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1 The Collision Of Cultures
2 Britain And Its Colonies
3 Colonial Ways Of Life
4 The Imperial Perspective
5 From Empire To Independence
6 The American Revolution
7 Shaping A Federal Union
8 The Federalist Era
9 The Early Republic
10 Nationalism And Sectionalism
11 The Jacksonian Impulse
12 The Dynamics Of Growth
13 An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, And Reform
14 Manifest Destiny
15 The Old South
16 The Crisis Of Union
17 The War Of The Union
18 Reconstruction: North And South
19 New Frontiers: South And West
20 Big Business And Organized Labor
21 The Emergence Of Urban America
22 Gilded-age Politics And Agrarian Revolt
23 An American Empire
24 The Progressive Era
25 America And The Great War
26 The Modern Temper
27 Republican Resurgence And Decline
28 New Deal America
29 From Isolation To Global War
30 The Second World War
31 The Fair Deal And Containment
32 Through The Picture Window: Society And Culture, 1945–1960
33 Conflict And Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years
34 New Frontiers: Politics And Social Change In The 1960s
35 Rebellion And Reaction In The 1960s And 1970s
36 A Conservative Insurgency
37 Triumph And Tragedy: America At The Turn Of The Century

  1. Myth and reality in the Old South
    1. Contrasting myths about southern whites
      1. Paternalistic and aristocratic
      2. Arrogant and brutal
    2. Distinctive features of the Old South
      1. Geography and weather
      2. Slavery
      3. Native-born population
      4. Assumption of distinctiveness
    3. Diverse farming
      1. King Cotton
      2. Food crops
      3. Soil exhaustion and erosion
    4. Manufacturing and trade
      1. Dependence on North
      2. Reasons for lack of industry
        1. Unsuitability of blacks
        2. Disdain of elites
        3. Profitability of slavery
  2. White society in the South
    1. Tragedy of dependence on cotton
    2. Plantation
      1. Definition
      2. Extent of slaveholding
      3. Way of life
      4. Planters’ wives
    3. Middle class
      1. Overseers
      2. Yeoman farmers
    4. “Poor whites”
      1. Different from yeomen
      2. “Lazy diseases”
    5. Culture of honor and violence
      1. Sense of honor
      2. Duels
  3. Black society in the South
    1. Free persons of color
      1. Origins and status
      2. Mulattoes
      3. Black slaveholders
      4. Occupations
      5. Discrimination against
    2. Slavery
      1. Plantation slavery
        1. Work
        2. Owner’s control
        3. Slave retaliation
          1. Revolts
          2. Malingering
          3. Sabotage
      2. Slave women
        1. Reproduction
        2. Demands of motherhood
        3. Work
        4. Sexual abuse
      3. Slave life
        1. Community
        2. Religion
        3. Family
  4. The Frontier South
    1. The Southwest
    2. Migration patterns
      1. To economic opportunity
      2. Young men
      3. Slaves
    3. Settlement
      1. Land purchases
      2. Environment
    4. Masculine culture
      1. Sex roles
      2. Drinking, gambling, fighting
  5. Antislavery movements
    1. Efforts for colonization
      1. American Colonization Society, 1817
      2. Free black community’s reactions to colonization
      3. Creation of Liberia
    2. Development of abolitionist movement
      1. From gradualism to abolitionism
        1. Garrison’s Liberator
        2. Nat Turner’s rebellion
        3. Antislavery groups
      2. Tensions in movement
        1. Radical wing
        2. Simple abolitionism
        3. Issue of women’s rights
        4. New York anti-feminists
    3. Black efforts against slavery
      1. Issue of involvement in white antislavery groups
      2. Former slaves as leading abolitionists
        1. Sojourner Truth’s role
        2. Frederick Douglass’s contributions
        3. Harriet Tubman
    4. Nature of the Underground Railroad
    5. Northern discrimination against blacks
  6. Reactions to antislavery agitation
    1. The “Gag Rule” in Congress
      1. Petitions to end slavery in District of Columbia
      2. House decision to table petitions
      3. John Quincy Adams’s role
    2. Creation of the Liberty party (1840)
    3. Efforts to support slavery and deny abolitionism
      1. Biblical arguments for slavery
      2. Belief in intrinsic inferiority of blacks
      3. Socially impossible for blacks and whites to live together
      4. Attacks on northern wage slavery in the factory system
        1. Views of George Fitzhugh
        2. Calhoun’s arguments
      5. Critics of slavery in the South silenced

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