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| American Views | |
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| From Then to Now | |
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| U.S. History Documents CD-ROM | |
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| Preface | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Student Tool Kit | |
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| Worlds Apart | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: Moctezuma | |
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| Native American Societies before 1492 | |
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| Paleo-Indians and the Archaic Period | |
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| The Development of Agriculture | |
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| Nonfarming Societies | |
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| Mesoamerican Civilizations | |
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| North American Cultures | |
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| The Caribbean Islanders | |
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| West African Societies | |
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| Geographical and Political Differences | |
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| Family Structure and Religion | |
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| European Merchants in West Africa and the Slave Trade | |
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| Western Europe on the Eve of Exploration | |
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| The Consolidation of Political and Military Authority | |
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| Religious Conflict and the Protestant Reformation | |
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| Contact | |
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| The Lure of Discovery | |
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| Christopher Columbus and the Westward Route to Asia | |
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| The Spanish Conquest and Colonization | |
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| The Columbian Exchange | |
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| Cultural Perceptions and Misperceptions | |
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| Competition for a Continent | |
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| Early French Efforts in North America | |
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| English Attempts in the New World | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Transplantation 1600-1685 | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: Thomas Dudley | |
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| The French in North America | |
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| The Quest for Furs and Converts | |
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| The Development of New France | |
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| The Dutch Overseas Empire | |
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| The Dutch East India Company | |
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| The West India Company and New Netherland | |
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| English Settlement in the Chesapeake | |
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| The Ordeal of Early Virginia | |
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| The Importance of Tobacco | |
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| Maryland: A Refuge for Catholics | |
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| Life in the Chesapeake Colonies | |
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| The Founding of New England | |
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| The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony | |
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| Massachusetts Bay Colony and Its Offshoots | |
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| Families, Farms, and Communities in Early New England | |
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| Competition in the Caribbean | |
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| Sugar and Slaves | |
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| A Biracial Society | |
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| The Proprietary Colonies | |
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| Early Carolina: Colonial Aristocracy and Slave Labor | |
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| Pennsylvania: The Dream of Toleration and Peace | |
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| New Netherland Becomes New York | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Creation of New Worlds | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: Olaudah Equiano | |
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| Indians and Europeans | |
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| Indian Workers in the Spanish Borderlands | |
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| The Web of Trade | |
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| Displacing Native Americans in the English Colonies | |
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| Bringing Christianity to Native Peoples | |
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| After the First Hundred Years: Conflict and War | |
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| Africans and Europeans | |
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| Labor Needs and the Turn to Slavery | |
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| The Shock of Enslavement | |
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| African Slaves in the New World | |
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| African American Families and Communities | |
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| Resistance and Rebellion | |
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| European Laborers in Early America | |
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| A Spectrum of Control | |
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| New European Immigrants | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Convergence and Conflict 1660s-1763 | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: George Washington | |
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| Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies | |
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| The Regulation of Trade | |
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| The Colonial Export Trade and the Spirit of Enterprise | |
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| The Import Trade and Ties of Credit | |
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| Becoming More Like England: The Growth of Cities and Inequality | |
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| The Transformation of Culture | |
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| Goods and Houses | |
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| Shaping Minds and Manners | |
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| Colonial Religion and the Great Awakening | |
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| The Colonial Political World | |
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| The Dominion of New England and the Limits of British Control | |
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| The Legacy of the Glorious Revolution | |
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| Diverging Politics in the Colonies and Great Britain | |
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| Expanding Empires | |
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| British Colonists in the Backcountry | |
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| The Spanish in Texas and California | |
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| The French along the Mississippi and in Louisiana | |
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| A Century of Warfare | |
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| Imperial Conflict and the Establishment of an American Balance of Power, 1689-1738 | |
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| King George's War Shifts the Balance, 1739-1754 | |
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| The French and Indian War, 1754-1760: A Decisive Victory | |
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| The Triumph of the British Empire, 1763 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Imperial Breakdown 1763-1774 | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: Eliza Farmar | |
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| Imperial Reorganization | |
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| British Problems | |
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| Dealing with the New Territories | |
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| Indian Affairs | |
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| Curbing the Assemblies | |
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| The Sugar and Stamp Acts | |
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| American Reactions | |
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| Constitutional Issues | |
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| Taxation and the Political Culture | |
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| Protesting the Taxes | |
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| The Aftermath of the Stamp Act Crisis | |
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| A Strained Relationship | |
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| Regulator Movements | |
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| The Townshend Crisis | |
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| Townshend's Plan | |
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| American Boycott | |
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| The Boston Massacre | |
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| The "Quiet Period" | |
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| The Boston Tea Party | |
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| The Intolerable Acts | |
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| The Road to Revolution | |
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| American Response to the Intolerable Acts | |
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| The First Continental Congress | |
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| The Continental Association | |
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| Political Divisions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| The War for Independence 1774-1783 | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: John Laurens | |
