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List of Maps | |
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Preface | |
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About the Authors | |
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New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E. | |
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The Shaping of North America | |
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Peopling the Americas | |
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The Earliest Americans | |
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Indirect Discoverers of the New World | |
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Europeans Enter Africa | |
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Columbus Comes upon a New World | |
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When Worlds Collide | |
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The Spanish Conquistadores | |
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The Conquest of Mexico | |
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The Spread of Spanish America | |
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Chronology | |
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The Planting of English America 1500-1733 | |
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England's Imperial Stirrings | |
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Elizabeth Energizes England | |
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England on the Eve of Empire | |
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England Plants the Jamestown Seedling | |
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Cultural Clashes in the Chesapeake | |
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The Indians' New World | |
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Virginia: Child of Tobacco | |
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Maryland: Catholic Haven | |
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The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America | |
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Colonizing the Carolinas | |
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The Emergence of North Carolina | |
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Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony | |
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The Plantation Colonies | |
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Chronology | |
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Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700 | |
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The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism | |
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The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth | |
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The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth | |
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Building the Bay Colony | |
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Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth | |
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The Rhode Island "Sewer" | |
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New England Spreads Out | |
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Puritans versus Indians | |
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Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence | |
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Andros Promotes the First American Revolution | |
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Old Netherlanders at New Netherland | |
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Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors | |
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Dutch Residues in New York | |
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Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania | |
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Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors | |
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The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies | |
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Chronology | |
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American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607-1692 | |
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The Unhealthy Chesapeake | |
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The Tobacco Economy | |
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Frustrated Freemen and Bacon's Rebellion | |
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Colonial Slavery | |
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Thinking Globally: The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1860 | |
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Africans in America | |
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Southern Society | |
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The New England Family | |
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Life in the New England Towns | |
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The Half-Way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials | |
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The New England Way of Life | |
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The Early Settlers' Days and Ways | |
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Chronology | |
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Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700-1775 | |
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Conquest by the Cradle | |
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A Mingling of the Races | |
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The Structure of Colonial Society | |
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Clerics, Physicians, and Jurists | |
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Workaday America | |
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Horsepower and Sailpower | |
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Dominant Denominations | |
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The Great Awakening | |
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Schools and Colleges | |
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A Provincial Culture | |
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Pioneer Presses | |
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The Great Game of Politics | |
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Colonial Folkways | |
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Chronology | |
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The Duel for North America 1608-1763 | |
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France Finds a Foothold in Canada | |
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New France Fans Out | |
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The Clash of Empires | |
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George Washington Inaugurates War with France | |
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Global War and Colonial Disunity | |
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Braddock's Blundering and Its Aftermath | |
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Pitt's Palms of Victory | |
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Restless Colonists | |
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War's Fateful Aftermath | |
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Chronology | |
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The Road To Revolution 1763-1775 | |
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The Deep Roots of Revolution | |
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Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances | |
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The Merits and Menace of Mercantilism | |
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The Stamp Tax Uproar | |
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Forced Repeal of the Stamp Act | |
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The Townshend Tea Tax and the Boston "Massacre" | |
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The Seditious Committees of Correspondence | |
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Tea Brewing in Boston | |
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Parliament Passes the "Intolerable Acts" | |
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Bloodshed | |
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Imperial Strength and Weakness | |
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American Pluses and Minuses | |
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Thinking Globally: Imperial Rivalry and Colonial Revolt | |
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A Thin Line of Heroes | |
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Chronology | |
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America Secedes from the Empire 1775-1783 | |
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Congress Drafts George Washington | |
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Bunker Hill and Hessian Hirelings | |
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The Abortive Conquest of Canada | |
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Thomas Paine Preaches Common Sense | |
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Paine and the Idea of "Republicanism" | |
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Jefferson's "Explanation" of Independence | |
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Patriots and Loyalists | |
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The Loyalist Exodus | |
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General Washington at Bay | |
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Burgoyne's Blundering Invasion | |
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Revolution in Diplomacy? | |
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The Colonial War Becomes a Wider War | |
