| Interpreting the Early Republic | p. 1 |
| The Significance of the Early Republic | p. 2 |
| The Market Revolution, 1815-1848 | p. 8 |
| Nationalism and American Identity in the Early Republic | p. 14 |
| The U.S. Constitution and the Federalist Ascendency | p. 24 |
| Alexander Hamilton Addresses the Constitutional Convention, 1787 | p. 25 |
| James Madison Defends the New Federal Constitution, 1788 | p. 27 |
| Two Anti-Federalists Attack the Constitution, 1788 | p. 30 |
| Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Defends the Constitution, 1788 | p. 32 |
| Hamilton on the Public Credit, 1790 | p. 33 |
| The National Bank and the Constitution: Two Views, 1791 | p. 35 |
| James Madison Gives "A Candid State of Parties," 1792 | p. 38 |
| The Discourse of Politics in 1787 | p. 40 |
| Slavery and the Constitution | p. 49 |
| The Constitution and the "Genius" of the People | p. 53 |
| The Political Crises of the 1790s | p. 62 |
| The Democratic Society of Pennsylvania Opposes Federal Policy, 1793, 1794 | p. 63 |
| A Country Democrat on the Whiskey Rebellion, 1796 | p. 65 |
| President George Washington Suppresses the Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 | p. 66 |
| Thomas Jefferson on the "Aristocratical Party," 1796 | p. 68 |
| President Washington's Farewell Address, 1796 | p. 69 |
| John Adams Thanks His Supporters, 1798 | p. 70 |
| The Kentucky Resolutions, 1798 | p. 71 |
| A Federalist Newspaper Describes the Trial of David Brown, 1799 | p. 73 |
| John Adams on His Defeat, 1801 | p. 74 |
| Capitalism and the Rise of the Republican Opposition | p. 75 |
| Republicanism, Capitalism, and Slavery in the 1790s | p. 84 |
| The Republican Jefferson and the Jeffersonian Republic | p. 90 |
| President Thomas Jefferson on Political Reconciliation, 1801 | p. 91 |
| Two Politicians on Jefferson, 1801 | p. 93 |
| Robert R. Livingston on the Louisiana Purchase Negotiations, 1803 | p. 94 |
| Jeffersonian Constitutionalism and the Louisiana Purchase, 1803 | p. 96 |
| Chief Justice John Marshall on the Powers of the Judiciary, 1803 | p. 97 |
| Federalists and Old Republicans Engage in Political Warfare, 1804, 1806 | p. 99 |
| Contemporary Views of the Pros and Cons of Jefferson's Embargo, 1808, 1809 | p. 100 |
| Jefferson as Cautious Pragmatic | p. 102 |
| Jefferson as Reactionary Ideologue | p. 106 |
| Jefferson and the Empire of Liberty | p. 109 |
| Gender, Race, and Ideology in the Early Republic | p. 116 |
| Contemporary Views of Republican Womanhood | p. 118 |
| Thomas Jefferson on Indians and Blacks, 1787 | p. 122 |
| The Confessions of "Ben," a Co-Conspirator in Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion, 1800 | p. 126 |
| Free Blacks Appeal for Freedom and Christian Forbearance, 1794 | p. 127 |
| John Watson on Black Methodism, 1819 | p. 128 |
| Timothy Dwight Describes "The Destruction of the Pequods," 1794 | p. 129 |
| President Jefferson Displays Machiavellian Benevolence Toward the Indians, 1803 | p. 130 |
| The Practice of Jeffersonian Benevolence: William Henry Harrison's Treaty with the Delaware Indians, 1804 | p. 131 |
| A Shawnee Parable of Resistance, 1803 | p. 132 |
| The Republican Wife | p. 133 |
| Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian | p. 138 |
| Indian-White Relations in the New Nation | p. 142 |
| The War of 1812 | p. 152 |
| A Republican Newspaper Protests Against British Impressment, 1811 | p. 154 |
