Making America: A History of the United States

by Berkin, Carol

• ISBN13: 9780618044276
• ISBN10: 0618044272
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-09
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

With an accessible reading style, abundant pedagogy, and reasonable price tag,Making America,Brief, is the perfect choice for inexperienced students and cost-conscious professors. The Second Edition features chapter-opening maps, timelines, and chronology charts that emphasize key developments, enhance geographical awareness, and highlight political events.

Table of Contents

Making a ``New'' World, to 1558	3	(20)
A Continent on the Move, 1400--1725	23	(22)
Founding the English Mainland Colonies, 1607--1732	45	(20)
The British Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689--1763	65	(18)
Choosing Loyalties, 1763--1776	83	(22)
Re-creating America: Independence and a New Nation, 1775--1783	105	(22)
Competing Visions of the Virtuous Republic, 1776--1800	127	(28)
The Triumphs and Trials of Jeffersonianism, 1800--1815	155	(28)
The Rise of a New Nation, 1815--1836	183	(22)
The Great Transformation, 1815--1840	205	(20)
Responses to the Great Transformation, 1815--1840	225	(22)
Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny, 1841--1849	247	(22)
Sectional Conflict and Shattered Union, 1850--1861	269	(22)
A Violent Solution: Civil War, 1861--1865	291	(26)
Reconstruction: High Hopes and Broken Dreams, 1865--1877	317	(22)
Survival of the Fittest: Entrepreneurs and Workers in Industrial America, 1865--1900	339	(24)
Conflict and Change in the West, 1865--1902	363	(22)
The New Social Patterns of Urban and Industrial America, 1865--1917	385	(24)
Political Stalemate and Political Upheaval, 1868--1900	409	(24)
Becoming a World Power: America and World Affairs, 1865--1913	433	(20)
The Progressive Era, 1900--1917	453	(22)
America and the World, 1913--1920	475	(22)
The 1920s, 1920--1928	497	(22)
From Good Times to Hard Times, 1920--1932	519	(22)
The New Deal, 1933--1940	541	(25)
America's Rise to World Leadership, 1933--1945	566	(29)
Truman and Cold War America, 1945--1952	595	(22)
Quest for Consensus, 1952--1960	617	(24)
Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960--1968	641	(22)
America Under Stress, 1963--1975	663	(22)
Facing Limits, 1974--1992	685	(28)
Making New Choices, 1992--1999	713