American Pageant, Complete (text Only) - 11th edition

I. Founding the New Nation

1. New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.-1769

• The geology of the New World
• Native Americans before Columbus
• Europeans and Africans
• The search for a water route to Asia
• Columbus and the early explorers
• The ecological consequences of Columbus's discovery
• Spain builds a New World empire
• Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadores

2. The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

• England on the eve of colonization
• The expansion of Elizabethan England
• The planting of Jamestown, 1607
• English settlers and Native Americans
• The growth of Virginia and Maryland
• England in the Caribbean
• Settling the Carolinas and Georgia
• Makers of America: The Iroquois

3. Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

• The Puritan faith
• Plymouth Colony, 1620
• The Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630
• Rhode Island and Connecticut
• Puritans and Indians
• The Dominion of New England, 1686-1689
• New Netherland becomes New York
• Pennsylvania, the Quaker colony
• New Jersey and Delaware
• Makers of America: The English
• Varying Viewpoints: Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe?

4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

• Life and labor in the Chesapeake tobacco region
• Indentured servants and Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676
• The spread of slavery
• African-American culture
• Southern Society
• Families in New England
• Declining Puritan piety
• The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692
• Daily life in the colonies
• Makers of America: From African to African-American

5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775

• Immigration and population growth
• Colonial social structure
• Earning a living
• The Atlantic economy
• The role of religion
• The Great Awakening of the 1730's
• Education and culture
• Political patterns
• Makers of America: The Scots-Irish
• Varying Viewpoints: Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus?

6. The Duel for North America, 1608-1763

• New France
• Fur-traders and Indians
• Anglo-French colonial rivalries
• Europe, America, and the first world wars
• The French and Indian War, 1754-1763
• The ousting of France from North America, 1763
• The question of colonial union
• Makers of America: The French

7. The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

• The merits and menace of mercantilism
• The Stamp Act crisis, 1765
• The Townshend Acts, 1767
• The Boston Tea Party, 1773
• The Intolerable Acts and the Continental Congress, 1774
• Lexington, Concord, and the gathering clouds of war, 1775
• Varying Viewpoints: Whose Revolution?

8. America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783

• Early skirmishes, 1775
• The Declaration of Independence, 1776
• American republicanism
• Patriots and Loyalists
• The role of the militia
• The fighting fronts
• The French alliance, 1778
• Yorktown, 1781
• The Peace of Paris, 1783
• Makers of America: The Loyalists

II. Building the New Nation

9. The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790

• Changing political sentiments
• The new state constitutions
• Economic troubles
• The Articles of Confederation, 1781-1788
• The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
• Shay's Rebellion, 1786
• The Constitutional Convention, 1787
• Ratifying the Constitution,1787-1790
• Varying Viewpoints: The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary?

10. Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

• Problems of the young Republic
• The Bill of Rights, 1791
• The first presidency, 1789-1793
• Hamilton's economic policies
• The Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
• The emergence of political parties
• The impact of the French Revolution
• Jay's Treaty, 1794, and Washington's farewell
• President Adams keeps the peace
• The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798
• The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 1798-1799
• Federalists versus Republicans

11. The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1812

• The Revolution of 1800
• The Jefferson presidency
• John Marshall and the Supreme Court
• Barbary pirates
• The Louisiana Purchase, 1803
• The Anglo-French War
• The Embargo, 1807-1809
• Napoleon manipulates Madison
• War Hawks from the West

12. The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

• Invasion of Canada, 1812
• The war on land and sea
• The Treaty of Ghent, 1814
• The Hartford Convention, 1814-1815
• A new national identity
• The American System
• James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings
• Westward Expansion
• The Missouri Compromise, 1820
• The Supreme Court under John Marshall
• Canada and Florida
• The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
• Makers of America: Settlers of the Old Northwest

13. The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy, 1824-1830

• Politics for the common people
• Sources of the New Democracy
• The corrupt bargain of 1824
• President John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
• The Tariff of Abominations, 1828
• The triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828
• The Jacksonian philosophy
• The spoils system
• The Maysville Road veto, 1830
• The Webster-Hayne debate, 1830

14. Jacksonian Democracy at Flood Tide, 1830-1840

• The South Carolina nullification crisis, 1832-1833
• Jackson's war on the Bank of the United States
• The removal of the Indians from the Southeast
• Revolution in Texas, 1835-1836
• The emergence of the Whig party, 1836
• Martin Van Buren in the White House, 1837-1841
• The depression of 1837
• The Independent Treasury
• William Henry Harrison's "log cabin" campaign, 1840
• The establishment of the two-party system
• Makers of America: Mexican or Texican?
• Varying Viewpoints: What Was Jacksonian Democracy?

15. Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

• The westward movement
• The economy and the environment
• European immigration
• The Irish and the Germans
• Nativism and assimilation
• The coming of the factory system
• The market economy and the family
• The ripening of commercial agriculture
• The transportation revolution
• The emergence of a continental economy
• Capitalists and workers
• Cables, clippers, and pony riders
• Makers of America: The Irish
• Makers of America: The Germans

16. The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

• Religious revivals
• The Mormons
• Educational advances
• The roots of reform
• Temperance
• Women's roles and women's rights
• Utopian experiments
• Art and architecture
• A national literature
• Makers of America: The Oneida Community
• Varying Viewpoints: Reform: Who? What? How? and Why?

III. Testing the New Nation

17. The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

• The economy of the Cotton Kingdom
• Poor whites and free blacks
• The plantation system
• The human face of the peculiar institution
• The abolitionist crusade
• The white Southern response
• Abolition and the Northern conscience
• Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery?

18. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

• "Tyler Too" becomes president, 1841
• Fixing the Maine boundary, 1842
• The annexation of Texas, 1845
• Oregon and California
• James K. Polk, the "dark horse" of 1844
• War with Mexico, 1846-1848
• Makers of America: The Californios

19. Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

• The bitter fruits of victory in the Mexican War
• "Popular sovereignty"
• Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and California statehood
• The Compromise of 1850
• The inflammatory Fugitive Slave Law
• President Pierce and expansion, 1853-1857
• Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

20. Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

• Uncle Tom's Cabin and the spread of abolitionist sentiment in the North
• The contest for Kansas
• The election of James Buchanan, 1856
• The Dred Scott case, 1857
• The financial panic of 1857
• The Lincoln-Douglas debates
• John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, 1859
• Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860
• Secession
• Varying Viewpoints: The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?

21. Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865

• The attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861
• The crucial border states
• The balance of forces
• The threat of European intervention
• The importance of diplomacy
• Lincoln and civil liberties
• Men in uniform
• Financing the Blue and the Gray
• The economic impact of the war
• Women and the war
• The fate of the South

22. The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865

• Bull Run ends the "ninety-day war"
• The Peninsula Campaign
• The Union wages total war
• The battle of Antietam
• The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
• Black soldiers
• Confederate high tide at Gettysburg
• The war in the West
• Sherman marches through Georgia
• Politics in wartime Appomatox, 1865
• The assassination of Lincoln, April 1865
• The legacy of war
• Varying Viewpoints: What Were the Consequences of the Civil War?

23. The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

• The defeated South
• The freed slaves
• President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies
• Moderate and radical Republicans
• Congressional Reconstruction policies
• Johnson clashes with Congress
• Military Reconstruction, 1867-1877
• Freed people enter politics
• "Black Reconstruction" and the Ku Klux Klan
• The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• The legacy of Reconstruction
• Varying Viewpoints: How Radical Was Reconstruction?

III. Forging an Industrial Society

24. Politics in the Gilded Age, 1869-1889

• Ulysses S. Grant, soldier-president
• Corruption and reform in the post-Civil War era
• The depression of the 1870's
• Political parties and partisans
• The Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction
• Class conflict and ethnic clashes
• Civil-service reform
• Grover Cleveland and the tariff
• Makers of America: The Chinese

25. Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

• The railroad boom
• Speculators and financiers
• Early efforts at government regulation
• Lords of industry
• Industry in the South
• The laboring class
• The rise of trade unions
• Makers of America: The Knights of Labor
• Varying Viewpoints: Industrialization: Boom or Blight?

