| |
| |
Maps and Graphs | |
| |
| |
Features | |
| |
| |
American Lives | |
| |
| |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
| |
| |
Mapping the Past | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Preface | |
| |
| |
About the Authors | |
| |
| |
Prologue | |
| |
| |
Beginnings | |
| |
| |
First Peoples | |
| |
| |
The Demise of the Big Mammals | |
| |
| |
The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals | |
| |
| |
The First Sedentary Communities | |
| |
| |
The Maize Revolution | |
| |
| |
The Diffusion of Corn | |
| |
| |
Population Growth After 800 | |
| |
| |
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture | |
| |
| |
The Collapse of Urban Centers | |
| |
| |
Eurasia and Africa | |
| |
| |
Europe in Ferment | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Who-or What-Killed the Big Mammals? | |
| |
| |
Mapping the Past | |
| |
| |
Debate over the Earliest Route to the Americas | |
| |
| |
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas | |
| |
| |
Sightings | |
| |
| |
Columbus's Great Triumph-and Error | |
| |
| |
Spain's American Empire | |
| |
| |
Extending Spain's Empire to the North | |
| |
| |
Disease and Population Losses | |
| |
| |
Ecological Imperialism | |
| |
| |
Spain's European Rivals | |
| |
| |
The Protestant Reformation | |
| |
| |
English Beginnings in America | |
| |
| |
The Settlement of Virginia | |
| |
| |
"Purifying" the Church of England | |
| |
| |
Bradford and Plymouth Colony | |
| |
| |
Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony | |
| |
| |
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson | |
| |
| |
Other New England Colonies | |
| |
| |
French and Dutch Settlements | |
| |
| |
Maryland and the Carolinas | |
| |
| |
The Middle Colonies | |
| |
| |
Cultural Collisions | |
| |
| |
Cultural Fusions | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
How Many Indians Perished with European Settlement? | |
| |
| |
American Lives | |
| |
| |
Tisquantum | |
| |
| |
American Society in the Making | |
| |
| |
Settlement of New France | |
| |
| |
Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California | |
| |
| |
The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard | |
| |
| |
The Chesapeake Colonies | |
| |
| |
The Lure of Land | |
| |
| |
"Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery | |
| |
| |
Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco | |
| |
| |
Bacon's Rebellion | |
| |
| |
The Carolinas | |
| |
| |
Home and Family in the South | |
| |
| |
Georgia and the Back Country | |
| |
| |
Puritan New England | |
| |
| |
The Puritan Family | |
| |
| |
Visible Puritan Saints and Others | |
| |
| |
Democracies Without Democrats | |
| |
| |
The Dominion of New England | |
| |
| |
Salem Bewitched | |
| |
| |
Higher Education in New England | |
| |
| |
A Merchant's World | |
| |
| |
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis | |
| |
| |
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples | |
| |
| |
"The Best Poor Man's Country" | |
| |
| |
The Politics of Diversity | |
| |
| |
Becoming Americans | |
| |
| |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
| |
| |
The Crucible | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Were Puritan Communities Peaceable? | |
| |
| |
America in the British Empire | |
| |
| |
The British Colonial System | |
| |
| |
Mercantilism | |
| |
| |
The Navigation Acts | |
| |
| |
The Effects of Mercantilism | |
| |
| |
The Great Awakening | |
| |
| |
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards | |
| |
| |
The Enlightenment in America | |
| |
| |
Colonial Scientific Achievements | |
| |
| |
Repercussions of Distant Wars | |
| |
| |
The Great War for the Empire | |
| |
| |
Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris | |
| |
| |
Burdens of an Expanded Empire | |
| |
| |
Tightening Imperial Controls | |
| |
| |
The Sugar Act | |
| |
| |
American Colonists Demand Rights | |
| |
| |
