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The First Civilizations of North America | |
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An American Story: The Power of a Hidden Past | |
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A Continent of Cultures | |
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A Cultures of Ancient Mexico | |
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Daily Lives: Play Ball | |
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Cultures of the Southwest | |
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Cultures of the Eastern Woodlands | |
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Cultures of the Great Plains | |
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Cultures of the Great Basin | |
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Cultures of the Pacific Northwest | |
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Cultures of the Subarctic and Arctic | |
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Innovations and Limitations | |
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America's Agricultural Gifts | |
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Landscapers | |
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The Shape of a Problem | |
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Historian's Toolbox: An Ancient Calendar | |
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Animals and Illness | |
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Crisis and Transformation | |
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Enduring Cultures | |
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North America on the Eve of Contact | |
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Dueling Documents: How Many People Lived in Hispaniola in 1492? | |
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Review Chart: A Continent of Cultures | |
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Conclusion: The World At Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Tracking the First Americans | |
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Old Worlds, New Worlds, 1400-1600 | |
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An American Story: Fishing Nets and Far Horizons | |
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Eurasia and Africa in the Fifteenth Century | |
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Europe's Place in the World | |
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Historian's Toolbox: A Witch Bottle | |
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Africa and the Portuguese Wave | |
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Sugar and the Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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Spain in the Americas | |
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The Spanish Beachhead in the Caribbean | |
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Daily Lives: "Barbaric Dress"--Indian and European | |
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Conquest of the Aztecs | |
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Dueling Documents: How Did Spaniards and Aztecs Remember First Contact? | |
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The Columbian Exchange | |
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The Crown Steps In | |
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The Search for North America's Indian Empires | |
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Religious Reform Divides Europe | |
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The Teachings of Martin Luther | |
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The Contribution of John Calvin | |
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French Huguenots and the Birth of Spanish Florida | |
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The English Reformation | |
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England's Entry into America | |
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The Ambitions of Gilbert, Raleigh, and Wingina | |
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A Second Roanoke--and Croatoan | |
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Review Chart: European Explorations | |
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Conclusion: The World At Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Colonization and Conflict in the South, 1600-1750 | |
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An American Story: Outlandish Strangers | |
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Spain's North American Colonies | |
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The Founding of a "New" Mexico | |
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The Growth of Spanish Florida | |
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Pope and the Pueblo Revolt | |
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Dueling Documents: What Caused the Pueblo Revolt? | |
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English Society on the Chesapeake | |
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The Virginia Company | |
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Reform and a Boom in Tobacco | |
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The Founding of Maryland and the Renewal of Indian Wars | |
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Changes in English Policy in the Chesapeake | |
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Chesapeake Society in Crisis | |
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Bacon's Rebellion and Coode's Rebellion | |
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From Servitude to Slavery | |
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Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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Historian's Toolbox: Hip Mask from Benin | |
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A Changing Chesapeake Society | |
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From the Caribbean to the Carolinas | |
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Paradise Lost | |
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Daily Lives: A Taste for Sugar | |
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The Founding of the Carolinas | |
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Carolina, Florida, and the Southeastern Slave Wars | |
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White, Red, and Black: The Search for Order | |
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The Founding of Georgia | |
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Review Chart: Southern Colonies | |
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Conclusion: The World At Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Colonization and Conflict in the North, 1600-1700 | |
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An American Story: Bears on Floating Islands | |
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France in North America | |
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The Origins of New France | |
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New Netherlands, the Iroquois, and the Beaver Wars | |
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The Lure of the Mississippi | |
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Historian's Toolbox: A French Map | |
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The Founding of New England | |
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The Puritan Movement | |
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The Pilgrim Settlement of Plymouth Colony | |
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The Puritan Settlement at Massachusetts Bay | |
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Stability and Order in Early New England | |
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Communities in Conflict | |
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Goodwives and Witches | |
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Daily Lives: A World of Wonders and Witchcraft | |
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Dueling Documents: Accusations and Defenses in the Salem Witchcraft Trials | |
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The People in the Way | |
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Metacom's War | |
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The Mid-Atlantic Colonies | |
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English Rule in New York | |
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The Founding of New Jersey | |
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Quaker Odysseys | |
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Patterns of Growth | |
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Quakers and Politics | |
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Adjustment to Empire | |
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The Dominion of New England | |
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Royal Authority in America in 1700 | |
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Review Chart: Northern Colonies | |
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Conclusion: The World At Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America, 1689-1768 | |
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An American Story: The Tale of a Tattooed Traveler | |
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Crisis and Transformation in Northern New Spain | |
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Defensive Expansion into Texas | |
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Crisis and Rebirth in New Mexico | |
