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List of Maps | p. xix |
Preface | p. xxi |
Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
A Not-so-"New" World | |
The Collision of Cultures | p. 5 |
Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations | p. 6 |
European Visions of America | p. 15 |
The Expansion of Europe | p. 17 |
The Voyages of Columbus | p. 19 |
The Great Biological Exchange | p. 23 |
Professional Explorers | p. 25 |
The Spanish Empire | p. 26 |
The Protestant Reformation | p. 40 |
Challenges to the Spanish Empire | p. 44 |
Britain and Its Colonies | p. 52 |
The English Background | p. 52 |
Settling the Chesapeake | p. 56 |
Settling new England | p. 67 |
Indians in new England | p. 78 |
The English Civil War in America | p. 83 |
Settling the Carolinas | p. 84 |
Settling the Middle Colonies and Georgia | p. 89 |
Thriving Colonies | p. 102 |
Colonial Ways of Life | p. 106 |
The Shape of Early America | p. 107 |
Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies | p. 114 |
Society and Economy in new England | p. 127 |
Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies | p. 139 |
Colonial Cities | p. 143 |
The Enlightenment in America | p. 146 |
The Great Awakening | p. 150 |
From Colonies to States | p. 158 |
English Administration of the Colonies | p. 159 |
The Habit of Self-Government | p. 164 |
Troubled Neighbors | p. 165 |
The Colonial Wars | p. 169 |
Regulating the Colonies | p. 180 |
Fanning the Flames | p. 185 |
A Worsening Crisis | p. 190 |
Shifting Authority | p. 194 |
Independence | p. 200 |
Building a Nation | |
The American Revolution | p. 213 |
1776: Washington's Narrow Escape | p. 214 |
American Society at War | p. 218 |
1777: Setbacks for the British | p. 221 |
1778: Both Sides Regroup | p. 225 |
The War in the South | p. 229 |
The Treaty of Paris | p. 235 |
The Political Revolution | p. 238 |
The Social Revolution | p. 240 |
The Emergence of an American Culture | p. 249 |
Shaping a Federal Union | p. 254 |
The Confederation Government | p. 255 |
Creating the Constitution | p. 267 |
The Federalist Era | p. 284 |
A New Nation | p. 285 |
Hamilton's Financial Vision | p. 290 |
The Republican Alternative | p. 298 |
Crises Foreign and Domestic | p. 300 |
Settlement of New Land | p. 309 |
Transfer of Power | p. 312 |
The Adams Administration | p. 314 |
The Early Republic | p. 326 |
The New American Nation | p. 327 |
Jeffersonian Simplicity | p. 329 |
Divisions in the Republican Party | p. 340 |
War in Europe | p. 342 |
The War of 1812 | p. 347 |
An Expansive Nation | |
The Dynamics of Growth | p. 369 |
Transportation and the Market Revolution | p. 370 |
A Communications Revolution | p. 379 |
Agriculture and the National Economy | p. 380 |
The Industrial Revolution | p. 384 |
The Popular Culture | p. 392 |
Immigration | p. 395 |
Organized Labor | p. 402 |
The Rise of the Professions | p. 405 |
Jacksonian Inequality | p. 407 |
Nationalism and Sectionalism | p. 410 |
Economic Nationalism | p. 410 |
"An Era of Good Feelings" | p. 415 |
Crises and Compromises | p. 420 |
Judicial Nationalism | p. 424 |
Nationalist Diplomacy | p. 428 |
One-Party Politics | p. 429 |
The Jacksonian Era | p. 440 |
Setting the Stage | p. 442 |
Nullification | p. 447 |
Jackson's Indian Policy | p. 455 |
The Bank Controversy | p. 459 |
Contentious Politics | p. 462 |
Van Buren and the New Party System | p. 468 |
Assessing the Jackson Years | p. 474 |
The Old South | p. 478 |
The Distinctiveness of the Old South | p. 480 |
White Society in the South | p. 487 |
Black Society in the South | p. 492 |
The Culture of the Southern Frontier | p. 505 |
Religion, Romanticism, and Reform | p. 510 |
Rational Religion | p. 511 |
The Second Great Awakening | p. 513 |
Romanticism in America | p. 522 |
The Flowering of American Literature | p. 527 |
Education | p. 531 |
The Reform Impulse | p. 535 |
Anti-Slavery Movements | p. 542 |
A House Divided and Rebuilt | |
An Empire in the West | p. 559 |
The Tyler Presidency | p. 560 |
The Western Frontier | p. 563 |
Moving West | p. 571 |
Annexing Texas | p. 579 |
The Mexican War | p. 589 |
The Gathering Storm | p. 600 |
Slavery in the Territories | p. 601 |
The Compromise of 1850 | p. 609 |
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis | p. 617 |
The Deepening Sectional Crisis | p. 628 |
The Center Comes Apart | p. 637 |
The War of the Union | p. 648 |
The End of the Waiting Game | p. 648 |
The Balance of Force | p. 654 |
The War's Early Course | p. 656 |
Emancipation | p. 672 |
The War Behind the Lines | p. 676 |
Government During the War | p. 679 |
The Faltering Confederacy | p. 685 |
The Confederacy's Defeat | p. 690 |
A Modern War | p. 700 |
Reconstruction: North and South | p. 704 |
The War's Aftermath | p. 705 |
The Battle Over Political Reconstruction | p. 711 |
The Assassination of Lincoln | p. 713 |
Reconstructing the South | p. 720 |
The Reconstructed South | p. 724 |
The Grant Years | p. 732 |
Glossary | p. A1 |
Appendix | p. A59 |
The Declaration of Independence | p. A61 |
Articles of Confederation | p. A66 |
The Constitution of the United States | p. A74 |
Amendments to the Constitution | p. A86 |
Presidential Elections | p. A96 |
Admission of States | p. A104 |
Population of the United States | p. A105 |
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 | p. A106 |
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 | p. A108 |
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State | p. A117 |
Further Readings | p. A123 |
Credits | p. A137 |
Index | p. A141 |
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