America's History, Volume 1
by Edwards, Rebecca; Hinderaker, Eric; Self, Robert O.; Henretta, James A.Edition: 9th
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Pub. Date: 2017-09-01
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Summary
Watch our diverse history come alive through the images, maps, and primary sources shared in America's History, Volume 1.
Table of Contents
Please note:
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-15
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30
NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.
Preface
Versions and Supplements
Brief Contents
Contents
Maps, Figures, and Tables
Part 1: Transformations of North America, 1491–1700
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 1 LaunchPad
Document P1-1: Meal of Maize and Beans, the Sixth Month of the Aztec Solar Calendar (c. 1585)
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Document P1-2: THEODORE DE BRY, The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Commander on His First Voyage (1591)
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Document P1-3: THOMAS MORTON, Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England) (1637)
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Document P1-4: THOMAS PHILLIPS, A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693–1694)
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Document P1-5: RICHARD HAKLUYT, A Discourse of Western Planting (1584)
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1. Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600
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The Native American Experience
The First Americans
American Empires
Chiefdoms and Confederacies
Patterns of Trade
Sacred Power
Western Europe: The Edge of the Old World
Hierarchy and Authority
Peasant Society
Expanding Trade Networks
Myths, Religions, and Holy Warriors
West and Central Africa: Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Empires, Kingdoms, and Ministates
Trans-Saharan and Coastal Trade
The Spirit World
Exploration and Conquest
Portuguese Expansion
The African Slave Trade
Sixteenth-Century Incursions
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Altered Landscapes
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Thinking Like a Historian Colliding Cultures
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Interpretations How Connected Were Native American Communities Before 1492?
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Analyzing Voices A Spanish Priest Criticizes His Fellow Colonists
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1. Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 1 LaunchPad
Document 1-1: THOMAS HARIOT, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
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Document 1-2: De Soto Encounters Incans in Peru ARTIST UNKNOWN (SPANISH SCHOOL), Construction of the First Christian Church in San Miguel de Piura, and the Battle of Hernando de Soto with the Indians (1726)
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Document 1-3: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Journal of the First Voyage (1492)
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Document 1-4: BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)
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Document 1-5: COUNCIL OF HUEJOTZINGO, Letter to the King of Spain (1560)
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Document 1-6: BROTHER LUIS BRANDAON, Letter to Father Sandoval (1610)
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2. American Experiments, 1521–1700
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Spain’s Tribute Colonies
A New American World
The Columbian Exchange
The Protestant Challenge to Spain
Plantation Colonies
Brazil’s Sugar Plantations
England’s Tobacco Colonies
The Caribbean Islands
Plantation Life
Neo-European Colonies
New France
New Netherland
The Rise of the Iroquois
New England
Instability, War, and Rebellion
Native American Resistance
Bacon’s Rebellion
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Plantation Colonies Versus Neo-Europes
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Thinking Like a Historian Who Was Pocahontas?
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Interpretations What Role Did Climate Play in American Colonization?
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Analyzing Voices Susanna Martin, Accused Witch
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 2 LaunchPad
Document 2-1: Testimony of Acoma Indians (1599)
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Document 2-2: JOHN WINTHROP, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
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Document 2-3: CARELl ALLARD, English Quakers Planting Tobacco on Barbados (1680)
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Document 2-4: Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649)
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Document 2-5: EDMUND WHITE, Letter to Joseph Morton (1687)
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Document 2-6: REV. FATHER LOUIS CELLOT, Letter to Father François Le Mercier (1656)
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Part 2: British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763
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Document P2-1: OLAUDAH EQUIANO, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1794)
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Document P2-2: Letter from Christen Janzen to His Family (1711)
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Document P2-3: The Vain Prodigal Life and Tragical Penitent Death of Thomas Hellier (1680)
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Document P2-4 : GREGOIRE HURET, The Death of Some Jesuit Fathers in Nouvelle-France (1664)
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Document P2-5: Journal of James Kenny (1761–1763)
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3. The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750
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Colonies to Empire, 1607–1713
Self-Governing Colonies and New Elites, 1607–1660
The Restoration Colonies and Imperial Expansion
From Mercantilism to Imperial Dominion
The Glorious Revolution in England and America
Imperial Wars and Native Peoples
Tribalization
Indian Goals
The Imperial Slave Economy
The South Atlantic System
Africa, Africans, and the Slave Trade
Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina
An African American Community Emerges
The Rise of the Southern Gentry
The Northern Maritime Economy
The Urban Economy
Urban Society
The New Politics of Empire, 1713–1750
The Rise of Colonial Assemblies
Salutary Neglect
Protecting the Mercantile System
Mercantilism and the American Colonies
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal "Middle Passage"
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Thinking Like a Historian Servitude and Slavery
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Interpretations Why Did Americans Adopt Slavery?
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Analyzing Voices Native Americans and European Empires
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 3 LaunchPad
Document 3-1: At the Town-House in Boston: April 18th, 1689. A Letter to Sir Edmond Andros Knight (1689)
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Document 3-2: CANASSATEGO, Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New York (1742)
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Document 3-3: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, An Act for Suppressing Outlying Slaves (1691)
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Document 3-4: WILLIAM BYRD II, Diary Entries (1709–1712)
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Document 3-5: JOHN BARNARD, The Autobiography of the Rev. John Barnard (1766)
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Document 3-6: LORD CORNBURY, Letter to the Lords of Trade (1704)
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4. Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763
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New England’s Freehold Society
Farm Families: Women in the Household Economy
Farm Property: Inheritance
Freehold Society in Crisis
Diversity in the Middle Colonies
Economic Growth, Opportunity, and Conflict
Cultural Diversity
Religion and Politics
Commerce, Culture, and Identity
Transportation and the Print Revolution
The Enlightenment in America
American Pietism and the Great Awakening
Religious Upheaval in the North
Social and Religious Conflict in the South
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750–1765
The French and Indian War
The Great War for Empire
British Industrial Growth and the Consumer Revolution
The Struggle for Land in the East
Western Rebels and Regulators
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Transatlantic Migration, 1500–1760
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Thinking Like a Historian Women’s Labor
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Interpretations Did Diversity Lead to Toleration?
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Analyzing Voices Evangelical Religion and Enlightenment Rationalism
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 4 LaunchPad
Document 4-1: Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments with Electricity (Turned into an 18th Century Parlor Game) (c. 18th century)
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Document 4-2: SARAH OSBORN, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn (1814)
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Document 4-3: CHARLES WOODMASON, Journal (1766–1768)
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Document 4-4: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Albany Plan of Union (1754)
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Document 4-5: State of the British and French Colonies in North America (1755)
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Document 4-6: Petition from the Inhabitants of Orange County, North Carolina (1770)
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Part 3: Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800
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Document P3-1: RICHARD ALLEN, Eulogy for Washington (1799)
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Document P3-2: J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVECOEUR, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
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Document P3-3: JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)
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Document P3-4: George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
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Document P3-5: EDWARD SAVAGE, Liberty. In the Form of the Goddess of Youth, Giving Support to the Bald Eagle (1796)
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5. The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776
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An Empire Transformed
The Costs of Empire
George Grenville and the Reform Impulse
An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act
The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770
Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd
The Ideological Roots of Resistance
Another Kind of Freedom
Parliament and Patriots Square Off Again
The Problem of the West
Parliament Wavers
The Road to Independence, 1771–1776
A Compromise Repudiated
The Continental Congress Responds
The Rising of the Countryside
Loyalists and Neutrals
Violence East and West
Lord Dunmore’s War
Armed Resistance in Massachusetts
The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Independence Declared
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Britain’s Atlantic and Asian Empires
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Thinking Like a Historian Beyond the Proclamation Line
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Interpretations Did British Administrators Try to Protect or Exploit Native Americans?
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Analyzing Voices The Debate over Representation and Sovereignty
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 5 LaunchPad
Document 5-1: RICHARD BLAND, Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1766)
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Document 5-2: STAMP ACT CONGRESS, Declaration of Rights (1765)
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Document 5-3: PETER OLIVER, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1781)
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Document 5-4: A Protest by the Worcester, Massachusetts, Selectmen (1774)
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Document 5-5: THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Letter to Thomas Whately (1769)
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Document 5-6: THOMAS PAINE, Common Sense (1776)
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6. Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789
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The Trials of War, 1776–1778
War in the North
Armies and Strategies
Victory at Saratoga
The Perils of War
Financial Crisis
Valley Forge
The Path to Victory, 1778–1783
The French Alliance
War in the South
The Patriot Advantage
Diplomatic Triumph
Creating Republican Institutions, 1776–1787
The State Constitutions: How Much Democracy?
Women Seek a Public Voice
The War’s Losers: Loyalists, Native Americans, and Slaves
The Articles of Confederation
Shays’s Rebellion
The Constitution of 1787
The Rise of a Nationalist Faction
The Philadelphia Convention
The People Debate Ratification
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context China’s Growing Empire
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Thinking Like a Historian The Black Soldier’s Dilemma
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Interpretations Was the Constitution Necessary?
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Analyzing Voices The First National Debate over Slavery
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 6 LaunchPad
Document 6-1: Instructions to the Delegates from Mecklenburg to the Provincial Congress at Halifax in November (1776)
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Document 6-2: ABIGAIL AND JOHN ADAMS, Correspondence (1776)
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Document 6-3: PRINCE HALL, Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Council and the House of Representatives (1777)
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Document 6-4: JAMES PEALE, General George Washington at Yorktown (c. 1782)
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Document 6-5: DANIEL GRAY, Address to the People of Several Towns (1786)
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Document 6-6: JAMES MADISON, Federalist No. 10 and Federalist No. 51 (1787)
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7. Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820
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The Political Crisis of the 1790s
The Federalists Implement the Constitution
Hamilton’s Financial Program
Jefferson’s Agrarian Vision
The French Revolution Divides Americans
The Rise of Political Parties
A Republican Empire Is Born
Sham Treaties and Indian Lands
Migration and the Changing Farm Economy
The Jefferson Presidency
Jefferson and the West
The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics
Conflict in the Atlantic and the West
The War of 1812
The Federalist Legacy
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Race
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Thinking Like a Historian The Social Life of Alcohol
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Interpretations Did Hamilton’s Economic System Endanger the Legacy of the Revolution?
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Analyzing Voices Factional Politics and the War of 1812
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 7 LaunchPad
Document 7-1: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Letter to Edward Carrington (1792)
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Document 7-2: THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)
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Document 7-3: THE PROVIDENTIAL DETECTION (c. 1790s)
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Document 7-4: THE PANOPLIST AND MISSIONARY HERALD, Retrograde Movement of National Character (1818)
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Document 7-5: TECUMSEH, "Sleep Not Longer, O’ Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811)
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Document 7-6: Report of the Hartford Convention (1815)
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Part 4: Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848
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Document P4-1: Process of Excavation, Erie Canal, Lockport (c. 1820s)
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Document P4-2: JOSEPH STORY, Address Delivered on the Dedication of the Cemetery at Mount Auburn (1831)
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Document P4-3: EMMELINE B. WELLS, Diary (1846)
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Document P4-4: GEORGE CAITLIN, Letters and Notes (1841) and Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon’s Egg Head (The Light) Going to and Returning from Washington (c. 1837-1839)
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Document P4-5: ALBERT BRISBANE, A Concise Exposition of the Doctrine of Association (1843)
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8. Economic Transformations, 1800–1848
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Foundations of a New Economic Order
Credit and Banking
Transportation and the Market Revolution
The Cotton Complex: Northern Industry and Southern Agriculture
The American Industrial Revolution
Origins of the Cotton South
The Cotton Boom and Slavery
Technological Innovation and Labor
The Spread of Innovation
Wageworkers and the Labor Movement
The Growth of Cities and Towns
New Social Classes and Cultures
Planters, Yeomen, and Slaves
The Northern Business Elite
The Middle Class
Urban Workers and the Poor
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The Fate of the American and Indian Textile Industries
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Thinking Like a Historian The Entrepreneur and the Community
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Interpretations Did the Market Revolution Expand Opportunities for Women?
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Analyzing Voices The Debate over Free and Slave Labor
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Document 8-1: J. HILL, Junction of Erie and Northern Canal (c. 1830–1832)
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Document 8-2: THE WEEKLY REGISTER, Home Influence (1813)
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Document 8-3: LUCY LARCOM, Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence (1881)
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Document 8-4: Ethan Andrews, Slavery and the Domestic Slave-Trade (1836)
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Document 8-5: Ely moore, Address Delivered Before the General Trades’ Union of the City of New-York (1833)
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9. A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848
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The Rise of Popular Politics
The Decline of the Notables and the Rise of Parties
Racial Exclusion and Republican Motherhood
The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
The Election of 1824
The Last Notable President: John Quincy Adams
"The Democracy" and the Election of 1828
Jackson in Power, 1829–1837
Jackson’s Agenda: Rotation and Decentralization
The Tariff and Nullification
The Bank War
Indian Removal
Jackson’s Impact
Class, Culture, and the Second Party System
The Whig Worldview
Labor Politics and the Depression of 1837–1843
"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Alexis de Tocqueville: Letter to Louis de Kergorlay, June 29, 1831
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Thinking Like a Historian Becoming Literate: Public Education and Democracy
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Interpretations Was Indian Removal Humanitarian or Racist?
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Analyzing Voices The Character and Goals of Andrew Jackson
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Document 9-1: MARTIN VAN BUREN, The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren (1854)
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Document 9-2: FITZWILLIAM BYRDSALL, The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party (1842)
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Document 9-3: ANDREW JACKSON, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States (1832)
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Document 9-4: Henry Clay, Speech on the Presidential Election (1840)
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Document 9-5: Capitol Fashions for 1837 (1837)
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Document 9-6: CHEROKEE WOMEN, Petition (1821 [1831?])
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10. Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848
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Spiritual Awakenings
The Second Great Awakening
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism
Utopian Experiments
Urban Cultures and Conflicts
Sex in the City
Popular Fiction and the Penny Press
Urban Entertainments
African Americans and the Struggle for Freedom
Free Black Communities, North and South
The Rise of Abolitionism
The Women’s Rights Movement
Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
From Antislavery to Seneca Falls
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Women’s Rights in France and the United States, 1848
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Thinking Like a Historian Dance and Social Identity in Antebellum America
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Interpretations What Motivated Antebellum Reformers?
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Analyzing Voices Saving the Nation from Drink
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Document 10-1: MARGARET FULLER, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
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Document 10-2: JOSEPH SMITH, History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet (c. 1830s)
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Document 10-3: Advertisement for the American Museum (1845)
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Document 10-4: SARAH GRIMKÉ, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
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Document 10-5: DAVID WALKER, Preamble to Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles (1830)
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Document 10-6: CALVIN COLTON, Abolition a Sedition (1839)
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11. Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848
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The Expanding South
Planters, Small Freeholders, and Poor Freemen
The Settlement of Texas
The Politics of Democracy
The African American World
Evangelical Black Protestantism
Forging Families and Communities
Negotiating Rights
Manifest Destiny, North and South
The Push to the Pacific
The Plains Indians
The Fateful Election of 1844
The U.S.-Mexico War, 1846–1848
The "War of a Thousand Deserts"
Polk’s Expansionist Program
American Military Successes
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Financing War
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Thinking Like a Historian Childhood in Black and White
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Interpretations What Explains American Enthusiasm for Manifest Destiny?
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Analyzing Voices The U.S.-Mexico War: Expansion and Slavery
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 11 LaunchPad
Document 11-1: SUSAN DABNEY SMEDES, Memorials of a Southern Planter (1887)
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Document 11-2: Slave Songs of the United States (1867) and Slaves Dance to Their Own Music on a Southern Plantation (c. 1852)
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Document 11-3: LANSFORD HASTINGS, The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (1845)
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Document 11-4: JOHN D. SLOAT, To the Inhabitants of California (1846) and GENERAL FRANCISCO MEJIA, A Proclamation at Matamoros (1846)
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Document 11-5: Richard Doyle, The Land of Liberty (1847)
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Part 5: Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877
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Document P5-1: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (1848)
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Document P5-2: STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA, An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians (1850)
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Document P5-3: SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States (1855)
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Document P5-4: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Cooper Union Address (1860)
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Document P5-5: ALEXANDER STEPHENS, "Cornerstone" Speech (1861)
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Document P5-6: THOMAS NAST, "This is a White Man’s Government" (1868)
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12. Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1860
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A Divisive War, 1844–1850
"Free Soil" in Politics
California Gold and Racial Warfare
1850: Crisis and Compromise
The End of the Second Party System, 1850–1858
The Abolitionist Movement Grows
The Whig Party’s Demise
Immigrants and Know-Nothings
The West and the Fate of the Union
Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858–1860
Lincoln’s Political Career
The Union Under Siege
The Election of 1860
Secession Winter, 1860–1861
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The Gold Rush: California and Australia
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Thinking Like a Historian The Irish in America
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Interpretations Did Slavery Have a Future in the West?
