IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1 A Continent of Villages
Chapter 2 When Worlds Collide 1492–1590
Chapter 3 Planting Colonies in North America 1588-1701
Chapter 4 Slavery and Empire 1441–1770
Chapter 5 The Cultures of Colonial North America 1700–1780
Chapter 6 From Empire to Independence 1750–1776
Chapter 7 The American Revolution 1776–1786
Chapter 8 The New Nation 1786–1800
Chapter 9 An Empire for Liberty 1790–1824
Chapter 10 The South and Slavery 1790s–1850s
Chapter 11 The Growth of Democracy 1824-1840
Chapter 12 Industry and the North 1790s–1840s
Chapter 13 Meeting the Challenges of the New Age: Immigration, Urbanization, and Social Reform 1820s –1850s
Chapter 14 The Territorial Expansion of the United States 1830s–1850s
Chapter 15 The Coming Crisis the 1850s
Chapter 16 The Civil War 1861–1865
Chapter 17 Reconstruction 1863–1877
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Community and Diversity
Chapter 1: A Continent of Villages
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Cahokia: Thirteenth-Century Life on the Mississippi
The First American Settlers
The Development of Farming
Farming in Early North America
SEEING HISTORY An Early European Image of Native Americans
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 2: When Worlds Collide 1492–1590
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The English at Roanoke
The Expansion of Europe
The Spanish in the Americas
Northern Explorations and Encounters
SEEING HISTORY A Watercolor from the First Algonquian-English Encounter
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 3: Planting Colonies in North America 1588-1701
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Communities and Diversity in Seventeenth Century Santa Fe
The Spanish, The French, and the Dutch in North America
The Chesapeake: Virginia and Maryland
SEEING HISTORY John Smith’s Cartoon History of His Adventures in Virginia
The New England Colonies
The Proprietary Colonies
Conflict and War
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Interpreting the Past: Democratic Roots in New England Soil
Chapter 4: Slavery and Empire 1441–1770
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Rebellion In Stono, South Carolina
The Beginnings of African Slavery
The African Slave Trade
The Development of North American Slave Societies
African to African American
SEEING HISTORY A Musical Celebration In The Slave Quarters
Slavery and the Economics of Empire
Slavery, Prosperity, and Freedom
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 5: The Cultures of Colonial North America 1700–1780
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Revival of Religion and Community in Northampton
North American Regions
SEEING HISTORY A Plan of an American New Cleared Farm
Social and Political Patterns
The Cultural Transformation of British North America
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 6: From Empire to Independence 1750–1776
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The First Continental Congress Begins to Shape a National Political Community
The Seven Years’ War in America
The Emergence of American Nationalism
“Save Your Money and Save Your Country”
From Resistance to Rebellion
SEEING HISTORY The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring and Feathering
Deciding for Independence
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 7: The American Revolution 1776–1786
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A National Community Evolves at Valley Forge
The War for Independence
The United Sates in Congress Assembled
SEEING HISTORY The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
Revolutionary Politics in the States
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 8: The New Nation 1786–1800
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A Rural Massachusetts Community Rises in Defense of Liberty
The Crisis of the 1780s
The New Constitution
The First Federal Administration
SEEING HISTORY The Columbian Tragedy
Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
“The Rising Glory of America”
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 9: An Empire for Liberty 1790–1824
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Expansion Touches Mandan Villages on the Upper Missouri
North American Communities From Coast To Coast
A National Economy
The Jefferson Presidency
Renewed Imperial Rivalry In North America
The War of 1812
SEEING HISTORY “A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the ‘Humane’ British and their ‘Worthy’ Allies”
Defining the Boundaries
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 10: The South and Slavery 1790s–1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Cotton Communities in the Old Southwest
King Cotton and Southern Expansion
The African American Community
Freedom and Resistance
The White Majority
Planters
SEEING HISTORY “Gordon Under Medical Inspection”
The Defense of Slavery
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 11: The Growth of Democracy 1824-1840
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A Political Community Abandons Deference for Democracy
The New Democratic Politics in North America
The Jackson Presidency
SEEING HISTORY “President’s Levee, or all Creation Going to the White House”
Changing the Course of Government
The Second American Party System
American Arts and Letters
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Interpreting the Past: Jacksonian Democracy and American Politics
Chapter 12: Industry and the North 1790s–1840s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Women Factory Workers Form a Community in Lowell, Massachusetts
The Transportation Revolution
The Market Revolution
SEEING HISTORY Industrialization and Rural Life
The Yankee West
Industrialization Begins
From Artisan to Worker
The New Middle Class
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Interpreting the Past: The Second Great Awakening and Religious Diversity in America
Chapter 13: Meeting the Challenges of the New Age: Immigration, Urbanization, and Social Reform 1820s –1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Women Reformers of Seneca Falls Respond to the Market Revolution
Immigration and the City
Urban Problems
SEEING HISTORY P.T. Barnum’s Famous “Curiosity:” General Tom Thumb
Social Reform Movements
Antislavery and Abolitionism
The Women’s Rights Movement
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 14: The Territorial Expansion of the United States 1830s–1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Texans and Tejanos “Remember the Alamo!”
Exploring the West
The Politics of Expansion
The Mexican-American War
California and the Gold Rush
SEEING HISTORY War News from Mexico
The Politics of Manifest Destiny
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 15: The Coming Crisis the 1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Illinois Communities Debate Slavery
America in 1850
Cracks in National Unity
The Crisis of The National Party System
SEEING HISTORY Brooks Beats Sumner
The Differences Deepen
The South Secedes
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 16: The Civil War 1861–1865
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Mother Bickerdyke Connects Northern Communities to Their Boys at War
Communities Mobilize for War
The Governments Organize for War
The Fighting through 1862
The Death of Slavery
The Front Lines and The Home Front
SEEING HISTORY Come and Join Us Brothers
The Tide Turns
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 17: Reconstruction 1863–1877
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community
The Politics of Reconstruction
The Meaning of Freedom
SEEING HISTORY Changing Images of Reconstruction
Southern Politics and Society
Reconstructing the North
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Interpreting the Past: Realities of Freedom
Appendix
Glossary
Credits
Index
