The American Past A Survey of American History

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Copyright: 3/16/2006

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America's past is full of politics as well as personal stories. That's why Conlin's THE AMERICAN PAST: A SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY teaches history the way it happened: real people with real stories. Through short narratives from political figures' lives, you'll discover how our nation grew from a colonial project to an international superpower. And along the way, you'll also get an inside look at the influence that women and minority groups have had on our nation's history.

List of Maps	p. xvii
How They Lived	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Discoveries: Indians, Europeans, and the Americas About 15,000 B.C. to A.D. 1550	p. 1
The First Colonization	p. 2
How They Lived: Locked in a Circle of Time	p. 5
Europe: Driven and Expansive	p. 8
Portugal and Spain: The Van of Exploration	p. 10
The Spanish Empire	p. 13
The Columbian Exchange	p. 17
Further Reading	p. 18
Key Terms	p. 19
Online Sources Guide	p. 19
Settlements Across the Sea: The Reasons, the Failures, and a Success 1550-1624	p. 20
The English Reformation	p. 21
Elizabethan England: The Seedbed of English America	p. 23
How They Lived: Common Seamen	p. 25
Beginnings of an Empire	p. 26
Jamestown	p. 30
Other Beginnings	p. 35
Further Reading	p. 36
Key Terms	p. 37
Online Sources Guide	p. 37
Thirteen Colonies: England's American Empire 1620-1732	p. 38
The New England Colonies	p. 38
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire	p. 45
How They Lived: Puritan Sunday	p. 47
Proprietary Colonies	p. 48
Further Reading	p. 53
Key Terms	p. 54
Online Sources Guide	p. 54
English Intentions, American Facts of Life: Colonial Society in the 1600s	p. 55
Trade	p. 56
Mercantilism in the South	p. 58
How They Lived: Finding the Way	p. 61
New England	p. 64
The Middle Colonies	p. 68
Further Reading	p. 69
Key Terms	p. 70
Online Sources Guide	p. 70
Other Americans: Colonial Indians and Africans	p. 71
Eastern Woodlands Indians	p. 71
A World Turned Upside Down	p. 76
Americans From Africa	p. 80
The African Slave Trade	p. 84
How They Lived: Slave Stations	p. 86
Further Reading	p. 88
Key Terms	p. 89
Online Sources Guide	p. 89
Competition for a Continent: French America and British America 1608-1763	p. 90
New France and Louisiana	p. 91
A Century of War	p. 94
Social Developments	p. 96
Social Mobility	p. 98
Politics: Imperial and Colonial	p. 99
How They Lived: Piracy's Golden Age	p. 100
Culture and Religion	p. 102
Britain's Glorious Triumph	p. 105
Further Reading	p. 108
Key Terms	p. 109
Online Sources Guide	p. 109
Family Quarrels: Dissension in the Colonies 1763-1770	p. 110
Imperial Problems	p. 110
The Stamp Act Crisis	p. 117
How They Lived: School for Politicians	p. 120
Act Two	p. 121
Further Reading	p. 123
Key Terms	p. 123
Online Sources Guide	p. 124
From Riot to Rebellion: The Road to Independence 1770-1776	p. 125
Storms Within the Lull	p. 125
How They Lived: Redcoats	p. 128
The March Toward War	p. 131
Rebellion	p. 134
Cutting the Tie	p. 137
Further Reading	p. 140
Key Terms	p. 140
Online Sources Guide	p. 140
The War for Independence: Winning the Revolution 1776-1781	p. 141
An Imbalance of Power	p. 141
Boston won, New York Lost	p. 144
The Tide Turns	p. 149
How They Lived: Ignoring the Revolution	p. 154
Further Reading	p. 156
Key Terms	p. 156
Online Sources Guide	p. 156
Inventing a Country: American Constitutions 1781-1789	p. 157
State Constitutions	p. 157
America Under the Articles of Confederation	p. 161
How They Lived: Laying Out the Land	p. 164
Difficulties and Failures	p. 166
The Constitution	p. 169
Ratification	p. 173
Further Reading	p. 174
Key Terms	p. 175
Online Sources Guide	p. 175
We the People: Putting the Constitution to Work 1789-1800	p. 176
The First Presidency	p. 176
Troubles Abroad	p. 182
How They Lived: Turning Forests into Farms	p. 185
The Tumultuous Northwest	p. 187
The Presidency of John Adams	p. 189
Further Reading	p. 192
Key Terms	p. 192
Online Sources Guide	p. 193
