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List of Maps | p. xvii |
How They Lived | p. xix |
Preface | p. xxi |
Discoveries: Indians, Europeans, and the Americas About 15,000 B.C. to A.D. 1550 | p. 1 |
The First Colonization | p. 2 |
How They Lived: Locked in a Circle of Time | p. 5 |
Europe: Driven and Expansive | p. 8 |
Portugal and Spain: The Van of Exploration | p. 10 |
The Spanish Empire | p. 13 |
The Columbian Exchange | p. 17 |
Further Reading | p. 18 |
Key Terms | p. 19 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 19 |
Settlements Across the Sea: The Reasons, the Failures, and a Success 1550-1624 | p. 20 |
The English Reformation | p. 21 |
Elizabethan England: The Seedbed of English America | p. 23 |
How They Lived: Common Seamen | p. 25 |
Beginnings of an Empire | p. 26 |
Jamestown | p. 30 |
Other Beginnings | p. 35 |
Further Reading | p. 36 |
Key Terms | p. 37 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 37 |
Thirteen Colonies: England's American Empire 1620-1732 | p. 38 |
The New England Colonies | p. 38 |
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire | p. 45 |
How They Lived: Puritan Sunday | p. 47 |
Proprietary Colonies | p. 48 |
Further Reading | p. 53 |
Key Terms | p. 54 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 54 |
English Intentions, American Facts of Life: Colonial Society in the 1600s | p. 55 |
Trade | p. 56 |
Mercantilism in the South | p. 58 |
How They Lived: Finding the Way | p. 61 |
New England | p. 64 |
The Middle Colonies | p. 68 |
Further Reading | p. 69 |
Key Terms | p. 70 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 70 |
Other Americans: Colonial Indians and Africans | p. 71 |
Eastern Woodlands Indians | p. 71 |
A World Turned Upside Down | p. 76 |
Americans From Africa | p. 80 |
The African Slave Trade | p. 84 |
How They Lived: Slave Stations | p. 86 |
Further Reading | p. 88 |
Key Terms | p. 89 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 89 |
Competition for a Continent: French America and British America 1608-1763 | p. 90 |
New France and Louisiana | p. 91 |
A Century of War | p. 94 |
Social Developments | p. 96 |
Social Mobility | p. 98 |
Politics: Imperial and Colonial | p. 99 |
How They Lived: Piracy's Golden Age | p. 100 |
Culture and Religion | p. 102 |
Britain's Glorious Triumph | p. 105 |
Further Reading | p. 108 |
Key Terms | p. 109 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 109 |
Family Quarrels: Dissension in the Colonies 1763-1770 | p. 110 |
Imperial Problems | p. 110 |
The Stamp Act Crisis | p. 117 |
How They Lived: School for Politicians | p. 120 |
Act Two | p. 121 |
Further Reading | p. 123 |
Key Terms | p. 123 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 124 |
From Riot to Rebellion: The Road to Independence 1770-1776 | p. 125 |
Storms Within the Lull | p. 125 |
How They Lived: Redcoats | p. 128 |
The March Toward War | p. 131 |
Rebellion | p. 134 |
Cutting the Tie | p. 137 |
Further Reading | p. 140 |
Key Terms | p. 140 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 140 |
The War for Independence: Winning the Revolution 1776-1781 | p. 141 |
An Imbalance of Power | p. 141 |
Boston won, New York Lost | p. 144 |
The Tide Turns | p. 149 |
How They Lived: Ignoring the Revolution | p. 154 |
Further Reading | p. 156 |
Key Terms | p. 156 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 156 |
Inventing a Country: American Constitutions 1781-1789 | p. 157 |
State Constitutions | p. 157 |
America Under the Articles of Confederation | p. 161 |
How They Lived: Laying Out the Land | p. 164 |
Difficulties and Failures | p. 166 |
The Constitution | p. 169 |
Ratification | p. 173 |
Further Reading | p. 174 |
Key Terms | p. 175 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 175 |