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Spanish California | |
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Dueling Documents: The Founders of Spanish California | |
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Women and the Law in New Spain and British North America | |
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Eighteenth-Century New France | |
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Colonial Compromise | |
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France on the Gulf Coast | |
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Slavery and Colonial Society in French Louisiana | |
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Forces of Division in British North America | |
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Immigration and Natural Increase | |
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Daily Lives: Transatlantic Trials | |
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Moving into the Backcountry | |
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Social Conflict on the Frontier | |
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Eighteenth-Century Seaports | |
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Historian's Toolbox: A Woman's Cupboard | |
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Social Tension in Seaports | |
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Slave Societies in the Eighteenth-Century South | |
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The Slave Family and Community | |
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Slavery and Colonial Society in French Louisiana | |
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Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century British | |
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North America | |
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Enlightenment and Awakening in America | |
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The Enlightenment in America | |
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The First Great Awakening | |
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The Aftermath of the Great Awakening | |
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Anglo-American Worlds of the Eighteenth Century | |
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English Economic and Social Development | |
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The Consumer Revolution | |
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Inequality in England and America | |
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Politics in England and America | |
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The Imperial System Before 1760 | |
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Review Chart: Eighteenth-Century North America | |
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Conclusion: The World At Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Toward the War for American Independence, 1754-1776 | |
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An American Story: The General, the Trader, and the Missing Allies | |
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The Seven Years' War | |
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Origins | |
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Years of Defeat | |
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A Shift in Policy | |
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Years of Victory | |
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Historian's Toolbox: John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark | |
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Postwar Expectations | |
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The Imperial Crisis | |
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Pontiac's Rebellion | |
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George Grenville's New Measures | |
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The Beginning of Colonial Resistance | |
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Riots and Resolves | |
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Repeal of the Stamp Act | |
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The Townshend Acts | |
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The Resistance Organizes | |
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Daily Lives: Street Theater | |
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The International Sons of Liberty | |
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The Boston Massacre | |
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Dueling Documents: Who Was to Blame for the Boston Massacre? | |
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Resistance Revived | |
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The Empire Strikes Back | |
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Toward the Revolution | |
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The First Continental Congress | |
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The Last Days of the British Empire in America | |
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The Fighting Begins | |
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Common Sense | |
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Review Chart: Parliament and The Road To Revolution | |
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Conclusion: The World At Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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The American People: The American Revolution, 1775-1783 | |
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An American Story: "Will He Fight?" | |
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The Decision for Independence | |
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The Second Continental Congress | |
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The Declaration | |
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Dueling Documents: Abigail and John Adams Spar on Women's Rights | |
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American Loyalists | |
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The Fighting in the North | |
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The Two Armies at Bay | |
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Daily Lives: Radical Chic and Revolutionary Women | |
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Laying Strategies | |
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Capturing Philadelphia | |
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Disaster at Saratoga | |
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The Turning Point | |
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The American Revolution Becomes a Global War | |
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Winding Down the War in the North | |
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War in the West | |
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The Home Front in the North | |
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The Struggle in the South | |
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The Siege of Charleston | |
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The Partisan Struggle in the South | |
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Greene Takes Command | |
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African Americans in the Age of Revolution | |
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Historian's Toolbox: Runaways | |
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The World Turned Upside Down | |
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Surrender at Yorktown | |
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Review Chart: British and American Forces Compared | |
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Conclusion: The World At Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Crisis and Constitution, 1776-1789 | |
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An American Story: "These United States" | |
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Republican Experiments | |
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The State Constitutions | |
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From Congress to Confederation | |
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The Temptations of Peace | |
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The Temptations of the West | |
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Foreign Intrigues | |
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Disputes among the States | |
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The More Democratic West | |
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The Northwest Territory | |
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Slavery and Sectionalism | |
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Wartime Economic Disruption | |
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Republican Society | |
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The New Men of the Revolution | |
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The New Women of the Revolution | |
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Historian's Toolbox: A Woman's Compass | |
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Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication | |
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Republican Motherhood and Education | |
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The Attack on Aristocracy | |
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Daily Lives: The Spirits of Independence | |
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From Confederation to Constitutions | |
