NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE EUROPEAN CONQUEST

• The First Inhabitants: Asian Migrations
• The Agricultural Revolution
• Great Civilizations of Mexico and South America
• North American People and Societies
• Pre-Columbian Mound Builders
• Native American Diversity at the Time of Columbus
• Native American Women
• Common Native American Beliefs
• Europe on the Eve of Exploration
• The Impact of Trade
• The Rise of Nation States
• The Renaissance: New Thought and New Technology
• European Exploration and Expansion
  • The Viking Explorations
  • Portuguese Explorations
  • Spain's Empire in the Americas
  • “Thursday October 11”
  • Bartoleme de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies (1542)
  • The Impact of the Protestant Reformation
  • English Exploration
  • The French and Dutch Footholds in North America
• The Columbian Exchange
• New Cultures
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

THE SOUTHERN COLONIES

• The Early Chesapeake Colonies: Virginia and Maryland
• Success at Last: The Tobacco Boom
  • Tobacco and the Changing Nature of Virginia Society and Labor
• Toward the Destruction of the Native Americans
• Proprietary Maryland
• The Caribbean Colonies
  • Masters and Slaves
• Toward African Slavery White Indentured Servitude in the Chesapeake
  • Bacon’s Rebellion
  • The Rise of Slavery in the Chesapeake Colonies
• The Atlantic Slave Trade
  • West Africans
  • The Middle Passage
  • Arrival in the New World
  • The Impact of the Slave Trade on Africa
  • Christian Slaves in the Muslim World
• Establishing a Slave Society in North America
  • The Slave Codes
• Carolina: A Barbadian Colony on the Mainland
  • Rice and Indigo Production
  • North Carolina
• The Founding of Georgia
• Reform Efforts
• The Latin South
• The Growth of English Colonies
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

THE NORTHERN COLONIES

• The Founding of New England
  • The Puritans
  • Charles I’s Absolutism
  • The Plymouth Colony
  • The Great Migration and the Establishing of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • Land and Labor in New England
  • Puritan Family Life
  • New England Prosperity: Fish and Ships
  • Dissension in the Puritan Ranks
  • Roger Williams and Toleration
  • Anne Hutchinson and the Equality of Believers
• England in Turmoil: The English Civil War
• The Dutch Empire in North America
  • New Netherland
  • From New Netherland to New York
• Quakerism and the Founding of Pennsylvania
  • The Quaker Faith
  • William Penn’s “Holy Experiment”
  • Penn’s Troubles
• The Northern Colonists and Native Americans
  • Native Americans and Property
  • Tribute
  • The Pequot War
  • Praying Towns
  • King Philip’s War
  • Native American Survival Strategies
• Mercantilism, the Navigation Acts, and the Redefinition of Empire
  • The Dominion of New England
  • The Glorious Revolution
• Witchcraft Hysteria in New England
  • • The Salem Witch Trials in Global Perspectives
• Laying Foundations for the American Nation
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

CREATING AN AMERICAN PEOPLE, 1700-1763

• Colonial Economic Development
• Immigration
• Slavery in the Eighteenth Century
• The Stono Rebellion
• Spiritual and Intellectual Thought in Colonial North America
• The Great Awakening
• Eithteenth-Century European Conflicts and the North American Colonies
• George Whitefield: Popular Evangelist and Colonial American Consumers
• New France and Spanish North America
• European Wars Impact North America
• Young George Washington Starts a World War
• The French and Indian War, 1754-1763
• Echoes of the French and Indian War
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• The Coming of the American Revolution
• The Sugar and Currency Acts
• The Stamp Act
• Patrick Henry Rails Against the Stamp Act
• Stamp Act Protests in Boston
• Stamp Act Resistance Spreads
• The Townshend Acts
• The Boston Massacre
• The Boston Tea Party
• The Intolerable Acts
• The Disintergration of Authority
• The Revolution Begins
• Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill
• The Second Continental Congress
• The Colonists Take the Offensive: The Invasion of Canada and the Siege of Boston
• George III Throws Down the Gauntlet
• Common Sense
• Debating “Independency”
• Peter Buckminster: A Muslim Patiot in the American Revolution?
• Creating Americans
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

THE UNITED STATES AND THE AGE OF REVOLUTION

• The Balance Sheet: British and American Strengths and Weaknesses
• Disaster, Retreat, and Recovery
• New York City Falls to the British
• Thomas Paine
• A Surprise Comeback: The Attack on Trenton
• Washington’s Victory at Princeton
• Seeking Allies
• 1777: Year of Disappointment and Hope
• The Saratoga Campaign
• Philadelphia Falls to the British
• Winter at Valley Forge
• France Enters the War
• The Battle of the Cupboards: Colonial Women on the Homefront
• Mercy Otis Warren, A Founding Mother
• Years of Stalemate, 1778-180
• The British Evacuation of Philadelphia
• The War in the West
• The War Moves South, 1780-1781
  • Settling Scores in the Carolinas
  • The Battles of Cowpens and Guilford Court House
  • Cornwallis Blunders–The Siege of Yorktown
  • The Founding Fathers and Deism
• The War Concludes
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

