Contents Note: Each chapter begins with an Introduction and concludes with a Summary 1. Making a "New" World, to 1588 A World of Change Exploiting Atlantic Opportunities The Challenges of Mutual Discovery 2. A Continent on the Move, 1400–1725 The New Europe and the Atlantic World European Empires in America Indians and the European Challenge Conquest and Accommodation in a Shared New World 3. Founding the English Mainland Colonies, 1585–1732 England and Colonization Settling the Chesapeake New England: Colonies of Dissenters The Pluralism of the Middle Colonies The Colonies of the Lower South 4. The English Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689–1763 The English Transatlantic Communities of Trade Community and Work in Colonial Society Conflicts Among the Colonists Reason and Religion in Colonial Society Government and Politics in the Mainland Colonies North America and the Struggles for Empire 5. Deciding Where Loyalties Lie, 1763–1776 Victory's New Problems Asserting American Rights The Crisis Renewed The Decision for Independence 6. Recreating America: Independence and a New Nation, 1775–1783 The First Two Years of War Diplomacy Abroad and Profiteering at Home From Stalemate to Victory Republican Expectations in a New Nation 7. Competing Visions of the Virtuous Republic, 1770–1796 America's First Constitutions Challenges to the Confederation Creating a New Government Resolving the Conflict of Vision Competing Visions Re-emerge 8.

The Early Republic, 1796–1804 Conflict in the Adams Administration The "Revolution of 1800" Republicanism in Action Challenge and Uncertainty in Jefferson's America 9. Increasing Conflict and War, 1805–1815 Troubling Currents in Jefferson's America Crises in the Nation The Nation at War Peace and the Rise of New Expectations 10. The Rise of a New Nation, 1815–1836 An "Era of Good Feelings" Dynamic Growth and Political Consequences The "New Man" in Politics The Reign of King Andrew 11. The Great Transformation, 1828–1840 The Transportation Revolution The Manufacturing Boom The New Cotton Empire in the South 12. Responses to the Great Transformation, 1828–1840 Reactions to Changing Conditions Toward an American Culture The Whig Alternative to Jacksonian Democracy 13. Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny, 1841–1848 The Complicated Worlds of the West The Social Fabric in the West The Triumph of "Manifest Destiny" Expansion and Sectional Crisis 14. Sectional Conflict and Shattered Union, 1848–1860 New Political Options Toward a House Divided The Divided Nation The Nation Dissolved 15. A Violent Choice: Civil War, 1861–1865 The Politics of War From Bull Run to Antietam The Human Dimensions of War Waging Total War 16.

Reconstruction: High Hopes and Shattered Dreams, 1865–1877 Presidential Reconstruction Freedom and the Legacy of Slavery Congressional Reconstruction Black Reconstruction The End of Reconstruction 17. An Industrial Order Emerges, 1865–1880 Foundation for Industrialization Railroads and Industry Workers in Industrial America Politics: Parties, Spoils, Scandals, and Stalemate The United States and the World, 1865–1880 18. Becoming an Urban Industrial Society, 1880–1890 Expansion of the Industrial Economy Organized Labor in the 1880s New Americans from Europe The New Urban America New Patterns of Urban Life The Politics of Stalemate 19. Conflict and Change in the West, 1865–1902 War for the West Transforming the West: Mormons, Cowboys, and Sodbusters Transforming the West: Railroads, Mining, Agribusiness, Logging, and Finance Ethnicity and Race in the West The West in American Thought 20. Economic Crash and Political Upheaval, 1890–1900 Poverty and the City Political Upheaval, 1890-1892 Economic Collapse and Restructuring Political Realignment Stepping into World Affairs: Harrison and Cleveland Striding Boldly in World Affairs: McKinley, War, and Imperialism 21. The Progressive Era, 1900–1917 Organizing for Change The Reform of Politics, the Politics of Reform Roosevelt, Taft, and Republican Progressivism "Carry a Big Stick": Roosevelt, Taft, and World Affairs Wilson and Democratic Progressivism New Patterns in Cultural Expression Progressivism in Perspective 22. The United States in a World at War, 1913–1920 Inherited Commitments and New Directions The United States in a World at War: 1914–1917 The Home Front Americans "Over There" Wilson and the Peace Conference America in the Aftermath of War, November 1918–November 1920 23. Prosperity Decade Prosperity Decade The "Roaring Twenties" Traditional America Roars Back Patterns of Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Gender The Politics of Prosperity The Diplomacy of Prosperity 24.

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929–1939 Hoover and Economic Crisis The New Deal Surviving the Depression 25. America's Rise to World Leadership, 1929–1945 The Road to War America Responds to War Waging World War 26. Truman and Cold War America, 1945–1952 The Cold War Begins The Korean War Postwar Politics Cold War Politics Homecoming and Social Adjustments 27. Quest for Consensus, 1952–1960 Politics of Consensus Eisenhower and a Hostile World The Best of Times Outside Suburbia 28. Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960–1968 The Politics of Action Flexible Response Defining a New Presidency New Voices 29. America Under Stress, 1967–1976 Liberal Forces at Work Johnson and the War Tet and the 1968 Presidential Campaign Nixon Confronts the World Nixon and the Presidency 30. Facing Limits, 1976–1992 The Carter Presidency A Society in Transition Resurgent Conservatism Asserting World Power In Reagan's Shadow 31. Entering a New Century, 1992–2002 Old Visions and New Realities The Clinton Years The Testing of President Bush.