Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power A History of the American People, Volume I: To 1877, Compact
, by Murrin, John M.; Johnson, Paul E.; McPherson, James M.; Gerstle, Gary; Rosenberg, Emily S.- ISBN: 9780495004653 | 0495004650
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/14/2005
Maps | p. xxi |
History Through Film | p. xxii |
To the Student: Why Study History? | p. xxiii |
Preface | p. xxv |
When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe | p. 1 |
Peoples in Motion | p. 1 |
Chronology | p. 2 |
From Beringia to the Americas | p. 2 |
The Great Extinction and the Rise of Agriculture | p. 4 |
The Polynesians and Hawaii | p. 6 |
The Norsemen | p. 6 |
Europe and the World in the 15th Century | p. 7 |
China: The Rejection of Overseas Expansion | p. 7 |
Europe versus Islam | p. 8 |
The Legacy of the Crusades | p. 9 |
The Unlikely Pioneer: Portugal | p. 9 |
Africa, Colonies, and the Slave Trade | p. 11 |
Portugal's Asian Empire | p. 13 |
Early Lessons | p. 13 |
Spain, Columbus, and the Americas | p. 14 |
Columbus | p. 14 |
Spain and the Caribbean | p. 16 |
The Emergence of Complex Societies in the Americas | p. 17 |
The Rise of Sedentary Cultures | p. 18 |
The Andes: Cycles of Complex Cultures | p. 19 |
Inca Civilization | p. 21 |
Mesoamerica: Cycles of Complex Cultures | p. 22 |
The Aztecs and Tenochtitl&'an | p. 25 |
North American Mound Builders | p. 26 |
Urban Cultures of the Southwest | p. 28 |
Contact and Cultural Misunderstanding | p. 30 |
Religious Dilemmas | p. 30 |
War as Cultural Misunderstanding | p. 31 |
Gender and Cultural Misunderstanding | p. 32 |
Conquest and Catastrophe | p. 32 |
The Conquest of Mexico and Peru | p. 32 |
North American Conquistadores and Missionaries | p. 34 |
The Spanish Empire and Demographic Catastrophe | p. 36 |
Brazil | p. 37 |
Global Colossus, Global Economy | p. 37 |
Explanations: Patterns of Conquest, Submission, and Resistance | p. 39 |
Conclusion | p. 40 |
Suggested Readings | p. 41 |
The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America | p. 42 |
The Protestant Reformation and the Challenge to Spain | p. 43 |
Chronology | p. 43 |
New France | p. 45 |
Early French Explorers | p. 45 |
Missions and Furs | p. 46 |
History Through Film: Black Robe | p. 47 |
New France under Louis XIV | p. 49 |
The Dutch and Swedish Settlements | p. 50 |
The East and West India Companies | p. 51 |
New Netherland as a Pluralistic Society | p. 52 |
Swedish and English Encroachments | p. 53 |
The Challenge from Elizabethan England | p. 53 |
The English Reformation | p. 54 |
Hawkins and Drake | p. 54 |
Gilbert, Ireland, and America | p. 55 |
Ralegh, Roanoke, and War with Spain | p. 56 |
The Swarming of the English | p. 58 |
The Chesapeake and West Indian Colonies | p. 58 |
The Jamestown Disaster | p. 59 |
Reorganization, Reform, and Crisis | p. 60 |
Tobacco, Servants, and Survival | p. 62 |
Maryland | p. 64 |
Chesapeake Family Life | p. 65 |
The West Indies and the Transition to Slavery | p. 66 |
The Rise of Slavery in North America | p. 67 |
The New England Colonies | p. 69 |
The Pilgrims and Plymouth | p. 70 |
Covenant Theology | p. 70 |
Massachusetts Bay | p. 72 |
Puritan Family Life | p. 73 |
Conversion, Dissent, and Expansion | p. 73 |
Congregations, Towns, and Colony Governments | p. 75 |
Infant Baptism and New Dissent | p. 76 |
The English Civil Wars | p. 78 |
The First Restoration Colonies | p. 78 |
Carolina, Harrington, and the Aristocratic Ideal | p. 79 |
