CHPATER 1. AMERICANS AND EUROPEAN NEWCOMERS 1
Origins of the Indians 3
The Americans before Columbus 3
Predecessors of Columbus 9
The Spanish Voyage 12
Exploiting and Settling North America 18
Biographical Sketches 13
Amerigo Vespucci 13
Bartolome de las Casas 16
John White 20
Pocahontas 21
Essay 26
Sailing with Columbus 26
Selected Readings 31
CHAPTER 2. THE GROWTH OF BRITISH COLONIAL AMERICA 32
Immigrants and Their Origins 34
Patterns of Settlement 41
Religious and Ethnic Tensions 45
Indian-White Relations 48
Colonial Wars 55
A Firm Beginning 56
Biographical Sketches 42
William Bradford 42
Anne Hutchinson 46
Mary White Rowlandson 53
Samuel Vetch 57
Essay 58
Tobacco: The Gift and the Curse of the Indians 58
Selected Readings 61
CHAPTER 3. LIFE IN THE ENGLISH COLONIES 62
The Colonial Economy 66
Farms, Towns, and Cities 70
The Human Perspective 77
Religion 82
Culture and Learning 88
Biographical Sketches 84
Samuel Sewall 84
Roger Williams 85
Anne Dudley Bradstreet 90
Essay 92
"Repent, Sinner, Repent" 92
Selected Readings 97
CHAPTER 4. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 98
The French and Indian War 100
The Constitutional Debate 103
The Events Leading to the War 105
Organizing a Rebellion 115
The Logistics of War 119
Biographical Sketches 114
Paul Revere 114
Thomas Paine 116
Mercy Otis Warren 118
Phillis Wheatley 120
Essay 126
Dissent in Time of War 126
Selected Readings 131
CHAPTER 5. ESTABLISHING A NEW NATION 132
Western Expansion 135
Creating a Government 136
Using the Constitution 143
The First Party System Is Born 149
An Exciting Generation 156
Biographical Sketches 138
Daniel Shays 138
Philip Freneau 153
Richard Allen 157
Essay 160
Creating an American Culture 160
Selected Readings 163
CHAPTER 6. ADOLESCENT AMERICA 164
A New Party Takes Over 166
Jeffersonian Triumphs 168
Jeffersonian Troubles 180
Jeffersonian America: An Overview 184
Biographical Sketches 169
Thomas Jefferson 169
Stephen Decatur 171
Sacajawea 176
Essay 187
Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the West 187
Selected Readings 193
CHAPTER 7. WAR AND PEACE 194
The Path to War 196
The War of 1812 200
Postwar Developments 209
Biographical Sketches 197
Dolley Madison 197
Oliver Hazard Perry 204
Edward Coles 215
Essay 218
Turning Points: The Old Order Was Ending 218
Selected Readings 223
CHAPTER 8. THE GENESIS OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA 224
The Transportation Revolution 226
Government and the Economy 233
The Factory System 235
Extensions of Industrialization 241
The Early Labor Movement 246
The Rise of Cities 247
Biographical Sketches 232
Peter Cooper 232
Elias Howe 238
Lucy Larcom 244
Essay 249
The Birth of Mass Production 249
Selected Readings 253
CHAPTER 9. RACE, SEX, AND NATIONALITY 254
Black Americans 256
Indians and Indian Policy 268
Women and Women's Rights 274
Immigrants 279
Biographical Sketches 262
Simon Gray 262
Sequoyah 268
Lucretia Coffin Mott 277
Essay 283
The Struggle for Full Citizenship 283
Selected Readings 289
CHAPTER 10. RELIGION, REFORM AND UTOPIANISM 290
Religion 293
Humanitarian Reform 296
Utopianism 310
Biographical Sketches 297
Sarah Margaret Fuller 297
Neal Dow 300
Frederick Douglass 307
Essay 314
To the Health of the American People 314
Selected Readings 319
CHAPTER 11. THE AGE OF JACKSON 320
New Political Competition 322
Establishing Jacksonian Democracy 327
The Jacksonian Heritage 336
Politics, Expansion, and Slavery 341
Biographical Sketches 331
Daniel Webster 331
Joshua Reed Giddings 339
James Gilllespie Birney 344
Essay 349
Polk and the Problems of a Powerful Presidency 349
Selected Readings 353
CHAPTER 12. AMERICA AT MID-CENTURY 354
Expansion and Growth 356
Social and Cultural Diversity 365
Contrasts and Contradictions 375
Biographical Sketches 363
Matthew Calbraith Perry 363
Stephen Foster 369
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale 371
Essay 378
The Face of America at Mid-Century 378
Selected Readings 381
CHAPTER 13. SECTIONALISM AND SECESSION 382
Territorial Expansion and Politics 384
The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy 394
Growth of the Republican Party 400
Emotionalism at High Tide 402
What Caused the Civil War? 407
Biographical Sketches 387
William Henry Seward 387
Harriet Beecher Stowe 392
George Fitzhugh 394
Essay 409
The Supreme Court and Its Work 409
Selected Readings 415
CHAPTER 14. THE WAR TO SAVE THE UNION 416
The Path to War 418
A Contest of Arms and Ideas 425
From Antietam to Appomattox 429
The People Who Fought the War 436
Aftermath 441
Biographical Sketches 423
Robert E. Lee 423
Ulysses S. Grant 430
Lucy and Sarah Chase 442
Essay 443
War: Its Effects and Costs 443
Selected Readings 447
CHAPTER 15. RESTORING THE UNION 448
Lincoln and Preparations for Reconstruction 450
Johnson and Reconstruction 453
Congressional Reconstruction 456
Radical Reconstruction 459
The End of Reconstruction Politics 467
Reconstruction in Retrospect 470
Biographical Sketches 452
Benjamin Franklin Wade 452
Robert Smalls 466
Victoria Clafin Woodhull 473
Essay 476
Turning Points: America Comes of Age 476
Selected Readings 479