Contributor
Huston, Reeve, 1960-
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Descriptionix, 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Introduction -- Note on sources and interpretation -- The people rule, but who are the people? The founders' social vision ; Poor white men's bid for equality ; Middle- and upper-class women's bid for intellectual equality ; The attack on slavery -- Creating a political order. The federalists' political vision ; An elite opposition emerges ; A popular opposition emerges ; The clash of parties ; President Jefferson -- Expanding the national territory. Acquiring the land ; Indians, white settlers, and the federal government ; Squatters and the federal government ; Life in the western farm settlements ; Expanding slavery ; Beyond the Mississippi -- The transformation of the North. Before the Industrial Revolution ; Economic innovators ; Religious innovators ; Innovators in family life ; A new world of wage labor ; Origins of the American labor movement ; The beginnings of mass immigration -- Masters and slaves. The struggle for control ; The world of the enslaved ; Resistance, repression, and rebellion -- Picture essay : Picturing families -- The triumph of partisan democracy. Creating a white male electorate ; Re-creating party politics ; Party issues, party principles ; Politics without parties -- Race, reform, and sectional conflict. A new antislavery movement ; A woman's rights movement emerges ; Southern leaders defend slavery ; Antiabolitionism and a new racial regime in the North -- Epilogue: Becoming a continental nation. Refiguring American nationalism ; Anglos and Mexicans in the conquered territories ; The sectional conflict deepens -- Timeline.