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The Jay-Gardoqui Treaty | |
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Shays's Rebellion | |
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Framing a Federal Constitution | |
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The Virginia and New Jersey Plans | |
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The Deadlock Broken | |
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Ratification | |
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Dueling Documents: Republican Remedy? | |
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Review Chart: Crises of The 1780s--and Consequences | |
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Conclusion: The World At Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: White and Black Southerners Worshiping Together | |
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The Early Republic, 1789-1824 | |
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An American Story: "I Felt Myself Mad with Passion" | |
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1789: A Social and Political Portrait of the New Republic | |
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Semisubsistence and Commercial Economies | |
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The Constitution and Commerce | |
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Washington Organizes the Government | |
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Hamilton's Financial Program | |
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The Emergence of Political Parties | |
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Americans and the French Revolution | |
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Washington's Neutral Course | |
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The Federalists and the Republicans Organize | |
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The 1796 Election | |
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Federalist and Republican Ideologies | |
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The Presidency of John Adams | |
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Suppression at Home | |
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The Election of 1800 | |
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John Marshall and Judicial Review | |
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The Political Culture of the Early Republic | |
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African-American Celebrations | |
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Women's Education and Civic Participation | |
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Dueling Documents: Can This Marriage Be Saved? | |
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The Republicans in Power | |
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The New Capital City | |
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Jefferson's Philosophy | |
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Jefferson's Economic Policies | |
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The Miami Confederacy Resists | |
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Doubling the Size of the Nation | |
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Pressure on Indian Lands and Culture | |
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White Frontier Society | |
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The Beginnings of the Second Great Awakening | |
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Daily Lives: The Frontier Camp Meeting | |
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The Prophet, Tecumseh, and the Pan-Indian Movement | |
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The Second War for American Independence | |
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The Barbary Pirates and Cultural Identities | |
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The Embargo | |
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Madison and the Young Republicans | |
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The Decision for War | |
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The British Invasion | |
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Monroe's Presidency | |
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Historian's Toolbox: Remembering Lafayette | |
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Review Chart: Federalists and Republicans | |
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Conclusion: The World At Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson | |
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The Opening of America, 1815-1850 | |
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An American Story: From Boom to Bust with One-Day Clocks | |
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The National Market Economy | |
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The New Nationalism | |
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The Cotton Trade | |
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The Transportation Revolution | |
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Daily Lives: Floating Palaces of the West | |
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The Communications Revolution | |
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The Transformation of Agriculture | |
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John Marshall and the Promotion of Enterprise | |
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A People in Motion | |
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Population Growth | |
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Geographic Mobility | |
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Urbanization | |
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The Rise of Factories | |
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Technological Advances | |
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Textile Factories | |
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Lowell and the Environment | |
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Industrial Work | |
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The Labor Movement | |
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Sam Patch and a Worker's "Art" | |
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Social Structures of the Market Society | |
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Household Production and Consumption | |
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Dueling Documents: The Market and Equality: He Said, She Said | |
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The Emerging Middle Class | |
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The Distribution of Wealth | |
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Social Mobility | |
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A New Sensitivity to Time | |
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Historian's Toolbox: The Clock's Two Faces | |
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The Market at Work: Three Examples | |
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Prosperity and Anxiety | |
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The Panic of 1819 | |
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Review Chart: Early Industrialization in The North | |
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Conclusion: The World at Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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The Rise of Democracy, 1824-1840 | |
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An American Story: "Wanted: Curling Tongs, Cologne, and Silk Stockings ..." | |
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Equality, Opportunity, and the New Political Culture of Democracy | |
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The Tension between Equality and Opportunity | |
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Daily Lives: The Plain Dark Democracy of Broadcloth | |
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The New Political Culture of Democracy | |
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The Election of 1824 | |
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Social Sources of the New Politics | |
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The Acceptance of Parties | |
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The Politics of the Common Man | |
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Jackson's Rise to Power | |
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John Quincy Adam's Presidency | |
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President of the People | |
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The Political Agenda in the Market Economy | |
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Democracy and Race | |
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Accommodate or Resist? | |
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Trail of Tears | |
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Removal and Epidemics in the West | |
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Free Blacks in the North | |
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Dueling Documents: African Colonization: Hoping for the Best and Suspecting the Worst | |
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The African American Community | |
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Racism Strikes a Deeper Root | |
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The Nullification Crisis | |
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The Growing Crisis in South Carolina | |
