America: Past and Present to 1877, Vol. 1 Book

	Maps
	Charts, Tables, and Figures
	Preface
	About the Authors
Ch. 1	New World Encounters	2
Ch. 2	Competing Visions: English Colonization in the Seventeenth Century	32
Ch. 3	Putting Down Roots: Families in an Atlantic Empire	64
Ch. 4	Britain's Commercial Empire: Eighteenth-Century America	96
Ch. 5	The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783	130
Ch. 6	The Republican Experiment	164
Ch. 7	Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800	202
Ch. 8	Jeffersonian Ascendancy: Theory and Practice of Government	230
Ch. 9	Nationalism and Nation Building	260
Ch. 10	The Triumph of White Men's Democracy	290
Ch. 11	The Pursuit of Perfection	320
Ch. 12	An Age of Expansionism	348
Ch. 13	Masters and Slaves	380
Ch. 14	The Sectional Crisis	410
Ch. 15	Secession and the Civil War	440
Ch. 16	The Agony of Reconstruction	480
Ch. 17	The West: Exploiting an Empire	514
Ch. 18	The Industrial Society	548
Ch. 19	Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900	580
Ch. 20	Political Realignments in the 1890s	612
Ch. 21	Toward Empire	642
Ch. 22	The Progressive Era	670
Ch. 23	From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism	702
Ch. 24	The Nation at War	742
Ch. 25	Transition to Modern America	776
Ch. 26	Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal	804
Ch. 27	America and the World, 1921-1945	834
Ch. 28	The Onset of the Cold War	868
Ch. 29	Affluence and Anxiety	904
Ch. 30	The Turbulent Sixties	928
Ch. 31	A Crisis in Confidence, 1969-1980	972
Ch. 32	The Reagan-Bush Era	1000
Ch. 33	America in Flux, 1970-1997	1040
	Appendix
	Credits
	Index