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| Maps and Graphs | |
| Features | |
| American Lives | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Preface | |
| About the Authors | |
| Prologue | |
| Beginnings | |
| First Peoples | |
| The Demise of the Big Mammals | |
| The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals | |
| The First Sedentary Communities | |
| The Maize Revolution | |
| The Diffusion of Corn | |
| Population Growth After 800 | |
| Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture | |
| The Collapse of Urban Centers | |
| Eurasia and Africa | |
| Europe in Ferment | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Who-or What-Killed the Big Mammals? | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| Debate over the Earliest Route to the Americas | |
| Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas | |
| Sightings | |
| Columbus's Great Triumph-and Error | |
| Spain's American Empire | |
| Extending Spain's Empire to the North | |
| Disease and Population Losses | |
| Ecological Imperialism | |
| Spain's European Rivals | |
| The Protestant Reformation | |
| English Beginnings in America | |
| The Settlement of Virginia | |
| "Purifying" the Church of England | |
| Bradford and Plymouth Colony | |
| Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony | |
| Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson | |
| Other New England Colonies | |
| French and Dutch Settlements | |
| Maryland and the Carolinas | |
| The Middle Colonies | |
| Cultural Collisions | |
| Cultural Fusions | |
| Debating the Past | |
| How Many Indians Perished with European Settlement? | |
| American Lives | |
| Tisquantum | |
| American Society in the Making | |
| Settlement of New France | |
| Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California | |
| The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard | |
| The Chesapeake Colonies | |
| The Lure of Land | |
| "Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery | |
| Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco | |
| Bacon's Rebellion | |
| The Carolinas | |
| Home and Family in the South | |
| Georgia and the Back Country | |
| Puritan New England | |
| The Puritan Family | |
| Visible Puritan Saints and Others | |
| Democracies Without Democrats | |
| The Dominion of New England | |
| Salem Bewitched | |
| Higher Education in New England | |
| A Merchant's World | |
| The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis | |
| The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples | |
| "The Best Poor Man's Country" | |
| The Politics of Diversity | |
| Becoming Americans | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| The Crucible | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Were Puritan Communities Peaceable? | |
| America in the British Empire | |
| The British Colonial System | |
| Mercantilism | |
| The Navigation Acts | |
| The Effects of Mercantilism | |
| The Great Awakening | |
| The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards | |
| The Enlightenment in America | |
| Colonial Scientific Achievements | |
| Repercussions of Distant Wars | |
| The Great War for the Empire | |
| Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris | |
| Burdens of an Expanded Empire | |
| Tightening Imperial Controls | |
| The Sugar Act | |
| American Colonists Demand Rights | |
| The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling | |
| Rioters or Rebels? | |
| Taxation or Tyranny? | |
| The Declaratory Act | |
| The Townshend Duties | |
| The Boston Massacre | |
| The Pot Spills Over | |
| The Tea Act Crisis | |
| From Resistance to Revolution | |
| American Lives | |
| Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Do Artists Depict Historical Subjects Accurately? | |
| The American Revolution | |
| "The Shot Heard Round the World" | |
| The Second Continental Congress | |
| The Battle of Bunker Hill | |
| The Great Declaration | |
| 1776: The Balance of Forces | |
| Loyalists | |
| The British Take New York City | |
| Saratoga and the French Alliance | |
| The War Moves South | |
| Victory at Yorktown | |
| Negotiating a Favorable Peace | |
| National Government Under the Articles of Confederation | |
| Financing the War | |
| State Republican Governments | |
| Social Reform | |
| Effects of the Revolution on Women | |
| Growth of a National Spirit | |
| The Great Land Ordinances | |
| National Heroes | |
| A National Culture | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| The Patriot | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Was the American Revolution Rooted in Class Struggle? | |
| The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant | |
| Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation | |
| Daniel Shays's "Little Rebellion" | |
| To Philadelphia, and the Constitution | |
| The Great Convention | |
| The Compromises That Produced the Constitution | |
| Ratifying the Constitution | |
| Washington as President | |
| Congress Under Way | |
| Hamilton and Financial Reform | |
| The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground | |
| Revolution in France | |
| Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties | |
| 1794: Crisis and Resolution | |
| Jay's Treaty | |
| 1795: All's Well That Ends Well | |
| Washington's Farewell | |
| The Election of 1796 | |
| The XYZ Affair | |
| The Alien and Sedition Acts | |
| The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| Depicting History with Maps | |
| Debating the Past | |
| What Ideas Shaped the Constitution? | |
| Jeffersonian Democracy | |
| Jefferson Elected President | |
| The Federalist Contribution | |
| Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist | |
| Jefferson as President | |
| Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary | |
| The Barbary Pirates | |
| The Louisiana Purchase | |
| The Federalists Discredited | |
| Lewis and Clark | |
| The Burr Conspiracy | |
| Napoleon and the British | |
| The Impressment Controversy | |
| The Embargo Act | |
| Jeffersonian Democracy | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| A Water Route to the Pacific? | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did Thomas Jefferson Father a Child by His Slave? | |
| National Growing Pains | |
| Madison in Power | |
| Tecumseh and Indian Resistance | |
| Depression and Land Hunger | |
| Opponents of War | |
| The War of 1812 | |
| Britain Assumes the Offensive | |
| "The Star Spangled Banner" | |
| The Treaty of Ghent | |
| The Hartford Convention | |
| The Battle of New Orleans | |
| Victory Weakens the Federalists | |
| Anglo-American Rapprochement | |
| The Transcontinental Treaty | |
| The Monroe Doctrine | |
| The Era of Good Feelings | |
| New Sectional Issues | |
| New Leaders | |
