1. Discovery and Settlement
2. The Colonial System Takes Form
3. The Duel with France
4. American Life in
1763. 5. The Insoluble Problems of the New Empire
6. The Revolution
7. The Federal Union Formed
8. The New Nation Gets Under Way
9. Jeffersonian Democracy
10. The Presidency of Jefferson
11. The War of
1812. 12. The Era of Good Feeling
13. The Jacksonian Period
14. The Nation in Mid-Century
15. A Decade of Expansion, 1840-1850
16. The Inevitable Conflict.