| Description |
1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations |
| Series |
Gale virtual reference library |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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| Contents |
v. 1. Abolition of Slavery in the North -- Abolition Societies -- Academic and Professional Societies -- Acadians -- Adams, John -- Adams, John Quincy -- Advertising -- Affection -- African Americans -- African Americans: Overview -- African American Life and Culture -- African American Literature -- African American Religion -- African American Responses to Slavery and Race -- Free Blacks in the North -- Free Blacks in the South -- African Survivals -- Agriculture -- Agriculture: Overview -- Agricultural Improvement -- Agricultural Technology -- Alabama -- Alaska -- Albany -- Albany Plan of Union -- Alcohol Consumption -- Alcoholic Beverages and Production -- Alien and Sedition Acts -- Almanacs -- America and the World -- American Character and Identity -- American Indians -- American Indians: Overview -- American Indians: Northern New England -- American Indians: Southern New England -- American Indians: Middle Atlantic -- American Indians: Southeast -- American Indians: Old Northwest -- American Indians: Old Southwest -- American Indians: Plains -- American Indians: Far West -- American Indian Ethnography -- American Indian Policy, 1787-1830 -- American Indian Relations, 1763-1815 -- American Indian Relations, 1815-1829 -- American Indian Religions -- American Indian Removal -- American Indian Resistance to White Expansion -- American Indians as Symbols/Icons -- American Indian Slaveholding -- American Indians: British Policies -- Americanization -- American Philosophical Society -- Americans in Europe -- Anglicans and Episcopalians -- Annapolis Convention -- Anti-Catholicism -- Anti-Federalists -- Anti-Masons -- Antislavery -- Appalachia -- Archaeology -- Architectural Styles -- Architecture -- Architecture: American Indian -- Architecture: Greek Revival -- Architecture: Parks and Landscape -- Architecture: Public -- Architecture: Religious -- Architecture: Spanish Borderlands -- Architecture: Vernacular -- Arithmetic and Numeracy -- Arkansas -- Army, U.S. -- Army Culture -- Arsenals -- Art and American Nationhood -- Articles of Confederation -- Asylums -- Aurora -- Authorship -- Autobiography and Memoir -- Backsliding -- Balloons -- Baltimore -- Banking System -- Bank of the United States -- Bankruptcy Law -- Baptists -- Barbary Wars -- Barter -- Benevolent Associations -- Bible -- Bill of Rights -- Biology -- Blackface Performance -- Blount Conspiracy -- Book Trade -- Boston -- Boston Massacre -- Boston Tea Party -- Botany -- British Army in North America -- British Empire and the Atlantic World -- Bunker Hill, Battle of -- Burr Conspiracy -- Cabinet and Executive Department -- Camp Followers -- Canada -- Capital Punishment -- Cartography -- Cartoons, Political -- Catholicism and Catholics -- Cemeteries and Burial -- Character -- Charleston -- Chemistry -- Chesapeake Affair -- Chesapeake Region -- Childbirth and Childbearing -- Childhood and Adolescence -- Children's Literature -- China Trade -- Chisholm volume Georgia -- Cincinnati -- Circuses -- Citizenship -- City Growth and Development -- City Planning -- Civil Engineering and Building Technology -- Class -- Class: Overview -- Development of the Working Class -- Rise of the Middle Class -- Classical Heritage and American Politics -- Clothing -- Coinage Act of 1792 -- Colonization Movement -- Communitarian Movements and Utopian Communities -- Concept of Empire -- Congregationalists -- Congress -- Connecticut -- Constitution: Eleventh Amendment -- Constitution: Twelfth Amendment -- Constitution, Ratification of -- Constitutional Convention -- Constitutionalism -- Constitutionalism: Overview -- Constitutionalism: American Colonies -- State Constitution Making -- Constitutional Law -- Construction and Home Building -- Consumerism and Consumption -- Continental Army -- Continental Congresses -- Contraception and Abortion -- Corporal Punishment -- Corporations -- Cotton -- Cotton Gin -- Courtship -- Creek War -- Crime and Punishment -- Currency and Coinage -- Dairy Industry -- Dance -- Dartmouth College