Jeffersonian America: Expansion and Frustration 1800-1815	p. 194
The Election of 1800	p. 194
The Sage of Monticello	p. 195
The Louisiana Purchase	p. 198
Foreign Woes	p. 202
Jemmy Applejohn and the War of 1812	p. 204
How They Lived: Frontier Society	p. 206
Further Reading	p. 210
Key Terms	p. 211
Online Sources Guide	p. 211
Beyond the Appalachians: The West in the Early Nineteenth Century	p. 212
The First American West	p. 212
Patterns of Settlement	p. 214
Programs	p. 218
The Transportation Revolution	p. 222
How They Lived: Digging the Erie Canal	p. 223
Further Reading	p. 228
Key Terms	p. 228
Online Sources Guide	p. 228
Nation Awakening: Political and Economic Development 1815-1824	p. 229
The Era of Good Feelings	p. 229
Successful Diplomacy	p. 232
Industrialization	p. 235
A Country Made for Industry	p. 238
How They Lived: Roads	p. 239
The South at the Crossroads	p. 241
Further Reading	p. 246
Key Terms	p. 247
Online Sources Guide	p. 247
The People's Hero: Andrew Jackson and a New Era 1824-1830	p. 248
The Skewed Election of 1824	p. 248
The Age of the Common Man	p. 251
The Revolution of 1828	p. 254
How They Lived: Dueling the American Way	p. 256
Issues of Jackson's First Term	p. 260
Further Reading	p. 265
Key Terms	p. 265
Online Sources Guide	p. 265
In the Shadow of Old Hickory: Personalities and Politics 1830-1842	p. 266
Van Buren Versus Calhoun	p. 266
The War With the Bank	p. 269
The Second American Party System	p. 272
How They Lived: Alma Mater	p. 274
Further Reading	p. 280
Key Terms	p. 280
Online Sources Guide	p. 280
Religion and Reform: Evangelicals and Enthusiasts 1800-1850	p. 282
Age of Reason, Age of Reaction	p. 282
Religious Ferment	p. 283
Reformers	p. 286
How They Lived: European Observers	p. 288
Home-Grown Religion; Utopian Reform	p. 292
Further Reading	p. 297
Key Terms	p. 297
Online Sources Guide	p. 297
A Different Country: The South and Slavery	p. 299
Southern Antislavery	p. 299
Threats to the Southern Order	p. 303
How They Lived: African Slave Traders: Defying the Law	p. 306
The South Closes Ranks	p. 307
Further Reading	p. 311
Key Terms	p. 312
Online Sources Guide	p. 312
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery as It Was Perceived; Slavery as It Was	p. 313
"De Old Plantation"	p. 313
The Abolitionists	p. 315
What Slavery Was Like	p. 317
How They Lived: Fugitive Slaves	p. 318
Life in the Quarters	p. 323
Protest	p. 323
Further Reading	p. 327
Key Terms	p. 327
Online Sources Guide	p. 327
From Sea to Shining Sea: American Expansion 1820-1848	p. 328
The Mexican Borderlands	p. 328
The Oregon Country	p. 333
How They Lived: Zorro and the Californios	p. 334
Further Reading	p. 342
Key Terms	p. 342
Online Sources Guide	p. 342
Apples of Discord: The Poisoned Fruits of Victory 1844-1854	p. 343
The Sectional Split Takes Shape	p. 343
The Crisis of 1850	p. 345
How They Lived: How They Mined the Gold	p. 349
The Compromise	p. 350
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	p. 353
Further Reading	p. 355
Key Terms	p. 355
Online Sources Guide	p. 355
The Collapse of the Union: From Debate to Violence 1854-1861	p. 356
Bleeding Kansas	p. 356
A Hardening of Lines	p. 360
How They Lived: The Irish Famine and the Know-Nothings	p. 365
The Election of 1860	p. 366
The Confederacy	p. 367
Further Reading	p. 372
Key Terms	p. 372
Online Sources Guide	p. 372
Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities: The Civil War through 1862	p. 373
The Art and Science of War	p. 373
The Sobering Campaign of 1861	p. 377
How They Lived: Facing Battle	p. 381
1862 and Stalemate	p. 382
Further Reading	p. 389
Key Terms	p. 390
Online Sources Guide	p. 390
Driving Old Dixie Down: General Grant's War of Attrition 1863-1865	p. 391
The Campaigns of 1863	p. 391
How They Lived: Marching through Georgia	p. 396
Total War	p. 398
The American Tragedy	p. 402
Consequences of the Civil War	p. 404
Further Reading	p. 406
Key Terms	p. 407
Online Sources Guide	p. 407
Aftermath: Reconstructing the Union; Failing the Freedmen 1865-1877	p. 408
The Reconstruction Crisis	p. 408
1866: The Critical Year	p. 413
Radical Reconstruction	p. 415
