ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER 2: THE COLONIAL PERIOD
CHAPTER 3: THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER 4: THE FORMATION OF A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER 5: WESTWARD EXPANSION AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
CHAPTER 7: GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION
CHAPTER 8: DISCONTENT AND REFORM
CHAPTER 9: WAR, PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION
CHAPTER 10: THE NEW DEAL AND WORLD WAR
CHAPTER 13: TOWARD THE 21ST CENTURY
CHAPTER 14: BRIEF READING LIST IN AMERICAN HISTORY
The First Americans --
Mound Builders and Pueblos --
Native American Cultures
The First Europeans --
Early Settlements --
Jamestown --
Massachusetts
New Netherland and Maryland --
Colonial-Indian Relations --
Second Generation of British Colonies --
Settlers, Slaves and Servants
The Enduring Mystery of the Anasazi
New Peoples --
New England --
The Middle Colonies
The Southern Colonies --
Society, Schools and Culture --
Emergence of Colonial Government
The French and Indian War --
The Witches of Salem
A New Colonial System --
Stamp Act --
Taxation Without Representation
Townshend Acts--
Samuel Adams --
Boston "Tea Party" --
The Coercive Acts
The Revolution Begins --
Common Sense and Independence --
Defeats and Victories
Franco-American Alliance --
The British Move South --
Victory and Independence
Loyalists During the American Revolution
State Constitutions --
Articles of Confederation --
The Problem of Expansion
Constitutional Convention --
Debate and Compromise --
Ratification and the Bill of Rights
President Washington --
Hamilton vs. Jefferson --
Citizen Genet and Foreign Policy
Adams and Jefferson --
Louisiana and Britain --
War of 1812
The Second Great Awakening
Building Unity --
Extension of Slavery --
Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine
Factionalism and Political Parties --
Nullification Crisis --
Battle of the Bank
Whigs, Democrats and "Know-Nothings" --
Stirrings of Reform --
Women's Rights
Westward --
Seneca Falls
Two Americas --
Lands of Promise --
Slavery and Sectionalism --
The Abolitionists
Texas and War with Mexico --
The Compromise of 1850 --
A Divided Nation
Lincoln, Douglas and Brown --
Secession and Civil War
Western Advance, Eastern Stalemate --
Gettysburg to Appomattox
With Malice Toward None --
Radical Reconstruction
The End of Reconstruction --
Peace Democrats, Copperheads and Draft Riots
Technology and Change --
Carnegie and the Era of Steel --
Corporations and Cities
Railroads, Regulations and the Tariff --
Revolution in Agriculture --
The Divided South
The Last Frontier --
The Plight of the Indians --
Ambivalent Empire
The Canal and the Americas --
United States and Asia
Agrarian Distress and the Rise of Populism --
The Struggles of Labor --
The Reform Impulse
Roosevelt's Reforms --
Taft and Wilson --
A Nation of Nations
War and Neutral Rights --
United States Enters World War I --
The League of Nations
Postwar Unrest --
The Booming 1920s --
Tensions Over Immigration --
Clash of Cultures
The Great Depression
Roosevelt and the New Deal --
Unemployment --
Agriculture --
Industry and Labor
The Second New Deal --
A New Coalition --
Eve of World War II
Japan, Pearl Harbor and War --
The War in North Africa and Europe --
The War in the Pacific
The Politics of War --
War, Victory and the Bomb --
The Rise of Industrial Unions
Consensus and Change --
Cold War Aims --
Harry Truman's Leadership
Origins of the Cold War --
Containment --
The Cold War in Asia and the Middle East
Eisenhower and the Cold War --
The Cold War at Home --
The Postwar Economy: 1945-1960
The Fair Deal --
Eisenhower's Approach --
The Culture of the 1950s
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement --
Desegregation
Kennedy and the New Frontier --
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Confrontation Over Cuba --
The Space Program --
The War in Vietnam --
Detente
Nixon's Accomplishments and Defeats --
The Ford Interlude --
The Carter Years
Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy --
The Civil Rights Movement 1960-1980
The Women's Movement --
The Latino Movement
The Native American Movement --
The Counter-Culture and Environmentalism
A Society in Transition --
Conservatism and the Rise of Ronald Reagan
The Economy in the 1980s --
Foreign Affairs --
U.S.-Soviet Relations --
Space Shuttle
Iran-Contra and Black Monday --
The Presidency of George Bush --
Budgets and Deficits
End to the Cold War --
The Gulf War --
Panama and Nafta --
1992 Presidential Election
Afterword --
A Nation of Immigrants --
Third-Party and Independent Candidates