We the People: Putting the Constitution to Work 1789-1800 | p. 176 |
The First Presidency | p. 176 |
Troubles Abroad | p. 182 |
How They Lived: Turning Forests into Farms | p. 185 |
The Tumultuous Northwest | p. 187 |
The Presidency of John Adams | p. 189 |
Further Reading | p. 192 |
Key Terms | p. 192 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 193 |
Jeffersonian America: Expansion and Frustration 1800-1815 | p. 194 |
The Election of 1800 | p. 194 |
The Sage of Monticello | p. 195 |
The Louisiana Purchase | p. 198 |
Foreign Woes | p. 202 |
Jemmy Applejohn and the War of 1812 | p. 204 |
How They Lived: Frontier Society | p. 206 |
Further Reading | p. 210 |
Key Terms | p. 211 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 211 |
Beyond the Appalachians: The West in the Early Nineteenth Century | p. 212 |
The First American West | p. 212 |
Patterns of Settlement | p. 214 |
Programs | p. 218 |
The Transportation Revolution | p. 222 |
How They Lived: Digging the Erie Canal | p. 223 |
Further Reading | p. 228 |
Key Terms | p. 228 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 228 |
Nation Awakening: Political and Economic Development 1815-1824 | p. 229 |
The Era of Good Feelings | p. 229 |
Successful Diplomacy | p. 232 |
Industrialization | p. 235 |
A Country Made for Industry | p. 238 |
How They Lived: Roads | p. 239 |
The South at the Crossroads | p. 241 |
Further Reading | p. 246 |
Key Terms | p. 247 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 247 |
The People's Hero: Andrew Jackson and a New Era 1824-1830 | p. 248 |
The Skewed Election of 1824 | p. 248 |
The Age of the Common Man | p. 251 |
The Revolution of 1828 | p. 254 |
How They Lived: Dueling the American Way | p. 256 |
Issues of Jackson's First Term | p. 260 |
Further Reading | p. 265 |
Key Terms | p. 265 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 265 |
In the Shadow of Old Hickory: Personalities and Politics 1830-1842 | p. 266 |
Van Buren Versus Calhoun | p. 266 |
The War With the Bank | p. 269 |
The Second American Party System | p. 272 |
How They Lived: Alma Mater | p. 274 |
Further Reading | p. 280 |
Key Terms | p. 280 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 280 |
Religion and Reform: Evangelicals and Enthusiasts 1800-1850 | p. 282 |
Age of Reason, Age of Reaction | p. 282 |
Religious Ferment | p. 283 |
Reformers | p. 286 |
How They Lived: European Observers | p. 288 |
Home-Grown Religion; Utopian Reform | p. 292 |
Further Reading | p. 297 |
Key Terms | p. 297 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 297 |
A Different Country: The South and Slavery | p. 299 |
Southern Antislavery | p. 299 |
Threats to the Southern Order | p. 303 |
How They Lived: African Slave Traders: Defying the Law | p. 306 |
The South Closes Ranks | p. 307 |
Further Reading | p. 311 |
Key Terms | p. 312 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 312 |
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery as It Was Perceived; Slavery as It Was | p. 313 |
"De Old Plantation" | p. 313 |
The Abolitionists | p. 315 |
What Slavery Was Like | p. 317 |
How They Lived: Fugitive Slaves | p. 318 |
Life in the Quarters | p. 323 |
Protest | p. 323 |
Further Reading | p. 327 |
Key Terms | p. 327 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 327 |
From Sea to Shining Sea: American Expansion 1820-1848 | p. 328 |
The Mexican Borderlands | p. 328 |
The Oregon Country | p. 333 |
How They Lived: Zorro and the Californios | p. 334 |
Further Reading | p. 342 |
Key Terms | p. 342 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 342 |
Apples of Discord: The Poisoned Fruits of Victory 1844-1854 | p. 343 |
The Sectional Split Takes Shape | p. 343 |
The Crisis of 1850 | p. 345 |
How They Lived: How They Mined the Gold | p. 349 |
The Compromise | p. 350 |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act | p. 353 |
Further Reading | p. 355 |
Key Terms | p. 355 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 355 |
The Collapse of the Union: From Debate to Violence 1854-1861 | p. 356 |
Bleeding Kansas | p. 356 |
A Hardening of Lines | p. 360 |
How They Lived: The Irish Famine and the Know-Nothings | p. 365 |
The Election of 1860 | p. 366 |
The Confederacy | p. 367 |
Further Reading | p. 372 |
Key Terms | p. 372 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 372 |
Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities: The Civil War through 1862 | p. 373 |
The Art and Science of War | p. 373 |
The Sobering Campaign of 1861 | p. 377 |
How They Lived: Facing Battle | p. 381 |
1862 and Stalemate | p. 382 |
Further Reading | p. 389 |
Key Terms | p. 390 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 390 |
Driving Old Dixie Down: General Grant's War of Attrition 1863-1865 | p. 391 |
The Campaigns of 1863 | p. 391 |
How They Lived: Marching through Georgia | p. 396 |
Total War | p. 398 |
The American Tragedy | p. 402 |
Consequences of the Civil War | p. 404 |
Further Reading | p. 406 |
Key Terms | p. 407 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 407 |
Aftermath: Reconstructing the Union; Failing the Freedmen 1865-1877 | p. 408 |
The Reconstruction Crisis | p. 408 |
1866: The Critical Year | p. 413 |
Radical Reconstruction | p. 415 |
How They Lived: Gullah | p. 416 |
Grant's Troubled Administration | p. 420 |
The Twilight of Reconstruction | p. 421 |
Further Reading | p. 423 |
Key Terms | p. 423 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 423 |
Parties, Patronage, and Pork: Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century | p. 424 |
How the System Worked | p. 425 |
Presidents and Personalities | p. 429 |
How They Lived: A District Leader's Day | p. 432 |
Issues | p. 436 |
Politics in the Cities | p. 437 |
Further Reading | p. 440 |
Key Terms | p. 441 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 441 |
Technology, Industry, and Business: Economic Revolution in the Late Nineteenth Century | p. 442 |
A Land Made for Industry | p. 442 |
Conquering the Wide-Open Spaces | p. 448 |
The Transcontinental Lines | p. 452 |
How They Lived: Building the Transcontinental | p. 452 |
The Organizers | p. 455 |
Further Reading | p. 459 |
Key Terms | p. 460 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 460 |
Living with Leviathan: Big Business and Great Wealth | p. 461 |
Regulating Railroads and Trusts | p. 462 |
Social Critics | p. 465 |
Defenders of the Faith | p. 467 |
How They Lived: The Last Dance of the Idle Rich | p. 468 |
How the Very Rich Lived | p. 470 |
Further Reading | p. 473 |
Key Terms | p. 474 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 474 |
We Who Built America: Factories and Immigrants | p. 475 |
A New Way of Life | p. 475 |
Who Were the Workers? | p. 477 |
Organize! | p. 479 |
Nation of Immigrants | p. 483 |
Ethnic America | p. 485 |
How They Lived: Crossing the Atlantic | p. 486 |
Further Reading | p. 490 |
Key Terms | p. 490 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 491 |
Urban America: The Growth of Big Cities and Big City Problems | p. 492 |
Cities as Alien Enclaves | p. 492 |
Of the Growth of Great Cities | p. 496 |
How They Lived: Sweatshops | p. 500 |
The Evils of City Life | p. 501 |
Further Reading | p. 504 |
Key Terms | p. 505 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 505 |
The Last Frontier: Winning the Last of the West 1865-1900 | p. 506 |
The Last Frontier | p. 506 |
The Cattle Kingdom | p. 515 |
How They Lived: Punching Cows | p. 516 |
The Wild West in American Culture | p. 518 |
The Mining Frontier | p. 520 |
Further Reading | p. 522 |
Key Terms | p. 522 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 522 |
Stressful Times Down Home: American Agriculture 1865-1896 | p. 523 |
Farming in a Dry Land | p. 524 |
Southern Farmers | p. 527 |
Protest and Organization | p. 529 |
The Money Question | p. 530 |
How They Lived: The Cigarette Kingdom | p. 531 |
The Populists | p. 533 |
Further Reading | p. 536 |
Key Terms | p. 537 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 537 |
The Days of McKinley: The United States as a World Power 1896-1903 | p. 538 |
The Landmark Election of 1896 | p. 538 |
Jim Crow Segregation | p. 542 |
An American Empire | p. 544 |
The Spanish-American War | p. 546 |
How They Lived: Avenging the Maine | p. 549 |
Empire Confirmed | p. 550 |
Further Reading | p. 555 |
Key Terms | p. 555 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 556 |
The World of Teddy Roosevelt: Society and Culture in Transition 1890-1917 | p. 557 |
Symbol of an Age | p. 558 |
The New Middle Class | p. 560 |
A Lively Culture | p. 563 |
Americans at Play | p. 566 |
How They Lived: Coney Island: Democratic Amusement | p. 566 |
Sports | p. 570 |
Further Reading | p. 572 |
Key Terms | p. 573 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 573 |
Age of Reform: The Progressives | p. 574 |
The Progressives | p. 574 |
Progressivism Down Home | p. 578 |
Making People Better | p. 581 |
How They Lived: Bindlestiffs, Tramps, and Bums | p. 582 |
Left of Progressivism | p. 585 |
Further Reading | p. 587 |
Key Terms | p. 588 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 588 |
The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson 1901-1916 | p. 589 |
T. R. Takes Over | p. 589 |
Roosevelt's Reforms | p. 592 |
A Conservattive President in a Progressive Era | p. 594 |
How They Lived: The Mann Act | p. 595 |
Democratic Party Progressivism | p. 598 |
Further Reading | p. 601 |
Key Terms | p. 601 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 601 |
Over There: The United States and the First World War 1914-1918 | p. 602 |
Wilson, the World, and Mexico | p. 602 |
The Great War | p. 605 |
How They Lived: The Tin Lizzie | p. 611 |
America Goes to War | p. 612 |
Further Reading | p. 617 |
Key Terms | p. 618 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 618 |
Over Here: World War I at Home 1917-1920 | p. 619 |
The Progressive War | p. 619 |
Social Changes | p. 622 |
Conformity and Repression | p. 625 |
Wilson and the League of Nations | p. 628 |
How They Lived: "They Dropped Like Flies": The Great Flu Epidemic | p. 628 |
Further Reading | p. 634 |
Key Terms | p. 635 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 635 |
Troubled Years: America after the Great War 1919-1923 | p. 636 |
"The Worst President" | p. 637 |
Postwar Tensions: Labor, Reds, Immigrants | p. 639 |
Racial Tensions | p. 642 |
How They Lived: The National Pastime Business | p. 645 |
Prohibition and Fundamentalism | p. 646 |
Further Reading | p. 649 |
Key Terms | p. 650 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 650 |
Calvin Coolidge and the New Era: When America Was Business 1923-1929 | p. 651 |
The Collidge Years | p. 651 |
Prosperity and Business Culture | p. 654 |
Get Rich Quick | p. 659 |
How They Lived: Fads, Sensations, and Ballyhoo | p. 660 |
Further Reading | p. 664 |
Key Terms | p. 664 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 664 |
Hard Times: The Great Depression 1930-1933 | p. 665 |
The Face of the Creature | p. 665 |
The Failure of the Old Order | p. 668 |
How They Lived: Weeknights at Eight | p. 671 |
Responses to Hard Times | p. 672 |
The Election of 1932 | p. 676 |
Further Reading | p. 677 |
Key Terms | p. 678 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 678 |
