Chapter 1.  The Collision of Cultures in the Sixteenth Century  

Chapter 2.  England and Its American Colonies, 1607–1732  

Chapter 3.  Colonial Ways of Life, 1607–1750  

Chapter 4.  From Colonies to States, 1607–1776  

Chapter 5.  The American Revolution, 1776–1783  

Chapter 6.  Creating a “More Perfect Union,” 1783–1800  

Chapter 7.  The Early Republic, 1800–1815  

Chapter 8.  The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815–1850  

Chapter 9.  Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815–1828  

Chapter 10.  A New Democratic Era, 1828-1840 

Chapter 11.  The South and Slavery, 1800–1860  

Chapter 12.  Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800–1860  

Chapter 13.  Western Expansion and Southern Secession, 1830–1861  

Chapter 14.  The War of the Union, 1861–1865  

Chapter 15.  Reconstruction, 1865–1877