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iv • About the authors  

honored as the best article in urban history by the she has two daughters. For leisure, she enjoys swim-
Urban History Association and received the ABC- ming and bicycling with her family, watching films,
CLIO, America: History and Life Award for the journal and reading fiction.
article that most advances previously unconsidered
topics. She is currently writing a book, Saving Ameri-
ca’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban Thomas A. Bailey (1903–1983) was the original
America in the Suburban Age, about the complexities of author of The American Pageant and saw it through its
urban renewal in American cities after World War II. first seven editions. He taught history for nearly forty
At Harvard, she has taught courses in twentieth- years at Stanford University, his alma mater. Long
century American history, with particular attention to regarded as one of the nation’s leading historians of
the intersection of social and cultural life and politics, American diplomacy, he was honored by his col-
and she now oversees the Radcliffe Institute, a major leagues in 1968 with election to the presidencies of
center for scholarly research, creative arts, and public both the Organization of American Historians and the
programs. Before attending graduate school, she Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
taught history at the secondary level and worked in He was the author, editor, or co-editor of some
history and art museums. She continues to help twenty books, but the work in which he took most
develop public history programs for general audiences pride was The American Pageant, through which, he
through museums and documentary films. She is liked to say, he had taught American history to several
married to an historian of modern France, with whom million students.

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BRIEF Contents

Maps ​ xv 12 The Second War for Independence and


Tables ​ xix the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812–1824 226
Figures ​ ​xxi
Preface ​ xxiii 13 The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824–1840 248
14 Forging the National Economy 1790–1860 278
15 The Ferment of Reform and
Part One Culture 1790–1860 309
Founding the New Nation
ca. 33,000 b.c.e.–1783 c.e.
Part Three
1 New World Beginnings 33,000 b.c.e.–1769 c.e. 4 Testing the New Nation
2 The Planting of English America 1500–1733 25 1820–1877
3 Settling the Northern Colonies 1619–1700 42
16 The South and the Slavery
4 American Life in the Seventeenth Controversy 1793–1860 340
Century 1607–1692 62
17 Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
5 Colonial Society on the Eve of 1841–1848 363
Revolution 1700–1775 78
18 Renewing the Sectional Struggle
6 The Duel for North America 1608–1763 101 1848–1854 381
7 The Road to Revolution 1763–1775 117 19 Drifting Toward Disunion 1854–1861 399
8 America Secedes from the Empire 1775–1783 135 20 Girding for War: The North and the
South 1861–1865 421
21 The Furnace of Civil War 1861–1865 438
Part Two 22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Building the New Nation 1865–1877 465
1776–1860

9 The Confederation and the APPENDIX


Constitution 1776–1790 160 Documents A1
10 Launching the New Ship of State 1789–1800 182 Tables A21
11 The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Glossary of Key Terms A27
Republic 1800–1812 204 Index I1

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Contents

Maps ​ xv
Tables ​ ​xix
Figures ​ ​xxi
Preface ​ xxiii

Part One
Founding the New Nation
ca. 33,000 b.c.e.–1783 c.e.
2

1 ​ ​New World Beginnings ​ ​33,000 b.c.e.–1769 c.e. 4

The geology of the New World ​• ​Native Americans before Columbus ​• ​


Europeans and Africans ​• ​Columbus and the early explorers ​• ​The
ecological consequences of Columbus’s discovery ​• ​The conquest of Mexico ​
• ​Spain builds a New World empire
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​ ​23–24
U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​  Making Sense of the New World ​ ​7
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Europeans and Indians ​ ​16
U ​M akers of A merica  ​  The Spanish Conquistadores ​ ​18
bpk, Berlin/Art Resource, NY

2 ​  The Planting of English America ​ ​1500–1733 25

England on the eve of empire ​• ​The expansion of Elizabethan England ​• ​The


planting of Jamestown, 1607 ​• ​English settlers and Native Americans ​• ​
The growth of Virginia and Maryland ​• ​England in the Caribbean ​• ​Settling
the Carolinas and Georgia
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​ ​40–41
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Old World Dreams and New World Realities ​  27
U ​M akers of A merica  ​ ​The Iroquois ​ ​38
The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY

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3 ​  Settling the Northern Colonies ​  1619–1700 42

The Puritan faith ​• ​Plymouth Colony, 1620 ​• ​The Puritan commonwealth


of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630 ​• ​Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New
Hampshire ​• ​Puritans and Indians ​• ​The Confederation and Dominion of
New England, 1686–1689 ​• ​New Netherland becomes New York ​• ​
Pennsylvania, the Quaker colony ​• ​New Jersey and Delaware

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Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​ ​60–61
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Anne Hutchinson Accused and Defended ​  47
U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​  A Seventeenth-Century Valuables Cabinet ​ ​58
U V arying V iewpoints  ​  Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe? ​  59

4 ​  American Life in the Seventeenth Century ​  1607–1692 62

Life and labor in the Chesapeake tobacco region ​• ​Indentured servants and


Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia, 1676 ​• ​The spread of slavery ​• ​African
American culture ​• ​ Southern Society ​• ​Families in New England ​• ​
Declining Puritan piety ​• ​The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692 ​• ​Daily life in
the colonies
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​ ​76–77
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Berkeley Versus Bacon ​  64
U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​ ​An Indentured Servant’s Contract, 1746 ​ ​65
U ​T hinking G lobally  ​ ​The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1860 ​ ​66
The Granger Collection, NYC

5 ​  Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution ​  1700–1775 78

Immigration and population growth ​• ​African American culture ​• ​Colonial


social structure ​• ​Earning a living ​• ​The Atlantic economy ​• ​The role of
religion ​• ​The Great Awakening of the 1730s ​• ​Education and culture ​• ​
Politics and the press ​• ​Colonial folkways
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​ ​99–100
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Race and Slavery ​  81
U ​M akers of A merica  ​ ​From African to African American ​  82
U ​V arying V iewpoints  ​ ​Colonial America: Communities of Conflict
Privat Collection/The Bridgeman Art Librarye

or Consensus? ​ ​98

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6 ​  The Duel for North America ​ ​1608–1763 101

New France ​• ​Fur-traders and Indians ​• ​Anglo-French colonial rivalries ​• ​

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, [LC-USZC4-5315]


Europe, America, and the first world wars ​• ​The Seven Years’ War ​• ​Pontiac’s
uprising and the Proclamation of 1763
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  115–116
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  The Proclamation of 1763 ​  113

7 ​  The Road to Revolution ​ 1763–1775 117

Roots of revolution ​• ​The merits and menace of mercantilism ​• ​The Stamp


Act crisis, 1765 ​• ​The Townshend Acts, 1767 ​• ​The Boston Tea Party, 1773 ​
• ​The Intolerable Acts and the Continental Congress, 1774 ​• ​Lexington,
Concord, and the gathering clouds of war, 1775 ​• ​The rebel army
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  134
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Reconciliation or Independence? ​  121
Fotosearch/Archive Photos/Getty Images

U ​T hinking G lobally  ​  ​Imperial Rivalry and Colonial Revolt ​  130

8 ​  America Secedes from the Empire ​ 1775–1783 135

Early skirmishes, 1775 ​• ​American “republicanism” ​ • ​The Declaration of


Independence, 1776 ​• ​Patriots and Loyalists ​• ​The fighting fronts ​• ​The
French alliance, 1778 ​• ​ Yorktown, 1781 ​• ​The Peace of Paris, 1783
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  157
U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​ ​A Revolution for Women? Abigail Adams Chides
Her Husband, 1776 ​  142
The Granger Collection, New York

U ​M akers of A merica  ​ ​The Loyalists ​ 144


U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Two Revolutions: French and American ​  154
U ​V arying V iewpoints  ​ ​Whose Revolution? ​ 156

Part Two
Building the New Nation
1776–1860
158

9 ​  The Confederation and the Constitution ​ 1776–1790 160

Changing political sentiments ​• ​The new state constitutions ​• ​Economic


troubles ​• ​The Articles of Confederation, 1781–1788 ​• ​The Northwest
Ordinance, 1787 ​• ​Shays’s Rebellion, 1786 ​• ​The Constitutional
Convention, 1787 ​• ​Ratifying the Constitution, 1787–1790
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  181
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U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​ ​Copley Family Portrait, ca. 1776–1777 ​ ​162


U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Debating the New Constitution ​  177
U ​V arying V iewpoints  ​ ​The Constitution: Revolutionary or
Counterrevolutionary? ​ 180

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10 ​  Launching the New Ship of State ​  1789–1800 182

Problems of the young republic ​• ​The first presidency, 1789–1793 ​• ​The Bill


of Rights, 1791 ​• ​Hamilton’s economic policies ​• ​The emergence of political
parties ​• ​The impact of the French Revolution ​• ​Jay’s Treaty, 1794, and
Washington’s farewell, 1797 ​• ​President Adams keeps the peace ​• ​The Alien
and Sedition Acts, 1798 ​• ​Federalists versus Republicans

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Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​ ​202–203
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Human Nature and the Nature of Government ​  187
U ​T hinking G lobally  ​ ​Two Revolutions ​ 190

11 ​ 
The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian
Republic ​  1800–1812 204

The “Revolution of 1800” ​• ​The Jefferson presidency ​• ​John Marshall and


the Supreme Court ​• ​Barbary pirates ​ • ​The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 ​• ​The
Anglo-French War ​• ​The Embargo, 1807–1809 ​• ​Madison gambles with
Napoleon ​• ​Battle with the Shawnees ​• ​A Declaration of War
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  224–225
U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​ ​The Thomas Jefferson–Sally Hemings
Controversy ​ 207
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U ​C ontending V oices  ​  The Divisive Embargo ​  219

12 ​ 
The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism ​  1812–1824 226

Invasion of Canada, 1812 ​• ​The war on land and sea ​• ​The Treaty of Ghent,


1814 ​• ​The Hartford Convention, 1814–1815 ​• ​A new national identity ​• ​
“The American System” ​• ​James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings ​• ​
Westward expansion ​• ​The Missouri Compromise, 1820 ​• ​The Supreme
Court under John Marshall ​• ​Oregon and Florida ​• ​The Monroe Doctrine,
1823
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  246–247
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U ​M akers of A merica  ​ ​Settlers of the Old Northwest ​  238


U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Sizing Up the Monroe Doctrine ​  245

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13 ​  The Rise of a Mass Democracy ​ ​1824–1840 248

The “corrupt bargain” of 1824 ​• ​President John Quincy Adams, 1825–1829 ​• ​


The triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828 ​• ​The spoils system ​• ​The “Tariff of
Gift of Mrs.Samuel T. Carson photograph @ 1991 The Detroit Institute of Arts (detail). Bridgeman Art Library Ltd.

