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Brief Contents Chapter 1 New World Encounters Chapter 2 New World Experiments: England’s Seventeenth-Century Colonies Chapter 3 Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society Chapter 4 Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America Chapter 5 The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763—1783 Chapter 6 The Republican Experiment Chapter 7 Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788—1800 Chapter 8 Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision Chapter 9 Nation Building and Nationalism Chapter 10 The Triumph of White Men’s Democracy Chapter 11 Slaves and Masters Chapter 12 The Pursuit of Perfection Chapter 13 An Age of Expansionism Chapter 14 The Sectional Crisis Chapter 15 Secession and the Civil War Chapter 16 The Agony of Reconstruction Detailed Contents Chapter 1 NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS Clash of Cultures: Interpreting Murder in Early Maryland Native American Histories before Conquest The Environmental Challenge: Food, Climate, and Culture Mysterious Disappearances Aztec Dominance Eastern Woodland Cultures A World Transformed Cultural Negotiations Threats to Survival: Trade and Disease West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies Europe on the Eve of Conquest Building New Nation States Imagining a New World Myths and Reality The Conquistadores: Faith and Greed From Plunder to Settlement The French Claim Canada The English Enter the Competition Birth of English Protestantism Militant Protestantism Woman in Power Religion,War, and Nationalism An Unpromising Beginning: Mystery at Roanoke Conclusion: Campaign to Sell America _ FEATURE ESSAY The Columbian Exchange and the Global Environment: Ecological Revolution Chapter 2 NEW WORLD EXPERIMENTS: ENGLAND’S SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COLONIES Profit and Piety: Competing Visions for English Settlement Breaking Away The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth Entrepreneurs in Virginia Spinning Out of Control “Stinking Weed” Time of Reckoning Corruption and Reform Maryland: A Troubled Refuge for Catholics Reforming England in America “The Great Migration” “A City on a Hill” Limits of Religious Dissent Mobility and Division Diversity in the Middle Colonies Anglo-Dutch Rivalry on the Hudson Confusion in New Jersey Quakers in America Quaker Beliefs and Practice Penn’s “Holy Experiment” Settling Pennsylvania Planting the Carolinas Proprietors of the Carolinas The Barbadian Connection The Founding of Georgia Conclusion: Living with Diversity _ FEATURE ESSAY The Children Who Refused to Come Home: Captivity and Conversion Chapter 3 PUTTING DOWN ROOTS: OPPORTUNITY AND OPPRESSION IN COLONIAL SOCIETY Families in an Atlantic Empire Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century Immigrant Families and New Social Order Commonwealth of Families Women’s Lives in Puritan New England Social Hierarchy in New England The Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment Family Life at Risk The Structure of Planter Society Race and Freedom in British America Roots of Slavery Constructing African American Identities ILED CONTENTS Rise of a Commercial Empire Response to Economic Competition Regulating Colonial Trade Colonial Factions Spark Political Revolt, 1676—1691 Civil War in Virginia: Bacon’s Rebellion The Glorious Revolution in the Bay Colony Contagion of Witchcraft The Glorious Revolution in New York and Maryland Conclusion: Local Aspirations Within an Atlantic Empire _ FEATURE ESSAY Anthony Johnson: A Free Black Planter on Pungoteague Creek _ LAW and SOCIETY Witches and the Law: A Problem of Evidence in 1692 Chapter 4 EXPERIENCE OF EMPIRE: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: The Journal of William Byrd Growth and Diversity Scots-Irish Flee English Oppression Germans Search for a Better Life Convict Settlers Native Americans Stake Out a Middle Ground Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century Conquering the Northern Frontier Peoples of the Spanish Borderlands The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture Provincial Cities Ben Franklin and American Enlightenment Economic Transformation Birth of a Consumer Society Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies The Great Awakening The Voice of Evangelical Religion Clash of Political Cultures The English Constitution The Reality of British Politics Governing the Colonies: The American Experience Colonial Assemblies Century of Imperial War King William’s and Queen Anne’s Wars King George’s War and Its Aftermath Albany Congress and Braddock’s Defeat Seven Years’War Perceptions of War Conclusion: Rule Britannia? _ FEATURE ESSAY Conquest by Other Means: The Pennsylvania Walking Purchase Chapter 5 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: FROM