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Detailed Table of Contents

 

 

Chapter 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PART I: ANTEBELLUM AMERICA

The Growing West and North

Growth and Expansion

1

Population and Immigration

2

The Growth of Cities 5
Transportation Advances 6
Agricultural Expansion 8
The Development of Northern Manufacturing 9
          Rough and Tumblers 11
Life in the North: 1840-1860 12
          Social Classes 12
          Free Blacks in Northern Cities 15
          The Lives of Women 18
          Life, Leisure and Popular Culture 24
Documents 30
          From a Broken Sawmill Blade to a Steel Plow 30
          "True Womanhood" 32
          A Voice of Protest Against the Treatment of Female Workers 32
Chapter 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The American South and Its Singular Society

Southern "Backwardness"

35
"King Cotton" and the Southern Economy 36
The Lives of Southern Whites 38
The Lives of Southern Blacks 41
The Old Plantation and the Modern World 46
          Southern Women: White and Black 47
The Case of the White Slave 49
             South vs. North 50
Documents 53
White Views on Slavery 53
              Plantation Song: "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night!" 1853 53
            "Slavery as a Positive Good," Speech by John C. Calhoun in the U.S. Senate, 1837 54
Black Views on Slavery 57
           Deep River            58
                        Go Down, Moses 58
                  Daniel 60
           Narratives and Folk Tales 60
                        The Coon and the Dog   60
                        The Rabbit and the Tortoise 60
                        Papa's Death 60
                       Prayers 61
                       Marrying 61
                       Solomon in Hell 61
Chapter 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Age of Reform
An Era of Reform 63
             Revivalism and the Second Great Awakening 63
             Moral Reform 65
Sabbatarians 66
             Temperance 66
Rehabilitation 68
          Public Education 69
Writers, Thinkers , and Dissenters 72
             Emerson and the Transcendentalists 72
             Walt Whitman: Songs of American and the Self 73
             The Skeptical View: Hawthorne and Melville 73
Radical Dissenters 75
Communitarians 75
The Mormons 77
The Struggle Against Slavery 79
The Early Antislavery movement 79
Colonization 80
Militant Abolitionists 81
Anti-Abolitionists in the North 83
Political Abolitionism 84
The Proslavery Justification 85
Black Abolitionists 86
Sojourner Truth 88
The Rise of the Women's Rights Movement 89
Women and the Antislavery Crusade 89
             The Struggle for Legal Rights 90
             The Women's Rights Movement 91
             The Impact of Reform 93
Documents 95
             Protesting the "Gag" Rule in the U.S. House of Representatives and Mail Censorship 95
            On the Way to Liberia, a Letter to a Former Mistress (1833) 97
 

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Part II: The Road to War

Storm Clouds Gather: Manifest Destiny, Expansion, and Division

Manifest Destiny and Expansion 101
The Election of 1840 102
The Saga of the Amistad 104
             Manifest Destiny and Texas 105
             Expansionism and the Election of 1844 107
             The Mexican War 109
             The Wilmot Proviso 114
              The Election of 1848 115
              The Gold Rush and the Westward Migration 116
Political Efforts to Deal with the Issue 119
The Compromise of 1850 119
The fugitive Slave Law 122
Uncle Tom's Cabin 125
The Election of 1852 126
The Rise of the Know-Nothings 127
Documents 129
          The Mexican War 129
         Polk's War Message 129
         The Mexican War is on Behalf of Slavery 132
Chapter 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Storm Cloud Burst
Territorial Issues and Kansas-Nebraska 135
The Rise of the Republican Party 137
"Bleeding Kansas" 138
The Crime Against Kansas/The Crime Against Sumner 141
The Dred Scott Decision 142
Lincoln, Douglas and their Debates 145
Sectional Division Increases 148
The March to War 149
John Brown's Raid 150
The Election of 1860 151
Secession and the Fall of the House Divided 153
Documents 159
Letters From the Conflict in Kansas 159
         Letter from John Lawrie: A Northerner's View 159
         Letter from Axallas John Hoole: A Southerner's View 160
Lincoln and Douglas Debate 163
John Brown's Raid: Two Views of African Americans 164
Slavery is the Cornerstone of Our Confederacy 165
 

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Part III: THE  CIVIL WAR

THE CIVIL WAR BEGINS

The War Begins

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The First Battle of Bull Run 172
A Brother's War 176
George McClellan: The Union's Hope 177
The Border States 178
The Two Sides 181
Northern Advantages 181
Southern Advantages 182
Rival Governments 184
The Two Leaders 187
Europe and the War 189
Seward's Early Ideas 189
The Blockade and Diplomatic Issues 190
The Trent Affair 191
The War Stalls 192
Documents 194
First Battle of Bull Run 194
The Significance of Slavery 189
         A Union General on the Significance of Slaves 196
         A Southern Newspaper on the "Advantages of Slavery 197
         A Northern General on Slavery as a Military Question 197
The Struggle to Allow Black Troops in the Union Army 198
         Newspaper Editorial to Allow Black Troops in the Union Army 198
         Public Opposition to Use of Black Troops 199
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THE WAR INTENSIFIES

