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America's History: Concise Edition, Volume 1
Ninth Edition| ©2018New Edition Available Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta
Known for its clear, insightful analytical narrative and balanced approach, America’s History, Concise Edition is a brief, affordable text that brings America’s diverse past to life. The Concise Edition features the full narrative of the parent text, select images and maps, built-in...
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A brief text that helps your students understand why history matters
Known for its clear, insightful analytical narrative and balanced approach, America’s History, Concise Edition is a brief, affordable text that brings America’s diverse past to life. The Concise Edition features the full narrative of the parent text, select images and maps, built-in primary sources and skills-based pedagogy that gives students practice in thinking historically. Enhanced with a wealth of digital content in LaunchPad, the ninth edition provides easily assignable options for instructors and novel ways for students to master the content. Integrated with LearningCurve's, an adaptive online resource that helps students retain the material and come to class prepared.
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A big picture, analytical focus helps students understand not just what happened, but why. With its hallmark interpretive voice and thoughtful analysis, America's History helps students make sense of the past so they're never left wondering what's important. A variety of learning tools from the beginning to the end of each chapter support this "Big Idea" focus, while fostering critical thinking and guiding students in their reading.
A unique nine-part framework highlights key developments. America's History's periodizes history into nine distinct eras, each characterized by major developments and an overarching theme. Each part features a Thematic Timeline with a "Thematic Understanding" question that helps students identify the important forces shaping each period, to make connections between chapters, and to understand continuity and change over time.
A comprehensive document program offers students practice in document analysis. Two types of primary source features in every chapter offer many opportunities for assignment and discussion: "America in Global Context" gives students practice in comparison and data analysis using primary sources and data to situate U.S. history in a global context; and "Thinking Like a Historian" asks students to analyze a group of documents and use the evidence to create an argument. Free when packaged, the new edition of the companion reader, Sources of America’s History, offers a wealth of additional primary documents.
An author team of leading scholars and veteran teachers make the best of the new scholarship accessible and relevant. Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self, and Eric Hinderaker bring fresh perspectives, new scholarship, and in particular, an increased attention to native peoples and emphasis on global context.
Emphasis on developing historical thinking skills. Students will gain proficiency in historical thinking skills via marginal review questions that ask students to "Identify Causes," "Trace Change over Time," and "Understand Points of View." "Making Connections" and "Turning Point" questions in the chapter review section ask students to consider broader historical issues, developments, and periodization.
LaunchPad helps you do more than you can with print alone. Free when packaged with the book, LaunchPad’s course space and interactive e-book is ready to use as is, or can be edited and customized with your own material and assigned right away. Developed with extensive feedback from history instructors and students, LaunchPad includes the complete narrative e-book, as well as abundant primary documents, maps, images, assignments and activities. The aims of key learning outcomes are addressed via formative and summative assessment, short answer and essay questions, multiple choice quizzing, and LearningCurve, an adaptive learning tool designed to get students to read before they come to class. Available with training and support, LaunchPad can help you take your teaching into a new era.
LearningCurve ensures students come to class prepared. Tired of your students not reading the textbook? Would you like to know what they read and how much they understood—BEFORE they come to class? Assign LearningCurve, the adaptive learning tool created for your survey textbook in LaunchPad , and the system’s analytics will show how your students are doing with the reading so that you can adapt your class as needed. Each chapter-based LearningCurve activity gives students multiple chances to understand key concepts, return to the narrative textbook if they need to reread, and answer questions correctly. Over 90% of students report satisfaction with LearningCurve fun and accessible game-like interface. LearningCurve appeals to students so that they engage with the textbook, and it helps you to know what they know before class begins.
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New secondary sources feature "Interpretations" brings historical argumentation into each chapter. Students read two short passages from scholarly works that offer different interpretations of the same event or period. By examining the passages side-by-side and responding to the questions, students learn how historians interpret evidence, weigh facts, and arrive at their conclusions.
