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Maps | |
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History through Film | |
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To the Student: Why Study History? | |
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Preface | |
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When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe | |
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Peoples in Motion | |
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From Beringia to the Americas | |
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Chronology | |
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The Great Extinction and the Rise of Agriculture | |
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The Norsemen | |
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Europe and the World by the 15th Century | |
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China: The Rejection of Overseas Expansion | |
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Europe versus Islam | |
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The Legacy of the Crusades | |
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The Unlikely Pioneer: Portugal | |
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Africa, Colonies, and the Slave Trade | |
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Portugal's Asian Empire | |
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Early Lessons | |
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Spain, Columbus, and the Americas | |
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Columbus | |
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Spain and the Caribbean | |
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The Emergence of Complex Societies in the Americas | |
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The Rise of Sedentary Cultures | |
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The Andes: Cycles of Complex Cultures | |
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Inca Civilization | |
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Mesoamerica: Cycles of Complex Cultures | |
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The Aztecs and Tenochtitlan | |
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North American Mound Builders | |
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Urban Cultures of the Southwest | |
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Contact and Cultural Misunderstanding | |
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Religious Dilemmas | |
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War as Cultural Misunderstanding | |
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Gender and Cultural Misunderstanding | |
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Conquest and Catastrophe | |
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The Conquest of Mexico and Peru | |
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North American Conquistadores and Missionaries | |
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The Spanish Empire and Demographic Catastrophe | |
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Brazil | |
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Global Colossus, Global Economy | |
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Explanations: Patterns of Conquest, Submission, and Resistance | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America | |
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The Protestant Reformation and the Challenge to Spain | |
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Chronology | |
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New France | |
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Early French Explorers | |
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Missions and Furs | |
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New France under Louis XIV | |
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The Dutch and Swedish Settlements | |
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History Through Film Black Robe | |
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The East and West India Companies | |
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New Netherland as a Pluralistic Society | |
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Swedish and English Encroachments | |
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The Challenge from Elizabethan England | |
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The English Reformation | |
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Hawkins and Drake | |
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Gilbert, Ireland, and America | |
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Ralegh, Roanoke, and War with Spain | |
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The Swarming of the English | |
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The Chesapeake and West Indian Colonies | |
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The Jamestown Disaster | |
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Reorganization, Reform, and Crisis | |
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Tobacco, Servants, and Survival | |
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Maryland | |
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Chesapeake Family Life | |
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The West Indies and the Transition to Slavery | |
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The Rise of Slavery in North America | |
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The New England Colonies | |
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The Pilgrims and Plymouth | |
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Covenant Theology | |
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Massachusetts Bay | |
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Puritan Family Life | |
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Conversion, Dissent, and Expansion | |
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Congregations, Towns, and Colony Governments | |
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Infant Baptism and New Dissent | |
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The English Civil Wars | |
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The First Restoration Colonies | |
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Carolina, Harrington, and the Aristocratic Ideal | |
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New York: An Experiment in Absolutism | |
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Brotherly Love: The Quakers and America | |
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Quaker Beliefs | |
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Quaker Families | |
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West New Jersey | |
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Pennsylvania | |
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Conclusion | |
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England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion | |
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The Atlantic Prism and the Spectrum of Settlement | |
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Chronology | |
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Demographic Differences | |
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Race, Ethnicity, and Economy | |
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Religion and Education | |
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Local and Provincial Governments | |
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Unifying Trends: Language, War, Law, and Inheritance | |
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The Beginnings of Empire | |
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Upheaval in America: The Critical 1640s | |
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Mercantilism as a Moral Revolution | |
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The First Navigation Act | |
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Restoration Navigation Acts | |
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Indians, Settlers, Upheaval | |
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Indian Strategies of Survival | |
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Puritan Indian Missions | |
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Metacom's (or King Philip's) War | |
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Virginia's Indian War | |
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Bacon's Rebellion | |
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Crisis in England and the Redefinition of Empire | |
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The Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Rise of Party | |
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The Lords of Trade and Imperial Reform | |
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The Dominion of New England | |
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The Glorious Revolution | |
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The Glorious Revolution in America | |
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The English Response | |
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The Salem Witch Trials | |
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The Completion of Empire | |
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Imperial Federalism | |
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The Mixed and Balanced Constitution | |
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Contrasting Empires: Spain and France in North America | |
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The Pueblo Revolt | |
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New France and the Middle Ground | |
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French Louisiana and Spanish Texas | |
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An Empire of Settlement: The British Colonies | |
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The Engine of British Expansion: The Colonial Household | |
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The Voluntaristic Ethic and Public Life | |
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Three Warring Empires, 1689-1716 | |
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Conclusion | |
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Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent | |
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Expansion versus Anglicization | |
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Chronology | |
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Threats to Householder Autonomy | |
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Anglicizing the Role of Women | |
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Expansion, Immigration, and Regional Differentiation | |
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Emergence of the Old South | |
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The Mid-Atlantic Colonies: The "Best Poor Man's Country" | |
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The Backcountry | |
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New England: A Faltering Economy and Paper Money | |
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Anglicizing Provincial America | |
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The World of Print | |
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The Enlightenment in America | |
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Lawyers and Doctors | |
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Georgia: The Failure of an Enlightenment Utopia | |
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The Great Awakening | |
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Origins of the Revivals | |
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Whitefield Launches the Transatlantic Revival | |
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Disruptions | |
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Long-Term Consequences of the Revivals | |
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New Colleges | |
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The Denominational Realignment | |
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Political Culture in the Colonies | |
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The Rise of the Assembly and the Governor | |
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"Country" Constitutions: The Southern Colonies | |
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"Court" Constitutions: The Northern Colonies | |
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The Renewal of Imperial Conflict | |
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Challenges to French Power | |
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The Danger of Slave Revolts and War with Spain | |
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France versus Britain: King George's War | |
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The Impending Storm | |
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The War for North America | |
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The Albany Congress and the Onset of War | |
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History Through Film the War That Made America | |
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Britain's Years of Defeat | |
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A World War | |
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Imperial Tensions: From Loudoun to Pitt | |
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The Years of British Victory | |
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The Cherokee War and Spanish Intervention | |
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The Peace of Paris | |
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Conclusion | |
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Reform, Resistance, Revolution | |
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Imperial Reform | |
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From Pitt to Grenville | |
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Chronology | |
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Indian Policy and Pontiac's War | |
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The Sugar Act | |
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The Currency Act and the Quartering Act | |
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The Stamp Act | |
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The Stamp Act Crisis | |
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Nullification | |
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Repeal | |
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The Townshend Crisis | |
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The Townshend Program | |
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Resistance: The Politics of Escalation | |
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An Experiment in Military Coercion | |
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The Wilkes Crisis | |
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The Boston Massacre | |
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Partial Repeal | |
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Disaffection | |
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Internal Cleavages: The Contagion of Liberty | |
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The Feudal Revival and Rural Discontent | |
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The Regulator Movements in the Carolinas | |
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Slaves and Women | |
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The last Imperial Crisis | |
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The Tea Crisis | |
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Britain's Response: The Coercive Acts | |
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The Radical Explosion | |
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The First Continental Congress | |
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Toward War | |
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The Improvised War | |
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The Second Continental Congress | |
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War and Legitimacy, 1775-1776 | |
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Independence | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Revolutionary Republic | |
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Chronology | |
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Hearts and Minds: The Northern War, 1776-1777 | |
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The British Offensive | |
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The Trenton-Princeton Campaign | |
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The Campaigns of 1777 and Foreign Intervention | |
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The Loss of Philadelphia | |
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History Through Film Mary Silliman's War | |
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Saratoga | |
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French Intervention | |
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Spanish Expansion and Intervention | |
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The Reconstitution of Authority | |
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John Adams and the Separation of Powers | |
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The Virginia Constitution | |
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The Pennsylvania Constitution | |
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Massachusetts Redefines Constitutionalism | |
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Confederation | |
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The Crisis of the Revolution, 1779-1783 | |
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The Loyalists | |
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Loyalist Refugees, Black and White | |
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The Indian Struggle for Unity and Survival | |
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Attrition | |
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The British Offensive in the South | |
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The Partisan War | |
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Mutiny and Reform | |
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From the Ravaging of Virginia to Yorktown and Peace | |
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A Revolutionary Society | |
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Religious Transformations | |
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The First Emancipation | |
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The Challenge to Patriarchy | |
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Western Expansion, Discontent, and Conflict with Indians | |
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The Northwest Ordinance | |
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A More Perfect Union | |
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Commerce, Debt, and Shays's Rebellion | |
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Cosmopolitans versus Localists | |
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The Philadelphia Convention | |
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Ratification | |
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Conclusion | |
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Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815 | |
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Establishing the National Government | |
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Chronology | |
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The "Republican Court" | |
