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Founding the New Nation, c. 33,000 B.C-A.D. 1783 | |
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New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C-A.D. 1769 | |
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The geology of the New World Native Americans before Columbus Europeans and Africans | |
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The ecological consequences of Columbus's discovery | |
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Spain builds a New World empire Examining the Evidence | |
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Making Sense of the New World Makers of America | |
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The Spanish Conquistadores | |
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The Planting of English America, 1500-1733 | |
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England in the age of expansion | |
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The planting of Jamestown, 1607 | |
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The growth of Virginia and Maryland England in the Caribbean | |
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Settling the Carolinas and Georgia Makers of America: The Iroquois | |
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Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700 | |
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The Puritan faith Plymouth Colony, 1620 | |
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The Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630 | |
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The expansion of New England New Netherland becomes New York Pennsylvania and the middle colonies Makers of America | |
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The English Examining the Evidence | |
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A Seventeenth-Century Valuables Cabinet Varying Viewpoints | |
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Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe? | |
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American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692 | |
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Life and labor in the Chesapeake region Indentured servants and Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676 | |
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Slavery and African American culture Families in New England | |
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The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692 | |
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The changing New England way of life Examining the Evidence | |
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An Indentured Servant's Contract, 1746 | |
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Makers of America: From African to African American | |
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Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775 | |
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Population growth and ethnic diversity Colonial society and economy | |
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The Atlantic economy | |
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The Great Awakening of the 1730s | |
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Education and culture Political patterns Makers of America | |
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The Scots-Irish Varying Viewpoints | |
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Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus? | |
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The Duel for North America, 1608-1763 | |
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New France Anglo-French colonial rivalries | |
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The French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | |
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The ousting of France from North America, 1763 | |
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The consequences of war Makers of America: The French | |
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The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775 | |
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The merits and menace of mercantilism | |
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The Stamp Act crisis, 1765 | |
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The Townshend Acts, 1767 | |
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The Boston Tea Party, 1773 | |
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The Intolerable Acts and the Continental Congress, 1774 | |
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Lexington, Concord, and the gathering clouds of war, 1775 | |
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America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783 | |
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Early skirmishes, 1775 | |
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American "republicanism" The Declaration of Independence, 1776 | |
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Patriots and Loyalists | |
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The fighting fronts | |
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The French alliance, 1778 | |
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Yorktown, 1781 | |
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The Peace of Paris, 1783 | |
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Makers of America: The Loyalists Examining the Evidence | |
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A Revolution for Women? | |
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Abigail Adams Chides Her Husband, 1776 | |
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Varying Viewpoints: Whose Revolution? | |
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Building the New Nation, 1776-1860 | |
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The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790 | |
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Changing political sentiments Economic troubles | |
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The Articles of Confederation, 1781-1788 | |
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The Northwest Ordinance, 1787 | |
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Shays's Rebellion, 1786 | |
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The Constitutional Convention, 1787 | |
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Ratifying the Constitution, 1787-1790 | |
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Examining the Evidence: Copley Family Portrait, c. 1776-1777 | |
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Varying Viewpoints: The Constitution | |
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Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary? | |
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Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800 | |
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Problems of the young Republic The first presidency, 1789-1793 | |
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The Bill of Rights, 1791 | |
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Hamilton's economic policies | |
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The emergence of political parties | |
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The impact of the French Revolution Jay's Treaty, 1794 | |
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President Adams keeps the peace | |
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The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798 | |
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Federalists versus Republicans | |
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The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812 | |
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The "Revolution of 1800" | |
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The Jefferson presidency | |
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John Marshall and the Supreme Court | |
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The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 | |
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The Embargo, 1807-1809 | |
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Napolean manipulates Madison Battle with the Shawnees | |
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A Declaration of War Examining the Evidence | |
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The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings Controversy | |
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The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824 | |
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Invasion of Canada, 1812 | |
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The war on land and sea The Treaty of Ghent, 1814 | |
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The Hartford Convention, 1814-1815 | |
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A new national identity "The American System" James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings Westward expansion | |
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The Missouri Compromise, 1820 | |
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The Supreme Court under John Marshall Canada and Florida | |
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The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 | |
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Makers of America: Settlers of the Old Northwest | |
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The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840 | |
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The "corrupt bargain" of 1824 President John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829 | |
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The triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828 | |
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The "Tariff of Abominations," 1828 | |
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The spoils system | |
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The South Carolina nullification crisis, 1832-1833 | |
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Indian removal Jackson's war on the Bank of the United States | |
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The emergence of the Whig party, 1836 | |
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Martin Van Buren and the Depression of 1837 | |
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The Texas Revolution William Henry Harrison's "log cabin" campaign, 1840 | |
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The establishment of the two-party system Examining the Evidence: Satiric Bank Note, 1837 | |
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Makers of America: Mexican or Texican? | |
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Varying Viewpoints: What Was Jacksonian Democracy? | |
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Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860 | |
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The westward movement Irish and German immigrants Nativism and assimilation | |
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The coming of the factory system Women and the economy | |
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The ripening of commercial agriculture | |
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The transportation revolution Overseas trade and communication Makers of America | |
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The Irish Makers of America | |
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The Germans Examining the Evidence | |
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The Invention of the Sewing Machine | |
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The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860 | |
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Religious revivals | |
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The Mormons Educational advances | |
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The roots of reform Women's roles and women's rights | |
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Utopian experiments | |
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A national literature | |
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Examining the Evidence: Dress as Reform Makers of America | |
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The Oneida Community Varying Viewpoints: Reform | |
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Who? | |