THE CRITICAL PERIOD, 1781-1789

• The Radicalism of the American Revolution
• The Revolution’s Impact on Class and Family
• Changing Attitudes toward Women
• Separation of Church and State
• The Revolution and Slavery
• A Nation of Drinkers
• Chaos Under the Articles of Confederation
  • The Newburgh Conspiracy
  • Western Troubles
  • Shays’s Rebellion
  • The Movement to Replace the Articles
• The Struggle to Create the Constitution
• The Constitutional Convention of 1787
• “An Assembly of Demigods”
• The Virginia and New Jersey Plans and the Connecticut Compromise
• The Constitution and Slavery
• The Campaign for Ratification
• Hanging for Pleasure and Education
• A Retreat From Democracy
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

THE FEDERALIST ERA: 1789-1800

• Establishing the National Government
  • The “Republican Court” of George Washington
  • The First Congress
• Hamilton’s Vision
• Hamilton’s Plans for the Public Debt
• The Federal Excise Tax and the Bank of the United States
• The Report on Manufactures
• The Rise of Opposition
  • The Birth of the First Party System
    • Conflicting Visions of Republican Society
  • A Clash of Titans: Jefferson versus Hamilton
• Western Troubles
• The Destruction of the Woodland Indians
• The Whiskey Rebellion
• The Republic in a World at War
  • Americans and the French Revolution
  • Washington Declares American Neutrality
  • Maintaining Neutrality
  • Jay’s Treaty
• Washington’s Farewell
  • The 1796 Election
• The Adams Presidency
  • Troubles with France
  • Crisis at Home, 1798-1800
  • The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
  • President Adams Averts War
• “The Revolution of 1800”
  • The Election of Thomas Jefferson
  • A Peaceful Transfer of Power
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

JEFFERSONIAN AMERICA, 1801-1815

• Jefferson in Power
  • The New President
  • Jeffersonian Reforms
  • Jeffersonian Agrarianism
    • Evangelical Religion and Jeffersonian America
  • Jeffersonians and the Courts
• Foreign Affairs Under Jefferson
• The Barbary Pirates
• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Lewis and Clark Expedition
• American Reaction to the Napoleonic Wars
• The Embargo Act
• The Road to War With England
  • Madison Seeks Peace
  • Native Americans and the Impending War with Great Britain
  • Tecumseh’s Vision
  • The Rise of the War Hawks
• The War of 1812
  • The Failed Invasion of Canada
  • Tecumseh’s Last Stand
  • The Battles for Baltimore and New Orleans
  • The End of the Federalist Party: The Hartford Convention
• The Second War of American Independence
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

THE “ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS”

• Henry Clay’s American System
• The Transportation Revolution
  • Steamboats
  • The Canal Boom
• Judicial Nationalism and the Market Revolution
• Changes in the New England Agriculture
• Migration into the Old Northwest
• The Beginning of Northern Industrialization
  • Samuel Slater
  • The Waltham System
  • The Northern Urban Commercial Classes
  • Urban Industrialization
• The Market Revolution in the South
  • Cotton and Slavery Expansion
  • Characteristics of the Market Revolution in the South
• The “Era of Good Feelings" Begins”
• President Monroe
• Foreign Affairs Under Monroe
  • Rapprochement with England
  • Relations with Spain
  • The Monroe Doctrine
• The Missouri Compromise
• Lucretia Mott: Feminist and Abolitionist Crusader
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

ANDREW JACKSON AND THE “WHITE MAN’S REPUBLIC”

• Jackson’s Violent, Tumultuous Early Years
  • Dueling, Politics, and Slaveowning
  • Jackson and the “Code of Honor”
  • “Old Hickory”
• The 1824 Presidential Election
• The Bank Issue
• A Divided Republican Field
• The “Corrupt Bargain”
• The John Quincy Adams Presidency and the Long Campaign
• Jackson’s 1828 Triumph
  • “The Little Magician”: Martin Van Buren
  • the End of the “Era of Good Feelings”
  • Newspapers and the Election of 1828
  • Benjamin Day and the Great Moon Hoax
  • Jackson Emerges Victorium
• Jackson’s First Term
  • The Spoils System
  • The “Petticoat Affair”
  • The Tariff of Abominations
  • Slave Rebels
  • The Nullification Crisis
  • Conspiracy Theories
  • The Bank War and the 1823 Campaign
• Jackson’s Second Term
  • The Second American Party System
  • Destroying the National Bank
  • The Heir
• Hard Times Under Martin Van Buren
• Concepts of Race in Jacksonian America
• Indian Removal
  • Chief Justice Marshall and the Cherokees
  • The Second Seminole War
  • The Trail of Tears
• The Age of Jackson: An Assessment
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