New York: An Experiment in Absolutism | p. 81 |
Brotherly Love: The Quakers and America | p. 84 |
Quaker Beliefs | p. 84 |
Quaker Families | p. 86 |
West New Jersey | p. 86 |
Pennsylvania | p. 87 |
Conclusion | p. 90 |
Suggested Readings | p. 91 |
England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion | p. 92 |
Chronology | p. 93 |
The Atlantic Prism and the Spectrum of Settlement | p. 94 |
Demographic Differences | p. 94 |
Race, Ethnicity, and Economy | p. 97 |
Religion and Education | p. 97 |
Local and Provincial Governments | p. 98 |
Unifying Trends: Language, War, Law, and Inheritance | p. 99 |
The Beginnings of Empire | p. 100 |
Upheaval in America: The Critical 1640s | p. 100 |
Mercantilism as a Moral Revolution | p. 101 |
The First Navigation Act | p. 102 |
Restoration Navigation Acts | p. 103 |
Indians, Settlers, Upheaval | p. 105 |
Indian Strategies of Survival | p. 105 |
Puritan Indian Missions | p. 106 |
Metacom's (or King Philip's) War | p. 107 |
Virginia's Indian War | p. 110 |
Bacon's Rebellion | p. 111 |
Crisis in England and the Redefinition of Empire | p. 113 |
The Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Rise of Party | p. 114 |
The Lords of Trade and Imperial Reform | p. 114 |
The Dominion of New England | p. 116 |
The Glorious Revolution | p. 116 |
The Glorious Revolution in America | p. 117 |
The English Response | p. 118 |
The Salem Witch Trials | p. 119 |
The Completion of Empire | p. 120 |
Imperial Federalism | p. 122 |
The Mixed and Balanced Constitution | p. 122 |
Contrasting Empires: Spain and France in North America | p. 124 |
The Pueblo Revolt | p. 124 |
New France and the Middle Ground | p. 125 |
French Louisiana and Spanish Texas | p. 127 |
An Empire of Settlement: The British Colonies | p. 128 |
The Engine of British Expansion: The Colonial Household | p. 128 |
The Voluntaristic Ethic and Public Life | p. 130 |
Three Warring Empires, 1689-1716 | p. 130 |
Conclusion | p. 133 |
Suggested Readings | p. 134 |
Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent | p. 135 |
Expansion versus Anglicization | p. 135 |
Chronology | p. 136 |
Threats to Householder Autonomy | p. 137 |
Anglicizing the Role of Women | p. 138 |
Expansion, Immigration, and Regional Differentiation | p. 139 |
Emergence of the Old South | p. 139 |
The Mid-Atlantic Colonies: The "Best Poor Man's Country" | p. 143 |
The Backcountry | p. 144 |
New England: A Faltering Economy and Paper Money | p. 145 |
Anglicizing Provincial America | p. 147 |
The World of Print | p. 148 |
The Enlightenment in America | p. 150 |
Lawyers and Doctors | p. 150 |
Georgia: The Failure of an Enlightenment Utopia | p. 151 |
The Great Awakening | p. 153 |
Origins of the Revivals | p. 153 |
Whitefield Launches the Transatlantic Revival | p. 155 |
Disruptions | p. 155 |
Long-Term Consequences of the Revivals | p. 156 |
New Colleges | p. 157 |
The Denominational Realignment | p. 158 |
Political Culture in the Colonies | p. 158 |
The Rise of the Assembly and the Governor | p. 159 |
"Country" Constitutions: The Southern Colonies | p. 160 |
"Court" Constitutions: The Northern Colonies | p. 161 |
The Renewal of Imperial Conflict | p. 162 |
Challenges to French Power | p. 162 |
The Danger of Slave Revolts and War with Spain | p. 164 |
France versus Britain: King George's War | p. 167 |
The Impending Storm | p. 168 |
The War for North America | p. 171 |
The Albany Congress and the Onset of War | p. 171 |
Britain's Years of Defeat | p. 173 |
A World War | p. 176 |
