Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States, Volume I (to 1877)

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

• ISBN13: 9780321318145
• ISBN10: 0321318145
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

In its comprehensive and inclusive view of American history,Created Equalprovides an accurate, broad, deep, and compelling view of the nation's past. Emphasizing social historyincluding the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and persons of color in all regions of the countryCreated Equalalso delivers the basics of political and economic history, thoughtfully examining the roles that all peoples have played in creating and defining those aspects of the nation's past.Created Equalexplores an expanding notion of American identityone that encompasses the stories of diverse groups of people, territorial growth and expansion, the rise of the middle class, technological innovation and economic development, and engagement with other nations and peoples of the world.

Table of Contents

North American Founders

First Founders

Ancient America

A Thousand Years of Change: A.D. 500 to 1500

Linking the Continents

Spain Enters the Americas

The Protestant Reformation Plays Out in America

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

The Chesapeake Bay Colonies

Interpreting History: Anne Bradstreet: "The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America."

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

Bloodshed in the English Colonies: 1670-1690

Consequences of War and Growth: 1690-1715

Connecting History: Homeland Security and Deep Fears of the Enemy Within

A Century of Colonial Expansion to 1775

African Enslavement: The Terrible Transformation

The Descent into Race Slavery

The Growth of Slave Labor Camps

England Enters the Atlantic Slave Trade

Survival in a Strange New Land

The Transformation Completed

Interpreting History: "Releese Us out of This Cruell Bondegg."

An American Babel, 1713-1763

New Cultures on the Western Plains

Britain's Mainland Colonies: A New Abundance of People

The Varied Economic Landscape

Matters of Faith: The Great Awakening

The French Lose a North American Empire

Connecting History: Sounds Around Us: The Lost World of High Fidelity

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

The Unfinished Revolution, 1775-1803

Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783

Declaring Independence

"Victory or Death": Fighting for Survival

Legitimate States, a Respectable Military

The Long Road to Yorktown

Connecting History: Uncanny Similarities: Britain's Vietnam

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

Connecting History: Equal Representation

Revolutionary Legacies, 1789-1803

Competing Political Visions in the New Nation

People of Color: New Freedoms, New Struggles

Continuity and Change in the West

Shifting Social Identities in the Post-Revolutionary Era

The Election of 1800: Revolution or Reversal

Expanding the Boundaries of Freedom and Slavery, 1803-1848

Defending and Expanding the New Nation, 1803-1818

The British Menace

The War of 1812

The "Era of Good Feelings"?

The Rise of the Cotton Plantation Economy

Expanding Westward: Society and Politics in the "Age of the Common Man," 1819-1832

The Politics Behind Western Expansion

Federal Authority and Its Opponents

Real People in the "Age of the Common Man."

Ties Tha

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