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| Preface | |
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| Introduction America's First Nations | |
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| The First Americans | |
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| The Archaic Age | |
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| Early Indians of the West | |
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| Early Indians of the East | |
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| Variety and Indian Societies | |
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| Eastern Woodland Indians | |
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| Indians of the Great Plains | |
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| Indians of the Southwest | |
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| Changes Coming | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Discovery, Exploration, and Colonization | |
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| Background to "Discovery" | |
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| Portugal and Spain | |
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| The New World | |
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| The Conquistadors | |
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| The French | |
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| England: Exploration and Settlement | |
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| Jamestown, Virginia, and the Southern Colonies | |
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| Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the New England Colonies | |
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| Pennsylvania and the Middle Colonies | |
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| Great Britain and the Colonies | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Revolution and Independence | |
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| The French and Indian War | |
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| Social and Intellectual Movements | |
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| The Road to Revolution | |
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| From Agitation to Revolution | |
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| Independence and Revolution | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| The Treaty of Paris | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| The Young Republic | |
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| The Articles of Confederation | |
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| The Constitutional Convention | |
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| The Genesis of Political Parties | |
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| The Washington and Adams Administrations | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Jefferson and the Democratic Republic | |
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| The Revolution of 1800 | |
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| The Louisiana Purchase | |
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| Lewis and Clark | |
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| Barbary Pirates | |
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| Burr, Hamilton, and Conspiracy | |
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| John Marshall and the Supreme Court | |
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| Jefferson and Foreign Affairs | |
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| James Madison | |
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| Causes at the War of 1812 | |
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| The War against England | |
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| The Indian War | |
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| Treaty at Ghent | |
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| Results of the War of 1812 | |
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| James Monroe | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| The Age of Jackson | |
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| Jacksonian America | |
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| Sectional Developments | |
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| Henry Clay and the American System | |
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| John Quincy Adams and the Election of 1824 | |
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| Andrew Jackson | |
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| The Jackson Presidency (1829-1837) | |
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| Martin Van Buren | |
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| The Election of 1840, Harrison and Tyler | |
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| Society and Culture in Jacksonian America | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| The West (Pre-Civil War) | |
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| Manifest Destiny | |
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| Early Explorations and the Fur Trade | |
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| Oregon and California | |
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| The Republic of Texas | |
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| Annexation and the War with Mexico | |
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| The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Aftermath of War | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Sectional Conflict | |
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| The Old South | |
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| Abolitionism | |
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| Conflict and Compromise | |
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| The Road to Civil War | |
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| The Crisis of Leadership and the Election of 1860 | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Civil War and Reconstruction | |
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| Disunion and War | |
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| The Two Sides | |
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| War | |
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| Lincoln, Johnson, the Radicals, and Reconstruction | |
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| North and South in the Reconstruction Era | |
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| The Grant Administration | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| The West (Post-Civil War) | |
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| Turner and the Frontier | |
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| The Plains Indians | |
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| Miners and Boomtowns | |
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| Cattle and Cowboys | |
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| The Plains Wars | |
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| Settlers | |
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| The Wild West | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| The Gilded Age and Imperial America | |
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| The Corporation | |
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| Captains of Industry and the American Dream | |
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| Survival of the Fittest? | |
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| The New Immigration | |
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| The Rise of Big Labor | |
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| The American Empire | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Populism, Progressivism, and the Great War | |
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| Populism | |
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| Why Progressivism? | |
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| The Progressive Agenda | |
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| The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson | |
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| Wilson and the Great War | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Boom, Bust, and the New Deal | |
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| The Jazz Age | |
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| Three Republican Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| The New Deal | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| World War II and the Origins of the Cold War | |
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| The Road to Pearl Harbor | |
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| The War in Europe | |
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| The Pacific War and the Nuclear Age | |
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| The Home Front | |
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| The Long Cold War Begins | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Postwar America: The Fifties and Sixties | |
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| The Cold War Gets Hot | |
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| The Eisenhower Years (1953-1961) | |
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| The New Frontier | |
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| The Great Society | |
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| The Mood Turns Sour: Vietnam and the Late 1960s | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Retrenchment: The Seventies and Eighties | |
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| The Counterculture Fades-and Feminism Rises | |
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| Nixon's Foreign Policy and the End of Idealism: Watergate | |
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| The Ford and Carter Years | |
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| The Reagan Years Chapter Review | |
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| Cold War Ends, War on Terror Begins | |
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| A New World | |
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| The Clinton Years | |
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| Bush and the War on Terror | |
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| September | |
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| War in Iraq | |
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| The 2004 Election | |
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| The Great Recession | |
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| The 2008 Election and Barack Obama | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| The Constitution of the United States | |
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| Presidents of the United States of America | |
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| Index | |
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| Maps | |
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| The First Thirteen States, 1779 | |
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| Growth of the U.S. to 1853 | |
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| Secession, 1861 | |
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| North African and European Campaigns | |
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| U.S. Offensive against Japan | |
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| Cold War Europe | |
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| The Middle East | |
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| The United States (front endpaper) | |
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| The World (back endpaper) | |