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| Prologue: Beginnings | |
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| Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas | |
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| American Society in the Making | |
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| America in the British Empire | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant | |
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| Jeffersonian Democracy | |
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| National Growing Pains | |
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| Toward a National Economy | |
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| Jacksonian Democracy | |
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| The Making of Middle-Class America | |
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| Westward Expansion | |
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| The Sections Go Their Own Ways | |
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| The Coming of the Civil War | |
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| The War to Save the Union | |
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| Reconstruction and the South | |
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| Comprehensive Table of Contents | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Prologue: Beginnings | |
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| Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas | |
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| Columbus's Great Triumph and Error | |
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| Spain's American Empire | |
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| Extending Spain's Empire to the North | |
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| Disease and Population Losses | |
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| Ecological Imperialism | |
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| The Protestant Reformation | |
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| English Beginnings in America | |
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| The Settlement of Virginia | |
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| "Purifying" the Church of England | |
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| Bradford and Plymouth Colony | |
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| Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony | |
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| Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson | |
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| Other New England Colonies | |
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| Pequot War and King Philip's War | |
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| Maryland and the Carolinas | |
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| French and Dutch Settlements | |
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| The Middle Colonies | |
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| Cultural Collisions | |
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| Cultural Fusions | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST How Many Indians Perished with European Settlement? | |
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| RE-VIEWING THE PAST Black Robe | |
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| American Society in the Making | |
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| Settlement of New France | |
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| Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California | |
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| The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seabord | |
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| The Chesapeake Colonies | |
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| The Lure of Land | |
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| "Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery | |
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| Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco | |
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| Bacon's Rebellion | |
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| The Carolinas | |
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| Home and Family in the South | |
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| Georgia and the Back Country | |
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| Puritan New England | |
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| The Puritan Family | |
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| Visable Puritan Saints and Others | |
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| Democracies without Democrats | |
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| The Dominion of New England | |
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| Salem Bewitched | |
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| Higher Education in New England | |
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| A Merchant's World | |
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| The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis | |
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| The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples | |
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| "The Best Poor Man's Country" | |
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| The Politics of Diversity | |
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| Becoming Americans | |
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| RE-VIEWING THE PAST the Crucible | |
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| America in the British Empire | |
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| The British Colonial System | |
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| Mercantilism | |
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| The Navigation Acts | |
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| The Effects of Mercantilism | |
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| The Great Awakening | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards | |
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| The Enlightenment in America | |
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| Colonial Scientific Achievements | |
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| Repercussions of Distant Wars | |
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| The Great War for the Empire | |
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| Britain Victorious: the Peace of Paris | |
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| Burdens of an Expanded Empire | |
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| Tightening Imperial Controls | |
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| The Sugar Act | |
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| American Colonists Demand Rights | |
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| The Stamp Act: the Pot Set to Boiling | |
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| Rioters or Rebels? | |
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| The Declaratory Act | |
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| The Townshend Duties | |
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| The Boston Massacre | |
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| The Boiling Pot Spills Over | |
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| The Tea Act Crisis | |
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| From Resistance to Revolution | |
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| AMERICAN LIVES Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST Do Artists Depict Historical Subjects Accurately? | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| The Shot Heard Round the World | |
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| The Second Continental Congress | |
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| The Battle of Bunker Hill | |
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| The Great Declaration | |
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| 1776: the Balance of Forces | |
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| Loyalists | |
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| The British Take New York City | |
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| Saratoga and the French Alliance | |
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| The War Moves South | |
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| Victory at Yorktown | |
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| Negotiating a Favorable Peace | |
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| National Government under the Articles of Confederation | |
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| Financing the War | |
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| State Republican Governments | |
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| Social Reform and Antislavery | |
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| Women and the Revolution | |
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| Growth of a National Spirit | |
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| The Great Land Ordinances | |
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| National Heroes | |
