A Nation Rising

Kenneth C. Davis

• Éditeur: HarperCollins e-books
• Année: 2010
• ISBN:
  9780061993503
• Sujet: Histoire
• Sous-sujet: Histoire de l'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes

"History in Davis's hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable."
— San Francisco Chronicle

Following on his New York Times bestsellers America's Hidden History and Don't Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country's hidden history: the gritty first half of the 19th century, among the most tumultuous in the nation's short life.

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Abolitionism, 111, 113, 124, 195–96. See also Douglass, Frederick

Amistad slave mutiny and, 126

censorship laws against, 166

Congressional “gag rule,” 140–41

Frémont and, 212, 252

John Brown’s insurrection, 166

Liberty Party, 182

newspapers, 140, 181, 194–95

pro-slavery violence, 181, 195, 196

Abraham (Black Seminole), 168–69

Adams, Henry, 59

Adams, John, 3, 16, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 50, 52, 55, 58, 86, 111, 134, 200

Adams, John Quincy, 110, 126

African Americans, xv, 95. See also Slavery

alliances with Native Americans, 102, 142, 166–69

in Florida, 101–3, 105, 166–69

in Fort Mims massacre, 71

homes burned in Philadelphia, 195

population in U.S., 1810, 65

prohibition on literacy, 134, 136

repatriation to Africa and, 109, 110

Second Seminole War and, 167

Alabama, 69, 81, 91, 109

Alaska, 217, 234

Alexander Hamilton (Chernow), 44

Alien Act of 1798, 200

Allen, Ethan, 169

Alston, Joseph, 15, 15n, 50, 57

Alston, Theodosia Burr, 9, 15n, 34–35, 58, 61

Ambrister, Robert, 102–3

American Anti-Slavery Society, 195–96, 249

American Colonization Society, 109, 110, 120

American Lion (Meacham), xx, 78, 159, 175

American West, xx–xxi, 65, 156. See also California

annexation of New Mexico, 218

calls for expansion into, 208

exploration of, 218 221, 239–40

fight for California, 177, 182, 218, 244, 245

trails to, 177

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 218

Amistad mutiny, 112, 122, 125–27

Anderson, Fred, 100

Anti-Masonic Party, 111

Anti-Slavery Society, 166

Arbuthnot, Alexander, 102–3

Arkansas, 111

Arnold, Benedict, xix, 23n, 26–27, 30, 32

Arnold, Peggy Shippen, 23n

Ashley, Robert, 9

Astor, John Jacob, 47

Aurora newspaper, 38

Austin, Moses, 217

Austin, Stephen, 217

Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (Monk), 183, 205

Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 38

Bahamas, 120, 139

Bailey, Dixon, 74, 75

Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 224–25

Bank of New York, 40

Bank of the Manhattan Co., 39–40

Bank of the United States, 156

Baptist Church, 181

Baton Rouge, 65

Battle of Bunker Hill, 31, 245

Battle of Burnt Corn Creek, 71, 85

Battle of Harlem Heights, 31

Battle of Horseshoe Bend, 66, 96–97, 104

Battle of New Orleans, 66, 77

Battle of Quebec, 26–29, 48

Battle of Stono Ferry, 79

Battle of Thames, 85

Battle of Tippecanoe, 66, 84

Bayard, James A., 42

Beasley, David,...