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| (NOTE: Volume I includes Chapters 1-18 and Volume II includes Chapters 18-33.)(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Conclusion, Review Questions, Recommended Reading, Where to Learn More, and Web Resources.) | |
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| Worlds Apart | |
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| Different Worlds | |
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| Contact | |
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| Competition for a Continent | |
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| Transplantation, 1600-1685 | |
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| The French in North America | |
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| English Settlement in the Chesapeake | |
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| The Founding of New England | |
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| The English in the Caribbean | |
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| The Proprietary Colonies | |
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| The Creation of New Worlds | |
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| Indians and Europeans | |
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| Africans and Europeans | |
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| Non-Slave Labor in Early America | |
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| Convergence and Conflict | |
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| Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies | |
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| The Transformation of Culture | |
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| The Colonial Political World | |
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| Expanding Empires | |
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| A Century of Warfare | |
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| Imperial Breakdown, 1763-1774 | |
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| Imperial Reorganization | |
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| American Reactions | |
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| The Aftermath of Crisis | |
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| The Townshend Crisis | |
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| The Road to Revolution | |
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| The War for Independence, 1774-1783 | |
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| The Outbreak of War and the Declaration of Independence, 1774-1776 | |
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| The Combatants | |
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| The War in the North, 1776-1777 | |
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| The War Widens, 1778-1781 | |
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| The American Victory, 1782-1783 | |
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| War and Society, 1775-1783 | |
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| The First Republic, 1776-1789 | |
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| The New Order of Republicanism | |
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| Problems at Home | |
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| Diplomatic Weaknesses | |
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| Toward a New Union | |
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| A New Republic and the Rise of Parties, 1789-1800 | |
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| Washington''s America | |
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| Forging a New Government | |
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| The Emergence of Parties | |
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| The Last Federalist Administration | |
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| The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800-1824 | |
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| Jefferson''s Presidency | |
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| Madison and the Coming of War | |
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| The War of 1812 | |
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| The Era of Good Feelings | |
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| The Breakdown of Unity | |
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| The Jacksonian Era, 1824-1845 | |
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| The Egalitarian Impulse | |
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| Jackson''s Presidency | |
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| Van Buren and Hard Times | |
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| The Rise of the Whig Party | |
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| The Whigs in Power | |
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| Slavery and the Old South, 1800-1860 | |
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| The Lower South | |
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| The Upper South | |
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| Slave Life and Culture | |
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| Free Society | |
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| The Proslavery Argument | |
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| The Market Revolution and Social Reform, 1815-1850 | |
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| The Way West, 1815-1850 | |
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| The Agricultural Frontier | |
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| The Frontier of the Plains Indians | |
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| The Mexican Borderlands | |
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| Politics, Expansion, and War | |
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| The Politics of Sectionalism, 1846-1861 | |
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| Slavery in the Territories | |
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| Political Realignment | |
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| The Road to Disunion | |
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| Battle Cries and Freedom Songs: The Civil War, 1861-1863 | |
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| Mobilization, North and South | |
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| The Early War, 1861-1862 | |
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| Turning Points, 1862-1863 | |
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| Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | |
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| White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865 | |
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| More Than Freedom: African-American Aspirations in 1865 | |
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| Federal Reconstruction, 1865-1870 | |
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| Counter-Reconstruction, 1870-1874 | |
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| Redemption, 1874-1877 | |
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| The Failure of Reconstruction | |
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| A New South, 1877-1900 | |
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| The Newness of the New South | |
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| The Southern Agrarian Revolt | |
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| Women in the New South | |
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| Settling the Race Issue | |
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| Industry, Immigrants, and Cities, 1870-1900 | |
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| New Industry | |
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| New Immigrants | |
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| New Cities | |
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| Transforming the West, 1865-1890 | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| Exploiting the Mountains: The Mining Bonanza | |
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| Exploiting the Grass: The Cattle Kingdom | |
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| Exploiting the Earth: The Expansion of Agriculture | |
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| Politics and Government, 1877-1900 | |
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| The Structure and Style of Politics | |
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| The Limits of Government | |
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| Public Policies and National Elections | |
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| The Crisis of the 1890s | |
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| The Progressive Era, 1900-1917 | |
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| The Ferment of Reform | |
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| Reforming Society | |
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| Reforming Politics and Government | |
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| Roosevelt and the Progressive Presidency | |
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| Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Reform | |
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| Creating an Empire, 1865-1917 | |
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| The Roots of Imperialism | |
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| First Steps | |
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| The Spanish-American War | |
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| Imperial Ambitions: The United States and East Asia, 1899-1917 | |
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| Imperial Power: The United States and Latin America, 1899-1917 | |
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| America and the Great War, 1914-1920 | |
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| Waging Neutrality | |
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| Waging War in America | |
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| Waging War and Peace Abroad | |
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| Waging Peace at Home | |
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| Toward a Modern America: The 1920s | |
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| The Economy that Roared | |
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| The Business of Government | |
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| Cities and Suburbs | |
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| Mass Culture in the Jazz Age | |
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| Culture Wars | |
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| A New Era in the World? | |
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| Herbert Hoover and the Final Triumph of the New Era | |
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| The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939 | |
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| Hard Times in Hooverville | |
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| Herbert Hoover and the Depression | |
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| Launching the New Deal | |
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| Consolidating the New Deal | |
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| The New Deal and American Life | |
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| Ebbing of the New Deal | |
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| World War II, 1939-1945 | |
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| The Dilemmas of Neutrality | |
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| Holding the Line | |
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| Mobilizing the Home Front | |
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| War and Peace | |
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| The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1946-1952 | |
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| Launching the Great Boom | |
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| Truman, Republicans, and the Fair Deal | |
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| Confronting the Soviet Union | |
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| Cold War and Hot War | |
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| The Second Red Scare | |
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| The Confident Years, 1953-1964 | |
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| A Decade of Affluence | |
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| Facing Off with the Soviet Union | |
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| John F. Kennedy and the Cold War | |
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| Righteousness Like a Mighty Stream: The Struggle for Civil Rights | |
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| ldquo;Let Us Continue.rdquo; | |
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| Shaken to the Roots, 1965-1980 | |
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| The End of Consensus | |
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| The Year of the Gun, 1968 | |
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| Nixon and Watergate | |
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| Jimmy Carter: Idealism and Frustration in the White House | |
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| The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World | |
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| Complacency and Crisis, 1993-2003 | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |