Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-193) and index.
Native American cultures -- The Age of Exploration -- Democracy in Colonial America -- Loyalists and patriots in the Revolution -- Political parties and the new nation -- Differences between the North and the South -- Slavery in the United States -- Reconstruction -- Immigration -- The growth of industry -- The Progressive Era -- America in the 1920s -- The Great Depression and the New Deal -- America in World War II -- America and the Cold War -- The Civil Rights Movement