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Building the American Republic, Volume 1: A Narrative History to 1877
- ISBN-10:
- 022630051X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780226300511
- Pub. Date:
- 01/18/2018
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN-10:
- 022630051X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780226300511
- Pub. Date:
- 01/18/2018
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Building the American Republic, Volume 1: A Narrative History to 1877
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ISBN-13: | 9780226300511 |
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Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Publication date: | 01/18/2018 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 640 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface1 First Americans, to 1550Land, Climate, and First Peoples From the Land Bridge to Agriculture Puebloan Villagers, the First Townspeople Mississippian Chiefdoms Woodland Peoples of the East The Empires of Central and South AmericaThe Expanding Nations of Europe Population Growth and Prosperity Religious Rivalry and Trade Portugal’s First StepsThe World of West Africa The People of West Africa Sugar and Slaves The Early Slave TradeEurope Comes to America The Voyages of Columbus Spain’s Rivals and Imitators The Conquest of Mexico and Peru Spain in North AmericaAfter Columbus Modes of Conquest The Columbian Exchange Understanding America2 The First English Colonies, 1584-1676England and the Atlantic A New Atlantic World Reformation and Empire The Price Revolution and Its ConsequencesThe Enterprise of Virginia Roanoke and Jamestown Surviving in Powhatan’s Virginia Tobacco Plantations and Bond ServantsStabilizing the Chesapeake Indian Wars and Royal Government Economic and Social Stability Maryland Joins Virginia Bacon’s RebellionPuritan America The Puritan Faith Plymouth’s Pilgrims Massachusetts’s Great Migration“God’s Commonwealth” A Covenanted People Town, Church, and Colony The Challenge of DissentWar and Transition The English Civil War The Second Generation Indian Warfare3 The Emerging Empire, 1676-1756Rivals for America Spain and New Spain The Dutch and New Netherland New France and the “Middle Ground” Caribbean Sugar ColoniesRestoration Colonies The Two Carolinas New Netherland Becomes New York Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware Charity and GeorgiaThe Operations of Empire Mercantilism and Trade James II and the Glorious Revolution The Glorious Revolution in AmericaThe Empire and the British Constitution Fighting the French and Indians The Eighteenth-Century British Constitution The Opposition Tradition Balanced Government in the Colonies4 Colonial Society and Culture, 1676-1756A Changing Population Immigrants from Europe The Expansion of Slavery Native Americans and Colonial ExpansionThe South as a Slave Society Life in Bondage Masters in a Slave Society The Backcountry SouthLife in the Middle Colonies Farms and Rural Life Towns and Cities Slaves and Free Blacks in the Northern ColoniesChanges in New England The Tensions of Trade and Religion Witchcraft in SalemSocial and Cultural Trends Free Women and Families Defining Race Rank and the Social Order Reason and the Enlightenment The Great Awakening5 The Era of Independence, 1756-1783Imperial War and Its Consequences The Seven Years’ War Pontiac Rises A Standing Army and Revenue ReformImperial Crisis Resisting the Stamp Act A Revolution from Below? Political TheoryThe Contagion of Liberty Protesting the Townshend Duties Rural Protests Daughters of Liberty The Rhetoric and Reality of SlaveryThe Conflict Escalates The Boston Tea Party and the Coercive Acts The First Continental Congress Lexington to VirginiaDecision for Independence The Second Continental CongressCommon Sense The Declaration of Independence Liberty, Equality, and SlaveryThe Military Challenge The Continental Army The British Dilemma The LoyalistsThe Course of War Fighting in the North Diplomacy and the Frontier War in the South The African Americans’ War Victory and the Treaty of Paris6 A Federal Republic, 1783-1789Revolution and American Society Gentle and Simple Black and Free “Remember the Ladies” Indians and FreedomDevising Republican Government State Constitutions and Governments The Articles of Confederation Finances and Foreign Affairs Land PoliciesConflict in the States Deference and Ambition Economic Controversies Upheaval in New EnglandThe Movement for a Stronger Union James Madison Comes Forward Delegates to the Federal Convention The Virginia Plan Slavery and Representation Three Balanced BranchesThe Ratification Debate Federalists and AntifederalistsThe Federalist Papers A Bill of Rights7 Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815Launching the Federal Republic Creating Precedents Hamilton’s Plans Madison’s Response The First Party SystemTrials of