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Experience History Vol 1: To 1877

Experience History Vol 1: To 1877

8th Edition
By James West Davidson and Brian DeLay and Christine Leigh Heyrman and Mark Lytle and Michael Stoff
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Copyright: 2014
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Chapter 1. The First Civilizations of North America

An American Story: The Power of a Hidden Past

A Continent of Cultures

A Cultures of Ancient Mexico

Daily Lives: Play Ball

Cultures of the Southwest

Cultures of the Eastern Woodlands

Cultures of the Great Plains

Cultures of the Great Basin

Cultures of the Pacific Northwest

Cultures of the Subarctic and Arctic

Innovations and Limitations

America's Agricultural Gifts

Landscapers

The Shape of a Problem

Animals and Illness

Historian's Toolbox: An Ancient Calendar

Crisis and Transformation

Enduring Cultures

North America on the Eve of Contact

Dueling Documents: How Many People Lived in Hispaniola in 1492?

North America on the Eve of Contact

REVIEW CHART: A CONTINENT OF CULTURES
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Tracking the First Americans

Chapter 2. Old Worlds, New Worlds, 1400-1600

An American Story: Fishing Nets and Far Horizons

Eurasia and Africa in the Fifteenth Century

Europe's Place in the World

Historian's Toolbox: A Witch Bottle

Africa and the Portuguese Wave

Sugar and the Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Spain in the Americas

The Spanish Beachhead in the Caribbean

Daily Lives: "Barbaric Dress"--Indian and European

Conquest of the Aztecs

The Columbian Exchange

The Crown Steps In

Dueling Documents: How Did Spaniards and Aztecs Remember First Contact?

The Search for North America's Indian Empires

Religious Reform Divides Europe

The Teachings of Martin Luther

The Contribution of John Calvin

The Birth of Spanish Florida and French Huguenots

The English Reformation

England's Entry into America

The Ambitions of Gilbert, Raleigh, and Wingina

A Second Roanoke--and Croatoan

REVIEW CHART: EUROPEAN EXPLORATIONS
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 3. Colonization and Conflict in the South, 1600-1750

An American Story: Outlandish Strangers

Spain's North American Colonies

The Founding of a "New" Mexico

The Growth of Spanish Florida

Pope and the Pueblo Revolt

English Society on the Chesapeake

Dueling Documents: What Caused the Pueblo Revolt?

The Virginia Company

Reform and a Boom in Tobacco

The Founding of Maryland and the Renewal of Indian Wars

Changes in English Policy in the Chesapeake

Chesapeake Society in Crisis

Bacon's Rebellion and Coode's Rebellion

From Servitude to Slavery

Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Historian's Toolbox: Hip Mask from Benin

A Changing Chesapeake Society

From the Caribbean to the Carolinas

Paradise Lost

Daily Lives: A Taste for Sugar

The Founding of the Carolinas

Carolina, Florida, and the Southeastern Slave Wars

White, Red, and Black: The Search for Order

The Founding of Georgia

REVIEW CHART: SOUTHERN COLONIES
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 4. Colonization and Conflict in the North, 1600-1700

An American Story: Bears on Floating Islands

France in North America

The Origins of New France

New Netherlands, the Iroquois, and the Beaver Wars

The Lure of the Mississippi

Historian's Toolbox: A French Map

The Founding of New England

The Puritan Movement

The Pilgrim Settlement of Plymouth Colony

The Puritan Settlement at Massachusetts Bay

Stability and Order in Early New England

Communities in Conflict

Goodwives and Witches

Daily Lives: A World of Wonders and Witchcraft

The People in the Way

Dueling Documents: Accusations and Defenses in the Salem Witchcraft Trials

Metacom's War

The Mid-Atlantic Colonies

English Rule in New York

The Founding of New Jersey

Quaker Odysseys

Patterns of Growth

Quakers and Politics

Adjustment to Empire

The Dominion of New England

Royal Authority in America in 1700

REVIEW CHART: NORTHERN COLONIES
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 5. The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America, 1689-1768