volume Woodward -- Death and Dying -- Debt and Bankruptcy -- Declaration of Independence -- Deism -- Delaware -- Democratic Republicans -- Democratization -- Demography -- Denominationalism -- Diplomatic and Military Relations, American Indian -- Disability -- Disciples of Christ -- Disestablishment -- Divorce and Desertion -- Domestic Life -- Domestic Violence -- Drugs -- Dueling -- Economic Development -- Economic Theory -- Education -- Education: Overview -- Elementary, Grammar, and Secondary Schools -- Colleges and Universities -- Professional Education -- American Indian Education -- Education of African Americans -- Education of Girls and Women -- Education of the Deaf -- Proprietary Schools and Academies -- Public Education -- Education: Tutors -- Election of 1796 -- Election of 1800 -- Election of 1824 -- Election of 1828 -- Emancipation and Manumission -- Embargo -- Emotional Life -- Encyclopédie -- Environment, Environmental History, and Nature -- Epidemics -- Equality -- Era of Good Feeling -- Erie Canal -- Erotica -- European Influences -- Enlightenment Thought -- The French Revolution -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Napoleon and Napoleonic Rule -- European Responses to America -- Expansion -- Exploration and Explorers |
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v. 2. Fairs -- Fallen Timbers, Battle of -- Fame and Reputation -- Farm Making -- Fashion -- Federalism -- Federalist Papers -- Federalist Party -- Federalists -- Fiction -- Firearms (Nonmilitary) -- Fires and Firefighting -- First Ladies -- Fisheries and the Fishing Industry -- Flag of the United States -- Flags -- Fletcher volume Peck -- Flogging -- Florida -- Folk Arts -- Food -- Foreign Investment and Trade -- Forts and Fortifications -- Founding Fathers -- Fourth of July -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Freedom of the Press -- Free Library Movement -- Freemasons -- French -- French and Indian War, Battles and Diplomacy -- French and Indian War, Consequences of -- Fries's Rebellion -- Frontier -- Frontier Religion -- Frontiersmen -- Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 -- Fur and Pelt Trade -- Furniture -- Gabriel's Rebellion -- Gambling -- Games and Toys, Children's -- Gender -- Gender: Overview -- Gender: Ideas of Womanhood -- Geography -- Georgia -- German-Language Publishing -- Ghent, Treaty of -- Gibbons volume Ogden -- Government -- Government: Overview -- Government: Local -- Government: State -- Government: Territories -- Government and the Economy -- Gunpowder, Munitions, and Weapons (Military) -- Haitian Revolution -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hamilton's Economic Plan -- Happiness -- Hartford Convention -- Health and Disease -- Heating and Lighting -- Hessians -- Historical Memory of the Revolution -- History and Biography -- Holidays and Public Celebrations -- Home -- Homosexuality -- Horseshoe Bend, Battle of -- Hospitals -- Housing -- Humanitarianism -- Humor -- Iconography -- Illinois -- Immigration and Immigrants -- Immigration and Immigrants: Overview -- Immigration and Immigrants: Canada -- Immigration and Immigrants: England and Wales -- Immigration and Immigrants: France -- Immigration and Immigrants: Germans -- Immigration and Immigrants: Ireland -- Immigration and Immigrants: Scots and Scots-Irish -- Anti-Immigrant Sentiment/Nativism -- Immigrant Experience -- Immigrant Policy and Law -- Immigration and Immigrants: Political Refugees -- Immigration and Immigrants: Race and Ethnicity -- Imperial Rivalry in the Americas -- Impressment -- Independence -- Indiana -- Individualism -- Industrial Revolution -- Inheritance -- Insurance -- Internal Improvements -- Interracial Sex -- Intolerable Acts -- Inventors and Inventions -- Iron Mining and Metallurgy -- Iroquois Confederacy -- Jackson, Andrew -- Jay, John -- Jay's Treaty -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jews -- Judaism -- Judicial Review -- Judiciary Act of 1789 -- Judiciary Acts of 1801 and 1802 -- Kentucky -- Labor Movement: Labor Organizations and Strikes -- Lafayette, Marie-Joseph, Marquis de (1757-1834) -- Lake Erie, Battle of -- Land Policies -- Land Speculation -- Language -- Latin American Influences -- Latin American Revolutions, American