Imperial Tensions: From Loudoun to Pitt | p. 177 |
The Years of British Victory | p. 179 |
The Cherokee War and Spanish Intervention | p. 182 |
The Peace of Paris | p. 182 |
Conclusion | p. 183 |
Suggested Readings | p. 184 |
Reform, Resistance, Revolution | p. 185 |
Imperial Reform | p. 186 |
Chronology | p. 186 |
From Pitt to Grenville | p. 187 |
The Grenville Ministry | p. 187 |
Indian Policy and Pontiac's War | p. 188 |
The Sugar Act | p. 190 |
The Currency Act and the Quartering Act | p. 190 |
The Stamp Act | p. 191 |
The Stamp Act Crisis | p. 192 |
Nullification | p. 193 |
Repeal | p. 194 |
The Townshend Crisis | p. 196 |
The Townshend Program | p. 196 |
Resistance: The Politics of Escalation | p. 198 |
An Experiment in Military Coercion | p. 200 |
The Second Wilkes Crisis | p. 200 |
The Boston Massacre | p. 201 |
Partial Repeal | p. 203 |
Disaffection | p. 204 |
Internal Cleavages: The Contagion of Liberty | p. 206 |
The Feudal Revival and Rural Discontent | p. 206 |
The Regulator Movements in the Carolinas | p. 208 |
Slaves and Women | p. 210 |
The Last Imperial Crisis | p. 212 |
The Tea Crisis | p. 213 |
Britain's Response: The Coercive Acts | p. 214 |
The Radical Explosion | p. 215 |
The First Continental Congress | p. 217 |
Toward War | p. 218 |
The Improvised War | p. 219 |
The Second Continental Congress | p. 220 |
War and Legitimacy, 1775-1776 | p. 221 |
Independence | p. 222 |
History Through Film: 1776 | p. 223 |
Conclusion | p. 224 |
Suggested Readings | p. 225 |
The Revolutionary Republic | p. 226 |
Chronology | p. 227 |
Hearts and Minds: The Northern War, 1776-1777 | p. 228 |
The British Offensive | p. 228 |
The Trenton-Princeton Campaign | p. 231 |
The Campaigns of 1777 and Foreign Intervention | p. 231 |
The Loss of Philadelphia | p. 232 |
History Through Film: Mary Silliman's War | p. 233 |
Saratoga | p. 234 |
French Intervention | p. 234 |
Spanish Expansion and Intervention | p. 235 |
The Reconstitution of Authority | p. 236 |
John Adams and the Separation of Powers | p. 236 |
The Virginia Constitution | p. 237 |
The Pennsylvania Constitution | p. 238 |
Massachusetts Redefines Constitutionalism | p. 239 |
Confederation | p. 241 |
The Crisis of the Revolution, 1779-1783 | p. 242 |
The Loyalists | p. 242 |
Loyalist Refugees, Black and White | p. 243 |
The Indian Struggle for Unity and Survival | p. 244 |
Attrition | p. 246 |
The British Offensive in the South | p. 248 |
The Partisan War | p. 251 |
Mutiny and Reform | p. 252 |
From the Ravaging of Virginia to Yorktown and Peace | p. 253 |
A Revolutionary Society | p. 256 |
Religious Transformations | p. 256 |
The First Emancipation | p. 258 |
The Challenge to Patriarchy | p. 259 |
Western Expansion, Discontent, and Conflict with Indians | p. 260 |
The Northwest Ordinance | p. 261 |
A More Perfect Union | p. 264 |
Commerce, Debt, and Shay's Rebellion | p. 264 |
Cosmopolitans versus Localists | p. 264 |
The Philadelphia Convention | p. 266 |
Ratification | p. 268 |
Conclusion | p. 269 |
Suggested Readings | p. 270 |
The Democratic Republic, 1790-1820 | p. 271 |
Chronology | p. 272 |
The Farmer's Republic | p. 273 |
Households | p. 273 |
History Through Film: A Midwife's Tale | p. 274 |
Rural Industry | p. 276 |
Neighbors | p. 276 |
Inheritance | p. 278 |
Standards of Living | p. 278 |
From Backcountry to Frontier | p. 279 |
The Destruction of the Woodland Indians | p. 280 |
The Failure of Cultural Renewal | p. 281 |
The Backcountry, 1790-1815 | p. 283 |
The Plantation South, 1790-1820 | p. 284 |
