Cengage Learning Making America: A History of the United States

Shaped with a clear political chronology, Making America reflects the variety of individual experiences and kaleidoscope of cultures that is American society. Careful to maintain its emphasis on the importance of social movements, immigrant society, and regional and political differences in American history, the Fourth Edition of Making America brings greater attention to global influences and America's role in the world.Making America serves the needs of instructors whose classrooms reflect the diversity of today's college students. The strongly chronological narrative--together with an integrated program of learning and teaching aids--makes the historical content vivid and comprehensible to students at all levels of preparedness. In order to aid reading comprehension, the text features an on-page glossary and chapter summaries. Review Note: Each chapter begins with an Introduction and ends with a Summary. Volume I 1. Making a "New" World, to 1588 Individual Choices: Hienwatha A World of Change Exploiting Atlantic Opportunities The Challenges of Mutual Discovery Individual Voices: The Five Nations Adopt the Great Law 2. A Continent on the Move, 1400-1725 Individual Choices: Bartolome de Las Casas The New Europe and the Atlantic World European Empires in America Indians and the European Challenge Conquest and Accommodation in a Shared New World Individual Voices: Bartolome de Las Casas Argues for the American Indians 3. Founding the English Mainland Colonies, 1585-1732 Individual Choices: Nathaniel Bacon England and Colonization Settling the Chesapeake New England: Colonies of Dissenters The Pluralism of the Middle Colonies The Colonies of the Lower South Individual Voices: Nathaniel Bacon: Manifesto Concerning the Troubles in Virginia, 1676 4. The English Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689-1763 Individual Choices: Eliza Lucas Pinckney The English Transatlantic Communities of Trade Community and Work in Colonial Society Conflicts Among the Colonists Reason and Religion in Colonial Society Government and Politics in the Mainland Colonies North America and the Struggle for Empire Individual Voices: Eliza Lucas Challenges Traditional Plantation Life 5. Declaring Where Loyalties Lie, 1763-1776 Individual Choices: Charles Inglis Victory's New Problems Asserting American Rights The Crisis Renewed The Decision for Independence Individual Voices: Charles Inglis Calls for Reconcilation 6. Recreating America: Independence and a New Nation, 1775-1783 Individual Choices: Deborah Sampson The First Two Years of War Diplomacy Abroad and Profiteering at Home From Stalemate to Victory Republican Expectations in a New Nation Individual Voices: Esther DeBerdt Reed Glories in the Usefulness of Women 7. Competing Visions of the Virtuous Republic, 1770-1796 Individual Choices: Alexander Hamilton America's First Constitutions Challenges to the Confederation Creating a New Constitution Resolving the Conflict of Vision Competing Visions Re-emerge Individual Voices: Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Prospering America 8. The Early Republic, 1796-1804 Individual Choices: George Logan Conflict in the Adams Administration The "Revolution of 1800" Republicanism in Action Challenge and Uncertainty in Jefferson's America Individual Voices: Congress Debates George Logan's Mission to France 9. Increasing Conflict and War, 1805-1815 Individual Choices: Tecumseh Troubling Currents in Jefferson's America Crises in the Nation The Nation at War Peace and the Rise of New Expectations Individual Voices: Tecumseh Describes American Indian Policy Under William Henry Harrison 10. The Rise of a New Nation, 1815-1836 Individual Choices: John C. Calhoun An "Era of Good Feelings" Dynamic Growth and Political Consequences The "New Man" in Politics The Reign of King Andrew Individual Voices: John C. Calhoun Justifies the Principle and Practice of Nullification 11. The Great Transformation, 1828-1840 Individual Choices: Helen Jewett The Transportat