The American Past: A Survey of American History, Enhanced Edition

1065 Pages·2008·92.88 MB·English

by  Joseph R. Conlin

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A Survey of American History
ENHANCED EIGHTH EDITION
Joseph R. Conlin
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Brief Contents
List ofMaps xvii
How They Lived xix
Preface xxi
CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 9
Discoveries The War for Independence
Indians,Europeans,and the Americas Winning the Revolution 1776–1781 141
About15,000 B.C.to A.D.1550 1
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 2 Inventing a Country
Settlements Across the Sea
American Constitutions 1781–1789 157
The Reasons,the Failures,and a
Success1550–1624 20
CHAPTER 11
We the People
CHAPTER 3
Putting the Constitution to Work
Thirteen Colonies
1789–1800 176
England’s American Empire 1620–1732 38
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 4
Jeffersonian America
English Intentions, American Facts
Expansion and Frustration 1800–1815 194
of Life
Colonial Society in the 1600s 55
CHAPTER 13
Beyond the Appalachians
CHAPTER 5
The West in the Early Nineteenth Century 212
Other Americans
Colonial Indians and Africans 71
CHAPTER 14
Nation Awakening
CHAPTER 6
Political and Economic Development
Competition for a Continent
1815–1824 229
French America and British America
1608–1763 90
CHAPTER 15
The People’s Hero
CHAPTER 7
Family Quarrels Andrew Jackson and a New Era
Dissension in the Colonies 1763–1770 110 1824–1830 248
CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 16
From Riot to Rebellion In the Shadow of Old Hickory
The Road to Independence 1770–1776 125 Personalities and Politics 1830–1842 266
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CHAPTER 17 CHAPTER 27
Religion and Reform Technology, Industry, and Business
Evangelicals and Enthusiasts 1800–1850 282 Economic Revolution in the
Late Nineteenth Century 442
CHAPTER 18
A Different Country CHAPTER 28
The South and Slavery 299 Living with Leviathan
Big Business and Great Wealth 461
CHAPTER 19
The Peculiar Institution CHAPTER 29
Slavery as It Was Perceived;Slavery We Who Built America
as It Was 313 Factories and Immigrants 475
CHAPTER 20 CHAPTER 30
From Sea to Shining Sea Urban America
American Expansion 1820–1848 328 The Growth ofBig Cities and
Big City Problems 492
CHAPTER 21
Apples of Discord CHAPTER 31
The Poisoned Fruits ofVictory The Last Frontier
1844–1854 343 Winning the Last ofthe West 1865–1900 506
CHAPTER 22 CHAPTER 32
The Collapse of the Union Stressful Times Down Home
From Debate to Violence 1854–1861 356 American Agriculture 1865–1896 523
CHAPTER 23 CHAPTER 33
Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities The Days of McKinley
The Civil War through 1862 373 The United States as a World Power
1896–1903 538
CHAPTER 24
Driving Old Dixie Down CHAPTER 34
General Grant’s War ofAttrition The World of Teddy Roosevelt
1863–1865 391 Society and Culture in Transition
1890–1917 557
CHAPTER 25
Aftermath CHAPTER 35
Reconstructing the Union;Failing the Age of Reform
Freedmen1865–1877 408 The Progressives 574
CHAPTER 26 CHAPTER 36
Parties, Patronage, and Pork The Progressive Presidents
Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century 424 Roosevelt,Taft,and Wilson 1901–1916 589
vi BRIEF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 46
CHAPTER 37
“Happy Days”
Over There
Popular Culture in the Fifties 1947–1963 747
The United States and the
First World War 1914–1918 602
CHAPTER 47
Cold War and Civil Rights
CHAPTER 38
The Eisenhower and Kennedy Years
Over Here
1953–1963 763
World War I at Home 1917–1920 619
CHAPTER 48
CHAPTER 39
Johnson’s Great Society
Troubled Years
Reform and Conflict 1961–1968 782
America after the Great War 1919–1923 636
CHAPTER 49
CHAPTER 40
The Presidency in Crisis
Calvin Coolidge and the New Era
The Nixon,Ford,and Carter
When America Was Business 1923–1929 651
Administrations 1968–1980 800
CHAPTER 41
CHAPTER 50
Hard Times
Morning in America
The Great Depression 1930–1933 665
The Age ofReagan 1980–1993 818
CHAPTER 42
CHAPTER 51
Rearranging America
The Millennium Years
FDR and the New Deal 1933–1938 679
Decadence? Renewal? 1993–2006 834
CHAPTER 43
Appendixes A-1
The Second Great War
Key Terms K-1
America and the World 1933–1942 695
Photo Credits PC-1
Index I-1
CHAPTER 44
World War II
The Pinnacle ofPower 1942–1945 711
CHAPTER 45
Cold War
The United States and the Nuclear Age
1946–1952 728
BRIEF CONTENTS vii
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