Noted for its innovative coverage of the West and the environment, this best selling U.S. history text provides students with a clear political narrative that incorporates social, cultural, military, and economic history. Each chapter begins with a dramatic vignette that both draws students into the chapter and presents the chapter's main themes. The vignettes are followed by three to five focus questions that provide a framework to help students understand the most important topics in the chapter. The last chapter of the book focuses exclusively on the Clinton administration.

Note: Each chapter ends with a Conclusion
America Begins The First Americans The Indians' Continent American Peoples on the Eve of European Contact
Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492–1630
African and European Peoples
European Expansion Footholds in North America
Expansion and Diversity: The Rise of Colonial America
The New England Way Chesapeake Society
The Spread of Slavery: The Caribbean and Carolina
The Middle Colonies Rivals for North America
The Bonds of Empire, 1660–1750
Rebellion and War Colonial
Economies and Societies Competing for a Continent Enlightenment and Awakening
Roads to Revolution, 1744–1776
Imperial Warfare Imperial Reorganization
The Deepening Crisis Toward Independence
Securing Independence, Defining Nationhood, 1776–1788
America's First Civil War Revolutionary Society Forging New Governments
Launching the New Republic, 1789–1800
Constitutional Government Takes Shape National Economic Policy and Its Consequences
The United States on the World Stage Battling for the Nation's Soul Economic and Social Change
Jeffersonianism and the Era of Good Feelings
The Age of Jefferson
The Gathering Storm
The War of 1812
The Awakening of American Nationalism
The Transformation of American Society, 1815–1840
Westward Expansion and the Growth of the Market Economy
The Rise of Manufacturing Equality and Inequality
The Revolution in Social Relationships
Politics, Religion, and Reform in the Age of Jackson
The Transformation of American Politics, 1824–1832
The Bank Controversy and the Second Party System
The Rise of Popular Religion
The Age of Reform
Life, Leisure, and Culture, 1840–1860
Technology and Economic Growth
The Quality of Life Democratic Pastimes
The Quest for Nationality in Literature and Art
The Old South and Slavery, 1800–1860
King Cotton Social Relations in the White South Honor and Violence in the Old South Life Under Slavery
The Emergence of African American Culture
Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict, 1840–1848
Newcomers and Natives
The West and Beyond The Politics of Expansion
From Compromise to Secession, 1850–1861
The Compromise of 1850
The Collapse of the Second Party System
The Crisis of the Union
Freedom Reborn: Civil War, 1861–1865
Mobilizing for War In Battle, 1861–1862
Emancipation Transforms the War War and Society, North and South
The Union Victorious, 1864–1865
The Crises of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Reconstruction Politics Reconstruction Governments
The Impact of Emancipation New Concerns in the North Reconstruction Abandoned
The Trans-Mississippi West Native Americans and the Trans-Mississippi West Settling the West Exploiting the West
The West of Life and Legend
The Rise of Industrial America
The Character of Industrial Change
The New South Industrial Work and the Work Force Labor Unions and Industrial Conflict
The Transformation of Urban America Urban Expansion
The Urban Challenge Reshaping the Urban Environment
Daily Life, Popular Culture, and the Arts, 1860–1900
Everyday Life in Flux Middle-Class Society and Culture
Working-Class Leisure in the Immigrant City Cultures in Conflict
Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age Party Politics in an Era of Social and Economic Upheaval Politics of Privilege, Politics of Exclusion
The 1890s: Politics in a Depression Decade
The Watershed Election of 1896 Expansionist Stirrings and War with Spain Deepening Imperialist Ventures: The Philippines, China, Panama
The Progressive Era
The Changing American Society and Economy
The Progressive Movement Takes Shape Progressivism and Social Control: The Movement's Coercive Dimension African Americans and Women Organize National Progressivism--
Roosevelt and Taft National Progressivism--
Woodrow Wilson
World War I
Defining America's World Role War in Europe
Mobilizing at Home, Fighting in France Promoting the War and Suppressing
Dissent Economic and Social Trends in Wartime America Joyous Armistice, Bitter Aftermath
The 1920s A New Economic Order Republicans in Power Mass Society, Mass Culture Cultural Ferment and Creativity
A Society in Conflict Hoover at the Helm
Crash, Depression, and New Deal Crash and Depression
The New Deal Takes Shape
The New Deal Changes Course
The New Deal Draws to a Close
American Life in a Decade of Crisis at Home and Abroad
The American People in the Depression Decade
The American Cultural Scene in the Thirties
The United States in a Menacing World
Waging Global War, 1939–1945
Into the Storm, 1939–1941
America Mobilizes for War War and American Society
The Battlefront, 1942–1944
Triumph and Tragedy, 1945
Cold War America, 1945–1952
The Postwar Political Setting Anticommunism and Containment
The Truman Administration at Home The Politics of Anticommunism
America at Midcentury
The Eisenhower Presidency
The Cold War Continues
The Affluent Society Consensus and Conservatism
The Other America Seeds of Disquiet
The Turbulent Sixties
The New Frontier, 1960–1963
New Frontiers Abroad: 1960–1963
The Great Society
The Changing Struggle for Equality, 1964–1968
The Lost Crusade in Vietnam, 1964–1968
A Troubled Journey: From Port Huron to Watergate
The Youth Movement 1968: The Politics of Strife Nixon and World Politics Domestic Problems and Divisions
The Crisis of the Presidency
Turning Inward: Society and Politics from Ford to Bush After the Sixties: Changing Social and Cultural Contours Years of Malaise: Post-Watergate Politics and Diplomacy
The Reagan Revolution Problems and Opportunities in Reagan's Second Term
The Bush Years: Resolve Abroad, Drift at Home
Bright Prospects and Nagging Uncertainties for a New Century
The Clinton Era I: Debating Domestic Policy
The Clinton Era II: The Quest for a Coherent Foreign Policy
An Overview of America at 2001
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