The free and the unfree : a progressive history of the United States / Peter N. Carroll and David W. Noble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Peter N.

Contributor:

Noble, David W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

503 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Third revised edition, third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2001.

Summary:

The creators of the Constitution based the American system on principles of equality and freedom, but often people who made America their home faced inequality, injustice, and legal discrimination. The Free and the Unfree documents what happened when Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, religious minorities, and women tested America's humanitarian and democratic principles. It surveys the social, cultural, political, and economic developments that broadened America's definition of freedom -- from the earliest contacts with Native Americans and the Revolutionary War through the Civil Rights movement and the sexual revolution. The Free and the Unfree presents a concise, thorough, and up-to-date examination of the spirit and limits of freedom, providing readers with a little-known perspective on American history.

Contents:

Part 1 American Societies: From Settlement to Nation 21

Chapter 1 Native Americans Meet Native Europeans 23

Native American cultures and their lands

The first contact: Columbus and European exploration

The European background: Protestant Reformation, political nationalism, economic change, Renaissance curiosity

Race for empire: early exploration, conquest, and colonization

Chapter 2 The Transplantation 43

The instruments of European expansion

Tudor England on the eve of colonization

Anglican and Puritan conflict

Jamestown: first permanent English settlement

Puritans in New England

Proprietary colonies

Organizing space and time

The colonial family

Colonial religion: the Great Awakening and religious toleration

Chapter 3 Colonial Economy and Social Structure 69

New England commerce and southern tobacco economy

Commerce and conflict in the Middle Atlantic colonies

Mercantilism and the Navigation Acts

Westward expansion vs. Native American interests

Slavery and black society

The provincial elite

Social mobility and social stratification on the eve of revolution

Chapter 4 Politics and the American Revolution 91

Political values and the emergence of modern politics

Colonial political structure

The imperial wars and the Treaty of Paris

England's great war for empire and colonial protest against taxation and other Intolerable Acts

The War for Independence: origins, military engagements, peace settlement

Establishing state governments

The Articles of Confederation: the first national government and the call for reform

Chapter 5 The Constitution and American Identity 125

Cultural nationalism after 1776

Constitution making: the Philadelphia convention, Federalists vs. Antifederalists, ratification, and political consensus

The emergence of national identity

Thomas Jefferson's legacy to America

Part 2 National Expansion: From Constitution to Civil War 141

Chapter 6 Social Patterns North and South 143

Marriage and the family

Morality and religion

The organization of time in American life: the clock industry

Growth of factories, transportation, and industrial markets

Population growth and European immigration

Industrial values and the urban working class

Social structure in northern industrial society

Southern slavery and black culture: plantation economy and King Cotton, black challenges to slavery

Attitudes toward women and children

Women's rights and Seneca Falls

Chapter 7 The Organization of Space 163

Western expansion and Manifest Destiny

Geographical exclusion: wars with Native Americans and removal to reservations

Texas and the Mexican War

The colonization movement vs. abolitionism

Persecution of Mormons

Urban planning and the growth of cities: grid plans

Anti-Catholicism: nativism and the Know-Nothing party

Consequences of racial separation: urban violence

Nineteenth-century reforms: prisons, asylums, and the environment

Chapter 8 Politics and Power 185

Founding the Republic: the paradox of political parties and local politics

Alexander Hamilton's financial program and the beginnings of national political parties: Republicans vs. Federalists

Foreign-policy formulations under Washington, Jefferson, and Madison

War of 1812

Era of Good Feelings: nationalism vs. sectionalism, the Missouri Compromise, and political reform

Andrew Jackson, President of the people: Democrats vs. Whigs, the Bank War, nullification controversy, and the Tariff of Abominations

Presidential election, 1856: Dred Scott Decision, Lincoln in office, sectional crisis, secession and the coming of civil war

Chapter 9 The Civil War and American Identity 211

The war and its aftermath: strategies, battles, death immersion, Emancipation Proclamation

The weakness of the Confederacy and the triumph of the nationalist attitude

The Lincoln Presidency and republican destiny: biracial society, Native Americans, social values, and family relations

Lincoln, symbol of unity and death

Part 3 An International Frontier Opens as the Western Frontier Closes 227

Chapter 10 The Collapse of Nineteenth-Century Culture 229

Debacle in the West for Native Americans: reservations and the Dawes Act, disaster at Wounded Knee

Spiritual crisis and other threats to white Protestant values and religious manifest destiny: divorce, fear of sex and death, changing role of women

Social activism: the Purity Crusade

The Teddy Roosevelt ideal

Socializing adolescents and dependent children for class roles

Blacks: citizens only in the eyes of the law

Chapter 11 The New Industrial Economy 257

Railroads transform regional trade to a national economy

The modern corporation

Growth of organized labor

Expansion and mechanization of agriculture

Growth of the metropolis and the urban labor force

The black ghetto: treadmill of poverty and underemployment

Chapter 12 Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century 279

Reconstruction

Democratic party and the "new South"

New industrial elite and the politics of corruption

Populism: the People's party allies with Democrats

Harnessing racial resentment against blacks: disenfranchisement, legalized segregation, and the Ku Klux Klan

Women in politics and women's suffrage

Regulation of power in Washington

Chapter 13 The End of Isolation, 1898-1920 299

President Theodore Roosevelt's two terms

President Woodrow Wilson: the man in office

Exploiting foreign markets

America's Open Door Policy

War in Europe, 1914, and American neutrality

The United States enters World War I

Part 4 The Closing of Frontiers at Home and Abroad, 1920-86 315

Chapter 14 Prosperity and Depression, 1920-40 317

Postwar disillusionment: failure of the Purity Crusade, the jazz era, and the "lost generation"

Explosion of black culture and black pride

Postwar corporate boom

Herbert Hoover: at the helm of a consumer economy

Stockmarket disaster: facing the depression

Roosevelt's emergency measures

Chapter 15 War, Economic Prosperity, and Consensus, 1936-60 343

Re-election of FDR

Japa and Germany threaten American neutrality

War is declared

War economy means economic prosperity

FDR on social issues

Truman completes FDR's fourth term

Cold war with the Soviet Union: Marshall Plan and NATO

The collapse of Nationalist China

Korean conflict

Eisenhower, the Red scare, and the arms race

The end of American innocence

Chapter 16 New Visions, New Ethics, 1950-70 367

Voices of the beatnik poets

Ecology: a "counterculture" science

Children in the counterculture

Changing sex and social roles: women's liberation

Lifting taboos on aging and death

TV: mirror of modern times

Chapter 17 Patterns of Economic Change, 1960-76 383

The Kennedy-Rostow economy

Economic change and the black community

The growth of space technology

Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty

International corporate growth

Inflation and recession

Nixon faces the economic crunch

Oil crisis

Curbing environmental exploitation

Limits to growth

Chapter 18 American Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics, 1960-76 401

John F. Kennedy and Cuba

Escalating involvement in Vietnam

Johnson's Vietnam war

Civil-rights activism and change

Native Americans and "Red Power"

Political women

Nixon reunites Republican party, 1968

Abuses of the Presidency: Watergate

Chapter 19 Politics and Society, 1976-86 419

Gerald Ford and the legacy of Watergate

The rise and fall of Jimmy Carter

Resurgence on the right

Reaganomics and the economic crisis

Iran-Contragate

Social Issues: the family, the elderly, and the poor

Chapter 20 The Crisis of National Identity, 1987-2000 439

The legacy of Ronald Reagan

The brief presidency of George Bush

Cultural pluralism and the rise of Bill Clinton

Prosperity, polarization, and political gridlock

Washington scandals and impeachment

Multiculturalism and the election of 2000.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-495) and index.

ISBN:

0141001585

OCLC:

46822358