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ISBN-10 1938168364 ISBN-13 978-1-938168-36-9 Revision UH-2014-002(03/2016)-BB Table of Contents Preface . 1 Chapter 1: The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492 . 7 1.1 The Americas . 8 1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change . 18 1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery . 24 Chapter 2: Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650 . 33 2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest . 34 2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World . 42 2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy . 46 2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange . 52 Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700 . 63 3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society . 64 3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions . 67 3.3 English Settlements in America . 72 3.4 The Impact of Colonization . 86 Chapter 4: Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763 . 95 4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies . 96 4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire . 102 4.3 An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution . 105 4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment . 110 4.5 Wars for Empire . 114 Chapter 5: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774 . 125 5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War . 126 5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty . 130 5.3 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest . 136 5.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts . 143 5.5 Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity . 147 Chapter 6: America's War for Independence, 1775-1783 . 155 6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences . 156 6.2 The Early Years of the Revolution . 163 6.3 War in the South . 169 6.4 Identity during the American Revolution . 173 Chapter 7: Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790 . 183 7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic . 184 7.2 How Much Revolutionary Change? . 187 7.3 Debating Democracy . 195 7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution . 202 Chapter 8: Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820 . 211 8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans . 212 8.2 The New American Republic . 218 8.3 Partisan Politics . 224 8.4 The United States Goes Back to War . 232 Chapter 9: Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850 . 241 9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast . 242 9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic . 250 9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution . 258 9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions . 261 Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840 . 271 10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson . 272 10.2 The Rise of American Democracy . 278 10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War . 281 10.4 Indian Removal . 285 10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority . 291 Chapter 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860 . 299 11.1 Lewis and Clark . 300 11.2 The Missouri Crisis . 306 11.3 Independence for Texas . 308 11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848 . 313 11.5 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West . 321 Chapter 12: Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860 . 329 12.1 The Economics of Cotton . 330 12.2 African Americans in the Antebellum United States . 336 12.3 Wealth and Culture in the South . 343 12.4 The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States . 353 Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 . 361 13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism . 362 13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments . 368 13.3 Reforms to Human Health . 373 13.4 Addressing Slavery . 377 13.5 Women’s Rights . 382 Chapter 14: Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s . 389 14.1 The Compromise of 1850 . 390 14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party . 399 14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife . 406 14.4 John Brown and the Election of 1860 . 411 Chapter 15: The Civil War, 1860–1865 . 419 15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War . 420 15.2 Early Mobilization and War . 426 15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War . 431 15.4 The Union Triumphant . 440 Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 . 451 16.1 Restoring the Union . 452 16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866 . 456 16.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872 . 460 16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction . 468 Chapter 17: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900 . 479 17.1 The Westward Spirit . 480 17.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities . 486 17.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle . 491 17.4 The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture . 496 17.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens . 502 Chapter 18: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900 . 511 18.1 Inventors of the Age . 512 18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth . 517 18.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor . 524 18.4 A New American Consumer Culture . 533 Chapter 19: The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 . 541 19.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges . 542 19.2 The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration . 550 19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life . 555 19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing . 563 Chapter 20: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900 . 573 This OpenStax book is available for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11740/1.3 20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America . 574 20.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold . 581 20.3.