The American Promise, Volume 1 To 1877
The American Promise, Volume 1 To 1877
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9781457668418
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1457668416
- Edition: 6th
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/12/2014
- Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary
Author Biography
Read moreJames L. Roark (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of American History at Emory University. In 1993, he received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001–2002 he was Pitt Professor of American Institutions at Cambridge University. He has written Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction and coauthored Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South with Michael P. Johnson.
Michael P. Johnson (Ph.D., Stanford University) is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia; Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Speeches and Writings; and Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, the documents reader for The American Promise. He has also coedited No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War with James L. Roark.
Patricia Cline Cohen (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005–2006. She has written A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America and The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, and she has coauthored The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York.
Sarah Stage (Ph.D., Yale University) has taught U.S. history at Williams College and the University of California, Riverside, and she was visiting professor at Beijing University and Szechuan University. Currently she is professor of Women’s Studies at Arizona State University. Her books include Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women’s Medicine and Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession.
Susan M. Hartmann (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. In 1995 she won the university's Exemplary Faculty Award in the College of Humanities. Her publications include Truman and the 80th Congress; The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s; From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since 1960; and The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment.
Table of Contents
Read more- Reflections on Archaeology and History
- Reflections on The First Americans LaunchPad
- Reflections on Archaic Hunters and Gatherers LaunchPad
- Reflections on Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms LaunchPad
- Reflections on Native Americans in the 1490s LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Mexica: A Mesoamerican Culture
- Reflections on Europe in the Age of Exploration LaunchPad
- Reflections on A Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic LaunchPad
- Reflections on Spanish Exploration and Conquest LaunchPad
- Reflections on The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe LaunchPad
- Reflections on An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay LaunchPad
- Reflections on A Tobacco Society LaunchPad
- Reflections on Toward a Slave Labor System LaunchPad
- Reflections on Puritans and the Settlement of New England LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Founding of the Middle Colonies LaunchPad
- Reflections on A Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North America
- Reflections on The Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery LaunchPad
- Reflections on Unifying Experiences LaunchPad
Document 5-2: Poor Richard's Advice: Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's Speech from Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757 LaunchPad
Document 5-3: An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry: Charles Woodmason, Sermon on the Baptists and the Presbyterians, ca. 1768 LaunchPad
Document 5-4: Advertisements for Runaway Slaves: South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737-1745 LaunchPad
Document 5-5: A Moravian Missionary Interviews Slaves in the West Indies, 1767-1768: Christian George Andreas Oldendorp, History of the Evangelical Brethren's Mission on the Caribbean Islands, 1777 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 5 LaunchPadChapter 5 Summative Quiz LaunchPad6. THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE COLONIAL CRISIS, 1754–1775Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763French-British Rivalry in the Ohio CountryThe Albany CongressVISUALIZING HISTORY: "Cultural Cross-Dressing in Eighteenth-Century Portraits"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadThe War and Its ConsequencesPontiac’s Rebellion and the Proclamation of 1763
- Reflections on The Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763–1765 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767–1770 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts, 1770–1774 LaunchPad
- Reflections on Domestic Insurrections, 1774–1775 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Second Continental Congress LaunchPad
- Reflections on The First Year of War, 1775–1776 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Home Front LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Campaigns of 1777–1779: The North and West LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Confederation’s Problems LaunchPad
- Reflections on The United States Constitution LaunchPad
- Reflections on Ratification of the Constitution LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Search for Stability LaunchPad
- Reflections on Hamilton’s Economic Policies LaunchPad
- Reflections on Conflicts on America’s Borders and Beyond LaunchPad
- Reflections on Jefferson’s Presidency LaunchPad
- Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges in the West LaunchPad
- Reflections on Jefferson, the Madisons, and the War of 1812 LaunchPad
- Reflections on Monroe and Adams LaunchPad
Document 10-2: Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone: The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805 LaunchPad
Document 10-3: A Slave Demands That Thomas Jefferson Abolish Slavery: A Slave to Thomas Jefferson, November 30, 1808 LaunchPad
Document 10-4: James Forten Protests Pennsylvania Law Threatening Enslavement of Free African Americans: Letters from a Man of Colour, on a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania, 1813 LaunchPad
Document 10-5: James Hamilton's Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812: Confession, 1818 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 10 LaunchPadChapter 10 Summative Quiz LaunchPad11. THE EXPANDING REPUBLIC, 1815–1840Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Market RevolutionImprovements in TransportationFactories, Workingwomen, and Wage LaborDOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Mill Girls Stand Up to Factory Owners, 1834"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPadBankers and LawyersBooms and Busts
- Reflections on The Market Revolution LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Spread of Democracy LaunchPad
- Reflections on Jackson Defines the Democratic Party LaunchPad
- Reflections on Free Labor: Promise and Reality LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Westward Movement LaunchPad
- Reflections on Reforming Self and Society LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Growing Distinctiveness of the South LaunchPad
- Reflections on Masters and Mistresses in the Big House LaunchPad
- Reflections on Slaves in the Quarter LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Plain Folk LaunchPad
- Reflections on Black and Free: On the Middle Ground LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Politics of Slavery LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Bitter Fruits of War LaunchPad
- Reflections on Realignment of the Party System LaunchPad
- Reflections on Freedom under Siege LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Union Collapses LaunchPad
- Reflections on "And the War Came" LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Combatants LaunchPad
- Reflections on Battling It Out, 1861–1862 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The South at War LaunchPad
- Reflections on The North at War LaunchPad
- Reflections on Grinding Out Victory, 1863–1865 LaunchPad
- Reflections on Presidential Reconstruction LaunchPad
- Reflections on Congressional Reconstruction LaunchPad
- Reflections on Reconstruction Collapses LaunchPad
Chapter 16 Summative Quiz LaunchPad
APPENDICESI. Documents The Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United States Amendments to the Constitution with Annotations (including the six unratified amendments) II. Government and Demographics Presidential Elections Admission of States to the UnionPopulation Growth, 1630–2010 Major Trends in Immigration, 1820-2010 Glossary Selected Bibliography Acknowledgements Index U.S. Political/Geographic and World Maps About the Authors
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