Who Built America?
Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society

Part One: Colonization and Revolution, 1492-1815
1. A Meeting of Three Worlds: Europe, Africa, and American Colonization, 1492-1680
2. Servitude, Slavery and the Growth of the Southern Colonies, 1640-1760
3. Family Labor and the Growth of the Northern Colonies, 1640-1760
4. Towards Revolution, 1750-1776
5. Revolution, Constitution, and the People, 1776-1815

Part Two: Free Labor and Slavery, 1790-1860
6. The Consolidation of Slavery in the South, 1790-1836
7. Northern Society and the Growth of Wage Labor, 1790-1837
8. Immigration, Urban Life, and Social Reform in the Free-Labor North, 1838-1860
9. The Spread of Slavery and the Crisis of Southern Society, 1836-1848

Part Three: War, Reconstruction,and Labor, 1848-1877
10. The Settlement of the West and the Conflict over Slave Labor, 1848-1860
11. The Civil War: America’s Second Revolution, 1861-1865
12. Reconstructing the Nation, 1865-1877
13. New Frontiers: Westward Expansion and Industrial Growth, 1865-1877