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Peoples in Motion: The Atlantic World to 1590 | |
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The First Americans | |
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Migration, Settlement, and the Rise of Agriculture | |
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The Aztec | |
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Mound Builders and Pueblo Dwellers | |
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Eastern Woodlands Indian Societies | |
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American Societies on the Eve of European Contact | |
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European Civilization in Turmoil | |
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The Allure of the East and the Challenge of Islam | |
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Trade, Commerce, and Urbanization | |
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Competing Visions European and Huron Views of Nature | |
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Renaissance and Reformation | |
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New Monarchs and the Rise of the Nation-State | |
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Columbus and the Columbian Exchange | |
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Columbus Encounters the "Indians" | |
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European Technology in the Era of the Columbian Exchange | |
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The Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires | |
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Images As History Blood of the Gods: Aztec Human Sacrifice | |
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West African Worlds | |
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West African Societies, Islam, and Trade | |
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The Portuguese-African Connection | |
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African Slavery | |
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European Colonization of the Atlantic World | |
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The Black Legend and the Creation of New Spain | |
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Choices And Consequences Facing the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico City | |
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Fishing and Furs: France's North Atlantic Empire | |
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English Expansion: Ireland and Virginia | |
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Europeans and the Indian Peoples of the Americas | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590-1700 | |
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The Chesapeake | |
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The Founding of Jamestown | |
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Choices And Consequences The Ordeal of Pocahontas | |
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Tobacco Agriculture and Political Reorganization | |
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Lord Baltimore's Refuge: Maryland | |
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Life in the Chesapeake: Tobacco and Society | |
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New England | |
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Plymouth Plantation | |
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Images As History Corruption versus Piety: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century | |
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Thanksgiving Myths and Realities | |
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A Godly Commonwealth | |
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Schism and Heresy | |
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Expansion and Conflict | |
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The Caribbean Colonies | |
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Power Is Sweet | |
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Barbados: The Emergence of a Slave Society | |
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The Restoration Era and the Proprietary Colonies | |
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The English Conquest of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland | |
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A Peaceable Kingdom: Quakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania | |
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Competing Visions | |
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Lord Baltimore and William Penn: Two Visions of Religious Toleration | |
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The Carolinas | |
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The Crisis of the Late Seventeenth Century | |
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War and Rebellion | |
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The Dominion of New England and the Glorious Revolution | |
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The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria | |
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The Whig Ideal and the Emergence of Political Stability | |
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The Whig Vision of Politics | |
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Mercantilism, Federalism, and the Structure of Empire | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710-1763 | |
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Culture and Society in the Eighteenth Century | |
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The Refinement of America | |
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Images As History A Portrait of Colonial Aspirations | |
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More English, Yet More American | |
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Strong Assemblies and Weak Governors | |
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Enlightenment and Awakening | |
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Georgia's Utopian Experiment | |
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Competing Visions Slavery and Georgia | |
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American Champions of the Enlightenment | |
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Awakening, Revivalism, and American Society | |
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Indian Revivals | |
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African Americans in the Colonial Era | |
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The Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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Southern Slavery | |
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Northern Slavery and Free Blacks | |
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Slave Resistance and Rebellion | |
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An African American Culture Emerges under Slavery | |
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Immigration, Regional Economies, and Inequality | |
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Immigration to the Colonies | |
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Regional Economies | |
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New England | |
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The Mid-Atlantic | |
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The Upper and Lower South | |
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The Backcountry | |
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Cities: Expansion and Inequality | |
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Rural America: Land Becomes Scarce | |
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War and the Contest over Empire | |
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The Rise and Fall of the Middle Ground | |
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War and the Contest for Empire | |
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Choices And Consequences Quakers, Pacifism, and the Paxton Uprising | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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Independence and Revolution, 1766-1783 | |
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Tightening the Reins of Empire | |
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Taxation without Representation | |
