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| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction America's First Nations | p. 1 |
| The First Americans | |
| The Archaic Age | |
| Early Indians of the West | |
| Early Indians of the East | |
| Variety and Indian Societies | |
| Eastern Woodland Indians | |
| Indians of the Great Plains | |
| Indians of the Southwest | |
| Changes Coming | ... MORE |
| Chapter Review | p. 13 |
| Discovery, Exploration, and Colonization | p. 15 |
| Background to "Discovery" | |
| Portugal and Spain | |
| The New World | |
| The Conquistadors | |
| The French | |
| England: Exploration and Settlement | |
| Jamestown, Virginia, and the Southern Colonies | |
| Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the New England Colonies | |
| Pennsylvania and the Middle Colonies | |
| Great Britain and the Colonies | |
| Chapter Review | p. 23 |
| Revolution and Independence | p. 25 |
| The French and Indian War | |
| Social and Intellectual Movements | |
| The Road to Revolution | |
| From Agitation to Revolution | |
| Independence and Revolution | |
| The American Revolution | |
| The Treaty of Paris | |
| Chapter Review | p. 32 |
| The Young Republic | p. 35 |
| The Articles of Confederation | |
| The Constitutional Convention | |
| The Genesis of Political Parties | |
| The Washington and Adams Administrations | |
| Chapter Review | p. 45 |
| Jefferson and the Democratic Republic | p. 47 |
| The Revolution of 1800 | |
| The Louisiana Purchase | |
| Lewis and Clark | |
| Barbary Pirates | |
| Burr, Hamilton, and Conspiracy | |
| John Marshall and the Supreme Court | |
| Jefferson and Foreign Affairs | |
| James Madison | |
| Causes at the War of 1812 | |
| The War against England | |
| The Indian War | |
| Treaty at Ghent | |
| Results of the War of 1812 | |
| James Monroe | |
| Chapter Review | p. 56 |
| The Age of Jackson | p. 57 |
| Jacksonian America | |
| Sectional Developments | |
| Henry Clay and the American System | |
| John Quincy Adams and the Election of 1824 | |
| Andrew Jackson | |
| The Jackson Presidency (1829-1837) | |
| Martin Van Buren | |
| The Election of 1840, Harrison and Tyler | |
| Society and Culture in Jacksonian America | |
| Chapter Review | p. 66 |
| The West (Pre-Civil War) | p. 68 |
| Manifest Destiny | |
| Early Explorations and the Fur Trade | |
| Oregon and California | |
| The Republic of Texas | |
| Annexation and the War with Mexico | |
| The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Aftermath of War | |
| Chapter Review | p. 72 |
| Sectional Conflict | p. 73 |
| The Old South | |
| Abolitionism | |
| Conflict and Compromise | |
| The Road to Civil War | |
| The Crisis of Leadership and the Election of 1860 | |
| Chapter Review | p. 80 |
| Civil War and Reconstruction | p. 82 |
| Disunion and War | |
| The Two Sides | |
| War | |
| Lincoln, Johnson, the Radicals, and Reconstruction | |
| North and South in the Reconstruction Era | |
| The Grant Administration | |
| Chapter Review | p. 89 |
| The West (Post-Civil War) | p. 91 |
| Turner and the Frontier | |
| The Plains Indians | |
| Miners and Boomtowns | |
| Cattle and Cowboys | |
| The Plains Wars | |
| Settlers | |
| The Wild West | |
| Chapter Review | p. 96 |
| The Gilded Age and Imperial America | p. 97 |
| The Corporation | |
| Captains of Industry and the American Dream | |
| Survival of the Fittest? | |
| The New Immigration | |
| The Rise of Big Labor | |
| The American Empire | |
| Chapter Review | p. 109 |
| Populism, Progressivism, and the Great War | p. 111 |
| Populism | |
| Why Progressivism? | |
| The Progressive Agenda | |
| The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson | |
| Wilson and the Great War | |
| Chapter Review | p. 123 |
| Boom, Bust, and the New Deal | p. 125 |
| The Jazz Age | |
| Three Republican Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover | |
| The Great Depression | |
| The New Deal | |
| Chapter Review | p. 135 |
| World War II and the Origins of the Cold War | p. 137 |
| The Road to Pearl Harbor | |
| The War in Europe | |
| The Pacific War and the Nuclear Age | |
| The Home Front | |
| The Long Cold War Begins | |
| Chapter Review | p. 152 |
| Postwar America: The Fifties and Sixties | p. 154 |
| The Cold War Gets Hot | |
| The Eisenhower Years (1953-1961) | |
| The New Frontier | |
| The Great Society | |
| The Mood Turns Sour: Vietnam and the Late 1960s | |
| Chapter Review | p. 167 |
| Retrenchment: The Seventies and Eighties | p. 169 |
| The Counterculture Fades-and Feminism Rises | |
| Nixon's Foreign Policy and the End of Idealism: Watergate | |
| The Ford and Carter Years | |
| The Reagan Years Chapter Review | p. 179 |
| Cold War Ends, War on Terror Begins | p. 181 |
| A New World | |
| The Clinton Years | |
| Bush and the War on Terror | |
| September | p. 11 |
| War in Iraq | |
| The 2004 Election | |
| The Great Recession | |
| The 2008 Election and Barack Obama | |
| Chapter Review | p. 195 |
| The Declaration of Independence | p. 197 |
| The Constitution of the United States | p. 202 |
| Presidents of the United States of America | p. 227 |
| Index | p. 231 |
| Maps | |
| The First Thirteen States, 1779 | p. 34 |
| Growth of the U.S. to 1853 | p. 67 |
| Secession, 1861 | p. 81 |
| North African and European Campaigns | p. 141 |
| U.S. Offensive against Japan | p. 145 |
| Cold War Europe | p. 149 |
| The Middle East | p. 183 |
| The United States (front endpaper) | |
| The World (back endpaper) | |
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