Chapter 1  The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
	Introduction
	1.1 The Americas
	1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
	1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 2  Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650
	Introduction
	2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
	2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
	2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
	2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 3  Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
	Introduction
	3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
	3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
	3.3 English Settlements in America
	3.4 The Impact of Colonization
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 4  Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
	Introduction
	4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
	4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
	4.3 An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
	4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
	4.5 Wars for Empire
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 5  Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
	Introduction
	5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
	5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
	5.3 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
	5.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
	5.5 Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 6  America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
	Introduction
	6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
	6.2 The Early Years of the Revolution
	6.3 War in the South
	6.4 Identity during the American Revolution
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 7  Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
	Introduction
	7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
	7.2 How Much Revolutionary Change?
	7.3 Debating Democracy
	7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 8  Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820
	Introduction
	8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
	8.2 The New American Republic
	8.3 Partisan Politics
	8.4 The United States Goes Back to War
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 9  Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
	Introduction
	9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
	9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
	9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
	9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 10  Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
	Introduction
	10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
	10.2 The Rise of American Democracy
	10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
	10.4 Indian Removal
	10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 11  A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
	Introduction
	11.1 Lewis and Clark
	11.2 The Missouri Crisis
	11.3 Independence for Texas
	11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
	11.5 Free or Slave Soil? The Dilemma of the West
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 12  Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
	Introduction
	12.1 The Economics of Cotton
	12.2 African Americans in the Antebellum United States
	12.3 Wealth and Culture in the South
	12.4 The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 13  Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
	Introduction
	13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
	13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
	13.3 Reforms to Human Health
	13.4 Addressing Slavery
	13.5 Women’s Rights
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 14  Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
	Introduction
	14.1 The Compromise of 1850
	14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
	14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
	14.4 John Brown and the Election of 1860
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 15  The Civil War, 1860–1865
	Introduction
	15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
	15.2 Early Mobilization and War
	15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
	15.4 The Union Triumphant
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 16  The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
	Introduction
	16.1 Restoring the Union
	16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
	16.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
	16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 17  Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
	Introduction
	17.1 The Westward Spirit
	17.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
	17.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
	17.4 The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture
	17.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 18  Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
	Introduction
	18.1 Inventors of the Age
	18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
	18.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
	18.4 A New American Consumer Culture
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 19  The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
	Introduction
	19.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
	19.2 The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
	19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
	19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 20  Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
	Introduction
	20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
	20.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
	20.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
	20.4 Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 21  Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
	Introduction
	21.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
	21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
	21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
	21.4 Progressivism in the White House
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 22  Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
	Introduction
	22.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
	22.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
	22.3 Economic Imperialism in East Asia
	22.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
	22.5 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 23  Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
	Introduction
	23.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
	23.2 The United States Prepares for War
	23.3 A New Home Front
	23.4 From War to Peace
	23.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 24  The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
	Introduction
	24.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
	24.2 Transformation and Backlash
	24.3 A New Generation
	24.4 Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 25  Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
	Introduction
	25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
	25.2 President Hoover’s Response
	25.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
	25.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 26  Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
	Introduction
	26.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
	26.2 The First New Deal
	26.3 The Second New Deal
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 27  Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
	Introduction
	27.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
	27.2 The Home Front
	27.3 Victory in the European Theater
	27.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 28  Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
	Introduction
	28.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
	28.2 The Cold War
	28.3 The American Dream
	28.4 Popular Culture and Mass Media
	28.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 29  Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
	Introduction
	29.1 The Kennedy Promise
	29.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
	29.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
	29.4 Challenging the Status Quo
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 30  Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
	Introduction
	30.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
	30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
	30.3 Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
	30.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
	30.5 Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 31  From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
	Introduction
	31.1 The Reagan Revolution
	31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
	31.3 A New World Order
	31.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 32  The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
	Introduction
	32.1 The War on Terror
	32.2 The Domestic Mission
	32.3 New Century, Old Disputes
	32.4 Hope and Change
	Key Terms
	Summary
	Review Questions
	Critical Thinking Questions
Appendix A The Declaration of Independence
Appendix B The Constitution of the United States
Appendix C Presidents of the United States of America
Appendix D U.S. Political Map
Appendix E U.S. Topographical Map
Appendix F United States Population Chart
Appendix G Further Reading
Answer Key
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 15
	Chapter 16
	Chapter 17
	Chapter 18
	Chapter 19
	Chapter 20
	Chapter 21
	Chapter 22
	Chapter 23
	Chapter 24
	Chapter 25
	Chapter 26
	Chapter 27
	Chapter 28
	Chapter 29
	Chapter 30
	Chapter 31
	Chapter 32
Index