Abominations,” 1828 ​• ​The South Carolina nullification crisis, 1832–1833 ​• ​


The removal of the Indians from the Southeast ​• ​Jackson’s war on the Bank
of the United States ​• ​The emergence of the Whig party, 1836 ​• ​Martin Van
Buren in the White House, 1837–1841 ​• ​Revolution in Texas ​• ​William
Henry Harrison’s “log cabin” campaign, 1840 ​• ​Mass democracy and the
two-party system
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  276–277
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Taking the Measure of Andrew Jackson ​  252
U ​T hinking G lobally  ​ ​Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America and
Europe ​ 254
U ​E xamining E vidence  ​  ​Satiric Bank Note, 1837 ​  265
the

U ​M akers of A merica  ​  ​Mexican or Texican? ​  270


U ​V arying V iewpoints  ​ ​What Was Jacksonian Democracy? ​  275

14 ​  Forging the National Economy ​ ​1790–1860 278

The westward movement ​• ​European immigration ​• ​The Irish and the


Germans ​ • ​Nativism and assimilation ​• ​The coming of the factory system ​• ​
Industrial workers ​• ​Women and the economy ​• ​The ripening of
commercial agriculture ​• ​The transportation revolution ​• ​A continental
economy
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  307–308
Bettmann/CORBIS

U ​M akers of A merica  ​ ​The Irish ​ 284


U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Immigration, Pro and Con ​  287
U ​M akers of A merica  ​ ​The Germans ​ 288
U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​ ​The Invention of the Sewing Machine ​  294

15 ​  The Ferment of Reform and Culture ​ ​1790–1860 309

Religious revivals ​• ​The Mormons ​• ​Educational advances ​• ​The roots of


reform ​ • ​
Temperance ​• ​Women’s roles and women’s rights ​• ​Utopian
experiments ​ • Scientific progress ​• ​Artistic expressions ​• ​A national
© Collection of the New-York Historical Society, USA/The Bridgeman Art Library

literature ​• ​Transcendentalism ​• ​Poets, novelists, and historians


Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  336–337
U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​ ​Dress as Reform ​  321
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  The Role of Women ​  322
U ​M akers of A merica  ​ ​The Oneida Community ​  324
U ​V arying V iewpoints  ​ ​Reform: Who? What? How? and Why? ​  335

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Part Three
Testing the New Nation
1820–1877
338

16 ​  The South and the Slavery Controversy ​ 1793–1860 340

The economy of the Cotton Kingdom ​• ​Southern social structure ​• ​Poor


whites and free blacks ​• ​The plantation system ​• ​Life under slavery ​• ​The
abolitionist crusade ​• ​The white Southern response ​• ​Abolition and the
Northern conscience
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  361–362
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Perspectives on Race and Slavery ​  351
U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​ ​Bellegrove Plantation, Donaldsville, Louisiana, Built
Private Collection/Picture Research Consultants & Archives

1857 ​ ​354
U ​T hinking G lobally  ​ ​The Struggle to Abolish Slavery ​ ​356
U ​V arying V iewpoints  ​ ​What Was the True Nature of Slavery? ​ ​359

17 ​ Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy ​ 1841–1848 363

“Tyler Too” becomes president, 1841 ​• ​Fixing the Maine boundary, 1842 ​• ​


The annexation of Texas, 1845 ​• ​Oregon Fever ​• ​James K. Polk, the “dark
horse” of 1844 ​• ​War with Mexico, 1846–1848
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC/Art Resource, NY

Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  380


U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Warring over the Mexican War ​  375
U ​M akers of A merica  ​ ​The Californios ​ ​378

18 ​ Renewing the Sectional Struggle ​ 1848–1854 381

“Popular sovereignty” ​• ​Zachary Taylor and California statehood ​• ​The


underground railroad ​• ​The Compromise of 1850 ​• ​The Fugitive Slave Law ​
• ​President Pierce and expansion, 1853–1857 ​• ​Senator Douglas and the
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  398
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  The Compromise of 1850 ​  390
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19 ​  Drifting Toward Disunion ​ 1854–1861 399

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the spread of abolitionist sentiment in the North ​• ​
The contest for Kansas ​• ​The election of James Buchanan, 1856 ​• ​The Dred
Scott case, 1857 ​• ​The financial panic of 1857 ​• ​The Lincoln-Douglas
debates, 1858 ​• ​John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859 ​• ​Lincoln and
Republican victory, 1860 ​• ​Secession
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  420
U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​ ​Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin ​  401
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U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Judging John Brown ​  411
U ​V arying V iewpoints  ​ ​The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible? ​ ​419

20 ​  Girding for War: The North and the South ​ 1861–1865 421

The attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861 ​• ​The crucial border states ​• ​The


balance of forces ​• ​The threat of European intervention ​• ​The importance
of diplomacy ​• ​Lincoln and civil liberties ​• ​Men in uniform ​• ​Financing
the Blue and the Gray ​• ​The economic impact of the war ​• ​Women and the
war ​• ​The fate of the South
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Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  437


U ​C ontending V oices  ​  War Aims: Emancipation or Union? ​  424
U ​M akers of A merica  ​ ​Billy Yank and Johnny Reb ​ ​426

21 ​  The Furnace of Civil War ​ 1861–1865 438

Bull Run ends the “ninety-day war” ​• ​The Peninsula Campaign ​• ​The


Union wages total war ​• ​The war at sea ​• ​Antietam, 1862 ​• ​The
Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 ​• ​Black soldiers ​• ​Confederate high tide
at Gettysburg ​• ​The war in the West ​• ​Sherman marches through Georgia ​• ​
Politics in wartime ​• ​Appomattox, 1865 ​• ​The assassination of Lincoln,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

April 1865 ​• ​The legacy of war


Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  463–464
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  The Controversy over Emancipation ​  445
U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​ ​Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address ​ ​450
U ​T hinking G lobally  ​ ​The Era of Nationalism ​ ​460
U ​V arying V iewpoints  ​ ​What Were the Consequences of the Civil War? ​  463

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22 ​  The Ordeal of Reconstruction ​ 1865–1877 465


The defeated South ​• ​The freed slaves ​• ​President Andrew Johnson’s
Reconstruction policies ​• ​The Black Codes ​• ​Congressional Reconstruction
policies ​ • ​Johnson clashes with Congress ​• ​Military Reconstruction, 1867–
1877 ​• ​Freed people enter politics ​• ​“Black Reconstruction” and the Ku Klux
Klan ​ • ​The impeachment of Andrew Johnson ​• ​The legacy of Reconstruction
Chronology ​/ ​Key Terms ​/ ​People to Know ​/ ​To Learn More ​  484–485
Dallas Historical Society, Texas, USA /The Bridgeman Art Library

U ​E xamining the E vidence  ​ ​Letter from a Freedman to His Old


Master, 1865 ​ ​468
U ​C ontending V oices  ​  Radical Republicans and Southern Democrats ​  473
U ​V arying V iewpoints  ​ ​How Radical Was Reconstruction? ​ ​483

A ppendix
Documents ​ ​A1
Declaration of Independence ​• ​Constitution of the United States of America
Tables ​ ​A21
Presidential Elections ​• ​Presidents and Vice Presidents ​• ​Admission of States ​
• ​Estimates of Total Costs and Number of Battle Deaths of Major U.S. Wars
Glossary of Key Terms ​ ​A27
Index ​ ​I1

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MAPS
1.1 The First Discoverers of America 6
1.2 North American Indian Peoples at the Time of First Contact
with Europeans 9
1.3 The World Known to Europe and Major Trade Routes with Asia,
1492 11
1.4 Principal Voyages of Discovery 17
1.5 Principal Early Spanish Explorations and Conquests 21
1.6 Spain’s North American Frontier, 1542–1823 22
2.1 Early Maryland and Virginia 29
2.2 Early Carolina and Georgia Settlements 36
2.3 Iroquois Lands and European Trade Centers, ca. 1590–1650 38
3.1A Sources of the Puritan “Great English Migration” to New England, c. 1620–1640 45
3.1B The Great English Migration, ca. 1630–1642 45
3.2 Seventeenth-Century New England Settlements 48
3.3 Andros’s Dominion of New England 51
3.4 Early Settlements in the Middle Colonies, with Founding Dates 52
4.1 Main Sources and Destinations of African Slaves, ca. 1500–1860 67
5.1 Immigrant Groups in 1775 79
5.2 The Colonial Economy 86
5.3 Colonial Trade Patterns, ca. 1770 87
6.1 France’s American Empire at Its Greatest Extent, 1700 102
6.2 Fur-Trading Posts 103
6.3 Scenes of the French Wars 104
6.4 North America After Two Wars, 1713 105
6.5 The French and Indian War in North America, 1754–1760 107
6.6 Global Scale of the Seven Years’ War 108
6.7A North America Before 1754 111
6.7B North America After 1763 (after French losses) 111
6.8 British Colonies at End of the Seven Years’ War, 1763 114
7.1 Québec Before and After 1774 127
8.1 Revolution in the North, 1775–1776 138
8.2 War in the South, 1780–1781 151
8.3 George Rogers Clark’s Campaign, 1778–1779 152
9.1 Western Land Cessions to the United States, 1782–1802 164
9.2 Surveying the Old Northwest Under the Land Ordinance of 1785 166
9.3 Main Centers of Spanish and British Influence After 1783 167
9.4 The Struggle over Ratification 175
10.1 American Posts Held by the British and British-American Clashes
After 1783 193

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11.1 Presidential Election of 1800 (with electoral vote by state) 206


11.2 The Barbary States of North Africa and the Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia,
1804 212
11.3 Exploring the Louisiana Purchase and the West 217
12.1 Battles in the War of 1812 227
12.2 Presidential Election of 1812 (with electoral vote by state) 231
12.3 The Missouri Compromise and Slavery, 1820–1821 237
12.4 U.S.-British Boundary Settlement, 1818 242
12.5 The Southeast, 1810–1819 242
12.6 The West and Northwest, 1818–1824 246
13.1 Presidential Election of 1828 (with electoral vote by state) 252
13.2 Indian Removals, 1830–1846 260
13.3 The Texas Revolution, 1836 269
14.1 Westward Movement of Center of Population, 1790–2010 279
14.2 Major Rivers, Roads, and Canals, 1825–1860 300
14.3 The Railroad Revolution 301
14.4 Main Routes West Before the Civil War 303
14.5 Industry and Agriculture, 1860 305
15.1 The Mormon World 313
16.1 Southern Cotton Production and Distribution of Slaves, 1820–1860 344
16.2 Southern Cotton Production and Distribution of Slaves, 1820–1860 345
16.3 Early Emancipation in the North 352
17.1 Maine Boundary Settlement, 1842 366
17.2 The Oregon Controversy, 1846 371
17.3 Major Campaigns of the Mexican War 374
17.4 Spanish Missions and Presidios 379
18.1 California Gold Rush Country 383
18.2 Texas and the Disputed Area Before the Compromise of 1850 385
18.3 Slavery After the Compromise of 1850 389
18.4 The Legal Status of Slavery, from the Revolution to the Civil War 391
18.5 Central America, ca. 1850, Showing British Possessions and Proposed
Canal Routes 392
18.6 The Gadsden Purchase, 1853 395
18.7 Kansas and Nebraska, 1854 396
19.1 Bleeding Kansas, 1854–1860 402
19.2 Presidential Election of 1856 (electoral vote by state) 406
19.3 Presidential Election of 1860: Electoral Vote by State (top) and Popular Vote
by County (bottom) 414
19.4 Southern Opposition to Secession, 1860–1861 (showing vote
by county) 415
20.1 Seceding States (with dates and order of secession) 423
21.1 Peninsula Campaign, 1862 440
21.2 Main Thrusts, 1861–1865 441

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21.3 Emancipation in the South 445


21.4 The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 448
21.5 The Mississippi River and Tennessee, 1862–1863 451
21.6 Sherman’s March, 1864–1865 452
21.7 Presidential Election of 1864 (showing popular vote by county) 456
21.8 Grant’s Virginia Campaign, 1864–1865 457
22.1 Military Reconstruction, 1867 (five districts and commanding generals) 476
22.2 Alaska and the Lower Forty-Eight States (a size comparison) 482

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TABLES
2.1 The Tudor Rulers of England 26
2.2 The Thirteen Original Colonies 35
3.1 The Stuart Dynasty in England 50
5.1 Established (Tax-Supported) Churches in the Colonies, 1775 89
5.2 Estimated Religious Census, 1775 89
5.3 Colonial Colleges 93
6.1 Later English Monarchs 104
6.2 The Nine World Wars 106
8.1 Britain Against the World 150
9.1 Evolution of Federal Union 171
9.2 Slavery and the Constitution 173
9.3 Strengthening the Central Government 174
9.4 Ratification of the Constitution 175
10.1 Evolution of the Cabinet 183
10.2 Evolution of Major Parties 189
10.3 The Two Political Parties, 1793–1800 200
13.1 Election of 1824 249
13.2 Voter Turnout by Country, 1840–2008 255
14.1 Irish and German Immigration by Decade, 1830–1900 281
16.1 Comparative Abolition of Slavery 357
17.1 House Vote on Tariff of 1846 371
18.1 Compromise of 1850 387
19.1 Election of 1860 413
20.1 Manufacturing by Sections, 1860 425
20.2 Immigration to United States, 1860–1866 428
20.3 Number of Men in Uniform at Date Given 434
22.1 Principal Reconstruction Proposals and Plans 471
22.2 Southern Reconstruction by State 477
Table A.1 Presidential Elections A21
Table A.2 Presidents and Vice Presidents A24
Table A.3 Admission of States A26
Table A.4 Estimates of Total Costs and Number of Battle Deaths of Major U.S. Wars A26

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figures
1.1 The Arc of Time 5
1.2 The Columbian Exchange 15
5.1 Ethnic and Racial Composition of the American People, 1790 80
10.1 Hamilton’s Financial Structure Supported by Revenues 186
14.1 Population Increase, Including Slaves and Indians, 1790–1860 281
16.1 Slaveowning Families, 1850 343
21.1 Union Party, 1864 454

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Preface
T his sixteenth edition of The American Pageant reflects
our continuing collaboration to bring the most recent
that presents paired quotes from the past to encourage
critical thinking about controversial issues. Still more
scholarship about American history to the broadest highlighted quotes throughout the text help students
possible student audience, while preserving the read- hear the language of real people who shaped and expe-
ability that has long been the Pageant’s hallmark. We rienced historical events. In addition, “­Examining the
are often told that the Pageant stands out as the only Evidence” features enable students to deepen their
American history text with a distinctive personality, understanding of the historical craft by conveying
an observation that brings us considerable satisfaction. how historians develop interpretations of the past
We define the Pageant’s leading characteristics as clar- through research in many different kinds of primary
ity, concreteness, a strong emphasis on major themes, sources. Here students learn to probe a wide range of
integration of a broad range of historical topics into a historical documents and artifacts: correspondence
coherent and clutter-free narrative, attention to a vari- between Abigail and John Adams in 1776, and what
ety of interpretive perspectives, and a colorful writing it reveals about women’s place in the American Revo-
style leavened, as appropriate, with wit. That personal- lution; the ­Gettysburg Address and the light it sheds
ity, we strongly believe, is what has made the Pageant not only on President Lincoln’s brilliant oratory but
both appealing and useful to countless students for also on his vision of the American nation; a letter
more than six decades. from a black freedman to his former master in 1865
Our collaboration on the Pageant reflects our that illuminates his family’s experience in slavery as
respective scholarly interests, which are complemen- well as their hopes for a new life; the manuscript cen-
tary to a remarkable degree. While we share broad inter- sus of 1900 and what it teaches us about immigrant
ests in the evolving character of American society and households on the Lower East Side of New York at the
in its global role, David Kennedy is primarily a politi- dawn of the twentieth century; a new kind of archi-
cal and economic historian, while Lizabeth Cohen’s tectural structure—the shopping mall—and how it
work emphasizes social and cultural history. Together, changed both consumers’ behavior and politicians’
we have once again revised the Pageant chapter by campaign tactics after World War II; and a national
chapter, even paragraph by paragraph, guided by our security document that gives insight into the foreign
shared commitment to tell the story of the ­A merican policy-making process.
past as vividly and clearly as possible, without sacrific- The Pageant’s goal is not to teach the art of proph-
ing a sense of the often sobering seriousness of history ecy but the much subtler and more difficult arts of see-
and of its sometimes challenging complexity. ing things in context, of understanding the roots and
direction and pace of change, and of distinguishing
what is truly new under the sun from what is not. The
Goals of The American Pageant study of history, it has been rightly said, does not make
one smart for the next time, but wise forever.
Like its predecessors, this edition of The American We hope that the Pageant will help to develop the
­Pageant seeks to cultivate in its readers the critical art of critical thinking in its readers and that those who
thinking skills necessary for balanced judgment and use the book will take from it both a fresh appreciation
informed understanding about American society by of what has gone before and a seasoned perspective on
holding up to the present the mirror and measuring what is to come. We hope, too, that readers will take as
rod that is the past. The division of the book into much pleasure in reading The American Pageant as we
six parts, each with an introductory essay, encourages have had in writing it.
students to understand that the study of history is not
just a matter of piling up mountains of facts but is
principally concerned with discovering complex pat- Changes in the Sixteenth Edition
terns of change over time and organizing seemingly
disparate events, actions, and ideas into meaningful As in past revisions, we have updated and streamlined
chains of cause and consequence. the entire text narrative, while our main focus in this
A strong narrative propels the story, reinforced in new edition is a major revision of Part Six, comprising
this edition by a new feature, “Contending Voices,” the seven chapters covering 1945 to the present.

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The Post–World War II Era “Contending Voices”


Making sense of the more recent past poses unique We have added a new feature to each chapter, designed
challenges, as scholars assessing events and person- to nurture students’ historical thinking skills by
alities only just passing into the realm of “history” exposing them to the contested nature of history as
have had less time to develop an agreed master narra- well as historical interpretation. “Contending Voices”
tive. But we believe that sufficient time has passed for offers paired quotes from original historical sources,
historians to have reached at least a tentative inter- accompanied by questions that ask students to assess
pretative framework for understanding the post-1945 conflicting perspectives on often hotly contested sub-
period of American history. Accordingly, we have jects. The feature complements the historiographical
been especially concerned to impart greater thematic debates covered in the “Varying Viewpoints” essays by
coherence to this part of the text in this sixteenth highlighting the ways in which historical actors them-
edition. selves have debated the meaning of events in which
Reflecting an emerging scholarly consensus, our they played roles.
framework for the post-1945 period roughly divides it
into two eras, which can be summarized as follows: a
midcentury era defined by sustained economic growth, Global Context
broadly shared prosperity, and the international con- We have once again deepened the Pageant’s treat-
text of Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union, ment of the global context of American history.
followed by a new historical phase, originating in the Today, political leaders, capital investment, consumer
pivotal decade of the 1970s, that has seen more fitful products, rock bands, the Internet, and much else
growth alongside both decreasing economic equality constantly traverse the globe. But even before sophisti-
and increasing social inclusiveness, as well as a strug- cated technology and mass communication, complex
gle to define America’s international role after the col- exchanges among peoples and nations around the
lapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The introductory world deeply shaped the course of American history.
essay to Part Six (Chapters 35–41) clarifies this inter- Students will frequently encounter in these pages the
pretive scheme and directs students’ attention to sig- people, ideas, and events that crossed national bor-
nificant details in the extensively rewritten chapters ders to influence the experience of the United States.
that follow. Here, as throughout the text, we believe They will also be invited to compare salient aspects of
that anchoring the narrative of events in a coherent American history with developments elsewhere in the
interpretive framework facilitates readers’ acquisition world. We believe that a full understanding of what
of important historical thinking skills, including peri- makes America exceptional requires knowing about
odization, synthetic reasoning, and contextual and other societies and knowing when and why America’s
comparative analysis. path followed or departed from that taken by other
Additional revisions in this section further nations.
enhance the development of key historical thinking Within each chapter, both text and graphics help
skills while incorporating the insights of newer schol- students compare American developments to devel-
arship. A new “Thinking Globally” essay, “The Global opments around the world. The frontier experience,
1960s” (Chapter 37), places the youth politics of that railroad building, cotton production, city size and
era in an international and comparative context, while urban reform strategies, immigration, automobile
a new “Examining the Evidence” item on a George W. ownership, the economic effects of the Great Depres-
Bush–era national security document (Chapter 41) sion, women’s participation in voting and the work
grapples explicitly with the task of crafting sound force, the cultural upheavals of the 1960s, and much
arguments from controversial historical evidence. The more should now be understood as parts of world
“Thinking Globally” essay on globalization (now in trends, not just as isolated American phenomena.
Chapter 38) has been substantially revised to empha- New boxed quotes bring more international voices
size the changing international economic context for to the events chronicled in the Pageant’s histori-
domestic U.S. developments beginning in the 1970s. cal narrative. Updated “Varying ­Viewpoints” essays
“Varying Viewpoints” essays on the 1960s (Chapter 37) reflect new interpretations of significant trends and
and conservatism (Chapter 39) have also been updated events, emphasizing, when appropriate, their global
extensively to incorporate new historiography and to contexts.
emphasize the challenges of weighing differing his- We have revised and expanded the “Thinking
torical interpretations. Finally, we have thoroughly Globally” essays, which present different aspects
revamped and updated the final chapter (41) to pro- of the American experience contextualized within
vide a coherent narrative of major events from 2001 world history. Readers learn how developments in
through 2014. North America were part of worldwide phenomena,

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be it the challenge to empire in the eighteenth cen- Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
tury, the rise of socialist ideology in the nineteenth ­ entury 1607–1692
C
century, or the globalization that followed World • New Contending Voices: “Berkeley Versus Bacon”
War II in the twentieth century. Students also see (Nathaniel Bacon, William Berkeley)
how key aspects of American history—such as par- Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
ticipating in the slave trade and its abolition, making 1700–1775
a revolution for independence, creating an inte- • New Contending Voices: “Race and Slavery” (­Samuel
grated national state in the mid-nineteenth century, Sewall, Virginia slave code of 1705)
and struggling to survive the Great Depression and
Chapter 6: The Duel for North America 1608–1763
World War II—were encountered by other nations
• New Contending Voices: “The Proclamation of 1763”
but resolved in distinctive ways according to each
(Royal Proclamation of 1763, George ­Washington)
country’s history, cultural traditions, and political
and economic structures. Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution 1763–1775
This edition also gives renewed attention to • New Contending Voices: “Reconciliation or Inde-
teaching strategies and pedagogical materials aimed pendence?” (John Dickinson, Thomas Paine)
at helping students deepen their comprehension of Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire
American history. New visual materials—documen- 1775–1783
tary images, graphs, and tables—illuminate complex • New Contending Voices: “Two Revolutions: French
and important historical ideas. Readers will also find and American” (Friedrich von Gentz, John Quincy
redesigned maps with topographical detail and clear Adams)
labeling to better communicate the text’s analytical
Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution
points. Key terms are printed in bold in each chap-
1776–1790
ter and defined in a glossary at the end of the book.
• New Contending Voices: “Debating the New Consti-
Every chapter concludes with an expanded chronol-
tution” (Jonathan Smith, Patrick Henry)
ogy and a list of readable books to consult in order
“To Learn More.” In addition, a list of the chapter key Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State
terms and a list of “People to Know”—created to help 1789–1800
students focus on the most significant people intro- • New Contending Voices: “Human Nature and the
duced in that chapter—appear at the end of each Nature of Government” (Alexander Hamilton,
chapter to help students review chapter highlights. Thomas Jefferson)
A revised Appendix contains annotated copies of the Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the
Declaration of Independence and Constitution and J­ effersonian Republic 1800–1812
key historical events and dates, such as admission of • New Contending Voices: “The Divisive Embargo”
the states and presidential elections. (Federalist pamphlet, W. B. Giles)
See the Supplements section that follows for a com- Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and
plete description of the many materials found online. the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812–1824
It is our hope that readers will view online resources • New Contending Voices: “Sizing Up the Monroe
such as MindTap and Aplia, as an exploratory labora- Doctrine” (Klemens von Metternich, Colombian
tory enhancing The American Pageant’s text. newspaper)
Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy
Notes on Content Revisions 1824–1840
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings 33,000 b.c.e.– • New Contending Voices: “Taking the Measure of
1769 c.e. Andrew Jackson” (Maryland supporter, Thomas
• New Contending Voices: “Europeans and Indians” ­Jefferson)
(Juan Ginés de Sepulveda, Bartolomé de las Casas) Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy 1790–1860
Chapter 2: The Planting of English America • New Contending Voices: “Immigration, Pro and Con”
1500–1733 (Know-Nothing party platform, Orestes Brownson)
• New Contending Voices: “Old World Dreams and Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture
New World Realities” (Richard Hakluyt, George 1790–1860
Percy) • Revised and expanded discussion of religion in the
Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies early Republic
1619–1700 • New Contending Voices: “The Role of Women”
• New Contending Voices: “Anne Hutchinson Accused (differing newspaper commentaries on Seneca
and Defended” (John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson) Falls)

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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy • New Contending Voices: “Battle of the Ballot”
1793–1860 (­Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Barclay Hazard)
• New Contending Voices: “Perspectives on Race and NOTE: Due to the consolidation of two chapters
Slavery” (William A. Smith, American Anti-Slavery (­fifteenth edition Chapters 29 and 30) into a single chap-
Society) ter (sixteenth edition Chapter 29), subsequent chapters
Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy have been renumbered for a total of 41 chapters in the
1841–1848 sixteenth edition.
• New Contending Voices: “Warring over the Mexican
Chapter 30: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”
War” (New York Evening Post, Henry Clay)
1920–1929
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848–1854 • New Contending Voices: “All That Jazz” (Henry van
• New Contending Voices: “The Compromise of Dyke, Duke Ellington)
1850” (John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster)
Chapter 31: The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920–1932
Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion 1854–1861 • New Contending Voices: “Depression and Protec-
• New Contending Voices: “Judging John Brown” tion” (Willis Hawley, economists’ petition)
(Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln)
Chapter 32: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the 1933–1939
South 1861–1865 • New Contending Voices: “The New Deal at High
• New Contending Voices: “War Aims: Emancipation Tide” (Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover)
or Union?” (Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln)
Chapter 33: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War 1861–1865
of War 1933–1941
• New Contending Voices: “The Controversy over
• New Contending Voices: “To Intervene or Not to
Emancipation” (Cincinnati Enquirer, Abraham L
­ incoln)
­Intervene” (Sterling Morton, Franklin Roosevelt)
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865–1877
Chapter 34: America in World War II 1941–1945
• New Contending Voices: “Radical Republicans and
• New Contending Voices: “War and the Color Line”
Southern Democrats” (Thaddeus Stephens, James
(Franklin Roosevelt, African American soldier)
Lawrence Orr)
Part Six
Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
• Revised and updated introductory essay to Part Six
1869–1896
to lay out the overarching framework
• New Contending Voices: “The Spoils System”
(George Washington Plunkitt, Theodore Roosevelt) Chapter 35: The Cold War Begins 1945–1952
• Restructured the order of foreign-policy and do-
Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age 1865–1900
mestic sections so that the global setting now
• New Contending Voices: “Class and the Gilded Age”
provides a clearer context for domestic U.S.
(Populist platform, William Graham Sumner)
developments
Chapter 25: America Moves to the City 1865–1900 • Revised text throughout, including new material on
• New Contending Voices: “The New Immigration” the Cold War’s impact on religion, radical politics,
(Henry Cabot Lodge, Grover Cleveland) and civil rights
Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural • New Contending Voices: “Debating the Cold War”
Revolution 1865–1896 (George Kennan, Henry Wallace)
• New Contending Voices: “The Ghost Dance and
Chapter 36: American Zenith 1952–1963
the Wounded Knee Massacre” (James McLaughlin,
• Retitled chapter, now covering both the Eisenhower
Black Elk)
and Kennedy presidencies
Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion 1890–1909 • Revised section on postwar culture to emphasize
• New Contending Voices: “Debating Imperialism” common characteristics across the arts
(Albert Beveridge, George Hoar) • Revised text throughout to emphasize the unifying
Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican theme of the long postwar boom and the interna-
­ oosevelt 1901–1912
R tional and national factors driving it
• New Contending Voices: “Debating the ­Muckrakers” • New Contending Voices: “The ‘Kitchen Debate’”
(Theodore Roosevelt, Ida Tarbell) (Richard Nixon, Nikita Khrushchev)
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and Chapter 37: The Stormy Sixties 1963–1973
War 1913–1920 • Shifted the time frame of the chapter from 1960–
• Material on the Wilson presidency and World War 1968 in earlier editions to 1963–1973 for this edition
I condensed and consolidated into this new single • Includes a new introduction to discuss periodizing
chapter “the sixties”

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Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy,
Of value is thy freight, ‘tis not the Present only,
The Past is also stored in thee,
Thou holdest not the
   venture of thyself alone, not of
   the Western continent alone,
Earth’s résumé entire floats on thy keel, O ship, is
   steadied by thy spars,
With thee Time voyages in trust, the antecedent
   nations sink or swim with thee,
With all their ancient struggles, martyrs, heroes, epics,
   wars, thou bear’st the other continents,
Theirs, theirs as much as thine, the destination-port
  triumphant.…
Walt Whitman
“Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood,” 1872

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on no competent evidence, to be
constituted of a degenerate pair of
appendages and a labrum or upper lip.
Each of the three lobes which bounds the
mouth shows the following structures:
firstly, a lappet of external chitinised
integument, overlapping, as the finger-
nail overlaps the finger, a cushion-like lip,
ridged after the fashion of a fine-cut file
in some species, hairy in others, on the
inner surface where the three lips meet to
close the orifice of the mouth. Below this
again is a prominent tooth (Fig. 277, mt),
supported, as are the lips, by a system of
chitinous rods, which are but little
developed in the genus here figured,
though conspicuous and complicated in
others. Transverse ridges run across the
angles where adjacent lips meet, and the
whole mechanism constitutes an efficient
valve, preventing the escape of swallowed
food. The greater portion of the proboscis
is occupied by a masticating or triturating
apparatus, the oesophageal cavity
expanding somewhat and having its walls
densely covered, in three bands
corresponding to the antimeres, with
innumerable minute spines (h) or
needles, sometimes supplemented by
large teeth (t) that point forwards
somewhat obliquely to the axis of the
proboscis.[403]
In the curious East Indian genus
Pipetta (Loman) the sucking and sifting
mechanism is low down in the proboscis,
and the organ is prolonged into a very
fine tube, the lips growing together till
they leave an aperture of only ·007 mm.
for the absorption of liquids.
In some cases, where the proboscis
Fig. 277.—Longitudinal section through one itself is short, as in Pallene, this
“antimere” of the proboscis in Phoxichilus
charybdaeus. G, g′, Principal and secondary mechanism is carried backwards into the
ganglia; h, sieve-hairs; L, lip; mt, oral tooth; N, fore-part of the body; and, in the latter
N′, inner and outer nerve-cords; t, proboscis- genus, the narrow oesophagus which
teeth. (After Dohrn.) succeeds the masticatory apparatus is
likewise provided with extrinsic muscles.
Fig. 278.—Transverse sections through the proboscis of Ph. charybdaeus. A,
Anterior, through the principal ganglionic mass (G); B, posterior, at the level of
the sieve-hairs (h). Coec, Intestinal caeca; Dil. M, dilator muscles; N, inner
nerve-ganglion, with circular commissure; N′, outer nerve; or, chitinous lining of
oral cavity; R M, Ret.M, retractor muscles. (After Dohrn.)

