The National Experience A History of the United States

by Blum, John M.; McFeely, William S.; Morgan, Edmund S.; Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M.; Stampp, Kenneth M.

• ISBN13: 9780155003668
• ISBN10: 0155003666
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-01-02
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Now in its Eight Edition, this general American history text emphasizes political history. Written by six eminent historians, THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE exhibits a slight liberal slant. Well-used through its previous printing, this text takes a traditional approach to the study of history.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Note on the Suggestions for Reading
Maps
Making Use of a New World	p. 2
Exploration
Tudor England and the New World
The Founding of Virginia
The Founding of New England
Proprietary Ventures
The Pattern of Empire	p. 30
Mercantilism
The Restoration Colonies
Problems of Enforcement
The Contest for the Continent
The First American Way of Life	p. 60
Patterns of Existence
The Emerging American Mind
The Second Discovery of America	p. 86
Contest for Empire
A New Empire and New Ideas
Toward Independence
An American People	p. 118
The Winning of Independence
The Experimental Period
The Crisis of American Nationality
Establishing National Institutions	p. 148
Launching the New Government
The Shaping of Domestic Policy
Foreign Affairs under Washington
Federalists versus Republicans
The Presidency of John Adams
Jeffersonian Republicanism	p. 174
Economy and Simplicity
Ferment in the West
Political Complications
Trouble on the High Seas
The Decision for War
The War of 1812
Peace Negotiations
Nationalism and Economic Expansion	p. 200
The Triumph of Neo-Federalism
John Marshall and the Supreme Court
The Monroe Doctrine
The Westward Movement
Slavery and the Cotton Kingdom
Another Frontier: Industry and Technology
Politics for the Common Man	p. 228
The New Democracy
John Quincy Adams and National Republicanism
Jacksonian Democracy
Internal Improvements and Public Lands
Religious and Ethnic Minorities
The Tariff and Nullification
The Bank War
Panic and Depression
Tyler and Paralysis
An Era of Reform	p. 258
The Religious Background
The Movement for Reform
The Crusade against Slavery
The Proslavery Argument
Expansion and Sectional Crisis	p. 282
Westward to the Pacific
Polk and the Triumph of Manifest Destiny
War with Mexico
Crisis and Compromise
The Aftermath
America at Midcentury	p. 308
The Emergence of an American Literature
Intimations of Imperialism
International Trade
Immigration
Economic Growth
Economic Discontent in the South
Destruction of the Union	p. 330
The Divisive Issue
The House Divided
Heightened Violence
The Civil War	p. 358
Preparation for War
Battlefields and Emancipation
The Decisive Campaigns of 1863
The War's End
Reconstruction	p. 394
Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
The Ebullient North
The Grant Era
The New South: Reunion and Readjustment	p. 420
Sectional Compromise Restored
Subordination of the Freedmen
Politics in the New South
The Colonial Economy
The New West: Empire within a Nation	p. 440
Subordination of the Indians
The Era of the Bonanzas
The Farmer Moves West
The Ordeal of Industrialization	p. 462
The Railroad Empire
Industrial Empire
Laissez-Faire Conservatism
The House of Labor
The Urban Society	p. 484
America Moves to Town
The Awakening of the Social Conscience
The Spread of Learning
Arts, Letters, and Critics
Stalemate, Agrarian Revolt, and Republican Triumph, 1877-1896	p. 508
The Business of Politics
The Conservative Ascendancy
The Agrarian Revolt
The Depression and the Silver Issue
Empire Beyond the Seas	p. 534
Withdrawal and Return
The New Diplomacy
War with Spain
The White Man's Burden
The Progressive Movement and the Square Deal	p. 552
National Wealth and the Business Elite
Protest and Reform
The Republican Roosevelt
Roosevelt and Reform
Roosevelt and World Power
Progressivism: Retreat and Resurgence	p. 584
Insurgency
Progressivism at Zenith
Wilson and Moral Diplomacy
Problems of Neutrality
The Road to War
War and Its Sequel	p. 610
The Armed Forces on Land and Sea
The Home Front
Constructing the Peace
Negotiating Peace
The Struggle over Ratification
Transition from War
Normalcy
A New Age of Business	p. 646
A New Cult of Enterprise
One Nation Divisible
Grandiose Illusions
Nonconformity and Dissent
The End of an Era	p. 672
President Hoover
The Onset of Depression
Diplomacy in Depression
The Depths of Depression
The New Deal	p. 694
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Hundred Days
The Struggle for Recovery
The 1936 Election
The Supreme Court Fight
Social and Economic Crises
The American People in the Depression
The Decay of Peace	p. 726
Early Ventures
Isolationism at Flood Tide
Neutrality on Test
Aggression in Asia
Awakening the Nation
The Road to War
America and the War
The Election of 1940
Aid Short of War
Thunder in the East
The World in Flames	p. 748
America Organizes for War
The War in Europe
The War in the Pacific
The Fourth Term
The Diplomacy of Coalition
Triumph and Tragedy
The Cold War	p. 782
Truman Takes Over
Experiment in World Order
The Cold War Begins
Why the Cold War?
Confusion on the Home Front
Second Term
Limited War
The Korean War: Repercussions
The 1952 Election
Consolidation and Conflict	p. 810
The Eisenhower Mood
Nationalism and the Superpowers
The United States and the Soviet Union
Republican Domestic Policy
The American People in the 1950s
End of the Eisenhower Era
Reform and Revolt	p. 834
The Thousand Days
The Johnson Years
A Decade of Upheaval
The Presidency Rebuked and Restored	p. 866
From Confrontation to Negotiation
Decline and Fall
The Presidency Restored
Tides of Conservatism	p. 896
From Negotiation to Confrontation
Dilemmas of the Economic Order
The Reagan Counterrevolution
Reagan and the World
Economic Consequences of Reaganomics
Toward the Twenty-First Century	p. 930
Decline or Readjustment
Society Moves into the 1990s
Engines of Change
Toward a New World Order
Politics As Usual
Appendix A	p. A1
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America
Admission of States
Population of the United States
Appendix B	p. A17
Presidential Elections
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Cabinet Members
Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court
Index	p. 11
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