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With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework, American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation describes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people.In richly detailed prose, the book examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped this country. This elegantly written, concise text offers a lower-price alternative to traditional U.S. history... MORE

Maps	p. xv
Graphs	p. xvii
Feature Essays	p. xix
Re-Viewing the Past
Debating the Past
Preface	p. xxi
Supplements for Instructors and Students	p. xxv
About the Authors	p. xxviii
Prologue: Beginnings	p. 1
First Peoples	p. 2
The Demise of the Big Mammals	p. 2
T... MORE	p. 4
The First Sedentary Communities	p. 5
The Maize Revolution	p. 7
The Diffusion of Corn	p. 9
Population Growth After 800	p. 9
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture	p. 10
The Collapse of Urban Centers	p. 12
Eurasia and Africa	p. 13
Europe in Ferment	p. 14
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas	p. 17
Sightings	p. 18
Columbus's Greatest Triumph-and Error	p. 18
Spain's American Empire	p. 21
Extending Spain's Empire to the North	p. 23
Disease and Population Losses	p. 25
Ecological Imperialism	p. 25
Spain's European Rivals	p. 27
The Protestant Reformation	p. 28
English Beginnings in America	p. 29
The Settlement of Virginia	p. 30
"Purifying" the Church of England	p. 33
Bradford and Plymouth Colony	p. 35
Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony	p. 36
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson	p. 39
Other New England Colonies	p. 41
Pequot War and King Philip's War	p. 41
Maryland and the Carolinas	p. 42
French and Dutch Settlements	p. 44
The Middle Colonies	p. 45
Cultural Collisions	p. 47
Cultural Fusions	p. 49
American Society in the Making	p. 52
Settlement of New France	p. 53
Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California	p. 54
The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard	p. 56
The Chesapeake Colonies	p. 57
The Lure of Land	p. 57
"Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery	p. 58
Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco	p. 59
Bacon's Rebellion	p. 61
The Carolinas	p. 63
Home and Family in the South	p. 65
Georgia and the Back Country	p. 66
Puritan New England	p. 68
Puritan Women and Children	p. 69
Visible Puritan Saints and Others	p. 70
Democracies Without Democrats	p. 71
The Dominion of New England	p. 72
Salem Bewitched	p. 74
A Merchant's World	p. 76
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis	p. 77
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples	p. 80
The Best Poor Man's Country	p. 82
The Politics of Diversity	p. 82
Becoming Americans	p. 84
America in the British Empire	p. 86
The British Colonial System	p. 87
Mercantilism	p. 89
The Navigation Acts	p. 90
The Effects of Mercantilism	p. 92
The Great Awakening	p. 93
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards	p. 96
The Enlightenment in America	p. 97
Colonial Scientific Achievements	p. 99
Repercussions of Distant Wars	p. 100
The Great War for the Empire	p. 102
Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris	p. 105
Burdens of an Expanded Empire	p. 106
Tightening Imperial Controls	p. 108
The Sugar Act	p. 110
American Colonists Demand Rights	p. 111
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling	p. 112
Rioters or Rebels?	p. 114
Taxation or Tyranny?	p. 115
The Declaratory Act	p. 116
The Townshend Duties	p. 117
The Boston Massacre	p. 118
The Pot Spills Over	p. 120
The Tea Act Crisis	p. 121
From Resistance to Revolution	p. 122
The American Revolution	p. 126
The Shot Heard Round the World	p. 127
The Second Continental Congress	p. 129
The Battle of Bunker Hill	p. 129
The Great Declaration	p. 130
1776: The Balance of Forces	p. 134
Loyalists	p. 136
Early British Victories	p. 137
Saratoga and the French Alliance	p. 139
The War Moves South	p. 142
Victory at Yorktown	p. 143
Negotiating a Favorable Peace	p. 145
National Government Under the Articles of Confederation	p. 147
Financing the War	p. 150
State Republican Governments	p. 152
Social Reform	p. 153
Effects of the Revolution on Women	p. 155
Growth of a National Spirit	p. 157
The Great Land Ordinances	p. 158
National Heroes	p. 160
The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant	p. 162
Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation	p. 163
Daniel Shays's "Little Rebellion"	p. 164
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution	p. 165
The Great Convention	p. 166
The Compromises That Produced the Constitution	p. 168
Ratifying the Constitution	p. 171
Washington as President	p. 173
Congress Under Way	p. 175
Hamilton and Financial Reform	p. 176
The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground	p. 180
Revolution in France	p. 181
Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties	p. 182
1794: Crisis and Resolution	p. 183
Jay's Treaty	p. 184
1795: All's Well That Ends Well	p. 185
Washington's Farewell	p. 186
The Election of 1796	p. 187
The XYZ Affair	p. 189
The Alien and Sedition Acts	p. 190
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves	p. 191
Jeffersonian Democracy	p. 194
Jefferson Elected President	p. 195
The Federalist Contribution	p. 196
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist	p. 197
Jefferson as President	p. 199
Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary	p. 200
The Barbary Pirates	p. 201
The Louisiana Purchase	p. 202
The Federalists Discredited	p. 206
Lewis and Clark	p. 207
The Burr Conspiracy	p. 209
Napoleon and the British	p. 211
The Impressment Controversy	p. 212
The Embargo Act	p. 213
Jeffersonian Democracy	p. 216
National Growing Pains	p. 218
Madison in Power	p. 219
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance	p. 220
