A History of the United States

by Boorstin, Daniel J.; Kelley, Brooks Mather; Boorstin, Ruth Frankel

• ISBN13: 9780130536242
• ISBN10: 0130536245
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: PRENTICE HALL SCHOOL GROUP

Table of Contents

List of Maps	xiv
List of Charts and Graphs	xv
List of Primary Sources	xv
A Note on American Pictorial Art	xvi
Prologue	xix
1 The Making of Americans	1	(74)
What Europeans Found: The American Surprise	2	(24)
Christopher Columbus: Who he was and why he came	3	(3)
Before discovery	6	(4)
Why Europeans went exploring	10	(2)
Spanish adventurers	12	(10)
French and English exploration	22	(4)
An Assortment of Colonies	26	(24)
The Spanish Empire	27	(3)
A great and victorious England	30	(4)
The planting of Virginia	34	(4)
The Puritans come to New England	38	(6)
Other Europeans in North America	44	(2)
The proprietary colonies	46	(4)
New Ways in a New World	50	(25)
Many kinds of Americans	51	(10)
The colonists govern themselves	61	(5)
Britain against France	66	(9)
Making Connections	72	(3)
2 Forming a New Nation 1763-1800	75	(100)
The Road to Revolution and Victory	76	(26)
The British take a collision course	77	(7)
Declaring independence	84	(6)
How British power was overthrown	90	(12)
From Confederation to Nation	102	(46)
New state governments	103	(3)
The Continental Congress	106	(2)
A weak confederation	108	(7)
Writing a nation's constitution	115	(6)
The states ratify	121	(27)
Review: Beginnings to 1789	126	(1)
The American discovery	127	(2)
The making of America	129	(6)
Forming a new nation, 1763-1789	135	(13)
The United States Begins	148	(27)
The nation in the 1790s	149	(3)
George Washington sets the course	152	(7)
Foreign affairs for a new nation	159	(6)
John Adams and the rise of parties	165	(10)
Making Connections	172	(3)
3 E pluribus unum: One Made from Many 1800-1840	175	(74)
Jefferson in Power	176	(22)
The man and his policies	177	(5)
Buying Louisiana	182	(7)
Jefferson, Marshall, and the courts	189	(4)
Trouble on the seas	193	(5)
Struggles of a Young Nation	198	(24)
The War of 1812	199	(10)
Madison and Monroe	209	(5)
The Missouri Compromise	214	(3)
The Monroe Doctrine	217	(1)
A national spirit	218	(4)
The Jacksonian Era	222	(27)
A second Adams in the White House	223	(3)
The new politics	226	(5)
Jackson takes command	231	(7)
Banks and money	238	(11)
Making Connections	246	(3)
4 A Nation Growing and Dividing 1800-1860	249	(82)
The Flourishing Land	250	(28)
Drawing the people together	251	(8)
The Industrial Revolution	259	(6)
America's leading import: People	265	(4)
The rise of the West	269	(2)
The cotton kingdom	271	(7)
Reforming and Expanding	278	(26)
An age of reform	279	(7)
The abolition movement	286	(2)
Westward ho!	288	(6)
Texas and Oregon	294	(5)
War with Mexico	299	(5)
The Failure of the Politicians	304	(27)
The Compromise of 1850	305	(7)
How the compromise collapsed	312	(5)
The nation comes apart	317	(4)
The election of 1860	321	(10)
Making Connections	328	(3)
5 The Rocky Road to Union 1860-1890	331	(80)
The Civil War	332	(28)
A new kind of war	333	(8)
The first year: 1861-1862	341	(8)
The widening conflict	349	(4)
Gettysburg to Appomattox, 1863-1865	353	(7)
To Punish or to Forgive?	360	(24)
``With malice toward none''	361	(4)
Andrew Johnson and the Radicals	365	(4)
``Black Reconstruction''	369	(6)
The North withdraws	375	(4)
The divided South	379	(5)
The Passing of the Frontier	384	(27)
Indian wars and resettlement	385	(6)
Seeking gold and silver	391	(5)
The cattle kingdom	396	(5)
The farmers' frontier	401	(10)
Making Connections	408	(3)
6 The New Industrial Age 1865-1900	411	(92)
The Nation Transformed	412	(24)
Railroads and big business	413	(6)
Rock oil lights up the world	419	(3)
City goods for country customers	422	(3)
Buyers' Palaces	425	(2)
Things by the millions	427	(3)
Labor begins to organize	430	(6)
The Challenge of the Cities	436	(22)
The growth of an urban nation	437	(7)
Reformers and self-helpers	444	(2)
The spread of learning	446	(4)
Bridge-building heroes	450	(3)
Going up! elevators and skyscrapers	453	(2)
New towns in the country	455	(3)
Politics in the Gilded Age	458	(45)
Parties in balance	459	(4)
The Democrats come and go	463	(5)
The farmers' revolt	468	(7)
