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The American Pageant A History of the Republic

by: Kennedy, David M.; Cohen, Lizabeth; Bailey, Thomas

The American Pageant A History of the Republic

by: Kennedy, David M.; Cohen, Lizabeth; Bailey, Thomas

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9780618103492
ISBN 10:
061810349X
Edition: 12th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 07/16/2001
Publisher: Cengage High School
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Supported by colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations, and its trademark wit, The American Pageant is one of the most readable, popular, and effective American history textbooks available. Pedagogy includes chapter-ending chronologies, numerous interesting quotes from historical figures, and incisive part openers that contextualize six major periods in American history. The Appendix includes "Suggested Readings" for every chapter, an annotated Constitution of the United States, and an extensive statistical profile of the United States.

Preface

xxii

Part One Founding the New Nation c. 33,000 B.C.---A.D. 1783

(162)

New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.---A.D. 1769

(21)

The geology of the New World

Native Americans before Columbus

Europeans and Africans

The search for a water route to Asia

Columbus and the early explorers

The ecological consequences of Columbus's discovery

Spain builds a New World empire

Examining the Evidence Making Sense of the New World

(11)

Makers of America The Spanish Conquistadores

(7)

The Planting of English America 1500-1733

(18)

England on the eve of colonization

The expansion of Elizabethan England

The planting of Jamestown, 1607

English settlers and Native Americans

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

(23)

The Puritan faith

Plymouth Colony, 1620

The Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630

Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire

Puritans and Indians

The Dominion of New England, 1686-1689

New Netherland becomes New York

Pennysylvania, the Quaker colony

New Jersey and Delaware

Makers of America the English

(13)

Examining the Evidence A Seventeenth-century Valuables Cabinet

(1)

Varying Viewpoints Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe?

(2)

American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607-1692

(18)

Life and labor in the Chesapeake tobacco region

Indentured servants and Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676

The spread of slavery

African-American culture

Southern Society

Families in New England

Declining Puritan piety

The Salem withchcraft trials, 1692

Daily life in the colonies

Examining the Evidence

An Indentured Servant's Contract

(5)

Makers of America From African to African-American

(10)

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700-1775

(22)

Immigration and population growth

Colonial social structure

Earning a living

The Atlantic economy

The role of religion

The Great Awakening of the 1730s

Education and culture

Political patterns

Makers of America the Scots-Orish

(16)

Varying Viewpoints Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus?

104

(2)

The Duel for North America 1608-1763

106

(16)

New France

Fur-traders and Indians

Anglo-French colonial rivalries

Europe, America, and the first world wars

The French and Indian War, 1754-1763

The ousting of France from North America, 1763

Pointiac's Uprising and the Proclamation of 1763

Makers of America The French

118

(4)

The Road to Revolution 1763-1775

122

(19)

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?

139

(2)

America Secedes from the Empire 1775-1783

141

(23)

Early skirmishes, 1775

American ``republicanism''

The Declaration of Independence, 1776

Patriots and Loyalists

The fighting fronts

The French alliance, 1778

Yorktown, 1781

The Peace of Paris, 1783

Examining the Evidence A Revolution for Women? Abigail Adams Chides Her Husband, 1776

147

(3)

Makers of America The Loyalists

150

(14)

Part Two Building the New Nation 1776-1860

164

(184)

The Confederation and the Constitution 1776-1790

166

(24)

Changing political sentiments

The new state constitutions

Economic troubles

The Articles of Confederation, 1781-1788

The Northwest Ordinance, 1787

Shays's Rebellion, 1786

The Constitutional Convention, 1787

Ratifying the Constitution, 1787-1790

Examining the Evidence Copley Family Portrait, c. 1776-1777

169

(19)

Varying Viewpoints The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary?

188

(2)

Launching the New Ship of State 1789-1800

190

(21)

Problems of the young Republic

The first presidency, 1789-1793

The Bill of Rights, 1791

Hamilton's economic policies

The Whiskey Rebellion, 1794

The emergence of political parties

The impact of the French Revolution

Jay's Treaty, 1794, and Washington's farewell, 1797

President Adams keeps the peace

The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 1798-1799

Federalists versus Republicans

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800-1812

211

(22)

The ``Revolution of 1800''

The Jefferson presidency

John Marshall and the Supreme Court

Barbary pirates

The Louisiana Purchase, 1803

The Anglo-French War

The Embargo, 1807-1809

Napoleon manipulates Madison

Battle with the Shawnees

A Declaration of War

Examining the Evidence Sorting out the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemmings Relationship