Response to -- Law -- Federal Law -- Slavery Law -- State Law and Common Law -- Women and the Law -- Leather and Tanning Industry -- Legal Culture -- Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Lexington -- Lexington and Concord, Battle of -- Liberia -- Liberty -- Livestock Production -- London -- Louisiana -- Louisiana Purchase -- Louisville -- Loyalists -- Lumber and Timber Industry -- Madison, James -- Magazines -- Maine -- Malaria -- Male Friendship -- Manliness and Masculinity -- Manners -- Manufacturing -- Manufacturing, in the Home -- Marbury volume Madison -- Marines, U.S. -- Maritime Technology -- Market Revolution -- Marriage -- Marshall, John -- Martin volume Hunter's Lessee -- Maryland -- Massachusetts -- Material Culture -- McCulloch volume Maryland -- Medicine -- Mental Illness -- Merchants -- Mesmerism -- Methodists -- Mexico -- Michigan -- Mid-Atlantic States -- Migration and Population Movement -- Military Technology -- Militias and Militia Service -- Millennialism -- Mint, United States -- Missionary and Bible Tract Societies -- Mississippi -- Mississippi River -- Missouri -- Missouri Compromise -- Monroe, James -- Monroe Doctrine -- Monuments and Memorials -- Moravians -- Mormonism, Origins of -- Museums and Historical Societies -- Music -- Music: African American -- Music: Classical -- Music: Patriotic and Political -- Music: Popular -- Muslims, Concepts and Images of -- Naming of the Nation -- National Capital, The -- National Intelligencer -- Nationalism -- National Republican Party -- National Symbols -- Natural Disasters -- Natural History -- Natural Rights -- Nature, Attitudes Toward -- Naval Technology -- Newburgh Conspiracy -- New England -- New Hampshire -- New Jersey -- New Orleans -- New Orleans, Battle of -- New Spain -- Newspapers -- New York City -- New York State -- Niles' Register -- Nonfiction Prose -- Norfolk -- North Carolina -- Northwest -- Northwest and Southwest Ordinances -- Ohio -- Oklahoma -- Old Age -- Olive Branch Petition -- Orphans and Orphanages -- Pain -- Paine, Thomas -- Painting -- Paleontology -- Panama Congress -- Panic of 1819 -- Parades -- Parenthood -- Parlor -- Parsons' Cause -- Patent Medicines -- Patents and Copyrights -- Patriotic Societies -- Penitentiaries -- Pennsylvania -- People of America -- Personal Appearance -- Philadelphia -- Philanthropy and Giving -- Philosophy -- Phrenology -- Pietists -- Pioneering -- Piracy -- Plantation, The -- Poetry -- Police and Law Enforcement -- Politics -- Politics: Overview -- Party Organization and Operations -- Political Corruption and Scandals -- Political Culture -- Political Economy -- Political Pamphlets -- Political Parties -- Political Parties and the Press -- Political Patronage -- Political Thought -- Pontiac's War -- Popular Sovereignty -- Post Office -- Poverty |
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volume 3. Presbyterians -- Presidency, The -- Presidency, The: Overview -- George Washington -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- James Monroe -- John Quincy Adams -- Press, The -- Print Culture -- Printers -- Printing Technology -- Proclamation of 1763 -- Professions -- Professions: Clergy -- Professions: Lawyers -- Professions: Physicians -- Property -- Prophecy -- Proslavery Thought -- Prostitutes and Prostitution -- Providence, R.I. -- Public Opinion -- Quakers -- Quartering Act -- Quasi-War with France -- Racial Theory -- Radicalism in the Revolution -- Railroads -- Rape -- Rationalism -- Recreation, Sports, and Games -- Refinement and Gentility -- Reform, Social -- Regulators -- Religion -- Religion: Overview -- The Founders and Religion -- Religion: Spanish Borderlands -- Religious Publishing -- Religious Tests for Officeholding -- Revivals and Revivalism -- Revolution -- Revolution: Diplomacy -- Revolution: European Participation -- Revolution: Finance -- Revolution: Home Front -- Revolution: Impact on the Economy -- Revolution: Military History -- Revolution: Military Leadership, American -- Revolution: Naval War -- Revolution: Prisoners and Spies -- Revolution: Slavery and Blacks in the Revolution -- Revolution: Social History -- Revolution: Supply -- Women's Participation in the Revolution -- Revolution, Age of -- Revolution