How They Lived: Gullah	p. 416
Grant's Troubled Administration	p. 420
The Twilight of Reconstruction	p. 421
Further Reading	p. 423
Key Terms	p. 423
Online Sources Guide	p. 423
Parties, Patronage, and Pork: Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 424
How the System Worked	p. 425
Presidents and Personalities	p. 429
How They Lived: A District Leader's Day	p. 432
Issues	p. 436
Politics in the Cities	p. 437
Further Reading	p. 440
Key Terms	p. 441
Online Sources Guide	p. 441
Technology, Industry, and Business: Economic Revolution in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 442
A Land Made for Industry	p. 442
Conquering the Wide-Open Spaces	p. 448
The Transcontinental Lines	p. 452
How They Lived: Building the Transcontinental	p. 452
The Organizers	p. 455
Further Reading	p. 459
Key Terms	p. 460
Online Sources Guide	p. 460
Living with Leviathan: Big Business and Great Wealth	p. 461
Regulating Railroads and Trusts	p. 462
Social Critics	p. 465
Defenders of the Faith	p. 467
How They Lived: The Last Dance of the Idle Rich	p. 468
How the Very Rich Lived	p. 470
Further Reading	p. 473
Key Terms	p. 474
Online Sources Guide	p. 474
We Who Built America: Factories and Immigrants	p. 475
A New Way of Life	p. 475
Who Were the Workers?	p. 477
Organize!	p. 479
Nation of Immigrants	p. 483
Ethnic America	p. 485
How They Lived: Crossing the Atlantic	p. 486
Further Reading	p. 490
Key Terms	p. 490
Online Sources Guide	p. 491
Urban America: The Growth of Big Cities and Big City Problems	p. 492
Cities as Alien Enclaves	p. 492
Of the Growth of Great Cities	p. 496
How They Lived: Sweatshops	p. 500
The Evils of City Life	p. 501
Further Reading	p. 504
Key Terms	p. 505
Online Sources Guide	p. 505
The Last Frontier: Winning the Last of the West 1865-1900	p. 506
The Last Frontier	p. 506
The Cattle Kingdom	p. 515
How They Lived: Punching Cows	p. 516
The Wild West in American Culture	p. 518
The Mining Frontier	p. 520
Further Reading	p. 522
Key Terms	p. 522
Online Sources Guide	p. 522
Stressful Times Down Home: American Agriculture 1865-1896	p. 523
Farming in a Dry Land	p. 524
Southern Farmers	p. 527
Protest and Organization	p. 529
The Money Question	p. 530
How They Lived: The Cigarette Kingdom	p. 531
The Populists	p. 533
Further Reading	p. 536
Key Terms	p. 537
Online Sources Guide	p. 537
The Days of McKinley: The United States as a World Power 1896-1903	p. 538
The Landmark Election of 1896	p. 538
Jim Crow Segregation	p. 542
An American Empire	p. 544
The Spanish-American War	p. 546
How They Lived: Avenging the Maine	p. 549
Empire Confirmed	p. 550
Further Reading	p. 555
Key Terms	p. 555
Online Sources Guide	p. 556
The World of Teddy Roosevelt: Society and Culture in Transition 1890-1917	p. 557
Symbol of an Age	p. 558
The New Middle Class	p. 560
A Lively Culture	p. 563
Americans at Play	p. 566
How They Lived: Coney Island: Democratic Amusement	p. 566
Sports	p. 570
Further Reading	p. 572
Key Terms	p. 573
Online Sources Guide	p. 573
Age of Reform: The Progressives	p. 574
The Progressives	p. 574
Progressivism Down Home	p. 578
Making People Better	p. 581
How They Lived: Bindlestiffs, Tramps, and Bums	p. 582
Left of Progressivism	p. 585
Further Reading	p. 587
Key Terms	p. 588
Online Sources Guide	p. 588
The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson 1901-1916	p. 589
T. R. Takes Over	p. 589
Roosevelt's Reforms	p. 592
A Conservattive President in a Progressive Era	p. 594
How They Lived: The Mann Act	p. 595
Democratic Party Progressivism	p. 598
Further Reading	p. 601
Key Terms	p. 601
Online Sources Guide	p. 601
Over There: The United States and the First World War 1914-1918	p. 602
Wilson, the World, and Mexico	p. 602
The Great War	p. 605
How They Lived: The Tin Lizzie	p. 611
America Goes to War	p. 612
Further Reading	p. 617
Key Terms	p. 618
Online Sources Guide	p. 618
Over Here: World War I at Home 1917-1920	p. 619
The Progressive War	p. 619
Social Changes	p. 622
Conformity and Repression	p. 625
Wilson and the League of Nations	p. 628
How They Lived: "They Dropped Like Flies": The Great Flu Epidemic	p. 628
Further Reading	p. 634
Key Terms	p. 635
