The American Pageant: Volume I: To 1877

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Maps......Page 16
Figures......Page 18
Tables......Page 19
Preface......Page 20
PART ONE: Founding the New Nation c. 33,000 B.C.E.–1783 C.E.......Page 27
1 New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.E.–1769 C.E.......Page 29
CHRONOLOGY......Page 50
TO LEARN MORE......Page 51
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE: Making Sense of the New World......Page 32
MAKERS OF AMERICA: The Spanish Conquistadores......Page 45
2 The Planting of English America 1500–1733......Page 52
PEOPLE TO KNOW......Page 69
TO LEARN MORE......Page 70
MAKERS OF AMERICA: The Iroquois......Page 67
3 Settling the Northern Colonies 1619–1700......Page 71
CHRONOLOGY......Page 89
VARYING VIEWPOINTS: Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe?......Page 90
TO LEARN MORE......Page 92
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE: A Seventeenth-Century Valuables Cabinet......Page 88
4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607–1692......Page 93
CHRONOLOGY......Page 111
TO LEARN MORE......Page 112
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE: An Indentured Servant’s Contract......Page 96
THINKING GLOBALLY: The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1860......Page 97
MAKERS OF AMERICA: From African to African American......Page 103
5 Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution......Page 113
CHRONOLOGY......Page 131
VARYING VIEWPOINTS: Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus?......Page 132
TO LEARN MORE......Page 133
6 The Duel for North America 1608–1763......Page 134
PEOPLE TO KNOW......Page 149
TO LEARN MORE......Page 150
7 The Road to Revolution 1763–1775......Page 151
CHRONOLOGY......Page 169
TO LEARN MORE......Page 170
THINKING GLOBALLY: Imperial Rivalry and Colonial Revolt......Page 165
8 America Secedes from the Empire 1775–1783......Page 171
PEOPLE TO KNOW......Page 194
TO LEARN MORE......Page 196
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE: A Revolution for Women? Abigail Adams Chides Her Husband, 1776......Page 178
MAKERS OF AMERICA: The Loyalists......Page 179
VARYING VIEWPOINTS: Whose Revolution?......Page 195
PART TWO: Building the New Nation c. 1776–1860......Page 197
9 The Confederation and the Constitution 1776–1790......Page 199
PEOPLE TO KNOW......Page 221
TO LEARN MORE......Page 223
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE: Copley Family Portrait, ca. 1776–1777......Page 202
VARYING VIEWPOINTS: The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary?......Page 222
10 Launching the New Ship of State 1789–1800......Page 224
PEOPLE TO KNOW......Page 247
TO LEARN MORE......Page 248
THINKING GLOBALLY: Two Revolutions......Page 233
11 The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800–1812......Page 249
CHRONOLOGY......Page 271
TO LEARN MORE......Page 272
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE: The Thomas Jefferson–Sally Hemings Controversy......Page 252
12 The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812–1824......Page 273
CHRONOLOGY......Page 295
TO LEARN MORE......Page 296
MAKERS OF AMERICA: Settlers of the Old Northwest......Page 285
13 The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824–1840......Page 297
PEOPLE TO KNOW......Page 327
TO LEARN MORE......Page 329
THINKING GLOBALLY: Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America and Europe......Page 303
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE: Satiric Bank Note, 1837......Page 316
MAKERS OF AMERICA: Mexican or Texican?......Page 321
VARYING VIEWPOINTS: What Was Jacksonian Democracy?......Page 328
14 Forging the National Economy 1790–1860......Page 330
PEOPLE TO KNOW......Page 363
TO LEARN MORE......Page 364
MAKERS OF AMERICA: Irish......Page 337
MAKERS OF AMERICA: The Germans......Page 341
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE: The Invention of the Sewing Machine......Page 348
15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790–1860......Page 365
PEOPLE TO KNOW......Page 392
TO LEARN MORE......Page 394
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE: Dress as Reform......Page 378
MAKERS OF AMERICA: The Oneida Community......Page 381
VARYING VIEWPOINTS: Reform: Who? What? How? and Why?......Page 393
PART THREE: Testing the New Nation 1820–1877......Page 395
16 The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793–1860......Page 397
Chronology......Page 418
VARYING VIEWPOINTS What Was the True Nature of Slavery?......Page 419
To Learn More......Page 420
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE Bellegrove Plantation, Donaldsville, Louisiana, Built 1857......Page 410
THINKING GLOBALLY The Struggle to Abolish Slavery......Page 413
17 Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841–1848......Page 421
To Learn More......Page 440
MAKERS OF AMERICA The Californios......Page 437
18 Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848–1854......Page 441
Chronology......Page 460
To Learn More......Page 461
19 Drifting Toward Disunion 1854–1861......Page 462
People to Know......Page 484
To Learn More
......Page 486
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin......Page 464
VARYING VIEWPOINTS The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?......Page 485
20 Girding for War: The North and the South 1861–1865......Page 487
To Learn More......Page 505
MAKERS OF AMERICA Billy Yank and Johnny Reb......Page 493
21 The Furnace of Civil War 1861–1865......Page 506
People to Know......Page 535
To Learn More......Page 537
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address......Page 518
THINKING GLOBALLY The Era of Nationalism......Page 531
VARYING VIEWPOINTS What Were the Consequences of the Civil War?......Page 536
22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865–1877......Page 538
VARYING VIEWPOINTS How Radical Was Reconstruction?......Page 559
To Learn More......Page 560
EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master, 1865......Page 542
Declaration of Independence......Page 562
Constitution of the United States of America......Page 565
Presidential Elections......Page 582
Presidents and Vice Presidents......Page 585
Estimates of Total Costs and Number of Battle Deaths of Major U.S. Wars......Page 587
Glossary of Key Terms......Page 588
Photograph Credits......Page 604
Index......Page 610