Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Third edition

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
LIST OF MAPS, TABLES, AND FIGURES......Page 31
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 35
PREFACE......Page 37
Part 1 American Colonies to 1763......Page 51
1 A NEW WORLD......Page 54
THE FIRST AMERICANS......Page 58
INDIAN FREEDOM, EUROPEAN FREEDOM......Page 67
THE EXPANSION OF EUROPE......Page 70
CONTACT......Page 74
THE SPANISH EMPIRE......Page 77
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 88
THE FRENCH AND DUTCH EMPIRES......Page 90
2 BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH AMERICA, 1607-1660......Page 102
ENGLAND AND THE NEW WORLD......Page 105
THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH......Page 109
SETTLING THE CHESAPEAKE......Page 113
THE NEW ENGLAND WAY......Page 119
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 122
NEW ENGLANDERS DIVIDED......Page 126
RELIGION, POLITICS, AND FREEDOM......Page 134
3 CREATING ANGLO-AMERICA, 1660-1750......Page 142
GLOBAL COMPETITION AND THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND'S EMPIRE......Page 145
ORIGINS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY......Page 151
COLONIES IN CRISIS......Page 158
THE GROWTH OF COLONIAL AMERICA......Page 163
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 168
SOCIAL CLASSES IN THE COLONIES......Page 174
4 SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE TO 1763......Page 184
SLAVERY AND EMPIRE......Page 187
SLAVE CULTURE AND SLAVE RESISTANCE......Page 197
AN EMPIRE OF FREEDOM......Page 200
THE PUBLIC SPHERE......Page 204
THE GREAT AWAKENING......Page 210
IMPERIAL RIVALRIES......Page 213
BATTLE FOR THE CONTINENT......Page 216
Part 2 A New Nation, 1763 –1840......Page 228
5 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1763-1783......Page 232
THE CRISIS BEGINS......Page 235
THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION......Page 241
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 243
THE COMING OF INDEPENDENCE......Page 245
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 250
SECURING INDEPENDENCE......Page 255
6 THE REVOLUTION WITHIN......Page 268
DEMOCRATIZING FREEDOM......Page 271
TOWARD RELIGIOUS TOLERATION......Page 276
DEFINING ECONOMIC FREEDOM......Page 280
THE LIMITS OF LIBERTY......Page 283
SLAVERY AND THE REVOLUTION......Page 288
DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY......Page 298
7 FOUNDING A NATION, 1783-1789......Page 306
AMERICA UNDER THE CONFEDERATION......Page 309
A NEW CONSTITUTION......Page 317
THE RATIFICATION DEBATE AND THE ORIGIN OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS......Page 323
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 326
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 329
"WE THE PEOPLE"......Page 332
8 SECURING THE REPUBLIC, 1790-1815......Page 342
POLITICS IN AN AGE OF PASSION......Page 345
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 352
THE ADAMS PRESIDENCY......Page 355
JEFFERSON IN POWER......Page 361
THE "SECOND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE"......Page 368
 9 THE MARKET REVOLUTION, 1800-1840......Page 378
A NEW ECONOMY......Page 381
MARKET SOCIETY......Page 390
THE FREE INDIVIDUAL......Page 401
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 404
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 409
THE LIMITS OF PROSPERITY......Page 410
10 DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, 1815-1840......Page 420
THE TRIUMPH OF DEMOCRACY......Page 423
NATIONALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS......Page 428
NATION, SECTION, AND PARTY......Page 433
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 434
THE AGE OF JACKSON......Page 441
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 442
THE BANK WAR AND AFTER......Page 451
Part 3 Slavery, Freedom, and the Crisis of the Union, 1840–1877......Page 460
11 THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION......Page 464
THE OLD SOUTH......Page 467
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 476
LIFE UNDER SLAVERY......Page 479
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 480
SLAVE CULTURE......Page 488
RESISTANCE TO SLAVERY......Page 493
12 AN AGE OF REFORM, 1820-1840......Page 502
THE REFORM IMPULSE......Page 504
THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY......Page 515
BLACK AND WHITE ABOLITIONISM......Page 521
THE ORIGINS OF FEMINISM......Page 526
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 527
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 530
13 A HOUSE DIVIDED, 1840-1861......Page 540
FRUITS OF MANIFEST DESTINY......Page 543
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 544
A DOSE OF ARSENIC......Page 556
THE RISE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY......Page 563
THE EMERGENCE OF LINCOLN......Page 569
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 572
THE IMPENDING CRISIS......Page 578
14 A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865......Page 586
THE FIRST MODERN WAR......Page 589
THE COMING OF EMANCIPATION......Page 598
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 602
THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION......Page 606
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 610
THE CONFEDERATION NATION......Page 618
TURNING POINTS......Page 622
REHEARSALS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND THE END OF THE WAR......Page 624
15 "WHAT IS FREEDOM?": RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1877......Page 634
THE MEANING OF FREEDOM......Page 637
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 646
THE MAKING OF RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION......Page 650
RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SOUTH......Page 660
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 663
THE OVERTHROW OF RECONSTRUCTION......Page 666
Part 4 Toward a Global Presence, 1870–1920......Page 677
16 AMERICA'S GILDED AGE, 1870-1890......Page 680
THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL
 REVOLUTION......Page 683
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WEST......Page 693
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 700
POLITICS IN A GILDED AGE......Page 706
FREEDOM IN THE GILDED AGE......Page 711