213

(20)

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812-1824

233

(23)

Invasion of Canada, 1812

The war on land and sea

The Treaty of Ghent, 1814

The Hartford Convention, 1814-1815

A new national identity

``The American System''

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

Makers of America Settlers of the Old Northwest

248

(8)

The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1840

256

(31)

The ``corrupt bargain'' of 1824

President John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829

The triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828

The ``Tariff of Abominations,'' 1828

The spoils system

The South Carolina nullification crisis, 1832-1833

The removal of the Indians from the Southeast

Jackson's war on the Bank of the United States

The emergence of the Whig party, 1836

Martin Van Buren in the White House, 1837-1841

The depression of 1837

Revolution in Texas

William Henry Harrison's ``log cabin'' campaign, 1840

The establishment of the two-party system

Examining the Evidence Satric Bank Note, 1837

273

(5)

Makers of America Mexican or Texican?

278

(7)

Varying Viewpoints What Was Jacksonian Democracy?

285

(2)

Forging the National Economy 1790-1860

287

(33)

The westward movement

European immigration

The Irish and the Germans

Nativism and assimilation

The coming of the factory system

Women and the economy

The ripening of commercial agriculture

The transportation revolution

Makers of America The Irish

294

(4)

Makers of America The Germans

298

(3)

Examining the Evidence The Invention of the Sewing Machine

301

(19)

The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790-1860

320

(28)

Religious revivals

The Mormons

Educational advances

The roots of reform

Temperance

Women's roles and women's rights

Utopian experiments

Art and architecture

A national literature

Makers of America The Oneida Community

336

(10)

Varying Viewpoints Reform: Who? What? How? and Why?

346

(2)

Part Three Testing the New Nation 1820-1877

348

(152)

The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793-1860

350

(20)

The economy of the Cotton Kingdom

Poor whites and free blacks

The plantation system

The human face of the ``peculiar institution''

The abolitionist crusade

The white Southern response

Abolition and the Northern conscience

Examining the Evidence Bellegrove Plantation, Donaldsville, Louisiana, Built 1857

361

(7)

Varying Viewpoints What Was the True Nature of Slavery?

368

(2)

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841-1848

370

(20)

``Tyler Too'' becomes president, 1841

Fixing the Maine boundary, 1842

The annexation of Texas, 1845

Oregon Fever

James K. Polk, the ``dark horse'' of 1844

War with Mexico, 1846-1848

Makers of America The Californios

386

(4)

Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848-1854

390

(19)

``Popular sovereignty''

Zachary Taylor and California statehood

The Compromise of 1850

The inflammatory Fugitive Slave Law

President Pierce and expansion, 1853-1857

Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

Drifting Toward Disunion 1854-1861

409

(25)

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 financial panic of 1857

The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 185

John Brown's rapid on Harpers Ferry, 1859

Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860

Secession

Examining the Evidence Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

411

(21)

Varying Viewpoints The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?

432

(2)

Girding for War: The North and the South 1861-1865

434

(17)

The attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861

The crucial border states

The balance of forces

The threat of European intervention

The importance of diplomacy

Lincoln and civil liberties

Men in uniform

Financing the Blue and the Gray

The economic impact of the war

Women and the war

The fate of the South

The Furnace of Civil War 1861-1865

451

(26)

Bull Run ends the ``ninety-day war''

The Peninsula Campaign

The Union wages total war

The battle of Antietam

The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863

Black soldiers

Confederate high tide at Gettysburg

The war in the West

Sherman marches through Georgia

Politics in wartime

Appomattox, 1865

The assassination of Lincoln, April 1865

The legacy of war

Examining the Evidence Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

463

(13)

Varying Viewpoints What Were the Consequences of the Civil War?

476

(1)

The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865-1877

477

(23)

The defeated South

The freed slaves

President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies

Moderate and radical Republicans

Congressional Reconstruction policies

Johnson clashes with Congress

Military Reconstruction, 1867-1877

Freed people enter politics

``Black Reconstruction'' and the Ku Klux Klan

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The legacy of Reconstruction

Varying Viewpoints How Radical Was Reconstruction?

498

(2)

Part Four Forging an Industrial Society 1865-1899

500

(144)

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869-1896

502

(26)

Ulysses S. Grant, soldier-president

Corruption and reform in the post-Civil War era

The depression of the 1870s

Political parties and partisans

The Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction

Class conflict and ethnic clashes

Civil-service reform

Grover Cleveland and the tariff

President Harrison and the ``Billion Dollar Congess''

Populists

Cleveland Regains the White House

Makers of America The Chinese

512

(15)

Varying Viewpoints The Populists: Radicals or Reactionaries?

