Table of Contents
About the Author vii
Introduction ix
Chapter 1 Pre-Colombian/Native American History 1
Chapter 2 Early Exploration and the Spanish and French in the Colonies of the New World. 7
Chapter 3 Early English Colonies 13
Chapter 4 The Era of Discontent and Wax for Independence 27
Chapter 5 The Constitution and Early U.S. Government 33
Chapter 6 The Era of Good Feelings to the Age of Jackson 59
Chapter 7 Antebellum Reform Movements 75
Chapter 8 Antebellum Cultural Movements and Manifest Destiny 89
Chapter 9 The Mid-Nineteenth Century and the Causes of the Civil War 101
Chapter 10 The Civil War 111
Chapter 11 Post-Civil War and Reconstruction 119
Chapter 12 The Gilded Age and the American West 131
Chapter 13 U.S. Imperialism and the Progressive Movement 147
Chapter 14 The First World War and the Roaring Twenties 165
Chapter 15 The Great Depression and the Second World War 177
Chapter 16 The Cold War and Postwar America 197
Chapter 17 Civil Rights, the 1960s, and Vietnam 209
Chapter 18 End of the Cold War, the 1970s to the Present 221
Answers 239
Bibliography 337