26. America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

• The rise of the city
• Skyscrapers, tenements, and suburbs
• The "New Immigrants"
• Settlement houses and social workers
• New jobs for women
• Nativists and immigration restriction
• Churches in the city
• Black leaders: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
• Literary achievements
• The urban family
• The "New Woman" and the new morality
• Art, music, and entertainment in urban America
• Makers of America: The Italians

27. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1890

• The conquest of the Indians
• The mining and cattle frontiers
• Free lands and fraud
• The industrialization of agriculture
• Frontier, West, and nation
• The Populist protest
• Makers of America: The Plains Indians
• Varying Viewpoints: Was the West Really "Won"?

28. The Revolt of the Debtor, 1889-1900

• President Harrison and the "Billion-Dollar Congress"
• Challenge from the People's Party
• Cleveland regains the White House, 1892
• The panic of 1893
• The Pullman strike, 1894
• The Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894
• Bryan versus McKinley, 1896
• Varying Viewpoints: The Populists: Radicals or Reactionaries?

29. The Path of Empire, 1890-1899

• The sources of American expansionism
• Cleveland and the Venezuelan boundary dispute, 1895-1896
• The explosion of the Maine, February 15, 1898
• The Spanish-American War, 1898
• The liberation of Cuba
• Acquiring Hawaii (1898), Puerto Rico (1898), and the Philippines (1899)
• Makers of America: The Puerto Ricans

V. Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad

30. America on the World Stage, 1899-1909

• Crushing the Filipino insurrection
• The Open Door notes, 1899 and 1900
• TR becomes president, 1901
• The Panama Canal
• The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
• Roosevelt and the Far East
• Makers of America: The Filipinos
• Varying Viewpoints: Why Did America Become a World Power?

31. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

• The muckrakers
• The politics of progressivism
• Women battle for the vote and against the saloon
• Roosevelt, labor, and the trusts
• Consumer protection
• Conservation
• Roosevelt's legacy
• The troubled presidency of William Howard Taft
• Taft's "dollar diplomacy"
• Roosevelt breaks with Taft

32. Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916

• The election of 1912: The New Freedom versus the New Nationalism
• Wilson, the tariff, the banks, and the trusts
• Wilson's diplomacy in Mexico
• War in Europe and American neutrality
• The re-election of Wilson, 1916
• Varying Viewpoints: Who Were the Progressives?

33. The War to End War, 1917-1918

• German submarines push America into war, 1917
• Wilsonian idealism and the Fourteen Points
• Propaganda and civil liberties
• Workers, blacks, and women on the home front
• Drafting soldiers
• The American Expeditionary Force fights in France
• Wilsonian peacemaking at Paris
• The Senate rejects the Versailles Treaty
• Varying Viewpoints: Woodrow Wilson: Realist or Idealist?

34. American Life in the Roaring Twenties, 1919-1929

• The red scare, 1919-1920
• Immigration restriction, 1921-1924
• Prohibition and gangsterism
• The emergence of a mass-consumption economy
• The automobile age
• Radio and the movies
• Music and literature in the "delirious decade"
• The economic boom
• Makers of America: The Poles

35. The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932

• The Republicans return to power, 1921
• Disarmament and isolation
• The Harding scandals
• Calvin Coolidge's foreign policies
• The international debt snarl
• Herbert Hoover, cautious progressive
• The great crash, 1929
• Hoover and the Great Depression
• Aggression in Asia
• Good Neighbors in Latin America

36. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1938

• The Hundred Days Congress, 1933
• The National Recovery Administration, 1933-1935
• The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1933-1936
• The Social Security Act, 1935
• The election of 1936 and the "Roosevelt coalition"
• The Supreme Court fight, 1937
• Makers of America: The Dust Bowl Migrants
• Varying Viewpoints: How Radical Was the New Deal?

37. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941

• Roosevelt's early foreign policies
• German and Japanese aggression
• The Neutrality Acts, 1935-1939
• The destroyer-bases deal with Britain, 1940
• The Lend-Lease Act, 1941
• The Atlantic Charter, 1941
• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
• Makers of America: Refugees from the Holocaust

38. America in World War II, 1941-1945

• The internment of Japanese-Americans
• The war ends the New Deal
• Mobilizing the economy
• Women in wartime
• The war's effect on African-Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican-Americans
• The economic and social impact of war
• Turning the Japanese tide in the Pacific
• Campaigns in North Africa (1942) and Italy (1943)
• D-Day in Normandy (France), June 6, 1944
• Germany surrenders, May 1945
• The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945
• Makers of America: The Japanese
• Makers of America: The Great African-American Migration
• Varying Viewpoints: World War II: Triumph or Tragedy?

VI. Creating Modern America

39. The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952

• Postwar prosperity
• The rise of the "Sunbelt"
• The rush to the suburbs
• The postwar baby boom
• Harry S. Truman as president
• The Yalta Conference, February 1945
• Origins of the Cold War
• The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations
• The containment doctrine
• The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO
• Anti-communism at home
• The outbreak of the Korean War, 1950
• Makers of America: The Suburbanites
• Varying Viewpoints: Who Was to Blame for the Cold War?

40. The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1960

• The election of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952
• The menace of McCarthyism
• Desegregating the South
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the seeds of the civil rights revolution
• The emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Eisenhower Republicanism
• The Suez Canal crisis, 1956
• The space race and other contests with the Soviet Union
• John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon for the presidency, 1960
• Changing economic roles for men and women
• The flowering of consumer culture in the 1950s
• Postwar literature

41. The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968

• The Kennedy spirit
• The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) and the missile crisis (1962) in Cuba
• The struggle for civil rights
• Kennedy assassinated, November 22, 1963
• Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Great Society
• The civil rights revolution explodes
• The Vietnam disaster
• The election of Richard Nixon, 1968
• The cultural upheaval of the 1960s
• Varying Viewpoints: The Sixties: Constructive or Destructive?

42. The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980

• The end of the postwar economic boom
• Nixon and the Vietnam War
• New policies toward the Soviet Union and China
• Nixon and the Supreme Court
• Nixon's Domestic Program
• Nixon trounces McGovern, 1972
• The Watergate scandal
• Israelis, Arabs, and oil
• Nixon resigns, August 9, 1974
• The Ford interlude
• The election of Jimmy Carter, 1976
• Carter's diplomatic successes in Panama and the Middle East
• The energy crisis and inflation
• The Iranian hostage humiliation
• Makers of America: The Vietnamese

43. The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1996

• The "new right" and Reagan's election, 1980
• Budget battles and tax cuts
• Reagan and the Soviets
• Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and the thawing of the Cold War
• The Iran-contra scandal
• Reagan's economic legacy
• Reagan and the "social issues"
• The election of George Bush, 1988
• The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe
• The dissolution of the Soviet Union, 1991
• The Persian Gulf War, 1991
• Bush's battles at home
• The election of Bill Clinton, 1992
• The Republicans win control of Congress, 1994
• The re-election of Clinton, 1996
• Varying Viewpoints: Where Did Modern Conservatism Come From?

44. The American People Face a New Century

• The past and the future
• The emergence of a "post-industrial" economy
• The feminist revolution
• The transformation of the family
• The newest immigrants
• Cities and suburbs
• Minorities in modern America
• American culture at century's end
• The American prospect
• Makers of America: The Latinos

Appendix

• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution of the United States of America
• An American Profile: The United States and Its People
• Population, Percentage Change, and Racial Composition for the United States, 1790-1990
• Population Density and Distribution, 1790-1990
• Changing Characteristics of the U.S. Population
• Changing Life-styles in the Twentieth Century
• Characteristics of the U.S. Labor Force
• Leading Economic Sectors
• Per Capita Disposable Personal Income in Constant (1987) Dollars, 1940-1994
• Comparative Tax Burdens
• Value of Imports by Place of Origin
• Value of U.S. Exports by Destination
• The U.S. Balance of Trade, 1900-1994
• Tariff Levies on Dutiable Imports, 1821-1994
• Gross Domestic Product in Current and Constant (1995) Dollars
• Presidential Elections
• Presidents and Vice Presidents
• Admission of States
• Estimates of Total Costs and Number of Battle Deaths of Major U.S. Wars

Index