The American Journey: A History of the United States, Volume 1

The American Journey, a cornerstone series for the U.S. History market, successfully blends the coverage of political and social histories of our great nation throughout the series. With this focus, the authors show that our attempt to live up to our American ideals is an ongoing journey. This journey, while still a work in progress, is increasingly more inclusive of different groups and ideas.   The path that led the authors to The American Journey began in the classroom with their students.  The goal of this text is to make American history accessible to students.  The key to that goal--the core of the book--is a strong, clear narrative and a positive theme of The American "Journey."  American history is a compelling story that the authors tell in an engaging, forthright way, while providing students with tools to help them absorb that story and put it into context.  This text combines political and social history, to fit the experience of particular groups into the broader perspective of the American past, to give voice to minor and major players alike, because the history of America is in the stories of its people.

Table of Contents:
1. Worlds Apart. Native American Societies before 1492 Paleo-Indians and the Archaic Period The Development of Agriculture Nonfarming Societies Mesoamerican Civilizations North America’s Diverse Cultures The Caribbean Islanders West African Societies Geographical and Political Differences Family Structure and Religion European Merchants in West Africa and the Slave Trade Western Europe on the Eve of Exploration The Consolidation of Political and Military  Authority Religious Conflict and the Protestant Reformation Contact The Lure of Discovery Christopher Columbus and the Westward Route to Asia The Spanish Conquest and Colonization      The Columbian Exchange Cultural Perceptions and Misperceptions Competition for a Continent Early French Efforts in North America English Attempts in the New World 2. Transplantation, 1600-1685. The French in North America The Quest for Furs and Converts The Development of New France The Dutch Overseas Empire The Dutch East India Company The West India Company and New Netherland English Settlement in the Chesapeake The Ordeal of Early Virginia The Importance of Tobacco Maryland: A Refuge for Catholics Life in the Chesapeake Colonies The Founding of New England The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony Massachusetts Bay Colony and Its Offshoots Families, Farms, and Communities in Early New England Competition in the Caribbean Sugar and Slaves A Biracial Society The Restoration Colonies Early Carolina: Colonial Aristocracy and Slave Labor Pennsylvania: The Dream of Toleration and Peace New Netherland Becomes New York 3. The Creation of New Worlds. Indians and Europeans Indian Workers in the Spanish Borderlands The Web of Trade Displacing Native Americans in the English Colonies Bringing Christianity to Native Peoples After the First Hundred Years: Conflict and War Africans and Europeans Labor Needs and the Turn to Slavery The Shock of Enslavement African Slaves in the New World African American Families and Communities Resistance and Rebellion European Laborers in Early America A Spectrum of Control New European Immigrants 4. Convergence and Conflict, 1660s-1763. Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies The Regulation of Trade The Colonial Export Trade and the Spirit of Enterprise The Import Trade and Ties of Credit Becoming More Like Britain: The Growth of Cities and Inequality The Transformation of Culture Goods and Houses Shaping Minds and Manners Colonial Religion and the Great Awakening The Colonial Political World The Dominion of New England and the Limits of British Control The Legacy of the Glorious Revolution Diverging Politics in the Colonies and Great Britain Expanding Empires British Colonists in the Backcountry The Spanish in Texas and California The French along the Mississippi and in Louisiana A Century of Warfare Imperial Conflict and the Establishment of an American Balance of Power, 1689—1738 King George’s War Shifts the Balance, 1739—1754 The French and Indian War, 1754—1760: A Decisive Victory The Triumph of the British Empire, 1763 5. Imperial Breakdown, 1763-1774. Imperial Reorganization British Problems Dealing with the New Territories The Status of Native Americans Curbing the Assemblies The Sugar and Stamp Acts American Reactions Constitutional Issues Taxation and the Political Culture Protesting the Taxes The Aftermath of the Stamp Act Crisis A Strained Relationship Regulator Movements The Townshend Crisis Townshend’s Plan American Boycott The Boston Massacre The “Quiet Period” The Boston Tea Party The Intolerable Acts The Road to Revolution Protestantism and the American Response to the Intolerable Acts The First Continental Congress The Continental Association Political Divisions 6. The War for Independence, 1774-1783. The Outbreak of War and the Declaration of Independence, 1774—1776 Mounting Tensions The Loyalists’ Dilemma British Coercion and Conciliation The Battles of Lexington and Concord The Second Continental Congress, 1775—1776 Commander in Chief George Washington Early Fighting: Massachusetts, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Canada Independence Religion, Virtue, and Republicanism The Combatants Professional Soldiers Women in the Contending Armies African-American Participation in the War Native Americans and the War The War in the North, 1776—1777 Britain Hesitates: Crucial Battles in New York and New Jersey The Year of the Hangman: Victory at