The American Past A Survey of American History, Volume I: To 1877

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ISBN: 9780495050575 | 0495050571
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Copyright: 3/16/2006

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Now in its Eighth Edition, Conlin's introductory American history book continues to offer a colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that have shaped our nation's past. Accessible and lively, it sets the story in political context, while providing balanced coverage of social, cultural, economic, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military events. Consistent scholarship and a unique organization make this book comprehensive and manageable. The book benefits from Conlin's literary prose style, which lends a unifying voice that captures and holds readers' interest.

List of Maps	p. xv
How They Lived	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
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
Britin'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. 102
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
Appendix	p. 1
Key Terms	p. 1
Photo Credits	p. 1
Index	p. 1
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