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This is volume 1 in Stories Of the United States .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 528 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Pearson Education (US) .

Edward T. O'Donnell is an Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He taught previously at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Jennifer D. Keene is a Professor of History and chair of the History Department at Chapman University in Orange, California. Dr. Keene has published three books on the American involvement in the First World War: Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America (2001); The United States and the First World War (2000); and World War I: The American Soldier Experience (2011). She has received numerous fellowships for her research, including a Mellon Fellowship, a National Research Council Postdoctoral Award, and Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards to Australia and France. Her articles have appeared in the Annales de Demographie Historique , Peace & Change , Intelligence and National Security , and Military Psychology . Dr. Keene served as an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of War and American Society (2005), which won the Society of Military History's prize for best reference book. She works closely with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute, offering Teaching American History workshops for secondary school teachers throughout the country. Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University in New York. Professor Cornell has also taught at the Ohio State University, the College of William and Mary, Leiden University in the Netherlands, and has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School. He is the author of A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control (Langum Prize in Legal History) and The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize), both of which were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, the William and Mary Quarterly, American Studies, Law and History Review , and dozens of leading law reviews. His work has been cited by the U. S. Supreme Court and several state Supreme Courts. He lectures widely on topics in legal and constitutional history and the use of visual materials to teach American history.

This book has the following chapters:

Found in this section:

1. Brief Table of Contents

2. Full Table of Contents

1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 People in Motion: The Atlantic World to 1590

Chapter 2 Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590-1710

Chapter 3 Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710-1763

Chapter 4 Revolutionary America: Change and Transformation, 1764-1783

Chapter 5 A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government, 1783-1789

Chapter 6 The New Republic: An Age of Political Passion, 1789-1800

Chapter 7 Jeffersonian America: An Expanding Empire of Liberty, 1800-1824

Chapter 8 Democrats and Whigs: Democracy and American Culture, 1820-1840

Chapter 9 Workers, Farmers, and Slaves: The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815-1848

Chapter 10 Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance, 1820-1850:

Chapter 11 "To Overspread the Continent": Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840-1848

Chapter 12 Slavery and Sectionalism: The Political Crisis of 1848-1861

Chapter 13 A Nation Torn Apart: The Civil War, 1861-1865

Chapter 14 Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863-1890

2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS

Maps

Charts, Graphs, and Tables

Envisioning Evidence

Images as History

Competing Visions

Choices and Consequences

About the Authors

Supplements for Instructors and Students

Chapter 1: People in Motion:The Atlantic World to 1590

The First Americans

European Civilization in Turmoil

Competing Visions

European and Huron Views of Nature

Columbus and the Columbian Exchange

West African Worlds

Choices and Consequences

Benin, Portugal, and the International Slave Trade

European Colonization of the Atlantic World

Images as History

Marketing the New World: Theodore De Bry's Engravings of the Americas

Chapter Review

Chapter 2: Models of Settlement:English Colonial Societies, 1590-1710

The Chesapeake Colonies

Choices and Consequences

The Ordeal of Pocahontas

New England

Images as History

Corruption versus Piety

Envisioning Evidence

Patterns of Settlement in New England and the Chesapeake Compared

Competing Visions

Antinomianism or Toleration: The Puritan Dilemma

The Caribbean Colonies

The Restoration Era and the Proprietary Colonies

The Crises of the Late Seventeenth Century

The Whig Ideal and the Emergence of Political Stability

Chapter Review

Chapter 3: Growth, Slavery, and Conflict:Colonial America, 1710-1763

Culture and Society in the Eighteenth Century

Images as History

A Portrait of Colonial Aspirations

Enlightenment and Awakenings

African Americans in the Colonial Era

Envisioning Evidence

The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade

Immigration, Regional Economies, and Inequality

War and the Contest over Empire

Competing Visions

Sir William Johnson and the Iroquois: Indian Visions versus British Arms

Choices and Consequences

Quakers, Pacifism, and the Paxton Uprising

Chapter Review

Chapter 4: Revolutionary America: Change and Transformation, 1764-1783

Tightening the Reins of Empire

Envisioning Evidence

A Comparison of the Annual Per Capita Tax Rates in Britain and the Colonies in 1765

Patriots versus Loyalists

Images as History

Trumbull's The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Choices and Consequences

