American History before 1877

America becomes the European frontier; Britain's empire in North America; the "Americans" - a new people; the road to revolution; the American revolution; a more perfect union; the federalist era; Jefferson and the age of republicanism; economic growth and American nationalism; from the "era of good feelings" through the era of Jackson; antebellum culture and reform; the old south and the "peculiar institution"; manifest destiny and the 1840s; the bonds of union loosen; the crisis of the union; reconstructing the union; appendix 1 - the Declaration of Independence; appendix 2 - the Constitution of the United States; appendix 3 - presidential elections; appendix 4 - admission of states.