AMERICA CHANGING TIMES 2ND EDITION VOLUME ONE TO 187PDF电子书下载

CHPATER 1. AMERICANS AND EUROPEAN NEWCOMERS 1

Origins of the Indians 3

The Americans before Columbus 3

Predecessors of Columbus 9

The Spanish Voyage 12

Exploiting and Settling North America 18

Biographical Sketches 13

Amerigo Vespucci 13

Bartolome de las Casas 16

John White 20

Pocahontas 21

Essay 26

Sailing with Columbus 26

Selected Readings 31

CHAPTER 2. THE GROWTH OF BRITISH COLONIAL AMERICA 32

Immigrants and Their Origins 34

Patterns of Settlement 41

Religious and Ethnic Tensions 45

Indian-White Relations 48

Colonial Wars 55

A Firm Beginning 56

Biographical Sketches 42

William Bradford 42

Anne Hutchinson 46

Mary White Rowlandson 53

Samuel Vetch 57

Essay 58

Tobacco: The Gift and the Curse of the Indians 58

Selected Readings 61

CHAPTER 3. LIFE IN THE ENGLISH COLONIES 62

The Colonial Economy 66

Farms, Towns, and Cities 70

The Human Perspective 77

Religion 82

Culture and Learning 88

Biographical Sketches 84

Samuel Sewall 84

Roger Williams 85

Anne Dudley Bradstreet 90

Essay 92

"Repent, Sinner, Repent" 92

Selected Readings 97

CHAPTER 4. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 98

The French and Indian War 100

The Constitutional Debate 103

The Events Leading to the War 105

Organizing a Rebellion 115

The Logistics of War 119

Biographical Sketches 114

Paul Revere 114

Thomas Paine 116

Mercy Otis Warren 118

Phillis Wheatley 120

Essay 126

Dissent in Time of War 126

Selected Readings 131

CHAPTER 5. ESTABLISHING A NEW NATION 132

Western Expansion 135

Creating a Government 136

Using the Constitution 143

The First Party System Is Born 149

An Exciting Generation 156

Biographical Sketches 138

Daniel Shays 138

Philip Freneau 153

Richard Allen 157

Essay 160

Creating an American Culture 160

Selected Readings 163

CHAPTER 6. ADOLESCENT AMERICA 164

A New Party Takes Over 166

Jeffersonian Triumphs 168

Jeffersonian Troubles 180

Jeffersonian America: An Overview 184

Biographical Sketches 169

Thomas Jefferson 169

Stephen Decatur 171

Sacajawea 176

Essay 187

Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the West 187

Selected Readings 193

CHAPTER 7. WAR AND PEACE 194

The Path to War 196

The War of 1812 200

Postwar Developments 209

Biographical Sketches 197

Dolley Madison 197

Oliver Hazard Perry 204

Edward Coles 215

Essay 218

Turning Points: The Old Order Was Ending 218

Selected Readings 223

CHAPTER 8. THE GENESIS OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA 224

The Transportation Revolution 226

Government and the Economy 233

The Factory System 235

Extensions of Industrialization 241

The Early Labor Movement 246

The Rise of Cities 247

Biographical Sketches 232

Peter Cooper 232

Elias Howe 238

Lucy Larcom 244

Essay 249

The Birth of Mass Production 249

Selected Readings 253

CHAPTER 9. RACE, SEX, AND NATIONALITY 254

Black Americans 256

Indians and Indian Policy 268

Women and Women's Rights 274

Immigrants 279

Biographical Sketches 262

Simon Gray 262

Sequoyah 268

Lucretia Coffin Mott 277

Essay 283

The Struggle for Full Citizenship 283

Selected Readings 289

CHAPTER 10. RELIGION, REFORM AND UTOPIANISM 290

Religion 293

Humanitarian Reform 296

Utopianism 310

Biographical Sketches 297

Sarah Margaret Fuller 297

Neal Dow 300

Frederick Douglass 307

Essay 314

To the Health of the American People 314

Selected Readings 319

CHAPTER 11. THE AGE OF JACKSON 320

New Political Competition 322

Establishing Jacksonian Democracy 327

The Jacksonian Heritage 336

Politics, Expansion, and Slavery 341

Biographical Sketches 331

Daniel Webster 331

Joshua Reed Giddings 339

James Gilllespie Birney 344

Essay 349

Polk and the Problems of a Powerful Presidency 349

Selected Readings 353

CHAPTER 12. AMERICA AT MID-CENTURY 354

Expansion and Growth 356

Social and Cultural Diversity 365

Contrasts and Contradictions 375

Biographical Sketches 363

Matthew Calbraith Perry 363

Stephen Foster 369

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale 371

Essay 378

The Face of America at Mid-Century 378

Selected Readings 381

CHAPTER 13. SECTIONALISM AND SECESSION 382

Territorial Expansion and Politics 384

The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy 394

Growth of the Republican Party 400

Emotionalism at High Tide 402

What Caused the Civil War? 407

Biographical Sketches 387

William Henry Seward 387

Harriet Beecher Stowe 392

George Fitzhugh 394

Essay 409

The Supreme Court and Its Work 409

Selected Readings 415

CHAPTER 14. THE WAR TO SAVE THE UNION 416

The Path to War 418

A Contest of Arms and Ideas 425

From Antietam to Appomattox 429

The People Who Fought the War 436

Aftermath 441

Biographical Sketches 423

Robert E. Lee 423

Ulysses S. Grant 430

Lucy and Sarah Chase 442

Essay 443

War: Its Effects and Costs 443

Selected Readings 447

CHAPTER 15. RESTORING THE UNION 448

Lincoln and Preparations for Reconstruction 450

Johnson and Reconstruction 453

Congressional Reconstruction 456

Radical Reconstruction 459

The End of Reconstruction Politics 467

Reconstruction in Retrospect 470

Biographical Sketches 452

Benjamin Franklin Wade 452

Robert Smalls 466

Victoria Clafin Woodhull 473

Essay 476

Turning Points: America Comes of Age 476

Selected Readings 479