Slavery and the Republic | p. 284 |
The Recommitment to Slavery | p. 286 |
Race, Gender, and Chesapeake Labor | p. 287 |
The Lowland Task System | p. 288 |
The Seaport Cities, 1790-1815 | p. 289 |
Commerce | p. 289 |
Poverty | p. 290 |
The Status of Labor | p. 291 |
The Withering of Patriarchal Authority | p. 292 |
Paternal Power in Decline | p. 293 |
The Alcoholic Republic | p. 293 |
The Democratization of Print | p. 294 |
Citizenship | p. 295 |
Republican Religion | p. 297 |
The Decline of the Established Churches | p. 297 |
The Rise of the Democratic Sects | p. 298 |
The Christianization of the White South | p. 300 |
Evangelicals and Slavery | p. 301 |
The Beginnings of African American Christianity | p. 302 |
Black Republicanism: Gabriel's Rebellion | p. 303 |
Conclusion | p. 305 |
Suggested Readings | p. 306 |
Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815 | p. 307 |
Establishing the Government | p. 308 |
Chronology | p. 308 |
The "Republican Court" | p. 309 |
The First Congress | p. 310 |
Hamiltonian Economics: The National Debt | p. 311 |
Hamiltonian Economics: The Bank and the Excise | p. 312 |
The Rise of Opposition | p. 313 |
Jefferson versus Hamilton | p. 313 |
The Republic in a World at War, 1793-1800 | p. 314 |
Americans and the French Revolution | p. 315 |
Citizen Genet | p. 315 |
Western Troubles | p. 316 |
The Jay Treaty | p. 318 |
Washington's Farewell | p. 319 |
The Election of 1796 | p. 319 |
Troubles with France, 1796-1800 | p. 320 |
The Crisis at Home, 1798-1800 | p. 322 |
The Politicians and the Army | p. 323 |
The Election of 1800 | p. 324 |
The Jeffersonians in Power | p. 325 |
The Republican Program | p. 325 |
Cleansing the Government | p. 327 |
The Jeffersonians and the Courts | p. 328 |
The Impeachments of Pickering and Chase | p. 329 |
Justice Marshall's Court | p. 330 |
Louisiana | p. 331 |
The Republic and the Napoleonic Wars, 1804-1815 | p. 333 |
The Dilemmas of Neutrality | p. 333 |
Trouble on the High Seas | p. 334 |
Embargo | p. 334 |
The Road to War | p. 336 |
The War Hawk Congress, 1811-1812 | p. 337 |
War Hawks and the War of 1812 | p. 338 |
The War with Canada, 1812-1813 | p. 338 |
Tecumseh's Last Stand | p. 341 |
The British Offensive, 1814 | p. 342 |
The Hartford Convention | p. 343 |
The Treaty of Ghent | p. 344 |
Conclusion | p. 344 |
Suggested Readings | p. 345 |
The Market Revolution, 1815-1860 | p. 346 |
Government and Markets | p. 347 |
Chronology | p. 347 |
The American System: The Bank of the United States | p. 347 |
The American System: Tariffs and Internal Improvements | p. 348 |
Markets and the Law | p. 349 |
The Transportation Revolution | p. 351 |
Transportation in 1815 | p. 351 |
Improvements: Roads and Rivers | p. 351 |
Improvements: Canals and Railroads | p. 353 |
Time and Money | p. 354 |
Markets and Regions | p. 356 |
From Yeoman to Businessman: The Rural North and West | p. 356 |
Shaping the Northern Landscape | p. 357 |
The Transformation of Rural Outwork | p. 358 |
Farmers as Consumers | p. 358 |
The Northwest: Southern Migrants | p. 359 |
The Northwest: Northern Migrants | p. 360 |
Households | p. 362 |
Neighborhoods: The Landscape of Privacy | p. 364 |
The Industrial Revolution | p. 365 |
Factory Towns: The Rhode Island System | p. 365 |
Factory Towns: The Waltham System | p. 367 |
Urban Businessmen | p. 369 |
Metropolitan Industrialization | p. 370 |
History Through Film: Gangs of New York | p. 372 |
The Market Revolution in the South | p. 373 |
The Organization of Slave Labor | p. 374 |