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The First Congress | |
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Hamiltonian Economics: The National Debt | |
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Hamiltonian Economics: The Bank and the Excise | |
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The Rise of Opposition | |
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Jefferson versus Hamilton | |
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The Republic in a World at War, 1793-1797 | |
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Americans and the French Revolution | |
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Citizen Genet | |
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Western Troubles: The Whiskey Rebellion | |
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Western Troubles: Indians | |
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The Jay Treaty | |
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Washington's Farewell | |
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The Election of 1796 | |
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Troubles with France, 1796-1800 | |
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The Crisis at Home, 1798-1800 | |
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The Politicians and the Army | |
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The Election of 1800 | |
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The Jeffersonians in Power | |
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The Republican Program | |
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Cleansing the Government | |
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The Jeffersonians and the Courts | |
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The Impeachments of Pickering and Chase | |
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Justice Marshall's Court | |
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Louisiana | |
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Lewis and Clark | |
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The Republic and the Napoleonic Wars, 1804-1815 | |
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The Dilemmas of Neutrality | |
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Trouble on the High Seas | |
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Embargo | |
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The Road to War | |
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The War Hawk Congress, 1811-1812 | |
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American Strategy in 1812 | |
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The Rise of Tecumseh | |
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The War with Canada, 1812-1813 | |
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Tecumseh's Last Stand | |
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The British Offensive, 1814 | |
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The Hartford Convention | |
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The Treaty of Ghent | |
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Conclusion | |
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Northern Transformations, 1790-1850 307 | |
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Chronology | |
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Postcolonial Society, 1790-1815 | |
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Farms | |
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Neighborhoods | |
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Standards of Living | |
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Inheritance | |
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The Seaport Cities | |
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From Backcountry to Frontier: The Northwest | |
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The Backcountry, 1790-1815 | |
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Settlement | |
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The Decline of Patriarchy | |
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Paternal Power in Decline | |
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The Alcoholic Republic | |
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Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 | |
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Transportation in 1815 | |
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Improvements | |
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Time and Money | |
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Markets and Regions | |
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Northeastern Farms, 1815-1860 | |
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The Northwest | |
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Southern Settlers | |
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Northern Farmers | |
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Farm Families | |
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Households | |
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Neighborhoods | |
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The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution | |
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Factory Towns: The Rhode Island System | |
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Factory Towns: The Waltham System | |
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Cities | |
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Metropolitan Industrialization | |
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History Through Film a Midwife's Tale | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Old South, 1790-1850 | |
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Old Farms: The Southeast | |
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The Chesapeake, 1790-1820 | |
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Race, Gender, and Chesapeake Labor | |
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Chronology | |
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Flirting with Emancipation | |
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The Lowcountry, 1790-1820 | |
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The Task System | |
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New Farms: The Rise of the Deep South | |
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The Rise of the Cotton Belt | |
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The Interstate Slave Trade | |
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Cotton and Slave Labor | |
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Mastery as a Way of Life | |
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Southern Families | |
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The Southern Yeomanry | |
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Yeomen and Planters | |
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Yeoman Neighborhoods | |
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The Private Lives of Slaves | |
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Slave Families | |
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The Slave Trade and the Slave Family | |
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The Beginnings of African American Christianity in the Chesapeake | |
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Slave Theology | |
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Religion and Revolt | |
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Gabriel's Rebellion | |
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Denmark Vesey | |
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Nat Turner | |
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A Balance Sheet: The Plantation and Southern Growth | |
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History Through Film Beloved | |
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Conclusion | |
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Toward an American Culture | |
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The Democratization of Culture | |
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Chronology | |
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A Revolution in Print | |
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The Northern Middle Class | |
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A New Middle Class | |
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The Evangelical Base | |
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Domesticity | |
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Sentimentality | |
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The Plain People of the North | |
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The Decline of the Established Churches | |
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The Rise of the Democratic Sects | |
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The Providential Worldview | |
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Popular Millennialism | |
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Family and Society | |
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The Prophet Joseph Smith | |
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A New Popular Culture | |
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Blood Sports | |
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Boxing | |
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An American Theater | |
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Minstrelsy | |
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Novels and the Penny Press | |
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Family, Church, and Neighborhood: The White South | |
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The Beginnings of the Bible Belt | |
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Slavery and Southern Evangelicals | |
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Gender, Power, and the Evangelicals | |
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Religious Conservatism | |
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Pro-Slavery Christianity | |
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The Mission to the Slaves | |
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Southern Entertainments | |
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Race | |
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Free Blacks | |
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The Beginnings of Modern Racism | |
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Citizenship | |
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Conclusion | |
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Democrats and Whigs | |
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The American System | |
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Chronology | |
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National Republicans | |
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Commerce and the Law | |
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1819 | |
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The Argument over Missouri | |
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The Missouri Compromise | |
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The Panic of 1819 | |
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Republican Revival | |
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Martin Van Buren Leads the Way | |
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The Election of 1824 | |
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"A Corrupt Bargain" | |
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Jacksonian Melodrama | |
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Adams versus Jackson | |
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Nationalism in an International Arena | |
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Nationalism at Home | |
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The Birth of the Democratic Party | |
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The Election of 1828 | |
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A People's Inauguration | |
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The Spoils System | |
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Jacksonian Democracy and the South | |
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History Through Film Amistad | |
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Southerners and Indians | |
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Indian Removal | |
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Southerners and the Tariff | |
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Nullification | |
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The "Petticoat Wars" | |
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The Fall of Calhoun | |
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Petitions, the Gag Rule, and the Southern Mails | |
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Jacksonian Democracy and the Market Revolution | |
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The Second Bank of the United States | |
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The Bank War | |
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The Beginnings of the Whig Party | |
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A Balanced Budget | |
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The Second American Party System | |
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"Martin Van Ruin" | |
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The Election of 1840 | |
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Two Parties | |
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Conclusion | |
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Whigs, Democrats, and the Shaping of Society | |
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Constituencies | |
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The North and West | |
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Chronology | |
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The South | |
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The Politics of Economic Development | |
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Government and Its Limits | |
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Banks | |
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Internal Improvements | |
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The Politics of Social Reform | |
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Public Schools | |
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Ethnicity, Religion, and the Schools | |
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Prisons | |
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Asylums | |
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The South and Social Reform | |
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Excursus: The Politics of Alcohol | |
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Ardent Spirits | |
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The Origins of Prohibition | |
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The Democratization of Temperance | |
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Temperance Schisms | |
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Ethnicity and Alcohol | |
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The Politics of Race | |
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Democratic Racism | |
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Abolitionists | |
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Agitation | |
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The Politics of Gender and Sex | |
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Appetites | |
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Moral Reform | |
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Women's Rights | |
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Conclusion | |
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Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty-or Slavery? | |
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Growth as the American Way | |
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Chronology | |
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Manifest Destiny and Slavery | |
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The Westering Impulse | |
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The Hispanic Southwest | |
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The Oregon and California Trails | |
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The Mormon Migration | |
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The Republic of Texas | |
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The Annexation Controversy | |
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Acquisition of Texas and Oregon | |
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The Mexican War | |
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Military Campaigns of 1846 | |
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Military Campaigns of 1847 | |
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Antiwar Sentiment | |
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The Wilmot Proviso | |
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The Election of 1848 | |
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The Free Soil Party | |
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The Gold Rush and California Statehood | |
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The Compromise of 1850 | |
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The Senate Debates | |
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Passage of the Compromise | |
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The Fugitive Slave Law | |
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The Slave-Catchers | |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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Filibustering | |
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The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860 | |
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Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party | |
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Chronology | |
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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Death of the Whig Party | |
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Immigration and Nativism | |
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Immigrants in Politics | |
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The Rise of the Know-Nothings | |
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The Decline of Nativism | |
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Bleeding Kansas | |
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The Caning of Summer | |
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The Election of 1856 | |
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The Dred Scott Case | |
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The Lecompton Constitution | |
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The Economy in the 1850s | |
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"The American System of Manufactures" | |
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The Southern Economy | |
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The Sovereignty of King Cotton | |
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Labor Conditions in the North | |
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The Panic of 1857 | |
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Sectionalism and the Panic | |
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The Free-Labor Ideology | |
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The Impending Crisis | |
