America's History, High School Binding
by Henretta, James A.; Brody, David; Dumenil, LynnEdition: 6th
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Pub. Date: 2007-02-26
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary
In order for students to succeed in an AP U.S. history course, they need to understand not only what happened, but also why it happened. America's Historyhas long been praised as a text that helps students to think critically about history and analyze both how and why historical events have occurred. America's Historydeftly weaves together political, social, and cultural history in a narrative that students find accessible and engaging. Exceptional pedagogical support overviews, maps, figures, illustrations, and embedded documents are carefully integrated to encourage the development of students' historical skills.America's Historyis the text that covers not only the facts, but also the skills that students need to have success in the AP U.S. history course. Need help with the audit? Click here to download an AP correlation.
Author Biography
JAMES A. HENRETTA is Priscilla Alden Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include The Evolution of American Society, 1700–1815: An Interdisciplinary Analysis; "Salutary Neglect": Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600–1820; The Origins of American Capitalism; and an edited volume, Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750–1850. His most recent publication is a long article, "Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America," (Law and History Review, 2006), derived from his ongoing research on The Liberal State in New York, 1820–1975.
DAVID BRODY is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Steelworkers in America; Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the 20th Century Struggle; and In Labor’s Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker. His current research is on labor law and workplace regimes during the Great Depression.
LYNN DUMENIL is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She has written The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880–1930. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History; the Journal of American Ethnic History: Reviews in American History; and the American Historical Review.
DAVID BRODY is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Steelworkers in America; Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the 20th Century Struggle; and In Labor’s Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker. His current research is on labor law and workplace regimes during the Great Depression.
LYNN DUMENIL is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She has written The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880–1930. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History; the Journal of American Ethnic History: Reviews in American History; and the American Historical Review.
Table of Contents
Note: Each chapter concludes with a summary, review questions, timeline, and bibliography.
Part I: The Creation of American Society, 1450–1763
1. Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, and America, 1450–1620
Native American Societies
Europe Encounters Africa and the Americas, 1450–1550
The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of England
Reading American Pictures: Maize for Blankets: Indian Trading Networks on the Great Plains
Voices From Abroad: Father Le Petite: The Customs of the Natchez
Comparing American Voices: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
2. The Invasion and Settlement of North America, 1550–1700
The Rival Imperial Models of Spain, France, and Holland
The English Arrive: The Chesapeake Experience
Puritan New England
The Eastern Indians' New World
Voices From Abroad: Samuel de Champlain: Going to War with the Hurons
Reading American Pictures: Skeletons and Angels: Exploring Colonial New England Cemeteries
Comparing American Voices: The Causes of the War of 1675-1676
3. The British Empire in America, 1660–1750
The Politics of Empire, 1660–1713
The Imperial Slave Economy
The New Politics of Empire, 1713–1750
Voices from Abroad: Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal "Middle Passage"
Reading American Pictures: Jumping the Broomstick: Viewing An African Ceremony in South Carolina
Comparing American Voices: The Rise of Representative Assemblies
4. Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society, 1720–1765
Freehold Society in New England
The Middle Atlantic: Toward a New Society, 1720–1765
The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1720–1765
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750–1765
Comparing American Voices: Ethnic Customs and Conflict
Voices from Abroad: Gottlieb Mittelberger: The Perils of Migration
Reading American Pictures: Almanacs and Meetinghouses: Exploring Popular Culture
Part II: The New Republic, 1763–1820
5. Toward Independence: Years of Decision, 1763-1776
Imperial Reform, 1763–1765
The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770
The Road to Independence, 1771–1776
Reading American Pictures: How Did the British View the Crisis in the Colonies?
Comparing American Voices: The Debate Over Representation and Sovereignty
Voices from Abroad: Thomas Paine: Common Sense
6. Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789
The Trials of War, 1776-1778
The Path to Victory, 1778-1783
Creating Republican Institutions, 1776–1787
The Constitution of 1787
Voices From Abroad: Baroness Von Riedesel: The Surrender of Burgoyne, 1777
Reading American Pictures: Did the Revolution Promote Women's Rights?
