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Note: Each chapter includes a Summary.
1. Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492-1600
American Societies
North America in 1492
African Societies
European Societies
Early European Explorations
The Voyages of Columbus, Cabot, and Their Successors
Spanish Exploration and Conquest
The Columbian Exchange
Links to the World: Maize
Europeans in North America
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Columbus Day
2. Europeans Colonize North America, 1600-1640
New Spain, New France, and New Netherland
The Caribbean
Links to the World: Wampum
English Interest in Colonization
The Founding of Virginia
Life in the Chesapeake
The Founding of New England
Life in New England
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Foxwoods Casino and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
3. North America in the Atlantic World, 1640-1720
The Growth of Anglo-American Settlements
A Decade of Imperial Crises: The 1670s
African Slavery on the Mainland
The Web of Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Links to the World: International Piracy
Enslavement of Africans and Indians
Imperial Reorganization and the Witchcraft Crisis
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Americans of African Descent
4. American Society Transformed, 1720-1770
Population Growth and Ethnic Diversity
Economic Growth and Development
Colonial Cultures
Links to the World: Exotic Beverages
Colonial Families
Politics: Stability and Crisis in British America
A Crisis in Religion
Legacy for a People and a Nation: "Self-Made Men"
5. Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754-1774
Renewed Warfare Among Europeans and Indians
Links to the World: The First Worldwide War
1763: A Turning Point
The Stamp Act Crisis
Resistance to the Townshend Acts
Confrontations in Boston
Tea and Turmoil
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Census and Reapportionment
6. A Revolution, Indeed, 1774-1783
Government by Congress and Committee
Contest in the Backcountry
Choosing Sides
Links to the World: New Nations
War and Independence
The Struggle in the North
Life in the Army and on the Home Front
Victory in the South
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Revolutionary Origins
7. Forging a National Republic, 1776-1789
Creating a Virtuous Republic
Links to the World: Novels
The First Emancipation and the Growth of Racism
Designing Republican Governments
Trials of the Confederation
Order and Disorder in the West
From Crisis to the Constitution
Opposition and Ratification
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Women's Education
8. The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789-1800
Building a Workable Government
Domestic Policy Under Washington and Hamilton
The French Revolution and the Development of Partisan Politics
Partisan Politics and Relations with Great Britain
John Adams and Political Dissent
Indians and African Americans at the End of the Century
Links to the World: Haitian Refugees
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Dissent During Wartime
9. Partisan Politics and War: The Democratic-Republicans in Power, 1801-1815
The Jefferson Presidency and Marshall Court
Louisiana and Lewis and Clark
A New Political Culture
Indian Resistance
American Shipping Imperiled
Links to the World: Industrial Piracy
"Mr. Madison's War"
Peace and Consequences
Legacy for a People and a Nation: States' Rights and Nullification
10. Nationalism, Expansion, and the Market Economy, 1816-1845
Postwar Nationalism
The Market Economy and Government's Role
Transportation Links
Links to the World: The United States as a Developing Nation
Commercial Farming
The Rise of Manufacturing and Commerce
Workers and the Workplace
Americans on the Move
American Indian Resistance and Removal
Legacy for a People and a Nation: A Mixed Economy
11. Reform and Politics in the Age of Jackson, 1824-1845
From Revival to Reform
Abolitionism and the Women's Movement
Links to the World: The International Antislavery Movement
Jacksonianism and Party Politics
Federalism at Issue: The Nullification and Bank Controversies
The Whig Challenge and the Second Party System
Manifest Destiny and Expansionism
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Bible Belt
12. People and Communities in the North and West, 1830-1860
Country Life
The West
Links to the World: Gold in California
City Life
Extremes of Wealth
Family Life
Immigrant Lives in America
Free People of Color
Legacy for a People and a Nation: White Fascination with and Appropriation of Black Culture
13. People and Communities in a Slave Society: The South, 1830-1860
The "Distinctive" South?
Free Southerners: Farmers, Free Blacks, and Planters
Links to the World: "King Cotton" in the World Economy
Slave Life and Labor
Slave Culture
Slave Resistance and Rebellion
Harmony and Tension in a Slave Society
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Reparations for Slavery
14. Slavery and America's Future: The Road to War, 1845-1861
The War with Mexico and Its Consequences
1850: Compromise or Armistice?
