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9780618224241

The American Pageant: A History of the Republic

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    9780618224241

  • ISBN10:

    0618224246

  • Edition: 12th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-08-03
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

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Table of Contents

Preface xxii
Part One Founding the New Nation c. 33,000 B.C.--A.D. 1783
2(162)
New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.--A.D. 1769
4(21)
The geology of the New World
Native Americans before Columbus
Europeans and Africans
The search for a water route to Asia
Columbus and the early explorers
The ecological consequences of Columbus's discovery
Spain builds a New World empire
Making Sense of the New World
7(11)
The Spanish Conquistadores
18(7)
The Planting of English America 1500--1733
25(18)
England on the eve of colonization
The expansion of Elizabethan England
The planting of Jamestown, 1607
English settlers and Native Americans
The growth of Virginia and Maryland
England in the Caribbean
Settling the Carolinas and Georgia
The Iroquois
40(3)
Settling the Northern Colonies 1619--1700
43(23)
The Puritan faith
Plymouth Colony, 1620
The Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire
Puritans and Indians
The Dominion of New England, 1686--1689
New Netherland becomes New York
Pennsylvania, the Quaker colony
New Jersey and Delaware
The English
50(13)
A Seventeenth-Century Valuables Cabinet
63(1)
Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe?
64(2)
American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607--1692
66(18)
Life and labor in the Chesapeake tobacco region
Indentured servants and Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676
The spread of slavery
African-American culture
Southern Society
Families in New England
Declining Puritan piety
The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692
Daily life in the colonies
An Indentured Servant's Contract
69(5)
From African to African-American
74(10)
Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700--1775
84(22)
Immigration and population growth
Colonial social structure
Earning a living
The Atlantic economy
The role of religion
The Great Awakening of the 1730s
Education and culture
Political patterns
The Scots-Irish
88(16)
Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus?
104(2)
The Duel for North America 1608--1763
106(16)
New France
Fur-traders and Indians
Anglo-French colonial rivalries
Europe, America, and the first world wars
The French and Indian War, 1754--1763
The ousting of France from North America, 1763
Pontiac's Uprising and the Proclamation of 1763
The French
118(4)
The Road to Revolution 1763--1775
122(19)
The merits and menace of mercantilism
The Stamp Act crisis, 1765
The Townshend Acts, 1767
The Boston Tea Party, 1773
The Intolerable Acts and the Continental Congress 1774
Lexington, Concord, and the gathering clouds of war, 1775
Whose Revolution?
139(2)
America Secedes from the Empire 1775--1783
141(23)
Early skirmishes, 1775
American ``republicanism''
The Declaration of Independence, 1776
Patriots and Loyalists
The fighting fronts
The French alliance, 1778
Yorktown, 1781
The Peace of Paris, 1783
A Revolution for Women? Abigail Adams Chides Her Husband, 1776
147(3)
The Loyalists
150(14)
Part Two Building the New Nation 1776--1860
164(184)
The Confederation and the Constitution 1776--1790
166(24)
Changing political sentiments
The new state constitutions
Economic troubles
The Articles of Confederation, 1781--1788
The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
Shays's Rebellion, 1786
The Constitutional Convention, 1787
Ratifying the Constitution, 1787--1790
Copley Family Portrait, c. 1776--1777
169(19)
The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary?
188(2)
Launching the New Ship of State 1789--1800
190(21)
Problems of the young Republic
The first presidency, 1789--1793
The Bill of Rights, 1791
Hamilton's economic policies
The Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
The emergence of political parties
The impact of the French Revolution
Jay's Treaty, 1794, and Washington's farewell, 1797
President Adams keeps the peace
The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 1798--1799
Federalists versus Republicans
The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800--1812
211(22)
The ``Revolution of 1800''
The Jefferson presidency
John Marshall and the Supreme Court
Barbary pirates
The Louisiana Purchase, 1803
The Anglo-French War
The Embargo, 1807--1809
Napoleon manipulates Madison
Battle with the Shawnees
A Declaration of War
Sorting Out the Thomas Jefferson--Sally Hemmings Relationship
213(20)
The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812--1824
233(23)
Invasion of Canada, 1812
The war on land and sea
The Treaty of Ghent, 1814
The Hartford Convention, 1814--1815
A new national identity
``The American System''