Thoroughly revised chapters on the early republic and antebellum America (Part 4) draws on the most recent scholarship in the field and incorporates five chapters into four.
Revised chapters on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Part 6) provide greater focus on cultural change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
New section-review questions "In Your Own Words" help students articulate the main points of the section.
New on-page glossary defines key terms to aid student understanding.
Revised and expanded chapter review sections help students grasp the chapter contents and make connections to other chapters, themes, and events in the textbook
New source-based questions in the test bank and in the LearningCurve adaptive learning tool in LaunchPad give instructors easier ways to test students on their understanding of sources in the book.
Questions in the online test bank can now be sorted by chapter learning objectives. This ability to sort allows instructors to test portions of the chapters, making it easier to see what major concepts students need to work on. The test bank is also tagged to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Student Learning Outcomes for History 1301 (U.S. History to 1877) and History 1302 (U.S. History Since 1865).
This is a well-structured book that addresses important events and offers the viewpoints of the ordinary people who shaped history. The combination of text, images, timelines, primary documents, as well as a good selection of "small picture" and "big picture" questions appeals to various learning styles of students.
―Petra DeWitt, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAmerica’s History is both informative and engaging. With its myriad attributes, ranging from digital interaction to theme analysis, America’s History is sure to please.
―Whitney Snow, Midwestern State UniversityThis is an excellent textbook that is distinguished mostly by its sensitivity toward new perspectives on early American history. I like the way that it is organized and written so that debates and discussions within our fields and discipline are relatively transparent compared to the panoptic voices offered by competing U.S. textbooks. The special features are useful and well-edited, and I appreciate how they do not interrupt the main textual narrative.
―Michael Wise, University of North Texas


America's History: Concise Edition, Volume 1
Ninth Edition| ©2018
Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta
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America's History: Concise Edition, Volume 1
Ninth Edition| 2018
Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta
Table of Contents
Please note:
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-15
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30
NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.
Preface
Versions and Supplements
Brief Contents
Contents
Maps, Figures, and Tables
Part 1: Transformations of North America, 1491–1700
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 1 LaunchPad
Document P1-1: Meal of Maize and Beans, the Sixth Month of the Aztec Solar Calendar (c. 1585)
Quiz for Document P1-1 LaunchPad
Document P1-2: THEODORE DE BRY, The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Commander on His First Voyage (1591)
Quiz for Document P1-2 LaunchPad
Document P1-3: THOMAS MORTON, Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England) (1637)
Quiz for Document P1-3 LaunchPad
Document P1-4: THOMAS PHILLIPS, A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693–1694)
Quiz for Document P1-4 LaunchPad
Document P1-5: RICHARD HAKLUYT, A Discourse of Western Planting (1584)
Quiz for Document P1-5 LaunchPad
1. Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Native American Experience
The First Americans
American Empires
Chiefdoms and Confederacies
Patterns of Trade
Sacred Power
Western Europe: The Edge of the Old World
Hierarchy and Authority
Peasant Society
Expanding Trade Networks
Myths, Religions, and Holy Warriors
West and Central Africa: Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Empires, Kingdoms, and Ministates
Trans-Saharan and Coastal Trade
The Spirit World
Exploration and Conquest
Portuguese Expansion
The African Slave Trade
Sixteenth-Century Incursions
Chapter Review
LearningCurve LaunchPad
America in Global Context Altered Landscapes
Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad
Thinking Like a Historian Colliding Cultures
Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad
Interpretations How Connected Were Native American Communities Before 1492?
Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad
Analyzing Voices A Spanish Priest Criticizes His Fellow Colonists LaunchPad
Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad
1. Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 1 LaunchPad
Document 1-1: THOMAS HARIOT, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
Quiz for Document 1-1 LaunchPad
Document 1-2: De Soto Encounters Incans in Peru ARTIST UNKNOWN (SPANISH SCHOOL), Construction of the First Christian Church in San Miguel de Piura, and the Battle of Hernando de Soto with the Indians (1726)
Quiz for Document 1-2 LaunchPad
Document 1-3: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Journal of the First Voyage (1492)
Quiz for Document 1-3 LaunchPad
Document 1-4: BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)
Quiz for Document 1-4 LaunchPad
Document 1-5: COUNCIL OF HUEJOTZINGO, Letter to the King of Spain (1560)
Quiz for Document 1-5 LaunchPad
Document 1-6: BROTHER LUIS BRANDAON, Letter to Father Sandoval (1610)
Quiz for Document 1-6 LaunchPad
2. American Experiments, 1521–1700
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Spain’s Tribute Colonies
A New American World
The Columbian Exchange
The Protestant Challenge to Spain
Plantation Colonies
Brazil’s Sugar Plantations
England’s Tobacco Colonies
The Caribbean Islands
Plantation Life
Neo-European Colonies
New France
New Netherland
The Rise of the Iroquois
New England
Instability, War, and Rebellion
Native American Resistance
Bacon’s Rebellion
Chapter Review
LearningCurve LaunchPad
America in Global Context Plantation Colonies Versus Neo-Europes
Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad
Thinking Like a Historian Who Was Pocahontas?
Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad
Interpretations What Role Did Climate Play in American Colonization?
Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad
Analyzing Voices Susanna Martin, Accused Witch LaunchPad
Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 2 LaunchPad
Document 2-1: Testimony of Acoma Indians (1599)
Quiz for Document 2-1 LaunchPad
Document 2-2: JOHN WINTHROP, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
Quiz for Document 2-2 LaunchPad
Document 2-3: CARELl ALLARD, English Quakers Planting Tobacco on Barbados (1680)
Quiz for Document 2-3 LaunchPad
Document 2-4: Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649)
Quiz for Document 2-4 LaunchPad
Document 2-5: EDMUND WHITE, Letter to Joseph Morton (1687)
Quiz for Document 2-5 LaunchPad
Document 2-6: REV. FATHER LOUIS CELLOT, Letter to Father François Le Mercier (1656)
Quiz for Document 2-6 LaunchPad
Part 2: British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 2 LaunchPad
Document P2-1: OLAUDAH EQUIANO, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1794)
Quiz for Document P2-1 LaunchPad
Document P2-2: Letter from Christen Janzen to His Family (1711)
Quiz for Document P2-2 LaunchPad
Document P2-3: The Vain Prodigal Life and Tragical Penitent Death of Thomas Hellier (1680)
Quiz for Document P2-3 LaunchPad
Document P2-4 : GREGOIRE HURET, The Death of Some Jesuit Fathers in Nouvelle-France (1664)
Quiz for Document P2-4 LaunchPad
Document P2-5: Journal of James Kenny (1761–1763)
Quiz for Document P2-5 LaunchPad
3. The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Colonies to Empire, 1607–1713
Self-Governing Colonies and New Elites, 1607–1660
The Restoration Colonies and Imperial Expansion
From Mercantilism to Imperial Dominion
The Glorious Revolution in England and America
Imperial Wars and Native Peoples
Tribalization
Indian Goals
The Imperial Slave Economy
The South Atlantic System
Africa, Africans, and the Slave Trade
Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina
An African American Community Emerges
The Rise of the Southern Gentry
The Northern Maritime Economy
The Urban Economy
Urban Society
The New Politics of Empire, 1713–1750
The Rise of Colonial Assemblies
Salutary Neglect
Protecting the Mercantile System
Mercantilism and the American Colonies
Chapter Review
LearningCurve LaunchPad
America in Global Context Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal "Middle Passage"
Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad
Thinking Like a Historian Servitude and Slavery
Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad
Interpretations Why Did Americans Adopt Slavery?
Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad
Analyzing Voices Native Americans and European Empires LaunchPad
Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 3 LaunchPad
Document 3-1: At the Town-House in Boston: April 18th, 1689. A Letter to Sir Edmond Andros Knight (1689)
Quiz for Document 3-1 LaunchPad
Document 3-2: CANASSATEGO, Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New York (1742)
Quiz for Document 3-2 LaunchPad
Document 3-3: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, An Act for Suppressing Outlying Slaves (1691)
Quiz for Document 3-3 LaunchPad
Document 3-4: WILLIAM BYRD II, Diary Entries (1709–1712)
Quiz for Document 3-4 LaunchPad
Document 3-5: JOHN BARNARD, The Autobiography of the Rev. John Barnard (1766)
Quiz for Document 3-5 LaunchPad
Document 3-6: LORD CORNBURY, Letter to the Lords of Trade (1704)
Quiz for Document 3-6 LaunchPad
4. Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
New England’s Freehold Society
Farm Families: Women in the Household Economy
Farm Property: Inheritance
Freehold Society in Crisis
Diversity in the Middle Colonies
Economic Growth, Opportunity, and Conflict
Cultural Diversity
Religion and Politics
Commerce, Culture, and Identity
Transportation and the Print Revolution
The Enlightenment in America
American Pietism and the Great Awakening
Religious Upheaval in the North
Social and Religious Conflict in the South
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750–1765
The French and Indian War
The Great War for Empire
British Industrial Growth and the Consumer Revolution
The Struggle for Land in the East
Western Rebels and Regulators
Chapter Review
LearningCurve LaunchPad
America in Global Context Transatlantic Migration, 1500–1760
Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad
Thinking Like a Historian Women’s Labor
Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad
Interpretations Did Diversity Lead to Toleration?
Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad
Analyzing Voices Evangelical Religion and Enlightenment Rationalism LaunchPad
Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 4 LaunchPad
Document 4-1: Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments with Electricity (Turned into an 18th Century Parlor Game) (c. 18th century)
Quiz for Document 4-1 LaunchPad
Document 4-2: SARAH OSBORN, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn (1814)
Quiz for Document 4-2 LaunchPad
Document 4-3: CHARLES WOODMASON, Journal (1766–1768)
Quiz for Document 4-3 LaunchPad
Document 4-4: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Albany Plan of Union (1754)
Quiz for Document 4-4 LaunchPad
Document 4-5: State of the British and French Colonies in North America (1755)
Quiz for Document 4-5 LaunchPad
Document 4-6: Petition from the Inhabitants of Orange County, North Carolina (1770)
Quiz for Document 4-6 LaunchPad
Part 3: Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 3 LaunchPad
Document P3-1: RICHARD ALLEN, Eulogy for Washington (1799)
Quiz for Document P3-1 LaunchPad
Document P3-2: J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVECOEUR, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
Quiz for Document P3-2 LaunchPad
Document P3-3: JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)
Quiz for Document P3-3 LaunchPad
Document P3-4: George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
Quiz for Document P3-4 LaunchPad
Document P3-5: EDWARD SAVAGE, Liberty. In the Form of the Goddess of Youth, Giving Support to the Bald Eagle (1796)
Quiz for Document P3-5 LaunchPad
5. The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
An Empire Transformed
The Costs of Empire
George Grenville and the Reform Impulse
An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act
The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770
Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd
The Ideological Roots of Resistance
Another Kind of Freedom
Parliament and Patriots Square Off Again
The Problem of the West
Parliament Wavers
The Road to Independence, 1771–1776
A Compromise Repudiated
The Continental Congress Responds
The Rising of the Countryside
Loyalists and Neutrals
Violence East and West
Lord Dunmore’s War
Armed Resistance in Massachusetts
The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Independence Declared
Chapter Review
LearningCurve LaunchPad
America in Global Context Britain’s Atlantic and Asian Empires
Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad
Thinking Like a Historian Beyond the Proclamation Line
Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad
Interpretations Did British Administrators Try to Protect or Exploit Native Americans?
Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad
Analyzing Voices The Debate over Representation and Sovereignty LaunchPad
Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 5 LaunchPad
Document 5-1: RICHARD BLAND, Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1766)
Quiz for Document 5-1 LaunchPad
Document 5-2: STAMP ACT CONGRESS, Declaration of Rights (1765)
Quiz for Document 5-2 LaunchPad
Document 5-3: PETER OLIVER, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1781)
Quiz for Document 5-3 LaunchPad
Document 5-4: A Protest by the Worcester, Massachusetts, Selectmen (1774)
Quiz for Document 5-4 LaunchPad
Document 5-5: THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Letter to Thomas Whately (1769)
Quiz for Document 5-5 LaunchPad
Document 5-6: THOMAS PAINE, Common Sense (1776)
Quiz for Document 5-6 LaunchPad
6. Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Trials of War, 1776–1778
War in the North
Armies and Strategies
Victory at Saratoga
The Perils of War
Financial Crisis
Valley Forge
The Path to Victory, 1778–1783
The French Alliance
War in the South
The Patriot Advantage
Diplomatic Triumph
Creating Republican Institutions, 1776–1787
The State Constitutions: How Much Democracy?
Women Seek a Public Voice
The War’s Losers: Loyalists, Native Americans, and Slaves
The Articles of Confederation
Shays’s Rebellion
The Constitution of 1787
The Rise of a Nationalist Faction
The Philadelphia Convention
The People Debate Ratification
Chapter Review
LearningCurve LaunchPad
America in Global Context China’s Growing Empire
Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad
Thinking Like a Historian The Black Soldier’s Dilemma
Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad
Interpretations Was the Constitution Necessary?
Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad
Analyzing Voices The First National Debate over Slavery LaunchPad
Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 6 LaunchPad
Document 6-1: Instructions to the Delegates from Mecklenburg to the Provincial Congress at Halifax in November (1776)
Quiz for Document 6-1 LaunchPad
Document 6-2: ABIGAIL AND JOHN ADAMS, Correspondence (1776)
Quiz for Document 6-2 LaunchPad
Document 6-3: PRINCE HALL, Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Council and the House of Representatives (1777)
Quiz for Document 6-3 LaunchPad
Document 6-4: JAMES PEALE, General George Washington at Yorktown (c. 1782)
Quiz for Document 6-4 LaunchPad
Document 6-5: DANIEL GRAY, Address to the People of Several Towns (1786)
Quiz for Document 6-5 LaunchPad
Document 6-6: JAMES MADISON, Federalist No. 10 and Federalist No. 51 (1787)
Quiz for Document 6-6 LaunchPad
7. Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Political Crisis of the 1790s
The Federalists Implement the Constitution
Hamilton’s Financial Program
Jefferson’s Agrarian Vision
The French Revolution Divides Americans
The Rise of Political Parties
A Republican Empire Is Born
Sham Treaties and Indian Lands
Migration and the Changing Farm Economy
The Jefferson Presidency
Jefferson and the West
The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics
Conflict in the Atlantic and the West
The War of 1812
The Federalist Legacy
Chapter Review
LearningCurve LaunchPad
America in Global Context The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Race
Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad
Thinking Like a Historian The Social Life of Alcohol
Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad
Interpretations Did Hamilton’s Economic System Endanger the Legacy of the Revolution?
Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad
Analyzing Voices Factional Politics and the War of 1812 LaunchPad
Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 7 LaunchPad
Document 7-1: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Letter to Edward Carrington (1792)
Quiz for Document 7-1 LaunchPad
Document 7-2: THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)
Quiz for Document 7-2 LaunchPad
Document 7-3: THE PROVIDENTIAL DETECTION (c. 1790s)
Quiz for Document 7-3 LaunchPad
Document 7-4: THE PANOPLIST AND MISSIONARY HERALD, Retrograde Movement of National Character (1818)
Quiz for Document 7-4 LaunchPad
Document 7-5: TECUMSEH, "Sleep Not Longer, O’ Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811)
Quiz for Document 7-5 LaunchPad
Document 7-6: Report of the Hartford Convention (1815)
Quiz for Document 7-6 LaunchPad
Part 4: Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 4 LaunchPad
Document P4-1: Process of Excavation, Erie Canal, Lockport (c. 1820s)
Quiz for Document P4-1 LaunchPad
Document P4-2: JOSEPH STORY, Address Delivered on the Dedication of the Cemetery at Mount Auburn (1831)
Quiz for Document P4-2 LaunchPad
Document P4-3: EMMELINE B. WELLS, Diary (1846)
Quiz for Document P4-3 LaunchPad
Document P4-4: GEORGE CAITLIN, Letters and Notes (1841) and Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon’s Egg Head (The Light) Going to and Returning from Washington (c. 1837-1839)
Quiz for Document P4-4 LaunchPad
Document P4-5: ALBERT BRISBANE, A Concise Exposition of the Doctrine of Association (1843)
Quiz for Document P4-5 LaunchPad
8. Economic Transformations, 1800–1848
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Foundations of a New Economic Order
Credit and Banking
Transportation and the Market Revolution
The Cotton Complex: Northern Industry and Southern Agriculture
The American Industrial Revolution
Origins of the Cotton South
The Cotton Boom and Slavery
Technological Innovation and Labor
The Spread of Innovation
Wageworkers and the Labor Movement
The Growth of Cities and Towns
New Social Classes and Cultures
Planters, Yeomen, and Slaves
The Northern Business Elite
The Middle Class
Urban Workers and the Poor
Chapter Review
LearningCurve LaunchPad
America in Global Context The Fate of the American and Indian Textile Industries
Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad
Thinking Like a Historian The Entrepreneur and the Community
Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad
Interpretations Did the Market Revolution Expand Opportunities for Women?
Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad
Analyzing Voices The Debate over Free and Slave Labor LaunchPad
Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 8 LaunchPad
Document 8-1: J. HILL, Junction of Erie and Northern Canal (c. 1830–1832)
Quiz for Document 8-1 LaunchPad
Document 8-2: THE WEEKLY REGISTER, Home Influence (1813)
Quiz for Document 8-2 LaunchPad
Document 8-3: LUCY LARCOM, Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence (1881)
Quiz for Document 8-3 LaunchPad
Document 8-4: Ethan Andrews, Slavery and the Domestic Slave-Trade (1836)
Quiz for Document 8-4 LaunchPad
Document 8-5: Ely moore, Address Delivered Before the General Trades’ Union of the City of New-York (1833)
Quiz for Document 8-5 LaunchPad
9. A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Rise of Popular Politics
The Decline of the Notables and the Rise of Parties
Racial Exclusion and Republican Motherhood
The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
The Election of 1824
The Last Notable President: John Quincy Adams
"The Democracy" and the Election of 1828
Jackson in Power, 1829–1837
Jackson’s Agenda: Rotation and Decentralization
The Tariff and Nullification
The Bank War
Indian Removal
Jackson’s Impact
Class, Culture, and the Second Party System
The Whig Worldview
Labor Politics and the Depression of 1837–1843
"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"
Chapter Review
LearningCurve LaunchPad
America in Global Context Alexis de Tocqueville: Letter to Louis de Kergorlay, June 29, 1831
Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad
Thinking Like a Historian Becoming Literate: Public Education and Democracy
Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad
Interpretations Was Indian Removal Humanitarian or Racist?
Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad
Analyzing Voices The Character and Goals of Andrew Jackson LaunchPad
Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad
Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 9 LaunchPad
Document 9-1: MARTIN VAN BUREN, The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren (1854)
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Document 9-2: FITZWILLIAM BYRDSALL, The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party (1842)
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Document 9-3: ANDREW JACKSON, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States (1832)
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Document 9-4: Henry Clay, Speech on the Presidential Election (1840)
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Document 9-5: Capitol Fashions for 1837 (1837)
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Document 9-6: CHEROKEE WOMEN, Petition (1821 [1831?])
