Chapter 1 Worlds Apart
Native American Societies before 1492
West African Societies
Western Europe on the Eve of Exploration
Contact
Competition for a Continent
Chapter 2 Transplantation and Adaptation, 1600—1685
The French in North America
The Dutch Overseas Empire
English Settlement in the Chesapeake
The Founding of New England
Competition in the Caribbean
The Restoration Colonies
Chapter 3 A Meeting of Cultures
Indians and Europeans
Africans and Europeans
European Laborers in Early America
Chapter 4 English Colonies in an Age of Empire 1660s—1763
Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies
The Transformation of Culture
The Colonial Political World
Expanding Empires
A Century of Warfare
Chapter 5 Imperial Breakdown 1763—1774
The Crisis of Imperial Authority
Republican Ideology and Colonial Protest
The Stamp Act Crisis
The Townshend Crisis
Domestic Divisions
The Final Imperial Crisis
Chapter 6 The War for Independence 1774—1783
From Rebellion to War
The Continental Congress Becomes a National Government
The Combatants
The War in the North, 1776—1777
The War Widens, 1778—1781
The War and Society, 1775—1783
The American Victory, 1782—1783
Chapter 7 The First Republic 1776—1789
The New Order of Republicanism
Problems at Home
Diplomatic Weaknesses
Toward a New Union
Chapter 8 A New Republic and the Rise of Parties 1789—1800
Washington’s America
Forging a New Government
The Emergence of Parties
The Last Federalist Administration
Chapter 9 The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism
1800—1824
Jefferson’s Presidency
Madison and the Coming of War
The War of 1812
The Era of Good Feelings
The Breakdown of Unity
Chapter 10 The Jacksonian Era 1824—1845
The Egalitarian Impulse
Jackson’s Presidency
Van Buren and Hard Times
The Rise of the Whig Party
The Whigs in Power
Chapter 11 Slavery and the Old South 1800—1860
The Lower South
The Upper South
Slave Life and Culture
Free Society
The Proslavery Argument
Chapter 12 The Market Revolution and Social Reform 1815—1850
Industrial Change and Urbanization
Reform and Moral Order
Institutions and Social Improvement
Abolitionism and Women’s Rights
Chapter 13 The Way West 1815—1850
The Agricultural Frontier
The Frontier of the Plains Indians
The Mexican Borderlands
Politics, Expansion, and War
Chapter 14 The Politics of Sectionalism 1846—1861
Slavery in the Territories
Political Realignment
The Road to Disunion
Chapter 15 Battle Cries and Freedom Songs the Civil War 1861—1865
Mobilization, North and South
The Early War, 1861—1862
Turning Points, 1862—1863
The War Transforms the North
The Confederacy Disintegrates
The Union Prevails, 1864—1865
Chapter 16 Reconstruction 1865—1877
White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865
More Than Freedom: African American Aspirations in 1865
Federal Reconstruction, 1865—1870
Counter-Reconstruction, 1870—1874
Redemption, 1874—1877
17. A New South: Economic Progress and Social Tradition, 1877-1900.
The Newness of the New South
The Southern Agrarian Revolt
Women in the New South
Settling the Race Issue
