TY - BOOK AU - Tindall, George B TI - Essential America SN - 9780393976243 U1 - 973 TIN PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - W. W. Norton & Company KW - American economics N1 - New world: Discovery and settlement; Colonial ways of life; Imperial perspective; From empire to independence -- Building a nation: American Revolution; Shaping a federal union; Federalists, Washington and Adams; Republicanism, Jefferson and Madison; Nationalism and sectionalism -- Expansive nation: Jacksonian impulse; Dynamics of growth; American renaissance, religion, romanticism, and reform; Manifest destiny -- House divided and rebuilt: Old South, an American tragedy; Crisis of Union; War of the Union; Reconstruction, North and South -- Appendixes: The Declaration of Independence; Articles of Confederation; Constitution of the United States; Presidential Elections; Admission of States; Population of the United States; Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-1998; Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-1998; Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State ER -