The American Story, Combined Volume (Penguin Academics Series)

by Divine, Robert A.; Breen, T. H.; Fredrickson, George M.; Williams, R. Hal; Gross, Ariela J.; Brands, H. W.

• ISBN13: 9780321183132
• ISBN10: 0321183134
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-30
• Publisher: Longman

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Table of Contents

Maps, Figures, and Tables	xiii
Preface	xvii
CHAPTER 1 NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS	1	(28)
Native American Histories Before Conquest	2	(6)
A World Transformed	8	(3)
West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies	11	(3)
Europe on the Eve of Conquest	14	(2)
Imagining a New World	16	(5)
The French Claim Canada	21	(2)
The English Enter the Competition	23	(3)
An Unpromising Beginning: The Lost Colony	26	(1)
Marketing Dreams of Empire	27	(2)
CHAPTER 2 ENGLAND'S COLONIAL EXPERIMENTS: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY	29	(30)
Breaking Away	30	(2)
The Chesapeake: The Promise of Wealth	32	(8)
Reforming England in America	40	(8)
Living with Diversity: The Middle Colonies	48	(3)
Quakers in America	51	(3)
Planting the Carolinas	54	(2)
The Founding of Georgia	56	(2)
Rugged and Laborious Beginnings	58	(1)
CHAPTER 3 PUTTING DOWN ROOTS: FAMILIES IN AN ATLANTIC EMPIRE	59	(22)
Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century	60	(5)
The Planters' World	65	(4)
Race and Freedom in British America	69	(4)
Commercial Blueprint for Empire	73	(1)
Ruling Elites in Revolt, 1676-1691	74	(6)
Common Experiences, Separate Cultures	80	(1)
CHAPTER 4 COLONIES IN AN EMPIRE: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA	81	(28)
Experiencing Diversity	82	(1)
Convicts Sent to America	83	(1)
Ethnic Cultures of the Backcountry	84	(3)
Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century	87	(2)
British Colonies in an Atlantic World	89	(4)
Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies	93	(4)
Clash of Political Cultures	97	(3)
Century of Imperial War	100	(7)
Rule Britannia?	107	(2)
CHAPTER 5 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: FROM ELITE PROTEST TO POPULAR REVOLT, 1763-1783	109	(30)
Contested Meanings of Empire	110	(5)
The Army as Provocation: Eroding the Bonds of Empire	115	(10)
Decision for Independence	125	(4)
Fighting for Independence	129	(7)
The Loyalist Dilemma	136	(1)
Winning the Peace	137	(1)
Post-Colonial Challenge	138	(1)
CHAPTER 6 THE REPUBLICAN EXPERIMENT	139	(28)
A New Political Culture	140	(1)
Living in the Shadow of Revolution	141	(6)
The States: Putting Republicanism into Practice	147	(3)
Stumbling Toward a New National Government	150	(4)
Strengthening Federal Authority	154	(2)
"Have We Fought for This?"	156	(7)
Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification	163	(3)
A New Beginning	166	(1)
CHAPTER 7 DEMOCRACY IN DISTRESS: THE VIOLENCE OF PARTY POLITICS, 1788-1800	167	(26)
Power of Public Opinion	167	(2)
Establishing a New Government	169	(3)
Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton	172	(2)
Hamilton's Plan for Economic Development	174	(4)
Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs	178	(4)
Popular Political Culture	182	(3)
The Adams Presidency	185	(5)
The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800	190	(2)
Danger of Political Extremism	192	(1)
CHAPTER 8 REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY: THE JEFFERSONIAN VISION	193	(26)
Regional Identities in a New Republic	194	(4)
Jefferson as President	198	(6)
Jefferson's Critics	204	(5)
Embarrassments Overseas	209	(6)
The Strange War of 1812	215	(2)
Republican Legacy	217	(2)
CHAPTER 9 NATION BUILDING AND NATIONALISM	219	(23)
Expansion and Migration	220	(6)
Transportation and the Market Economy	226	(7)
The Politics of Nation Building After the War of 1812	233	(9)
CHAPTER 10 THE TRIUMPH OF WHITE MEN'S DEMOCRACY	242	(24)
Democracy in Theory and Practice	243	(6)
Jackson and the Politics of Democracy	249	(8)
The Bank War and the Second Party System	257	(6)
Heyday of the Second Party System	263	(2)
Tocqueville's Wisdom	265	(1)
CHAPTER 11 SLAVES AND MASTERS	266	(24)
The Divided Society of the Old South	267	(1)
The World of Southern Blacks	268	(8)
White Society in the Antebellum South	276	(7)
Slavery and the Southern Economy	283	(5)
Worlds in Conflict	288	(2)
CHAPTER 12 THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION	290	(23)
The Rise of Evangelicalism	291	(5)
Domesticity and Changes in the American Family	296	(4)
Institutional Reform	300	(4)
Reform Turns Radical	304	(8)
Counterpoint on Reform	312	(1)
CHAPTER 13 AN AGE OF EXPANSIONISM	313	(23)
Movement to the Far West	314	(6)
Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War	320	(7)
Internal Expansionism	327	(8)
The Costs of Expansion	335	(1)
CHAPTER 14 THE SECTIONAL CRISIS	336	(24)
The Compromise of 1850	337	(5)
Political Upheaval, 1852-1856	342	(7)
The House Divided, 1857-1860	349	(9)
Explaining the Crisis	358	(2)
CHAPTER 15 SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR	360	(27)
The Storm Gathers	362	(5)
Adjusting to Total War	367	(8)
Fight to the Finish	375	(8)
Effects of the War	383	(4)
CHAPTER 16 THE AGONY OF RECONSTRUCTION	387	(28)
The President Versus Congress	389	(8)
Reconstructing Southern Society	397	(6)
Retreat from Reconstruction	403	(6)
Reunion and the New South	409	(5)
Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished Revolution"	414	(1)
CHAPTER 17 THE WEST: EXPLOITING AN EMPIRE	415	(24)
Beyond the Frontier	416	(1)
Crushing the Native Americans	417	(7)
Settlement of the West	424	(5)
The Bonanza West	429	(8)
The Meaning of the West	437	(2)
CHAPTER 18 THE INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY	439	(25)
Industrial Development	440	(1)
An Empire on Rails	441	(5)
An Industrial Empire	446	(7)
The Sellers	453	(2)
The Wage Earners	455	(7)
Industrialization's Benefits and Costs	462	(2)
CHAPTER 19 TOWARD AN URBAN SOCIETY, 1877-1900	464	(26)
The Lure of the City	465	(8)
Social and Cultural Change, 1877-1900	473	(10)
The Stirrings of Reform	483	(5)
The Pluralistic Society	488	(2)
CHAPTER 20 POLITICAL REALIGNMENTS IN THE 1890's	490	(27)
Politics of Stalemate	491	(5)
Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress	496	(2)
The Rise of the Populist Movement	498	(5)
The Crisis of the Depression	503	(4)
Changing Attitudes	507	(3)
The Presidential Election of 1896	510	(4)
The McKinley Administration	514	(1)
A Decade's Dramatic Changes	515	(2)
CHAPTER 21 TOWARD EMPIRE	517	(25)
America Looks Outward	519	(7)
War with Spain	526	(8)
Acquisition of Empire	534	(7)
Outcome of the War with Spain	541	(1)
CHAPTER 22 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA	542	(25)
The Changing Face of Industrialism	544	(4)
Society's Masses	548	(8)
Conflict in the Workplace	556	(4)
A New Urban Culture	560	(6)
A Ferment of Discovery and Reform	566	(1)
CHAPTER 23 FROM ROOSEVELT TO WILSON IN THE AGE OF PROGRESSIVISM	567	(31)
The Spirit of Progressivism	569	(7)
Reform in the Cities and States	576	(3)
The Republican Roosevelt	579	(3)
Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height	582	(4)
The Ordeal of William Howard Taft	586	(5)
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom	591	(5)
The Fruits of Progressivism	596	(2)
CHAPTER 24 THE NATION AT WAR	598	(28)
A New World Power	600	(3)
Foreign Policy Under Wilson	603	(2)
Toward War	605	(7)
Over There	612	(2)
Over Here	614	(6)
The Treaty of Versailles	620	(4)
Postwar Disillusionment	624	(2)
CHAPTER 25 TRANSITION TO MODERN AMERICA	626	(21)
The Second Industrial Revolution	627	(4)
City Life in the Jazz Age	631	(5)
The Rural Counterattack	636	(5)
Politics of the 1920's	641	(5)
The Old and the New	646	(1)
CHAPTER 26 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL	647	(25)
The Great Depression	648	(3)
Fighting the Depression	651	(8)
Roosevelt and Reform	659	(3)
Impact of the New Deal	662	(5)
End of the New Deal	667	(3)
Evaluation of the New Deal	670	(2)
CHAPTER 27 AMERICA AND THE WORLD, 1921-1945	672	(28)
Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry	673	(3)
Isolationism	676	(3)
The Road to War	679	(5)
Turning the Tide Against the Axis	684	(3)
The Home Front	687	(6)
Victory	693	(6)
The Transforming Power of War	699	(1)
CHAPTER 28 THE ONSET OF THE COLD WAR	700	(28)
The Cold War Begins	701	(4)
Containment	705	(4)
The Cold War Expands	709	(5)
The Cold War at Home	714	(6)
Eisenhower Wages the Cold War	720	(6)
The Continuing Cold War	726	(2)
CHAPTER 29 AFFLUENCE AND ANXIETY	728	(17)
The Postwar Boom	730	(2)
The Good Life?	732	(4)
Farewell to Reform	736	(3)
The Struggle over Civil Rights	739	(4)
The Continuing Civil Rights Movement	743	(2)
CHAPTER 30 THE TURBULENT SIXTIES	745	(34)
Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War	747	(6)
The New Frontier at Home	753	(6)
"Let Us Continue"	759	(6)
Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War	765	(4)
Years of Turmoil	769	(5)
The Return of Richard Nixon	774	(3)
The End of an Era	777	(2)
CHAPTER 31 A CRISIS IN CONFIDENCE, 1969-1980	779	(25)
Nixon in Power	780	(5)
The Crisis of Democracy	785	(2)
Energy and the Economy	787	(5)
Private Lives-Public Issues	792	(4)
Politics After Watergate	796	(2)
The Decline of American Power	798	(6)
CHAPTER 32 THE REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE, 1980-1992	804	(27)
Reagan in Power	806	(5)
Reaganomics	811	(3)
Reagan and the World	814	(6)
Social Dilemmas	820	(3)
Passing the Torch to Bush	823	(5)
Waging Peace	828	(3)
CHAPTER 33 AMERICA IN FLUX	831
The Changing American Population	833	(7)
Democratic Revival	840	(8)
Clinton and the World	848	(5)
The End of the Century	853	(5)
The New Millennium	858	(11)
The American Century?	869	(1819043304)
APPENDIX	A-1
The Declaration of Independence	A-3
The Constitution of the United States of America	A-6
Amendments to the Constitution	A-14
Comparative Chronology	A-21
Recommended Reading	A-27
Suggested Web Sites	A-40
Political and Physical Map of the United States	A-60
Political Map of the World	A-62
Credits	C-1
Index	I-1