James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings
Westward expansion
The Missouri Compromise, 1820
The Supreme Court under John Marshall
Canada and Florida
The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
Settlers of the Old Northwest
248(8)
The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824--1840
256(31)
The ``corrupt bargain'' of 1824
President John Quincy Adams, 1825--1829
The triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828
The ``Tariff of Abominations,'' 1828
The spoils system
The South Carolina nullification crisis, 1832--1833
The removal of the Indians from the Southeast
Jackson's war on the Bank of the United States
The emergence of the Whig party, 1836
Martin Van Buren in the White House, 1837--1841
The depression of 1837
Revolution in Texas
William Henry Harrison's ``log cabin'' campaign, 1840
The establishment of the two-party system
Satiric Bank Note, 1837
273(5)
Mexican or Texican?
278(7)
What Was Jacksonian Democracy?
285(2)
Forging the National Economy 1790--1860
287(33)
The westward movement
European immigration
The Irish and the Germans
Nativism and assimilation
The coming of the factory system
Women and the economy
The ripening of commercial agriculture
The transportation revolution
The Irish
294(4)
The Germans
298(3)
The Invention of the Sewing Machine
301(19)
The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790--1860
320(28)
Religious revivals
The Mormons
Educational advances
The roots of reform
Temperance
Women's roles and women's rights
Utopian experiments
Art and architecture
A national literature
The Oneida Community
336(10)
Reform: Who? What? How? and Why?
346(2)
Part Three Testing the New Nation 1820--1877
348(152)
The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793--1860
350(20)
The economy of the Cotton Kingdom
Poor whites and free blacks
The plantation system
The human face of the ``peculiar institution''
The abolitionist crusade
The white Southern response
Abolition and the Northern conscience
Bellegrove Plantation, Donaldsville, Louisiana, Built 1857
361(7)
What Was the True Nature of Slavery?
368(2)
Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841--1848
370(20)
``Tyler Too'' becomes president, 1841
Fixing the Maine boundary, 1842
The annexation of Texas, 1845
Oregon Fever
James K. Polk, the ``dark horse'' of 1844
War with Mexico, 1846--1848
The Californios
386(4)
Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848--1854
390(19)
``Popular sovereignty''
Zachary Taylor and California statehood
The Compromise of 1850
The inflammatory Fugitive Slave Law
President Pierce and expansion, 1853--1857
Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Drifting Toward Disunion 1854--1861
409(25)
Uncle Tom's Cabin and the spread of abolitionist sentiment in the North
The contest for Kansas
The election of James Buchanan, 1856
The Dred Scott case, 1857
The financial panic of 1857
The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 185
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859
Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860
Secession
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
411(21)
The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?
432(2)
Girding for War: The North and the South 1861--1865
434(17)
The attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861
The crucial border states
The balance of forces
The threat of European intervention
The importance of diplomacy
Lincoln and civil liberties
Men in uniform
Financing the Blue and the Gray
The economic impact of the war
Women and the war
The fate of the South
The Furnace of Civil War 1861--1865
451(26)
Bull Run ends the ``ninety-day war''
The Peninsula Campaign
The Union wages total war
The battle of Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
Black soldiers
Confederate high tide at Gettysburg
The war in the West
Sherman marches through Georgia
Politics in wartime
Appomattox, 1865
The assassination of Lincoln, April 1865
The legacy of war
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
463(13)
What Were the Consequences of the Civil War?
476(1)
The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865--1877
477(23)
The defeated South
The freed slaves
President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies
Moderate and radical Republicans
Congressional Reconstruction policies
Johnson clashes with Congress
Military Reconstruction, 1867--1877
Freed people enter politics
``Black Reconstruction'' and the Ku Klux Klan
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
The legacy of Reconstruction
How Radical was Reconstruction?
498(2)
Part Four Forging and Industrial Society 1865--1899
500(144)
Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869--1896
502(26)
Ulysses S. Grant, soldier-president
Corruption and reform in the post-Civil War era
The depression of the 1870s
Political parties and partisans
The Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction
Class conflict and ethnic clashes
