Major Problems in American History: To 1877. Conquest and colliding worlds ; The Southern colonies in British America ; Colonial New England and the middle colonies in British America ; The American Revolution ; The making of the Constitution ; Competing visions of national development in the early national period ; Foreign policy, Western movement, and Indian removal in the early nineteenth century ; The transportation, market, and communication revolutions of the early nineteenth century ; Nationalism, sectionalism, and expansionism in the age of Jackson ; Reform and the Great Awakening in the early nineteenth century ; Commercial development and immigration in the North at midcentury ; Agriculture and slavery in the South at midcentury ; Careening toward civil war ; The Civil War ; Reconstruction

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covering the subject's entire chronological span. Comprehensive topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture, and social trends. The Third Edition features greater focus on visual and cultural sources throughout. Several chapters now include images, songs and poems to give students a better feel for the time period and events under discussion. Key pedagogical elements of the Major Problems format have been retained: 15 to 16 chapters per volume, chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings.