The American Story, Volume I (Penguin Academics Series)

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

• ISBN13: 9780321183125
• ISBN10: 0321183126
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative. Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text is available in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

Table of Contents

Maps	xi
Figures	xiii
Tables	xv
Preface	xvii
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The Agony of Reconstruction	387
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
Appendix	1	(1)
The Declaration of Independence	3	(3)
The Constitution of the United States of America	6	(8)
Amendments to the Constitution	14	(7)
Comparative Chronology	21	(6)
Recommended Reading	27	(7)
Suggested Web Sites	34	(10)
Political and Physical Map of the United States	44	(2)
Political Map of the World	46
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1