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| A National Culture | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST Was the American Revolution Rooted in Class Struggle? | |
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| RE-VIEWING THE PAST the Patriot | |
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| The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant | |
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| Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation | |
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| Daniel Shays's "Little Rebellion" | |
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| To Philadelphia, and the Constitution | |
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| The Great Convention | |
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| The Compromises that Produced the Constitution | |
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| Washington as President | |
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| Congress under Way | |
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| Hamilton and Financial Reform | |
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| The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground | |
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| Revolution in France | |
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| Federalists and Republicans: the Rise of Political Parities | |
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| 1794 | |
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| Jay's Treaty | |
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| 1795 | |
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| Washington's Farewell | |
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| The Election of 1796 | |
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| The XYZ Affair | |
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| The Alien and Sedition Acts | |
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| The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves | |
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| MAPPING THE PAST Radical Frontiersmen vs. Conservative Easterners in the 1780s | |
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| Jeffersonian Democracy | |
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| Jefferson Elected President | |
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| The Federalist Contribution | |
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| Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist | |
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| Jefferson as President | |
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| Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary | |
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| The Barbary Pirates | |
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| The Louisiana Purchase | |
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| The Federalists Discredited | |
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| Lewis and Clark | |
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| The Burr Conspiracy | |
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| Napoleon and the British | |
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| The Impressment Controversy | |
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| The Embargo Act | |
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| Jeffersonian Democracy | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST Did Thomas Jefferson Father a Child by His Slave? | |
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| MAPPING THE PAST A Water Route to the Pacific? | |
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| National Growing Pains | |
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| Madison in Power | |
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| Tecumseh and Indian Resistance | |
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| Depression and Land Hunger | |
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| Opponents of War | |
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| The War of 1812 | |
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| Britain Assumes the Offensive | |
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| "The Star Spangled Banner" | |
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| The Treaty of Ghent | |
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| The Hartford Convention | |
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| The Battle of New Orleans and the End of the War | |
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| Anglo-American Rapprochement | |
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| The Transcontinental Treaty | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine | |
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| The Era of Good Feelings | |
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| New Sectional Issues | |
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| New Leaders | |
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| The Missouri Compromise | |
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| Election of 1824 | |
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| John Quincy Adams as President | |
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| Calhoun's Exposition and Protest | |
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| The Meaning of Sectionalism | |
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| MAPPING THE PAST North-South Sectionalism Intensifies | |
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| Toward a National Economy | |
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| Gentility and the Consumer Revolution | |
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| Birth of the Factory | |
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| An Industrial Proletariat? | |
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| Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers | |
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| Irish and German Immigrants | |
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| The Persistence of the Household System | |
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| Rise of Corporations | |
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| Cotton Revolutionizes the South | |
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| Revival of Slavery | |
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| Roads to Market | |
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| Transportation and the Government | |
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| Development of Steamboats | |
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| The Canal Boom | |
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| New York City: Emporium of the Western World | |
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| The Marshall Court | |
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| MAPPING THE PAST the Making of the Working Class | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST Was There a "Market Revolution" in the Early 1800s? | |
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| Jacksonian Democracy | |
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| "Democratizing" Politics | |
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| 1828 | |
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| The Jacksonian Appeal | |
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| The Spoils System | |
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| President of All of the People | |
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| Sectional Tensions Revived | |
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| Jackson: "The Bank . I will Kill It!" | |
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| Jackson's Bank Veto | |
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| Jackson versus Calhoun | |
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| Indian Removals | |
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| The Nullification Crisis | |
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| Boom and Bust | |
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| The Jacksonians | |
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| Rise of the Whigs | |
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| Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism without Jackson | |
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| The Log Cabin Campaign | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST For Whom Did Jackson Fight? | |
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| AMERICAN LIVES Davy Crockett | |
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| The Making of Middle-Class America | |
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| Tocqueville: Democracy in America | |
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| The Family Recast | |
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| The Second Great Awakening | |
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| The Era of Associations | |
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| Backwoods Utopias | |
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| The Age of Reform | |
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| "Demon Rum" | |
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| The Abolitionist Crusade | |
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| Women's Rights | |
