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| (NOTE: Combined Edition includes Chapters 1-31, Volume I includes Chapters 1-17, and Volume II includes Chapters 17-31. Each chapter begins with chapter-opening outlines and key topic lists, and concludes with a Chronology, Conclusion, Review Questions, Recommended Reading, Maps, U.S. History Documents CD-ROM, Media Resources and Exploring America.) | |
| Preface | |
| Community and Diversity | |
| A Continent of Villages, to 1500 | |
| American Commu... MORE | |
| Settling the Continent | |
| New Ways of Living on the Land | |
| The Development of Farming | |
| Cultural Regions of North America on the Eve of Colonization | |
| Highlights of Out of Many Media and Research and Update | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: America and the Horse | |
| Community and Memory: The Battle over Burials | |
| When Worlds Collide, 1492-1590 | |
| American Communities: The English and the Algonquians at Roanoke | |
| The Expansion of Europe | |
| The Spanish in the Americas | |
| Northern Explorations and Encounters | |
| Media Resources: Exploring America: Exploitation of the Americas | |
| Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1701 | |
| American Communities: Communities Struggle with Diversity in Seventeenth-Century Santa Feacute; | |
| Spain and Its Competitors in North America | |
| England in the Chesapeake | |
| The New England Colonies | |
| The Restoration Colonies | |
| Conflict and War | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Jamestown | |
| Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770 | |
| American Communities: African Slaves Build Their Own Community in Coastal Georgia | |
| The Beginnings of African Slavery | |
| The African Slave Trade | |
| The Development of North American Slave Societies | |
| African to African American | |
| Slavery and the Economics of Empire | |
| Slavery and Freedom | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Racism in American History | |
| Community and Memory: The Living History of Slavery | |
| The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780 | |
| American Communities: From Deerfield to Kahnawake: Crossing Cultural Boundaries | |
| North American Regions | |
| Diverging Social and Political Patterns | |
| The Cultural Transformation of British North America | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: The Great Awakening | |
| From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776 | |
| American Communities: The First Continental Congress Shapes a National Political Community | |
| The Seven Years' War in America | |
| The Imperial Crisis in British North America | |
| ldquo;Save Your Money and Save Your Country.rdquo; | |
| From Resistance to Rebellion | |
| Deciding for Independence | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: The Stamp Act | |
| Community and Memory: The Invention of the Liberty Bell | |
| The Creation of the United States, 1776-1786 | |
| American Communities: A National Community Evolves at Valley Forge | |
| The War for Independence | |
| The United States in Congress Assembled | |
| Revolutionary Politics in the States | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Exploring the Geography of the American Revolution | |
| The United States of North America, 1786-1800 | |
| American Communities: Mingo Creek Settlers Refuse to Pay the Whiskey Tax | |
| Forming a New Government | |
| The New Nation | |
| Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans | |
| ldquo;The Rising Glory of America.rdquo; | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Ratification of the Constitution | |
| An Agrarian Republic, 1790-1824 | |
| American Communities: Expansion Touches Mandan Villages on the Upper Missouri | |
| North American Communities from Coast to Coast | |
| A National Economy | |
| The Jefferson Presidency | |
| Renewed Imperial Rivalry in North America | |
| The War of 1812 | |
| Defining the Boundaries | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Continentalism | |
| Community and Memory: In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark | |
| The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840 | |
| American Communities: Martin Van Buren Forges a New Kind of Political Community | |
| The New Democratic Politics in North America | |
| The Jackson Presidency | |
| Internal Improvements: Building an Infrastructure | |
| Jackson and His Opponents: The Rise of the Whigs | |
| The Second American Party System | |
| American Arts and Letters | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: American Art | |
| The South and Slavery, 1790s-1850s | |
| American Communities: Natchez-under-the Hill | |
| King Cotton and Southern Expansion | |
| To Be a Slave | |
| The African American Community | |
| The White Majority | |
| Planters | |
| The Defense of Slavery | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Alexis de Tocqueville | |
| Industry and the North, 1790s-1840s | |
| American Communities: Women Factory Workers Form a Community in Lowell, Massachusetts | |
| Preindustrial Ways of Working | |
| The Market Revolution | |
| From Artisan to Worker | |
| A New Social Order | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Machinery | |
| Coming to Terms with the New Age, 1820s-1850s | |
| American Communities: Seneca Falls: Women Reformers Respond to the Market Revolution | |
| Urban America | |
| The Labor Movement and Urban Politics | |
| Social Reform Movements | |
| Antislavery and Abolitionism | |
| The Women's Rights Movement | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Angelina Grimkeacute; | |
| The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s-1850s | |
| American Communities: Texans and Tejanos ldquo;Remember the Alamo!rdquo; | |
| Exploring the West | |
| The Politics of Expansion | |
| The Mexican-American War | |
| California and the Gold Rush | |
| The Politics of Manifest Destiny | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: The Unwelcome Mat | |
| Community and Memory: Remembering the Alamo | |
| The Coming Crisis, the 1850s | |
| American Communities: Illinois Communities Debate Slavery | |
| America in 1850 | |
| The Compromise of 1850 | |
| The Crisis of the National Party System | |
| The Differences Deepen | |
| The South Secedes | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Anthony Burns | |
| The Civil War, 1861-1865 | |
| American Communities: Mother Bickerdyke Connects Northern Communities to Their Boys at War | |
| Communities Mobilize for War | |
| Governments Organize for War | |
| The Fighting through 1862 | |
| The Death of Slavery | |
| The Front Lines and the Home Front | |
| The Tide Turns | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Fort Pillow Massacre | |
| Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
| American Communities: Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community | |
| The Politics of Reconstruction | |
| The Meaning of Freedom | |
| Southern Politics and Society | |
| Reconstructing the North | |
| Media Resources | |
| Exploring America: Did Reconstruction Work for The Freed People | |
| Appendix | |
| Bibliography | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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