Civil-service reform
Grover Cleveland and the tariff
President Harrison and the ``Billion Dollar Congess''
Populists
Cleveland Regains the White House
The Chinese
512(15)
The Populists: Radicals or Reactionaries?
527(1)
Industry Comes of Age 1865--1900
528(29)
The railroad boom
Speculators and financiers
Early efforts at government regulation
Lords of industry
Industry in the South
The laboring class
The rise of trade unions
The Photography of Lewis W. Hine
547(5)
The Knights of Labor
552(3)
Industrialization: Boon or Blight?
555(2)
America Moves to the City 1865--1900
557(33)
The rise of the city
Skyscrapers, tenements, and suburbs
The ``New Immigrants''
Settlement houses and social workers
New jobs for women
Nativists and immigration restriction
Churches in the city
Black leaders: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois
Literary achievements
The ``New Woman'' and the new morality
Art, music, and entertainment in urban America
Manuscript Census Data, 1900
563(3)
The Italians
566(24)
The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution 1865--1896
590(33)
The conquest of the Indians
The mining and cattle frontiers
Free lands and fraud
The industrialization of agriculture
Farmers protest
Challenge from the People's Party
The Pullman Strike, 1894
Bryan versus McKinley, 1896
The Plains Indians
598(7)
Robert Louis Stevenson's Transcontinental Journey, 1879
605(17)
Was the West Really ``Won''?
622(1)
The Path of Empire 1890--1899
623(21)
The sources of American expansionism
Cleveland and the Venezuelan boundary dispute, 1895--1896
The Hawaii Question
The explosion of the Maine, February 15, 1898
The Spanish-American War, 1898
The invasion of Cuba
Acquiring Puerto Rico (1898) and the Philippines (1899)
The Puerto Ricans
640(4)
Part Five Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad 1899--1945
644(212)
America on the World Stage 1899--1909
646(18)
Crushing the Filipino insurrection
The Open Door notes, 1899 and 1900
TR becomes president, 1901
The Panama Canal
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
Roosevelt and the Far East
The Filipinos
650(12)
Why Did America Become a World Power?
662(2)
Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901--1912
664(23)
Campaigning against social injustice
The muckrakers
The politics of progressivism
Women battle for the vote and against the saloon
Roosevelt, labor, and the trusts
Consumer protection
Conservation
Roosevelt's legacy
The troubled presidency of William Howard Taft
Taft's ``dollar diplomacy''
Roosevelt breaks with Taft
Muller v. Oregon, 1908
671(7)
The Environmentalists
678(9)
Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad 1912--1916
687(18)
The election of 1912: The New Freedom versus the New Nationalism
Wilson, the tariff, the banks, and the trusts
Wilson's diplomacy in Mexico
War in Europe and American neutrality
The reelection of Wilson, 1916
Who Were the Progressives?
704(1)
The War to End War 1917--1918
705(23)
German submarines push America into war, 1917
Wilsonian idealism and the Fourteen Points
Propaganda and civil liberties
Workers, blacks, and women on the home front
Drafting soldiers
The American Expeditionary Force fights in France
Wilsonian peacemaking at Paris
The Senate rejects the Versailles Treaty
Woodrow Wilson: Realist or Idealist?
726(2)
American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1919--1929
728(25)
The ``red scare,'' 1919--1920
Immigration restriction, 1921--1924
Prohibition and gangsterism
The Scopes trial
The emergence of a mass-consumption economy
The automobile age
Radio and the movies
Music and literature in the ``delirious decade''
The economic boom
The Poles
734(13)
The Jazz Singer, 1927
747(6)
The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920--1932
753(24)
The Republicans return to power, 1921
Disarmament and isolation
The Harding scandals
Calvin Coolidge's foreign policies
The international debt snarl
Herbert Hoover, cautious progressive
The great crash, 1929
Hoover and the Great Depression
Aggression in Asia
``Good Neighbors'' in Latin America
Lampooning Hoover, 1932
773(4)
The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933--1939
777(29)
Franklin D. Roosevelt as president
The Hundred Days Congress, 1933
The National Recovery Administration, 1933--1935
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1933--1936
The Tennessee Valley Authority
The Social Security Act, 1935
Gains for organized labor
The election of 1936 and the ``Roosevelt coalition''
The Supreme Court fight, 1937
The New Deal assessed
The Dust Bowl Migrants
792(13)
How Radical Was the New Deal?
805(1)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933--1941
806(21)
Roosevelt's early foreign policies
German and Japanese aggression
The Neutrality Acts, 1935--1939
The destroyer-bases deal with Britain, 1940
The Lend-Lease Act, 1941
The Atlantic Charter, 1941
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Refugees from the Holocaust
814(13)
America in World War II 1941--1945