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling | |
| |
| |
Rioters or Rebels? | |
| |
| |
Taxation or Tyranny? | |
| |
| |
The Declaratory Act | |
| |
| |
The Townshend Duties | |
| |
| |
The Boston Massacre | |
| |
| |
The Pot Spills Over | |
| |
| |
The Tea Act Crisis | |
| |
| |
From Resistance to Revolution | |
| |
| |
American Lives | |
| |
| |
Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Do Artists Depict Historical Subjects Accurately? | |
| |
| |
The American Revolution | |
| |
| |
"The Shot Heard Round the World" | |
| |
| |
The Second Continental Congress | |
| |
| |
The Battle of Bunker Hill | |
| |
| |
The Great Declaration | |
| |
| |
1776: The Balance of Forces | |
| |
| |
Loyalists | |
| |
| |
The British Take New York City | |
| |
| |
Saratoga and the French Alliance | |
| |
| |
The War Moves South | |
| |
| |
Victory at Yorktown | |
| |
| |
Negotiating a Favorable Peace | |
| |
| |
National Government Under the Articles of Confederation | |
| |
| |
Financing the War | |
| |
| |
State Republican Governments | |
| |
| |
Social Reform | |
| |
| |
Effects of the Revolution on Women | |
| |
| |
Growth of a National Spirit | |
| |
| |
The Great Land Ordinances | |
| |
| |
National Heroes | |
| |
| |
A National Culture | |
| |
| |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
| |
| |
The Patriot | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Was the American Revolution Rooted in Class Struggle? | |
| |
| |
The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant | |
| |
| |
Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation | |
| |
| |
Daniel Shays's "Little Rebellion" | |
| |
| |
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution | |
| |
| |
The Great Convention | |
| |
| |
The Compromises That Produced the Constitution | |
| |
| |
Ratifying the Constitution | |
| |
| |
Washington as President | |
| |
| |
Congress Under Way | |
| |
| |
Hamilton and Financial Reform | |
| |
| |
The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground | |
| |
| |
Revolution in France | |
| |
| |
Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties | |
| |
| |
1794: Crisis and Resolution | |
| |
| |
Jay's Treaty | |
| |
| |
1795: All's Well That Ends Well | |
| |
| |
Washington's Farewell | |
| |
| |
The Election of 1796 | |
| |
| |
The XYZ Affair | |
| |
| |
The Alien and Sedition Acts | |
| |
| |
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves | |
| |
| |
Mapping the Past | |
| |
| |
Depicting History with Maps | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
What Ideas Shaped the Constitution? | |
| |
| |
Jeffersonian Democracy | |
| |
| |
Jefferson Elected President | |
| |
| |
The Federalist Contribution | |
| |
| |
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist | |
| |
| |
Jefferson as President | |
| |
| |
Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary | |
| |
| |
The Barbary Pirates | |
| |
| |
The Louisiana Purchase | |
| |
| |
The Federalists Discredited | |
| |
| |
Lewis and Clark | |
| |
| |
The Burr Conspiracy | |
| |
| |
Napoleon and the British | |
| |
| |
The Impressment Controversy | |
| |
| |
The Embargo Act | |
| |
| |
Jeffersonian Democracy | |
| |
| |
Mapping the Past | |
| |
| |
A Water Route to the Pacific? | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Did Thomas Jefferson Father a Child by His Slave? | |
| |
| |
National Growing Pains | |
| |
| |
Madison in Power | |
| |
| |
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance | |
| |
| |
Depression and Land Hunger | |
| |
| |
Opponents of War | |
| |
| |
The War of 1812 | |
| |
| |
Britain Assumes the Offensive | |
| |
| |
"The Star Spangled Banner" | |
| |
| |
The Treaty of Ghent | |
| |
| |
The Hartford Convention | |
| |
| |
The Battle of New Orleans | |
| |
| |
Victory Weakens the Federalists | |
| |
| |
Anglo-American Rapprochement | |
| |
| |
The Transcontinental Treaty | |
| |
| |
The Monroe Doctrine | |
| |
| |
The Era of Good Feelings | |
| |
| |
New Sectional Issues | |