| Tecumseh Confronts Governor William Henry Harrison, 1810 | p. 154 |
| Felix Grundy Gives the War Hawks' Battle Cry, 1811 | p. 156 |
| The Congressional War Report, 1812 | p. 157 |
| Federalist Daniel Webster Criticizes the War, 1812 | p. 157 |
| Three Documents on the Battle of the Thames, 1813 | p. 160 |
| Nathan Appleton on the Coming of the Power Loom, 1858 | p. 161 |
| Nathaniel Boileau on the British Juggernaut, 1814 | p. 162 |
| Newspaper Accounts of the Burning of Washington, D.C., 1814 | p. 166 |
| Resolutions of the Hartford Convention, 1814 | p. 167 |
| The Birth of a Hero: Andrew Jackson (Undated) | p. 169 |
| The War of 1812 and the Struggle for Political Permanency | p. 170 |
| The Liberal Impulse to War | p. 177 |
| The Rise of Northern Capitalism | p. 188 |
| Views on the Commercialization of the Countryside | p. 189 |
| Perspectives on the Self-Made Man | p. 191 |
| Contemporary Statements on the Cult of Domesticity | p. 195 |
| Impressions of the Lowell Mills, 1833, 1844, 1845 | p. 198 |
| On the Lives of Big-City Craftsmen, 1845 | p. 202 |
| Thomas Skidmore on the Rights of Man to Property, 1829 | p. 206 |
| Reverend Alonzo Potter Defends Wage Labor, 1841 | p. 209 |
| The Early American Industrial Revolution | p. 212 |
| Metropolitan Industrialization | p. 220 |
| Working-Class Youth: The Gals and Boys of the Bowery | p. 227 |
| The Slaveholders' Regime | p. 238 |
| A Planter Instructs His Son, 1841 | p. 239 |
| J. H. Hammond's Instructions to His Overseer, 1840-1850 | p. 240 |
| Southerners' Commentaries on Recalcitrant Slaves, 1833-1845 | p. 246 |
| Accounts of Slavery, 1823-c. 1930s | p. 248 |
| Free Blacks Petition the State of Virginia, 1838 | p. 253 |
| Frances Kemble on Racism, Religion, and Fear in Georgia, 1838-1839 | p. 254 |
| Reflections on Yeoman Egalitarianism, 1850-1851 | p. 256 |
| Contemporary Attacks and Counterattacks on Slavery, 1831-1832 | p. 257 |
| Paternalism and Class Relations in the Old South | p. 264 |
| The Role of Race in the Planter Ideology of South Carolina | p. 273 |
| Folk Tales and the Slaves' Culture | p. 279 |
| Struggles for the West | p. 288 |
| Documents on the Black Hawk War, 1831, 1832 | p. 289 |
| Two Reports on the Texas Revolution, 1836 | p. 291 |
| Two Views of California, 1846, 1848 | p. 296 |
| Illinois Governor Edward Coles on the Proslavery Movement, 1823 | p. 302 |
| Caroline M. Kirkland on Western Life, 1839, 1845 | p. 303 |
| Speculators, Squatters, and the Senate Debate over Public Land Policy, 1837 | p. 308 |
| The Speculators' Role on the Frontier | p. 313 |
| The Transformation of a Rural Community: Commonality and Class in Sugar Creek | p. 318 |
| The Era of Bad Feelings | p. 333 |
| President James Monroe on the "Harmony of Opinion," 1817 | p. 335 |
| Observations on Banking and the Panic of 1819; 1817, 1818, 1820 | p. 337 |
| Three Views of the Missouri Crisis, 1819, 1820, 1822 | p. 338 |
| President John Quincy Adams on Liberty and Power, 1825 | p. 341 |
| A Craft Workers' Manifesto, 1827 | p. 342 |
| Martin Van Buren Proposes a New Opposition Party, 1827 | p. 343 |
| John C. Calhoun on States' Rights, 1828 | p. 345 |
| The Political Cultures of a Presidential Campaign, 1828 | p. 348 |
| The Missouri Crisis, Slavery, and the Rise of the Jacksonians | p. 351 |
| Social Development and Political Parties from 1789 to 1828 | p. 359 |
| The Political Cultures of 1828 | p. 365 |