827(29)
The internment of Japanese-Americans
The war ends the New Deal
Mobilizing the economy
Women in wartime
The war's effect on African-Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican-Americans
The economic and social impact of war
Turning the Japanese tide in the Pacific
Campaigns in North Africa (1942) and Italy (1943)
``D-Day'' in Normandy (France), June 6, 1944
Germany surrenders, May 1945
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945
The Japanese
830(15)
Franklin Roosevelt at Teheran, 1943
845(10)
World War II: Triumph or Tragedy?
855(1)
Part Six Making Modern America 1945 to the Present
856(2)
The Cold War Begins 1945--1952
858(29)
Postwar prosperity
The rise of the ``Sunbelt''
The rush to the suburbs
The postwar baby boom
Harry S Truman as president
The Yalta Conference, February 1945
Origins of the Cold War
The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations
The containment doctrine
The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO
Anti-communism at home
The outbreak of the Korean War, 1950
Advertising Prosperity
865(3)
The Suburbanites
868(18)
Who Was to Blame for the Cold War?
886(1)
The Eisenhower Era 1952--1960
887(29)
The election of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952
The menace of McCarthyism
Desegregating the South
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the seeds of the civil rights revolution
The emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eisenhower Republicanism
The Suez Canal crisis, 1956
The space race and other contests with the Soviet Union
John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon for the presidency, 1960
Changing economic roles for men and women
The flowering of consumer culture in the 1950s
Postwar literature
The Great African-American Migration
892(24)
The Stormy Sixties 1960--1968
916(30)
The Kennedy spirit
The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) and the missile crisis (1962) in Cuba
The struggle for civil rights
Kennedy assassinated, November 22, 1963
Lyndon Baines Johnson and the ``Great Society''
The civil rights revolution explodes
The Vietnam disaster
The election of Richard Nixon, 1968
The cultural upheavals of the 1960s
Conflicting Press Accounts of the ``March on Washington,'' 1963
925(19)
The Sixties: Constructive or Destructive?
944(2)
The Stalemated Seventies 1968--1980
946(30)
The end of the postwar economic boom
Nixon and the Vietnam War
New policies toward China and the Soviet Union
Nixon and the Supreme Court
Nixon's domestic program
Nixon trounces McGovern, 1972
The Watergate scandal
Israelis, Arabs, and oil
Nixon resigns
The Ford interlude
The election of Jimmy Carter, 1976
Carter's diplomatic successes in Panama and the Middle East
The energy crisis and inflation
The Iranian hostage humiliation
The ``Smoking Gun'' Tape, June 23, 1972
961(3)
The Vietnamese
964(4)
The Feminists
968(8)
The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980--2000
976(38)
The ``New Right'' and Reagan's election, 1980
Budget battles and tax cuts
Reagan and the Soviets
Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and the thawing of the Cold War
The Iran-Contra scandal
Reagan's economic legacy
Reagan and the ``social issues''
The election of George Bush, 1988
The end of the Cold War
The Persian Gulf War, 1991
Bush's battles at home
The election of Bill Clinton, 1992
The Republicans win control of Congress, 1994
The reelection of Clinton, 1996
Clinton's foreign policy
The Clinton impeachment trial
The 2000 election
Where Did Modern Conservatism Come From?
1013(1)
The American People Face a New Century
1014(12)
The past and the future
The emergence of a ``postindustrial'' economy
Widening inequality
The feminist revolution
The transformation of the family
The newest immigrants
Cities and suburbs
Minorities in modern America
American culture at century's end
The American prospect
The Latinos
1026(3)
A Country Politically Divided Between City and Country
1029
Appendix
Suggested Readings
1(30)
Declaration of Independence
31(3)
Constitution of the United States of America
34(17)
An American Profile: The United States and Its People
51(13)
Population, Percentage Change, and Racial Composition for the United States, 1790--2000
Population Density and Distribution, 1790--2000
Changing Characteristics of the U.S. Population
Changing Lifestyles in Modern America
Characteristics of the U.S. Labor Force
Leading Economic Sectors
Per Capita Disposable Personal Income in Constant (1987) Dollars, 1940--1998
Comparative Tax Burdens
Value of Imports and Exports by Selected Place of Origin and Destination
The U.S. Balance of Trade, 1900--1998
Tariff Levies on Dutiable Imports, 1821--1996
Gross Domestic Product in Current and Constant 1995 Dollars
Presidential Elections
Presidents and Vice Presidents
Admission of States
Estimates of Total Costs and Number of Battle Deaths of Major U.S. Wars
Photograph Credits 64(5)
Index 69

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