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| The Romantic View of Life | |
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| Emerson and Thoreau | |
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| Edgar Allan Poe | |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
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| Herman Melville | |
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| Walt Whitman | |
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| Reading and the Dissemination of Culture | |
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| Education for Democracy | |
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| The State of the Colleges | |
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| MAPPING THE PAST Family Size: Northeast vs. Frontier | |
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| Westward Expansion | |
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| Tyler's Troubles | |
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| The Webster-Ashburton Treaty | |
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| The Texas Question | |
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| Manifest Destiny | |
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| Life on the Trail | |
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| California and Oregon | |
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| The Election of 1844 | |
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| Polk as President | |
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| War with Mexico | |
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| To the Halls of Montezuma | |
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| The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
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| The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States | |
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| Slavery: Storm Clouds Gather | |
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| The Election of 1848 | |
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| The Gold Rush | |
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| The Compromise of 1850 | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST Did the Frontier Change Women's Roles? | |
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| RE-VIEWING THE PAST the Alamo | |
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| The Sections Go Their Own Ways | |
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| The South | |
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| The Economics of Slavery | |
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| Antebellum Plantation Life | |
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| The Sociology of Slavery | |
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| Psychological Effects of Slavery | |
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| Manufacturing in the South | |
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| The Northern Industrial Juggernaut | |
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| A Nation of Immigrants | |
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| How Wage Earners Lived | |
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| Progress and Poverty | |
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| Foreign Commerce | |
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| Steam Conquers the Atlantic | |
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| Canals and Railroads | |
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| Financing the Railroads | |
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| Railroads and the Economy | |
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| Railroads and the Sectional Conflict | |
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| The Economy on the Eve of Civil War | |
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| AMERICAN LIVES Sojourner Truth | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST Did Slaves and Masters Form Emotional Bonds? | |
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| The Coming of the Civil War | |
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| Slave-Catchers Come North | |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| Diversions Abroad: the "Young America" Movement | |
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| Stephen Douglas: "The Little Giant" | |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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| Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System | |
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| "Bleeding Kansas" | |
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| Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism | |
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| Buchanan Tries His Hand | |
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| The Dred Scott Decision | |
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| The Proslavery Lecompton Constitution | |
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| The Emergence of Lincoln | |
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| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
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| John Brown's Raid | |
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| The Election of 1860 | |
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| The Secession Crisis | |
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| MAPPING THE PAST Runaway Slaves: Hard Realities | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST Was the Civil War Avoidable? | |
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| The War to Save the Union | |
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| Lincoln's Cabinet | |
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| Fort Sumter: the First Shot | |
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| The Blue and the Gray | |
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| The Test of Battle: Bull Run | |
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| Paying for the War | |
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| Politics as Usual | |
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| Behind Confederate Lines | |
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| War in the West: Shiloh | |
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| McClellan: the Reluctant Warrior | |
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| Lee Counterattacks: Antietam | |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation | |
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| The Draft Riots | |
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| The Emancipated People | |
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| African-American Soldiers | |
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| Antietam to Gettysburg | |
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| Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg | |
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| Economic and Social Effects, North and South | |
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| Women in Wartime | |
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| Grand in the Wilderness | |
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| Sherman in Georgia | |
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| To Appomattox Court House | |
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| Winners, Losers, and the Future | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST Why Did the South Lose the Civil War? | |
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| RE-VIEWING THE PAST Glory | |
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| Reconstruction and the South | |
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| The Assasination of Lincoln | |
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| Presidential Reconstruction | |
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| Republican Radicals | |
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| Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction | |
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| The Fourteenth Amendment | |
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| The Reconstruction Acts | |
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| Congress Supreme | |
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| The Fifteenth Amendment | |
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| "Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers | |
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| The Ravaged Land | |
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| Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System | |
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| The White Backlash | |
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| Grant as President | |
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| The Disputed Election of 1876 | |
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| The Compromise of 1877 | |
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| DEBATING THE PAST Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt? | |
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| MAPPING THE PAST the Politics of Reconstruction | |
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| RE-VIEWING THE PAST Cold Mountain | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |