Chapter 1: Worlds in Motion, 1450-1550 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Malinche, Cultural Translator The Worlds of Indian Peoples Great Migrations The Emergence of Farming The Cradle of the Americas AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Tenochtitlan The Northern World Takes Shape The Worlds of Christopher Columbus The Reconquista The Age of Exploration New Ideas Take Root Collision in the Caribbean Columbus's First Voyage The Origins of a New World Political and Economic Order The Division of the World Onto the Mainland The First Florida Ventures The Conquest of Mexico DEMOCRACY: Native Americans Debate the Question of the Europeans The Establishment of a Spanish Empire The Return to North America The Consequences of Conquest Demographic Disaster The Columbian Exchange Men's and Women's Lives Conclusion Chapter 1 Primary Sources 1. The Aztecs Address Their Gods 2. The People of Chaco Canyon Build a Town 3. The King and Queen of Spain Give Authorization to Columbus 4. Native Priests Respond to the Spanish 5. Cabeza de Vaca Describes North America Chapter 2: Colonial Outposts, 1550-1650 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Paquiquineo Finds His Way Home Pursuing Wealth and Glory Along the North American Shore European Objectives The Huge Geographical Barrier Spanish Outposts New France: An Outpost in Global Politics and Economics The Five Nations of Iroquois and the Political Landscape Champlain Encounters the Hurons Creating a Middle Ground in New France DEMOCRACY: The French and the Indians Learn to Compromise An Outpost in a Global Political Economy New Netherland: The Empire of a Trading Nation Colonization by a Private Company Slavery and Freedom in New Netherland The Dutch-Indian Trading Partnership The Beaver Wars England Attempts an Empire Competition with Spain Rehearsal in Ireland AMERICA AND THE WORLD: Indians on the Thames The Roanoke Venture The Abandoned Colony Conclusion Chapter 2 Primary Sources 1. Paquiquineo Travels the World 2. William Hawkins Brings Brazilians to London 3. Gandeaktena Becomes a Christian 4. The Dutch Arrive at Manhattan Chapter 3: The English Come to Stay, 1600-1660 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: The Adventures of John Smith The First Chesapeake Colonies Founding Virginia Starving Times Troubled Relations with the Powhatans Toward a New Economic Order and the Rise of Democracy Toward the Destruction of the Powhatans A New Colony in Maryland AMERICA AND THE WORLD: The English Enter the Slave Trade The Political Economy of Slavery Emerges The Problem of a Labor Supply The Origins of African Slavery in the Chesapeake DEMOCRACY: The First African Arrivals Exercise Some Rights Gender and the Social Order in the Chesapeake A Bible Commonwealth in the New England Wilderness The English Origins of the Puritan Movement What Did the Puritans Believe? The Pilgrim Colony at Plymouth The Puritan Colony at Massachusetts Bay The New England Way Changing the Landscape to Fit the Political Economy The Puritan Family Dissension in the Puritan Ranks Roger Williams and Toleration Anne Hutchinson and the Equality of Believers Puritan Indian Policy and the Pequot War Conclusion Chapter 3 Primary Sources 1. John Smith Visits Powhatan 2. Richard Frethorne Writes Home from America 3. Anne Hutchinson Comes to Trial 4. Anne Bradstreet Writes to Her Children Chapter 4: Continental Empires, 1660-1720 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Tituba Shapes Her World and Saves Herself The Plan of Empire Turmoil in England The Political Economy of Mercantilism New Colonies, New Patterns New Netherland Becomes New York Diversity and Prosperity in Pennsylvania AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: New Amsterdam/New York Indians and Africans in the Political Economy of Carolina The Barbados Connection The Transformation of Virginia Social Change in Virginia Bacon's Rebellion and the Abandonment of the Middle Ground Virginia Becomes a Slave Society New England Under Assault Social Prosperity and the Fear of Religious Decline King Philip's War Indians and the Empire The Empire Strikes The Dominion of New England The Glorious Revolution in Britain and America DEMOCRACY: Maryland's Colonists Demand a New Government The Rights of Englishmen Conflict in the Empire Massachusetts in Crisis The Social and Cultural Contexts of Witchcraft Witchcraft at Salem The End of Witchcraft Empires in Collision France Attempts an Empire The Spanish Outpost in Florida Conquest, Revolt, and Reconquest in New Mexico Native Americans and the Country Between Conclusion Chapter 4 Primary Sources 1. The Navigation Act of 1651 2. William Penn Meets with Indians 3. Mary Rowlandson is Kidnapped 4. The Pueblo Indians Eject the Spaniards 5. The Puritans Face a Crisis Chapter 5: The Eighteenth-Century World, 1700-1775 AMERICANPORTRAIT: George Whitefield: Evangelist for a Consumer Society The Population Explosion of the Eighteenth Century The Dimensions of Population Growth Bound for America: European Immigrants Bound for America: African Slaves AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Slave Ship The Great Increase of Offspring The Transatlantic Economy: Producing and Consuming The Nature of Colonial Economic Growth The Transformation of the Family Economy Sources of Regional Prosperity Merchants and Dependent Laborers in the Transatlantic Economy Consumer Choices and the Creation of Gentility The Varieties of Colonial Experience Creating an Urban Public Sphere The Diversity of Urban Life The Maturing of Rural Society The World That Slavery Made Georgia: From Frontier Outpost to Plantation Society The Head and the Heart in America: The Enlightenment and Religious Awakening The Ideas of the Enlightenment The Economic and Social Foundations of Democracy Enlightened Institutions DEMOCRACY: Books Become More Accessible Origins of the Great Awakening The Grand Itinerant Cultural Conflict and Challenges to Authority What the Awakening Wrought Conclusion Chapter 5 Primary Sources 1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 2. The Autobiography of Sansom Occum 3. Olaudah Equiano's Autobiography 4. George Whitefield Experiences South Carolina 5. Phyllis Wheatley Responds to the Students at Harvard Chapter 6: Conflict in the Empire, 1713-1774 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Susannah Willard Johnson Experiences the Empire The Victory of the British Empire New War, Old Pattern The Local Impact of Global War The French Empire Crumbles from Within The Virginians Ignite a War From Local to Imperial War Problems with British-Colonial Cooperation The British Gain the Advantage Enforcing the Empire Pontiac's Rebellion and Its Aftermath Paying for the Empire: Sugar and Stamps AMERICA AND THE WORLD: Paying for War The British Empire in Crisis An Argument About Rights and Obligations The Imperial Crisis in Local Context Contesting the Townshend Duties A Revolution in the Empire Massacre in Boston STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Boston Massacre The Empire Comes Apart The First Continental Congress Conclusion Chapter 6 Primary Sources 1. George Washington on Braddock's Defeat 2. Pontiac's Speech to the Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Hurons 3. An Account of the Paxton Boys' Murder of the Conestoga Indians 4. A Visiting Frenchman's Account of Patrick Henry's Caesar-Brutus Speech 5. Peter Oliver on Non-importation 6. The Intolerable Acts Chapter 7: Creating a New Nation, 1775-1788 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: James Madison Helps Make a Nation The War Begins The First Battles Congress Takes the Lead Military Ardor Declaring Independence Creating a National Government Creating State Governments Winning the Revolution Competing Strategies The British on the Offensive: 1776 AMERICA AND THE WORLD: Mercenaries in Global Perspective A Slow War: 1777-1781 AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The South Carolina Backcountry Securing a Place in the World The Challenge of the Revolution The Departure of the Loyalists The Challenge of the Economy Contesting the New Economy Can Women Be Citizens? The Challenge of Slavery A New Policy in the West The Indians' Revolution The End of the Middle Ground Settling the West Creating a New National Government A Crippled Congress Writing a New Constitution Ratifying the Constitution: Politics Ratifying the Constitution: Ideas STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Ratification of the Constitution Conclusion Chapter 7 Primary Sources 1. Common Sense 2. Excerpts from A narrative of some of the adventures, dangers and sufferings of a revolutionary soldier 3. Remember the Ladies 4. Slave Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature 5. Excerpt from Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention Chapter 8: Contested Republic, 1789-1800 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Ona Judge Finds Her Freedom The Struggle to Form a Government Creating a National Government The States and the Bill of Rights Debating the Economy A Society in Transition A People on the Move AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Philadelphia The First Emancipation Movements Conflicting Visions of Republican Society The Culture of the Republic Securing the Nation Borders and Boundaries Controlling the Borderlands The Whiskey Rebellion Other Revolutions Between France and England To the Brink of War The Administration of John Adams Tensions at Home STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Sedition and the Limits of Dissent Conclusion Chapter 8 Primary Sources 1. Report on Manufactures 2. Washington's