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Southern Nonslaveholders | |
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
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The Freeport Doctrine | |
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John Brown at Harpers Ferry | |
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Conclusion | |
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Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862 | |
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The Election of 1860 | |
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Chronology | |
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The Republicans Nominate Lincoln | |
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Southern Fears | |
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The Lower South Secedes | |
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Northerners Affirm the Union | |
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Compromise Proposals | |
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Establishment of the Confederacy | |
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The Fort Sumter Issue | |
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Choosing Sides | |
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The Border States | |
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The Creation of West Virginia | |
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Indian Territory and the Southwest | |
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The Balance Sheet of War | |
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Strategy and Morale | |
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History Through Film the Red Badge of Courage | |
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Mobilizing for War | |
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Weapons and Tactics | |
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Logistics | |
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Financing the War | |
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Navies, the Blockade, and Foreign Relations | |
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King Cotton Diplomacy | |
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The Trent Affair | |
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The Confederate Navy | |
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The Monitor and the Virginia | |
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Campaigns and Battles, 1861-1862 | |
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The Battle of Bull Run | |
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Naval Operations | |
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Fort Henry and Fort Donelson | |
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The Battle of Shiloh | |
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The Virginia Theater | |
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The Seven Days' Battles | |
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Confederate Counteroffensives | |
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The Second Battle of Bull Run | |
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Conclusion | |
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A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865 | |
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Slavery and the War | |
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Chronology | |
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The "Contrabands" | |
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The Border States | |
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The Decision for Emancipation | |
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New Calls for Troops | |
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The Battle of Antietam | |
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The Emancipation Proclamation | |
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A Winter of Discontent | |
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The Rise of the Copperheads | |
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Economic Problems in the South | |
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The Wartime Draft and Class Tensions | |
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A Poor Man's Fight? | |
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Blueprint for Modern America | |
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Women and the War | |
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The Confederate Tide Crests and Recedes | |
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The Battle of Chancellorsville | |
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The Gettysburg Campaign | |
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The Vicksburg Campaign | |
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Chickamauga and Chattanooga | |
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Black Men in Blue | |
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Black Soldiers in Combat | |
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Emancipation Confirmed | |
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The Year of Decision | |
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Out of the Wilderness | |
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Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor | |
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Stalemate in Virginia | |
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The Atlanta Campaign | |
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Peace Overtures | |
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The Prisoner-Exchange Controversy | |
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The Issue of Black Soldiers in the Confederate Army | |
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Lincoln's Reelection and the End of the Confederacy | |
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The Capture of Atlanta | |
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The Shenandoah Valley | |
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From Atlanta to the Sea | |
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The Battles of Franklin and Nashville | |
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Fort Fisher and Sherman's March through the Carolinas | |
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The Road to Appomattox | |
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The Assassination of Lincoln | |
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Conclusion | |
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Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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Wartime Reconstruction | |
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Chronology | |
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Radical Republicans and Reconstruction | |
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Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction | |
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Johnson's Policy | |
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Southern Defiance | |
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The Black Codes | |
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Land and Labor in the Postwar South | |
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The Freedmen's Bureau | |
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Land for the Landless | |
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Education | |
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The Advent of Congressional Reconstruction | |
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Schism between President and Congress | |
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The 14th Amendment | |
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The 1866 Elections | |
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The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 | |
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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson | |
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The Completion of Formal Reconstruction | |
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The 15th Amendment | |
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The Election of 1868 | |
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The Grant Administration | |
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Civil Service Reform | |
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Foreign Policy Issues | |
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Reconstruction in the South | |
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Blacks in Office | |
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"Carpetbaggers" | |
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"Scalawags" | |
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The Ku Klux Klan | |
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History Through Film the Birth of a Nation | |
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The Election of 1872 | |
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The Panic of 1873 | |
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The Retreat from Reconstruction | |
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The Mississippi Election of 1875 | |
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The Supreme Court and Reconstruction | |
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The Election of 1876 | |
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Disputed Results | |
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The Compromise of 1877 | |
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The End of Reconstruction | |
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Conclusion | |
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Appendix | |
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Glossary | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |