Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Publisher’s Notice
• Half-Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• About the Author
• Contents in Brief
• Contents
• Maps
• Thinking Like a Historian
• What’s It All About?
• Preface
• Part 1: An Old “New” World
• Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures in the Sixteenth Century
• Early Cultures in the Americas
• The Expansion of Europe
• The Spanish Empire
• The Columbian Exchange
• The Spanish in North America
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 2: England and Its American Colonies, 1607–1732
• The English Background
• Settling the American Colonies
• Native Peoples and English Settlers
• Servitude and Slavery in the Colonies
• Thriving Colonies
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life, 1607–1750
• The Shape of Early America
• Women in the Colonies
• Society and Economy in the Colonies
• Race-Based Slavery in the Colonies
• First Stirrings of a Common Colonial Culture
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 4: From Colonies to States, 1607–1776
• French and British Colonies
• Warfare in the Colonies
• Tightening of Control over the British Colonies
• Road to the American Revolution
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Thinking Like a Historian: Debating the Origins of the American Revolution
• Part 2: Building a Nation
• Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1775–1783
• American Society at War
• Mobilizing for War
• Setbacks for the British (1777–1781)
• War as an Engine of Change
• Equality and Its Limits
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 6: Securing the Constitution and Union, 1783–1800
• The Confederation Government
• Creating the Constitution
• The Fight for Ratification
• The Federalist Era
• Foreign and Domestic Crises
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800–1815
• Jeffersonian Republicanism
• War in the Mediterranean and Europe
• The War of 1812
• The Aftermath of the War
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Thinking Like a Historian: Debating Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
• Part 3: An Expanding Nation, 1815–1860
• Chapter 8: The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815–1850
• The Market Revolution
• Industrial Development
• Immigration
• Organized Labor and New Professions
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815–1828
• A New Nationalism
• Debates over the American System
• “An Era of Good Feelings”
• Nationalist Diplomacy
• The Rise of Andrew Jackson
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828–1840
• Jacksonian Democracy
• Nullification
• Jackson’s Indian Policy
• Political Battles
• Jackson’s Legacy
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 11: The South and Slavery, 1800–1860
• The Distinctiveness of the Old South
• The Cotton Kingdom
• Whites in the Old South
• White over Black: Unequal Society in the South
• Forging an Enslaved Community
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800–1860
• A More Democratic Religion
• Romanticism in America
• The Reform Impulse
• The Anti-Slavery Movement
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Thinking Like a Historian: Debating Separate Spheres
• Part 4: A House Divided and Rebuilt
• Chapter 13: Western Expansion and Southern Secession, 1830–1861
• Moving West
• The Mexican-American War
• Slavery in the Territories
• The Emergence of the Republican Party
• The Southern Response
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 14: The War of the Union, 1861–1865
• Mobilizing Forces in the North and South
• Emancipation
• The War behind the Lines
• The Faltering Confederacy
• A Transformational War
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 15: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
• The War’s Aftermath in the South
• Battles over Political Reconstruction
• Black Society under Reconstruction
• The Grant Administration
• Reconstruction’s Significance
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Thinking Like a Historian: Debating Reconstruction
• Part 5: Growing Pains
• Chapter 16: Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860–1900
• The Elements of Industrial and Agricultural Growth
• The Rise of Big Business
• The Alliance of Business and Politics
• A Changed Social Order
• Organized Labor
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 17: The New South and the New West, 1865–1900
• The Myth of the New South
• The Failings of the New South
• Race Relations during the 1890s
• The Settling of the New West
• Life in the New West
• The Fate of Western Indians
• The End of the Frontier
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 18: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865–1900
• America’s Move to Town
• The New Immigration
• Changes in Culture and Thought
• Gilded Age Politics
• Corruption and Reform: Hayes to Harrison
• Unhappy Farmers and the “Money Problem”
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 19: Seizing an American Empire, 1865–1913
• Toward the New Imperialism
• Expansion in the Pacific
• The Spanish-American War
• Consequences of Victory
• Roosevelt’s “Big-Stick” Diplomacy
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Thinking Like a Historian: Debating the Annexation of the Philippines
• Part 6: Modern America
• Chapter 20: The Progressive Era, 1890–1920
• The Progressive Impulse
• The Varied Sources of Progressivism
• Progressives’ Aims and Achievements
• Progressivism under Roosevelt and Taft
• Woodrow Wilson: A Progressive Southerner
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 21: America and the Great War, 1914–1920
• An Uneasy Neutrality
• Mobilizing for War
• The American Role in the War
• The Politics of Peace
• Stumbling from War to Peace
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 22: A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929
• A “New Era” of Consumption
• The “Jazz Age”
• The Modernist Revolt
• The Reactionary Twenties
• Republican Resurgence
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 23: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933–1939
• The Causes of the Great Depression
• The Human Toll of the Depression
• From Hooverism to the New Deal
• Roosevelt’s New Deal
• The New Deal under Fire
• The Second New Deal
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 24: The Second World War, 1933–1945
• The Rise of Fascism in Europe
• From Isolationism to Intervention
• Mobilization at Home
• The Allied Drive toward Berlin
• The Pacific War
• A New Age Is Born
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Thinking Like a Historian: Debating the United States’ Response to the Holocaust
• Part 7: The American Age
• Chapter 25: The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952
• Truman and the Cold War
• The Containment Policy
• Expanding the New Deal
• The Cold War Heats Up
• Another Red Scare
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 26: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age, 1950–1959
• Moderate Republicanism: The Eisenhower Years
• A People of Plenty
• Cracks in the Picture Window
• The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement
• Foreign Policy in the Fifties
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 27: New Frontiers and a Great Society, 1960–1968
• The New Frontier
• Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement
• Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Great Society
• The Tragedy of Vietnam
• The Turmoil of the Sixties
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 28: Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s
• “Forever Young”: The Youth Revolt
• Social Activism Spreads
• Nixon and the Revival of Conservatism
• “Peace with Honor”: Ending the Vietnam War
• The Nixon Doctrine and a Thawing Cold War
• Watergate
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 29: Conservative Revival, 1977–2000
• The Carter Presidency
• The Rise of Ronald Reagan
• The Reagan Revolution
• An Anti-Communist Foreign Policy
• The Changing Economic and Social Landscape
• The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
• The Clinton Presidency (1993–2001)
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Chapter 30: Twenty-First-Century America, 2000–Present
• America’s Changing Population
• A Chaotic Start to a New Century
• Second-Term Blues
• The Obama Administration
• The Trump Administration
• Sideswiped by a Pandemic
• Biden’s First 100 Days
• Reviewing the Core Objectives
• Thinking Like a Historian: Debating Contemporary Immigration and the Uses of History
• Glossary
• Appendix
• The Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Articles of Confederation (1787)
• The Constitution of the United States (1787)
• Amendments to the Constitution
• Presidential Elections
• Admission of States
• Population of the United States
• Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820–2020
• Legal Immigration to the United States
• Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State
• Further Readings
• Text Credits
• Photo Credits
• Index
• Endpapers

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