Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Era of Mixed Feelings -- Effects of The War of 1812 -- Document: James Monroe: The Monroe Doctrine (1823) -- National Disunity -- Document: John Marshall: Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) -- Document: John Quincy Adams: Slavery and the Constitution (1820) -- Chapter 2 The Economy -- Transportation Revolution -- Document:Henry Clay: The Protective Tariff (1824) -- Beginnings of Industrialization -- Document:Davy Crockett:A Tour of the Lowell Mills (1835) -- Chapter 3 Social Developments -- Birth of American Culture -- Document: Edgar Allan Poe: "To Science" (1829) -- Document: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Village Blacksmith" (1841) -- Document: James Russell Lowell: Opposition to Nationalism in Literature (1843) -- Document: Walt Whitman: "I Hear America Singing" (1860) -- The People -- Document: John Humphrey Noyes: The Nashoba Community (1828) -- Chapter 4 Cities -- Education and The Role of Women -- Document: Catharine Beecher: The Profession of a Woman (1829) -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Wealth -- Document: Thomas Skidmore: The Unequal Distribution of Property (1829) -- Chapter 5 Jacksonian Democracy -- The Democratization of Politics -- Document: A Plea for Manhood Suffrage (1829) -- The Jacksonians -- Document: Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith: The Inauguration of Andrew Jackson (1829) -- The Major Parties -- Document: John C. Calhoun: States Rights and Nullification (1832) -- Minor Parties -- Locofoco Party -- Chapter 6 An Age of Reform -- Document: The Seneca Falls Declaration on Women's Rights (1848) -- Abolitionism -- Document: William Lloyd Garrison:For Immediate Abolition (1831) -- Support of Reform Movements -- Religious-Inspired Reform -- Brook Farm -- Chapter 7 Expansionism and Political Crisis at Mid-Century -- Westward Expansion.

Document: John L. O' Sullivan:Our Manifest Destiny (1845) -- Document: Andrew Jackson: On Indian Removal (1830) -- Attitudes Toward Expansionism -- Document: Territorial Expansion and the Extension of Slavery (1847) -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Primary Source Documents -- James Monroe: The Monroe Doctrine (1823) -- John Marshall: Dartmouth College V. Woodward (1819) -- John Quincy Adams: Slavery and the Constitution (1820) -- Henry Clay: The Protective Tariff (1824) -- Davy Crockett: A Tour of The Lowell Mills (1835) -- James Russell Lowell: Opposition to Nationalism in Literature (1843) -- John Humphrey Noyes: The Nashoba Community (1828) -- Catharine Beecher: The Profession of A Woman (1829) -- Thomas Skidmore: The Unequal Distribution of Property (1829) -- A Plea For Manhood Suffrage (1829) -- Mrs. Samuel Harrison smith: The Inauguration of Andrew Jackson (1829) -- John C. Calhoun: State Rights and Nullification (1832) -- The Seneca Falls Declaration on Women's Rights (1848) -- William Lloyd Garrison:For Immediate Abolition (1831) -- John L. O' Sullivan: Our Manifest Destiny (1845) -- Andrew Jackson: On Indian Removal (1830) -- Territorial Expansion and The Extension of Slavery (1847) -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.