Chapter Guides

Chapter 1     Contact, Conflict, and Exchange in the Atlantic World to 1590
Chapter 2     Colonization of North America, 1590-1675
Chapter 3     Crisis and Change, 1675-1720
Chapter 4     The Expansion of Colonial British America, 1760-1763
Chapter 5     Wars for Independence, 1764-1783
Chapter 6     Toward a More Perfect Union, 1783-1788
Chapter 7     The Federalist Republic, 1789-1799
Chapter 8     The New Republic Faces a New Century, 1800-1815
Chapter 9     Exploded Boundaries, 1815-1828
Chapter 10   The Years of Andrew Jackson, 1829-1836
Chapter 11   Panic and Boom, 1837-1845
Chapter 12   Expansion and Reaction, 1846-1854
Chapter 13   Broken Bonds, 1855-1861
Chapter 14    Descent Into War, 1861-1862
Chapter 15    Blood and Freedom, 1863-1867
Chapter 16    Reconstruction Abandoned, 1867-1877 
Chapter 17    An Economy Transformed: The Rise of Big Business 1877-1887 
Chapter 18   Urban Growth and Farm Protest 1887-1983
Chapter 19    A Troubled Nation Expands Outward 1893-1901
Chapter 20   Theodore Roosevelt and Progressive Reform 1901-1909
Chapter 21   Progressivism at High Tide 1909-1914
Chapter 22   Over There and Over Here: The Impact of World War I 1914-1921
Chapter 23   The Age of Jazz and Mass Culture 1921-1927
Chapter 24   The Great Depression 1927-1933
Chapter 25   The New Deal 1933-1939
Chapter 26   The Second World War 1940-1945
Chapter 27   Postwar America 1946-1952
Chapter 28   The Eisenhower Years 1953-1960
Chapter 29   The Turbulent Years 1960-1969
Chapter 30   Crisis of Confidence 1969-1980
Chapter 31   The Reagan-Bush Years 1981-1992
Chapter 32   From Prosperity to Terrorism 1992-2003