Online Sources Guide	p. 635
Troubled Years: America after the Great War 1919-1923	p. 636
"The Worst President"	p. 637
Postwar Tensions: Labor, Reds, Immigrants	p. 639
Racial Tensions	p. 642
How They Lived: The National Pastime Business	p. 645
Prohibition and Fundamentalism	p. 646
Further Reading	p. 649
Key Terms	p. 650
Online Sources Guide	p. 650
Calvin Coolidge and the New Era: When America Was Business 1923-1929	p. 651
The Collidge Years	p. 651
Prosperity and Business Culture	p. 654
Get Rich Quick	p. 659
How They Lived: Fads, Sensations, and Ballyhoo	p. 660
Further Reading	p. 664
Key Terms	p. 664
Online Sources Guide	p. 664
Hard Times: The Great Depression 1930-1933	p. 665
The Face of the Creature	p. 665
The Failure of the Old Order	p. 668
How They Lived: Weeknights at Eight	p. 671
Responses to Hard Times	p. 672
The Election of 1932	p. 676
Further Reading	p. 677
Key Terms	p. 678
Online Sources Guide	p. 678
Rearranging America: FDR and the New Deal 1933-1938	p. 679
The Pleasant Man Who Changed America	p. 679
The Hundred Days	p. 682
New Deal-Failures and Successes	p. 685
How They Lived: Not Feeling Sorry for the Rich	p. 687
Populist Spellbinders	p. 688
The Legacy of the New Deal	p. 690
Further Reading	p. 693
Key Terms	p. 693
Online Sources Guide	p. 694
The Second Great War: America and the World 1933-1942	p. 695
New Deal Foreign Policy	p. 695
The World Goes to War	p. 698
The United States and the War	p. 701
America Goes to War	p. 703
How They Lived: Rationing and Scrap Drives	p. 706
Further Reading	p. 710
Key Terms	p. 710
Online Sources Guide	p. 710
World War II: The Pinnacle of Power 1942-1945	p. 711
Stopping Japan	p. 711
Defeating Germany First	p. 716
The Twilight of Japan, the Nuclear Dawn	p. 721
How They Lived: Amphibious Landing	p. 722
Further Reading	p. 726
Key Terms	p. 727
Online Sources Guide	p. 727
Cold War: The United States and the Nuclear Age 1946-1952	p. 728
The Shadow of Cold War	p. 728
Domestic Politics Under Truman	p. 733
Success in Japan, Conflict With China	p. 736
Years of Tension	p. 740
How They Lived: The Negro Leagues	p. 740
Further Reading	p. 745
Key Terms	p. 745
Online Sources Guide	p. 746
"Happy Days": Popular Culture in the Fifties 1947-1963	p. 747
Let the Good Times Roll	p. 747
Suburbia	p. 753
Dissenters	p. 758
How They Lived: The World of Fashion	p. 759
Further Reading	p. 761
Key Terms	p. 762
Online Sources Guide	p. 762
Cold War and Civil Rights: The Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 1953-1963	p. 763
The Middle of the Road	p. 763
How They Lived: Answer the Door, Somebody's Ringing the Bell	p. 768
1960: Changing of the Guard	p. 769
Kennedy Foreign Policy	p. 771
Civil Rights: The Battle in the Courts	p. 773
Civil Rights: From the Courts to the Streets	p. 777
Further Reading	p. 780
Key Terms	p. 780
Online Sources Guide	p. 781
Johnson's Great Society: Reform and Conflict 1961-1968	p. 782
LBJ	p. 782
The Great Society	p. 784
Vietnam! Vietnam!	p. 787
Mr. Johnson's War	p. 789
Troubled Years	p. 790
How They Lived: The Drug Culture	p. 792
The Election of 1968	p. 795
Further Reading	p. 798
Key Terms	p. 799
Online Sources Guide	p. 799
The Presidency in Crisis: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations 1968-1980	p. 800
The Nixon Presidency	p. 800
Nixon and Vietnam	p. 804
Nixon-Kissinger Foreign Policy	p. 806
Watergate and Gerald Ford	p. 808
How They Lived: Sex: From No-No to Everybody's Doing It	p. 810
Quiet Crisis	p. 814
Further Reading	p. 816
Key Terms	p. 817
Online Sources Guide	p. 817
Morning in America: The Age of Reagan 1980-1993	p. 818
The Ayatollah and the Actor	p. 818
The Reagan Revolution	p. 821
Foreign Policy in the Eighties	p. 824
The Bush Presidency	p. 827
Further Reading	p. 832
Key Terms	p. 832
Online Sources Guide	p. 833
The Millennium Years: Decadence? Renewal? 1993-2006	p. 834
Cultural Dissonance	p. 835
Clinton and the World	p. 838
Clintonian America	p. 841
Catastrophe, Renewal, War	p. 847
Further Reading	p. 852
Key Terms	p. 853
Online Sources Guide	p. 853
Appendix	p. 1
Key Terms	p. 1
Photo Credits	p. 1
Index	p. 1
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