An American Story: The Tale of a Tattooed Traveler

Crisis and Transformation in Northern New Spain

Defensive Expansion into Texas

Crisis and Rebirth in New Mexico

Spanish California

Women and the Law in New Spain and British North America

Dueling Documents: The Founders of Spanish California

Eighteenth-Century New France

Colonial Compromise

France on the Gulf Coast

Slavery and Colonial Society in French Louisiana

Forces of Division in British North America

Immigration and Natural Increase

Daily Lives: Transatlantic Trials

Moving into the Backcountry

Social Conflict on the Frontier

Eighteenth-Century Seaports

Social Tension in Seaports

Historian's Toolbox: A Woman's Cupboard

Slave Societies in the Eighteenth-Century South

The Slave Family and Community

Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century British

North America

Enlightenment and Awakening in America

The Enlightenment in America

The First Great Awakening

The Aftermath of the Great Awakening

Anglo-American Worlds of the Eighteenth Century

English Economic and Social Development

The Consumer Revolution

Inequality in England and America

Politics in England and America

The Imperial System Before 1760

REVIEW CHART: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NORTH AMERICA
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 6. Toward the War for American Independence, 1754-1776

An American Story: The General, the Trader, and the Missing Allies

The Seven Years' War

Origins
Years of Defeat
A Shift in Policy
Years of Victory
Postwar Expectations
Historian's Toolbox: John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark

The Imperial Crisis

Pontiac's Rebellion
George Grenville's New Measures
The Beginning of Colonial Resistance
Riots and Resolves
Repeal of the Stamp Act
The Townshend Acts
The Resistance Organizes
The International Sons of Liberty
Daily Lives: Street Theater
The Boston Massacre
Dueling Documents: Who Was to Blame for the Boston Massacre?
Resistance Revived
The Empire Strikes Back

Toward the Revolution

The First Continental Congress
The Last Days of the British Empire in America
The Fighting Begins
Common Sense
REVIEW CHART: PARLIAMENT AND THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 7. The American People: The American Revolution, 1775-1783

An American Story: "Will He Fight?"

The Decision for Independence

The Second Continental Congress
The Declaration
American Loyalists
Dueling Documents: Abigail and John Adams Spar on Women's Rights

The Fighting in the North

The Two Armies at Bay
Daily Lives: Radical Chic and Revolutionary Women
Laying Strategies
Capturing Philadelphia
Disaster at Saratoga

The Turning Point

The American Revolution Becomes a Global War
Winding Down the War in the North
War in the West
The Home Front in the North

The Struggle in the South

The Siege of Charleston
The Partisan Struggle in the South
Greene Takes Command
African Americans in the Age of Revolution
Historian's Toolbox: Runaways

The World Turned Upside Down

Surrender at Yorktown
REVIEW CHART: BRITISH AND AMERICAN FORCES COMPARED
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 8. Crisis and Constitution, 1776-1789

An American Story: "These United States"

Republican Experiments

The State Constitutions
From Congress to Confederation

The Temptations of Peace

The Temptations of the West
Foreign Intrigues
Disputes among the States
The More Democratic West
The Northwest Territory
Slavery and Sectionalism
Wartime Economic Disruption

Republican Society

The New Men of the Revolution
The New Women of the Revolution
Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication
Republican Motherhood and Education
Historian's Toolbox: A Woman's Compass
The Attack on Aristocracy

From Confederation to Constitutions

The Jay-Gardoqui Treaty
Shays's Rebellion
Daily Lives: The Spirits of Independence
Framing a Federal Constitution
The Virginia and New Jersey Plans
The Deadlock Broken
Ratification
Dueling Documents: Republican Remedy?
REVIEW CHART: CRISES OF THE 1780S--AND CONSEQUENCES
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: White and Black Southerners Worshiping Together