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| The Outbreak of War and The Declaration of Independence, 1774-1776 | |
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| Mounting Tensions | |
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| The Loyalists' Dilemma | |
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| British Coercion and Conciliation | |
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| The Battles of Lexington and Concord | |
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| The Second Continental Congress, 1775-1776 | |
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| Commander in Chief George Washington | |
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| Early Fighting: Massachusetts, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Canada | |
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| Independence | |
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| Republicanism | |
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| The Combatants | |
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| Professional Soldiers | |
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| Women in the Contending Armies | |
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| African American Participation in the War | |
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| Native Americans and the War | |
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| The War in the North, 1776-1777 | |
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| The British Army Hesitates: Battles in New York and New Jersey | |
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| The Year of the Hangman: Victory at Saratoga and Winter at Valley Forge | |
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| The War Widens, 1778-1781 | |
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| The United States Gains an Ally | |
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| Fighting on the Frontier and at Sea | |
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| The Land War Moves South | |
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| American Counterattacks | |
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| The American Victory, 1782-1783 | |
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| The Peace of Paris | |
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| The Components of Success | |
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| War and Society, 1775-1783 | |
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| The Women's War | |
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| Effect of the War on African Americans | |
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| The War's Impact on Native Americans | |
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| Economic Disruption | |
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| The Price of Victory | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| The First Republic 1776-1789 | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: William Shepard | |
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| The New Order of Republicanism | |
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| Defining the People | |
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| The State Constitutions | |
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| The Articles of Confederation | |
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| Problems at Home | |
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| The Fiscal Crisis | |
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| Economic Depression | |
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| The Economic Policies of the States | |
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| Congress and the West | |
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| Diplomatic Weaknesses | |
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| Impasse with Britain | |
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| Spain and the Mississippi River | |
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| Toward a New Union | |
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| The Road to Philadelphia | |
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| The Convention at Work | |
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| Overview of the Constitution | |
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| The Struggle over Ratification | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| A New Republic and the Rise of Parties 1789-1800 | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: William Maclay | |
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| Washington's America | |
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| The Uniformity of New England | |
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| The Pluralism of the Mid-Atlantic Region | |
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| The Slave South and Its Backcountry | |
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| The Growing West | |
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| Forging a New Government | |
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| "Mr. President" and the Bill of Rights | |
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| Departments and Courts | |
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| Revenue and Trade | |
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| Hamilton and the Public Credit | |
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| Reaction and Opposition | |
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| The Emergence of Parties | |
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| The French Revolution | |
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| Securing the Frontier | |
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| The Whiskey Rebellion | |
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| Treaties with Britain and Spain | |
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| The First Partisan Election | |
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| The Last Federalist Administration | |
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| The French Crisis and the XYZ Affair | |
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| Crisis at Home | |
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| The End of the Federalists | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism 1800-1824 | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: Rosalie Calvert | |
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| Jefferson's Presidency | |
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| Reform at Home | |
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| The Louisiana Purchase | |
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| Florida and Western Schemes | |
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| Embargo and a Crippled Presidency | |
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| Madison and the Coming of War | |
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| The Failure of Economic Sanctions | |
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| The Frontier and Indian Resistance | |
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| Decision for War | |
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| The War of 1812 | |
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| Setbacks in Canada | |
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| Western Victories and British Offensives | |
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| The Treaty of Ghent and the Battle of New Orleans | |
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| The Era of Good Feelings | |
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| Economic Nationalism | |
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| Judicial Nationalism | |
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| Toward a Continental Empire | |
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| The Breakdown of Unity | |
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| The Panic of 1819 | |
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| The Missouri Compromise | |
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| The Election of 1824 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Jacksonian Era 1824-1845 | |
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| Voices From the American Journey: Benjamin B. French | |
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| The Egalitarian Impulse | |
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| The Extension of White Male Democracy | |
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| The Popular Religious Revolt | |
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| The Rise of the Jacksonians | |
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| Jackson's Presidency | |
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| Jackson's Appeal | |
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| Indian Removal | |
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| The Nullification Crisis | |
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| The Bank War | |
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| Van Buren and Hard Times | |
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| The Panic of 1837 | |
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| The Independent Treasury | |
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| Uproar over Slavery | |
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| The Rise of the Whig Party | |
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| The Party Taking Shape | |
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| Whig Persuasion | |
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| The Election of 1840 | |
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| The Whigs in Power | |
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| Harrison and Tyler | |
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| The Texas Issue | |
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| The Election of 1844 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Slavery and the Old South 1800-1860 | |
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| Voices From the American Journey: Hannah Crafts | |
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| The Lower South | |
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| Cotton and Slaves | |
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| The Profits of Slavery | |
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| The Upper South | |
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| A Period of Economic Adjustment | |
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| The Decline of Slavery | |
