The American Nation (v. 1)

The political history of the United States is intimately tied with its social, economic and cultural development. Co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore this relationship and show how it took the voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - The United States of America. Long renowned for its elegant narrative style, The American Nation in this Thirteenth Edition retains its most significant strength--its rich and memorable prose.

Maps and Graphs Features American Lives Re-Viewing the Past Mapping the Past Debating the Past Preface About the Authors PROLOGUE Beginnings First Peoples The Demise of the Big Mammals The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals The First Sedentary Communities The Maize Revolution The Diffusion of Corn Population Growth After 800 Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture The Collapse of Urban Centers Eurasia and Africa Europe in Ferment DEBATING THE PAST Who--or What--Killed the Big Mammals? Mapping the Past Debate over the Earliest Route to the Americas Chapter 1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas Sightings Columbus's Great Triumph--and Error Spain's American Empire Extending Spain's Empire to the North Disease and Population Losses Ecological Imperialism Spain's European Rivals The Protestant Reformation English Beginnings in America The Settlement of Virginia "Purifying" the Church of England Bradford and Plymouth Colony Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson Other New England Colonies French and Dutch Settlements Maryland and the Carolinas The Middle Colonies Cultural Collisions Cultural Fusions DEBATING THE PAST How Many Indians Perished with European Settlement? American Lives Tisquantum Chapter 2 American Society in the Making Settlement of New France Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard The Chesapeake Colonies The Lure of Land "Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco Bacon's Rebellion The Carolinas Home and Family in the South Georgia and the Back Country Puritan New England The Puritan Family Visible Puritan Saints and Others Democracies Without Democrats The Dominion of New England Salem Bewitched Higher Education in New England A Merchant's World The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples "The Best Poor Man's Country" The Politics of Diversity Becoming Americans Re-Viewing the Past The Crucible DEBATING THE PAST Were Puritan Communities Peaceable? Chapter 3 Americain the British Empire The British Colonial System Mercantilism The Navigation Acts The Effects of Mercantilism The Great Awakening The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards The Enlightenment in America Colonial Scientific Achievements Repercussions of Distant Wars The Great War for the Empire Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris Burdens of an Expanded Empire Tightening Imperial Controls The Sugar Act American Colonists Demand Rights The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling Rioters or Rebels? Taxation or Tyranny? The Declaratory Act The Townshend Duties The Boston Massacre The Pot Spills Over The Tea Act Crisis From Resistance to Revolution American Lives Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi DEBATING THE PAST Do Artists Depict Historical Subjects Accurately? Chapter 4 The American Revolution "The Shot Heard Round the World" The Second Continental Congress The Battle of Bunker Hill The Great Declaration 1776: The Balance of Forces Loyalists The British Take New York City Saratoga and the French Alliance The War Moves South Victory at Yorktown Negotiating a Favorable Peace National Government Under the Articles of Confederation Financing the War State Republican Governments Social Reform Effects of the Revolution on Women Growth of a National Spirit The Great Land Ordinances National Heroes A National Culture Re-Viewing the Past The Patriot DEBATING THE PAST Was the American Revolution Rooted in Class Struggle? Chapter 5 The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation Daniel Shays's "Little Rebellion" To Philadelphia, and the Constitution The Great Convention The Compromises That Produced the Constitution Ratifying the Constitution Washington as President Congress Under Way Hamilton and Financial Reform The Ohio Country: A

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