Strength The French Revolution and American Diplomacy Western and Atlantic Challenges Washington’s FarewellJohn Adams and Party Conflict The Quasi-War and Republican Dissent “The Revolution of 1800”The Jeffersonians in Power “We Are All Republicans, We Are All Federalists” A Changing Political Community The Power of the Courts Haiti and LouisianaThe Trans-Appalachian West Whites and Indians beyond the Mountains The Process of Settlement The Great RevivalA Second War for Independence? Commerce and Conflict Tecumseh and the Red Sticks The Road to War The Course of Combat Protests and Peace8 Market Revolution in the North, 1815-1860Technology and the New Economy The Household Economy The Transportation Revolution The Communication RevolutionPublic Support and Private Initiative The Role of Government Money and Banking Judicial SupportMarkets and Production Agricultural Improvements From Artisans to Operatives Textile Factories Early Mass Production Labor ProtestsOn the Move Immigration Urbanization Moving WestSociety in the Free States Equality and Inequality The Burden of Race A New Middle Class The Home as Woman’s Sphere9 Northern Culture and Reform, 1815-1860The Fate of the Republic The Postwar Mood Troubling Symptoms Revivals in the NorthRevivals and Reform New Denominations and Communities The Benevolent Empire Evangelical Reform Opposing and Defending ReformThe Assault on Slavery Early Efforts Black Abolitionists Immediatism Antislavery PoliticsWomen and Reform From Domesticity to the Public Sphere Antislavery Women Women’s Rights Seneca Falls
A Cultural Renaissance Rural and Urban Frontiers Romanticism Transcendentalism Darker Voices Democracy’s Advocates The Free Labor Ideal
10 The World of the South, 1815-1860Southern Contours The Upper South The Cotton Kingdom The Slave EconomyThe Peculiar Institution Working like a Slave Slave Families Slave Discipline Slave ResistanceThe South’s Free Society The Masters The Mistresses Nonslaveholders and Poor Whites Free People of ColorSlavery and Culture Race Religion Equality and Inequality Liberty, Honor, and Violence The Political Defense of Slavery11 The Transformation of Politics, 1815-1836An Era of Good Feelings? New Leaders, New Challenges Florida and the First Seminole War Panic and Its RemediesConflict Returns Missouri Compromise and Monroe Doctrine The Election of 1824 “The Spirit of Improvement”Jackson Takes Charge Reviving the Democratic Party The Spoils System Indian Removal Internal Improvements and Nullification
War on the Bank The Monster Deposit Removal and the Party System The AftermathOutside the Party Fold The “Blessed Spirit” of Anti-Masonry The Rise of the Workingmen Wrestling with Slavery12 Wars for the West, 1836-1850Democrats, Whigs, and the West Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837 “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” The Emergence of Manifest DestinyThe Great West Geography and Early Peoples First Colonies The Arrival of Anglo-Americans Independent TexasWar with Mexico Texas Annexation Polk Takes Charge Fighting Mexico
The Poisoned Fruits of Manifest Destiny The Wilmot Proviso Controversy The Election of 1848 Deadlock Follows Peace Contending Responses The Compromise of 1850
13 The House Dividing, 1850-1861
Old Parties Decline The Fugitive Slave Act The Election of 1852 The Kansas-Nebraska Act
New Parties Arise Immigrants and Know-Nothings The Republican Challenge The Fire-Eaters Respond “Bleeding Kansas” Republicans Reach for the Presidency
Buchanan’s Frustrations The Case of Dred Scott Back to Kansas The Failure of Distractions
Disunion Approaches Rival Sectional Visions The Lincoln-Douglas Debates John Brown’s Raid The Election of 1860 Secession Winter, 1860-186114 “A New Birth of Freedom,” 1861-1865 “And the War Came . . .” Lincoln’s Inauguration Fort Sumter and the Rush to WarFighting Begins Resources for Combat Geography, Strategy, and Diplomacy Bull Run McClellan in ChargeThe War on Slavery Union Dissent The Contrabands Move Proclaiming EmancipationThe Home Fires Burning The Economy of Victory The Confederate Home Front Confederate Dissent Union-Held Dixie“This Mighty Scourge of War” “Grant Is My Man” The Tide Slowly Turns “To Finish the Work We Are In”15 Reconstructing the Republic, 1865-1877Binding Up the Nation’s Wounds Freedom and Destruction Planning for Reconstruction Land and Labor Family, School, and ChurchAndrew Johnson’s Approach The Tennessee Unionist Johnson’s Policies Republicans ReactCongress Takes Charge The Fourteenth Amendment The Reconstruction Acts The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew JohnsonReconstruction and Resistance The Republican Experiment in the States White Violence and the Ku Klux Klan The Fifteenth AmendmentConstructing the West War in the West New Settlers Race and GovernmentRedeemers Triumphant “Grantism” Wavering Republicans The Compromise of 1877 Acknowledgments For Further Reading Index