Paternalism | p. 375 |
Yeomen and Planters | p. 376 |
Yeomen and the Market | p. 377 |
A Balance Sheet: The Plantation and Southern Development | p. 378 |
Conclusion | p. 380 |
Suggested Readings | p. 381 |
Toward an American Culture | p. 382 |
The Northern Middle Class | p. 382 |
Chronology | p. 383 |
The Evangelical Base | p. 383 |
Domesticity | p. 385 |
Sentimentality | p. 386 |
Fine Arts | p. 388 |
Nature and Art | p. 389 |
Scenic Tourism: Niagara Falls | p. 390 |
The Plain People of the North | p. 391 |
Religion and the Common Folk | p. 391 |
Popular Millennialism | p. 392 |
Family and Society | p. 394 |
The Prophet Joseph Smith | p. 395 |
The Rise of Popular Culture | p. 396 |
Blood Sports | p. 396 |
Boxing | p. 396 |
An American Theater | p. 397 |
Minstrelsy | p. 399 |
Novels and the Penny Press | p. 400 |
Family, Church, and Neighborhood: The White South | p. 402 |
Southern Families | p. 402 |
Southern Entertainments | p. 403 |
The Camp Meeting Becomes Respectable | p. 404 |
Religious Conservatism | p. 405 |
Pro-slavery Christianity | p. 406 |
The Private Lives of Slaves | p. 407 |
The Slave Family | p. 407 |
White Missions | p. 409 |
Slave Christians | p. 410 |
Religion and Revolt | p. 411 |
Nat Turner | p. 412 |
Conclusion | p. 413 |
Suggested Readings | p. 414 |
Society, Culture, and Politics, 1820s-1840s | p. 415 |
Constituencies | p. 416 |
Chronology | p. 416 |
The North and West | p. 416 |
The South | p. 418 |
The Politics of Economic Development | p. 419 |
Government and Its Limits | p. 419 |
Banks | p. 421 |
Internal Improvements | p. 423 |
The Politics of Social Reform | p. 423 |
Public Schools | p. 424 |
Ethnicity, Religion, and the Schools | p. 425 |
Prisons | p. 426 |
Asylums | p. 427 |
The South and Social Reform | p. 428 |
Excursus: The Politics of Alcohol | p. 429 |
Ardent Spirits | p. 429 |
The Origins of Prohibition | p. 431 |
The Democratization of Temperance | p. 432 |
Temperance Schisms | p. 433 |
Ethnicity and Alcohol | p. 434 |
The Politics of Race | p. 434 |
Free Blacks | p. 435 |
Discrimination | p. 435 |
Democratic Racism | p. 437 |
Conceptions of Racial Difference | p. 438 |
The Beginnings of Antislavery | p. 439 |
Abolitionists | p. 440 |
Agitation | p. 441 |
The Politics of Gender and Sex | p. 442 |
Appetites | p. 442 |
Moral Reform | p. 443 |
Women's Rights | p. 444 |
Conclusion | p. 446 |
Suggested Readings | p. 447 |
Jacksonian Democracy | p. 448 |
Prologue: 1819 | p. 448 |
Chronology | p. 449 |
The West, 1803-1840s | p. 449 |
The Argument over Missouri | p. 450 |
The Missouri Compromise | p. 451 |
The Panic of 1819 | p. 452 |
Republican Revival | p. 453 |
Martin Van Buren Leads the Way | p. 454 |
The Election of 1824 | p. 454 |
"A Corrupt Bargain" | p. 456 |
Jacksonian Melodrama | p. 457 |
Adams versus Jackson | p. 458 |
Nationalism in an International Arena | p. 458 |
Nationalism at Home | p. 459 |
The Pirth of the Democratic Party | p. 460 |
The Election of 1828 | p. 460 |
A People's Inauguration | p. 462 |
The Spoils System | p. 463 |
Jacksonian Democracy and the South | p. 464 |
Southerners and Indians | p. 464 |
Indian Removal | p. 465 |
History Through Film: Amistad | p. 466 |
Southerners and the Tariff | p. 467 |
Nullification | p. 468 |
The "Petticoat Wars" | p. 470 |
The Fall of Calhoun | p. 471 |
Petitions, the Gag Rule, and the Southern Mails | p. 472 |
Jacksonian Democracy and the Market Revolution | p. 474 |
The Second Bank of the United States | p. 474 |
The Bank War | p. 475 |