The oesophagus is followed by a long


gastric cavity, which sends forth caecal
diverticula into the chelophores (when
these are present), and four immensely
long ones into the ambulatory legs. The
caeca are attached to the walls of the limb
cavities, especially at their extremities in
the tarsi, by suspensory threads of
connective tissue, and the whole gut,
central and diverticular, is further
supported by a horizontal septal
membrane, running through body and
legs, which separates the dorsal blood-
vessel and sinus from the gut, the nervous
system and the ventral sinus, giving
support also to the reproductive glands. A Fig. 279.—Transverse section through the basal
short and simple rectum follows the joint of the third leg in Phoxichilus
charybdaeus, ♀. Cut, Cuticle; Hyp, hypodermis;
gastric cavity. Int, intestinal caecum; N, nerve-cord; Ov, ovary;
In Phoxichilus, which lacks the three Sept, septum. (After Dohrn.)
anterior appendages in the female and the
two anterior in the male, two pairs of
caeca run from the gut into the cavity of the proboscis (Fig. 278, B, coec.).[404]
Circulatory System.—The heart has been especially studied by Dohrn in
Phoxichilus. It consists of a median vessel running from the level of the eyes to the
abdomen, furnished with two pairs of lateral valvular openings, and sometimes,
though not always, with an unpaired one at the posterior end. The walls are
muscular, but with this peculiarity that the muscular walls do not extend around the
heart dorsally, in which region its lumen is only covered by the hypodermis and
cuticle of the back. The blood-spaces of the body are separated into dorsal and
ventral halves by the septal membrane already referred to, which is perforated in the
region of the lateral processes by slits placing the two cavities in communication;
this septal membrane runs through the limbs to their tips, and far into the
proboscis, where it is attached to the edge of the superior antimere. The blood is a
colourless plasma with several kinds of corpuscles, of which the most remarkable are
amoeboid, actively mobile, often coalescing into plasmodia. The course of the
circulation is on the whole outwards in the inferior or ventral sinus, inwards towards
the heart in the superior, save in the proboscis, where the systole of the heart drives
the blood forwards in the dorsal channel. The beat is rapid, two or three times in a
second, according to Loman, in Phoxichilidium. Especially in the species with small
body and exaggerated legs, the movement of the circulatory fluid is actuated more
by the movements of the limbs and the contractions of the intestinal caeca than by
the direct impulse of the heart.
Nervous System.—The nerve-chain consists of a fused pair of supra-
oesophageal ganglia, which innervate (at least in the adult) the chelophores, and of
ventral ganglia, whence proceed the nerves to the other limbs. The ganglia of the
second and third appendages are fused with one another, sometimes also with the
ganglia of the first ambulatory legs; the ganglia of the three posterior pairs of legs
are always independent (though the development of their longitudinal commissures
varies with the body-form), and they are succeeded by one or two pairs of ganglia,
much reduced in size, situated in the abdomen, of which the posterior one
innervates the muscles of the abdomen and of the anal orifice. Each lateral nerve
divides into two main branches, which supply the parts above and below the septal
membrane. The nerve-supply of the proboscis is very complicated. Its upper
antimere is supplied from the pre-oral, its two lateral antimeres from the first post-
oral, ganglion, and each of these three nerves divides into two branches, of which the
inner bears six to eight or more small ganglia, which annular commissures passing
round the pharynx connect one to another. Of these ganglia and commissures the
anterior are the largest, and with these the outer lateral nerve-branches of the
proboscis merge. The immediate origin of the nerves to the chelophores is from the
median nerve that springs from the under side of the supra-oesophageal ganglion to
run forward into the proboscis, but it is noteworthy that the chelophores receive
twigs also from the lateral nerves of the proboscis which arise from the post-oral
ganglia.
Eyes.—Eyes are the only organs of special sense known in the Pycnogons. The
deep-water Pycnogons, in general those inhabiting depths below four or five
hundred fathoms, have in most cases imperfect organs, destitute of lens and of
pigment, so imperfect in many cases as to be described as wanting. It is rare for the
eyes to be lacking in shallow-water species, as they are, for instance, in
Ascorhynchus minutus, Hoek, dredged by the Challenger in 38 fathoms, but, on the
other hand, it is no small minority of deep-water species that possess them of
normal character and size, even to depths of about 2000 fathoms.
In all cases where eyes are present, they are simple or “monomeniscous” eyes, four
in number, and are situated in two pairs on an “oculiferous tubercle,” sometimes
blunt and low, sometimes high and pointed, placed on the so-called cephalothorax,
or first, compound, segment of the body. The anterior pair are frequently a little
larger, sometimes, as in Phoxichilidium mollissimum, Hoek, very much larger, than
the posterior. The minute structure of the eye has been investigated by Dohrn,
Grenacher, Hoek, and Morgan. The following account is drawn in the first instance
from Morgan’s descriptions.[405]
The eye of a Pycnogon (Phoxichilidium) is composed of three layers, an outer layer
of specialised ectoderm cells (hypodermis) that secrete the cuticular lens, a middle
layer of visual or retinal elements, and an inner layer of pigment-cells. The elements
of the middle layer consist of much elongated cells, whose branching outer ends are
connected with nerve-fibrils and interwoven in a protoplasmic syncytium, whose
middle parts are occupied by the nuclei and whose inwardly directed ends form the
retinal rods or bacilli. The pigment-cells of the inner layer are of various forms,
those towards the middle of the eye being small and flattened, those at the sides
being, for the most part, long and attenuated, so seeming, as Morgan remarks, to
approximate in character to the retinal elements. The pigment-layer is easily
dispersed and reveals beneath it a median vertical raphe, caused by the convergence
of the cells of the middle layer from either side, and along the line of this raphe the
optic nerve joins the eye, though its subsequent course to its connection with the
retinal elements is obscure. It is at least clear that the retina is an “inverted” retina,
with the nerve-connected bases of its cells lying outwards and their bacillar
extremities directed inwards.
In a longitudinal vertical section of the eye of a larva (Tanystylum), at a stage
when three pairs of walking legs are present, Morgan shows us the pigment-layer
apparently continuous with the hypodermis just below the eye, and in close
connection with the middle layer at the upper part of the eye. From this we are
permitted to infer a development by invagination, in which the long invaginated sac
is bent and pushed upwards till it comes into secondary contact with the hypoderm,
so giving us the three layers of the developed eye. This manner of formation is
precisely akin to that described by Parker, Patten, Locy, and others for the median
eyes of Scorpions and of Spiders, and the organ is structurally comparable to the
Nauplius- or median eye of Crustacea. But neither in these cases nor in that of the
Pycnogon is the whole process clear, in consequence chiefly of the obscurity that
attends the course of the optic nerve in both embryo and adult. For various
discussions and accounts, frequently contradictory, of these phenomena, the reader
is referred to the authors quoted, or to Korschelt and Heider’s judicious summary.
[406]

There seems to be a small structure, of some sort or other, between the ocelli on
either side. Dohrn thought it might be auditory, Loman that it might be secretory,
but its use is unknown.
Integument.—The chitinised integument is perforated by many little cavities,
some of them conical and tapering to a minute external pore, the others more
regularly tubular. Sometimes, but according to Hoek rarely, the tubular pore-canals
communicate with, or arise from, the conical cavities. The pore-canals transmit a
nerve for the supply of sensory hairs, often forked, which arise from the orifice of the
canal in little groups of two or more, sometimes in rosettes of eight or nine. These
setae are small or rudimentary in Ascorhynchus and totally wanting in Colossendeis;
they appear to be extremely large and stellate in Paranymphon. The conical cavities
contain proliferated epithelial cells, blood corpuscles, and cells of more doubtful
nature that are perhaps glandular. According to Dohrn, glands exist in connection
with both kinds of integumentary perforations, and he suspects that they secrete a
poisonous fluid in response to stimuli affecting the sensory hairs; Hoek, on the other
hand, is inclined to ascribe a respiratory function to the cavities; but indeed, as yet,
we must confess that their use is undetermined.
Reproductive Organs.—In each sex the generative organs consist of a pair of
ovaries or testes lying above the gut on either side of the heart; in the adult they are
fused together posteriorly at the base of the abdomen, and send long diverticula into
the ambulatory legs. In the female Phoxichilidium, at least, as Loman has lately
shown, the fusion is complete, and the ovary forms a thin broad plate, spreading
through the body and giving off its lateral diverticula. The diverticula of the testes
reach to the third joint of the legs, those of the ovaries to the fourth, or sometimes
farther. The ova ripen within the lateral diverticula, chiefly, and sometimes (Pallene)
exclusively, in the femora or fourth joints of the legs,[407] which, in many forms, are
greatly swollen to accommodate them; the spermatozoa, on the other hand, are said
to develop both within the legs and within the thoracic portions of the testis. The
genital diverticula may end blindly within the leg, or communicate through a duct
with the exterior by a valvular aperture placed on the second coxal joint. Such
apertures occur, as a rule, on all the legs in the females, in Rhynchothorax and
Pycnogonum on the last only. In the males an aperture is present on all the legs in
Decolopoda and Phoxichilidium; on the last three in Nymphon and Phoxichilus; in
most genera on the last two; in Pycnogonum and Rhynchothorax on the last only.
Very commonly the female individuals are somewhat larger than the males, and in
some species (Ammothea, Trygaeus) the latter are distinguished by a greater
development of spines or tubercles on the body and basal joints of the legs (Dohrn).
The act of fecundation has been observed by Cole[408] in Anoplodactylus. The
animal reproduces towards the end of August. Consorting on their Eudendrium
(Hydroid) colony, the male climbs upon the female and crawls over her head to lie
beneath her, head to tail; and then, fertilisation taking place the while, the hooked
ovigerous legs of the male fasten into the extruding egg-masses and tear them away.
The whole process is over in five minutes. The fresh egg-masses are more or less
irregular in shape, and white in colour like little tufts of cotton.
Each ball of eggs that the male carries represents the entire brood of one female,
and in Phoxichilidium Loman has seen a male carrying as many as fourteen balls.
Fertilisation is external, taking place while the eggs are being laid. The spermatozoa
have small rounded heads and long tails, and are thus unlike the spermatozoa of
most Crustacea.
Development.—Until the hatching of the embryo, the eggs of the Pycnogons are
carried about, agglutinated by cement-substance into coherent packets, on the
ovigerous legs of the males. They are larger or smaller according to the amount of
yolk-substance present, very small in Phoxichilidium and Tanystylum (Morgan),
where they measure only ·05 mm. in diameter; larger in Pallene (·25 mm.); larger
still (·5–·7 mm.) in Nymphon. In Pallene each egg-mass commonly contains only
two eggs; in the other genera they are much more numerous, rising to a hundred or
more in Ammothea (Dohrn). The egg-masses may be one or more on each ovigerous
leg, sometimes (Phoxichilidium angulatum, Dohrn) a single egg-mass is held by
both legs; they are extremely numerous in Phoxichilus, and in Pycnogonum they
coalesce to form a broad pad beneath the body. The fact that it is the male and not
the female that carries the eggs was only announced in 1877 by Cavanna;[409] before,
and by some even after his time, the two sexes were constantly confused.[410]
Segmentation is complete, symmetrical
in the forms with smaller eggs, unequal in
those burdened with a preponderance of
yolk (Morgan). In Pallene, as in the
Spider’s egg, what is described as at first a
total segmentation passes into a
superficial or centrolecithal one by the
migration outwards of the nuclei and the
breaking down of the inner ends of the
wedge-shaped segmentation-cells. The
blastoderm so formed becomes
concentrated at the germinal pole of the
egg. A thickened portion of the
blastoderm (which Morgan compares to
the “cumulus primitivus” of the Spider’s
egg) forms an apparently blastoporal
invagination (though Morgan calls it the
stomodaeum), and from its sides are
budded off the mesodermal bands.
Meisenheimer has recently given a
minute account of the early development
of Ammothea, a form with small yolkless
Fig. 280.—Young larva (nat. size ·1 mm.) of
eggs. Here certain cells of the uniform
Ammothea fibulifera, Dohrn. C.G, Brain; gl, gld,
gland and duct of chelophore; pr, proboscis; I, and almost solid blastosphere grow
II, III, IV, appendages. (After Dohrn.) inwards till their nuclei arrange
themselves in an inner layer of what (so
far as they are concerned) is a typical
gastrula, but without any central cavity. The inner layer subsequently, but slowly,
differentiates into the mid-gut, and into dorsal and lateral offshoots, the sources of
the heart and of the muscles and connective tissues respectively. The further
development of the egg takes place, as is usual in Arthropods, by the appearance, in
a longitudinal strip or germ-band which enwraps the yolk, of paired thickenings
which represent the cerebral and post-oral ganglia, and of others from which arise
the limbs. Of these latter, the chelophores are the first to appear, on either side of
the mouth; in Pallene the fourth pair appears next in order, followed by the fifth and
sixth, and by the third and seventh just before the hatching out of the embryo; the
second is lacking in this particular genus. Thus in Pallene (Dohrn, Morgan), and in
some others, e.g. Nymphon brevicollum (Hoek), the free larva is from the first
provided with its full complement of limbs. Certain other species of Nymphon hatch
out in possession of four or five pairs of limbs, but in the great majority of cases
studied the larval Pycnogon is at first provided with three pairs only, the three
anterior pairs of the typical adult.[411] Numerical coincidence, and that alone, has
often led this “Protonymphon” larva to be compared with the Crustacean Nauplius.
In the annexed figure of a young larval Ammothea (Achelia), we see the
unsegmented body, the already chelate chelophores (furnished with the provisional
cement-glands already described), the other two pairs of appendages each with a
curious spine at its base, the gut beginning to send out diverticula (of which the first
pair approach the chelophores) but still destitute of the anus (which is only to be
formed after the development of the abdomen), the proboscis, and one pair of eyes
situated close over the pre-oral ganglia. The subsequent changes are in this genus
extremely protracted, and terminate with the loss of the chelae, a process which
occurs so late in life that the chelate individuals were long looked upon as belonging
to a separate genus, the original Ammothea of Hodge, until Hoek proved their
identity with the clawless Achelia.
The developmental history of Phoxichilidium and Anoplodactylus is peculiar. The
young larvae have the claws of the second and third appendages hypertrophied to
form enormous stiff tendril-like organs, with which they affix themselves to the
bodies of Hydroid Zoophytes (Coryne, Eudendrium, Tubularia, Hydractinia, etc.),
feeding as the adults do: afterwards losing these elongated tendrils in a moult, they
pass into the gastral cavity of the Hydroid; in our native species the larva issues from
the Hydroid and begins its independent life at a stage when three pairs of
ambulatory legs are present and the fourth is in bud.[412] The Phoxichilidium larvae
were first noticed by Gegenbaur in Eudendrium,[413] again by Allman in Coryne
eximia.[414] George Hodge made detailed and important observations,[415] and
showed, in opposition to Gegenbaur, that it was the larva which entered the Hydroid
and not the egg that was laid therein.[416]

