Description
Contents
Part One / A Not-So-“New” World
Chapter 1 The Collision of Cultures
Chapter 2 England’s Colonies
Chapter 3 Colonial Ways of Life
Chapter 4 From Colonies to States
Part Two / Building a Nation
Chapter 5 The American Revolution, 1776–1783
Chapter 6 Strengthening the New Nation
Chapter 7 The Early Republic, 1800–1815
Part Three / An Expanding Nation
Chapter 8 The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815–1850
Chapter 9 Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815–1828
Chapter 10 The Jacksonian Era, 1828–1840
Chapter 11 The South, Slavery, and King Cotton 1800–1860
Chapter 12 Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800–1860
Part Four / A House Divided and Rebuilt
Chapter 13 Western Expansion, 1830–1848
Chapter 14 The Gathering Storm, 1848–1860
Chapter 15 The War of the Union, 1861–1865
Chapter 16 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Part Five / Growing Pains
Chapter 17 Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860–1900
Chapter 18 The New South and the New West, 1865–1900
Chapter 19 Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865–1900
Part Six / Modern America
Chapter 20 Seizing an American Empire, 1865–1913
Chapter 21 The Progressive Era, 1890–1920
Chapter 22 America and the Great War, 1914–1920
Chapter 23 A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929
Chapter 24 The Reactionary Twenties
Chapter 25 The Great Depression, 1929–1939
Chapter 26T he Second World War, 1933–1945
Part Seven / The American Age
Chapter 27 The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952
Chapter 28 Cold War America, 1950–1959
Chapter 29 A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960–1968
Chapter 30 Rebellion and Reaction, the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 31 Conservative Revival, 1977–1990
Chapter 32 Twenty-First Century America, 1993–present