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Calhoun's Theory of Nullification | |
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The Nullifiers Nullified | |
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The Bank War | |
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The National Bank and the Panic of 1819 | |
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Biddle's Bank | |
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The Clash between Jackson and Biddle | |
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Historian's Toolbox: Biddle and Jackson Take the Gloves Off | |
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The Bank Destroyed | |
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Jackson's Impact on the Presidency | |
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Van Buren and Depression | |
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"Van Ruin's" Depression | |
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The Whigs' Triumph | |
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The Jacksonian Party System | |
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Democrats, Whigs, and the Market | |
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The Social Bases of the Two Parties | |
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Review Chart: Winners and Losers in Jacksonian America | |
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Conclusion: The World at Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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The Fires of Perfection, 1820-1850 | |
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An American Story: The Beechers and the Kingdom of God | |
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The Transformation of American Evangelism | |
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Charles Grandison Finney and Modern Revivalism | |
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The Appeal of Evangelism | |
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Dueling Documents: Pleas for and Against Foreign Missions | |
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The Significance of the Second Great Awakening | |
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Revivalism and the Social Order | |
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The Temperance Movement | |
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The Ideals of Women and the Family | |
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The Middle Class Family in Transition | |
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Daily Lives: Privacy Begins at Home | |
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Protestants and Catholics | |
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Historian's Toolbox: The Printer's Angel | |
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Visionaries | |
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The Unitarian Contribution | |
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From Unitarianism to Transcendentalism | |
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The American Renaissance | |
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Secular Utopian Communities | |
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Religious Utopian Communities | |
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The Mormon Experience | |
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Radical Reform | |
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The Beginnings of the Abolitionist Movement | |
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The Spread of Abolitionism | |
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Opponents and Divisions | |
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The Women's Rights Movement | |
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The Schism of 1840 | |
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Reform Shakes the Party System | |
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The Turn Toward Politics | |
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The Maine Law | |
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Abolitionism and the Party System | |
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Review Chart: Varieties of Antebellum Reform | |
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Conclusion: The World at Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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The Old South, 1820-1860 | |
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An American Story: Where Is the Real South? | |
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The Social Structure of the Cotton Kingdom | |
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The Boom Country Economy | |
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The Upper South's New Orientation | |
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The Rural South | |
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Distribution of Slavery | |
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Slavery as a Labor System | |
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Class Structure of the White South | |
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The Slaveowners | |
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Tidewater and Frontier | |
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The Master at Home | |
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The Plantation Mistress | |
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Dueling Documents: Mistresses and House Servants | |
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Yeoman Farmers | |
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Poor Whites | |
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The Peculiar Institution | |
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Work and Discipline | |
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Slave Maintenance | |
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Daily Lives: A Slave's Daily Bread Resistance | |
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Slave Culture | |
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The Slave Family | |
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Slave Songs and Stories | |
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Steal Away to Jesus | |
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The Slave Community | |
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Free Black Southerners | |
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Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery | |
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The Virginia Debate of 1832 | |
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The Proslavery Argument | |
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Historian's Toolbox: George Washington, Slaveholder Closing Ranks | |
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Review Chart: Pivotal Moments For The Old South | |
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Conclusion: The World at Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Western Expansion and the Rise of Slavery, 1820-1850 | |
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An American Story: Strangers on the Great Plains | |
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Manifest (and Not So Manifest) Destiny | |
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The Roots of the Doctrine | |
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The Mexican Borderlands | |
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The Texas Revolution | |
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The Texas Republic | |
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The Trek West | |
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The Overland Trail | |
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Women on the Overland Trail | |
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Indians and the Trail Experience | |
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Daily Lives: Seeing the Elephant on the Overland Trail | |
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The Political Origins of Expansion | |
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Tyler's Texas Ploy | |
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Van Overboard | |
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To the Pacific | |
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Provoking a War | |
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Indians and Mexicans | |
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Historian's Toolbox: Set'an Annual Calendar of the Kiowa | |
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Opposition to the War | |
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Dueling Documents: In What Country Did the U.S.-Mexican War Begin? | |
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The Price of Victory | |
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The Rise of the Slavery Issue | |
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New Societies in the West | |
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Farming in the West | |
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The Gold Rush | |
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Instant City: San Francisco | |
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The Migration from China | |
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The Mormons in Utah | |
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Temple City: Salt Lake City | |
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Shadows on the Moving Frontier | |
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Escape from Crisis | |