The Beginnings of the Whig Party | p. 477 |
A Balanced Budget | p. 478 |
The Second American Party System | p. 479 |
"Martin Van Ruin" | p. 480 |
The Election of 1840 | p. 481 |
Two Parties | p. 483 |
Conclusion | p. 483 |
Suggested Readings | p. 484 |
Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty-or Slavery? | p. 485 |
Growth as the American Way | p. 485 |
Chronology | p. 486 |
Manifest Destiny and Slavery | p. 487 |
The Westering Impulse | p. 488 |
The Hispanic Southwest | p. 488 |
The Oregon and California Trails | p. 489 |
The Mormon Migration | p. 492 |
The Republic of Texas | p. 492 |
The Annexation Controversy | p. 493 |
Acquisition of Texas and Oregon | p. 495 |
The Mexican War | p. 495 |
Military Campaigns of 1846 | p. 496 |
Military Campaigns of 1847 | p. 497 |
Antiwar Sentiment | p. 498 |
The Wilmot Proviso | p. 500 |
The Election of 1848 | p. 501 |
The Free Soil Party | p. 502 |
The Gold Rush and California Statehood | p. 503 |
The Compromise of 1850 | p. 505 |
The Senate Debates | p. 505 |
Passage of the Compromise | p. 507 |
The Fugitive Slave Law | p. 508 |
The Slave-Catchers | p. 509 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | p. 511 |
Filibustering | p. 512 |
The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny | p. 513 |
Conclusion | p. 514 |
Suggested Readings | p. 515 |
The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860 | p. 516 |
Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party | p. 516 |
Chronology | p. 517 |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act | p. 518 |
Death of the Whig Party | p. 519 |
Immigration and Nativism | p. 520 |
Immigrants in Politics | p. 522 |
The Rise of the Know-Nothings | p. 523 |
The Decline of Nativism | p. 524 |
Bleeding Kansas | p. 525 |
The Caning of Sumner | p. 527 |
The Election of 1856 | p. 528 |
The Dred Scott Case | p. 531 |
The Lecompton Constitution | p. 532 |
The Economy in the 1850s | p. 533 |
"The American System of Manufactures" | p. 534 |
The Southern Economy | p. 536 |
The Sovereignty of King Cotton | p. 537 |
Labor Conditions in the North | p. 539 |
The Panic of 1857 | p. 540 |
Sectionalism and the Panic | p. 541 |
The Free-Labor Ideology | p. 542 |
The Impending Crisis | p. 544 |
Southern Nonslaveholders | p. 544 |
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | p. 546 |
The Freeport Doctrine | p. 547 |
John Brown at Harpers Ferry | p. 548 |
Conclusion | p. 550 |
Suggested Readings | p. 550 |
Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862 | p. 552 |
The Election of 1860 | p. 552 |
Chronology | p. 553 |
The Republicans Nominate Lincoln | p. 555 |
Southern Fears | p. 556 |
The Lower South Secedes | p. 557 |
Northerners Affirm the Union | p. 558 |
Compromise Proposals | p. 559 |
Establishment of the Confederacy | p. 560 |
The Fort Sumter Issue | p. 561 |
Choosing Sides | p. 563 |
The Border States | p. 564 |
The Creation of West Virginia | p. 565 |
Indian Territory and the Southwest | p. 566 |
The Balance Sheet of War | p. 566 |
Strategy and Morale | p. 567 |
History Through Film: The Red Badge of Courage | p. 568 |
Mobilizing for War | p. 569 |
Weapons and Tactics | p. 571 |
Logistics | p. 572 |
Financing the War | p. 573 |
Navies, the Blockade, and Foreign Relations | p. 574 |
King Cotton Diplomacy | p. 574 |
The Trent Affair | p. 575 |
The Confederate Navy | p. 576 |
The Monitor and the Virginia | p. 576 |
Campaigns and Battles, 1861-1862 | p. 578 |
The Battle of Bull Run | p. 578 |
Naval Operations | p. 580 |