Fig. 281.—Larva of Phoxichilidium sp., showing tendril-like appendages of the


larval palps and ovigerous legs. (After Dohrn.)

Moseley has the following interesting note in his Challenger Report:[417] “The most
interesting parasite observed was a form found in the gastric cavities of the
gastrozoids of Pliobothrus symmetricus (West Indies, 450 f.), contained in small
capsules. These capsules were badly preserved, but there seemed little doubt that
they contained the remains of larvae of a Pycnogonid, so that the deep-sea
Pycnogonids, which are so abundant, very possibly pass through their early stages in
deep-sea Stylasteridae.... The gastrozoids containing the larvae were partly aborted.”
A Pycnogon larva, doubtfully ascribed to Nymphon, has been found living in
abundance ectoparasitically on Tethys in the Bay of Naples.[418]
Habits.—Of the intimate habits of the Pycnogons we can say little. Pycnogonum
we often find clinging, as has been said, close appressed to some large Anemone
(Tealia, Bolocera, etc.), whose living juices it very probably imbibes. The more
slender species we find climbing over sea-weeds and Zoophytes, where sometimes
similarity of colour as well as delicacy of form helps to conceal them; thus
Phoxichilidium femoratum (Orithyia coccinea, Johnston) is red like the Corallines
among which we often find it, P. virescens green like the filamentous Ulvae, the
Nymphons yellowish like the Hydrallmania and other Zoophytes which they affect.
On the New England coast, according to Cole, the dark purple Anoplodactylus
lentus, Wilson (Phoxichilidium maxillare, Stimpson), is especially abundant on
colonies of Eudendrium, whose colour matches its own, the yellowish Tanystylum
orbiculare frequents a certain yellowish Hydroid, and of these two species neither is
ever found on the Hydroid affected by the other; while, on the other hand, Pallene
brevirostris, whose whitish, almost transparent body is difficult to see, is more
generally distributed.[419] The deep-sea Pycnogons (Colossendeis, Nymphon) are
generally (if not universally) of a deep orange-scarlet colour, a common dress of
many deep-sea Crustacea.
The movements of the Pycnogons are singularly slow and deliberate; they are
manifestly not adapted to capture or to kill a living prey. Linnaeus accepted from J.
C. König the singular statement that they enter and feed upon bivalve shells,
“Mytilorum testes penetrat et exhaurit”; but the statement has never been
reaffirmed.[420]
Loman describes Phoxichilidium as feeding greedily on Tubularia larynx, and
especially on the gonophores. It grasps them with its claws, sucks them in bit by bit
till the proboscis is filled as far as the sieve, whereupon that part of the proboscis
squeezes and kneads the mass, letting only juices and fine particles pass through
into the alimentary canal. The lateral caeca and the rectum are separated by
sphincter muscles from the stomach; the former are in turn filled with food and
again emptied; the contents of the alimentary canal are in constant rolling
movement, and the faeces are eliminated by the action of a pair of levatores ani, in
round pellets.
The Pycnogons, or some of them, can swim by “treading water,” and Pallene is
said by Cole to swim especially well; they more often progress half by swimming,
half by kicking on the bottom. They move promptly towards the light, unless they
have Hydroids to cling to, and Cole points out that when they crawl with all their
legs on the bottom they move forwards towards the light,[421] but backwards when
they swim in part or whole. The legs move mostly in a vertical plane, horizontal
movements taking place chiefly between the first and second joints. Tanystylum is
uncommonly sluggish and inert; it sinks to the bottom, draws its legs over its back
and remains quiet, while Pallene, by vigorous kicks, remains suspended.
The long legs of the Pycnogons are easily injured or lost, and easily repaired or
regenerated. This observation, often repeated, is as old as Fabricius: “Mutilatur
etiam in libertate sua, redintegrandum tamen; vidi enim in quo pedes brevissimi
juxta longiores enascentes, velut in asteriis cancris aliisque redintegratis.” In such
cases of redintegration of a leg, the reproductive organ, the genital orifice, and the
cement-gland are not restored until the next moult.[422]
Systematic Position.—To bring this little group into closer accord with one or
other of the greater groups of Arthropods is a problem seemingly simple but really
full of difficulty.
The larval Pycnogon, with its three pairs of appendages, resembles the Crustacean
Nauplius in no single feature save this unimportant numerical coincidence; nor is
there any significance in the apparent outward resemblance to isolated forms (e.g.
Cyamus) that induced some of the older writers, from Fabricius downwards and
including Kröyer and the elder Milne-Edwards, to connect the Pycnogons with the
Crustacea. To refer them, or to approximate them to the Arachnids, has been a
stronger and a more lasting tendency.[423] Linnaeus (1767) included the two species
of which he was cognisant in the genus Phalangium, together with P. opilio.
Lamarck, who first formulated the group Arachnida (1802), let it embrace the
Pycnogons; and Latreille (1804, 1810), who immediately followed him, defined more
clearly the Pycnogonida as a subdivision of the greater group, side by side with the
subdivision that corresponds to our modern Arachnida (“Arachnides acères”), and
together with a medley of lower Crustacea, Myriapoda, Thysanura, and Parasitic
Insects; he was so cautious as to add “j’observerai seulement, que je ne connais pas
encore bien la place naturelle des Pycnogonides et des Parasites,” and Cuvier, setting
them in a similar position, adds a similar qualification.[424]
Leach (1814), whose great service it was to dissociate the Edriophthalmata and the
Myriapoda from the Latreillian medley, left the group Arachnida as we still have it
(save for the inclusion of the Dipterous Insect Nycteribia), and divided the group
(with the same exception) into four Orders of which the Podosomata, i.e. the
Pycnogonida, are one. Savigny (1816), less philosophical in this case than was his
wont, assumed the Crustacean type to pass to the Arachnidan by a loss of several
anterior pairs of appendages, and appears to set the Pycnogons in an intermediate
grade, marking the pathway of the change. He considered the seven pairs of limbs of
the Pycnogons to represent thoracic limbs of a Malacostracan, and, like so many of
his contemporaries, was much biased by the apparent resemblance of Cyamus to
Pycnogonum. The reader may find in Dohrn’s Monograph a guide to many other
opinions and judgments, some of them of no small morphological interest and
historical value[425]; but it behoves us to pass them by, and to inspect, in brief, the
case as it stands at present. The obvious features in which a Pycnogon resembles a
Spider or other typical Arachnid, are the possession of four pairs of walking legs, and
the pre-oral position and chelate form of the first pair of appendages; we may
perhaps also add, as a more general feature of resemblance, the imperfect
subservience of limbs to the mouth as compared with any of the Crustacea. The
resemblance would still be striking, in spite of the presence of an additional pair of
legs in a few Pycnogons, were it not for the presence of the third pair of appendages
or ovigerous legs of the Pycnogon, whose intercalation spoils the apparent harmony.
We are neither at liberty to suppose, with Claus, that these members, so important
in the larva, have been interpolated, as it were, anew in the Pycnogon; nor that they
have arisen by subdivision of the second pair, as Schimkewitsch is inclined to
suppose; nor that they have dropped out of the series in the Arachnid, whose body
presents no trace of them in embryo or adult. In a word, their presence precludes us
from assuming a direct homology between the apparently similar limbs of the two
groups,[426] and at best leaves it only open to us to compare the last legs of the
Pycnogon with the first abdominal, or genital, appendages of the Scorpion and the
Spider. On the other hand, if we admit the seventh (as we must admit the occasional
eighth) pair of appendages of Pycnogons to be unrepresented in the prosoma of the
Arachnids, then, in the cephalothorax of the former, with its four pairs of
appendages, we may find the homologue of the more or less free and separate part of
the cephalothorax in Koenenia, Galeodes, and the Tartaridae. There is a
resemblance between the two groups in the presence of intestinal diverticula that
run towards or into the limbs, as in Spiders and some Mites, and there are certain
histological and embryological resemblances that have been in part referred to
above; but these, such as they are, are not adequate guides to morphological
classification. We must bear in mind that such resemblances as the Pycnogons seem
to show are not with the lower Arachnids but with the higher; they are either
degenerates from very advanced and specialised Arachnida, or they are lower than
the lowest. Confronted with such an issue, we cannot but conclude to let the
Pycnogons stand apart, an independent group of Arthropods[427]; and I am inclined
to think that they conserve primitive features in the usual presence of generative
apertures on several pairs of limbs, and probably also in the non-development of any
special respiratory organs. But inasmuch as the weight of evidence goes to show that
subservience of limbs to mouth is a primitive Arthropodan character, the fact that
the basal elements of the anterior appendages have here (as in Koenenia) no such
relation to the mouth must be taken as evidence, not of antiquity, but of
specialisation. In like manner the suctorial proboscis cannot be deemed a primitive
character, and the much reduced abdomen also is obviously secondary and not
primitive.
Classification.—No single genus more than another shows signs of affinity with
other groups, and no single organ gives us, within the group, a clear picture of
advancing stages of complexity. On the contrary, the differences between one genus
and another depend very much on degrees of degeneration of the anterior
appendages, and we have no reason to suppose that these stages of degeneration
form a single continuous series, but have rather reason to believe that degeneration
has set in independently in various ways and at various points in the series. But
while we are unable at present to form a natural classification[428] of the Pycnogons,
yet at the same time a purely arbitrary or artificial classification, conveniently based
on the presence or absence of certain limbs, would run counter to such natural
relationships as we can already discern.
The classification here adopted is a compromise between a natural system, so far
as we can detect it, and an artificial one.
Two forms, separated from one another by many differences, show a minimum of
degeneration, namely Decolopoda on the one hand, and the Nymphonidae on the
other. The former genus has five pairs of legs, and this peculiarity is shared by
Pentanymphon. In both groups the three anterior limbs are all present and well
formed, save only that the ovigerous legs, which have ten joints in Decolopoda, are
reduced to five joints in the Nymphons, and their denticulate spines, of which
several rows are present in the former, are reduced to one row in the latter; on the
other hand, a greater or a less degeneration of these limbs marks each and all of the
other families.
Decolopoda is very probably the most primitive form known, though it has
characters which seem to be the reverse of primitive in the dwarfish size of its
chelophores and the crowded coalescent segmentation of the trunk. Colossendeis, in
spite of its vanished chelophores, is probably closely allied: the shape and
segmentation of the body and the several rows of smooth denticles on the ovigerous
legs are points in common. The Eurycydidae are closely allied to Colossendeidae;
they agree with Decolopoda in the two-jointed scape of the chelophore, and with
Ammotheidae in the deflexed mobile proboscis. The true position of Rhynchothorax
is very doubtful.
The Nymphonidae and Pallenidae are closely allied, and the Phoxichilidiidae have
points of resemblance, especially with the latter. Nymphon compares with
Decolopoda in the completeness of its parts, and is more typical in its long well-
segmented body, and in its highly-developed chelae; but it already shows reduction
in the scape of the chelophore, in the palps, and in the armature of the ovigerous
legs.
The Phoxichilidae and Pycnogonidae (Agnathonia, Leach; Achelata, Sars), though
differing greatly in aspect, are not improbably allied to one another; and whether
this be so or not, the complete absence of chelophores and of palps affords an
arbitrary character by which they are conveniently separated from all the rest.
The following table epitomises the chief characters of the several families:—
Pycnogonida. Proboscis. Chelophores. Palps. Ovigerous Teeth Legs. Trunk- Genital
legs. on do. segments. Openings.
♂ ♀
(Cryptochelata,
Sars)—
Decolopodidae Fixed, Complete, 10 joints 10 joints ♂, Four 5 Condensed, 1, 2, 1, 2,
decurved small, scape 2– ♀ rows, coalescent 3, 4, 3, 4,
jointed simple 5, 5
Colossendeidae Somewhat 0 10 10 ♂, ♀ Many 4 Coalescent 1, 2, 1, 2,
mobile, rows, 3, 4 3, 4
sometimes simple
decurved
Eurycididae Mobile, Scape 2– 10 10 ♂, ♀ More 4 Well 3, 4 1, 2,
stalked, jointed, chelae than one segmented 3, 4
deflexed rudimentary row,
serrate
Hannonia „ Rudimentary 0 10 ♂, ♀ Scattered 4 „ „ „
spines
Ammotheidae Mobile, „ 4–9 10 (or less) Few, 4 Condensed, „ „
deflexed ♂, ♀ scattered, segmented
serrate or
smooth
? Large, 0 8 (5) 10 ♂, ♀ Toothed 4 „ 4 4
Rhynchothoracidae fixed, tubercles
aberrant
(Euchelata, Sars)—
Nymphonidae Large, fixed Large, scape 1– 5 (7) 8–10 ♂, ♀ One row, 4–5 Well 2, 3, 1, 2,
jointed serrate segmented 4 3, 4
(5) (5)
Pallenidae „ „ 0 or 10 ♂, ♀ „ 4 „ (1, „
rudimentary 2),
3, 4
Phoxichilidiidae „ „ 0 5–6 ♂ One row, 4 „ 1, 2, „
simple 3, 4
(Achelata, Sars)—
Phoxichilidae Large, fixed 0 0 7♂ Scattered, 4 Well 2, 3, 1, 2,
simple segmented 4 3, 4
Pycnogonidae „ 0 0 9♂ Small, 4 Segmented, 4 4
irregular condensed

