy
Lyndon Johnson’s War against Communism
A Nation Polarized
Nixon, Detente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam
Conclusion: An Unwinnable War
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 30
America Moves to the Right, 1969-1989
Opening Vignette: Phyllis Schlafly promotes conservatism
Nixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional Crisis
The "Outsider" Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Ascendancy
Continuing Struggles over Rights
Ronald Reagan Confronts an "Evil Empire"
Conclusion: Reversing the Course of Government
Reviewing the Chapter
 
Chapter 31
The Promises and Challenges of Globalization, Since 1989
Opening Vignette: Colin Powell adjusts to a post-Cold War world
Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H.W. Bush
The Clinton Administration’s Search for the Middle Ground
The United States in a Globalizing World
President George W. Bush: Conservatism at Home and Radical Initiatives Abroad
The Obama Presidency: Reform and Backlash
Conclusion: Defining the Government’s Role at Home and Abroad
Reviewing the Chapter
 

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