Liberty, Equality, Power A History of the American People, Volume 1: To 1877

by Murrin, John; Johnson, Paul; McPherson, James; Fahs, Alice; Gerstle, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780495915874
• ISBN10: 0495915874
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Understanding the past helps us navigate the present and future. When you read this text, you will not only learn about American History, you will also be exposed to movies and music that tell the stories of American History. A highly respected, balanced, and thoroughly modern approach to US History, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER uses these themes to show how the United States was transformed from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth. This approach helps you understand the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, and also how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power.

Table of Contents

To The Student: Why Study History? Analyzing Historical Sources

When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe

The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America

England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

Reform, Resistance, Revolution

The Revolutionary Republic

Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815

Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

The Old South, 1790-1850

Toward an American Culture

Whigs and Democrats

Antebellum Reform

Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty--or Slavery?

The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

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