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This spirited narrative challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text s basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people.The Seventh Edition maintains the emphasis on the unique social history of the United States and engages students through cutting-edge research and scholarship. New content includes expanded coverage of modern history (post-1945) with discussion of foreign relations, gender analysis, and race and racial relations.Chapter-based "Links to the World" connect US history to global events and provide web links for further research while end-of-chapter "Legacies for a People and a Nation" focus on meaningful events or movements relevant to present-day issues or controversies.

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• 1 Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492–1600
• American Societies
• North America in 1492 African Societies
• European Societies
• Early European Explorations
• The Voyages of Columbus, Cabot, and Their Successors
• Spanish Exploration and Conquest
• The Columbian Exchange Europeans in North America
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Columbus Day
• 2 Europeans Colonize North America, 1600–1640
• New Spain, New France, and New Netherland
• The Caribbean English Interest in Colonization
• The Founding of Virginia Life in the Chesapeake
• The Founding of New England Life in New England
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Foxwoods
• Casino and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
• 3 American Societies Take Shape, 1640–1720
• The Restoration Colonies 1670–1680: A Decade of Crisis
• The Introduction of African Slavery
• The Web of Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade
• Enslavement in North America Colonial
• Political Development, Imperial Reorganization, and the Witchcraft Crisis
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: "Witch Hunts"
• 4 A World Transformed, 1720–1770
• Population Growth and Ethnic Diversity
• Economic Growth and Development Colonial
• Cultures Colonial
• Families Politics: Stability and Crisis in British America
• A Crisis in Religion
• A Legacy for a People and a Nation: Anti-Immigrant Sentiments
• 5 Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754–1774
• Renewed Warfare Among Europeans and Indians 1763: A Turning Point
• The Stamp Act
• Crisis Resistance to the Townshend Acts
• Confrontations in Boston Tea and Turmoil
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Census and Reapportionment
• 6 A Revolution, Indeed, 1774–1783
• Government by Congress and Committee Choosing
• Sides: Loyalists, African Americans, and Indians War and Independence
• The Long Struggle in the North
• The Long Struggle in the South
• Yorktown and The Treaty of Paris
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Black Patriots' Memorial
• 7 Forging a National Republic, 1776–1789
• Creating a Virtuous Republic
• The First Emancipation and the Growth of Racism
• Designing Republican Governments
• Trials of the Confederation Order and Disorder in the West
• From Crisis to the Constitution Opposition and Ratification
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Women's Education
• 8 The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789–1800
• Building a Workable Government
• Domestic Policy Under Washington and Hamilton
• The French Revolution and the Development of Partisan Politics
• Partisan Politics and Relations with Great Britain
• John Adams and Political Dissent
• Race Relations at the End of the Century
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Dissent During Wartime
• 9 "A Wise and Frugal Government": The Democratic-Republicans in Power, 1801–1815
• The Jefferson Presidency and Marshall Court
• Louisiana and Lewis and Clark Political
• Factionalism and Jefferson's Reelection Indian
• Resistance American Neutrality
• Imperiled by a World at War Commerce and Industry
• The War of 1812 Peace and the Consequences
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Peaceful Transfer of Power
• 10 Nationalism, Expansion, and the Market Economy, 1816–1845
• Postwar Nationalism
• The Market Economy and Government's Economic
• Role Transportation
• Links Commercial Farming
• The Rise of Manufacturing and Commerce Workers and the Workplace
• Americans on the Move Native
• American Resistance and Removal
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: A Mixed Economy
• 11 Reform and Politics in the Age of Jackson, 1824–1845
• From Revival to Reform Antimasonry
• Abolitionism and the Women's Movement
• Jacksonianism and Party Politics
• Federalism at Issue: The Nullification and Bank Controversies
• The Whig Challenge and the Second Party System
• Manifest Destiny and Expansionism
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Bible Belt
• 12 People and Communities in the North and West, 1830–1860
• Country Life
• The West City Life
• Extremes of Wealth Women, Families, and the Domestic Ideal
• Immigrant Lives in America Free People of Color
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: White Fascination with and Appropriation of Black Culture
• 13 People and Communities in a Slave Society: The South, 1830–1860
• The "Peculiar" South?
• Free Southerners: Farmers, Planters, and Free Blacks
• Slave Life and Labor
• Slave Culture
• Slave Resistance and Rebellion
• Harmony and Tension in a Slave Society
• Legacy of a People and a Nation: The Black Family
• 14 Slavery and America's Future: The Road to War, 1845–1861
• The War with Mexico and Its Consequences 1850: Compromise or Armistice?
• Slavery Expansion and Collapse of the Party System
• Slavery and the Nation's Future Disunion
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Revolutionary Violence
• 15 Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1861–1865
• America Goes to War, 1861–1862
• War Transforms the South Wartime
• Northern Economy and Society
• The Advent of Emancipation
• The Soldiers' War 1863: The Tide of Battle
• Turns Disunity, South and North 1864–1865: The Final Test of Wills
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Confederate Battle Flag
• 16 Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865–1877
• Wartime Reconstruction
• The Meanings of Freedom Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
• he Congressional Reconstruction Plan
• Reconstruction Politics in the South
• Reconstruction's Reversed
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Fourteenth Amendment
• 17 The Development of the West, 1877–1900
• The Economic Activities of Native Peoples
• The Transformation of Native Cultures
• Extraction of Natural Resources
• Irrigation and Transportation Farming the Plains
• The Ranching Frontier
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: The West and Rugged Individualism
• 18 The Machine Age, 1877–1920
• Technology and the Triumph of Industrialism
• Mechanization and the Changing Status of Labor
• The Union Movement Standards of Living
• The Quest for Convenience
• The Corporate Consolidation Movement
• The Gospel of Wealth and Its Critics
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Rockefeller and Standard Oil
• 19 The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877–1920
• Industrial Growth and Transportation in the Modern City
• Peopling the Cities: Migrants and Immigrants Urban
• Neighborhoods Living Conditions in the Inner City
• Promises of Mobility Managing the City
• Family Life
• The New Leisure and Mass Culture
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Ethnic Food
• 20 Gilded Age Politics, 1877–1900
• The Nature of Party Politics
• Politics in the Industrial Age
• The Presidency Restrengthened
• Limits of Gilded Age Politics
• Agrarian Unrest and Populism
• The Depression of the 1890s Depression-Era
• Protests Populists, the Silver Crusade, and the Election of 1896
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Politics and Popular Culture
• 21 The Progressive Era, 1895–1920
• The Varied Progressive
• Impulse Governmental and Legislative Reform
• New Ideas in Education, Law, Religion, and the Sciences
• Challenges to Racial and Sexual Discrimination
• Theodore Roosevelt and the Revival of the Presidency Woodrow
• Wilson and the Extension of Reform
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Women and Social Work
• 22 The Quest for Empire, 1865–1914
• Imperial Promoters: The Foreign Policy
• Elite and Economic Expansion Ideo