ELITE PROTEST TO POPULAR REVOLT, 1763—1783 Moment of Decision: Commitment and Sacrifice Structure of Colonial Society Breakdown of Political Trust No Taxation Without Representation: The American Perspective Ideas About Power and Virtue Eroding the Bonds of Empire Paying Off the National Debt Popular Protest Failed Attempts to Save the Empire Fueling the Crisis Fatal Show of Force Last Days of Imperial Rule, 1770—1773 The Final Provocation: The Boston Tea Party Steps Toward Independence Shots Heard Around the World Beginning “The World Over Again” Fighting for Independence Building a Professional Army Testing the American Will “Times That Try Men’s Souls” Victory in a Year of Defeat The French Alliance The Final Campaign The Loyalist Dilemma Winning the Peace Conclusion: Preserving Independence _ FEATURE ESSAY Popular Resistance: Religion and Rebellion Chapter 6 THE REPUBLICAN EXPERIMENT A New Political Morality Defining Republican Culture Living in the Shadow of Revolution Social and Political Reform African Americans in the New Republic The Challenge of Women’s Rights The States: Experiments in Republicanism Blueprints for State Government Natural Rights and the State Constitutions Power to the People Stumbling Toward a New National Government Articles of Confederation Western Land: Key to the First Constitution Northwest Ordinance: The Confederation’s Major Achievement Strengthening Federal Authority The Nationalist Critique Diplomatic Humiliation “Have We Fought for This?” The Genius of James Madison Constitutional Reform The Philadelphia Convention Inventing a Federal Republic Compromise Saves the Convention Compromising on Slavery The Last Details We, the People Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification Federalists and Antifederalists Adding the Bill of Rights Conclusion: Success Depends on the People _ FEATURE ESSAY The Elusive Constitution: Search for Original Intent Chapter 7 DEMOCRACY AND DISSENT: THE VIOLENCE OF PARTY POLITICS, 1788—1800 Force of Public Opinion Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton Hamilton’s Plan for Prosperity and Security Funding and Assumption Interpreting the Constitution: The Bank Controversy Setback for Hamilton Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs The Peril of Neutrality Jay’s Treaty Sparks Domestic Unrest Pushing the Native Americans Aside Popular Political Culture Informing the Public: News and Politics Whiskey Rebellion: Charges of Republican Conspiracy Washington’s Farewell The Adams Presidency The XYZ Affair and Domestic Politics Crushing Political Dissent Silencing Political Opposition: The Alien and Sedition Acts Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions Adams’s Finest Hour The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800 Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism _ FEATURE ESSAY Defense of Superiority: The Impact of Nationalism on Perceptions of the Environment Chapter 8 REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY: THE JEFFERSONIAN VISION Limits of Equality Regional Identities in a New Republic Westward the Course of Empire Native American Resistance Commercial Life in the Cities Jefferson as President Jeffersonian Reforms The Louisiana Purchase The Lewis and Clark Expedition Conflict with the Barbary States Jefferson’s Critics Attack on the Judges Politics of Desperation Murder and Conspiracy: The Curious Career of Aaron Burr The Slave Trade Embarrassments Overseas Embargo Divides the Nation A New Administration Goes to War Fumbling Toward Conflict The Strange War of 1812 Hartford Convention: The Demise of the Federalists Treaty of Ghent Ends the War Conclusion: Republican Legacy _ FEATURE ESSAY Barbary Pirates and American Captives: The Nation’s First Hostage Crisis _ LAW and SOCIETY Aaron Burr: The Vice President Tried for Treason Chapter 9 NATION BUILDING AND NATIONALISM A Revolutionary War Hero Revisits America in 1824 Expansion and Migration Extending the Boundaries Native American Societies Under Pressure Settlement to the Mississippi The People and Culture of the Frontier A Revolution in Transportation Roads and Steamboats The Canal Boom Emergence of a Market Economy The Beginning of Commercial Agriculture Commerce and Banking Early Industrialism The Growth of Cities The Politics of Nation Building After the War of 1812 The Republicans in Power Monroe as President The Missouri Compromise Postwar Nationalism and the Supreme Court Nationalism in Foreign Policy: The Monroe Doctrine Conclusion: The End of the Era of Good Feeling _ FEATURE ESSAY Confronting a New Environment Chapter 10 THE TRIUMPH OF WHITE MEN’S DEMOCRACY Democratic Space: The New Hotels Democracy in Theory and Practice Democracy and Society Democratic Culture Democratic Political Institutions Economic Issues Labor Radicalism and Equal Rights Jackson and the Politics of Democracy The