as Civil War: Patriot-Loyalist Conflict -- Rhetoric -- Rhode Island -- Richmond -- Riots -- Romanticism -- Royal Society, American Involvement -- Sabbatarianism -- St. Lawrence River -- St. Louis -- Salem -- Santa Fe -- Saratoga, Battle of -- Satire -- Science -- Sectionalism and Disunion -- Seduction -- Seminole Wars -- Sensibility -- Sentimentalism -- Sexuality -- Sexual Morality -- Shakers -- Shays's Rebellion -- Shipbuilding Industry -- Shipping Industry -- Shoemaking -- Siblings -- Slavery -- Slavery: Overview -- Runaway Slaves and Maroon Communities -- Slave Insurrections -- Slave Life -- Slave Patrols -- Slavery and the Founding Generation -- Slave Trade, African -- Slave Trade, Domestic -- Smallpox -- Social Life: Rural Life -- Social Life: Urban Life -- Society of St. Tammany -- Society of the Cincinnati -- Soldiers -- Sons of Liberty -- South -- South Carolina -- Spain -- Spanish Borderlands -- Spanish Conspiracy -- Spanish Empire -- Stamp Act and Stamp Act Congress -- "Star-Spangled Banner" -- Statehood and Admission -- States' Rights -- Steamboat -- Steam Power -- Sugar Act -- Supreme Court -- Supreme Court Justices -- Surveyors and Surveying -- Tariff Politics -- Taverns -- Taxation, Public Finance, and Public Debt -- Tea Act -- Technology -- Temperance and Temperance Movement -- Tennessee -- Texas -- Textiles Manufacturing -- Thames, Battle of the -- Theater and Drama -- Theology -- Tippecanoe, Battle of -- Town Plans and Promotion -- Townshend Act -- Trails to the West -- Transcontinental Treaty -- Transportation -- Transportation: Animal Power -- Transportation: Canals and Waterways -- Transportation: Roads and Turnpikes -- Travel, Technology of -- Travel Guides and Accounts -- Treaty of Paris -- Trenton, Battle of -- Unitarianism and Universalism -- Vacations and Resorts -- Valley Forge -- Vermont -- Vesey Rebellion -- Violence -- Virginia -- Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom -- Voluntary and Civic Associations -- Voting -- War and Diplomacy in the Atlantic World -- War Hawks -- War of 1812 -- Washington, Burning of -- Washington, D.C. -- Washington, George -- Waterpower -- Water Supply and Sewage -- Wealth -- Wealth Distribution -- Weights and Measures -- Welfare and Charity -- West -- Whaling -- Whiskey Rebellion -- White House -- Widowhood -- Wigs -- Wisconsin Territory -- Women -- Women: Overview -- Female Reform Societies and Reformers -- Women: Political Participation -- Women: Professions -- Women: Rights -- Women's Literature -- Women's Voluntary Associations -- Writers -- Wool -- Work -- Labor Overview -- Agricultural Labor -- Apprenticeship -- Artisans and Craft Workers, and the Workshop -- Child Labor -- Domestic Labor -- Factory Labor -- Indentured Servants -- Middle-Class Occupations -- Midwifery -- Overseers -- Sailors and Seamen -- Slave Labor -- Teachers -- Unskilled Labor -- Women's Work -- Work Ethic -- XYZ Affair -- Yorktown, Battle of |
| Summary |
A three-volume survey of the formative years of the United States, starting just prior to the American Revolution and ending with the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1829. Presents 671 alphabetically arranged entries focusing on the major political markers and milestones, as well as the art, music, literature and daily life, of this period. For secondary and college students, researchers, and general readers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- 1783-1865 -- Encyclopedias
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United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Encyclopedias
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Encyclopedias
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Nordamerika
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USA.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Computer network resources
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Encyclopedias.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Finkelman, Paul
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Thomson Gale (Firm)
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| ISBN |
068431469X |
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9780684314693 |
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