Unconditional Surrender in the West

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The General's Wife 205
Naval Warfare: The Ironclads 206
Virginia: 1862 208
Antietam 211
Fredericksburg 213
The Home Front 214
Politics During the War 214
Emancipation 215
The Wartime Economies 218
Women on the Home Front 219
Riots and Discontent 221
Grant's Notorious Order # 11 223
Life on the Battlefield 224
Billy Yank and Johnny Reb 224
Black Troops 225
Prisoners of War 228
Medical Care 229
Women on the Battlefield 231
Documents 234
          The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) 234
          Black Troops in Combat 236
         Reminiscence of a Former Black Soldiers in  the Union Army 236
         Letter written by an Unnamed Soldier in the Massachusetts Fifty-fifth Infantry 236
         Black Soldiers Triumph at Battle of Petersburg, July 1864 237
          The Home Front 238
         The New York City Draft Riots 238
         Response of a Rioters 239
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THE TIDE OF WAR TURNS
Greatest Victory 241
Chancellorsville 241
The Death of Stonewall Jackson 243
Gettysburg 243
Vicksburg 245
Chattanooga 246
The Gettysburg Address 247
1864-5: The Final Stage 247
Battles in the East:1864 249
Beginning of the End: 1864 253
The War Finally Ends 254
The Election of 1864 255
The Thirteenth Amendment 256
Sherman's March Through the Carolinas 257
Appomattox 257
Lincoln's Assassination 260
Documents 264
          The Gettysburg Address (1863) 264
          Problems in the South 265
         Diary of a Georgia Girl (1864) 265
          The Dispute Over Using Black Troops in the South  267
         Opposition to the Idea 267
         A Woman Favors the Idea 268
         Confederate Congress Approves the Use of Black Troops 268
          Recollection of the War's Horrors: 1875  269
         Walt Whitman 269
          Second Inaugural Address (1865)  270
 

 

Chapter 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PART IV: RECONSTRUCTION: The Turning Point That Never Turned

RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION

Wartime  Reconstruction

275
Presidential Reconstruction 279
Southern Defiance and the Black Codes 280
The Split Between President and Congress 281
The Fourteenth Amendment 283
The New Orleans Riots and the Growth of Violence in the Reconstruction South 285
Reconstruction Acts 287
Presidential Impeachment 289
The Election of 1868 290
The Fifteenth Amendment 292
Radical Republicans: Myth and Reality 293
Blacks and Reconstruction 294
Republican Rule in the South 299
The Grant Administration and Northern Politics 301
Government Corruption 301
Foreign Policy in the Grant Years 302
"Liberal" Republicans 303
Documents 304
          To My Old Master, Colonel P.. H. Anderson, Big Springs, TN 304
          The Black Codes 306
         The Black Code of St. Landry's Parish, 1865 306
          The Issue of Land for the Freed Slaves  308
         From a Speech by Thaddeus Stevens, 1865 308
         New York Times, July 9, 1867 309
        Conversation between a Freedman and a General at Fort Smith, Arkansas 309
          Educating the Freed People  310
         Dedicated Teachers and Determined Students, 1869 310
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RETREAT FROM RECONSTRUCTION
Women and Reconstruction 313
The Election of 1872 314
Retreat from Reconstruction 315
Increase in Terrorism 315
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 317
The "Redeemers" Regain Power 318
The Disputed Centennial Election 318
The Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876 321
The New South 324
Agriculture in the New South 325
Industry in the New South 326
The Rise of Jim Crow 327
Documents 330
          The Split Between Advocates of Women's Rights and Black Rights 330
         A petition drafted after the Civil War by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, leaders of the women's movement and also abolitionists 330
         Letter to Susan B. Anthony from abolitionist and advocate of suffrage for ex-slaves Gerritt Smith, December 30, 1868 330
          Response by Elizabeth Cady Stanton  330
         "Being Persons, Then, Women are Citizens 331
          Differing Views About Blacks in Reconstruction in the South  332
         From the Novel, A Fool's Errand 333
        From the Novel, The Clansman 333
        From the Autobiography of John Roy Lynch, an ex-salve appointed justice-of-the-peace in Natchez, Mississippi 334
          Retreat from Reconstruction  335
         An excerpt from the speech of black Congressman Richard Harvey Cain of South Carolina on the floor of the House in support of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 335
          Political Terrorism by the Ku Klux Klan  336
         1876 Democratic Party campaign plan formulated by ex-Confederate General Martin W. Gary 337
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CONCLUSION
The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction 339
The Confederate Flag in the Year 2000

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Race in America 2000 342
Bibliography 343
Chronology 348
Web Sites 351
Index 354
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