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Each chapter ends with "Conclusion," "Sites to Visit," and "For Further Reading."
I. NORTH AMERICAN FOUNDERS.
1. First Founders.
Ancient America.
A Thousand Years of Change: 500 to 1500.
Linking the Continents.
Spain Enters the Americas.
The Protestant Reformation Plays Out in America.
Interpreting History: “These Gods That We Worship Give Us Everything We Need.”
2. European Footholds in North America, 1600-1660.
Spain's Ocean-Spanning Reach.
France and Holland: Overseas Competition for Spain.
English Beginnings on the Atlantic Coast.
The Puritan Experiment.
The Chesapeake Bay Colonies.
Interpreting History: Anne Bradstreet: “The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America.”
3. Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715.
France and the American Interior.
The Spanish Empire on the Defensive.
England's American Empire Takes Shape.
Bloodshed in the English Colonies: 1670-1690.
Consequences of War and Growth: 1690-1715.
Interpreting History: “Marry or Do Not Marry.”
II. A CENTURY OF COLONIAL EXPANSION TO 1775.
4. African Enslavement: The Terrible Transformation.
The Descent into Race Slavery.
The Growth of Slave Labor Camps.
England Enters the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Survival in a Strange New Land.
The Transformation Completed.
Interpreting History: “Releese Us out of This Cruell Bondegg.”
5. An American Babel, 1713-1763.
New Cultures on the Western Plains.
Britain's Mainland Colonies: A New Abundance of People.
The Varied Economic Landscape.
Matters of Faith: The Great Awakening.
The French Lose a North American Empire.
Interpreting History: “Pastures Can Be Found Almost Everywhere.” Joshua Von Kochertal Recruits Germans to Carolina.
6. The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763-1775.
New Challenges to Spain's Expanded Empire.
New Challenges to Britain's Expanded Empire.
“The Unconquerable Rage of the People.”
A Conspiracy of Corrupt Ministers?
Launching a Revolution.
Interpreting History: “Squeez’d and Oppressed.” A 1768 Petition by 30 Regulators.
III. THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION, 1775-1803.
7. Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783.
“Things Are Now Come to That Crisis.”
Declaring Independence.
The Struggle to Win French Support.
Legitimate States, a Respectable Military.
The Long Road to Yorktown.
Interpreting History: “Revoking Those Sacred Trusts Which Are Violated.”
8. New Beginnings: The 1780s
Beating Swords into Plowshares.
Competing for Control of the Mississippi Valley.
Creditors and Debtors.
Drafting a New Constitution.
Ratification and the Bill of Rights.
Interpreting History: Demobilization: “Turned Adrift Like Old Worn-Out Horses.”
9. Revolutionary Legacies, 1789-1803.
Competing Political Visions in the New Nation.
People of Color: New Freedoms, New Struggles.
Continuity and Change in the West.
Shifting Social Identities in the Post-Revolutionary Era.
The Election of 1800: Revolution or Reversal?
Interpreting History: A Sailmaker Discusses “Means for the Preservation of Liberty” on the Fourth of July, 1797.
IV. EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES OF FREEDOM AND SLAVERY, 1803-1848.
10. Defending and Expanding the New Nation, 1803-1818.
The British Menace.
The War of 1812.
The “Era of Good Feelings”?
The Rise of the Cotton Plantation Economy.
11. Expanding Westward: Society and Politics in the “Age of the Common Man,” 1819-1832.
The Politics Behind Western Expansion.
Federal Authority and Its Opponents.
Real People in the “Age of the Common Man.”
Ties That Bound a Growing Population.
Interpreting History: Jose Agustin de Escudero Describes New Mexico as a Land of Opportunity.
12. Peoples in Motion, 1832-1848.
Mass Migrations.
A Multitude of Voices in the National Political Arena.
Reform Impulses.
The United States Extends Its Reach.
Interpreting History:Senator John C. Calhoun Warns Against Incorporating Mexico into the United States.
V. DISUNION AND REUNION.
13. The Crisis over Slavery, 1848-1860.
Regional Economies and Conflicts.
Individualism vs. Group Identity.
The Paradox of Southern Political Power.
The Deepening Conflict over Slavery.
Interpreting History:Professor Howe on the Subordination of Women.
14. “To Fight to Gain a Country”: The Civil War.
Mobilization for War, 1861-1862.
The Course of War, 1862-1864.
The Other War: African American Struggles for Liberation.
Battle Fronts and Home Fronts in 1863.
The Prolonged Defeat of the Confederacy, 1864-1865.
Interpreting History: A Virginia Slaveholder Objects to the Impressment of Slaves.
15. In the Wake of War: Consolidating a Triumphant Union, 1865-1877.
The Struggle over the South.
Claiming Territory for the Union.
The Republican Vision and Its Limits.
Interpreting History: A Southern Labor Contract.
VI. THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN AMERICA, 1877-1900.
16. Standardizing the Nation: Innovations in Technology, Business, and Culture, 1877-1890.
The New Shape of Business.
The Birth of a National Urban Culture.
Thrills, Chills, and Bathtubs: The Emergence of Consumer Culture.
Defending the New Industrial Order.
Interpreting History: Andrew Carnegie and the “Gospel of Wealth.”
17. Challenges to Government and Corporate Power, 1877-1890.
Resistance to Legal and Military Authority.
Revolt in the Workplace.
Crosscurrents of Reform.
Interpreting History: Albert Parson’s Plea for Anarchy.
18. Political and Cultural Conflict in a Decade of Depression and War: The 1890s.
Frontiers at Home, Lost and Found.
The Search for Alliances.
American Imperialism.
Interpreting History: Proceedings of the Congressional Committee on the Philippines.
VII. REFORM AT HOME, REVOLUTION ABROAD, 1900-1929.
19. The Promise and Perils of Progressive Reform, 1900-1912.
Immigration: The Changing Face of the Nation.
Work, Science, and Leisure.
Reformers and Radicals.
Expanding National Power.
Interpreting History:Defining Whiteness.
20. War and Revolution, 1912-1920.
A World in Upheaval.
The Great War and American Neutrality.
The United States Goes to War.
The Struggle to Win the Peace.
Interpreting History: African American Women in the Great War.
21. The Promise of Consumer Culture: The 1920s.
The Business of Politics.
The Decline of Reform.
Hollywood and Harlem: National Cultures in Black and White.
Science on Trial.
Consumer Dreams and Nightmares.
Interpreting History: Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim.
VIII. FROM DEPRESSION AND WAR TO WORLD POWER, 1929-1953.
22. Hardship and Hope in the 1930s: The Great Depression.
The Great Depression.
Presidential Responses to the Depression.
The New Deal.
A New Political Culture.
Interpreting History: Songs of the Great Depression.
23. Global Conflict: World War II, 1937-1945.
Mobilizing for War.
Pearl Harbor: The United States Enters the War.
The Home Front.
Race and War.
Total War.
Interpreting History: Zelda Webb Anderson, “You Just Met One Who Does Not Know How to Cook.”
24. Cold War and Hot War, 1945-1953.
The Uncertainties of Victory.
The Quest for Security.
A Cold War Society.
The United States and Asia.
Interpreting History: NSC-68.
IX. THE COLD WAR AT FULL TIDE, 1953-1979.
25. Domestic Dreams and Atomic Nightmares, 1953-1963.
Cold War, Warm Hearth.
The Civil Rights Movement.
The Eisenhower Years.
Outsiders and Opposition.
The Kennedy Era.
Interpreting History: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.
26. The Nation Divides: The Vietnam War and Social Conflict, 1964-1971.
Lyndon Johnson and the Apex of Liberalism.
Into War in Vietnam.
The Movement.
The Conservative Response.
Interpreting History: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Vietnam War.
27. Reconsidering National Priorities, 1972-1979.
Twin Shocks: Détente and Watergate.
Discovering the Limits of the U.S. Economy.
Reshuffling Politics.
Diffusing the Women's Movement.
Interpreting History: The Church Committee and CIA Covert Operations.
X. GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1979-2006.
28. The Cold War Returns–and Ends, 1979-1991.
Anticommunism Revived.
Republican Rule at Home.
Cultural Conflict.
The End of the Cold War.
Interpreting History: Religion and Politics in the 1980s.
29. Post-Cold War America, 1991-2000.
The Economy: Global and Domestic.
Tolerance and Its Limits.
Violence and Danger.
The Clinton Presidency.
The Nation and the World.
The Contested Election of 2000.
Interpreting History: Vermont Civil Union Law.
30. A Global Nation for the New Millennium.
The George W. Bush Administration.
The American Place in a Global Economy.
The Stewardship of Natural Resources.
The Expansion of American Popular Culture Abroad.
Identity in Contemporary America.
Interpreting History: The Slow Food Movement.
Appendix.
The Declaration of Independence.
The Articles of Confederation.
The Constitution of the United States of America.
Amendments to the Constitution.
Presidential Elections.
Present Day United States.
Present Day World.
Glossary.
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reviewed Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States, Brief Edition, Combined Volume on July 09, 2008
Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States, Brief Edition, Combined Volume
The degree to which US government is participative has changed from more participative to less participative and back again many times in US history. Morone traces the history of participative democracy as a series of political movements occurring in various times in US history where decision-making and policy development were pushed down to the people instead of the government. When describing the history of the successive movements, Morone discusses the lessons learned and changes made. According to Morone, the people have not yet maintained a true participative government because corruption and competing interests continually absorb the movement.
The movements Morone described began in similar ways'the current government would reach an impasse and struggle to create policy and progress. Upon realizing the ineffectiveness of government, communities of like-minded citizens would bind together under a common cause and advocate for government or social change. For example, in the Jackson presidency, Jackson himself imposed term limits in the Congress and resisted replacing federal employees with party loyalists and friends, which was a common practice at the time. The term limits, in particular, were a progressive idea that is still in place in modern US government. According to Morone, the rotation of delegates resembles the progressive idea of seeking expert input to achieve effective public policy.
It's a heavy book, but very informative. If you have a serious interest in understanding progressive government, it's a must-read.
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