America's History, Value Edition, Volume 1 by Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert Self; James Henretta - Tenth Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store

America's History, Value Edition, Volume 1

Tenth  Edition©2021  Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert Self; James Henretta

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Table of Contents

PART 1 Transformations of North America, 1491–1700

CHAPTER 1 Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600 

Why did contact among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans cause such momentous changes?

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 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 1 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 2 American Experiments, 1521–1700 

Why did the American colonies develop the social, political, and economic institutions they did, and why were some colonial experiments more successful than others?

Spain’s Tribute Colonies 

A New American World 

The Columbian Exchange 

The Protestant Challenge to Spain 

Plantation Colonies 

Brazil’s Sugar Plantations 

England’s Chesapeake Colonies 

The Laboratory of the Caribbean 

Plantation Life 

Neo-European Colonies 

New France 

New Netherland 

The Rise of the Iroquois 

New England 

War and Rebellion in North America　　

Metacom’s War, 1675-1676 

The Pueblo Revolt 

Bacon’s Rebellion 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 2 REVIEW 

PART 2 British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763

CHAPTER 3 The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750 

Why and how did the South Atlantic System reshape the economy, society, and culture of British North America?

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 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 3 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 4 Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763

Why did transatlantic travel and communication reshape Britain’s American colonies so dramatically?

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 

Cultural Transformations　　

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, 1750–1763

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 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 4 REVIEW 

PART 3 Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800

CHAPTER 5 The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776

Why did the imperial crisis lead to war between Britain and the United States?

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 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 5 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 6 Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789

Why did the American independence movement succeed, and what changes did it initiate in American society and government?　

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 

SUMMARY

CHAPTER 6 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 7 Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820

Why did the United States survive the challenges of the first three decades to become a viable, growing, independent republic?

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 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 7 REVIEW 

PART 4 Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848

CHAPTER 8 Economic Transformations, 1800–1848

Why and how did the economic transformations of the first half of the nineteenth century reshape northern and southern society and culture?

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 

Inequality in the South  

The Northern Business Elite 

The Middle Class 

Urban Workers and the Poor 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 8 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 9 A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848

Why did Andrew Jackson’s election mark a turning point in American politics?

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!" 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 9 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 10 Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848

Why did new intellectual, religious, and social movements emerge in the early nineteenth century, and how did they change American society?

Spiritual Awakenings 

The Second Great Awakening and Reform 

Transcendentalism 

Utopian Communities and New Religious Movements 

Urban Cultures and Conflicts 

Sex in the City 

Urban Entertainments 

Popular Fiction and the Penny Press 

African Americans and the Struggle for Freedom  

Free Black Communities, South and North 

The Rise of Abolitionism 

The Women’s Rights Movement 

Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement 

From Antislavery to Women’s Rights 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 10 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 11 Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848

Why did the ideology of Manifest Destiny unite Americans and shape United States politics?

The Expanding South 

Planters, Small Freeholders, and Poor Freemen 

The Settlement of Texas 

The Politics of Democracy 

The World of Enslaved African Americans  

Forging Families and Communities 

Working Lives  

Contesting the Boundaries of Slavery

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 Mexican North

Polk’s Expansionist Program 

American Military Successes 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 11 REVIEW 

PART 5 Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877

CHAPTER 12 Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1861

Why did the new Republican Party arise, and what events led to Democratic division and southern secession?

Consequences of the U.S.-Mexico War, 1844–1850 

"Free Soil" in Politics 

California Gold and Racial Warfare 

1850: Crisis and Compromise 

An Emerging Political Crisis, 1850–1858 

The Abolitionist Movement Grows 

Pierce and Expansion 

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 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 12 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 13 Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865

Why and how did the Union win the Civil War?　

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 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 13 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 14 Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Why did freedpeople, Republican policymakers, and ex-Confederates all end up dissatisfied with Reconstruction or with its aftermath? To what degree did each group succeed in fulfilling its goals?　

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 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 14 REVIEW 

Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865–1905; and the essay “Women’s and Gender History” in The New American History. She is currently working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America’s nineteenth-century empire.

Eric Hinderaker

Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston’s Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.

Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.

James A. Henretta

James A. Henretta is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, “Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,” in The Cambridge History of American Law.