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Tables of Contents for America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps
xv
Preface
xvii
PART ONE / A NEW WORLD
Discovery and Settlement
5
48
Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations
6
2
The Collision of Cultures
8
17
Settling the Chesapeake
25
5
Settling New England
30
8
Renewed Settlement
38
10
Thriving Colonies
48
2
Further Reading
50
3
Colonial Ways of Life
53
39
The Shape of Early America
53
8
Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies
61
7
Society and Economy in New England
68
9
Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies
77
3
Colonial Cities
80
2
The Enlightenment
82
2
The Great Awakening
84
6
Further Reading
90
2
The Imperial Perspective
92
24
English Administration of the Colonies
93
4
The Habit of Self-Government
97
3
Troubled Neighbors
100
8
The Colonial Wars
108
6
Further Reading
114
2
From Empire to Independence
116
35
The Heritage of War
116
2
Western Lands
118
1
Grenville and the Stamp Act
119
6
Fanning the Flames
125
5
Discontent on the Frontier
130
1
A Worsening Crisis
131
6
Shifting Authority
137
5
Independence
142
4
Further Reading
146
5
PART TWO / BUILDING A NATION
The American Revolution
151
37
1776: Washington's Narrow Escape
152
2
American Society at War
154
5
1777: Setbacks for the British
159
4
1778: Both Sides Regroup
163
4
The War in the South
167
4
Negotiations
171
2
The Political Revolution
173
4
The Social Revolution
177
7
Emergence of an American Culture
184
3
Further Reading
187
1
Shaping a Federal Union
188
25
The Confederation
188
11
Adopting the Constitution
199
12
``A More Perfect Union''
211
1
Further Reading
212
1
The Federalists: Washington and Adams
213
31
A New Nation
213
5
Hamilton's Vision of America
218
5
The Republican Alternative
223
3
Crises Foreign and Domestic
226
8
The Adams Years
234
8
Further Reading
242
2
Republicanism: Jefferson and Madison
244
29
Jefferson in Power
244
9
Divisions in the Republican Party
253
3
War in Europe
256
4
The War Of 1812
260
12
Further Reading
272
1
Nationalism and Sectionalism
273
28
Economic Nationalism
273
4
``Good Feelings''
277
4
Speculation and Slavery
281
3
Judicial Nationalism
284
3
Nationalist Diplomacy
287
2
One-Party Politics
289
7
Further Reading
296
5
PART THREE / AN EXPANSIVE NATION
The Jacksonian Impulse
301
29
Setting the Stage
301
5
Nullification
306
6
Indian Policy
312
3
The Bank Controversy
315
6
Van Buren and the New Party System
321
5
Assessing the Jackson Years
326
2
Further Reading
328
2
The Dynamics of Growth
330
29
Agriculture and the National Economy
330
3
Transportation and the National Economy
333
6
The Growth of Industry
339
7
Immigration
346
8
Organized Labor
354
2
Jacksonian Inequality
356
2
Further Reading
358
1
An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform
359
33
Rational Religion
359
2
The Second Great Awakening
361
7
Romanticism in America
368
3
The Flowering of American Literature
371
5
Education
376
3
Some Movements for Reform
379
11
Further Reading
390
2
Manifest Destiny
392
35
The Westering Impulse
392
3
Moving West
395
1
The Indian and Spanish Frontier
396
11
Annexing Texas
407
4
Polk's Presidency
411
3
The Mexican War
414
7
Further Reading
421
6
PART FOUR / A HOUSE DIVIDED
The Old South: An American Tragedy
427
30
Myth, Reality, and the Old South
427
5
White Society in the South
432
3
Black Society in the South
435
8
The Culture of The Southern Frontier
443
4
Antislavery Movements
447
8
Further Reading
455
2
The Crisis of Union
457
35
Slavery in the Territories
457
6
The Compromise of 1850
463
7
Foreign Adventures
470
1
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis
471
7
The Deepening Sectional Crisis
478
7
The Center Comes Apart
485
6
Further Reading
491
1
The War of the Union
492
40
An Epic Struggle
492
5
A Modern War
497
4
The War's Early Course
501
10
Emancipation
511
3
Government During the War
514
4
The Faltering Confederacy
518
6
The Confederacy's Defeat
524
6
Further Reading
530
2
Reconstruction: North and South
532
37
The Battle Over Reconstruction
532
11
Reconstructing the South
543
3
Blacks in the Reconstructed South
546
9
The Grant Years
555
8
Further Reading
563
6
PART FIVE / GROWING PAINS
New Frontiers: South and West
569
33
The New South
570
12
The New West
582
17
Further Reading
599
3
The Rise of Big Business
602
29
The Post-Civil War Economy
602
7
Entrepreneurs
609
6
Advances For Labor
615
14
Further Reading
629
2
The Emergence of Modern America
631
32
America's Move to Town
632
3
The New Immigration
635
9
Education and the Professions
644
3
Theories of Social Change
647
2
Realism in Fact and Fiction
649
5
The Social Gospel
654
3
Early Efforts At Urban Reform
657
4
Further Reading
661
2
Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt
663
36
Paradoxical Politics
663
3
Corruption and Reform
666
12
The Problems of Farmers
678
2
Agrarian Revolt
680
13
Further Reading
693
6
PART SIX / MODERN AMERICA
The Course of Empire
699
28
Toward the New Imperialism
699
3
Steps to World Power
702
2
The Spanish-American War
704
12
Imperial Rivalries in East Asia
716
1
An American Original
717
3
Roosevelt's Foreign Policy
720
6
Further Reading
726
1
Progressivism: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
727
31
Elements of Reform
727
4
The Features of Progressivism
731
3
Roosevelt's Progressivism
734
4
Roosevelt's Second Term
738
2
From Roosevelt to Taft
740
4
Wilson's Progressivism
744
11
The Limits of Progressivism
755
1
Further Reading
756
2
Wilson and the Great War
758
36
Wilson and Foreign Affairs
758
4
The Great War and America
762
8
America's Entry
770
7
``The Decisive Power''
777
4
The Fight for Peace at Home and Abroad
781
6
Lurching From War to Peace
787
6
Further Reading
793
1
The Modern Temper
794
21
Reaction in the Twenties
794
7
Social Tensions
801
7
The Culture of Modernism
808
6
Further Reading
814
1
Republican Resurgence and Decline
815
28
Progressivism Transformed
815
1
``Normalcy''
816
8
The New Era
824
8
President Hoover, The Engineer
832
10
Further Reading
842
1
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
843
39
From Hooverism to the New Deal
844
7
Recovery Through Regulation
851
7
Launching the Second New Deal
858
10
Second-Term Setbacks and Initiatives
868
5
The Legacy Of The New Deal
873
2
Culture in the Thirties
875
5
Further Reading
880
2
From Isolation to Global War
882
25
Postwar Isolationism
882
5
War Clouds
887
7
The Storm in Europe
894
6
The Storm in the Pacific
900
5
Further Reading
905
2
The World at War
907
44
America's Early Battles
907
2
Mobilization at Home
909
11
The Allied Drive Toward Berlin
920
10
Leapfrogging to Tokyo
930
4
A New Age is Born
934
11
Further Reading
945
6
PART SEVEN / THE AMERICAN AGE
The Fair Deal and Containment
951
30
Demobilization Under Truman
952
5
The Cold War
957
9
Harry Gives 'EM Hell
966
4
The Cold War Heats Up
970
10
Further Reading
980
1
Through the Picture Window: Society And Culture, 1945--1960
981
24
People of Plenty
982
9
A Conforming Culture
991
4
Cracks in the Picture Window
995
7
A Paradoxical Era
1002
1
Further Reading
1003
2
Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years
1005
30
``Time for a Change''
1005
15
Civil Rights in the Fifties
1020
5
A Season of Troubles
1025
6
Assessing the Eisenhower Years
1031
2
Further Reading
1033
2
New Frontiers: Kennedy and Johnson
1035
36
The New Frontier
1036
7
Foreign Frontiers
1043
5
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
1048
8
From Civil Rights to Black Power
1056
4
The Tragedy of Vietnam
1060
6
Sixties Crescendo
1066
3
Further Reading
1069
2
Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s
1071
40
The Roots of Rebellion
1071
16
Nixon and Vietnam
1087
5
Nixon and Middle America
1092
4
Nixon Triumphant
1096
2
Watergate
1098
4
An Unelected President
1102
2
The Carter Interregnum
1104
5
Further Reading
1109
2
A New Gilded Age
1111
38
The Reagan Restoration
1111
11
Reagan's Second Term
1122
11
The Bush Years
1133
14
Further Reading
1147
2
Cultural Politics
1149
America's Changing Face: The 1990 Census
1152
Bush to Clinton
1158
Democratic Resurgence
1163
The Republican Agenda
1175
Further Reading
1184
Appendix
The Declaration of Independence
A1
Articles of Confederation
A6
The Constitution of the United States
A14
Presidential Elections
A34
Admission of States
A42
Population of the United States
A43
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820--1990
A44
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-1989
A46
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State
A53
Chronology of Significant Events
A58
Illustration Credits
A69
Index
A73