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What? | |
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How? and Why? | |
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Testing the New Nation, 1820-1877 | |
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The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860 | |
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The economy of the Cotton Kingdom Poor whites and free blacks | |
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The plantation system | |
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The human face of the "peculiar institution" | |
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The abolitionist crusade | |
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Southern and Northern responses to abolitionism | |
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Examining the Evidence | |
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Bellegrove Plantation, Donaldsville, Louisiana, Built 1857 Varying Viewpoints | |
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What Was the True Nature of Slavery? | |
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Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848 | |
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"Tyler Too" becomes president, 1841 | |
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The annexation of Texas, 1845 | |
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Oregon and California James K. Polk, the "dark horse" of 1844 | |
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War with Mexico, 1846-1848 Makers of America | |
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The Californios | |
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Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854 | |
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"Popular sovereignty" | |
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The Compromise of 1850 | |
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The inflammatory Fugitive Slave Law President Pierce and expansion, 1853-1857 | |
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Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 | |
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Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861 | |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin and the spread of abolitionist sentiment in the North The contest for Kansas The election of James Buchanan, 1856 | |
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The Dred Scott case, 1857 | |
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858 | |
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859 | |
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Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860 | |
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Secession Examining the Evidence: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin Varying Viewpoints | |
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The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible? | |
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Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865 | |
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The attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861 | |
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The crucial border states | |
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The balance of forces | |
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The threat of European intervention Lincoln and civil liberties | |
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Men in uniform | |
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Wartime finance and economy | |
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Women and the war | |
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The fate of the South | |
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The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865 | |
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Bull Run ends the "ninety-day war" | |
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The Peninsula Campaign | |
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The Union wages total war | |
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The Battle of Antietam | |
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The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 | |
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Black soldiers Confederate high tide at Gettysburg Politics in wartime | |
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Appomattox, 1865 | |
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The assassination of Lincoln, April 1865 | |
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The legacy of war Examining the Evidence: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address | |
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Varying Viewpoints: What Were the Consequences of the Civil War? | |
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The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | |
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The defeated South | |
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The freed slaves President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies | |
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Moderate and radical Republicans Congressional Reconstruction policies Military Reconstruction, 1867-1877 | |
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Freed people enter politics "Black Reconstruction" and the Ku Klux Klan | |
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The impeachment of Andrew Johnson | |
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The legacy of Reconstruction Examining the Evidence: Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master, 1865 | |
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Varying Viewpoints: How Radical Was Reconstruction? | |
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Forging an Industrial Society, 1865-1909 | |
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Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896 | |
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Ulysses S. Grant, soldier-president Corruption and reform in the post-Civil War era | |
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The depression of the 1870s Political parties and partisans | |
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The Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction Class conflict and ethnic clashes | |
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Grover Cleveland and the tariff President Harrison and the "Billion Dollar Congress" | |
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Populists Cleveland regains the White House Makers of America | |
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The Chinese Varying Viewpoints | |
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The Populists: Radicals or Reactionaries? | |
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Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900 | |
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The railroad boom Speculators and financiers Early efforts at government regulation Lords of industry Industry in the South Workers and unions Examining the Evidence | |
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The Photography of Lewis W. Hine Makers of America | |
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The Knights of Labor Varying Viewpoints | |
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Industrialization | |
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Boon or Blight? | |
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America Moves to the City, 1865-1900 | |
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The rise of the city Skyscrapers, tenements, and suburbs | |
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The "New Immigrants" New jobs for women Nativists and immigration restriction | |
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Churches in the city Black leaders: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois Literary achievements | |
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The "New Woman" and the new morality | |
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Art and entertainment in urban America Makers of America | |
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The Italians Examining the Evidence | |
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Manuscript Census Data, 1900 | |
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The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896 | |
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The conquest of the Indians | |
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The mining and cattle frontiers | |
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The industrialization of agriculture | |
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Farmers protest | |
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Challenge from the People's Party | |
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Panic and depression | |
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Bryan versus McKinley, 1896 | |
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Makers of America | |
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The Plains Indians Examining the Evidence | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson's Transcontinental Journey, 1879 | |
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Varying Viewpoints: Was the West Really "Won"? | |
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Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909 | |
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The sources of American expansionism Cleveland and the Venezuelan Boundary Dispute, 1895-1896 | |
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The Hawaii Question | |
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The explosion of the Maine, February 15, 1898 | |
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The Spanish-American War, 1898 | |
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The invasion of Cuba Acquiring Puerto Rico (1898) and the Philippines (1899) | |
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Crushing the Filipino insurrection | |
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The Open Door Notes, 1899 and 1900 | |
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TR becomes president, 1901 | |
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The Panama Canal | |
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 | |
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Roosevelt and East Asia Makers of America | |
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The Puerto Ricans Makers of America | |
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The Filipinos Varying Viewpoints | |
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Why Did America Become a World Power? | |
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Strugglingfor Justice at Home and Abroad, 1899-1945 | |
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Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912 | |
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Campaigning against social injustice | |
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The muckrakers | |
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The politics of progressivism | |
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Women battle for the vote and against the saloon | |
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Roosevelt, labor, and the trusts | |
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Consumer protection | |
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Conservation Roosevelt's legacy | |
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The troubled presidency of William Howard Taft Roosevelt breaks with Taft | |
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Examining the Evidence: Muller v. Oregon, 1908 | |
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Makers of America: The Environmentalists | |
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Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916 | |
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The election of 1912 | |
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The New Freedom versus the New Nationalism Wilson, the tariff, the banks, and the trusts Wilson's diplomacy in Mexico War in Europe and American neutrality | |
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The reelection of Wilson, 1916 | |
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Varying Viewpoints: Who Were the Progressives? | |
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The War to End War, 1917-1918 | |