527

(1)

Industry Comes of Age 1865-1900

528

(29)

The railroad boom

Speculators and financiers

Early efforts at government regulation

Lords of industry

Industry in the South

The laboring class

The rise of trade unions

Examining the Evidence The Photography of Lewis W. Hine

547

(5)

Makers of America The Knights of Labor

552

(3)

Varying Viewpoints Industrialization: Boon or Blight?

555

(2)

America Moves to the City 1865-1900

557

(33)

The rise of the city

Skycrapers, tenements, and suburbs

The ``New Immigrants''

Settlement houses and social workers

New jobs for women

Nativists and immigration restriction

Churches in the city

Black leaders: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

Literary achievements

The ``New Woman'' and the new morality

Art, music, and entertainment in urban America

Examining the Evidence Manuscript Census Data, 1900

563

(3)

Makers of America The Italians

566

(24)

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution 1865-1896

590

(33)

The conquest of the Indians

The mining and cattle frontiers

Free lands and fraud

The industrialization of agriculture

Farmers protest

Challenge from the People's Party

The Pullman Strike, 1894

Bryan versus McKinley, 1896

Makers of America The Plains Indians

598

(7)

Examining the Evidence Robert Louis Stevenson's Transcontinental Journey, 1879

605

(17)

Varying Viewpoints Was the West Really ``Won''?

622

(1)

The Path of Empire 1890-1899

623

(21)

The sources of American expansionism

Cleveland and the Venezuelan boundary dispute, 1895-1896

The Hawaii Question

The explosion of the Maine, February 15, 1898

The Spanish-American War, 1898

The invasion of Cuba

Acquiring Puerto Rico (1898) and the Philippines (1899)

Makers of America The Puerto Ricans

640

(4)

Part Five Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad 1899-1945

644

(212)

America on the World Stage 1899-1909

646

(18)

Crushing the Filipino insurrection

The Open Door notes, 1899 and 1900

TR becomes president, 1901

The Panama Canal

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904

Roosevelt and the Far East

Makers of America The Filipinos

650

(12)

Varying Viewpoints Why Did America Become a World Power?

662

(2)

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901-1912

664

(23)

Campaigning against social injustice

The muckrakers

The politics of progressivism

Women battle for the vote and against the saloon

Roosevelt, labor, and the trusts

Consumer protection

Conservation

Roosevelt's legacy

The troubled presidency of William Howard Taft

Taft's ``dollar diplomacy''

Roosevelt breaks with Taft

Examining the Evidence Muller v. Oregon, 1908

671

(7)

Makers of America The Environmentalists

678

(9)

Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad 1912-1916

687

(18)

The election of 1912: The New Freedom versus the New Nationalism

Wilson, the tariff, the banks, and the trusts

Wilson's diplomacy in Mexico

War in Europe and American neutrality

The reelection of Wilson, 1916

Varying Viewpoints Who Were the Progressives?

704

(1)

The War to End War 1917-1918

705

(23)

German submarines push America into war, 1917

Wilsonian idealism and the Fourteen Points

Propaganda and civil liberties

Workers, blacks, and women on the home front

Drafting soldiers

The American Expeditionary Force fights in France

Wilsonian peacemaking at Paris

The Senate rejects the Versailles Treaty

Varying Viewpoints Woodrow Wilson: Realist or Idealist?

726

(2)

American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1919-1920

728

(25)

The ``red scare,'' 1919-1920

Immigration restriction, 1921-1924

Prohibition and gangsterism

The Scopes trial

The emergence of a mass-consumption economy

The automobile age

Radio and the movies

Music and literature in the ``delirious decade''

The economic boom

Makers of America The Poles

734

(13)

Examining the Evidence The Jazz Singer, 1927

747

(6)

The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920-1932

753

(24)

The Republicans return to power, 1921

Disarmament and isolation

The Harding scandals

Calvin Coolidge's foreign policies

The international debt snarl

Herbert Hoover, cautious progressive

The great crash, 1929

Hoover and the Great Depression

Aggression in Asia

``Good Neighbors'' in Latin America

Examining the Evidence Lampooning Hoover, 1932

773

(4)

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933-1939

777

(29)

Franklin D. Roosevelt as president

The Hundred Days Congress, 1933

The National Recovery Administration, 1933-1935

The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1933-1936

The Tennessee Valley Authority

The Social Security Act, 1935

Gains for organized labor

The election of 1936 and the ``Roosevelt coalition''

The Supreme Court fight, 1937

The New Deal assessed

Makers of America The Dust Bowl Migrants

792

(13)

Varying Viewpoints How Radical Was the New Deal?

