Jacksonian America- 1815-1840 new society, changing politics
Edited by Frank Otto Gatell and John M. McFaul
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1970
- 185 p
- a Spectrum Book .
I. Transportation revolution -- 1. DeWitt Clinton: Prophet of internal improvements -- 2. Daniel Webster: Economic nationalism continued -- 3. Qualified nationalism: A southern spokesman -- 4. Political problems: Northern style -- 5. Political problems: Southern style -- II. The worker -- 1. An early labor manifesto -- 2. The antilabor mentality -- 3. A European observer and the Lowell "miracle" -- 4. An American radical -- III. Religion -- 1. The Unitarian sunrise: William Ellery Channing -- 2. The revivalist campfire: Charles G. Finney -- 3. A conservative indictment: Francis Lieber -- IV. The spirit and practice of reform -- 1. The good soul: Ralph Waldo Emerson -- 2. Education for conservatism: Horace Mann -- 3. Females, human rights, and reform -- 4. Establishment reform: African colonization -- 5. Colonization under fire: The abolitionist temper -- V. The new rules -- 1. Universal suffrage: Divergent views -- 2. The lawmakers -- 3. The acceptance of party -- 4. Looking for votes -- VI. The Jacksonians take over -- 1. The barbarians at the gates -- 2. The scourge of patronage -- 3. Strengthening the presidency -- VII. The bank war -- 1. Jackson's veto: No retreat -- 2. The enemy camp: Calculations and daydreams -- 3. Van Buren's "divorce" of bank and state -- VIII. Whig response -- 1. The new Whigs: Weed, the operator -- 2. The new Whigs: Seward, the believer -- 3. An old fogy, northern style -- 4. A young fogy, southern style -- 5. Democratic Whigs? -- doubts of a German skeptic -- Suggestions for further readings.