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 713
LABOR AND THE REPUBLIC......Page 716
17 FREEDOM'S BOUNDARIES AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1890-1900......Page 726
THE POPULIST CHALLENGE......Page 729
THE SEGREGATED SOUTH......Page 738
REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES......Page 747
BECOMING A WORLD POWER......Page 753
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 759
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 762
18 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1900-1916......Page 772
AN URBAN AGE AND A CONSUMER SOCIETY......Page 776
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 783
VARIETIES OF PROGRESSIVISM......Page 788
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 790
THE POLITICS OF PROGRESSIVISM......Page 799
THE PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS......Page 806
19 SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY: THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD WAR I, 1916-1920......Page 816
AN ERA OF INTERVENTION......Page 820
AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR......Page 825
THE WAR AT HOME......Page 829
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 838
WHO IS AN AMERICAN?......Page 840
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 841
1919......Page 850
Part 5 Depression and Wars, 1920–1953......Page 863
20 FROM BUSINESS CULTURE TO GREAT DEPRESSION: THE TWENTIES, 1920-1932......Page 866
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA......Page 870
BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT......Page 878
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 880
THE BIRTH OF CIVIL LIBERTIES......Page 883
THE CULTURE WARS......Page 886
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 887
THE GREAT DEPRESSION......Page 897
21 THE NEW DEAL, 1932-1940......Page 908
THE FIRST NEW DEAL......Page 911
THE GRASSROOTS REVOLT......Page 921
THE SECOND NEW DEAL......Page 925
A RECKONING WITH LIBERTY......Page 928
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 930
THE LIMITS OF CHANGE......Page 934
A NEW CONCEPTION OF AMERICA......Page 940
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 943
22 FIGHTING FOR THE FOUR FREEDOMS: WORLD WAR II, 1941-1945......Page 952
FIGHTING WORLD WAR II......Page 956
THE HOME FRONT......Page 965
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 969
VISIONS OF POSTWAR FREEDOM......Page 973
THE AMERICAN DILEMMA......Page 976
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 984
THE END OF THE WAR......Page 990
23 THE UNITED STATES AND THE COLD WAR, 1945-1953......Page 998
ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR......Page 1001
THE COLD WAR AND THE IDEA OF FREEDOM......Page 1011
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 1015
THE TRUMAN PRESIDENCY......Page 1016
THE ANTICOMMUNIST CRUSADE......Page 1021
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 1028
Part 6 What Kind of Nation? 1953–2010......Page 1034
24 AN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, 1953-1960......Page 1038
THE GOLDEN AGE......Page 1041
THE EISENHOWER ERA......Page 1056
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 1066
THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT......Page 1068
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 1075
THE ELECTION OF 1960......Page 1077
25 THE SIXTIES, 1960-1968......Page 1084
THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT......Page 1087
THE KENNEDY YEARS......Page 1090
LYNDON JOHNSON'S PRESIDENCY......Page 1093
THE CHANGING BLACK MOVEMENT......Page 1100
VIETNAM AND THE NEW LEFT......Page 1103
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 1108
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 1113
THE NEW MOVEMENT AND THE RIGHTS REVOLUTION......Page 1115
1968......Page 1123
26 THE TRIUMPH OF CONSERVATISM, 1969-1988......Page 1130
PRESIDENT NIXON......Page 1132
VIETNAM AND WATERGATE......Page 1139
THE END OF THE GOLDEN AGE......Page 1143
THE RISING TIDE OF CONSERVATISM......Page 1151
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 1155
THE REAGAN REVOLUTION......Page 1157
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 1158
27 GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, 1989-2000......Page 1172
THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD......Page 1176
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 1179
A NEW ECONOMY......Page 1186
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 1192
CULTURE WARS......Page 1195
IMPEACHMENT AND THE ELECTION OF 2000......Page 1209
FREEDOM AND THE NEW CENTURY......Page 1212
28 SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE NEXT AMERICAN CENTURY......Page 1218
THE WAR ON TERRORISM......Page 1222
AN AMERICAN EMPIRE?......Page 1227
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 1228
THE AFTERMATH OF SEPTEMBER 11 AT HOME......Page 1234
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 1237
THE WINDS OF CHANGE......Page 1239
THE RISE OF OBAMA......Page 1253
LEARNING FROM HISTORY......Page 1257
Appendix......Page 1263
The Declaration of Independence (1776)......Page 1264
The Constitution of the United States (1787)......Page 1266
From George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)......Page 1275
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)......Page 1279
From Frederick Douglass’s “What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?” Speech (1852)......Page 1281
The Gettysburg Address (1863)......Page 1284
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)......Page 1285
The Populist Platform of 1892......Page 1286
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (1933)......Page 1289
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech (1963)......Page 1291
Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address (1981)......Page 1293
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address (2009)......Page 1296
Presidential Elections......Page 1299
Admission of States......Page 1307
Population of the United States......Page 1308
Historical Statistics of the United States: Labor Force—Selected Characteristics Expressed as a Percentage of the Labor Force: 1800–2000......Page 1309
GLOSSARY......Page 1311
CREDITS......Page 1330
INDEX......Page 1336