Table of Contents
Foreword: A Note to Parents vii
Introduction: A Tour of History xi
Chapter 1 The Conquest of Mexico 1
Chapter 2 Our Spanish Heritage 13
Chapter 3 The Arrival of the French 23
Chapter 4 New France and the Jesuit Martyrs 33
Chapter 5 The Founding of Jamestown 43
Chapter 6 The Pilgrims Come to Plymouth 53
Chapter 7 Life in the English Colonies 63
Chapter 8 The French and Indian War 73
Chapter 9 Trouble With Parliament 81
Chapter 10 The American War of Independence 91
Chapter 11 Founding the Republic 99
Chapter 12 The Federalist Era 109
Chapter 13 The Age of Jefferson 119
Chapter 14 The War of 1812 131
Chapter 15 The Era of Good Feelings 141
Chapter 16 Changes in American Society 153
Chapter 17 Andrew Jackson 163
Chapter 18 Texas and the Mexican War 173
Chapter 19 Opening the West 183
Chapter 20 The Problem of Slavery 191
Chapter 21 The Civil War 203
Chapter 22 Reconstruction 215
Chapter 23 The Gilded Age 227
Chapter 24 The Indian Wars 239
Chapter 25 American Imperialism 249
Chapter 26 The Progressive Era 257
Chapter 27 The United States in World War I 267
Chapter 28 Roaring Twenties 277
Chapter 29 The Great Depression 287
Chapter 30 The Arsenal of Democracy 295
Chapter 31 The Cold War and the American Dream 307
Chapter 32 The Civil Rights Era 317
Chapter 33 War and Discontent 325
Chapter 34 Morning in America 335
Chapter 35 The Nineties 345
Chapter 36 The United States in the New Millennium 353
Index 365
