CONTENTS:

1. Exploration, Territorial Claims, and Colonizing Agencies
2. Immigration to the Colonies
3. Agricultural Beginnings
4. The Rise of Colonial Commerce and Industry
5. Growth of Social and Intellectual Autonomy
6. Practicing the Arts of Self-Government
7. Two Systems and Ideologies in Conflict
8. Independence Completed by Revolution
9. Constitutional Government for the United States
10. Establishing the Republican Way of Life
11. The Revolutionary Generation in Charge of National Affairs
12. Expansion to the Pacific
13. The Industrial Revolution
14. Rise of National Democracy
15. A Broadening and Deepening Sense of Civilization
16. Party Strife Intensifies
17. The North and South at War
18. Postwar Reconstruction and Economic Power
19. The Concentration of Economic Power
20. Politics in the New Economic Setting
21. The Breach with Historic Continentalism
22. Widening Knowledge and Thought
23. An Era of Political Revolt Against Plutocracy
24. Social Reformers Make Headway
25. Gates of Old Opportunities Closing
26. World War I and Aftermath
27. Economic Crash and New Deal Uprising
28. America’s Part in World War II
29. The Atomic Age Unfolds

APPENDIX
Selected Documents from American History
Changes in the Territory under American Control
A Chronology
Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States
Finding Historical Information in Libraries