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| Each chapter ends with "Conclusion," "Chronology," "Key Terms," and "For Review" questions | |
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| North American Foundations | |
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| First Founders | |
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| Ancient America | |
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| A Thousand Years of Change: 500 to 1500 | |
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| Linking the Continents | |
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| Spain Enters the Americas | |
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| The Protestant Reformation Plays Out in America | |
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| Interpreting History: "These Gods That We Worship Give Us Everything We Need." | |
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| European Footholds in North America, 1600-1660 | |
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| Spain's Ocean-Spanning Reach | |
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| France and Holland: Overseas Competition for Spain | |
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| English Beginnings on the Atlantic Coast | |
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| The Puritan Experiment | |
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| The Chesapeake Bay Colonies | |
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| Interpreting History: Anne Bradstreet: "The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America." | |
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| Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715 | |
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| France and the American Interior | |
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| The Spanish Empire on the Defensive | |
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| England's American Empire Takes Shape | |
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| Bloodshed in the English Colonies: 1670-1690 | |
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| Consequences of War and Growth: 1690-1715 | |
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| Interpreting History: "Long Enough to be Called a City." | |
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| A Century of Colonial Expansion To 1775 | |
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| African Enslavement: the Terrible Transformation | |
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| The Descent into Race Slavery | |
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| The Growth of Slave Labor Camps | |
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| England Enters the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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| Survival in a Strange New Land | |
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| The Transformation Completed | |
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| Interpreting History: "Releese Us out of This Cruell Bondegg." | |
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| An American Babel, 1713-1763 | |
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| New Cultures on the Western Plains | |
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| Britain's Mainland Colonies: A New Abundance of People | |
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| The Varied Economic Landscape | |
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| Matters of Faith: the Great Awakening | |
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| The French Lose a North American Empire | |
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| Interpreting History: "The Creature Must Have Been the Size of a Small House" | |
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| The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763-1775 | |
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| New Challenges to Spain's Expanded Empire | |
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| New Challenges to Britain's Expanded Empire | |
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| "The Unconquerable Rage of the People." | |
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| A Conspiracy of Corrupt Ministers? | |
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| Launching a Revolution | |
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| Interpreting History: "Squeez'd and Oppressed." A 1768 Petition by 30 Regulators | |
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| The Unfinished Revolution, 1775-1803 | |
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| Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783 | |
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| "Things Are Now Come to That Crisis." | |
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| Declaring Independence | |
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| The Struggle to Win French Support | |
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| Legitimate States, a Respectable Military | |
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| The Long Road to Yorktown | |
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| Interpreting History: "By What Means Do You Expect to Conquer America?" | |
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| New Beginnings: the 1780s | |
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| Beating Swords into Plowshares | |
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| Competing for Control of the Mississippi Valley | |
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| Debtor and Creditor, Taxpayer and bondholder | |
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| Drafting a New Constitution | |
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| Ratification and the Bill of Rights | |
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| Interpreting History: Demobilization: "Turned Adrift Like Old Worn-Out Horses." | |
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| Revolutionary Legacies, 1789-1803 | |
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| Competing Political Visions in the New Nation | |
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| People of Color: New Freedoms, New Struggles | |
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| Continuity and Change in the West | |
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| Shifting Social Identities in the Post-Revolutionary Era | |
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| The Election of 1800: Revolution or Reversal? | |
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| Interpreting History: A Farmer Worries About the Power of "The Few," 1798 | |
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| Expanding the Boundaries of Freedom and Slavery, 1803-1848 | |
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| Defending and Expanding the New Nation, 1803-1818 | |
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| The British Menace | |
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| The War of 1812 | |
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| The "Era of Good Feelings"? | |
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| The Rise of the Cotton Plantation Economy | |
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| Interpreting History: Cherokee Women Petition Against Further Land Sales to Whites in 1817 | |
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| Expanding Westward: Society and Politics in the "Age of the Common Man," 1819-1832 | |
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| The Politics Behind Western Expansion | |
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| Federal Authority and Its Opponents | |
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| Real People in the "Age of the Common Man." | |
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| Ties That Bound a Growing Population | |
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| Interpreting History: Eulalia Perez Describes her Work in a California Mission, 1823 | |
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| Peoples in Motion, 1832-1848 | |
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| Mass Migrations | |
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| A Multitude of Voices in the National Political Arena | |
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| Reform Impulses | |
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| The United States Extends Its Reach | |
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| Interpreting History:Senator John C. Calhoun Warns Against Incorporating Mexico into the United States | |
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| Disunion and Reunion | |
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| The Crisis over Slavery, 1848-1860 | |
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| Regional Economies and Conflicts | |
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| Individualism vs. Group Identity | |
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| The Paradox of Southern Political Power | |
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| The Deepening Conflict over Slavery | |
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| Interpreting History:Professor George Howe on the Subordination of Women | |
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| "To Fight to Gain a Country": the Civil War | |
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| Mobilization for War, 1861-1862 | |
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| The Course of War, 1862-1864 | |
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| The Other War: African American Struggles for Liberation | |
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| Battle Fronts and Home Fronts in 1863 | |
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| The Prolonged Defeat of the Confederacy, 1864-1865 | |
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| Interpreting History: A Virginia Slaveholder Objects to the Impressment of Slaves | |
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| In the Wake of War: Consolidating a Triumphant Union, 1865-1877 | |
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| The Struggle over the South | |
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| Claiming Territory for the Union | |
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| The Republican Vision and Its Limits | |
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| Interpreting History: A Georgia Planter Appeals to a Freedmen's Bureau Officer | |