Our money: Gold versus silver	475	(28)
Making Connections	478	(2)
Review: The United States, 1789-1898	480	(1)
A new nation	481	(4)
A nation expanding, reforming, and dividing	485	(11)
The nation transformed	496	(7)
7 Democratic Reforms and World Power 1890-1920	503	(72)
The United States and the World	504	(16)
Looking outward	505	(3)
Expanding on the seas	508	(2)
War with Spain	510	(10)
The Progressive Era	520	(26)
Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal	521	(6)
Middle-class reformers	527	(5)
Taft in the White House	532	(4)
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom	536	(4)
Seeking a world role	540	(6)
The United States and World War I	546	(29)
A spark ignites Europe	547	(9)
Helping to win the war	556	(4)
The home front	560	(7)
Losing the peace	567	(8)
Making Connections	572	(3)
8 From Boom to Bust 1918-1932	575	(44)
Return to Normalcy, 1918-1929	576	(22)
The postwar reaction	577	(6)
Searching for the good old days	583	(5)
``Keeping cool with Coolidge''	588	(4)
Life in the Jazz Age	592	(6)
The Coming of the Great Depression	598	(21)
A prosperous nation	599	(2)
The big crash	601	(8)
Foreign affairs in a gloomy world	609	(4)
The election of 1932	613	(6)
Making Connections	616	(3)
9 Depression at Home and Aggression Abroad 1933-1945	619	(86)
``Nothing to fear but fear itself''	620	(22)
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal	621	(10)
From recovery to reform	631	(6)
The end of the New Deal	637	(5)
Reshaping American Life	642	(14)
Problems on the farm	643	(3)
The problems of black Americans	646	(3)
The New Deal and women	649	(3)
The struggles of labor	652	(4)
Clouds of War	656	(18)
Foreign Affairs, 1933-1939	657	(7)
The battlefield is everywhere	664	(6)
War comes to the United States	670	(4)
A World Conflict	674	(31)
Mobilizing for defense	675	(4)
``The end of the beginning''---1942	679	(6)
Victory in Europe	685	(10)
The war in the Pacific	695	(10)
Making Connections	702	(3)
10 Postwar Problems 1945-1960	705	(68)
Truman: Neither War nor Peace	706	(22)
Beginnings of the cold war	707	(4)
Dealing with a new world	711	(10)
President in his own right	721	(7)
Eisenhower, Moderate Republican	728	(22)
The Republicans return	729	(5)
Everybody's New Deal	734	(4)
The fight for equality	738	(4)
Difficulties abroad	742	(8)
Mobile People and Magic Machines	750	(23)
A changing people	751	(5)
Everyday life transformed	756	(7)
Education and religion	763	(3)
Art and the machine	766	(7)
Making Connections	770	(3)
11 Turbulent Times 1961-1974	773	(70)
Years of Hope and Promise	774	(22)
John F. Kennedy wins	775	(3)
Learning hard lessons	778	(5)
Facing Communist challenges	783	(5)
A New Frontier	788	(4)
The tragic end	792	(4)
LBJ: From the Great Society to Vietnam	796	(20)
Taking the reins	797	(4)
The Great Society	801	(3)
Black revolt and youth rebellion	804	(5)
Vietnam: ``The most unpopular war''	809	(7)
The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon	816	(27)
Electing the President, 1968	817	(3)
Nixon's first term	820	(10)
The fall	830	(13)
Making Connections	840	(3)
12 The United States Looks Ahead	843	(105)
In Pursuit of Civil Rights for All	844	(32)
The two ideals	845	(5)
Dealing with racism	850	(5)
Women seek equality	855	(5)
Spanish-speaking peoples	860	(5)
New waves of immigration	865	(2)
The American Indians	867	(3)
New vistas of equality	870	(6)
Changing Leaders in Washington	876	(30)
Gerald Ford becomes President	877	(5)
Carter: A campaigner as President	882	(6)
The United States and the world	888	(4)
New foreign initiatives by Carter	892	(4)
New directions	896	(4)
The changing economy	900	(6)
The Emergence of a New World	906	(42)
Troubles abroad	907	(5)
Successes and failures	912	(5)
New problems for ``the Teflon President''	917	(4)
The end of the Reagan years	921	(3)
The end of the cold war	924	(6)
A dangerous world	930	(3)
The State of the Nation	933	(6)
The Clinton Presidency	939	(9)
Making Connections	946	(2)
Epilogue: The Mysterious Future	948	(52)
Appendixes
Atlas of Today's World	950	(8)
Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States	958	(1)
The Declaration of Independence	959	(6)
The Constitution of the United States	965	(35)
Glossary	1000	(12)
Index	1012