| Jacksonians, Whigs, and the Politics of the 1830s | p. 372 |
| A Retrospective Glance at the Character of Andrew Jackson, 1827 | p. 374 |
| President Jackson on Indian Removal, 1830 | p. 374 |
| Jackson and Internal Improvements: The Maysville Road, 1830 | p. 376 |
| Perspectives on the Nullification Crisis, 1832, 1833 | p. 379 |
| Views on the Bank War, 1832 | p. 385 |
| Jacksonian View of the Opposition, 1833 | p. 391 |
| Philip Hone on the Democratic Party, 1834 | p. 391 |
| The Gag Rule: Floor Debate in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1837 | p. 393 |
| "A Native of Maine" on the Emigrating Cherokees in Southern Kentucky, 1838 | p. 394 |
| The Whigs Take to the Woods, 1840 | p. 395 |
| Calvin Colton on Whig Ideals, 1844 | p. 396 |
| Andrew Jackson and Jacksonian Democracy | p. 399 |
| Equality, Racism, and Jacksonian Democracy | p. 407 |
| The Party of Moral Discipline: Whig Values | p. 414 |
| Reforms in Conflict | p. 423 |
| Charles Grandison Finney on Sin and Redemption, 1835 | p. 425 |
| Lyman Beecher on the Temperance Crusade, 1826 | p. 427 |
| A Counterattack on Religious Reform, 1831 | p. 430 |
| Feminist Declarations, 1828, 1848 | p. 430 |
| Contemporary Views of Nativism, 1834, 1835 | p. 438 |
| Horace Mann on the Philosophy of Public Schooling, 1846 | p. 440 |
| Labor Reform Considered, 1836 | p. 442 |
| Reverend Charles Colcock Jones on Religious Instruction for Negroes, 1847 | p. 443 |
| Class, Liquor, and Reform in Rochester | p. 448 |
| Middle-Class Women and Moral Reform | p. 454 |
| Nativist Reform and the Fear of Subversive Conspiracies | p. 461 |
| Abolitionism, Antiabolitionism, and Proslavery | p. 471 |
| African-American Abolitionism: David Walker Appeals to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829 | p. 473 |
| William Lloyd Garrison Urges Immediate Abolition, 1831 | p. 476 |
| The New-England Anti-Slavery Society on Immediatism, 1833 | p. 478 |
| William Jay Mocks and Dismisses the Proslavery Argument, 1836 | p. 479 |
| Angelina Grimke Appeals to the Christian Women of the South, 1836 | p. 482 |
| The Antiabolitionist Outlook, 1833, 1835 | p. 484 |
| J. H. Hammond Defends Slavery, 1836 | p. 488 |
| A Christian Defense of Slavery, 1845 | p. 492 |
| Abolitionism and the Labor Movement | p. 497 |
| Women's Rights and Abolition | p. 503 |
| Racial Tensions Within Northern Abolitionism | p. 509 |
| The Proslavery Argument | p. 515 |
| The Bitter Fruits of Manifest Destiny | p. 523 |
| John L. O'Sullivan on Texas Annexation and Manifest Destiny, 1845 | p. 525 |
| President James K. Polk's War Message, 1846 | p. 528 |
| Expressions of War Fever, 1846,1847 | p. 532 |
| A Mexican View of the War, 1848 | p. 534 |
| The Wilmot Proviso, 1846 | p. 538 |
| Abolitionist Views of the Mexican War, 1846, 1848 | p. 538 |
| A Free Soil Democrat's View of the War: Two Editorials by Walt Whitman, 1846,1847 | p. 540 |
| Senator Charles Sumner Gives a Northern Whig View of the War, 1846 | p. 542 |
| Senator John C. Calhoun Offers a Southern Perspective on the War's Outcome, 1847 | p. 544 |
| The Political System Fractures: Party Platforms, 1848 | p. 547 |
| Manifest Destiny and National Interests | p. 551 |
| The Anxieties of Manifest Destiny | p. 562 |
| Epilogue: Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, 1851 | |
| Appendix: The Constitution of the United States of America and Amendments I-XII | |
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