Chapter 9. The Early Republic, 1789-1824

An American Story: "I Felt Myself Mad with Passion"

1789: A Social and Political Portrait of the New Republic

Semisubsistence and Commercial Economies
The Constitution and Commerce
Washington Organizes the Government
Hamilton's Financial Program

The Emergence of Political Parties

Americans and the French Revolution
Washington's Neutral Course
The Federalists and the Republicans Organize
The 1796 Election
Federalist and Republican Ideologies
The Presidency of John Adams
Suppression at Home
The Election of 1800
John Marshall and Judicial Review
The Political Culture of the Early Republic
African-American Celebrations
Women's Education and Civic Participation
Dueling Documents: Can This Marriage Be Saved?

The Republicans in Power

The New Capital City
Jefferson's Philosophy
Jefferson's Economic Policies
The Miami Confederacy Resists
Doubling the Size of the Nation
Pressure on Indian Lands and Culture
White Frontier Society
The Beginnings of the Second Great Awakening
The Prophet, Tecumseh, and the Pan-Indian Movement
Daily Lives: The Frontier Camp Meeting

The Second War for American Independence

The Embargo
Madison and the Young Republicans
The Decision for War
The British Invasion
Historian's Toolbox: Remembering Lafayette
Monroe's Presidency
REVIEW CHART: FEDERALISTS AND REPUBLICANS
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson

Chapter 10. The Opening of America, 1815-1850

An American Story: From Boom to Bust with One-Day Clocks

The National Market Economy

The New Nationalism
The Cotton Trade
The Transportation Revolution
The Communications Revolution
The Transformation of Agriculture
John Marshall and the Promotion of Enterprise
Daily Lives: Floating Palaces of the West

A People in Motion

Population Growth
Geographic Mobility
Urbanization

The Rise of Factories

Technological Advances
Textile Factories
Lowell and the Environment
Industrial Work
The Labor Movement
Sam Patch and a Worker's "Art"

Social Structures of the Market Society

Household Production and Consumption
Dueling Documents: The Market and Equality: He Said, She Said
The Emerging Middle Class
Historian's Toolbox: The Clock's Two Faces
The Distribution of Wealth
Social Mobility
A New Sensitivity to Time
The Market at Work: Three Examples

Prosperity and Anxiety

The Panic of 1819
REVIEW CHART: EARLY INDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE NORTH
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 11. The Rise of Democracy, 1824-1840

An American Story: "Wanted: Curling Tongs, Cologne, and Silk Stockings ..."

Equality, Opportunity, and the New Political Culture of Democracy

The Tension between Equality and Opportunity
Daily Lives: The Plain Dark Democracy of Broadcloth
The New Political Culture of Democracy
The Election of 1824
Social Sources of the New Politics
The Acceptance of Parties
The Politics of the Common Man
Jackson's Rise to Power
John Quincy Adam's Presidency
President of the People
The Political Agenda in the Market Economy

Democracy and Race

Accommodate or Resist?
Trail of Tears
Removal and Epidemics in the West
Free Blacks in the North
The African American Community
Racism Strikes a Deeper Root
Dueling Documents: African Colonization: Hoping for the Best and Suspecting the Worst

The Nullification Crisis

The Growing Crisis in South Carolina
Calhoun's Theory of Nullification
The Nullifiers Nullified

The Bank War

The National Bank and the Panic of 1819
Biddle's Bank
The Clash between Jackson and Biddle
Historian's Toolbox: Biddle and Jackson Take the Gloves Off
The Bank Destroyed
Jackson's Impact on the Presidency
"Van Ruin's" Depression
The Whigs' Triumph

The Jacksonian Party System

Democrats, Whigs, and the Market
The Social Bases of the Two Parties
REVIEW CHART: WINNERS AND LOSERS IN JACKSONIAN AMERICA
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 12. The Fires of Perfection, 1820-1850

