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| Maps, Figures, and Tables | |
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| A Note to My Fellow Teachers | |
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| A Personal Welcome to Students | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Supplements | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| New World Encounters, Preconquest-1608 | |
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| Diverse Cultures: De Vaca's Journey Through Native America | |
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| Native Americans Before the Conquest | |
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| Conditions of Conquest | |
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| West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies | |
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| Europe on the Eve of Conquest | |
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| Spain in the Americas | |
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| The French Claim Canada | |
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| The English Take Up the Challenge | |
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| Conclusion: Campaign to Sell America | |
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| England's New World Experiments 1607-1732 | |
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| Profit and Piety: Competing Visions for English Settlement | |
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| Breaking Away: Decisions to Move to America | |
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| A "New" England in America | |
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| Diversity in the Middle Colonies | |
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| Planting the Southern Colonies | |
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| Conclusion: Living with Diversity | |
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| Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society, 1619-1692 | |
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| Families in an Atlantic Empire | |
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| Social Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century | |
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| The Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment | |
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| Race and Freedom in British America | |
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| Blueprint for Empire | |
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| Colonial Political Revolt | |
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| Conclusion: Foundations of an Atlantic Empire | |
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| Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America, 1680-1763 | |
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| Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: the Journal of William Byrd | |
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| Tensions in the Backcountry | |
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| Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture | |
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| Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies | |
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| Clash of Political Cultures | |
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| Century of Imperial War | |
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| Conclusion: Rule Britannia? | |
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| The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783 | |
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| Moment of Decision: Commitment and Sacrifice | |
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| Structure of Colonial Society | |
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| Eroding the Bonds of Empire | |
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| Steps Toward Independence | |
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| Fighting for Independence | |
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| Conclusion: Preserving Independence | |
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| The Republican Experiment, 1783-1788 | |
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| A New Political Morality | |
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| Defining Republican Culture | |
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| Stumbling Toward a New National Government | |
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| "Have We Fought for This?" | |
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| Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification | |
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| Conclusion: Success Depends on the People | |
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| Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800 | |
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| Force of Public Opinion | |
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| Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government | |
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| Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security | |
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| Charges of Treason: the Battle over Foreign Affairs | |
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| Popular Political Culture | |
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| The Adams Presidency: Politics of Mistrust | |
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| Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism | |
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| Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision, 1800-1814 | |
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| Limits of Equality | |
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| The Republic Expands | |
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| Jefferson as President | |
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| Race and Dissent Under Jefferson | |
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| Embarrassments Overseas | |
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| The Strange War of 1812 | |
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| Conclusion: the "Second War of Independence." | |
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| Nation Building and Nationalism, 1815-1825 | |
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| A Revolutionary War Hero Revisits America in 1824 | |
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| Expansion and Migration | |
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| Transportation and the Market Economy | |
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| The Politics of Nation Building after the War of 1812 | |
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| Conclusion: the End of the Era of Good Feeling | |
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| The Triumph of White Men's Democracy, 1824-1840 | |
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| Democratic Space: the New Hotels | |
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| Democracy in Theory and Practice | |
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| Jackson and the Politics of Democracy | |
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| The Bank War and the Second Party System | |
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| Heyday of the Second Party System | |
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| Conclusion: Tocqueville's Wisdom | |
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| Slaves and Masters, 1793-1861 | |
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| Nat Turner's Rebellion: A Turning Point in the Slave South | |
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| The World of Southern Blacks | |
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| White Society in the Antebellum South | |
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| Slavery and the Southern Economy | |
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| Conclusion: Worlds in Conflict | |
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| The Pursuit of Perfection, 1800-1861 | |
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| Redeeming the Middle Class | |
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| The Rise of Evangelicalism | |
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| Domesticity and Changes in the American Family | |
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| Reform Turns Radical | |
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| Conclusion: Counterpoint on Reform | |
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| An Age of Expansionism, 1830-1861 | |
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| The Spirit of Young America | |
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| Texas, Manifest Destiny, and the Mexican-American War | |
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| Internal Expansionism and the Industrial Revolution | |
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| Conclusion: the Costs of Expansion | |
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| The Sectional Crisis, 1846-1861 | |
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| Brooks Assaults Sumner in Congress | |
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| The Compromise of 1850 | |
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| Political Upheaval, 1852-1856 | |
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| The House Divided, 1857-1860 | |
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| Conclusion: Explaining the Crisis | |
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| Secession and The Civil War, 1860-1865 | |
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| The Emergence of Lincoln | |
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| The Storm Gathers | |
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| Adjusting to Total War | |
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| Fight to the Finish | |
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| Effects of the War | |
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| Conclusion: An Organizational Revolution | |
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| The Agony of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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| Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction | |
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| The President versus Congress | |
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| Reconstructing Southern Society | |
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| Retreat from Reconstruction | |
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| Reunion and the New South | |
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| Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished Revolution." | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |