American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Concise Edition, Combined Volume
American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Concise Edition, Combined Volume
- ISBN 13:
9780205568048
- ISBN 10:
0205568041
- Edition: 3rd
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 01/01/2008
- Publisher: Longman
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Summary
With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework,American Destiny: Narrative of a Nationdescribes 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.
Table of Contents
Read moreMaps and Graphs | |
Feature Essays | |
Re-viewing the Past | |
Debating the Past | |
Preface | |
Prologue Beginnings | |
First Peoples | |
The Demise of the Big Mammals | |
The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals | |
The First Sedentary Communities | |
The Maize Revolution | |
The Diffusion of Corn Population Growth After 800 | |
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture | |
The Collapse of Urban Centers Eurasia and Africa Europe in Ferment | |
Debating The Past | |
Who-or What-Killed the Big Mammals? | |
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas | |
Sightings Columbus's Great Triumph-and Error Spain's American Empire | |
Extending Spain's Empire to the North Disease and Population Losses Ecological Imperialism Spain's European Rivals | |
The Protestant Reformation English Beginnings in America | |
The Settlement of Virginia "Purifying" the Church of England Bradford and Plymouth Colony Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony | |
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson | |
Other New England Colonies Pequot War and King Philip's War Maryland and the Carolinas French and Dutch Settlements | |
The Middle Colonies Cultural Collisions Cultural Fusions | |
Debating The Past | |
How Many Indians Perished with European Settlement? | |
American Society in the Making | |
Settlement of New France Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California | |
The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard | |
The Chesapeake Colonies | |
The Lure of Land "Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco Bacon's Rebellion | |
The Carolinas Home and Family in the South Georgia and the Back Country Puritan New England Puritan Women and Children Visible Puritan Saints and Others Democracies Without Democrats | |
The Dominion of New England Salem Bewitched A Merchant's World | |
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis | |
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples "The Best Poor Man's Country" | |
The Politics of Diversity | |
Becoming Americans | |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
The Crucible | |
Debating The Past | |
Were Puritan Communities Peaceable? | |
America in the British Empire | |
The British Colonial System | |
Mercantilism | |
The Navigation Acts | |
The Effects of Mercantilism | |
The Great Awakening | |
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards | |
The Enlightenment in America | |
Colonial Scientific Achievements | |
Repercussions of Distant Wars | |
The Great War for the Empire | |
Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris | |
Burdens of an Expanded Empire | |
Tightening Imperial Controls | |
The Sugar Act | |
American Colonists Demand Rights | |
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling | |
Rioters or Rebels? | |
Taxation or Tyranny? | |
The Declaratory Act | |
The Townshend Duties | |
The Boston Massacre | |
The Pot Spills Over | |
The Tea Act Crisis | |
From Resistance to Revolution | |
Debating The Past | |
Was Economic Gain the Colonists' Main Motivation? | |
The American Revolution | |
"The Shot Heard Round the World" | |
The Second Continental Congress | |
The Battle of Bunker Hill | |
The Great Declaration 1776 | |
The Balance of Forces | |
Loyalists | |
Early British Victories | |
Saratoga and the French Alliance | |
The War Moves South | |
Victory at Yorktown | |
Negotiating a Favorable Peace | |
National Government | |
Under the Articles of Confederation | |
Financing the War State Republican Governments | |
Social Reform Effects of the Revolution of Women | |
Growth of a National Spirit | |
The Great Land Ordinances National Heroes Re-Viewing the Past | |
The Patriot | |
Debating The Past | |
Was the American Revolution Rooted in Class Struggle? | |
The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant | |
Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation Daniel Shays's "Little Rebellion" | |
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution | |
The Great Convention | |
The Compromises that Produced the Constitution | |
Ratifying the Constitution Washington as President Congress | |
Under Way Hamilton and Financial Reform | |
The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground Revolution in France | |
Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties 1794 | |
Crisis and Resolution | |
Jay's Treaty 1795 | |
All's Well That Ends Well | |
Washington's Farewell | |
The Election of 1796 | |
The XYZ Affair | |
The Alien and Sedition Acts | |
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves | |
Debating The Past | |
What Ideas Shaped the Constitution? | |
Jeffersonian Democracy | |
Jefferson Elected President | |
The Federalist Contribution | |
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist | |
Jefferson as President | |
Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary | |
The Barbary Pirates | |
The Louisiana Purchase | |
The Federalists Discredited | |
Lewis and Clark | |
The Burr Conspiracy | |
Napoleon and the British | |
The Impressment Controversy | |
The Embargo Act | |
Jeffersonian Democracy | |
Debating The Past | |
Did Thomas Jefferson Father a Child by His Slave? | |
National Growing Pains | |
Madison in Power | |
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance | |
Depression and Land Hunger | |
Opponents of War | |
The War of 1812 | |
Britain Assumes the Offensive | |
"The Star Spangled Banner" | |
The Treaty of Ghent | |
The Hartford Convention | |
The Battle of New Orleans | |
Victory Weakens the Federalists | |
Anglo-American Rapprochement | |
The Transcontinental Treaty | |
The Monroe Doctrine | |
The Era of Good Feelings | |
New Sectional Issues | |
The Missouri Compromise | |
The Election of 1824 | |
John Quincy Adams as President | |
Calhoun's Exposition and Protest | |
The Meaning of Sectionalism | |
Debating The Past | |
How Did Indians and Settlers Interact? | |
Toward a National Economy | |
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution | |
Birth of the Factory | |
An Industrial Proletariat? | |
Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers | |
Irish and German Immigrants | |
The Persistence of the Household System | |
Rise of Corporations | |
Cotton Revolutionizes the South | |
Revival of Slavery | |
Roads to Market | |
Transportation and Government | |
Development of Steamboats | |
The Canal Boom | |
New York City: Emporium of the Western World | |
The Marshall Court | |
Debating The Past | |
Did a "Market Revolution" Transform Early Nineteenth-Century America? | |
Jacksonian Democracy | |
"Democratizing" Politics 1828 | |
The New Party System in Embryo | |
The Jacksonian Appeal | |
The Spoils System | |
President of All the People | |
Jackson: "The Bank . I Will Kill It!" | |
Jackson's Bank Veto | |
Jackson Versus Calhoun | |
Indian Removals | |
The Nullification Crisis | |
Boom and Bust | |
The Jacksonians | |
Rise of the Whigs | |
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson | |
The Log Cabin Campaign | |
Debating The Past | |
For Whom Did Jackson Fight? | |
The Making of Middle-Class America | |
Tocqueville: Democracy in America | |
The Family Recast | |
The Second Great Awakening | |
Backwoods Utopias | |
The Age of Reform | |
"Demon Rum" | |
The Abolitionist Crusade | |
Women's Rights | |
The Romantic View of Life | |
Emerson and Thoreau | |
Edgar Allan Poe | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
Herman Melville | |
Walt Whitman | |
Education for Democracy | |
The State of the Colleges | |
Debating The Past | |
Did the Antebellum Reform Movement Improve Society? | |
Westward Expansion | |
Tyler's Troubles | |
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty | |
The Texas Question | |
Manifest Destiny | |
Life on the Trail | |
California and Oregon | |
The Election of 1844 | |
Polk as President | |
War with Mexico | |
To the Halls of Montezuma | |
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States | |
Slavery: Storm Clouds Gather | |
The Election of 1848 | |
The Gold Rush | |
The Compromise of 1850 | |
Debating The Past | |
Did the Frontier Change Women's Roles? | |
The Sections Go Their Ways | |
The Economics of Slavery | |
The Sociology of Slavery | |
Psychological Effects of Slavery | |
Manufacturing in the South | |
The Northern Industrial Juggernaut | |
A Nation of Immigrants | |
How Wage Earners Lived | |
Foreign Commerce | |
Steam Conquers the Atlantic | |
Canals and Railroads | |
Financing the Railroads | |
Railroads and the Economy | |
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict | |
