The American Pageant A History of the Republic
, by Kennedy, David M.; Cohen, Lizabeth; Bailey, Thomas
- ISBN: 9780618479276 | 0618479279
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/15/2005
The Brief American Pageant retains the vivid chronological narrative of its full-length counterpart, focusing on the great public debates that have dominated American history. Engaging features draw students into the narrative, improving comprehension and increasing their interest in the material. "Varying Viewpoints" features explore the scholarly debates surrounding major historical issues, while "Makers of America" essays focus on the diverse ethnic, racial, and activist groups that compose America's pluralistic society.
| Founding the New Nation, c. 33,000 B.C.A.D. 1783 | |
| New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.A.D. 1769 | |
| The geology of the New World | |
| Native Americans before Columbus | |
| Europeans and Africans | |
| The ecological consequences of Columbus's discovery | |
| Spain builds a New World empire | |
| Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadores | |
| The Planting of English America 15001733 | |
| England in the age of expansion | |
| The planting of Jamestown, 1607 | |
| The growth of Virginia and Maryland | |
| England in the Caribbean | |
| Settling the Carolinas and Georgia | |
| Makers of America: The Iroquois | |
| Settling the Northern Colonies 16191700 | |
| The Puritan faith Plymouth Colony, 1620 | |
| The Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts | |
| Bay Colony, 1630 | |
| The expansion of New England | |
| New Netherland becomes New York | |
| Pennsylvania and the Middle Colonies | |
| Makers of America: The English | |
| Varying Viewpoints: Europeanizing | |
| America or Americanizing Europe? | |
| American Life in the Seventeenth Century 16071692 | |
| Life and labor in the Chesapeake region | |
| Indentured servants and Bacon's | |
| Rebellion in Virginia, 1676 | |
| Slavery and African-American culture | |
| Families in New England | |
| The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692 | |
| The changing New England way of life | |
| Makers of America: From African to African-American | |
| Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 17001775 | |
| Population growth and ethnic diversity | |
| Colonial society and economy | |
| The Atlantic economy | |
| The Great Awakening of the 1730s | |
| Education and culture Political patterns | |
| Makers of America: The Scots-Irish | |
| Varying Viewpoints: Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus? | |
| The Duel for North America 16081763 | |
| New France Anglo-French colonial rivalries | |
| The French and Indian War, 17541763 | |
| The ousting of France from North America, 1763 | |
| The consequences of war Makers of America: The French | |
| The Road to Revolution 17631775 | |
| 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? | |
| America Secedes from the Empire 17751783 | |
| 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 | |
| Makers of America: The Loyalists | |
| Building the New Nation 17761860 | |
| The Confederation and the Constitution 17761790 | |
| Changing political sentiments | |
| Economic troubles | |
| The Articles of Confederation, 17811788 | |
| The Northwest Odinance, 1787 Shays's Rebellion, 1786 | |
| The Constitutional Convention, 1787 | |
| Ratifying the Constitution, 17871790 | |
| Varying Viewpoints: The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary? | |
| Launching the New Ship of State 17891800 | |
| Problems of the young Republic The first presidency, 17891793 | |
| The Bill of Rights, 1791 | |
| Hamilton's economic policies | |
| The emergence of political parties | |
| The impact of the French Revolution | |
| Jay's Treaty, 1794 | |
| President Adams keeps the peace | |
| The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798 | |
| The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 17981799 | |
| Federalists versus Republicans | |
| The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy 18001812 | |
| The "Revolution of 1800" | |
| The Jefferson presidency John Marshall and the Supreme Court | |
| The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 | |
| The Embargo, 18071809 | |
| Napoleon manipulates | |
| Madison Battle with the Shawnees | |
| A declaration of war 12 | |
| The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 18121824 | |
| Invasion of Canada, 1812 | |
| The war on land and sea | |
| The Treaty of Ghent, 1814 | |
| The Hartford Convention, 18141815 | |
| 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 | |
| The Rise of a Mass Democracy 18241840 | |
| The "corrupt bargain" of 1824 | |
| President John Quincy Adams, 18251829 | |
| The triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828 | |
| The "Tariff of Abominations," 1828 | |
| The spoils system | |
| The South Carolina nullification crisis, 18321833 | |
| Indian removal Jackson's war on the Bank of the United States | |
| The emergence of the Whig Party, 1836 | |
| Martin Van Buren and the depression of 1837 | |
| The Texas revolution William Henry | |
| Harrison's "log cabin" campaign, 1840 | |
| The establishment of the two-party system | |
| Makers of America: Mexican or Texican? | |
| Varying Viewpoints: What Was Jacksonian Democracy? | |
| Forging the National Economy 17901860 | |
| The westward movement Irish and German immigrants | |
| Nativism and assimilation | |
| The coming of the factory system | |
| Women and the economy | |
| The ripening of commercial agriculture | |
| The transportation revolution | |
| Overseas trade and communication | |
| Makers of America: The Irish Makers of America: The Germans | |
| The Ferment of Reform and Culture 17901860 | |
| Religious revivals | |
| The Mormons Educational advances | |
| The roots of reform Women's roles and women's rights | |
| Utopian experiments | |
| A national literature Makers of America: The Oneida Community | |
| Varying Viewpoints: Reform: Who? What? How? and Why? | |
| Testing the New Nation 18201877 | |
| The South and the Slavery Controversy 17931860 | |
| The economy of the Cotton Kingdom | |
| Poor whites and free blacks | |
| The plantation system | |
| The human face of the "peculiar institution" | |
| The abolitionist crusade | |
| Southern and northern responses to abolitionism | |
| Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery? | |
| Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 18411848 | |
| "Tyler Too" becomes President, 1841 | |
| The annexation of Texas, 1845 | |
| Oregon and California James K. Polk, the "dark horse" of 1844 | |
| War with Mexico, 18461848 | |
| Makers of America: The Californios | |
| Renewing the Sectional Struggle 18481854 | |
| "Popular sovereignty" | |
| The Compromise of 1850 | |
| The inflammatory Fugitive Slave | |
| Law President Pierce and expansion, 18531857 | |
| Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 | |
| Drifting Toward Disunion 18541861 | |
| 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 Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858 | |
| John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859 | |
| Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860 | |
| Secession Varying Viewpoints: The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible? | |
| Girding for War: The North and the South 18611865 | |
| The attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861 | |
| The crucial Border States | |
| The balance of forces | |
| Diplomacy and the threat of European intervention | |
| Lincoln and civil liberties | |
| Men in uniform Wartime finance and economy | |
| Women and the war | |
| The fate of the South | |
| The Furnace of Civil War 18611865 | |
| 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 | |
| Politics in wartime Appomattox, 1865 | |
| The assassination of Lincoln, April 1865 | |
| The legacy of wa | |
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