Farewell Address 3. Congressman Roger Griswold attacks Congressman Matthew Lyon 4. Immigration Policies 5. The Virginia Act and the Kentucky Act 6. An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, New York Chapter 9: A Republic in Transition, 1800-1819 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Andrew Jackson's America A Politics of Transition A Contested Election, an Anxious Nation STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Gabriel Revolt Democratic Republicans in Office The Louisiana Purchase Embargo The War of 1812 Madison and the War Federalist Response An Economy in Transition International Markets AMERICA AND THE WORLD: The United States in China Crossing the Appalachian Mountains Invention and Exploration Early Industrial Society in New England The Rule of Law and Lawyers Ways of Life in Flux Indian Resistance to American Expansion Winners and Losers in the New Economy Religion AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Religion in the Backcountry: Cane Ridge, Kentucky The Problem of Trust in a Changing Society The Panic of 1819 Conclusion Chapter 9 Primary Sources 1. Jefferson's First Inaugural Address 2. Samuel Mitchill Describes to his Wife Aaron Burr's Farewell Speech to the Senate 3. War Hawk Tennessee Congressman Felix Grundy's Predictions about the War of 1812 4. Constitution of the Lowell Factory Girls Association 5. Gibbons v. Ogden 6. Thomas Jefferson's Letter to William Henry Harrison CHAPTER 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1820-1840 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Harriet Noble A New National Politics Changes in the Democratic Republican Party James Monroe and National Republicanism The Missouri Compromise The Election of 1824 and the Corrupt Bargain The Adams Presidency and the Gathering Forces of Democracy The Social and Political Bases of Jacksonian Democracy Settlers Free Labor Suffrage Reform Opposition to Special Privilege and Secret Societies Southern Slavery Property in Man The Domestic Slave Trade Plantation Slavery AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Gowrie: The Story of Profit and Loss on an American Plantation Other Varieties of Slavery Resistance and Creation Among Southern Slaves Slavery and National Development Slavery and Industrialization in the North Slavery and the Laws of the Nation Free Black People in a Republic of Slaves Jacksonian Democracy in Action The Election of 1828 The Bank War Dismembering the Bank The Specie Act A Policy of Removing Indigenous People Jackson and Native Peoples The Removal Act History, Destiny, and the Remaking of Indian Societies The Growth of Sectional Tension The Sources of Southern Discontent South Carolina's Protest STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Federal Government Responds to Abolitionism The Nullification Crisis Conclusion Chapter 10 Primary Sources 1. Monroe Doctrine 2. David Walker's Appeal 3. Debate in the Senate on the Admission of Missouri into the Union 4. Andrew Jackson's Vetoes the Recharter of the Second Bank of the United States 5. Andrew Jackson's Speech to Congress on Indian Removal Chapter 11: Reform and Conflict, 1820-1848 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Charles Grandison Finney Perfectionism and the Theology of Human Striving Millennialism and Communitarians The Benevolent Empire AMERICA AND THE WORLD: The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions The Politics of Slavery The Antislavery Movement Black Abolitionists Immediatism Antiabolition Violence The Emergence of Political Abolitionism Freedom National, Slavery Local Reform and the Urban Classes Wage Dependency and Labor Protest A New Urban Middle Class Immigration and Nativism Internal Migration Self-Reform and Social Regulation A Culture of Self-Improvement Temperance The Common School Movement and Democracy Penal Reform Electoral Politics and Moral Reform Women's Rights Women and Reform Movements The Seneca Falls Convention STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Seneca Falls Convention Conclusion Chapter 11 Primary Sources 1. The First Issue of The Liberator 2. Charles Dickens Describes Five Points 3. Selections from Louisa May Alcott's Transcendental Wild Oats 4. Alexis de Tocqueville on Voluntary Associations 5. An Eyewitness Account of the Murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny, 1836-1848 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Elias Boudinot Dies in Oklahoma The Decline of Jacksonianism Political Parties in Crisis Van Buren and the Legacy of Jackson The Political Economy of the Trans-Mississippi West Manifest Destiny in Antebellum Culture Texas Pacific Bound Nations of the Trans-Mississippi West Slavery and the Political Economy of Expansion Log Cabins and Hard Cider: The Election of 1840 And Tyler, Too Occupy Oregon, Annex Texas War with Mexico AMERICA AND THE WORLD: Lt. Rankin Dilworth in the War with Mexico DEMOCRACY: Mexicans in California Lose Their Rights Conclusion Chapter 12 Primary Sources 1. Chief John Ross Demands Justice 2. The Hudson River School Ennobles the Natural World 3. Lydia Allen Rudd Goes West 4. John O'Sullivan Coins a Term Chapter 13: The Politics of Slavery, 1848-1860 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Frederick Douglass The Political Economy of Freedom and Slavery AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: City of Broad Shoulders and Broader Implications: Chicago A Changing Economy in the North The Slave Economy The Importance of the West Slavery Becomes a Political Issue Wilmot Introduces His Proviso A Compromise Without Compromises The Fugitive Slave Act Provokes a Crisis The Election of 1852 and the Decline of the Whig Party Nativism and the Origins of the Republican Party The Nativist Attack on Immigration The Kansas-Nebraska Act Revives the Slavery Issue AMERICA AND THE WORLD: Slavery as a Foreign Policy A New Political Party Takes Shape The Labor Problem and the Politics of Slavery Kansas Begins to Bleed STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Settling and Unsettling of Kansas The First Sectional Election The Dred Scott Decision The Lecompton Constitution Splits the Democratic Party The Irrepressible Conflict The Retreat from Union John Brown's War Against Slavery Northerners Elect a President Conclusion Chapter 13 Primary Sources 1. Sumner Denounces the Crime Against Kansas and Senator Andrew P. Butler's Defense of the Southern Case 2. John Greenleaf Whittier Describes the Perverting Effect of Cotton 3. A Norwegian Immigrant Describes Life on the Prairies 4. Senator James H. Hammond's Cotton is King Speech Chapter 14: A War for Union and Emancipation, 1861-1865 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Laura M. Towne and the Sea Island Invasion Liberty and Union The Deep South Secedes The Upper South Makes Its Choice Civilians Demand a Total War STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Citizen Soldier Learns a Profession What Were Soldiers Fighting For? Mobilizing for War The Military Scorecard Union Naval Supremacy King Cotton's Failed Diplomacy The Political Economy of Total War Filling the Ranks - and the Jails The Civil War as Social Revolution Union Victories in the West Richmond Is a Hard Road to Travel A New Birth of Freedom The Turn of the Tide - Gettysburg and Vicksburg Emancipation in Practice The War at Home The Butcher's Bill Discontent on both Sides Union Victory at Terrible Cost Grant Takes Command No Turning Back: Hard War in an Election Year AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Burnwell: Sherman's March from the Sea and the Long-Term Cost of Devastation Atlanta to Appomattox From Emancipation to Abolition The Meaning of the Civil War Conclusion Chapter 14 Primary Sources 1. Dixie 2. The Battle Hymn of the Republic 3. Walt Whitman Visits Military Hospitals 4. A Black Man Reports on an Antiwar Race Riot in Detroit 5. Henry Clay Work's Rendering of What Freedom Meant for Black Southerners 6. Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address Chapter 15: Reconstructing a Nation, 1865-1877 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: John M. Dennett Visits a Freedmen's Bureau Court Wartime Reconstruction The Meaning of Freedom Experiments with Free Labor Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan Versus the Wade-Davis Bill Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867 The Political Economy of Contract Labor Resistance to Presidential Reconstruction Congress Clashes with the President Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment Congressional Reconstruction The South Remade The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson Radical Reconstruction in the South Achievements and Failures of Radical Government The Political Economy of Sharecropping The Gospel of Prosperity The Retreat from Republican Radicalism Republicans Become the Party of Moderation AMERICA AND THE WORLD: Reconstructing America's Foreign Policy Reconstructing the North The Fifteenth Amendment and Nationwide African American Suffrage Women and Suffrage The Rise and Fall of the National Labor Union STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: An Incident at Coushatta, August 1874 The End of Reconstruction Corruption is the Fashion Liberal Republicans Revolt edeeming the South The Twice-Stolen Election of 1876 Conclusion Chapter 15 Primary Sources 1. Petroleum V. Nasby Finds a Platform for Northern Democrats 2. The Mississippi Black Code Defines Freed People's Rights 3. How Free Is Free? A Sharecropping Contract 4. An Alabama Freedman Remembers Reconstruction 5. Gadsden Steel Testifies about Klan Violence 2. Debating Inequality