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War | |
Debating The Past | |
Did Slaves and Masters Form Emotional Bonds? | |
The Coming of the Civil War | |
The Slave Power Comes North | |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
Diversions Abroad: The "Young America" Movement | |
Stephen Douglas: "The Little Giant" | |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System | |
"Bleeding Kansas" | |
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism | |
Buchanan Tries His Hand | |
The Dred Scott Decision | |
The Proslavery Lecompton Constitution | |
The Emergence of Lincoln | |
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
John Brown's Raid | |
The Election of 1860 | |
The Secession Crisis | |
Debating The Past | |
Was the Civil War Avoidable? | |
The War to Save the Union | |
Lincoln's Cabinet | |
Fort Sumter: The First Shot | |
The Blue and the Gray | |
The Test of Battle: Bull Run | |
Paying for the War | |
Politics as Usual | |
Behind Confederate Lines | |
War in the West: Shiloh | |
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior | |
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam | |
The Emancipation Proclamation | |
The Draft Riots | |
The Emancipated People | |
African American Soldiers | |
Antietam to Gettysburg | |
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg | |
Economic and Social Effects, North and South | |
Women in Wartime | |
Grant in the Wilderness | |
Sherman in Georgia | |
To Appomattox Court House | |
Winners, Losers, and the Future | |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
Glory | |
Debating The Past | |
Why Did the South Lose the Civil War? | |
Reconstruction and the South | |
The Assassination of Lincoln | |
Presidential Reconstruction | |
Republican Radicals | |
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction | |
The Fourteenth Amendment | |
The Reconstruction Acts | |
Congress Supreme | |
The Fifteenth Amendment | |
"Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers | |
The Ravaged Land | |
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System | |
The White Backlash | |
Grant as President | |
The Disputed Election of 1876 | |
The Compromise of 1877 | |
Debating The Past | |
Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt? | |
The Conquest of the West | |
The West After the Civil War | |
The Plains Indians | |
Indian Wars | |
The Destruction of Tribal Life | |
The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West | |
Big Business and the Land Bonanza | |
Western Railroad Building | |
The Cattle Kingdom | |
Open-Range Ranching | |
Barbed-Wire Warfare | |
Debating The Past | |
Was the Frontier Exceptionally Violent? | |
An Industrial Giant | |
Essentials of Industrial Growth | |
Railroads: The First Big Business | |
Iron, Oil, and Electricity | |
Competition and Monopoly: The Railroads | |
Competition and Monopoly: Steel | |
Competition and Monopoly: Oil | |
American Ambivalence to Big Business | |
Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd, and the Marxists | |
The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation | |
The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act | |
The Labor Union Movement | |
The American Federation of Labor | |
Labor Militancy Rebuffed | |
Whither America, Whither Democracy? | |
Debating The Past | |
Were the Industrialists "Robber Barons" or Savvy Entrepreneurs? | |
American Society in the Industrial Age | |
Middle-Class Life | |
Skilled and Unskilled Workers | |
Working Women | |
Farmers | |
Working-Class Attitudes | |
Working Your Way Up | |
The "New" Immigration | |
New Immigrants Face New Nativism | |
The Expanding City and Its Problems | |
Teeming Tenements | |
The Cities Modernize | |
Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games | |
Christianity's Conscience and the Social Gospel | |
The Settlement Houses | |
Civilization and Its Discontents | |
Debating The Past | |
Did Immigrants Assimilate? | |
Intellectual and Cultural Trends | |
Colleges and Universities | |
Revolution in the Social Sciences | |
Progressive Education | |
History | |
Realism in Literature | |
Mark Twain | |
William Dean Howells | |
Henry James | |
The Pragmatic Approach | |
The Knowledge Revolution | |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
Titanic | |
Debating The Past | |
Did the Frontier Engender Individualism and Democracy? | |
Politics: Local, State, and National | |
Congress Ascendant | |
Recurrent Issues | |
Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issues | |