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A Two-Faced Campaign | |
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The Compromise of 1850 | |
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Away from the Brink | |
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Review Chart: Territorial Transformations in The American West, 1819-1850 | |
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Conclusion: The World at Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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The Union Broken, 1850-1861 | |
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An American Story: The Sacking of a Town in Kansas | |
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Sectional Changes in American Society | |
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The Growth of a Railroad Economy | |
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Historian's Toolbox: Brandied Cherries and Buttons | |
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Railroads and the Prairie Environment | |
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Railroads and the Urban Environment | |
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Rising Industrialization | |
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Immigration | |
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Southern Complaints | |
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The Political Realignment of the 1850s | |
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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The Collapse of the Second American Party System | |
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The Know-Nothings | |
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The Republicans and Bleeding Kansas | |
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Daily Lives: Uncle Tom by Footlights | |
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The Caning of Charles Sumner | |
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The Election of 1856 | |
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The Worsening Crisis | |
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The Dred Scott Decision | |
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The Panic of 1857 | |
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The Lecompton Constitution | |
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
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The Beleaguered South | |
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The Road to War | |
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A Sectional Election | |
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Secession | |
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The Outbreak of War | |
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Dueling Documents: Slavery and Secession | |
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The Roots of a Divided Society | |
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Review Chart: The Road to Disunion | |
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Conclusion: The World at Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Total War and the Republic, 1861-1865 | |
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An American Story: The Rout at Bull Run | |
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Opening Moves | |
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Political Leadership | |
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The Border States | |
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Blockade and Isolate | |
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Grant in the West | |
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Eastern Stalement | |
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Emancipation | |
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The Logic of Events | |
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The Emancipation Proclamation | |
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African Americans' Civil War | |
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Black Soldiers | |
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The Confederate Home Front | |
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The New Economy | |
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New Opportunities for Southern Women | |
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Confederate Finance and Government | |
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Hardship and Suffering | |
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The Union Home Front | |
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Government Finances and the Economy | |
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Historian's Toolbox: Face Value? | |
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A Rich Man's War | |
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Women and the Workforce | |
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Civil Liberties and Dissent | |
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Gone to Be a Soldier | |
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Discipline | |
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Camp Life | |
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Daily Lives: Hardtack, Salt Horse, and Coffee | |
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The Changing Face of Battle | |
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Hardening Attitudes | |
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The Union's Triumph | |
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Confederate High Tide | |
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Lincoln Finds His General | |
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Dueling Documents: Invaders and Defenders | |
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War in the Balance | |
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The Twilight of the Confederacy | |
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Review Chart: Pivot Points Along The Union's Road to Victory | |
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Conclusion: The World at Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |
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After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: What Caused the New York Draft Riot? | |
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Reconstructing the Union, 1865-1877 | |
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An American Story: The Secret Sale at Davis Bend | |
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Presidential Reconstruction | |
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Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan | |
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The Mood of the South | |
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Johnson's Program of Reconstruction | |
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The Failure of Johnson's Program | |
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Johnson's Break with Congress | |
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Dueling Documents: Equality and the Vote in Reconstruction | |
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The Fourteenth Amendment | |
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The Elections of 1866 | |
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Congressional Reconstruction | |
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Post-Emancipation Societies in the Americas | |
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The Land Issue | |
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Impeachment | |
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Reconstruction in the South | |
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Black Office Holding | |
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White Republicans in the South | |
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The New State Governments | |
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Economic Issues and Corruption | |
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Black Aspirations | |
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Experiencing Freedom | |
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The Black Family | |
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Daily Lives: The Black Sharecropper's Cabin | |
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The Schoolhouse and the Church | |
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New Working Conditions | |
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The Freedmen's Bureau | |
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Planters and a New Way of Life | |
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The Abandonment of Reconstruction | |
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The Election of Grant | |
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The Grant Administration | |
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Growing Northern Disillusionment | |
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The Triumph of White Supremacy | |
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Historian's Toolbox: Dressed to Kill | |
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The Disputed Election of 1876 | |
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The Failure of Reconstruction | |
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Review Chart: Major Players in Reconstruction | |
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Conclusion: The World at Large | |
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Significant Events Timeline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Additional Reading | |