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Blow and Counterblow | |
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The Land Frontier and the Sea Frontier | |
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Yorktown and the Final Curtain | |
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Peace at Paris | |
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A New Nation Legitimized | |
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Chronology | |
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The Confederation and the Constitution 1776-1790 | |
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The Pursuit of Equality | |
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Constitution Making in the States | |
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Economic Crosscurrents | |
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A Shaky Start toward Union | |
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Creating a Confederation | |
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The Articles of Confederation: America's First Constitution | |
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Landmarks in Land Laws | |
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The World's Ugly Duckling | |
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The Horrid Specter of Anarchy | |
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A Convention of "Demigods" | |
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Patriots in Philadelphia | |
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Hammering Out a Bundle of Compromises | |
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Safeguards for Conservatism | |
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The Clash of Federalists and Antifederalists | |
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The Great Debate in the States | |
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The Four Laggard States | |
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A Conservative Triumph | |
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Chronology | |
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Launching the New Ship of State 1789-1800 | |
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Growing Pains | |
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Washington for President | |
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The Bill of Rights | |
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Hamilton Revives the Corpse of Public Credit | |
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Customs Duties and Excise Taxes | |
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Hamilton Battles Jefferson for a Bank | |
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Mutinous Moonshiners in Pennsylvania | |
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The Emergence of Political Parties | |
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The Impact of the French Revolution | |
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Washington's Neutrality Proclamation | |
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Thinking Globally: Two Revolutions | |
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Embroilments with Britain | |
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Jay's Treaty and Washington's Farewell | |
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John Adams Becomes President | |
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Unofficial Fighting with France | |
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Adams Puts Patriotism above Party | |
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The Federalist Witch Hunt | |
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The Virginia (Madison) and Kentucky (Jefferson) Resolutions | |
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Federalists versus Democratic Republicans | |
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Chronology | |
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The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800-1812 | |
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Federalist and Republican Mudslingers | |
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The Jeffersonian "Revolution of 1800" | |
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Responsibility Breeds Moderation | |
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Jeffersonian Restraint | |
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The "Dead Clutch" of the Judiciary | |
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Jefferson, a Reluctant Warrior | |
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The Louisiana Godsend | |
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Louisiana in the Long View | |
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The Aaron Burr Conspiracies | |
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A Precarious Neutrality | |
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The Hated Embargo | |
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Madison's Gamble | |
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Tecumseh and the Prophet | |
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Mr. Madison's War | |
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Chronology | |
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The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812-1824 | |
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On to Canada over Land and Lakes | |
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Washington Burned and New Orleans Defended | |
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The Treaty of Ghent | |
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Federalist Grievances and the Hartford Convention | |
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The Second War for American Independence | |
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Nascent Nationalism | |
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"The American System" | |
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The So-Called Era of Good Feelings | |
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The Panic of 1819 and the Curse of Hard Times | |
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Growing Pains of the West | |
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Slavery and the Sectional Balance | |
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The Uneasy Missouri Compromise | |
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John Marshall and Judicial Nationalism | |
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Judicial Dikes against Democratic Excesses | |
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Sharing Oregon and Acquiring Florida | |
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The Menace of Monarchy in America | |
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Monroe and His Doctrine | |
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Monroe's Doctrine Appraised | |
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Chronology | |
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The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1840 | |
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The "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824 | |
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A Yankee Misfit in the White House | |
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Going "Whole Hog" for Jackson in 1828 | |
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"Old Hickory" as President | |
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The Spoils System | |
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The Tricky "Tariff of Abominations" | |
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Thinking Globally: Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America and Europe | |
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"Nullies" in South Carolina | |
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The Trail of Tears | |
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The Bank War | |
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"Old Hickory" Wallops Clay in 1832 | |
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Burying Biddle's Bank | |
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The Birth of the Whigs | |
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The Election of 1836 | |
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Big Woes for the "Little Magician" | |
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Depression Doldrums and the Independent Treasury | |
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Gone to Texas | |
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The Lone Star Rebellion | |
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Log Cabins and Hard Cider of 1840 | |
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Politics for the People | |
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The Two-Parry System | |
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Chronology | |
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Forging The National Economy 1790-1860 | |
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The Westward Movement | |
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Shaping the Western Landscape | |
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The March of the Millions | |
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The Emerald Isle Moves West | |
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The German Forty-Eighters | |
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Flare-ups of Antiforeignism | |
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Creeping Mechanization | |
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Whitney Ends the Fiber Famine | |
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Marvels in Manufacturing | |
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Workers and "Wage Slaves" | |
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Women and the Economy | |
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Western Farmers Reap a Revolution in the Fields | |