Created Equal: A Social and Political History fo the United States, Volume I: to 1877 (Chapters 1-15)

by Jones, Jacqueline; Wood, Peter H.; May, Elaine Tyler; Borstelmann, Thomas; Ruiz, Vicki L.

• ISBN13: 9780321052988
• ISBN10: 0321052986
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

With its sweeping, inclusive view of American history, Created Equal emphasizes social historyincluding the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and persons of color in all regions of the countrywhile delivering the basics of political and economic history. This new text acknowledges and reflects the diversity of class, culture, region, and gender that have always been the American story, and pays unique attention to the large middle class that has been central to the development of American society.

Table of Contents

I. THE FIRST FOUNDERS.

1. First Founders.
Ancient America.
A Thousand Years of Change in the Americas: A.D. 500 to 1500.
Linking the Continents.
Spain Enters the Americas.
The Protestant Reformation Plays out in the Americas.
For Further Reading.

2. European Footholds on the Fringes of North America, 1600-1660.
Spain's Ocean-Spanning Reach.
France and Holland: Overseas Competition for Spain.
English Beginnings on the Atlantic Coast.
The Puritan Experiment.
Maryland, and English Advantages.
For Further Reading.
Features.
Interpreting History: The Puritan and the Archbishop.
Connecting History: Colonization Then and Now.

3. Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715.
France and the American Interior.
The Spanish Empire on the Defensive.
England's American Empire Takes Shape.
Four Decades of Colonial Conflict.
Consequences of War and Growth.
For Further Reading.

II. A CENTURY OF COLONIAL EXPANSION.

4. African Enslavement: The Terrible Transformation.
The Descent into Race Slavery.
The Growth of Slave Labor Camps.
England Enters the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Survival in the North American Gulag.
The Transformation Completed.
For Further Reading.
Features.
Interpreting History: “Releese us out of this Cruell Bondegg.”

5. An American Babel, 1713-1763.
Contested Regions in the West.
Contested Borders in the East.
Dramatic Changes in the English Colonies.
Varieties of Christianity—Lost and Found.
Wars of Empire.
For Further Reading.

6. The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763-1775.
New Challenges to Spain's Expanded Empire.
New Challenges to Britain's Expanded Empire.
“The Unconquerable Rage of the People.”
A Conspiracy of Corrupt Ministers?
Launching a Revolution.
For Further Reading.

III. THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION.

7. Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783.
Declaring Independence.
“Victory or Death:” Fighting for Survival.
Legitimate States, a Respectable Military.
The Long Road to Yorktown.
For Further Reading.

8. New Beginnings—The 1780s.
Beating Swords into Plowshares.
Competing for Control of the Mississippi Valley.
Creditors and Debtors.
Drafting a New Constitution.
Ratification and the Bill of Rights.
For Further Reading.

9. Revolutionary Legacies and Beginnings, 1789-1803.
Competing Political Visions in the New Nation.
People of Color: New Freedoms, New Struggles.
Continuity and Change in the West.
Constructing Post-Revolutionary Social Identities.
Artisan-Politicians Versus Menial Laborers: The Mixed Plight of Postrevolutionary Workers.
The Election of 1800: Revolution or Reversal?
For Further Reading.

IV. A NATION EXPANDS.

10. An Emerging but Troubled Nationalism, 1803-1818.
The British Menace.
Fighting on Many Fronts: The War of 1812.
The Era of Good Feelings: Political and Economic Effects of the War of 1812.
The Rise of the Cotton-Plantation Economy.
For Further Reading.

11. Fractures and Factions in a Partial Democracy, 1819-1832.
The Politics Behind Western Expansion.
Nationalism and Its Discontents.
Real People in the “Age of the Common Man. ”
The Ligaments of a Growing, Dispersing Population.
For Further Reading.

12. Peoples and Nations in Motion, 1832-1848.
Mass Migrations.
A Multitude of Voices: The National Political Arena.
Reform and Reaction.
The United States Extends Its Reach.
For Further Reading.

V. DISUNION AND REUNION.

13. The Crisis over Slavery, 1848-1860.
Regional Economies and Conflicts.
Shifting Collective Identities.
The Paradox of Southern Political Power.
The Republican Alliance.
The Deepening Conflict over Slavery.
For Further Reading.
Features.
Connecting History: Systems of Unfree Labor.
Interpreting History: Professor Howe on the Subordination of Women.

14. “To Fight To Gain A Country:” The Civil War.
The Course of Conflict, 1861-1863.
The Third War: African American Struggles for Liberation.
Battle Fronts and Home Fronts in 1863.
The Prolonged Defeat of the Confederacy, 1864-1865.
For Further Reading.
Features.
Connecting History: Civil Disorders During Wartime.

15. In The Wake of War: Consolidating a Triumphant Union, 1865-1877.
The Struggle over the South.
Claiming Territory for the Union.
The Republican Vision and Its Limits.
For Further Reading.
Features.
Connecting History: Two Presidents Impeached.
Interpreting History: A Southern Labor Contract. Leading Questions this is the leading questions.