Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Maps ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction xiii
6. Part One. The Early Americanstate System
7. 1. Congress and the States: Conflict Resolution in the New Nation 3
8. 2. From Colony to Territory: Changing Concepts of Statehood 21
9. Part Two. State Making
10. 3. State and Citizen: Settlers Against the Pennsylvania Charter 49
11. 4. Virginia and the West 75
12. 5. An Unbounded State: New York, Vermont, and the Western Lands 103
13. 6. The New State of Vermont: Revolution Within a 127
14. Part Three. Origins of the Federal Republic
15. 7. New States and the New Nation: American Territorial Policy in the "Critical Period" 149
16. 8. Constitutional Crisis 173
17. 9. Making a "Miracle": The Reconstitution of American Politics 186
18. Notes 211
19. Index 275