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10. Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848
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Spiritual Awakenings
The Second Great Awakening
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism
Utopian Experiments
Urban Cultures and Conflicts
Sex in the City
Popular Fiction and the Penny Press
Urban Entertainments
African Americans and the Struggle for Freedom
Free Black Communities, North and South
The Rise of Abolitionism
The Women’s Rights Movement
Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
From Antislavery to Seneca Falls
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America in Global Context Women’s Rights in France and the United States, 1848
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Thinking Like a Historian Dance and Social Identity in Antebellum America
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Interpretations What Motivated Antebellum Reformers?
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Analyzing Voices Saving the Nation from Drink LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 10 LaunchPad
Document 10-1: MARGARET FULLER, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
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Document 10-2: JOSEPH SMITH, History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet (c. 1830s)
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Document 10-3: Advertisement for the American Museum (1845)
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Document 10-4: SARAH GRIMKÉ, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
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Document 10-5: DAVID WALKER, Preamble to Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles (1830)
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Document 10-6: CALVIN COLTON, Abolition a Sedition (1839)
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11. Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848
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The Expanding South
Planters, Small Freeholders, and Poor Freemen
The Settlement of Texas
The Politics of Democracy
The African American World
Evangelical Black Protestantism
Forging Families and Communities
Negotiating Rights
Manifest Destiny, North and South
The Push to the Pacific
The Plains Indians
The Fateful Election of 1844
The U.S.-Mexico War, 1846–1848
The "War of a Thousand Deserts"
Polk’s Expansionist Program
American Military Successes
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context Financing War
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Thinking Like a Historian Childhood in Black and White
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Interpretations What Explains American Enthusiasm for Manifest Destiny?
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Analyzing Voices The U.S.-Mexico War: Expansion and Slavery LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 11 LaunchPad
Document 11-1: SUSAN DABNEY SMEDES, Memorials of a Southern Planter (1887)
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Document 11-2: Slave Songs of the United States (1867) and Slaves Dance to Their Own Music on a Southern Plantation (c. 1852)
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Document 11-3: LANSFORD HASTINGS, The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (1845)
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Document 11-4: JOHN D. SLOAT, To the Inhabitants of California (1846) and GENERAL FRANCISCO MEJIA, A Proclamation at Matamoros (1846)
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Document 11-5: Richard Doyle, The Land of Liberty (1847)
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Part 5: Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877
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Document P5-1: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (1848)
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Document P5-2: STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA, An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians (1850)
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Document P5-3: SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States (1855)
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Document P5-4: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Cooper Union Address (1860)
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Document P5-5: ALEXANDER STEPHENS, "Cornerstone" Speech (1861)
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Document P5-6: THOMAS NAST, "This is a White Man’s Government" (1868)
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12. Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1860
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A Divisive War, 1844–1850
"Free Soil" in Politics
California Gold and Racial Warfare
1850: Crisis and Compromise
The End of the Second Party System, 1850–1858
The Abolitionist Movement Grows
The Whig Party’s Demise
Immigrants and Know-Nothings
The West and the Fate of the Union
Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858–1860
Lincoln’s Political Career
The Union Under Siege
The Election of 1860
Secession Winter, 1860–1861
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America in Global Context The Gold Rush: California and Australia
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Thinking Like a Historian The Irish in America
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Interpretations Did Slavery Have a Future in the West?
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Analyzing Voices To Secede or Not to Secede? LaunchPad
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Document 12-1: Susan Shelby Magoffin, Diary (1846)
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Document 12-2: John l. Magee, Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler (1856)
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Document 12-3: JOHN C. CALHOUN, Speech on the Slavery Question (1850)
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Document 12-4: CHARLES SUMNER, The Crime of Kansas (1856)
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Document 12-5: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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Document 12-6: KEZIAH GOODWIN HOPKINS BREVARD, Diary (1860–1861)
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13. Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865
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The War Begins, 1861–1862
Early Expectations
Campaigns East and West
Antietam and Its Consequences
Toward "Hard War," 1863
Politics North and South
The Impact of Emancipation
Citizens and the Work of War
Vicksburg and Gettysburg
The Road to Union Victory, 1864–1865
Grant and Sherman Take Command
The Election of 1864 and Sherman’s March
The Confederacy Collapses
The World the War Made
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America in Global Context War Debt: Britain and the United States, 1830–1900
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Thinking Like a Historian Military Deaths — and Lives Saved — During the Civil War
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Interpretations How Divided Was the Confederate Public?
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Analyzing Voices These Honored Dead LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 13 LaunchPad
Document 13-1: Sowing and Reaping (1863)
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Document 13-2: Ambrose Bierce, What I Saw of Shiloh (1881)
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Document 13-3: CORNELIA HANCOCK, Letters of a Civil War Nurse (1863)
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Document 13-4: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and JEFFERSON DAVIS, President’s Message (1863)
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Document 13-5: HARRY SMITH, Fifty Years of Slavery (1891)
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Document 13-6: WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)
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14. Reconstruction, 1865–1877
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The Struggle for National Reconstruction
Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnson
Congress Versus the President
Radical Reconstruction
Women’s Rights Denied
The Meaning of Freedom
The Quest for Land
Republican Governments in the South
Building Black Communities
The Undoing of Reconstruction
The Republicans Unravel
Counterrevolution in the South
Reconstruction Rolled Back
The Political Crisis of 1877
Lasting Legacies
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America in Global Context Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States
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Thinking Like a Historian The South’s "Lost Cause"
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Interpretations How Free Were Freedwomen in Reconstruction?
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Analyzing Voices The Impact of Terror LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 14 LaunchPad
Document 14-1: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Last Public Address (1865)
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Document 14-2: BETTY POWERS, Federal Writers’ Project Interview (c. 1936)
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Document 14-3: FRANCES BUTLER LEIGH, Letter to a Friend in England (1867)
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Document 14-4: CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS JR., The Protection of the Ballot in National Elections (1869)
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Document 14-5: THOMAS NAST, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State (1874)
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Document 14-6: ROBERT BROWNE ELLIOTT, Speech to Congress (1874)
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15. Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890
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The Republican Vision
The New Union and the World
Integrating the National Economy
Incorporating the West
Mining Empires
Cattlemen on the Plains
Homesteaders
The First National Park
A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed
The Civil War and Indians on the Plains
Grant’s Peace Policy
The End of Armed Resistance
Strategies of Survival
Western Myths and Realities
Chapter Review
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America in Global Context The Santa Fe Railroad in Mexico and the United States
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Thinking Like a Historian Representing Indians
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Interpretations What Factors Motivated America’s Indian Policies?
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Analyzing Voices Women’s Rights in the West LaunchPad
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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 15 LaunchPad
Document 15-1: Indian Territory, That Garden of the World (c. 1880)
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Document 15-2: CURRIER & IVES, Across the Continent (1868)
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Document 15-3: J. WRIGHT MOOAR, Buffalo Days (1933)
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Document 15-4: FRANCIS A. WALKER, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1872)
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Document 15-5: MOURNING DOVE, A Salishan Autobiography (1990)
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America's History: Concise Edition, Volume 1
Ninth Edition| 2018
Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta
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Rebecca Edwards
Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865–1905; and the essay “Women’s and Gender History” in The New American History. She is currently working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America’s nineteenth-century empire.

Eric Hinderaker
Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston’s Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.

Robert O. Self
Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.

James A. Henretta
James A. Henretta is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, “Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,” in The Cambridge History of American Law.


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Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta
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