Depression and Land Hunger	p. 222
Opponents of War	p. 222
The War of 1812	p. 224
Britain Assumes the Offensive	p. 227
The Star Spangled Banner	p. 228
The Treaty of Ghent	p. 230
The Hartford Convention	p. 231
The Battle of New Orleans	p. 232
Victory Weakens the Federalists	p. 233
Anglo-American Rapprochement	p. 234
The Transcontinental Treaty	p. 235
The Monroe Doctrine	p. 236
The Era of Good Feelings	p. 238
New Sectional Issues	p. 240
The Missouri Compromise	p. 241
The Election of 1824	p. 244
John Quincy Adams as President	p. 246
Calhoun's Exposition and Protest	p. 246
The Meaning of Sectionalism	p. 248
Toward a National Economy	p. 250
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution	p. 251
Birth of the Factory	p. 252
An Industrial Proletariat?	p. 253
Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers	p. 255
Irish and German Immigrants	p. 256
The Persistence of the Household System	p. 257
Rise of Corporations	p. 258
Cotton Revolutionizes the South	p. 258
Revival of Slavery	p. 261
Roads to Market	p. 264
Transportation and the Government	p. 266
Development of Steamboats	p. 267
The Canal Boom	p. 267
New York City: Emporium of the Western World	p. 268
The Marshall Court	p. 270
Jacksonian Democracy	p. 276
"Democratizing" Politics	p. 277
1828: The New Party System in Embryo	p. 278
The Jacksonian Appeal	p. 280
The Spoils System	p. 280
President of All the People	p. 281
Jackson: "The Bank... I Will Kill It!"	p. 282
Jackson's Bank Veto	p. 284
Jackson Versus Calhoun	p. 286
Indian Removals	p. 287
The Nullification Crisis	p. 289
Boom and Bust	p. 292
The Jacksonians	p. 293
Rise of the Whigs	p. 294
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson	p. 296
The Log Cabin Campaign	p. 297
The Making of Middle-Class America	p. 300
Tocqueville: Democracy in America	p. 301
The Family Recast	p. 302
The Second Great Awakening	p. 304
Backwoods Utopias	p. 306
The Age of Reform	p. 309
"Demon Rum"	p. 311
The Abolitionist Crusade	p. 313
Women's Rights	p. 316
The Romantic View of Life	p. 318
Emerson and Thoreau	p. 319
Edgar Allan Poe	p. 320
Nathaniel Hawthorne	p. 321
Herman Melville	p. 321
Walt Whitman	p. 322
Education for Democracy	p. 324
The State of the Colleges	p. 325
Westward Expansion	p. 328
Tyler's Troubles	p. 329
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty	p. 330
The Texas Question	p. 330
Manifest Destiny	p. 332
Life on the Trail	p. 332
California and Oregon	p. 334
The Election of 1844	p. 335
Polk as President	p. 336
War with Mexico	p. 337
To the Halls of Montezuma	p. 338
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	p. 340
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States	p. 341
Slavery: The Storm Clouds Gather	p. 342
The Election of 1848	p. 343
The Gold Rush	p. 344
The Compromise of 1850	p. 346
The Sections Go Their Ways	p. 350
The Economics of Slavery	p. 351
The Sociology of Slavery	p. 353
Psychological Effects of Slavery	p. 356
Manufacturing in the South	p. 358
The Northern Industrial Juggernaut	p. 358
A Nation of Immigrants	p. 360
How Wage Earners Lived	p. 360
Foreign Commerce	p. 362
Steam Conquers the Atlantic	p. 363
Canals and Railroads	p. 364
Financing the Railroads	p. 365
Railroads and the Economy	p. 366
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict	p. 369
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War	p. 370
The Coming of the Civil War	p. 372
The Slave Power Comes North	p. 373
Uncle Tom's Cabin	p. 373
Diversions Abroad: The "Young America" Movement	p. 374
Stephen Douglas: "The Little Giant"	p. 376
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	p. 377
Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System	p. 379
"Bleeding Kansas"	p. 380
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism	p. 383
Buchanan Tries His Hand	p. 384
The Dred Scott Decision	p. 385
The Proslavery Lecompton Constitution	p. 387
The Emergence of Lincoln	p. 388
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates	p. 389
John Brown's Raid	p. 392
The Election of 1860	p. 393
The Secession Crisis	p. 396
The War to Save the Union	p. 400
Lincoln's Cabinet	p. 401
Fort Sumter: The First Shot	p. 402
The Blue and the Gray	p. 402
The Test of Battle: Bull Run	p. 405
Paying for the War	p. 407
Politics as Usual	p. 407
Behind Confederate Lines	p. 408
War in the West: Shiloh	p. 410
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior	p. 411
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam	p. 413
The Emancipation Proclamation	p. 414
The Draft Riots	p. 416
The Emancipated People	p. 416
African American Soldiers	p. 417
Antietam to Gettysburg	p. 418
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg	p. 422
Economic and Social Effects, North and South	p. 423
Women in Wartime	p. 424
Grant in the Wilderness	p. 426
Sherman in Georgia	p. 427
To Appomattox Court House	p. 430
Winners, Losers, and the Future	p. 430
Reconstruction and the South	p. 435
The Assassination of Lincoln	p. 436
Presidential Reconstruction	p. 436
Republican Radicals	p. 439
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction	p. 440
The Fourteenth Amendment	p. 441
The Reconstruction Acts	p. 442
Congress Supreme	p. 443
The Fifteenth Amendment	p. 444
"Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers	p. 445
The Ravaged Land	p. 448
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System	p. 450
The White Backlash	p. 452
Grant as President	p. 454
The Disputed Election of 1876	p. 455
The Compromise of 1877	p. 457
Appendix	p. A-1
The Declaration of Independence	p. A-3
The Constitution of the United States of America	p. A-6
Amendments to the Constitution	p. A-14
Supplementary Reading	p. A-21
Present-Day United States	p. A-42
Present-Day World	p. A-44
Credits	p. C-1
Index	p. I-1
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