Election of 1824 and J. Q. Adams’s Administration Jackson Comes to Power Indian Removal The Nullification Crisis The Bank War and the Second Party System Mr. Biddle’s Bank The Bank Veto and the Election of 1832 Killing the Bank The Emergence of the Whigs The Rise and Fall of Van Buren Heyday of the Second Party System Conclusion: Tocqueville’s Wisdom _ FEATURE ESSAY Racial Identity in a White Man’s Democracy Chapter 11 SLAVES AND MASTERS Nat Turner’s Rebellion: A Turning Point in the Slave South The Divided Society of the Old South The World of Southern Blacks Slaves’ Daily Life and Labor Slave Families, Kinship, and Community African American Religion Resistance and Rebellion Free Blacks in the Old South White Society in the Antebellum South The Planters’ World Planters, Racism, and Paternalism Small Slaveholders Yeoman Farmers A Closed Mind and a Closed Society Slavery and the Southern Economy The Internal Slave Trade The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Slavery and Industrialization The “Profitability” Issue Conclusion:Worlds in Conflict _ FEATURE ESSAY Harriet Jacobs and Maria Norcom: Women of Southern Households Chapter 12 THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION Redeeming the Middle Class The Rise of Evangelicalism The Second Great Awakening: The Frontier Phase The Second Great Awakening in the North From Revivalism to Reform Domesticity and Changes in the American Family Marriage for Love The Cult of Domesticity The Discovery of Childhood Institutional Reform The Extension of Education Discovering the Asylum Reform Turns Radical Divisions in the Benevolent Empire The Abolitionist Enterprise Black Abolitionists From Abolitionism to Women’s Rights Radical Ideas and Experiments Conclusion: Counterpoint on Reform _ FEATURE ESSAY The War Against “Demon Drink” _ LAW and SOCIETY The Legal Rights of Married Women: Reforming the Law of Coverture Chapter 13 AN AGE OF EXPANSIONISM The Spirit of Young America Movement to the Far West Borderlands of the 1830s The Texas Revolution The Republic of Texas Trails of Trade and Settlement The Mormon Trek Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War Tyler and Texas The Triumph of Polk and Annexation The Doctrine of Manifest Destiny Polk and the Oregon Question War with Mexico Settlement of the Mexican-American War Internal Expansionism The Triumph of the Railroad The Industrial Revolution Takes Off Mass Immigration Begins The New Working Class Conclusion: The Costs of Expansion _ FEATURE ESSAY Hispanic America After 1848: A Case Study in Majority Rule Chapter 14 THE SECTIONAL CRISIS Brooks Assaults Sumner in Congress The Compromise of 1850 The Problem of Slavery in the Mexican Cession The Wilmot Proviso Launches the Free-Soil Movement Squatter Sovereignty and the Election of 1848 Taylor Takes Charge Forging a Compromise Political Upheaval, 1852—1856 The Party System in Crisis The Kansas-Nebraska Act Raises a Storm An Appeal to Nativism: The Know-Nothing Episode Kansas and the Rise of the Republicans Sectional Division in the Election of 1856 The House Divided, 1857—1860 Cultural Sectionalism The Dred Scott Case The Lecompton Controversy Debating the Morality of Slavery The South’s Crisis of Fear The Election of 1860 Conclusion: Explaining the Crisis _ FEATURE ESSAY The Enigma of John Brown _ LAW and SOCIETY The Case of Dred and Harriet Scott: Blurring the Borders of Politics and Justice Chapter 15 SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR The Emergence of Lincoln The Storm Gathers The Deep South Secedes The Failure of Compromise And the War Came Adjusting to Total War Prospects, Plans, and Expectations Mobilizing the Home Fronts Political Leadership: Northern Success and Southern Failure Early Campaigns and Battles The Diplomatic Struggle Fight to the Finish The Coming of Emancipation African Americans and the War The Tide Turns Last Stages of the Conflict Effects of the War Conclusion: An Organizational Revolution _ FEATURE ESSAY Soldiering in the Civil War Chapter 16 THE AGONY OF RECONSTRUCTION Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction The President vs. Congress Wartime Reconstruction Andrew Johnson at the Helm Congress Takes the Initiative Congressional Reconstruction Plan Enacted The Impeachment Crisis Reconstructing Southern Society Reorganizing Land and Labor Black Codes: A New Name for Slavery? Republican Rule in the South Claiming Public and Private Rights Retreat from Reconstruction Rise of the Money Question Final Efforts of Reconstruction A Reign of Terror Against Blacks Spoilsmen vs. Reformers Reunion and the New South The Compromise of 1877 “Redeeming” a New South The Rise of Jim Crow Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the “Unfinished Revolution” _ FEATURE ESSAY Changing Views of Reconstruction Table of Contents
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