Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Crossing the Land Bridge 9
Leif Ericson and Vinland 11
Columbus's Voyages 13
Native Americans 20
Jamestown 22
The Mayflower Compact 27
The Salem Witch Trials 31
French Wars in the New World 34
Tobacco and Cotton 38
Taxation and Representation 40
Lexington and Concord 46
The Declaration of Independence 50
Thomas Jefferson 59
George Washington 64
Bunker Hill to Yorktown 69
The Constitutional Convention 79
Federalists and Antifederalists 85
The Louisiana Purchase 91
The War of 1812 94
Jacksonian Democracy 98
Slavery 100
Railroads and Telegraphs 105
Manifest Destiny 109
The Gold Rush 113
Lincoln's Election 115
Fort Sumter 122
Gettysburg 131
Grant and Lee 136
Reconstruction and Reaction 138
Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Mellon 143
Busting the Trusts 147
Organized Labor 149
The Automobile 152
World War I 155
The Roaring Twenties 164
Crash! 169
Votes for Women 172
The New Deal 175
Franklin D. Roosevelt 179
World War II 182
The United States Enters the War 183
Life on the Home Front 196
McCarthyism 203
The Korean War 206
Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights 211
Black Power 215
John F. Kennedy 218
The Missiles of October 221
Vietnam 226
The Space Race 230
The Counterculture 233
Women's Liberation 237
Environmentalist 240
Watergate 242
Ronald Reagan 247
Iran-Contra 252
The Collapse of Communism 255
The First Gulf War 257
9/11 262
The Afghan and Iraq Wars 265
The Occupation of Iraq 273
The Great Recession 276
Barack H. Obama 279
Index 282