Fort Henry and Fort Donelson | p. 580 |
The Battle of Shiloh | p. 582 |
The Virginia Theater | p. 583 |
The Seven Days' Battles | p. 584 |
Confederate Counteroffensives | p. 585 |
The Second Battle of Bull Run | p. 585 |
Conclusion | p. 587 |
Suggested Readings | p. 588 |
A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865 | p. 589 |
Slavery and the War | p. 589 |
Chronology | p. 590 |
The "Contrabands" | p. 591 |
The Border States | p. 591 |
The Decision for Emancipation | p. 592 |
New Calls for Troops | p. 593 |
The Battle of Antietam | p. 594 |
The Emancipation Proclamation | p. 596 |
A Winter of Discontent | p. 597 |
The Rise of the Copperheads | p. 598 |
Economic Problems in the South | p. 599 |
The Wartime Draft and Class Tensions | p. 600 |
A Poor Man's Fight? | p. 602 |
Blueprint for Modern America | p. 602 |
Women and the War | p. 603 |
The Confederate Tide Crests and Recedes | p. 604 |
The Battle of Chancellorsville | p. 604 |
The Gettysburg Campaign | p. 605 |
The Vicksburg Campaign | p. 607 |
Chickamauga and Chattanooga | p. 608 |
Black Men in Blue | p. 610 |
Black Soldiers in Combat | p. 610 |
Emancipation Confirmed | p. 612 |
The Year of Decision | p. 612 |
Out of the Wilderness | p. 613 |
Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor | p. 614 |
Stalemate in Virginia | p. 615 |
The Atlanta Campaign | p. 615 |
Peace Overtures | p. 616 |
The Prisoner-Exchange Controversy | p. 618 |
The Issue of Black Soldiers in the Confederate Army | p. 619 |
Lincoln's Reelection and the End of the Confederacy | p. 619 |
The Capture of Atlanta | p. 619 |
The Shenandoah Valley | p. 620 |
From Atlanta to the Sea | p. 620 |
The Battles of Franklin and Nashville | p. 621 |
Fort Fisher and Sherman's March through the Carolinas | p. 621 |
The Road to Appomattox | p. 623 |
The Assassination of Lincoln | p. 624 |
Conclusion | p. 625 |
Suggested Readings | p. 626 |
Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | p. 627 |
Wartime Reconstruction | p. 627 |
Chronology | p. 628 |
Radical Republicans and Reconstruction | p. 629 |
Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction | p. 630 |
Johnson's Policy | p. 631 |
Southern Defiance | p. 632 |
The Black Codes | p. 633 |
Land and Labor in the Postwar South | p. 633 |
The Freedmen's Bureau | p. 634 |
Land for the Landless | p. 634 |
Education | p. 636 |
The Advent of Congressional Reconstruction | p. 636 |
Schism between President and Congress | p. 636 |
The 14th Amendment | p. 637 |
The 1866 Elections | p. 637 |
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 | p. 638 |
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson | p. 640 |
The Completion of Formal Reconstruction | p. 640 |
The 15th Amendment | p. 641 |
The Election of 1868 | p. 642 |
The Grant Administration | p. 643 |
Civil Service Reform | p. 643 |
Foreign Policy Issues | p. 644 |
Reconstruction in the South | p. 645 |
Blacks in Office | p. 646 |
"Carpetbaggers" | p. 647 |
"Scalawags" | p. 647 |
The Ku Klux Klan | p. 647 |
History Through Film: The Birth of a Nation | p. 648 |
The Election of 1872 | p. 651 |
The Panic of 1873 | p. 651 |
The Retreat from Reconstruction | p. 652 |
The Mississippi Election of 1875 | p. 652 |
The Supreme Court and Reconstruction | p. 654 |
The Election of 1876 | p. 655 |
Disputed Results | p. 655 |
The Compromise of 1877 | p. 657 |
The End of Reconstruction | p. 657 |
Conclusion | p. 658 |
Suggested Readings | p. 659 |
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