Saratoga and Winter at Valley Forge The War Widens, 1778—1781 The United States Gains an Ally Fighting on the Frontier and at Sea The Land War Moves South American Counterattacks The American Victory, 1782—1783 The Peace of Paris The Components of Success The War and Society, 1775—1783 The Women’s War Effect of the War on African Americans The War’s Impact on Native Americans Economic Disruption The Price of Victory 7. The First Republic, 1776-1789. The New Order of Republicanism   Defining the People   The State Constitutions   The Articles of Confederation   Problems at Home  The Fiscal Crisis   Economic Depression   The Economic Policies of the States   Congress and the West   Diplomatic Weaknesses   Impasse with Britain   Spain and the Mississippi River   Toward a New Union   The Road to Philadelphia   The Convention at Work   Overview of the Constitution   The Struggle over Ratification 8. A New Republic and the Rise of the Parties, 1789-1800. Washington’s America The Uniformity of New England The Pluralism of the Mid-Atlantic Region The Slave South and Its Backcountry The Growing West Forging a New Government Mr. President” and the Bill of Rights Departments and Courts Revenue and Trade Hamilton and the Public Credit Reaction and Opposition The Emergence of Parties The French Revolution Securing the Frontier The Whiskey Rebellion Treaties with Britain and Spain The First Partisan Election The Last Federalist Administration The French Crisis and the XYZ Affair Crisis at Home The End of the Federalists 9. The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800-1824. Jefferson’s Presidency Reform at Home The Louisiana Purchase Florida and Western Schemes Embargo and a Crippled Presidency Madison and the Coming of War The Failure of Economic Sanctions The Frontier and Indian Resistance Decision for War The War of 1812 Setbacks in Canada Western Victories and British Offensives The Treaty of Ghent and the Battle of New Orleans The Era of Good Feelings Economic Nationalism Judicial Nationalism Toward a Continental Empire The Breakdown of Unity The Panic of 1819 The Missouri Compromise The Election of 1824 10. The Jacksonian Era, 1824-1845. The Egalitarian Impulse   The Extension of White Male Democracy   The Popular Religious Revolt The Rise of the Jacksonians   Jackson’s Presidency   Jackson’s Appeal   Indian Removal   The Nullification Crisis   The Bank War   Van Buren and Hard Times   The Panic of 1837   The Independent Treasury   Uproar over Slavery   The Rise of the Whig Party   The Party Taking Shape   Whig Persuasion  The Election of 1840  The Whigs in Power   Harrison and Tyler   The Texas Issue   The Election of 1844   11. Slavery and the Old South, 1800-1860. The Lower South   Cotton and Slaves   The Profits of Slavery   The Upper South  A Period of Economic Adjustment   The Decline of Slavery  Slave Life and Culture   Work Routines and Living Conditions   Families and Religion   Resistance   Free Society   The Slaveholding Minority   The White Majority   Free Black People   The Proslavery Argument  Religious Arguments  Racial Arguments   12. The Market Revolution and Social Reform, 1815-1850. Industrial Change and Urbanization  The Transportation Revolution   Cities and Immigrants  The Industrial Revolution  Growing Inequality and New Classes   Reform and Moral Order   The Benevolent Empire   The Temperance Movement   Women’s Role in Reform   Backlash against Benevolence   Institutions and Social Improvement   School Reform   Prisons, Workhouses, and Asylums   Utopian Alternatives   A Distinctly National Literature   Abolitionism and Women’s Rights   Rejecting Colonization   Abolitionism   The Women’s Rights Movement   Political Antislavery   13. The Way West. The Agricultural Frontier   The Crowded East  The Old Northwest   The Old Southwest   The Frontier of the Plains Indians  Tribal Lands  The Fur Traders   The Oregon Trail   The Mexican Borderlands   The Peoples of the Southwest  The Americanization of Texas The Push into California and the Southwest  Politics, Expansion, and War   Manifest Destiny   The Mexican War   14. The Politics of Sectionalism, 1846-1861. Slavery in the Territories The Wilmot Proviso The Election of 1848 The Gold Rush The Compromise of 1850 Response to the Fugitive Slave Act Uncle Tom’s Cabin The Election of 1852 Political Realignment Young America’s Foreign Misadventures Stephen Douglas’s Railroad Proposal The Kansas-Nebraska Act “Bleeding Kansas” Know-Nothings and Republicans: Religion and Politics The Election of 1856 The Dred Scott Case The Lecompton Constitution The Religious Revival of 1857–58 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates The Road to Disunion North-South Differences  John Brown’s Raid The Election of 1860 Secession Begins Presidential Inaction Peace Proposals Lincoln’s Views on Secession Fort Sumter: The Tug Comes 15. Battle Cries and Freedom Songs: The Civil War, 1861-1865. Mobilization, North and South War Fever The North’s Advantage in Resources Leaders, Governments, and Strategies The Early War, 1861—1862 First Bull Run The War in the West Reassessing the War: The Human Toll The War in the East Turning Points, 1862—1863 The Naval War and the Diplomatic War Antietam Emancipation From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and the West The War Transforms the North Wartime Legislation and Politics The Northern Economy Northern Women and the War The Confederacy Disintegrates Southern Politics Southern Faith The Southern Economy Southern Women and the War The Union Prevails, 1864—1865 Grant’s Plan to End the War The Election of 1864 and Sherman’s March The Road to Appomattox and the Death of Lincoln   16. Reconstruction, 1865-1877. White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865 More than Freedom: African-American Aspirations in 1865 Education Forty Acres and a Mule” Migration to Cities Faith and Freedom Federal Reconstruction, 1865–1870 Presidential Reconstruction, 1865–1867 Congressional Reconstruction, 1867–1870 Southern Republican Governments 1867–1870 Counter-Reconstruction, 1870–1874 The Uses of Violence Northern Indifference Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872 Economic Transformation Redemption, 1874–1877 The Democrats’ Violent Resurgence The Weak Federal Response The Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877 The Memory of Reconstruction The Failed Promise of Reconstruction Modest Gains and Future Victories  