| |
| |
New Leaders | |
| |
| |
The Missouri Compromise | |
| |
| |
The Election of 1824 | |
| |
| |
John Quincy Adams as President | |
| |
| |
Calhoun's Exposition and Protest | |
| |
| |
The Meaning of Sectionalism | |
| |
| |
Mapping the Past | |
| |
| |
North-South Sectionalism Intensifies | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
How Did Indians and Settlers Interact? | |
| |
| |
Toward a National Economy | |
| |
| |
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution | |
| |
| |
Birth of the Factory | |
| |
| |
An Industrial Proletariat? | |
| |
| |
Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers | |
| |
| |
Irish and German Immigrants | |
| |
| |
The Persistence of the Household System | |
| |
| |
Rise of Corporations | |
| |
| |
Cotton Revolutionizes the South | |
| |
| |
Revival of Slavery | |
| |
| |
Roads to Market | |
| |
| |
Transportation and the Government | |
| |
| |
Development of Steamboats | |
| |
| |
The Canal Boom | |
| |
| |
New York City: Emporium of the Western World | |
| |
| |
The Marshall Court | |
| |
| |
Mapping the Past | |
| |
| |
The Making of the Working Class | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Did a "Market Revolution" Transform Early Nineteenth-Century America? | |
| |
| |
Jacksonian Democracy | |
| |
| |
"Democratizing" Politics | |
| |
| |
1828: The New Party System in Embryo | |
| |
| |
The Jacksonian Appeal | |
| |
| |
The Spoils System | |
| |
| |
President of All the People | |
| |
| |
Sectional Tensions Revived | |
| |
| |
Jackson: "The Bank...I Will Kill It!" | |
| |
| |
Jackson's Bank Veto | |
| |
| |
Jackson Versus Calhoun | |
| |
| |
Indian Removals | |
| |
| |
The Nullification Crisis | |
| |
| |
Boom and Bust | |
| |
| |
Jacksonianism Abroad | |
| |
| |
The Jacksonians | |
| |
| |
Rise of the Whigs | |
| |
| |
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson | |
| |
| |
The Log Cabin Campaign | |
| |
| |
American Lives | |
| |
| |
Horace Greeley | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
For Whom Did Jackson Fight? | |
| |
| |
The Making of Middle-Class America | |
| |
| |
Tocqueville: Democracy in America | |
| |
| |
The Family Recast | |
| |
| |
The Second Great Awakening | |
| |
| |
The Era of Associations | |
| |
| |
Backwoods Utopias | |
| |
| |
The Age of Reform | |
| |
| |
"Demon Rum" | |
| |
| |
The Abolitionist Crusade | |
| |
| |
Women's Rights | |
| |
| |
The Romantic View of Life | |
| |
| |
Emerson and Thoreau | |
| |
| |
Edgar Allan Poe | |
| |
| |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| |
| |
Herman Melville | |
| |
| |
Walt Whitman | |
| |
| |
Reading and the Dissemination of Culture | |
| |
| |
Education for Democracy | |
| |
| |
The State of the Colleges | |
| |
| |
Mapping the Past | |
| |
| |
Small Families in the Northeast, Large Families in the Frontier | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Did the Antebellum Reform Movement Improve Society? | |
| |
| |
Westward Expansion | |
| |
| |
Tyler's Troubles | |
| |
| |
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty | |
| |
| |
The Texas Question | |
| |
| |
Manifest Destiny | |
| |
| |
Life on the Trail | |
| |
| |
California and Oregon | |
| |
| |
The Election of 1844 | |
| |
| |
Polk as President | |
| |
| |
War with Mexico | |
| |
| |
To the Halls of Montezuma | |
| |
| |
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
| |
| |
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States | |
| |
| |
Slavery: Storm Clouds Gather | |
| |
| |
The Election of 1848 | |
| |
| |
The Gold Rush | |
| |
| |
The Compromise of 1850 | |
| |
| |
Mapping the Past | |
| |
| |
The Political Geography of Slavery | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Did the Frontier Change Women's Roles? | |
| |
| |
The Sections Go Their Ways | |
| |
| |
The South | |
| |
| |
The Economics of Slavery | |
| |
| |
Antebellum Plantation Life | |
| |
| |
The Sociology of Slavery | |
| |
| |
