CONTENTS
Chapter 1
New World Encounters, Preconquest—1608
1
Chapter 2
England’s New World Experiments, 1607–1732
9
Chapter 3
Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression
in Colonial Society, 1619–1692
17
Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century
America, 1680–1763
25
The American Revolution: From Elite Protest
to Popular Revolt, 1763–1783
35
Chapter 6
The Republican Experiment, 1783–1788
43
Chapter 7
Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of
Party Politics, 1788–1800
51
Republican Ascendancy: The Jefferson
Vision, 1800–1814
59
Chapter 9
Nation Building and Nationalism, 1815–1840
67
Chapter 10
The Triumph of White Men’s Democracy, 1824–1840
75
Chapter 11
Slaves and Masters, 1793–1861
83
Chapter 12
The Pursuit of Perfection, 1800–1861
91
Chapter 13
An Age of Expansionism, 1830–1861
99
Chapter 14
The Sectional Crisis, 1846–1861
105
Chapter 15
Secession and the Civil War, 1860–1865
113
Chapter 16
The Agony of Reconstruction, 1863–1877
121
Chapter 17
The West: Exploiting an Empire, 1849–1902
129
Chapter 18
The Industrial Society, 1850–1901
137
Chapter 19
Toward an Urban Society, 1877–1900
145
Chapter 20
Political Realignments, 1876–1901
153
Chapter 21
Toward Empire, 1865–1902
161
Chapter 22
The Progressive Era, 1895–1917
169
Chapter 23
From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age
of Progressivism, 1900–1920
177
Chapter 24
The Nation at War, 1901–1920
187
Chapter 25
Transition to Modern America, 1919–1928
195
Chapter 26
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1929–1939
203
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 8
Chapter 27
America and the World, 1921–1945
211
Chapter 28
The Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1960
219
Chapter 29
Affluence and Anxiety, 1945–1960
227
Chapter 30
The Turbulent Sixties, 1960–1968
233
Chapter 31
To a New Conservatism, 1969–1988
241
Chapter 32
To the Twenty-first Century, 1989–2008
251