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VISIONS OF AMERICA
A History of the United States
Second Edition
Jennifer D. Keene
Chapman University
Saul Cornell
Fordham University
Edward T. O’Donnell
College of the Holy Cross
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, Table of Contents
Chapter 1 People in Motion: The Atlantic World to 1590......................................................................1
Chapter 2 Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590–1710 ...........................................38
Chapter 3 Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710–1763 ...........................................79
Chapter 4 Revolutionary America: Change and Transformation, 1764–1783....................................119
Chapter 5 A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government 1783–1789 ...............................164
Chapter 6 The New Republic: An Age of Political Passion, 1789–1800 ...........................................205
Chapter 7 Jeffersonian America: An Expanding Empire of Liberty, 1800–1824...............................233
Chapter 8 Democrats and Whigs: Democracy and American Culture, 1820–1840............................269
Chapter 9 Workers, Farmers, and Slaves:
The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815–1848.................................................308
Chapter 10 Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance, 1820–1850 ............................................345
Chapter 11 “To Overspread the Continent:”
Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840–1848.....................................................387
Chapter 12 Slavery and Sectionalism: The Political Crisis of 1848–1861 .........................................424
Chapter 13 A Nation Torn Apart: The Civil War, 1861–1865 ...........................................................460
Chapter 14 Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863–1890.......................492
Chapter 15 Conflict and Conquest: The Transformation of the West, 1860–1900.............................524
Chapter 16 Wonder and Woe: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865–1900 ......................................557
Chapter 17 Becoming a Modern Society: America in the Gilded Age, 1877–1900 ...........................590
Chapter 18 Creating a Democratic Paradise: The Progressive Era, 1895–1915.................................622
Chapter 19 Imperial America: The United States in the World, 1890–1914......................................659
Chapter 20 The Great War: World War I, 1914–1918........................................................................698
Chapter 21 A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties .................................................................................738
Chapter 22 A New Deal for America: The Great Depression, 1929–1940.........................................776
Chapter 23 World War II: Fighting the Good War, 1939–1945 .........................................................818
Chapter 24 A Divided World: The Early Cold War, 1945–1963 .......................................................857
Chapter 25 In a Land of Plenty: Contentment and Discord, 1945–1960 ............................................892
Chapter 26 A Nation Divided: The Vietnam War, 1945–1975 ..........................................................928
Chapter 27 A Decade of Discord: The Challenge of the Sixties.........................................................965
Chapter 28 Righting a Nation Adrift: America in the 1970s and 1980s ...........................................1000
Chapter 29 Building a New World Order: The United States, 1989–2009.......................................1035
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