About the Author :
David Goldfield received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland. Since 1982 he has been Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. He is the author or editor of thirteen books on various aspects of southern and urban history. Two of his works–Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980 (1982) and Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present (1990)–received the Mayflower Award for nonfiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in history. His most recent book is Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (2002). When he is not writing history, Dr. Goldfield applies his historical craft to history museum exhibits, voting rights cases, and local planning and policy issues.   Carl Abbott is a professor of Urban Studies and planning at Portland State University. He taught previously in the history departments at the University of Denver and Old Dominion University, and held visiting appointments at Mesa College in Colorado and George Washington University. He holds degrees in history from Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago. He specializes in the history of cities and the American West and serves as co-editor of the Pacific Historical Review. His books include The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities (1981, 1987), The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West (1993), Planning a New West: The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (1997), and Political Terrain: Washington, D.C. from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis (1999). He is currently working on a comprehensive history of the role of urbanization and urban culture in the history of western North America.   Virginia DeJohn Anderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her B.A. from the University of Connecticut. As the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, she earned an M.A. degree at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Returning to the United States, she received her A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. She is the author of New England’s Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1991) and several articles on colonial history, which have appeared in such journals as the William and Mary Quarterly and the New England Quarterly. She is currently finishing a book entitled Creatures of Empire: People and Animals in Early America.   Jo Ann E. Argersinger received her Ph.D. from George Washington University and is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University. A recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is a historian of social, labor, and business policy. Her publications include Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression (1988) and Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry (1999).   Peter H. Argersinger received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University. He has won several fellowships as well as the Binkley-Stephenson Award from the Organization of American Historians. Among his books on American political and rural history are Populism and Politics (1974), Structure, Process, and Party (1992), and The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism (1995). His current research focuses on the political crisis of the 1890s.   William L. Barney is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Pennsylvania, he received his B.A. from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has published extensively on nineteenth century U.S. history and has a particular interest in the Old South and the coming of the Civil War. Among his publications are The Road to Secession (1972), The Secessionist Impulse (1974), Flawed Victory (1975), The Passage of the Republic (1987), and Battleground for the Union (1989). He is currently finishing an edited collection of essays on nineteenth-century America and a book on the Civil War. Most recently, he has edited A Companion to 19th-Century America (2001) and finished The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Student Companion (2001).   Robert M. Weir is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of South Carolina. He received his B.A. from Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He has taught at the University of Houston and, as a visiting professor, at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. His articles have won prizes from the Southeastern Society for the Study of the Eighteenth Century and the William and Mary Quarterly. Among his publications are Colonial South Carolina: A History, “The Last of American Freemen”: Studies in the Political Culture of the Colonial and Revolutionary South, and, more recently, a chapter on the Carolinas in the new Oxford History of the British Empire (1998).