An American Story: The Beechers and the Kingdom of God

The Transformation of American Evangelism

Charles Grandison Finney and Modern Revivalism
The Appeal of Evangelism
Dueling Documents: Pleas for and Against Foreign Missions
The Significance of the Second Great Awakening

Revivalism and the Social Order

The Temperance Movement
The Ideals of Women and the Family
The Middle Class Family in Transition
Daily Lives: Privacy Begins at Home
Protestants and Catholics
Historian's Toolbox: The Printer's Angel

Visionaries

The Unitarian Contribution
From Unitarianism to Transcendentalism
The American Renaissance
Secular Utopian Communities
Religious Utopian Communities
The Mormon Experience

Radical Reform

The Beginnings of the Abolitionist Movement
The Spread of Abolitionism
Opponents and Divisions
The Women's Rights Movement
The Schism of 1840

Reform Shakes the Party System

The Turn toward Politics
The Maine Law
Abolitionism and the Party System
REVIEW CHART: VARIETIES OF ANTEBELLUM REFORM
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 13. The Old South, 1820-1860

An American Story: Where Is the Real South?

The Social Structure of the Cotton Kingdom

The Boom Country Economy
The Upper South's New Orientation
The Rural South
Distribution of Slavery
Slavery as a Labor System

Class Structure of the White South

The Slaveowners
Tidewater and Frontier
The Master at Home
The Plantation Mistress
Yeoman Farmers
Dueling Documents: Mistresses and House Servants
Poor Whites

The Peculiar Institution

Work and Discipline
Slave Maintenance
Resistance
Daily Lives: A Slave's Daily Bread Resistance

Slave Culture

The Slave Family
Slave Songs and Stories
Steal Away to Jesus
The Slave Community
Free Black Southerners

Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery

The Virginia Debate of 1832
Historian's Toolbox: George Washington, Slaveholder Closing Ranks
The Proslavery Argument
REVIEW CHART: PIVOTAL MOMENTS FOR THE OLD SOUTH
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 14. Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue, 1820-1850

An American Story: Strangers on the Great Plains

Manifest (and Not So Manifest) Destiny

The Roots of the Doctrine
The Mexican Borderlands
The Texas Revolution
The Texas Republic

The Trek West

The Overland Trail
Women on the Overland Trail
Indians and the Trail Experience
Daily Lives: Seeing the Elephant on the Overland Trail

The Political Origins of Expansion

Tyler's Texas Ploy
Van Overboard
To the Pacific
Provoking a War
Indians and Mexicans
Opposition to the War
Dueling Documents: In What Country Did the U.S.-Mexican War Begin?
The Price of Victory
The Rise of the Slavery Issue
Historian's Toolbox: Settan Annual Calendar of the Kiowa

New Societies in the West

Farming in the West
The Gold Rush
Instant City: San Francisco
The Migration from China
The Mormons in Utah
Temple City: Salt Lake City
Shadows on the Moving Frontier

Escape from Crisis

A Two-Faced Campaign
The Compromise of 1850
Away from the Brink
REVIEW CHART: TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AMERICAN WEST, 1819-1850
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 15. The Union Broken, 1850-1861

An American Story: The Sacking of a Town in Kansas

Sectional Changes in American Society

The Growth of a Railroad Economy
Railroads and the Prairie Environment
Railroads and the Urban Environment
Rising Industrialization
Historian's Toolbox: Brandied Cherries and Buttons
Immigration
Southern Complaints

The Political Realignment of the 1850s

The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Daily Lives: Uncle Tom by Footlights
The Collapse of the Second American Party System
The Know-Nothings
The Republicans and Bleeding Kansas
The Caning of Charles Sumner
The Election of 1856

The Worsening Crisis

The Dred Scott Decision
The Panic of 1857
The Lecompton Constitution
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Beleaguered South