Lackluster Presidents: From Hayes to Harrison | |
Blacks in the South After Reconstruction | |
Booker T. Washington: A "Reasonable" Champion for Blacks | |
City Bosses | |
Crops and Complaints | |
The Populist Movement | |
Showdown on Silver | |
The Depression of 1893 | |
The Election of 1896 | |
The Meaning of the Election | |
Debating The Past | |
Were City Governments Corrupt and Incompetent? | |
The Age of Reform | |
Roots of Progressivism | |
The Muckrakers | |
The Progressive Mind | |
"Radical" Progressives: The Wave of the Future | |
Political Reform: Cities First | |
Political Reform: The States | |
State Social Legislation | |
Political Reform: The Woman Suffrage Movement | |
Political Reform: Income Taxes and Popular Election of Senators | |
Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House | |
Roosevelt and Big Business | |
Roosevelt and the Coal Strike | |
TR's Triumphs | |
Roosevelt Tilts Left | |
William Howard Taft: The Listless Progressive, or More Is Less | |
Breakup of the Republican Party | |
The Election of 1912 | |
Wilson: The New Freedom | |
The Progressives and Minority Rights | |
Black Militancy | |
Debating The Past | |
Were the Progressives Forward-Looking? | |
From Isolation to Empire | |
Origins of the Large Policy: Coveting Colonies | |
Toward an Empire in the Pacific | |
Toward an Empire in Latin America | |
The Cuban Revolution | |
The "Splendid Little" Spanish-American War | |
Developing a Colonial Policy | |
The Anti-Imperialists | |
The Philippine Insurrection | |
Cuba and the United States | |
The United States in the Caribbean and Central America | |
The Open Door Policy | |
The Panama Canal | |
Imperialism Without Colonies | |
Debating The Past | |
Did the United States Acquire an Overseas Empire for Economic Reasons? | |
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War | |
Wilson's "Moral" Diplomacy | |
Europe Explodes in War | |
Freedom of the Seas | |
The Election of 1916 | |
The Road to War | |
Mobilizing the Economy | |
Workers in Wartime | |
Paying for the War | |
Propaganda and Civil Liberties | |
Wartime Reforms | |
Women and Blacks in Wartime | |
Americans: To the Trenches and Over the Top | |
Preparing for Peace | |
The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty | |
The Senate Rejects the League of Nations | |
The Red Scare | |
The Election of 1920 | |
Debating The Past | |
Did a Stroke Sway Wilson's Judgment? | |
Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment | |
Closing the Gates to New Immigrants | |
New Urban Social Patterns | |
The Younger Generation | |
The "New" Woman | |
Popular Culture: Movies and Radio | |
The Golden Age of Sports | |
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Fundamentalism | |
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Prohibition | |
The Ku Klux Klan | |
Sacco and Vanzetti | |
Literary Trends | |
The "New Negro" | |
Economic Expansion | |
The Age of the Consumer | |
Henry Ford | |
The Airplane | |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
Chicago | |
Debating The Past | |
Was the Decade of the 1920s One of Self-Absorption? | |
The New Era: 1921-1933 | |
Harding and "Normalcy" | |
"The Business of the United States Is Business" | |
The Harding Scandals | |
Coolidge Prosperity | |
Peace Without a Sword | |
The Peace Movement | |
The Good Neighbor Policy | |
The Totalitarian Challenge | |
War Debts and Reparations | |
The Election of 1928 | |
Economic Problems | |
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | |
Hoover and the Depression | |
The Economy Hits Bottom | |
The Depression and Its Victims | |
The Election of 1932 | |
Debating The Past | |
What Caused the Great Depression? | |
The New Deal: 1933-1941 | |
The Hundred Days | |
The National Recovery Administration (NRA) | |
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) | |
The Dust Bowl | |
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | |
The New Deal Spirit | |
The Unemployed | |
Literature During the Depression | |
Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend | |
The Second New Deal | |
The Election of 1936 | |
Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court | |
The New Deal Winds Down | |
Significance of the New Deal | |
Women as New Dealers: The Network | |
Blacks During the New Deal | |
A New Deal for Indians | |
The Role of Roosevelt | |
The Triumph of Isolationism | |
War Again in Europe | |
A Third Term for FDR | |
The Undeclared War | |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
Cinderella Man | |
Debating The Past | |
Did the New Deal succeed? | |
War and Peace | |