Rearranging America: FDR and the New Deal 1933-1938 | p. 679 |
The Pleasant Man Who Changed America | p. 679 |
The Hundred Days | p. 682 |
New Deal-Failures and Successes | p. 685 |
How They Lived: Not Feeling Sorry for the Rich | p. 687 |
Populist Spellbinders | p. 688 |
The Legacy of the New Deal | p. 690 |
Further Reading | p. 693 |
Key Terms | p. 693 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 694 |
The Second Great War: America and the World 1933-1942 | p. 695 |
New Deal Foreign Policy | p. 695 |
The World Goes to War | p. 698 |
The United States and the War | p. 701 |
America Goes to War | p. 703 |
How They Lived: Rationing and Scrap Drives | p. 706 |
Further Reading | p. 710 |
Key Terms | p. 710 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 710 |
World War II: The Pinnacle of Power 1942-1945 | p. 711 |
Stopping Japan | p. 711 |
Defeating Germany First | p. 716 |
The Twilight of Japan, the Nuclear Dawn | p. 721 |
How They Lived: Amphibious Landing | p. 722 |
Further Reading | p. 726 |
Key Terms | p. 727 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 727 |
Cold War: The United States and the Nuclear Age 1946-1952 | p. 728 |
The Shadow of Cold War | p. 728 |
Domestic Politics Under Truman | p. 733 |
Success in Japan, Conflict With China | p. 736 |
Years of Tension | p. 740 |
How They Lived: The Negro Leagues | p. 740 |
Further Reading | p. 745 |
Key Terms | p. 745 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 746 |
"Happy Days": Popular Culture in the Fifties 1947-1963 | p. 747 |
Let the Good Times Roll | p. 747 |
Suburbia | p. 753 |
Dissenters | p. 758 |
How They Lived: The World of Fashion | p. 759 |
Further Reading | p. 761 |
Key Terms | p. 762 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 762 |
Cold War and Civil Rights: The Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 1953-1963 | p. 763 |
The Middle of the Road | p. 763 |
How They Lived: Answer the Door, Somebody's Ringing the Bell | p. 768 |
1960: Changing of the Guard | p. 769 |
Kennedy Foreign Policy | p. 771 |
Civil Rights: The Battle in the Courts | p. 773 |
Civil Rights: From the Courts to the Streets | p. 777 |
Further Reading | p. 780 |
Key Terms | p. 780 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 781 |
Johnson's Great Society: Reform and Conflict 1961-1968 | p. 782 |
LBJ | p. 782 |
The Great Society | p. 784 |
Vietnam! Vietnam! | p. 787 |
Mr. Johnson's War | p. 789 |
Troubled Years | p. 790 |
How They Lived: The Drug Culture | p. 792 |
The Election of 1968 | p. 795 |
Further Reading | p. 798 |
Key Terms | p. 799 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 799 |
The Presidency in Crisis: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations 1968-1980 | p. 800 |
The Nixon Presidency | p. 800 |
Nixon and Vietnam | p. 804 |
Nixon-Kissinger Foreign Policy | p. 806 |
Watergate and Gerald Ford | p. 808 |
How They Lived: Sex: From No-No to Everybody's Doing It | p. 810 |
Quiet Crisis | p. 814 |
Further Reading | p. 816 |
Key Terms | p. 817 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 817 |
Morning in America: The Age of Reagan 1980-1993 | p. 818 |
The Ayatollah and the Actor | p. 818 |
The Reagan Revolution | p. 821 |
Foreign Policy in the Eighties | p. 824 |
The Bush Presidency | p. 827 |
Further Reading | p. 832 |
Key Terms | p. 832 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 833 |
The Millennium Years: Decadence? Renewal? 1993-2006 | p. 834 |
Cultural Dissonance | p. 835 |
Clinton and the World | p. 838 |
Clintonian America | p. 841 |
Catastrophe, Renewal, War | p. 847 |
Further Reading | p. 852 |
Key Terms | p. 853 |
Online Sources Guide | p. 853 |
Appendix | p. 1 |
Key Terms | p. 1 |
Photo Credits | p. 1 |
Index | p. 1 |
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