Unfinished Nation Brinkley Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures America Before Columbus Europe Looks Westward The Arrival of the English Debating the Past: The American Population Before Columbus America in the World: The Atlantic Context of Early American History America in the World: Mercantilism and Colonial Commerce Consider the Source: Bartolome de las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispaniola" Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands The Early Chesapeake The Growth of New England The Restoration Colonies Borderlands and Middle Grounds The Development of Empire Debating the Past: Native Americans and "The Middle Ground" Consider the Source: Cotton Mather on the Recent History of New England Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America The Colonial Population The Colonial Economies Patterns of Society Awakenings and Enlightenments Debating the Past: The Origins of Slavery Debating the Past: The Witchcraft Trials Consider the Source: Gottlieb Mittleburger, the Passage of Indentured Servants Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition Loosening Ties The Struggle for the Continent The New Imperialism Stirrings of Revolt Cooperation and War America in the World: The First Global War Patterns of Popular Culture: Taverns in Revolutionary Massachusetts Consider the Source: Benjamin Franklin, Testimony against the Stamp Act Chapter 5: The American Revolution The States United The War for Independence War and Society The Creation of State Governments The Search for a National Government Debating the Past: The American Revolution America in the World: The Age of Revolutions Consider the Source: Abigail Adams discusses women’s rights Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Framing a New Government Adoption and Adaptation Federalists and Republicans Establishing National Sovereignty The Downfall of the Federalists Debating the Past: The Background of the Constitution Consider the Source: Washington’s Farewell Address Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era The Rise of Cultural Nationalism Stirrings of Industrialism Jefferson the President Doubling the National Domain Expansion and War The War of 1812 America in the World: The Global Industrial Revolution Patterns of Popular Culture: Horse Racing Consider the Source: Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, June 1803 Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Stabilizing Economic Growth Expanding Westward The "Era of Good Feelings" Sectionalism and Nationalism The Revival of Opposition Consider the Source: Thomas Jefferson Reacts to the Missouri Compromise Chapter 9: Jacksonian America The Rise of Mass Politics "Our Federal Union" The Removal of the Indians Jackson and the Bank War The Changing Tale of American Politics Politics After Jackson Debating the Past: Jacksonian Democracy Patterns of Popular Culture: The Penny Press Consider the Source: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America Chapter 10: America's Economic Revolution The Changing American Population Transportation and Communications Revolutions Commerce and Industry Men and Women at Work Patterns of Society The Agricultural North Patterns of Popular Culture: Shakespeare in America Consider the Source: The Baltimore Patriot Supports Government Regulation of Telegraphy Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South The Cotton Economy Southern White Society Slavery: The "Peculiar Institution" The Culture of Slavery Debating the Past: The Character of Slavery Consider the Source: Senator James Henry Hammond Declares “Cotton Is King” Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform The Romantic Impulse Remaking Society The Crusade Against Slavery America in the World: The Abolition of Slavery Consider the Source: Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Fall, NY, 1848 Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Expansion and War The Sectional Debate The Crisis of the 1850s Consider the Source: Wilmot Proviso to the Northwest Ordinance, 1846 Chapter 14: The Civil War The Secession Crisis The Mobilization of the North The Mobilization of the South Strategy and Diplomacy Campaigns and Battles Debating the Past: The Causes of the Civil War Patterns of Popular Culture: Baseball and the Civil War Consider the Source: Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South The Problems of Peacemaking Radical Reconstruction The South in Reconstruction The Grant Administration The Abandonment of Reconstruction The New South Debating the Past: Reconstruction Consider the Source: Southern Blacks Ask for Help Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West The Societies of the Far West The Changing Western Economy The Romance of the West The Dispersal of the Tribes The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer Debating the Past: The Frontier and the West Consider the Source: Walter Baron von Richthofen, Cattle Raising on the Plains in North America Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy Sources of Industrial Growth Capitalism and Its Critics The Ordeal of the Worker Patterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio Alger Consider the Source: Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth, 1889 Chapter 18: The Age of the City The New Urban Growth The Urban Landscape Strains of Urban Life The Rise of Mass Consumption Leisure in the Consumer Society High Culture in the Urban Age America in the World: Global Migrations Consider the Source: John Wanamaker, The Four Cardinal Points of the Department Store, 1911 Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire The Politics of Equilibrium The Agrarian Revolt The Crisis of the 1890s Stirrings of Imperialism War with Spain The Republic as Empire Debating the Past: Populism America in the World: Imperialism Consider the Source: Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League Chapter 20: The Progressives The Progressive Impulse Women and Reform The Assault on