CLASS PYCNOGONIDA.[429]

Marine Arthropoda, with typically seven (and very exceptionally eight) pairs of
appendages, of which none have their basal joints subservient to mastication, the
first three are subject to suppression, the first (when present) are chelate, the second
palpiform, the third ovigerous, and the rest form ambulatory limbs, usually very
slender and long; with a suctorial proboscis, a limbless, unsegmented abdomen, and
no manifest respiratory organs.
Fig. 282.—Decolopoda australis, Eights. A, × 1: from a specimen obtained at the
South Shetlands by the Scotia Expedition. B, First appendage, or chelophore. (A,
original; B, after Hodgson.)

Fam. 1. Decolopodidae.—Appendage I. dwarfed, but complete and chelate,


scape with two joints; II. 9–10–jointed; III. well developed in both sexes, 10–
jointed, the terminal joints with about four rows of teeth; five pairs of legs, destitute
of accessory claws; genital apertures on all the legs (Bouvier).
Decolopoda australis, Eights[430] (1834), a remarkable form from the South
Shetlands, recently re-discovered by the Scotia expedition. The animal is large,
seven inches or more in total span, in colour scarlet; it was found in abundance in
shallow water and cast upon the shore. The body is greatly condensed, the proboscis
is “clavate, arcuated downwards,” and beset with small spines. A second Antarctic
species, D. antarctica, has been described by Bouvier. The presence of a fifth pair of
legs distinguishes Decolopoda from all known Pycnogons, except Pentanymphon.
Stebbing would ally Decolopoda with, or even include it in, the Nymphonidae; but
the presence of a second joint in the chelophoral scape, the number of joints in, and
the armature on, the ovigerous legs, and the deflexed proboscis, are all characters
either agreeing with or tending towards those of the Eurycididae; while the
Colossendeidae would be very like Decolopoda were it not for the complete
suppression of the chelophores. It seems convenient to constitute a new family for
this remarkable form.
Fam. 2. Colossendeidae (Pasithoidae, Sars).—Appendage I. absent in adult;
appendage II. very long, 10–jointed; appendage III. 10–jointed, clawed, with many
rows of teeth; auxiliary claws absent; segments of trunk fused; proboscis very large,
somewhat mobile; genital apertures, in at least some cases, on all the legs.
Pasithoe, Goodsir (1842), which Sars assumes as the type of the family, is here
relegated to Ammothea.[431] Colossendeis, Jarszynsky (1870) (Anomorhynchus,
Miers (1881), Rhopalorhynchus, Wood-Mason (1873)), remains as the only genus
commonly accepted: large, more or less slender short-necked forms; world-wide,
principally Arctic, Antarctic, and deep-sea; about twenty-five species.[432] The largest
species, C. gigas, Hoek, from great depths in the Southern Ocean, has a span of
about two feet. The North Atlantic C. proboscidea and Antarctic C. australis are very
closely related to one another. Carpenter would retain the genus Rhopalorhynchus
for R. kröyeri, W.-M. (Andamans), R. clavipes, Carp. (Torres Straits), and R.
tenuissimus, Haswell (Australia), all more or less shallow-water species, excessively
attenuated, with the second and third body-segments elongated, the caudal segment
excessively reduced, the club-shaped proboscis on a slender stalk, and other
common characters. Pipetta weberi, Loman (1904), is a large and remarkable form
from the Banda Sea, apparently referable, in spite of certain abnormal features, to
this family; the proboscis is extraordinarily long and slender; the palps have eight
joints, the ovigerous legs eleven.
Fam. 3. Eurycididae (Ascorhynchidae, Meinert).—Appendage I. more or less
reduced; appendage II. 10–jointed (absent in Hannonia); appendage III. 10–
jointed, clawed, with more than one tow of serrated teeth; proboscis movably
articulated and more or less bent under the body; auxiliary claws absent.
Eurycide, Schiödte (1857) (Zetes,
Kröyer, 1845): Appendage I. with two-
jointed scape, without chelae in adult;
one species (E. hispida, (Kr.)), from the
North Atlantic and Arctic, and two others
from the East Indies, recently described
by Loman. Barana arenicola, Dohrn
(1881), is nearly allied. Ascorhynchus, G.
O. Sars (1876) (Gnamptorhynchus,
Böhm, 1879; Scaeorhynchus, Wilson,
1881), very similar to Eurycide, with Fig. 283.—Eurycide hispida, Kr.; side view.
which, according to Schimkewitsch, it
should be merged, includes large,
smooth, elongated forms, with long neck and expanded frontal region, and a long
proboscis lacking the long scape that supports the proboscis in Eurycide; about
twelve species, world-wide, mostly deep-water. Barana castelli, Dohrn, from Naples
is akin to the foregoing genera, but seems to deserve generic separation from B.
arenicola. Ammothea longicollis, Haswell, from Australia, is, as Schimkewitsch has
already remarked, almost certainly a Eurycide, as is also, probably, Parazetes
auchenicus, Slater, from Japan.
Hannonia typica, Hoek (1880), from Cape Town, is a remarkable form, lately
redescribed by Loman. The chelophores are much reduced, the palps are absent; the
ovigerous legs are 10–jointed, and clawed; the terminal joints of the latter bear long
straight spines, scattered over their whole surface; the proboscis is borne on a
narrow stalk, and sharply deflexed. The eggs form a single flattened mass, as in
Pycnogonum. While the lack of palps would set this genus among the Pallenidae, the
remarkable proboscis seems to be better evidence of affinity with Ascorhynchus and
Eurycide.[433]
Nymphopsis, Haswell (1881), is a genus of doubtful affinities, placed here by
Schimkewitsch. The first appendage is well-developed and chelate; the palps are 9–
jointed, the ovigerous legs are 7–jointed, none of the joints being provided with the
compound spines seen in Nymphon and Pallene. It is perhaps an immature form.
Schimkewitsch has described another species, N. korotnevi, and Loman a third, N.
muscosus, both from the East Indies.
Fam. 4. Ammotheidae.—Akin to Eurycididae in having the proboscis more or
less movably jointed to the cephalic segment, and appendage I. reduced, non-chelate
in the adult; the body is compact and more or less imperfectly segmented;
appendage II. 4–9–jointed; appendage III. clawless, and the number of joints
sometimes diminished, with a sparse row of serrated spines; auxiliary claws usually
present.
Ammothea, Leach (1815) (including Achelia, Hodge (1864) = the old non-chelate
individuals): appendage I. very small, 2–jointed; appendage II. 8–9–jointed; caudal
segment fused with last body-segment; about eighteen species, four from the South
Seas, two or three from the East Indies, the rest mostly Mediterranean and North
Atlantic, in need of revision. Ammothea longipes, Hodge, is the young of Achelia
hispida, Hodge; and Ammothea magnirostris, Dohrn, is apparently the same
species. A. fibulifera, Dohrn, seems identical with Achelia echinata, Hodge (of
which A. brevipes, Hodge, is the young), and so probably is A. achelioides, Wilson;
Endeis didactyla, Philippi (1843), is very probably the same species. A.
uniunguiculata, Dohrn (? Pariboea spinipalpis, Philippi (1843)), has no auxiliary
claws. Leionymphon, Möbius (1902), contains nine Antarctic forms, allied to
Ammothea (including A. grandis, Pfeffer, and Colossendeis gibbosa, Möb., which
two are probably identical), with characteristic transverse ridges on the body, a large
proboscis, a 9–jointed palp, and somewhat peculiar ovigerous legs. Cilunculus,
Fragilia, and Scipiolus are new genera more or less allied to Leionymphon,
described by Loman (1908) from the Siboga Expedition.[434] Tanystylum, Miers
(1879) (including Clotenia, Dohrn (1881), and Discoarachne, Hoek (1880)), has
appendage I. reduced to a single joint or a small tubercle, and appendage II. 4–6–
jointed; world-wide; about eight species. Austrodecus glacialis and Austroraptus
polaris are two allied Antarctic species, described by Hodgson (1907), the former a
curious little form with a pointed, weevil-like proboscis, no chelophores, and 6–
jointed palp. Trygaeus communis, Dohrn (1881), from Naples, has a 7–jointed, and
Oorhynchus aucklandiae, Hoek (1881), a 9–jointed palp; the former has only seven
joints in the ovigerous leg. Lecythorhynchus armatus, Böhm (1879), with
rudimentary 2–jointed chelophores, and L. (Corniger) hilgendorfi, Böhm, with
small tubercles in their place, both from Japan, have also 9–jointed palps: the
former, at least, is apparently an Ammothea. Several insufficiently described genera,
Phanodemus, Costa (1836), Platychelus, Costa (1861), Oiceobathes, Hesse (1867),
and Böhmia, Hoek (1880), seem to be referable to this group; all have chelate
mandibles, and may possibly be based on immature forms.
Goodsir’s Pasithoe vesiculosa[435] is, in my opinion, undoubtedly Ammothea
hispida, Hodge, and so also, I believe, is his Pephredo hirsuta; P. umbonata,
Gould[436] (Long Island Sound), is, with as little doubt, Tanystylum orbiculare,
Wilson.
Fam. 5. Rhynchothoracidae.—The animal identified by Dohrn as
Rhynchothorax mediterraneus, Costa (1861), is a minute and very remarkable form,
without chelophores, with large 8–jointed palps, reduced by fusion to five joints,
and 10–jointed, clawed ovigerous legs, which last are provided on the last five joints
with peculiar toothed tubercles. The general aspect of the body is somewhat like that
of an Ammothea, which genus it resembles in the ventral insertion of the ovigerous
legs and the somewhat imperfect segmentation of the body. It differs from
Ammotheidae in the possession of a claw on appendage III. It is highly peculiar in
the structure of the mouth, in having a long forward extension of the oculiferous
tubercle jutting out over the proboscis, in the extreme shortness of the intestinal
caeca and ovaries which scarcely extend into the legs, and in the absence of cement-
glands from the fourth joint of the legs; these last are present only in the third joint
of the penultimate legs. A single pair of generative orifices are found on the last legs.
A second species, R. australis, Hodgson, comes from the Antarctic.