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Analyzing Voices To Secede or Not to Secede?
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 12 LaunchPad
Document 12-1: Susan Shelby Magoffin, Diary (1846)
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Document 12-2: John l. Magee, Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler (1856)
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Document 12-3: JOHN C. CALHOUN, Speech on the Slavery Question (1850)
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Document 12-4: CHARLES SUMNER, The Crime of Kansas (1856)
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Document 12-5: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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Document 12-6: KEZIAH GOODWIN HOPKINS BREVARD, Diary (1860–1861)
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13. Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865
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The War Begins, 1861–1862
Early Expectations
Campaigns East and West
Antietam and Its Consequences
Toward "Hard War," 1863
Politics North and South
The Impact of Emancipation
Citizens and the Work of War
Vicksburg and Gettysburg
The Road to Union Victory, 1864–1865
Grant and Sherman Take Command
The Election of 1864 and Sherman’s March
The Confederacy Collapses
The World the War Made
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context War Debt: Britain and the United States, 1830–1900
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Thinking Like a Historian Military Deaths — and Lives Saved — During the Civil War
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Interpretations How Divided Was the Confederate Public?
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Analyzing Voices These Honored Dead
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 13 LaunchPad
Document 13-1: Sowing and Reaping (1863)
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Document 13-2: Ambrose Bierce, What I Saw of Shiloh (1881)
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Document 13-3: CORNELIA HANCOCK, Letters of a Civil War Nurse (1863)
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Document 13-4: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and JEFFERSON DAVIS, President’s Message (1863)
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Document 13-5: HARRY SMITH, Fifty Years of Slavery (1891)
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Document 13-6: WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)
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14. Reconstruction, 1865–1877
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The Struggle for National Reconstruction
Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnson
Congress Versus the President
Radical Reconstruction
Women’s Rights Denied
The Meaning of Freedom
The Quest for Land
Republican Governments in the South
Building Black Communities
The Undoing of Reconstruction
The Republicans Unravel
Counterrevolution in the South
Reconstruction Rolled Back
The Political Crisis of 1877
Lasting Legacies
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States
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Thinking Like a Historian The South’s "Lost Cause"
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Interpretations How Free Were Freedwomen in Reconstruction?
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Analyzing Voices The Impact of Terror
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 14 LaunchPad
Document 14-1: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Last Public Address (1865)
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Document 14-2: BETTY POWERS, Federal Writers’ Project Interview (c. 1936)
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Document 14-3: FRANCES BUTLER LEIGH, Letter to a Friend in England (1867)
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Document 14-4: CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS JR., The Protection of the Ballot in National Elections (1869)
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Document 14-5: THOMAS NAST, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State (1874)
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Document 14-6: ROBERT BROWNE ELLIOTT, Speech to Congress (1874)
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15. Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890
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The Republican Vision
The New Union and the World
Integrating the National Economy
Incorporating the West
Mining Empires
Cattlemen on the Plains
Homesteaders
The First National Park
A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed
The Civil War and Indians on the Plains
Grant’s Peace Policy
The End of Armed Resistance
Strategies of Survival
Western Myths and Realities
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The Santa Fe Railroad in Mexico and the United States
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Thinking Like a Historian Representing Indians
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Interpretations What Factors Motivated America’s Indian Policies?
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Analyzing Voices Women’s Rights in the West
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 15 LaunchPad
Document 15-1: Indian Territory, That Garden of the World (c. 1880)
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Document 15-2: CURRIER & IVES, Across the Continent (1868)
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Document 15-3: J. WRIGHT MOOAR, Buffalo Days (1933)
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Document 15-4: FRANCIS A. WALKER, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1872)
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Document 15-5: MOURNING DOVE, A Salishan Autobiography (1990)
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