the Parties Sources of Progressive Reform Crusades for Order and Reform Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency The Troubled Succession Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Debating the Past: Progressivism America in the World: Social Democracy Consider the Source: Katherine Philips Edson Boasts of Women’s Influence on State Legislation, 1913 Chapter 21: America and the Great War The "Big Stick": America and the World, 1901-1917 The Road to War "War Without Stint" The Search for a New World Order A Society in Turmoil Patterns of Popular Culture: Billy Sunday and Modern Revivalism Consider the Source: George M. Cohan, “Over There,” 1918 Chapter 22: The New Era The New Economy The New Culture A Conflict of Cultures Republican Government America in the World: The Cinema Consider the Source: Black Swan Records Advertisement in the Newspaper Crisis, 1922 Chapter 23: The Great Depression The Coming of the Depression The American People in Hard Times The Depression and American Culture The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover Debating the Past: Causes of the Great Depression America in the World: The Global Depression Consider the Source: Mr. Tarver Remembers the Great Depression in a 1940 Interview with the Federal Writers Project Chapter 24: The New Deal Launching the New Deal The New Deal in Transition The New Deal in Disarray Limits and Legacies of the New Deal Debating the Past: The New Deal Patterns of Popular Culture: The Golden Age of Comic Books Consider the Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Speaks on the Reorganization of the Judiciary, 1937 Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941 The Diplomacy of the New Era Isolationism and Internationalism From Neutrality to Intervention Debating the Past: The Question of Pearl Harbor America in the World: The Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1941 Consider the Source: Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, 1941 Chapter 26: America in a World at War War on Two Fronts The American Economy in Wartime Race and Gender in Wartime America Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture The Defeat of the Axis Debating the Past: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Consider the Source: Marjorie Haselton Writes Her Husband Richard in China, 1945 Chapter 27: The Cold War Origins of the Cold War The Collapse of the Peace America After the War The Korean War The Crusade Against Subversion Debating the Past: The Cold War Debating the Past: McCarthyism Consider the Source: National Security Council Paper No. 68 (NSC-68) Arms America, 1950 Chapter 28: The Affluent Society The Economic "Miracle" The Explosion of Science and Technology People of Plenty The Other Americas The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement Eisenhower Republicanism Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War Patterns of Popular Culture: Lucy and Desi Consider the Source: Eisenhower Warns of the Military Industrial Complex in His Farewell Address, 1961 Chapter 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and The Ordeal of Liberalism Expanding the Liberal State The Battle for Racial Equality "Flexible Response" and the Cold War The Agony of Vietnam The Traumas of 1968 Debating the Past: The Civil Rights Movement Debating the Past: The Vietnam Commitment America in the World: 1968 Consider the Source: Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream” Chapter 30: The Crisis of Authority The Youth Culture The Mobilization of Minorities The New Feminism Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society Nixon, Kissinger, and the War Nixon, Kissinger, and the World Politics and Economics in the Nixon Years The Watergate Crisis Debating the Past: Watergate America in the World: The End of Colonialism Consider the Source: Demands of the New York High School Student Union, 1970 Chapter 31: From the "Age of Limits" to the Age of Reagan Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate The Rise of the New Conservative Movement The "Reagan Revolution" America and the Waning of the Cold War Patterns of Popular Culture: The Mall Consider the Source: James Watt, “Despite Critics, Interior Dept. Makes Rapid Progress,” Human Events, 1982 Chapter 32: The Age of Globalization The Resurgence of Partisanship The Economic Boom Science and Technology in the New Economy A Changing Society A Contested Culture The Perils of Globalization America in the World: The Global Environmental Movement Consider the Source: “Keep Foreign Terrorism Foreign,” New York Times, 1993 Becoming America 201 1 CONVERGENCE OF MANY PEOPLES: AMERICA BEFORE 1600 2 EARLY COLONIES 1600–1680 3 SLAVERY AND RACE 1660–1750 4 BRITISH COLONIES IN AN ATLANTIC ECONOMY 1660–1750 5 EMPIRES, WAR, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN COUNTRY 1700–1765 6 CRISIS AND WAR 1765–1781 7 MAKING A NEW NATION 1776–1792 8 THE EARLY REPUBLIC 1793–1811 9 WAR, EXPANSION, AND INDIAN REMOVAL 1811–1830 202 10 MARKET SOCIETY AND THE BIRTH OF MASS POLITICS 1825–1845 11 SLAVERY AND THE SOUTH 1831–1844 12 ERA OF MIDDLE-CLASS REFORM 1831–1848 13 EXPANSION, NATIONALISM, AND AMERICA POPULAR CULTURE 1844–1854 14 A UNION UNRAVELING 1848–1860 15 DISUNION AND WAR 1861–1865 16 SOUTHERN RECONSTRUCTION 1862–1883 17 REMAKING THE WEST 1865–1893 18 INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA 1865–1885 19 POLITICS AND DISCONTENT IN THE GILDED AGE 1878–1896 203 20 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1896–1914 21 THE BIRTH OF A GREAT POWER: AMERICA AND THE WORLD 1880–1914 22 WAR AND PEACE 1914–1920 23 AMERICA IN THE JAZZ AGE 1920–1929 24 AMERICA REMADE: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL 1929–1939 25 AMERICA GOES TO WAR 1939–1945 26 POSTWAR AMERICA 1945–1953 27 THE AGE OF AFFLUENCE 1953–1960 28 ERA OF DREAMS AND DISCONTENT 1960–1970 29 REACTION, RECESSION, AND GLOBALIZATION 1970–1979 30 DEINDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA 1980–1992 31 GLOBALIZING AMERICA 1992–2012