| The Missouri Compromise | |
| The Election of 1824 | |
| John Quincy Adams as President | |
| Calhoun's Exposition and Protest | |
| The Meaning of Sectionalism | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| North-South Sectionalism Intensifies | |
| Debating the Past | |
| How Did Indians and Settlers Interact? | |
| Toward a National Economy | |
| Gentility and the Consumer Revolution | |
| Birth of the Factory | |
| An Industrial Proletariat? | |
| Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers | |
| Irish and German Immigrants | |
| The Persistence of the Household System | |
| Rise of Corporations | |
| Cotton Revolutionizes the South | |
| Revival of Slavery | |
| Roads to Market | |
| Transportation and the Government | |
| Development of Steamboats | |
| The Canal Boom | |
| New York City: Emporium of the Western World | |
| The Marshall Court | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| The Making of the Working Class | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did a "Market Revolution" Transform Early Nineteenth-Century America? | |
| Jacksonian Democracy | |
| "Democratizing" Politics | |
| 1828: The New Party System in Embryo | |
| The Jacksonian Appeal | |
| The Spoils System | |
| President of All the People | |
| Sectional Tensions Revived | |
| Jackson: "The Bank...I Will Kill It!" | |
| Jackson's Bank Veto | |
| Jackson Versus Calhoun | |
| Indian Removals | |
| The Nullification Crisis | |
| Boom and Bust | |
| Jacksonianism Abroad | |
| The Jacksonians | |
| Rise of the Whigs | |
| Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson | |
| The Log Cabin Campaign | |
| American Lives | |
| Horace Greeley | |
| Debating the Past | |
| For Whom Did Jackson Fight? | |
| The Making of Middle-Class America | |
| Tocqueville: Democracy in America | |
| The Family Recast | |
| The Second Great Awakening | |
| The Era of Associations | |
| Backwoods Utopias | |
| The Age of Reform | |
| "Demon Rum" | |
| The Abolitionist Crusade | |
| Women's Rights | |
| The Romantic View of Life | |
| Emerson and Thoreau | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| Herman Melville | |
| Walt Whitman | |
| Reading and the Dissemination of Culture | |
| Education for Democracy | |
| The State of the Colleges | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| Small Families in the Northeast, Large Families in the Frontier | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did the Antebellum Reform Movement Improve Society? | |
| Westward Expansion | |
| Tyler's Troubles | |
| The Webster-Ashburton Treaty | |
| The Texas Question | |
| Manifest Destiny | |
| Life on the Trail | |
| California and Oregon | |
| The Election of 1844 | |
| Polk as President | |
| War with Mexico | |
| To the Halls of Montezuma | |
| The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
| The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States | |
| Slavery: Storm Clouds Gather | |
| The Election of 1848 | |
| The Gold Rush | |
| The Compromise of 1850 | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| The Political Geography of Slavery | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did the Frontier Change Women's Roles? | |
| The Sections Go Their Ways | |
| The South | |
| The Economics of Slavery | |
| Antebellum Plantation Life | |
| The Sociology of Slavery | |
| Psychological Effects of Slavery | |
| Manufacturing in the South | |
| The Northern Industrial Juggernaut | |
| A Nation of Immigrants | |
| How Wage Earners Lived | |
| Progress and Poverty | |
| Foreign Commerce | |
| Steam Conquers the Atlantic | |
| Canals and Railroads | |
| Financing the Railroads | |
| Railroads and the Economy | |
| Railroads and the Sectional Conflict | |
| The Economy on the Eve of Civil War | |
| American Lives | |
| Sojourner Truth | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did Slaves and Masters Form Emotional Bonds? | |
| The Coming of the Civil War | |
| The Slave Power Comes North | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| Diversions Abroad: The "Young America" Movement | |
| Stephen Douglas: "The Little Giant" | |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
| Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System | |
| "Bleeding Kansas" | |
| Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism | |
| Buchanan Tries His Hand | |
| The Dred Scott Decision | |
| The Proslavery Lecompton Constitution | |
| The Emergence of Lincoln | |
| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
| John Brown's Raid | |
| The Election of 1860 | |
| The Secession Crisis | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| Runaway Slaves: Hard Realities | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Was the Civil War Avoidable? | |
| The War to Save the Union | |
| Lincoln's Cabinet | |
| Fort Sumter: The First Shot | |
| The Blue and the Gray | |
| The Test of Battle: Bull Run | |
| Paying for the War | |
| Politics as Usual | |
| Behind Confederate Lines | |
| War in the West: Shiloh | |
| McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior | |
| Lee Counterattacks: Antietam | |
| The Emancipation Proclamation | |
| The Draft Riots | |
| The Emancipated People | |
| African American Soldiers | |
| Antietam to Gettysburg | |
| Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg | |
| Economic and Social Effects, North and South | |
| Women in Wartime | |
| Grant in the Wilderness | |
| Sherman in Georgia | |
| To Appomattox Court House | |
| Winners, Losers, and the Future | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Glory | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Cold Mountain | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Why Did the South Lose the Civil War? | |
| Reconstruction and the South | |
| The Assassination of Lincoln | |
| Presidential Reconstruction | |
| Republican Radicals | |
| Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction | |
| The Fourteenth Amendment | |
| The Reconstruction Acts | |
| Congress Supreme | |
| The Fifteenth Amendment | |
| "Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers | |
| The Ravaged Land | |
| Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System | |
| The White Backlash | |
| Grant as President | |
| The Disputed Election of 1876 | |
| The Compromise of 1877 | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| The Politics of Reconstruction | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt? | |
| Appendix | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| The Articles of Confederation | |
| The Constitution of the United States of America | |
| Amendments to the Constitution | |
| Presidential Elections, 1789-2004 | |
| Glossary | |
| Picture Credits | |
| Index | |
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