Comparing American Voices: The First National Debate Over Slavery
7. Politics and Society in the New Republic, 1787–1820
The Political Crisis of the 1790s
The Westward Movement and the Jeffersonian Revolution
The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics
Reading American Pictures: Creating a National Political Tradition
Voices From Abroad: William Cobbett: Peter Porcupine Attacks Pro-French Americans
Comparing American Voices: Factional Politics and the War of 1812
8. Creating a Republican Culture, 1790–1820
The Capitalist Commonwealth
Toward a Democratic Republican Culture
Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery
Protestant Christianity as a Social Force
Part I: The Creation of American Society, 1450–1763
1. Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, and America, 1450–1620
Native American Societies
Europe Encounters Africa and the Americas, 1450–1550
The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of England
Reading American Pictures: Maize for Blankets: Indian Trading Networks on the Great Plains
Voices From Abroad: Father Le Petite: The Customs of the Natchez
Comparing American Voices: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
2. The Invasion and Settlement of North America, 1550–1700
The Rival Imperial Models of Spain, France, and Holland
The English Arrive: The Chesapeake Experience
Puritan New England
The Eastern Indians' New World
Voices From Abroad: Samuel de Champlain: Going to War with the Hurons
Reading American Pictures: Skeletons and Angels: Exploring Colonial New England Cemeteries
Comparing American Voices: The Causes of the War of 1675-1676
3. The British Empire in America, 1660–1750
The Politics of Empire, 1660–1713
The Imperial Slave Economy
The New Politics of Empire, 1713–1750
Voices from Abroad: Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal "Middle Passage"
Reading American Pictures: Jumping the Broomstick: Viewing An African Ceremony in South Carolina
Comparing American Voices: The Rise of Representative Assemblies
4. Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society, 1720–1765
Freehold Society in New England
The Middle Atlantic: Toward a New Society, 1720–1765
The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1720–1765
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750–1765
Comparing American Voices: Ethnic Customs and Conflict
Voices from Abroad: Gottlieb Mittelberger: The Perils of Migration
Reading American Pictures: Almanacs and Meetinghouses: Exploring Popular Culture
Part II: The New Republic, 1763–1820
5. Toward Independence: Years of Decision, 1763-1776
Imperial Reform, 1763–1765
The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770
The Road to Independence, 1771–1776
Reading American Pictures: How Did the British View the Crisis in the Colonies?
Comparing American Voices: The Debate Over Representation and Sovereignty
Voices from Abroad: Thomas Paine: Common Sense
6. Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789
The Trials of War, 1776-1778
The Path to Victory, 1778-1783
Creating Republican Institutions, 1776–1787
The Constitution of 1787
Voices From Abroad: Baroness Von Riedesel: The Surrender of Burgoyne, 1777
Reading American Pictures: Did the Revolution Promote Women's Rights?
Comparing American Voices: The First National Debate Over Slavery
7. Politics and Society in the New Republic, 1787–1820
The Political Crisis of the 1790s
The Westward Movement and the Jeffersonian Revolution
The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics
Reading American Pictures: Creating a National Political Tradition
Voices From Abroad: William Cobbett: Peter Porcupine Attacks Pro-French Americans
Comparing American Voices: Factional Politics and the War of 1812
8. Creating a Republican Culture, 1790–1820
The Capitalist Commonwealth
Toward a Democratic Republican Culture
Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery
Protestant Christianity as a Social Force
Comparing American Voices: The Trials of Married Life
Reading American Pictures: Changing Middle-Class Families: Assessing the Visual Record
Voices From Abroad: Frances Trollope: A Camp Meeting in Indiana
Part III: Economic Revolution and Sectional Strife, 1820–1877
9. Economic Transformation, 1820–1860
The American Industrial Revolution
The Market Revolution
Changes in the Social Structure
Reading American Pictures: How Did Americans Dramatically Increase Farm Productivity?
Voices From Abroad: Ernst Stille: German Immigrants in the Midwest
Comparing American Voices: A Debate Over Catholic Immigration
10. A Democratic Revolution, 1820–1844
The Rise of Popular Politics, 1820–1829
The Jacksonian Presidency, 1829–1837
Class, Culture, and the Second Party System
Comparing American Voices: The Cherokees Debate Removal to the Indian Territory
Reading American Pictures: Politics and the Press: Cartoonists Take Aim at Andrew Jackson
Voices from Abroad: Alexis de Tocqueville: Parties in the United States
11. Religion and Reform, 1820–1860
Individualism
Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture
Abolitionism
The Women's Rights Movement
Voices From Abroad: The Mystical World of the Shakers
Reading American Pictures: Looking for Clues in Art About Women's Sphere
Comparing American Voices: Saving the Nation From Drink
12. The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1820-1860
Creating the Cotton South
The African American World
Voices From Abroad: Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: The Racial Complexities of Southern Society
Reading American Pictures: How Did Slaves Live on Cotton Plantations?
Comparing American Voices: Slaves and Masters
13. The Crisis of the Union, 1844–1860
Manifest Destiny: South and North
War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846-1850
The End of the Second Party System, 1850–1858
Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858–1860
Comparing American Voices: Civil Warfare in Kansas
Reading American Pictures: Marching from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Visualizing "Manifest Destiny"
Voices from Abroad: Salomon de Rothschild: A French Banker Analyzes the Election of 1860 and the Threat of Secession
14. Two Societies at War, 1861–1865
Secession and Military Stalemate, 1861–1862
Toward Total War
The Turning Point: 1863
The Union Victorious, 1864–1865
Comparing American Voices: Blacks and Whites Describe the End of Slavery
Reading American Pictures: What Do Photographs Tell Us About the Civil War?
Voices from Abroad: Ernest Duvergier de Hauranne: German Immigrants and the Civil War Within Missouri
15. Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction
The Undoing of Reconstruction
Comparing American Voices: Freedom
Reading American Pictures: Why Sharecropping?
Voices from Abroad: David Macrae: The Devastated South
Part IV: A Maturing Industrial Society, 1877–1914
16. The American West
The Great Plains
The Far West
Comparing American Voices: Becoming White
Reading American Pictures: Uncovering the Culture of the Plains Indians
Voices from Abroad: Baron Joseph Alexander von Hübner: A Western Boom Town
17. Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise, 1877–1900
Industrial Capitalism Triumphant
The World of Work
The Labor Movement
Comparing American Voices: Working Women
Reading American Pictures: The Killing Floor: Site of America's Mass Production Revolution?
Voices from Abroad: Count Vay de Vaya und Luskod: Pittsburgh Inferno
18. The Industrial City: Building It, Living In It
Urbanization
Upper Class/Middle Class
City Life
Comparing American Voices: Coming to America: The Downside
Reading American Pictures: Challenging Female Delicacy: The New Woman
Voices from Abroad: José MartÃ: Coney Island, 1881
19. Politics in the Age of Enterprise, 1877–1896
The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877–1893
Politics and the People
Race and Politics in the New South
The Crisis of American Politics: The 1890s
Comparing American Voices: "Negro Domination!"
Reading American Pictures: Parties and People: How Democratic Was American Politics?
