Making America : A History of the United States
by Berkin, Carol; Miller, Christopher; Cherny, Robert; Gormly, JamesEdition: 6th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-07-27
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise American society. MAKING AMERICA provides a clear, helpful text with a strongly chronological narrative and an integrated program of learning aids that make the historical content vivid and comprehensible to readers at all levels of preparedness.
Table of Contents
| Making a "New" World, to 1588 | |
| A Continent on the Move, 1400-1725 | |
| Founding the English Mainland Colonies, 1585-1732 | |
| The English Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689-1763 | |
| Deciding Where Loyalties Lie, 1763-1776 | |
| Recreating America: Independence and a New Nation, 1775-1783 | |
| Competing Visions of the Virtuous Republic, 1770-1796 | |
| The Early Republic, 1796-1804 | |
| Increasing Conflict and War, 1805-1815 | |
| The Rise of a New Nation, 1815-1836 | |
| The Great Transformation: Growth and Expansion, 1828-1848 | |
| Responses to the Great Transformation, 1828-1848 | |
| Sectional Conflict and Shattered Union, 1848-1860 | |
| A Violent Choice: Civil War, 1861-1865 | |
| Reconstruction: High Hopes and Shattered Dreams, 1865-1877 | |
| The Nation Industrializes, 1865-1900 | |
| Life in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900 | |
| Politics and Foreign Relations in a Rapidly Changing Nation, 1865-1902 | |
| The Progressive Era, 1900-1917 | |
| The United States in a World at War, 1913-1920 | |
| Prosperity Decade, 1920-1928 | |
| The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939 | |
| America's Rise to World Leadership, 1929-1945 | |
| Truman and Cold War America, 1945-1952 | |
| Quest for Consensus, 1952-1960 | |
| Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960-1968 | |
| America Under Stress, 1967-1976 | |
| New Economic and Political Alignments, 1976-1992 | |
| Conflicting Visions of America | |
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