The Road to Pearl Harbor | |
Mobilizing the Home Front | |
The War Economy | |
War and Social Change | |
Minorities in Time of War: Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians | |
Internment of the Japanese | |
Women's Contribution to the War Effort | |
Allied Strategy: Europe First | |
Germany Overwhelmed | |
The Naval War in the Pacific | |
Island Hopping | |
Building the Atom Bomb | |
Wartime Diplomacy | |
Allied Suspicion of Stalin | |
Yalta and Potsdam | |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
Saving Private Ryan | |
Debating The Past | |
Should the United States Have Used Atomic Bombs Against Japan? | |
The American Century | |
Truman Becomes President | |
The Postwar Economy | |
The Containment Policy | |
A Turning Point in Greece | |
The Marshall Plan and the Lesson of History | |
The Election of 1948 | |
Containing Communism Abroad | |
Hot War in Korea | |
The Communist Issue at Home | |
McCarthyism | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
The Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy | |
McCarthy Self-Destructs | |
Asian Policy After Korea | |
Israel and the Middle East | |
Eisenhower and Khrushchev | |
Latin America Aroused | |
The Politics of Civil Rights | |
The Election of 1960 | |
Re-Viewing the Past | |
Good Night, and Good Luck | |
Debating The Past | |
Did Truman Needlessly Exacerbate Relations with the Soviet Union? | |
From Camelot to Watergate | |
Kennedy in Camelot | |
The Cuban Crises | |
The Vietnam War | |
"We Shall Overcome": The Civil Rights Movement | |
Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated | |
Lyndon Baines Johnson | |
The Great Society | |
Johnson Escalates the War | |
Opposition to the War | |
The Election of 1968 | |
Nixon as President: "Vietnamizing" the War | |
The Cambodian "Incursion" | |
Détente with Communism | |
Nixon in Triumph | |
Domestic Policy Under Nixon | |
The Watergate Break-in | |
More Troubles for Nixon | |
The Judgment on Watergate: "Expletive Deleted" | |
Debating The Past | |
Would JFK Have Sent a Half-Million American Troops to Vietnam? | |
Society in Flux | |
A Society on the Move | |
The Advent of Television | |
At Home and Work | |
The Growing Middle Class | |
Religion in Changing Times | |
Literature and Art | |
The Perils of Progress | |
New Racial Turmoil | |
Native-Born Ethnics | |
Rethinking Public Education | |
Students in Revolt | |
The Counterculture | |
The Sexual Revolution | |
Women's Liberation | |
Debating The Past | |
Did Mass Culture Make Life Shallow? | |
Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed | |
The Oil Crisis | |
Ford as President | |
The Fall of South Vietnam | |
Ford Versus Carter | |
The Carter Presidency | |
A National Malaise | |
Stagflation: The Weird Economy | |
Families Under Stress: Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment | |
Cold War or Détente? | |
The Iran Crisis: Origins | |
The Iran Crisis: Carter's Dilemma | |
The Election of 1980 | |
Reagan as President | |
Four More Years | |
"The Reagan Revolution" | |
Change and Uncertainty | |
AIDS | |
The New Merger Movement | |
"A Job for Life": Layoffs Hit Home | |
A "Bipolar" Economy, a Fractured Society | |
The Iran-Contra Arms Deal | |
Debating The Past | |
Did Reagan End the Cold War? | |
Misdemeanors and High Crimes | |
The Election of 1988 | |
Crime and Punishment | |
"Crack" and Urban Gangs | |
George H. W. Bush as President | |
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe | |
The War in the Persian Gulf | |
The Deficit Worsens | |
Enter Bill Clinton | |
The Election of 1992 | |
Clinton as President | |
Emergence of the Republican Majority | |
The Election of 1996 | |
Clinton Impeached | |
Clinton's Legacy | |
A Racial Divide | |
Violence and Popular Culture | |
The Economic Boom and the Internet | |
The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by One Vote | |
The New Terrorism Intensifies | |
September 11, 2001 | |
America Fights Back: War in Afghanistan | |
The Second Iraq War 2004 | |
Bush Wins a Second Term | |
More Trouble in Asia | |
Troubles at Home: Immigration Reform and Energy Policy [*final title TBD] | |
Hurricane Katrina | |
Iraq Insurgency Intensifies | |
The Persistent Past and Imponderable Future | |
Debating The Past | |
Do Historians Ever Get it Right? | |
Appendix | |
The Declaration of Independence | |
The Constitution of the United States of America | |
Amendments to the Constitution | |
Supplementary Reading | |
Present-day United States | |
Present-day World | |
Credits | |
Index | |
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