Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic (Vol 1)

Contents VOLUME I I. Founding the New Nation 1. New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1769 The geology of the New World Native Americans before Columbus Europeans and Africans The ecological consequences of Columbus's discovery Spain builds a New World empire Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadors 2. The Planting of English America, 1500-1733 England in the age of expansion The Jamestown colony The growth of Virginia and Maryland England in the Caribbean Settling the Carolinas and Georgia Makers of America: The Iroquois 3. Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700 The Puritan faith The Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630 The expansion of New England New Netherland becomes New York Pennsylvania and the Middle Colonies Makers of America: The English Varying Viewpoints: Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe? 4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692 Life and labor in the Chesapeake region Indentured servants and Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 Slavery and African-American culture New England families The changing New England way of life Makers of America: From African to African-American 5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775 Population growth and ethnic diversity Colonial social structure The Atlantic economy The "Great Awakening" of the 1730s Education and culture Political patterns Makers of America: The Scots-Irish Varying Viewpoints: Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus? 6. The Duel for North America, 1608-1763 New France Anglo-French colonial rivalries The French and Indian War, 1754-1763 The consequences of war Makers of America: The French 7. The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775 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 Varying Viewpoints: Whose Revolution? 8. America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783 Early skirmishes, 1775 The Declaration of Independence, 1776 Patriots and Loyalists The fighting fronts The French alliance, 1778 Yorktown, 1781 The Peace of Paris, 1783 II. Building the New Nation 9. The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790 Political and economic changes The Articles of Confederation, 1781-1788 The Constitutional Convention, 1787 Ratifying the Constitution, 1787-1790 Varying Viewpoints: The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary? 10. Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800 Washington and the new government The Bill of Rights, 1791 Hamilton's economic policies The emergence of political parties The impact of the French Revolution Jay's Treaty, 1794 President Adams keeps the peace Federalists versus Republicans 11. The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1812 The "Revolution of 1800" The Jefferson presidency John Marshall and the Supreme Court The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 The Embargo, 1807-1809 Napoleon manipulates Madison War Hawks from the West 12. The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824 The invasion of Canada, 1812 War on land and sea The Treaty of Ghent, 1804 Effects of the war A new national identity 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 13. The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy, 1824-1830 Sources of the "New Democracy" The "corrupt bargain" of 1824 President John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829 The "Tariff of Abominations," 1828 The triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828 The spoils system The Webster-Hayne debate, 1830 14. Jacksonian Democracy at Flood Tide, 1830-1840 The South Carolina nullification crisis, 1832 Jackson's war on the Bank of the United States Indian removal and the Texas Revolution, 1835- 1836 The emergence of the Whig Party, 1836 Martin Van Buren and the depression of 1837 William Henry Harrison's "log cabin" campaign, 1840 The establishment of the two-party system Makers of America: Mexican or Texican? Varying Viewpoints: What Was Jacksonian Democracy? 15. Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860 The westward movement The economy and the environment Irish and German immigrants Nativism and assimilation The coming of the factory system The market economy and the family The transportation revolution The emergence of a continental economy Capitalists and workers Overseas trade and communication Makers of America: The Irish Makers of America: The Germans 16. The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860 Religious revivals The roots of reform Women's roles and women's rights Utopian experiments A national literature Varying Viewpoints: Reform: Who? What? How? and Why? III. Testing the New Nation 17. The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860 The economy of the Cotton Kingdom Poor whites and free blacks The plantation system The human face of the "peculiar institution" The slave system and the slaves The abolitionist crusade Southern and northern responses to abolitionism Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery? 18. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848 "Tyler Too" becomes President, 1841 The annexation of Texas, 1845 Oregon and California The Manifest Destiny election of 1844 War with Mexico, 1846-1848 Makers of America: The Californios 19. Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854 The political parties and slavery The Compromise of 1850 President Pierce and expansionism, 1853-1857 Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 20. Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861 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 Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, 1859 Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860 Secession Varying Viewpoints: The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible? 21. Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865 The attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861 The crucial border states The balance of forces The importance of diplomacy Lincoln and civil liberties Men in uniform The economic impact of the war The fate of the South 22. The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865 Bull Run ends the "ninety-day war" The Peninsula campaign, 1862 The Union wages total war The battle of Antietam, 1862 The emancipation Proclamation, 1863 Black soldiers Confederate high tide at Gettysburg Politics in wartime Appomattox, 1865 The assassination of Lincoln, 1865 The legacy of war Varying Viewpoints: What Were the Consequences of the Civil War? 23. The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 The defeated South The freed slaves President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies Congressional Reconstruction, 1867-1877 "Black Reconstruction" and thDavid M. Kennedy is the author of 'Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic (Vol 1)' with ISBN 9780395978658 and ISBN 0395978653.