A Loyalist Wife's Dilemma

America at War

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Competing Visions

Remember the Ladies

Chapter Review

Chapter 5: A Virtuous Republic:Creating a Workable Government, 1783-1789

Republicanism and the Politics of Virtue

Images as History

Women's Roles: Tradition and Change

Life under the Articles of Confederation

The Movement for Constitutional Reform

The Great Debate

Competing Visions

Brutus and the Publius Debate the Nature of Republicanism

Choices and Consequences

To Ratify or Not

Chapter Review

Chapter 6: The New Republic: An Age of Political Passion, 1789-1800

Launching the New Government

Hamilton's Ambitious Program

Partisanship without Parties

Conflicts at Home and Abroad

Competing Visions

Jefferson's and Hamilton's Reactions to the French Revolution

Choices and Consequences

Washington's Decision to Crush the Whiskey Rebellion

Cultural Politics in a Passionate Age

Images as History

LibertyDisplaying the Arts and Sciences

The Stormy Presidency of John Adams

Chapter Review

Chapter 7: Jeffersonian America:An Expanding Empire of Liberty, 1800-1824

Politics in Jeffersonian America

Envisioning Evidence

The World of Slavery at Monticello

An Expanding Empire of Liberty

Choices and Consequences

John Marshall's Predicament

Images as History

Samuel Morse's House of Representatives and the National Republican Vision

Dissension at Home

America Confronts a World at War

Competing Visions

War Hawks and Their Critics

The Republic Reborn: Consequences of the War of 1812

Crisis and the Collapse of the National Republican Consensus

Chapter Review

Chapter 8: Democrats and Whigs:Democracy and American Culture, 1820-1840

Democracy in America

Competing Visions

Should White Men Without Property Have the Vote?

Andrew Jackson and His Age

White Man's Democracy

Choices and Consequences

Acquiesce or Resist? The Cherokee Dilemma

Democrats, Whigs, and the Second Party System

Images as History

King Andrew and the Downfall of Mother Bank

Playing the Democrats' Game: Whigs in the Election of 1840

Chapter Review

Chapter 9: Workers, Farmers, and Slaves:The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815-1848

The Market Revolution

Images as History

Nature, Technology, and the Railroad: George Inness's Lackawanna Valley (1855)

The Spread of Industrialization

Competing Visions

The Lowell Strike of 1834

The Changing Urban Landscape

Envisioning Evidence

The Economics and Geography of Vice in Mid-Nineteenth Century New York

Southern Society

Life and Labor under Slavery

Choices and Consequences

Conscience or Duty? Judge Ruffin's Quandary

Chapter Review

Chapter 10: Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance, 1820-1850

Revivalism and Reform

Abolitionism and the Proslavery Response

Images as History

The Greek Slave

The Cult of True Womanhood, Reform, and Women's Rights

Religious and Secular Utopianism

Competing Visions

Reactions to Shaker Gender Roles

Choices and Consequences

Mary Cragin's Experiment in Free Love at Oneida

Literature and Popular Culture

Nature's Nation

Chapter Review

Chapter 11: "To Overspread the Continent":Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840-1848

Manifest Destiny and Changing Visions of the West

Images as History

George Catlin and Mah-To-Toh-Pa: Representing Indians for an American Audience

American Expansionism into the Southwest

The Mexican War and Its Consequences

Choices and Consequences

Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience

The Wilmot Proviso and the Realignment of American Politics

Competing Visions

Slavery and the Election of 1848

Chapter Review

Chapter 12: Slavery and Sectionalism:The Political Crisis of 1848-1861

The Slavery Question in the Territories

Choices and Consequences

Resisting the Fugitive Slave Act

Political Realignment

Images as History

The "Foreign Menace"

Two Societies

Envisioning Evidence

The Rise of King Cotton

A House Divided

Competing Visions

Secession or Union?

Chapter Review

Chapter 13: A Nation Torn Apart:The Civil War, 1861-1865

Mobilization, Strategy, and Diplomacy

The Early Campaigns, 1861-1863

Images as History

Who Freed the Slaves?

Behind the Lines

Competing Visions

Civil Liberties in a Civil War

Toward Union Victory

Choices and Consequences

Equal Peril, Unequal Pay

Envisioning Evidence

Human Resources in the Armies of the Civil War

Chapter Review

Chapter 14: Now That We Are Free:Reconstruction and the New South, 1863-1890

Preparing for Reconstruction

The Fruits of Freedom

The Struggle to Define Reconstruction

Competing Visions

Demanding Rights, Protecting Privilege

Implementing Reconstruction

Reconstruction Abandoned

Images as History

Political Cartoons Reflect the Shift in Public Opinion

The New South

Choices and Consequences

Sanctioning Separation

Chapter Review

Appendix

Glossary

Credits

Index

Maps