THE UNITED STATES IN TRANSFORMATION, 1830-1850

• New People, New Places: Population Growth, Urbanization, and Immigration
  • Urban Life
  • Immigration
• Innovations in Transportation, Communication, and Agriculture
• The Railroad
• Speedier Communication: Clipper Ships and the Telegraph
• Advances in Agricultural Technology
• The Antebellum North, 1830-1850
• The Transformation of Northern Society
• Free Blacks in the Antebellum North
• The Middle Class and the Culture of Self-Restraint
• The Changing Life of Northern Women
• Popular Culture in the North
• The Antebellum South, 1830-1850
  • The Organization of Slave Labor
  • Living Conditions and Survival Strategies under Slavery
  • Southern Planters and Paternalism
  • Southen Yeomen Farmers
  • White Southern Women
• Slave Labor vs. Free Labor
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

THE SPIRIT OF REFORM 1820-1860

• The Transcendentalists
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau
• Walt Whitman
• Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Influence of the Transcendentalists
• The Second Great Awakening
• Saving Souls and Redeeming America
• The Temperance Movement
• The American Temperance Society
• American Crime and Punishment
• Prison Reform
• The Penitentiary
• The Almshouse
• The American Asylum
• Dorothea Dix
• Hospitals for the Mentally Ill
• Public Education
• Horace Mann and Emma Willard
The Health Faddist: Sylvester Graham
• The Struggle Against Slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
• David Walker
• Frederick Douglass
• The Underground Railroad
• Women and the Antislavery Crusade
• Lydia Maria Child
• Angelina and Sarah Grimke
• Political Abolitionists
• Suffragists
• Societal Alternatives
• Utopias
• Millerites
• Mormons
• A Turbulent Age
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

AMERICA EXPANDS, 1840-1850

• Western Expansion
• Oregon
• California and New Mexico
• Texas
• The Mormon Exodus
• Manifest Destiny and the Politics of Expansion
Horace Greeley and the American Bison
• The Tyler Presidency
• The Election of 1844
• The Annexations of Oregon and Texas
• The Mexican American War
• Opposition to the War
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Consequences of the Mexican American War
• More Land, More Problems
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

EXPANSION, SLAVERY, AND SECESSION: THE ROAD TO WAR

• The Political Divide Over Slavery Expansion
• Slavery Expansion: Four Alternatives
• The Growing Political Crisis over Slavery
• The Election of 1848
• The Compromise of 1850
• The End of Sectional Harmony
• Decline of the Whigs
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• The Ostend Manifesto
• The Kansas Nebraska Act
• The Know Nothings
• The Rise of the Republican Party
• “Bleeding Kansas”
• The Dred Scott Case
• The Lecompton Constitution
• The Rise of Lincoln
• The Harpers Ferry Raid
• The Election of 1860
• John Brown: Traitor or Martyr?
• The End of Compromise
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865

• Advantages for the Union and Confederacy
• Northern Economic Advantages
• Manpower Disparities
• Southern Geographic Advantages
• Executive Leadership, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
• Diplomacy during the Civil War
• The War Begins in Earnest
• The First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
• McClellan Takes Command
• The War in the West
• The War at Sea
• McClellan's Failed Peninsular Campaign
• Stalemate
• Wartime Transformations
• The Civil War and State Power
• Emancipation
• Everyday Life during Wartime
• Women on the Home Front
• Women on the Battlefield
• Nurses and the Union War Effort
• The Turning Points of 1863
  • Gettysburg
  • The Vicksburg Campaign
  • Chickamauga and Chattanooga
• Toward Union Victory
  • Grant versus Lee
  • Sherman’s March to the Sea
  • The Election of 1864
• The War Ends
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

RECONSTRUCTION: THE TURNING POINT THAT NEVER TURNED

• The Confederacy’s Defeat
• Reconstruction’s Overarching Issues
• Wartime Reconstruction
• Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction Policies
• Radical Republicans and Reconstruction
• Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
  • Johnson’s Reconstruction Policy
  • The Black Suffrage Issue in the North
  • Southern Defiance
  • The Black Codes
• Land and Labor in the Postwar South
  • The Freedmen’s Bureau
  • The Issue of Land for the Landless
• The Advent of Radical Reconstruction
  • The Fourteenth Amendment
  • The 1866 Congressional Elections
  • The Reconstruction Acts of 1867
  • The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
  • The Southern Response to the Reconstruction Acts
  • The White Backlash During Presidential Reconstruction: The 1866 Race Riots in Memphis and New Orleans
  • Republican State Governments
• The First Grant Administration
  • The Election of 1868
  • The Fifteenth Amendment
  • Grant in the White House
  • Civil Service Reform
  • Foreign Policy Issues
• The White Backlash Continues
  • The 1872 Presidential Election
  • The Panic of 1873
• Retreat From Reconstruction
  • The 1876 Presidential Election
• Chronology
• Suggested Readings
• Review Questions
• Glossary of Important People and Concepts

• A. Declaration of Independence
• B. Constitution of the United States
• C. Presidential Elections
• D. Supreme Court Justices
• E. Admission of States to the Union
• F. Population Growth