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America has sold more than 1.8 million copies over the past eight editions because it's a book that students enjoy reading. Effective storytelling, colorful anecdotes, and biographical sketches make the narrative absorbing and the material more memorable. The Ninth Edition includes refreshed and updated coverage of African American history and has been streamlined from 37 to 34 chapters.

List of Maps	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
A Not-so-"New" World
The Collision of Cultures	p. 5
Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations	p. 6
European Visions of America	p. 15
The Expansion of Europe	p. 17
The Voyages of Columbus	p. 19
The Great Biological Exchange	p. 23
Prof... MOREessional Explorers	p. 25
The Spanish Empire	p. 26
The Protestant Reformation	p. 40
Challenges to the Spanish Empire	p. 44
Britain and Its Colonies	p. 52
The English Background	p. 52
Settling the Chesapeake	p. 56
Settling new England	p. 67
Indians in new England	p. 78
The English Civil War in America	p. 83
Settling the Carolinas	p. 84
Settling the Middle Colonies and Georgia	p. 89
Thriving Colonies	p. 102
Colonial Ways of Life	p. 106
The Shape of Early America	p. 107
Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies	p. 114
Society and Economy in new England	p. 127
Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies	p. 139
Colonial Cities	p. 143
The Enlightenment in America	p. 146
The Great Awakening	p. 150
From Colonies to States	p. 158
English Administration of the Colonies	p. 159
The Habit of Self-Government	p. 164
Troubled Neighbors	p. 165
The Colonial Wars	p. 169
Regulating the Colonies	p. 180
Fanning the Flames	p. 185
A Worsening Crisis	p. 190
Shifting Authority	p. 194
Independence	p. 200
Building a Nation
The American Revolution	p. 213
1776: Washington's Narrow Escape	p. 214
American Society at War	p. 218
1777: Setbacks for the British	p. 221
1778: Both Sides Regroup	p. 225
The War in the South	p. 229
The Treaty of Paris	p. 235
The Political Revolution	p. 238
The Social Revolution	p. 240
The Emergence of an American Culture	p. 249
Shaping a Federal Union	p. 254
The Confederation Government	p. 255
Creating the Constitution	p. 267
The Federalist Era	p. 284
A New Nation	p. 285
Hamilton's Financial Vision	p. 290
The Republican Alternative	p. 298
Crises Foreign and Domestic	p. 300
Settlement of New Land	p. 309
Transfer of Power	p. 312
The Adams Administration	p. 314
The Early Republic	p. 326
The New American Nation	p. 327
Jeffersonian Simplicity	p. 329
Divisions in the Republican Party	p. 340
War in Europe	p. 342
The War of 1812	p. 347
An Expansive Nation
The Dynamics of Growth	p. 369
Transportation and the Market Revolution	p. 370
A Communications Revolution	p. 379
Agriculture and the National Economy	p. 380
The Industrial Revolution	p. 384
The Popular Culture	p. 392
Immigration	p. 395
Organized Labor	p. 402
The Rise of the Professions	p. 405
Jacksonian Inequality	p. 407
Nationalism and Sectionalism	p. 410
Economic Nationalism	p. 410
"An Era of Good Feelings"	p. 415
Crises and Compromises	p. 420
Judicial Nationalism	p. 424
Nationalist Diplomacy	p. 428
One-Party Politics	p. 429
The Jacksonian Era	p. 440
Setting the Stage	p. 442
Nullification	p. 447
Jackson's Indian Policy	p. 455
The Bank Controversy	p. 459
Contentious Politics	p. 462
Van Buren and the New Party System	p. 468
Assessing the Jackson Years	p. 474
The Old South	p. 478
The Distinctiveness of the Old South	p. 480
White Society in the South	p. 487
Black Society in the South	p. 492
The Culture of the Southern Frontier	p. 505
Religion, Romanticism, and Reform	p. 510
Rational Religion	p. 511
The Second Great Awakening	p. 513
Romanticism in America	p. 522
The Flowering of American Literature	p. 527
Education	p. 531
The Reform Impulse	p. 535
Anti-Slavery Movements	p. 542
A House Divided and Rebuilt
An Empire in the West	p. 559
The Tyler Presidency	p. 560
The Western Frontier	p. 563
Moving West	p. 571
Annexing Texas	p. 579
The Mexican War	p. 589
The Gathering Storm	p. 600
Slavery in the Territories	p. 601
The Compromise of 1850	p. 609
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis	p. 617
The Deepening Sectional Crisis	p. 628
The Center Comes Apart	p. 637
The War of the Union	p. 648
The End of the Waiting Game	p. 648
The Balance of Force	p. 654
The War's Early Course	p. 656
Emancipation	p. 672
The War Behind the Lines	p. 676
Government During the War	p. 679
The Faltering Confederacy	p. 685
The Confederacy's Defeat	p. 690
A Modern War	p. 700
Reconstruction: North and South	p. 704
The War's Aftermath	p. 705
The Battle Over Political Reconstruction	p. 711
The Assassination of Lincoln	p. 713
Reconstructing the South	p. 720
The Reconstructed South	p. 724
The Grant Years	p. 732
Glossary	p. A1
Appendix	p. A59
The Declaration of Independence	p. A61
Articles of Confederation	p. A66
The Constitution of the United States	p. A74
Amendments to the Constitution	p. A86
Presidential Elections	p. A96
Admission of States	p. A104
Population of the United States	p. A105
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2011	p. A106
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2011	p. A108
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State	p. A117
Further Readings	p. A123
Credits	p. A137
Index	p. A141
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