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Tables of Contents for The Making of America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
8
2
Laura Bush
A New World from Many Old Worlds: Beginnings to 1763
10
20
Profile: Pocahontas
18
5
Profile: William Penn
23
3
Great Debate: Can America Be a ``City on a Hill''?
26
4
A Revolutionary Age: 1763--1789
30
24
Profile: Thomas Paine
41
2
Profile: Abigail Adams
43
9
Great Debate: Federalists versus Anti-Federalists
52
2
The New Republic: 1789--1848
54
22
Profile: Thomas Jefferson
61
3
Great Debate: Assimilation versus Resistance
64
9
Profile: Nat Turner
73
3
A New Birth of Freedom: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848--1877
76
28
Profile: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
80
8
Great Debate: How to Rid the Country of Slavery
88
9
Profile: Abraham Lincoln
97
7
Industry and Empire: 1876--1900
104
24
Profile: Andrew Carnegie
109
9
Profile: Chief Joseph
118
6
Great Debate: Should the United States Become an Imperialist Nation?
124
4
Progressivism and the New Deal, 1900--1941
128
22
Great Debate: How to Achieve Racial Progress
134-135
140
Profile: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
140
8
Profile: Huey P. Long
148
2
War, Prosperity, and Social Change: 1941--1968
150
26
Profile: Joseph McCarthy
164
5
Profile: Martin Luther King, Jr.
169
3
Great Debate: The Rise of Feminism and the New Fight for Women's Rights
172
4
The Age of Conservatism: 1969 to the Present
176
59
Profile: Cesar Chavez
184
3
Profile: Sandra Day O'Connor
187
9
Great Debate: How Should America Combat the War on Terrorism at Home?
196
5
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
The Declaration of Independence
201
3
The Constitution of the United States
204
13
The Gettysburg Address
217
1
The Pledge of Allegiance and ``The Star-Spangled Banner''
218
1
MORE INFORMATION
Web Sites to Explore
219
1
Historic Places to Visit
220
5
Dates States Entered the Union
225
1
U.S. Presidents and Their Terms of Office
225
1
Bibliography and Quote Sources
226
9
Index
235
5
Illustration Credits
240