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1 The Collision Of Cultures
2 Britain And Its Colonies
3 Colonial Ways Of Life
4 The Imperial Perspective
5 From Empire To Independence
6 The American Revolution
7 Shaping A Federal Union
8 The Federalist Era
9 The Early Republic
10 Nationalism And Sectionalism
11 The Jacksonian Impulse
12 The Dynamics Of Growth
13 An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, And Reform
14 Manifest Destiny
15 The Old South
16 The Crisis Of Union
17 The War Of The Union
18 Reconstruction: North And South
19 New Frontiers: South And West
20 Big Business And Organized Labor
21 The Emergence Of Urban America
22 Gilded-age Politics And Agrarian Revolt
23 An American Empire
24 The Progressive Era
25 America And The Great War
26 The Modern Temper
27 Republican Resurgence And Decline
28 New Deal America
29 From Isolation To Global War
30 The Second World War
31 The Fair Deal And Containment
32 Through The Picture Window: Society And Culture, 1945–1960
33 Conflict And Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years
34 New Frontiers: Politics And Social Change In The 1960s
35 Rebellion And Reaction In The 1960s And 1970s
36 A Conservative Insurgency
37 Triumph And Tragedy: America At The Turn Of The Century
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  1. The new nation
    1. The Constitution
      1. Untested
      2. Framework not blueprint
    2. Demography
      1. Regions
      2. Population
      3. Races
      4. Westward migration
    3. Government
      1. Getting started
        1. New Congress
        2. President Washington
        3. Conflict, tension, rivalry
      2. New structure
        1. Executive
          1. Departments
          2. Cabinet
        2. Judiciary
          1. Circuit and appeals courts
          2. Chief Justice John Jay
      3. Bill of Rights
        1. Madison’s position
        2. Virginia Bill of Rights
        3. Ten Amendments
      4. Raising Revenue
  2. Hamilton’s vision of America
    1. Hamilton’s background
      1. Self-made aristocrat
      2. Nationalist
      3. Secretary of the Treasury
    2. Establishing the public credit
      1. Report on Public Credit
        1. Funding federal debt at face value
        2. Federal assumption of state debts
      2. Hamilton’s other proposals
      3. Reactions to Hamilton’s credit proposals
        1. Concern about rewarding speculators
        2. Sectional differences
        3. Compromise solution
    3. Hamilton’s plan for a national bank
      1. Advantages of a bank
      2. Controversy over the constitutionality of the bank
    4. Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures
      1. Advantages of governmental development of manufacturing
      2. Techniques to promote manufacturing
      3. Reactions to the proposals
    5. Hamilton’s contribution
      1. Economic growth
      2. A capitalist republic
      3. Competition with Jefferson
    6. The Republican alternative
      1. Development of parties
        1. Attitudes toward parties
        2. Federalists vs. Republicans
      2. Jefferson’s ideas
        1. Agrarian view
        2. Fear of tyranny
        3. Contrasted with Hamilton
        4. Alliance with New York
  3. Crises foreign and domestic
    1. Foreign affairs
      1. Impact of the French Revolution
      2. Washington’s neutrality proclamation
      3. Actions of Citizen Genêt
      4. Aggressive French action
      5. Jay’s negotiations with Great Britain
        1. Jay’s instructions
        2. Terms accepted by Jay
        3. Public reactions to the treaty
        4. Congressional reaction
    2. Frontier problems
      1. Indian uprisings
      2. Battle of Fallen Timbers
      3. Treaty of Greenville
    3. Whiskey Rebellion
      1. Basis for the rebellion
        1. Excise tax
        2. Alcohol consumption
        3. Distillling profits
      2. Army sent to disperse the rebellion
      3. Effects of the incident
    4. Treaty with Spain
    5. Movement into the West
      1. Division over land policy
      2. Federalist policy in Land Act of 1796
      3. Land Act of 1800
      4. Wilderness trail
        1. Daniel Boone
        2. Squatters
        3. Pioneer life
    6. Washington’s Farewell Address
      1. Summary of his achievements as president
      2. General principles of the address
  4. The Adams administration
    1. Election of 1796
      1. Candidates
      2. Hamilton’s scheme
      3. Outcome of the election
    2. Adams the man
    3. Troubles with France
      1. XYZ Affair
      2. Logan Act
      3. Creation of a navy
      4. Organization of a new army
      5. Peace overtures
        1. The peace commission
        2. Terms of settlement
        3. Ratification of the agreement
    4. Domestic ramifications of the war
      1. Ideological conflicts
        1. Jefferson’s actions
        2. Adams’s response
      2. Acts of 1798
      3. Arrests and prosecutions under the acts
      4. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
        1. Doctrines of nullification and interposition
        2. Intention of the resolutions
    5. Election of 1800
      1. Candidates
      2. Outcome of the election
      3. Packing the judiciary

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