The Road to War

A Sectional Election
Secession
The Outbreak of War
The Roots of a Divided Society
Dueling Documents: Slavery and Secession
REVIEW CHART: THE ROAD TO DISUNION
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 16. Total War and the Republic, 1861-1865

An American Story: The Rout at Bull Run

Opening Moves

Political Leadership
The Border States
Blockade and Isolate
Grant in the West
Eastern Stalemate

Emancipation

The Logic of Events
The Emancipation Proclamation
African Americans' Civil War
Black Soldiers

The Confederate Home Front

The New Economy
New Opportunities for Southern Women
Confederate Finance and Government
Historian's Toolbox: Face Value?
Hardship and Suffering

The Union Home Front

Government Finances and the Economy
A Rich Man's War
Women and the Workforce
Civil Liberties and Dissent

Gone to Be a Soldier

Discipline
Camp Life
Daily Lives: Hardtack, Salt Horse, and Coffee
The Changing Face of Battle
Hardening Attitudes

The Union's Triumph

Confederate High Tide
Dueling Documents: Invaders and Defenders
Lincoln Finds His General
War in the Balance
The Twilight of the Confederacy
REVIEW CHART: PIVOT POINTS ALONG THE UNION'S ROAD TO VICTORY
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: What Caused the New York Draft Riot?

Chapter 17. Reconstructing the Union, 1865-1877

An American Story: The Secret Sale at Davis Bend

Presidential Reconstruction

Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan
The Mood of the South
Johnson's Program of Reconstruction
The Failure of Johnson's Program
Johnson's Break with Congress
The Fourteenth Amendment
Dueling Documents: Equality and the Vote in Reconstruction
The Elections of 1866

Congressional Reconstruction

Post-Emancipation Societies in the Americas
The Land Issue
Impeachment

Reconstruction in the South

Black Office Holding
White Republicans in the South
The New State Governments
Economic Issues and Corruption

Black Aspirations

Experiencing Freedom
The Black Family
The Schoolhouse and the Church
New Working Conditions
The Freedmen's Bureau
Daily Lives: The Black Sharecropper's Cabin
Planters and a New Way of Life

The Abandonment of Reconstruction

The Election of Grant
The Grant Administration
Growing Northern Disillusionment
The Triumph of White Supremacy
The Disputed Election of 1876
Historian's Toolbox: Dressed to Kill
The Failure of Reconstruction
REVIEW CHART: MAJOR PLAYERS IN RECONSTRUCTION
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

About the Author

James West Davidson

James West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian who has pursued a full-time writing career, he is the author of numerous books, among them After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with Mark H. Lytle), The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, and Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge). He is co-editor with Michael Stiff of the Oxford New Narratives in American History, in which his most recent book appears: 'They Say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race.

Brian DeLay

Brian DeLay (Ph.D., Harvard) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in colonial and 19th century U.S. and Mexican history. His scholarship has won awards from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Western History Association, the Council on Latin American History, the American Society for Ethnohistory, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is the author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (Yale, 2008), and is currently at work on a book about the international arms trade and the re-creation of the Americas during the long nineteenth century. He can be reached at delay@berkeley.edu and his website is http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/DeLay/.

Christine Leigh Heyrman

Christine Leigh Heyrman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware. She received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and is the author of Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. Her book exploring the evolution of religious culture in the Southern U.S., entitled Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 1998.

Mark Lytle

Mark H. Lytle received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies. he has served two years as Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin, in Ireland. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson), America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon, and, most recently, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. He is co-editor of a joint issue of the journals of Diplomatic History and Environmental History dedicated to the field of environmental diplomacy.

Michael Stoff

Michael B. Stoff is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. The recipient of a Ph.D. from Yale University, he has been honored many times for his teaching, most recently with election to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He is the author of Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil,1941-1947, co-editor (with Jonathan Fanton and R. Hal Williams) of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age, and series co-editor (with James West Davidson) of the Oxford New Narratives in American History. He is currently working on a narrative on the bombing of Nagasaki.