805

(1)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933-1941

806

(21)

Roosevelt's early foreign policies

German and Japanese aggression

The Neutrality Acts, 1935-1939

The destroyer-bases deal with Britain, 1940

The Lend-Lease Act, 1941

The Atlantic Charter, 1941

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Makers of America Refugees from the Holocaust

814

(13)

America in World War II 1941-1945

827

(29)

The internment of Japanese-Americans

The war ends the New Deal

Mobilizing the economy

Women in wartime

The war's effect on African-Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican-Americans

The economic and social impact of war

Turning the Japanese tide in the Pacific

Campaigns in North Africa (1942) and Italy (1943)

``D-Day'' in Normandy (France), June 6, 1944

Germany surrenders, May 1945

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945

Makers of America The Japanese

830

(15)

Examining the Evidence Franklin Roosevelt at Teheran, 1943

845

(10)

Varying Viewpoints World War II: Triumph or Tragedy?

855

(1)

Part Six Creating Modern America 1945 to the Present

856

(2)

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

858

(7)

Postwar prosperity

The rise of the ``Sunbelt''

The rush to the suburbs

The postwar baby boom

Harry S Truman as president

The Yalta Conference, February 1945

Origins of the Cold War

The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations

The containment doctrine

The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO

Anti-communism at home

The outbreak of the Korean War, 1950

Examining the Evidence Advertising Prosperity

865

(3)

Makers of America The Suburbanites

868

(18)

Varying Viewpoints Who Was to Blame for the Cold War?

886

(1)

The Eisenhower Era 1952-1960

887

(5)

The election of Dwight D Eisenhower, 1952

The menace of McCarthyism

Desegregating the South

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the seeds of the civil rights revolution

The emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Eisenhower Republicanism

The Suez Canal crisis, 1956

The space race and other contests with the Soviet Union

John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon for the presidency, 1960

Changing economic roles for men and women

The flowering of consumer culture in the 1950s

Postwar literature

Makers of America The Great African-American Migration

892

(24)

The Stormy Sixties 1960-1968

916

(9)

The Kennedy spirit

The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) and the missile crisis (1962) in Cuba

The struggle for civil rights

Kennedy assassinated, November 22, 1963

Lyndon Baines Johnson and the ``Great Society''

The civil rights revolution explodes

The Vietnam disaster

The election of Richard Nixon, 1968

The cultural upheavals of the 1960s

Examining the Evidence Conflicting Press Accounts of the ``March on Washington,'' 1963

925

(19)

Varying Viewpoints The Sixties: Constructive or Destructive?

944

(2)

The Stalemated Seventies 1968-1980

946

(15)

The end of the postwar economic boom

Nixon and the Vietnam War

New policies toward China and the Soviet Union

Nixon and the Supreme Court

Nixon's domestic program

Nixon trounces McGovern, 1972

The Watergate scandal

Israelis, Arabs, and oil

Nixon resigns

The Ford interlude

The election of Jimmy Carter, 1976

Carter's diplomatic successes in Panama and the Middle East

The energy crisis and inflation

The Iranian hostage humiliation

Examining the Evidence The ``Smoking Gun'' Tape, June 23, 1972

961

(3)

Makers of America The Vietnamese

964

(4)

Makers of America The Feminists

968

(9)

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-2000

976

(37)

The ``New Right'' and Reagan's election, 1980

Budget battles and tax cuts

Reagan and the Soviets

Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and the thawing of the Cold War

The Iran-Contra scandal

Reagan's economic legacy

Reagan and the ``social issues''

The election of George Bush, 1988

The end of the Cold War

The Persian Gulf War, 1991

Bush's battles at home

The election of Bill Clinton, 1992

The Republicans win control of Congress, 1994

The reelection of Clinton, 1996

Clinton's foreign policy

The Clinton impeachment trial

The 2000 election

Varying Viewpoints Where Did Modern Conservatism Come From?

1013

(1)

The American People Face a New Century

1014

(12)

The past and the future

The emergence of a ``postindustrial'' economy

Widening inequality

The feminist revolution

The transformation of the family

The newest immigrants

Cities and suburbs

Minorities in modern America

American culture at century's end

The American prospect

Makers of America The Latinos

1026

(3)

Examining the Evidence A Country Politically Divided Between City and Country

1029

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