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| Slave Life and Culture | |
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| Work Routines and Living Conditions | |
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| Families and Religion | |
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| Resistance | |
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| Free Society | |
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| The Slaveholding Minority | |
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| The White Majority | |
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| Free Black People | |
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| The Proslavery Argument | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Market Revolution and Social Reform 1815-1850 | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: Angelina Grimke | |
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| Industrial Change and Urbanization | |
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| The Transportation Revolution | |
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| Cities and Immigrants | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| Growing Inequality and New Classes | |
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| Reform and Moral Order | |
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| The Benevolent Empire | |
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| The Temperance Movement | |
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| Women's Role in Reform | |
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| Backlash against Benevolence | |
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| Institutions and Social Improvement | |
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| School Reform | |
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| Prisons, Workhouses, and Asylums | |
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| Utopian Alternatives | |
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| Abolitionism and Women's Rights | |
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| Rejecting Colonization | |
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| Abolitionism | |
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| The Women's Rights Movement | |
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| Political Antislavery | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| The Way West | |
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| Voices From the American Journey: George Catlin | |
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| The Agricultural Frontier | |
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| The Crowded East | |
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| The Old Northwest | |
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| The Old Southwest | |
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| The Frontier of the Plains Indians | |
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| Tribal Lands | |
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| The Fur Traders | |
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| The Oregon Trail | |
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| The Mexican Borderlands | |
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| The Peoples of the Southwest | |
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| The Americanization of Texas | |
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| The Push into California and the Southwest | |
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| Politics, Expansion, and War | |
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| Manifest Destiny | |
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| The Mexican War | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| The Politics of Sectionalism 1846-1861 | |
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| Voices from the American Journey: Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
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| Slavery in the Territories | |
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| The Wilmot Proviso | |
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| The Election of 1848 | |
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| The Gold Rush | |
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| The Compromise of 1850 | |
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| Response to the Fugitive Slave Act | |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| The Election of 1852 | |
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| Political Realignment | |
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| Young America's Foreign Misadventures | |
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| Stephen Douglas's Railroad Proposal | |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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| "Bleeding Kansas" | |
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| Know-Nothings and Republicans: Religion and Politics | |
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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 Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
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| The Road to Disunion | |
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| North-South Differences | |
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| John Brown's Raid | |
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| The Election of 1860 | |
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| Secession Begins | |
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| Presidential Inaction | |
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| Peace Proposals | |
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| Lincoln's Views on Secession | |
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| Fort Sumter: The Tug Comes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Battle Cries And Freedom Songs: The Civil War 1861-1865 | |
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| Voices From the American Journey: Sullivan Ballou | |
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| Mobilization, North and South | |
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| War Fever | |
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| The North's Advantage in Resources | |
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| Leaders, Governments, and Strategies | |
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| The Early War, 1861-1862 | |
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| First Bull Run | |
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| The War in the West | |
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| Reassessing the War: The Human Toll | |
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| The War in the East | |
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| Turning Points, 1862-1863 | |
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| The Naval and the Diplomatic War | |
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| Antietam | |
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| Emancipation | |
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| From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg | |
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| Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and the West | |
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| The War Transforms the North | |
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| Wartime Legislation and Politics | |
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| The Northern Economy | |
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| Northern Women and the War | |
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| The Confederacy Disintegrates | |
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| Southern Politics | |
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| The Southern Economy | |
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| Southern Women and the War | |
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| The Union Prevails, 1864-1865 | |
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| Grant's Plan to End the War | |
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| The Election of 1864 and Sherman's March | |
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| The Road to Appomattox and the Death of Lincoln | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Additional Sources | |
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| Where to Learn More | |
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| Reconstruction 1865-1877 | |
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| Voices From the American Journey: T. Thomas Fortune | |
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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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| Education | |
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| "Forty Acres and a Mule" | |
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| Migration to Cities | |
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| Faith and Freedom | |
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| Federal Reconstruction, 1865-1870 | |
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| Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867 | |
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| Congressional Reconstruction, 1867-1870 | |
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| Southern Republican Governments | |
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| Counter-Reconstruction, 1870-1874 | |
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| The Uses of Violence | |
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| The Failure of Northern Will | |
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| Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872 | |
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| Redemption, 1874-1877 | |
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| The Democrats' Violent Resurgence | |
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| The Weak Federal Response | |
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| The Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877 | |
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| The Memory of Reconstruction | |
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| The Failed Promise of Reconstruction | |
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| Sharecropping | |
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| Modest Gains and Future Victories | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Additional Sources | |
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| Where to Learn More | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |