Term paper resource guide to nineteenth-century U.S. history / Kathleen W. Craver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craver, Kathleen W.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--19th century--Chronology.

United States.

United States--History--19th century--Bibliography.

Report writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Report writing.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Bibliographies.

Chronologies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 407 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.

Contents:

1 Presidential Election of 1800 1

2 Barbary Pirate Wars (1801-1815) 5

3 Innovations and Inventions (1801-1807) 9

4 The Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Connection (1802) 13

5 Robert Fulton and the Steamboat (1803) 17

6 The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806) 21

7 Louisiana Purchase (1803) 25

8 Marbury v. Madison (1803) 29

9 Fall of Aaron Burr (1804-1807) 32

10 Slave Trade Act (1807) 36

11 War of 1812 Catalysts (1807-1809) 41

12 John Jacob Astor and the Fur Trade (1808) 45

13 Tecumseh and "the Prophet" (1811) 49

14 War of 1812 53

15 Hartford Convention (1814) 56

16 Francis Cabot Lowell and Early Industrialization (1815) 60

17 African Methodist Episcopal Church Founded (1816) 64

18 Erie Canal (1817) 68

19 Seminole Wars (1817-1858) 72

20 McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) 76

21 Missouri Compromise (1820) 80

22 Land Act of 1820 84

23 Survival on the Essex (1820) and Mutiny on the Globe (1824) 88

24 Santa Fe Trail (1821) 93

25 American Colonization Society and the Founding of Liberia (1822) 97

26 Monroe Doctrine (1823) 101

27 Presidential Election of 1824, "A Corrupt Bargain" 105

28 New Harmony, Indiana, Founded (1825) 109

29 Jacksonian Democracy and the Spoils System (1829-1837) 113

30 Davy Crockett "Frontier Hero" 117

31 Abolitionist Movement (1830s) 121

32 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (1830) 125

33 Indian Removal Act (1830) 129

34 Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion (1831) 133

35 Nullification Crisis (1832-1833) 137

36 Democracy in America (1835 and 1840) by Alexis de Tocqueville 142

37 Texas Revolution (1835-1836) 145

38 Samuel Colt and the Revolver (1836) 150

39 Trail of Tears (1838) 153

40 The Amistad Mutiny (1839) 158

41 Immigration (1840s) 162

42 Dorr's Rebellion (1842) 166

43 Samuel F. B. Morse and the Telegraph (1844) 169

44 Henry David Thoreau and the Transcendentalists (1846) 174

45 Mexican-American War (1846-1848) 177

46 The Donner Party Ordeal (1846-1847) 181

47 The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) 185

48 Mormon Migration to Utah (1846-1847) 189

49 Seneca Falls Convention (1848) 194

50 California Gold Rush (1849) 197

51 Compromise of 1850 201

52 Underground Railroad (1850s-1860) 205

53 Rise of P. T. Barnum, Burlesque, and Vaudeville (1850s-1880s) 210

54 Know-Nothing Party (1854-1856) 213

55 Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) 217

56 William Walker and Nicaragua (1856-1857) 222

57 Dred Scott Case (1857) 225

58 Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) 229

59 Black Gold Discovered in Pennsylvania (1859) 233

60 John Brown and the Raid on Harper's Ferry (1859) 237

61 Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Election and Secession (1860-1861) 241

62 Battles of Bull Run (1861 and 1862) 245

63 Emancipation Proclamation (1862) 249

64 The Battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga (1863) 253

65 End of the Civil War and the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (1865) 257

66 Reconstruction Amendments (1865-1870) 261

67 Formation of the Ku Klux Klan (1866) 266

68 Purchase of Alaska (1867) 269

69 The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson (1868) 273

70 Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad (1869) 277

71 Rise of the Robber Barons (1870-1880s) 281

72 Final Solution for the American Indian (1871-1879) 285

73 Boss Tweed's Ring (1871-1872) 289

74 Great Chicago Fire (1871) 293

75 Creation of Yellowstone National Park (1872) 297

76 Trial of Susan B. Anthony and the Rights of Women (1873) 301

77 Red River War and Sioux Wars (1875-1877) 305

78 Alexander Graham Bell and the Invention of the Telephone (1876) 309

79 Great Railroad Strike (1877) 313

80 Inventions of Thomas Edison (1877-1879) 317

81 Yellow Journalism (1880s-1890s) 321

82 Assassination of President James A. Garfield (1881) 326

83 Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881) 330

84 Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) 334

85 First Skyscraper Built (1883) 338

86 Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) 341

87 Founding of the American Federation of Labor (1886) 345

88 Haymarket Square Riot (1886) 349

89 Oklahoma Land Rush (1889) 353

90 Nellie Bly, Journalist Extraordinaire 357

91 New Immigration Wave (1890s) 361

92 How the Other Half Lives (1890) 365

93 "Yellow Peril" Campaign Against the Japanese (1892) 369

94 Frederick Jackson Turner's Thesis of the American Frontier (1893) 373

95 Pullman Strike (1894) 378

96 Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895) 382

97 Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 386

98 United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) 390

99 Spanish-American War (1898) 394

100 Scott Joplin and Ragtime Music (1899) 398.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9780313348105

0313348103

OCLC:

191727455