English territorial claims & colonial beginnings

Backgrounds of migration & settlement

Laying foundations in agriculture

The rise of commerce & industry

Growth of social & intellectual autonomy

Practicing the arts of self-government

Two systems & ideologies in conflict

Independence completed by revolution

Constitutional government for the United States

Establishing the republican way of life

The revolutionary generation in charge of the federal government

Expansion to the Pacific

The Industrial Revolution

Rise of national democracy

A broadening & deepening sense of civilization

Party strife over control of the federal government

National unity sealed in an armed contest

Reconstruction & economic expansion

Centralization of economy

Centralization as involved in the political struggle

The breach with historic continentalism

Widening knowledge & thought

Revolts against plutocracy grow in political power

Realizations in social improvement

Gates of old opportunities closing

World War & aftermath

Economic crash & the New Deal uprising

Global war & home front Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге History of the United States (Charles Austin Beard)