Fig. 284.—Rhynchothorax mediterraneus, Costa. A, Body and bases of legs; B,


terminal joints of palp. (After Dohrn.)
Fam. 6. Nymphonidae.—Appendage I. well-developed, chelate; II. well-
developed, usually 5–jointed; III. well-developed in both sexes, usually 10–jointed,
the terminal joints with one row of denticulated spines.
Nymphon, Fabr. (1794), about forty-five recognised species, of which some are
but narrowly defined. Closely allied are Chaetonymphon, G. O. Sars (1888),
including thick-set, hairy species, about eight in number, from the North Atlantic,
Arctic, and Antarctic; and Boreonymphon, G. O. Sars (1888), with one species (B.
robustum, Bell, Fig. 276), also northern, in which the auxiliary claws are almost
absent. Nymphon brevicaudatum, Miers (= N. horridum, Böhm), an extraordinary
hispid form from Kerguelen,[437] is also peculiar. Pentanymphon, Hodgson (1904),
from the Antarctic (circumpolar), differs in no respect save in the presence of a fifth
pair of legs; one species.
The only other genus is Paranymphon, Caullery (1896) (one species, Gulf of
Gascony, West of Ireland, Greenland), in which the palp is (6–)7–jointed, the
ovigerous leg 8–jointed, and the auxiliary claws are absent.
Fam. 7. Pallenidae.—As in Nymphon, but appendage II. absent or rudimentary.
Pallene, Johnston (1837): about ten species (Mediterranean, North Atlantic,
Arctic, Australia). P. languida, Hoek, Australia, lacks auxiliary claws, and is
otherwise distinct; but P. novaezealandiae, G. M. Thomson, is typical.
Pseudopallene, Wilson (1878):[438] appendage III. clawed; auxiliary claws absent;
four (or more) species (North Atlantic, Arctic, Antarctic). P. (Phoxichilus) pygmaea,
Costa (1836), and P. spinosa, Quatref., seem to belong to this genus or to Pallene.
Cordylochele, G. O. Sars (1888): closely allied, but with front of cephalic segment
much expanded and chelae remarkably swollen, includes three very smooth,
elongated, northern species, to which Bouvier has added one from the Antarctic;
Pallene laevis, Hoek, from Bass’s Straits, is somewhat similar. Neopallene, Dohrn
(1881): as in Pallene, but with a rudimentary second appendage in the female, and
no generative aperture on the last leg in the male (one species, Mediterranean).
Parapallene, Carpenter (1892): as in Pallene, but without auxiliary claws, and with
the two last segments of the trunk (which in Pallene are coalesced) independent
(about ten species, East Indies and Australia); Pallene grubii, Hoek (Phoxichilidium
sp., Grube, 1869), is probably congeneric. Pallenopsis, Wilson (1881): appendage I.
2–jointed; appendage II. rudimentary, 1–jointed; appendage III. clawless; auxiliary
claws present; slender forms, including some formerly referred to Phoxichilidium;
about fifteen species, world-wide. Pallene dimorpha, Hoek, from Kerguelen, with 4–
jointed palps, deserves a new generic appellation. P. longiceps, Böhm, from Japan,
with rudimentary 2–jointed palps in the male, is also peculiar.
Fig. 285.—Pallene brevirostris, Johnston, ♀ ,
Plymouth.
Fig. 286.—Phoxichilidium femoratum, Rathke, Britain. A, The animal with its
legs removed; B, leg and chela.

Fam. 8. Phoxichilidiidae.—Appendage I. well-developed; II. absent; III.


present only in the male, having a few simple spines in a single row. The last
character is conveniently diagnostic, but nevertheless the Phoxichilidiidae come very
near to the Pallenidae, with which, according to Schimkewitsch and others, they
should be merged; the two families resemble one another in the single row of spines
on the ovigerous legs and in the extension of the cephalic segment over the base of
the proboscis.
Phoxichilidium, M.-E. (1840): appendage III. 5–jointed; five or six species
(Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Arctic, Australia, Japan). Anoplodactylus, Wilson
(1878): appendage III. 6–jointed; auxiliary claws absent or very rudimentary; about
twelve species, cosmopolitan, of which many were first referred to Phoxichilidium.
A. neglectus, Hoek, comes from 1600 fathoms off the Crozets. Oomerus
stigmatophorus, Hesse (1874), from Brest, seems to belong to one or other genus,
but is unrecognisable. Anaphia, Say (1821), is in all probability identical with
Anoplodactylus, and if so the name should have priority. Halosoma, Cole (1904), is
an allied genus from California.
Fig. 287.—Anoplodactylus petiolatus, Kr., Britain. A, Dorsal view; B, side view.

Fam. 9. Phoxichilidae.[439]—Appendage I. and II. absent; appendage III.


present only in the males, 7–jointed, with minute scattered spines; auxiliary claws
well-developed; body and legs slender. The only genus is Phoxichilus (auctt., non
Latreille, Chilophoxus, Stebbing, 1902); the type is P. spinosus, Mont. (non
Quatrefages), from the N. Atlantic, and P. vulgaris, Dohrn, P. charybdaeus, Dohrn,
and P. laevis, Grube, are all very similar. Endeis gracilis, Philippi (1843), is probably
identical with P. spinosus, or one of its close allies. There are also known P.
meridionalis, Böhm, P. mollis, Carp., and P. procerus, Loman, from the East Indies;
P. australis, Hodgson, from the Antarctic; P. böhmii, Schimk., of unknown locality;
and forms ascribed to P. charybdaeus by Haswell and by Schimkewitsch from
Australia and Brazil.
Fam. 10. Pycnogonidae.—Appendages I. and II. absent; appendage III. present
only in the male, 9–jointed, with small, simple spines; auxiliary claws absent or
rudimentary; body and legs short, thick-set.
The only genus is Pycnogonum, Brünnich (1764) (Polygonopus, Pallas, 1766); the
type is P. littorale, Ström, of the N. Atlantic (0–430 fathoms), to which species have
also been ascribed forms from various remote localities, e.g. Japan, Chile, and
Kerguelen. P. crassirostre, G. O. Sars, a northern and more or less deep-sea form, is
distinct, and so also are P. nodulosum and P. pusillum, Dohrn, from Naples. P.
stearnsi, Ives, from California, is like P. littorale, except for the rostrum, which
resembles that of P. crassirostre. P. magellanicum, Hoek, P. magnirostre, Möbius,
both from the Southern Ocean; P. microps, Loman, from Natal, and four others
described by Loman from the East Indies, are the other authenticated species. Of P.
philippinense, Semper, I know only the bare record; and P. australe, Grube, is
described only from a larval form with three pairs of legs. P. orientale, Dana (first
described as Astridium, n.g.), is also described from an immature specimen, and
more resembles a Phoxichilus.

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