Voices from Abroad: Ernst Below: Beer and German American Politics
20. The Progressive Era, 1900-1914
The Course of Reform
Progressivism and National Politics
Comparing American Voices: The Triangle Fire
Reading American Pictures: Reining in Big Business? Cartoonists Join the Battle
Voices from Abroad: James Bryce: America in 1905: "Business Is King"
21. An Emerging World Power, 1877–1914
The Roots of Expansion
An American Empire
Onto the World Stage
Comparing American Voices: Debating the Philippines
Reading American Pictures: Imperial Dilemmas
Voices from Abroad: Jean Hess, Émile Zola, and Ruben Dario: American Goliath
Part V: The Modern State and Society, 1914-1945
22. War and the American State, 1914–1920
Great War, 1914–1918
War on the Home Front
An Unsettled Peace, 1919–1920
Comparing American Voices: The Great Migration
Reading American Pictures: "Over Here": Women's Wartime Opportunities
Voices from Abroad: A German Propaganda Appeal to Black Soldiers
23. Modern Times, 1920-1932
Business-Government Partnership of the 1920s
A New National Culture
Redefining American Identity
The Onset of the Great Depression
Comparing American Voices: The Scopes Trial
Reading American Pictures: Patrolling the Texas Border
Voices from Abroad: Mary Agnes Hamilton: Breadlines and Beggars
24. Redefining Liberalism: The New Deal, 1933–1939
The New Deal Takes Over, 1933–1935
The Second New Deal, 1935–1938
The New Deal's Impact on Society
Comparing American Voices: Ordinary People Respond to the New Deal
Reading American Pictures: Interpreting the Public Art of the New Deal
Voices from Abroad: Odette Keun: A Foreigner Looks at the Tennessee Valley Authority
25. The World at War, 1939–1945
The Road to War
Organizing for Victory
Life on the Home Front
Fighting and Winning the War
Comparing American Voices: Women in the Wartime Workplace
Reading American Pictures: "U.S. Political Propaganda on the Homefront during World War II"
Voices from Abroad: Monica Itoi Sone: Japanese Relocation
Part VI: The Age of Cold War Liberalism, 1945-1980
26. Cold War America, 1945–1960
The Cold War
Cold War Liberalism
"Modern Republicanism"
Comparing American Voices: Hunting Communists and Liberals
Reading American Pictures: Why a Cold War Space Race?
Voices from Abroad: Jean Monnet: Truman's Generous Proposal
27. The Age of Affluence, 1945–1960
Economic Powerhouse
The Affluent Society
The Other America
Comparing American Voices: Challenging White Supremacy
Reading American Pictures: The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
Voices from Abroad: Hanoch Bartov: Everyone Has a Car
28. The Liberal Consensus: Flaming Out, 1960-1968
John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society
Into the Quagmire, 1960-1968
Coming Apart
1968: A Year of Shocks
Comparing American Voices: The Toll of War
Reading American Pictures: War and its Aftermath: Images of the Vietnam Conflict, 1968 and 1982
Voices from Abroad: Che Guevara: Vietnam and the World Freedom Struggle
29. Towards a Conservative America: The 1970s
The Nixon Years
Battling for Civil Rights: The Second State
Lean Years
Politics in the Wake of Watergate
Comparing American Voices: Debating the Equal Rights Amendment
Reading American Pictures: A Near-Meltdown at Three Mile Island, 1979
Voices from Abroad: Fei Xiaotong: America's Crisis of Faith
Part VII: Entering a New Era: Conservatism, Globalization, Terrorism, 1980-2006
30. The Reagan Revolution and the End of the Cold War, 1980-2001
The Rise of Conservatism
The Reagan Presidency, 1981-1989
The Defeat of Communism and the Rise of a New World Order
The Clinton Presidency, 1993-2001
Comparing American Voices: Christianity and Public Life
Reading American Pictures: Image Warfare: Fighting to Define the Reagan Presidency
Voices from Abroad: Zhu Shida: China and the United States: A Unique Relationship
31. A Dynamic Economy, A Divided People, 1980-2000
America in a Global Economy and Society
New Technology
Culture Wars
Comparing American Voices: Cheap Labor: Immigration and Globalization
Reading American Pictures: The Abortion Debate Hits the Streets
Voices from Abroad: A U.S. Epidemic
32. Into the Twenty-First Century
The Advent of George W. Bush
American Hegemony Challenged
Unfinished Business
Comparing American Voices: The Stem Cell Research Controversy
Reading American Pictures: Conservatism at a Crossroads
Voices from Abroad: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: A Strategy for the Iraq Insurgency
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