Psychological Effects of Slavery | |
| |
| |
Manufacturing in the South | |
| |
| |
The Northern Industrial Juggernaut | |
| |
| |
A Nation of Immigrants | |
| |
| |
How Wage Earners Lived | |
| |
| |
Progress and Poverty | |
| |
| |
Foreign Commerce | |
| |
| |
Steam Conquers the Atlantic | |
| |
| |
Canals and Railroads | |
| |
| |
Financing the Railroads | |
| |
| |
Railroads and the Economy | |
| |
| |
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict | |
| |
| |
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War | |
| |
| |
American Lives | |
| |
| |
Sojourner Truth | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Did Slaves and Masters Form Emotional Bonds? | |
| |
| |
The Coming of the Civil War | |
| |
| |
The Slave Power Comes North | |
| |
| |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| |
| |
Diversions Abroad: The "Young America" Movement | |
| |
| |
Stephen Douglas: "The Little Giant" | |
| |
| |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
| |
| |
Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System | |
| |
| |
"Bleeding Kansas" | |
| |
| |
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism | |
| |
| |
Buchanan Tries His Hand | |
| |
| |
The Dred Scott Decision | |
| |
| |
The Proslavery Lecompton Constitution | |
| |
| |
The Emergence of Lincoln | |
| |
| |
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
| |
| |
John Brown's Raid | |
| |
| |
The Election of 1860 | |
| |
| |
The Secession Crisis | |
| |
| |
Mapping the Past | |
| |
| |
Runaway Slaves: Hard Realities | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Was the Civil War Avoidable? | |
| |
| |
The War to Save the Union | |
| |
| |
Lincoln's Cabinet | |
| |
| |
Fort Sumter: The First Shot | |
| |
| |
The Blue and the Gray | |
| |
| |
The Test of Battle: Bull Run | |
| |
| |
Paying for the War | |
| |
| |
Politics as Usual | |
| |
| |
Behind Confederate Lines | |
| |
| |
War in the West: Shiloh | |
| |
| |
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior | |
| |
| |
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam | |
| |
| |
The Emancipation Proclamation | |
| |
| |
The Draft Riots | |
| |
| |
The Emancipated People | |
| |
| |
African American Soldiers | |
| |
| |
Antietam to Gettysburg | |
| |
| |
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg | |
| |
| |
Economic and Social Effects, North and South | |
| |
| |
Women in Wartime | |
| |
| |
Grant in the Wilderness | |
| |
| |
Sherman in Georgia | |
| |
| |
To Appomattox Court House | |
| |
| |
Winners, Losers, and the Future | |
| |
| |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
| |
| |
Glory | |
| |
| |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
| |
| |
Cold Mountain | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Why Did the South Lose the Civil War? | |
| |
| |
Reconstruction and the South | |
| |
| |
The Assassination of Lincoln | |
| |
| |
Presidential Reconstruction | |
| |
| |
Republican Radicals | |
| |
| |
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction | |
| |
| |
The Fourteenth Amendment | |
| |
| |
The Reconstruction Acts | |
| |
| |
Congress Supreme | |
| |
| |
The Fifteenth Amendment | |
| |
| |
"Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers | |
| |
| |
The Ravaged Land | |
| |
| |
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System | |
| |
| |
The White Backlash | |
| |
| |
Grant as President | |
| |
| |
The Disputed Election of 1876 | |
| |
| |
The Compromise of 1877 | |
| |
| |
Mapping the Past | |
| |
| |
The Politics of Reconstruction | |
| |
| |
Debating the Past | |
| |
| |
Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt? | |
| |
| |
Appendix | |
| |
| |
The Declaration of Independence | |
| |
| |
The Articles of Confederation | |
| |
| |
The Constitution of the United States of America | |
| |
| |
Amendments to the Constitution | |
| |
| |
Presidential Elections, 1789-2004 | |
| |
| |
Glossary | |
| |
| |
Picture Credits | |
| |
| |
Index | |