Slavery Expansion and Collapse of the Party System
Links to the World: Annexation of Cuba
Slavery and the Nation's Future
Disunion
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
15. Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1961-1865
America Goes to War, 1861-1862
War Transforms the South
Wartime Northern Economy and Society
The Advent of Emancipation
The Soldiers' War
1863: The Tide of Battle Turns
Disunity, South, North, and West
1864-1865: The Final Test of Wills
Links to the World: The Civil War in Britain
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Confederate Battle Flag
16. Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877
Wartime Reconstruction
The Meanings of Freedom
Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
The Congressional Reconstruction Plan
Reconstruction Politics in the South
Reconstruction Reversed
Links to the World: The Grants' Tour of the World
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Fourteenth Amendment
17. The Development of the West, 1877-1900
The Economic Activities of Native Peoples
The Transformation of Native Cultures
The Extraction of Natural Resources
Irrigation and Transportation
Links to the World: The Australian Frontier
Farming the Plains
The Ranching Frontier
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The West and Rugged Individualism
18. The Machine Age, 1877-1920
Technology and the Triumph of Industrialism
Links to the World: The Atlantic Cable
Mechanization and the Changing Status of Labor
Labor Violence and the Union Movement
Standards of Living
The Corporate Consolidation Movement
The Gospel of Wealth and Its Critics
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Industrialism, Smoke, and Pollution Control
19. The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877-1920
Growth of the Modern City
Urban Neighborhoods
Living Conditions in the Inner City
Managing the City
Family Life
The New Leisure and Mass Culture
Links to the World: Japanese Baseball
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Ethnic Food
20. Gilded Age Politics, 1877-1900
The Nature of Party Politics
Links to the World: Missionaries
Issues of Legislation
The Presidency Restrengthened
Discrimination, Disfranchisement, Response
Agrarian Unrest and Populism
The Depression and Protests of the 1890s
The Silver Crusade and the Election of 1896
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Interpreting a Fairy Tale
21. The Progressive Era, 1895-1920
The Varied Progressive Impulse
Governmental and Legislative Reform
Links to the World: Russian Temperance
New Ideas in Social Institutions
Challenges to Racial and Sexual Discrimination
Theodore Roosevelt and the Revival of the Presidency
Woodrow Wilson and the Extension of Reform
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, and the Birth Control Controversy
22. The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914
Imperial Dreams
Ambitions and Strategies
Crises in the 1890s: Hawai'i, Venezuela, and Cuba
The Spanish-American War and the Debate over Empire
Asian Encounters: War in the Philippines, Diplomacy in China
Links to the World: The U.S. System of Education in the Philippines
TR's World
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Status of Puerto Rico
23. Americans in the Great War, 1914-1920
Precarious Neutrality
The Decision for War
Winning the War
Links to the World: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Mobilizing the Home Front
Civil Liberties Under Challenge
Red Scare, Red Summer
The Defeat of Peace
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Freedom of Speech and the ACLU
24. The New Era, 1920-1929
Big Business Triumphant
Politics and Government
Materialism Unbound
Cities, Migrants, and Suburbs
Links to the World: Pan American Airways
New Rhythms of Everyday Life
Lines of Defense
The Age of Play
Cultural Currents
The Election of 1928 and the End of the New Era
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Intercollegiate Athletics
25. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1941
Hoover and Hard Times: 1929-1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Launching of the New Deal
Political Pressure and the Second New Deal
Labor
Federal Power and the Nationalization of Culture
Links to the World: The 1936 Olympic Games
The Limits of the New Deal
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Social Security
26. Peaceseekers and Warmakers: Americans in the World, 1920-1941
Searching for Peace and Order in the 1920s
The World Economy, Cultural Expansion, and Great Depression
U.S. Dominance in Latin America
The Course to War in Europe
Japan, China, and a New Order in Asia
U.S. Entry into World War II
Links to the World: Radio News
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Presidential Deception of the Public
27. The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
The United States at War
The Production Front and American Workers
Life on the Home Front
The Limits of American Ideals
Links to the World: War Brides
Life in the Military
Winning the War
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Atomic Waste
28. The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961
From Allies to Adversaries
Containment in Action
The Cold War in Asia
The Korean War
Unrelenting Cold War
Links to the World: The People-to-People Campaign
The Struggle for the Third World
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The National Security State
29. America at Midcentury, 1945-1960
Shaping Postwar America
Domestic Politics in the Cold War Era
Cold War Fears and Anticommunism
The Struggle for Civil Rights
Creating a Middle-Class Nation
Men, Women, and Youth at Midcentury
Links to the World: Barbie
The Limits of the Middle-Class Nation
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Pledge of Allegiance
30. The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960-1968
Kennedy and the Cold War
Marching for Freedom
Liberalism and the Great Society
Johnson and Vietnam
A Nation Divided
Links to the World: The British Invasion
1968
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Immigration Act of 1965
31. Continuing Divisions and New Limits, 1969-1980
The New Politics of Identity
The Women's Movement and Gay Liberation
The End in Vietnam
Nixon, Kissinger, and the World
Links to the World: OPEC and teh 1973 Oil Embargo
Presidential Politics and the Crisis of Leadership
Economic Crisis
An Era of Cultural Transformation
Renewed Cold War and Middle East Crisis
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Human Rights
Links to the World: OPEC and the 1973 Oil Embargo
32. Conservatism Revived, 1980-1992
Reagan and the Conservative Resurgence
"Reaganomics"
Links to the World: CNN
Reagan and the World
A Polarized People: American Society in the 1980s
The End of the Cold War and Global Disorder
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Americans with Disabilities Act
33. Global Bridges in the New Millennium: America Since 1992
Social Strains and New Political Directions
"The New Economy" and Globalization
Paradoxes of Prosperity
September 11 and the War on Terrorism
Americans in the New Millennium
Links to the World: The Global AIDS Epidemic
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Internet
Appendix
Suggestions for Further Reading
Documents: Declaration of Independence in Congress, July 4, 1776; Articles of Confederation; Constitution of the United States of America and Amendments
The American People and Nation: A Statistical Profile
Presidential Elections
Presidents and Vice Presidents
Party Strength in Congress
Justices of the Supreme Court