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(NOTE: Volume I includes Chapters 1-18 and Volume II includes Chapters 18-33.)(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Conclusion, Review Questions, Recommended Reading, Where to Learn More, and Web Resources.) | |
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Worlds Apart | |
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Different Worlds | |
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Contact | |
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Competition for a Continent | |
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Transplantation, 1600-1685 | |
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The French in North America | |
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English Settlement in the Chesapeake | |
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The Founding of New England | |
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The English in the Caribbean | |
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The Proprietary Colonies | |
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The Creation of New Worlds | |
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Indians and Europeans | |
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Africans and Europeans | |
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Non-Slave Labor in Early America | |
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Convergence and Conflict | |
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Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies | |
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The Transformation of Culture | |
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The Colonial Political World | |
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Expanding Empires | |
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A Century of Warfare | |
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Imperial Breakdown, 1763-1774 | |
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Imperial Reorganization | |
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American Reactions | |
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The Aftermath of Crisis | |
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The Townshend Crisis | |
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The Road to Revolution | |
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The War for Independence, 1774-1783 | |
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The Outbreak of War and the Declaration of Independence, 1774-1776 | |
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The Combatants | |
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The War in the North, 1776-1777 | |
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The War Widens, 1778-1781 | |
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The American Victory, 1782-1783 | |
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War and Society, 1775-1783 | |
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The First Republic, 1776-1789 | |
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The New Order of Republicanism | |
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Problems at Home | |
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Diplomatic Weaknesses | |
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Toward a New Union | |
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A New Republic and the Rise of Parties, 1789-1800 | |
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Washington''s America | |
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Forging a New Government | |
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The Emergence of Parties | |
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The Last Federalist Administration | |
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The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800-1824 | |
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Jefferson''s Presidency | |
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Madison and the Coming of War | |
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The War of 1812 | |
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The Era of Good Feelings | |
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The Breakdown of Unity | |
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The Jacksonian Era, 1824-1845 | |
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The Egalitarian Impulse | |
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Jackson''s Presidency | |
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Van Buren and Hard Times | |
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The Rise of the Whig Party | |
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The Whigs in Power | |
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Slavery and the Old South, 1800-1860 | |
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The Lower South | |
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The Upper South | |
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Slave Life and Culture | |
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Free Society | |
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The Proslavery Argument | |
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The Market Revolution and Social Reform, 1815-1850 | |
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The Way West, 1815-1850 | |
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The Agricultural Frontier | |
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The Frontier of the Plains Indians | |
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The Mexican Borderlands | |
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Politics, Expansion, and War | |
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The Politics of Sectionalism, 1846-1861 | |
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Slavery in the Territories | |
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Political Realignment | |
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The Road to Disunion | |
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Battle Cries and Freedom Songs: The Civil War, 1861-1863 | |
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Mobilization, North and South | |
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The Early War, 1861-1862 | |
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Turning Points, 1862-1863 | |
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Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | |
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White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865 | |
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More Than Freedom: African-American Aspirations in 1865 | |
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Federal Reconstruction, 1865-1870 | |
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Counter-Reconstruction, 1870-1874 | |
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Redemption, 1874-1877 | |
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The Failure of Reconstruction | |
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A New South, 1877-1900 | |
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The Newness of the New South | |
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The Southern Agrarian Revolt | |
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Women in the New South | |
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Settling the Race Issue | |
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Industry, Immigrants, and Cities, 1870-1900 | |
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New Industry | |
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New Immigrants | |
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New Cities | |
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Transforming the West, 1865-1890 | |
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Native Americans | |
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Exploiting the Mountains: The Mining Bonanza | |
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Exploiting the Grass: The Cattle Kingdom | |
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Exploiting the Earth: The Expansion of Agriculture | |
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Politics and Government, 1877-1900 | |
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The Structure and Style of Politics | |
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The Limits of Government | |
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Public Policies and National Elections | |
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The Crisis of the 1890s | |
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The Progressive Era, 1900-1917 | |
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The Ferment of Reform | |
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Reforming Society | |
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Reforming Politics and Government | |
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Roosevelt and the Progressive Presidency | |
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Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Reform | |
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Creating an Empire, 1865-1917 | |
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The Roots of Imperialism | |
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First Steps | |
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The Spanish-American War | |
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Imperial Ambitions: The United States and East Asia, 1899-1917 | |
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Imperial Power: The United States and Latin America, 1899-1917 | |
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America and the Great War, 1914-1920 | |
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Waging Neutrality | |
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Waging War in America | |
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Waging War and Peace Abroad | |
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Waging Peace at Home | |
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Toward a Modern America: The 1920s | |
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The Economy that Roared | |
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The Business of Government | |
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Cities and Suburbs | |
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Mass Culture in the Jazz Age | |
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Culture Wars | |
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A New Era in the World? | |
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Herbert Hoover and the Final Triumph of the New Era | |
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The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939 | |
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Hard Times in Hooverville | |
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Herbert Hoover and the Depression | |
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Launching the New Deal | |
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Consolidating the New Deal | |
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The New Deal and American Life | |
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Ebbing of the New Deal | |
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World War II, 1939-1945 | |
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The Dilemmas of Neutrality | |
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Holding the Line | |
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Mobilizing the Home Front | |
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War and Peace | |
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The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1946-1952 | |
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Launching the Great Boom | |
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Truman, Republicans, and the Fair Deal | |
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Confronting the Soviet Union | |
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Cold War and Hot War | |
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The Second Red Scare | |
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The Confident Years, 1953-1964 | |
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A Decade of Affluence | |
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Facing Off with the Soviet Union | |
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John F. Kennedy and the Cold War | |
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Righteousness Like a Mighty Stream: The Struggle for Civil Rights | |
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ldquo;Let Us Continue.rdquo; | |
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Shaken to the Roots, 1965-1980 | |
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The End of Consensus | |
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The Year of the Gun, 1968 | |
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Nixon and Watergate | |
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Jimmy Carter: Idealism and Frustration in the White House | |
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The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World | |
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Complacency and Crisis, 1993-2003 | |
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Appendix | |
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Glossary | |
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Photo Credits | |
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Index | |