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| |
The Stamp Act Crisis | |
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An Assault on Liberty | |
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| |
The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress | |
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| |
Lexington, Concord, and Lord Dunmore's Proclamation | |
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Patriots vs. Loyalists | |
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| |
The Battle of Bunker Hill | |
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| |
Images As History Trumbull's "The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill" | |
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| |
Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence | |
| |
| |
The Plight of the Loyalists | |
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| |
Choices And Consequences | |
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| |
A Loyalist Wife's Dilemma | |
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| |
America | |
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| |
at War | |
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| |
The War in the North | |
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| |
The Southern Campaigns and Final Victory at Yorktown | |
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| |
The Radicalism of the American Revolution | |
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| |
Popular Politics in the Revolutionary Era | |
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| |
Constitutional Experiments: Testing the Limits of Democracy | |
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| |
African Americans' | |
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| |
Struggle's for Freedom | |
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| |
The American Revolution in Indian Country | |
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| |
Liberty's Daughters: Women and the Revolutionary Movement | |
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| |
Competing Visions Remember the Ladies | |
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| |
Conclusion | |
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| |
Chapter Review | |
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| |
A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government 1783-1789 | |
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| |
Republicanism and the Politics of Virtue | |
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| |
George Washington: The American Cincinnatus | |
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| |
The Politics of Virtue: Views from the States | |
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| |
Images As History Views of Women's Role | |
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| |
Democracy Triumphant? | |
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| |
Debtors versus Creditors | |
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| |
Life under the Articles of Confederation | |
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| |
No Taxation with Representation | |
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| |
Diplomacy: Frustration and Stalemate | |
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| |
Settling the Old Northwest | |
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| |
Shays' | |
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Rebellion | |
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| |
Competing Visions Reactions to Shays's Rebellion | |
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| |
The Movement for Constitutional Reform | |
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| |
Large States versus Small States | |
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| |
Conflict over Slavery | |
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| |
Filling out the Constitutional Design | |
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| |
The Great Debate | |
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| |
Federalists versus Anti-Federalists | |
| |
| |
The Theory of the Large Republic: The Genius of James Madison | |
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| |
Ratification | |
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| |
Choices And Consequences To Ratify or Not, That Is the Question | |
| |
| |
The Creation of a Loyal Opposition | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Chapter Review | |
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| |
Political Passions in the New Republic, 1789-1800 | |
| |
| |
Launching the New Government | |
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| |
Choosing the First President | |
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| |
The First Federal Elections: Completing the Constitution | |
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| |
Filling Out the Branches of Government | |
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| |
Hamilton's Ambitious Program | |
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| |
Hamilton's Vision for the New Republic | |
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| |
The Assumption of State Debts | |
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| |
Madison's Opposition | |
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| |
The Bank, the Mint, and the Report on Manufactures | |
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| |
Jefferson and Hamilton: Contrasting Visions of the Republic | |
| |
| |
Partisanship without Parties | |
| |
| |
A New Type of Politician | |
| |
| |
The Growth of the Partisan Press | |
| |
| |
The Democratic-Republican Societies | |
| |
| |
Conflicts at Home and Abroad | |
| |
| |
The French Revolution in America | |
| |
| |
Adams versus Clinton: A Contest for Vice President | |
| |
| |
Diplomatic Controversies and Triumphs | |
| |
| |
Violence along the Frontier | |
| |
| |
Choices And Consequences Washington's Decision to Crush the Whiskey Rebellion | |
| |
| |
Cultural Politics in a Passionate Age | |
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| |
Political Fashions and Fashionable Politics | |
| |
| |
Literature, Education, and Gender | |
| |
| |
Federalists, Republicans, and the Politics of Race | |
| |
| |
Images As History "Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences" | |
| |
| |
The Stormy Presidency of John Adams | |
| |
| |
Washington's Farewell Address | |
| |
| |
The XYZ Affair and Quasi-War with France | |
| |
| |
The Alien and Sedition Acts | |
| |
| |
Competing Visions Congressional Debate over the Sedition Act | |
| |
| |
The Disputed Election of 1800 | |
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| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Chapter Review | |
| |
| |
| |
Jeffersonian America, 1800-1824 | |
| |
| |
Politics in Jeffersonian America | |
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| |
Jefferson's Visions of Government | |
| |
| |
The Jeffersonian Style | |
| |
| |
Political Slurs and the Politics of Honor | |
| |
| |
Religion in Jeffersonian America | |
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| |
An Expanding Empire of Liberty | |
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| |
Dismantling the Federalist Program | |
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| |
The Courts: The Last Bastion of Federalist Power | |
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| |
Choices And Consequences | |
| |
| |
John Marshall's Dilemma | |
| |
| |
The Louisiana Purchase | |
| |
| |
Lewis and Clark | |
| |
| |
Pan-Indian Revivalism, and Jeffersonian Expansionism | |
| |
| |
Dissension at Home | |
| |
| |
Jefferson's Attack on the Federalist Judiciary | |
| |
| |
The Controversial Mr. Burr | |
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| |
America | |
| |
| |
Confronts a World at War | |
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| |
The Failure of Peaceable Coercion | |
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| |
Madison's Travails: Diplomatic Blunders Abroad and Tensions on the Frontier | |
| |
| |
The War of 1812 | |
| |
| |
Competing Visions War Hawks and Their Critics | |
| |
| |
The Hartford Convention | |
| |
| |
The Republic Reborn: Consequences of the War of 1812 | |
| |
| |
The National Republican Vision of James Monroe | |
| |
| |
Images As History Samuel Morse's House of Representatives and the National Republican Vision | |
| |
| |
Diplomatic Triumphs | |
| |
| |
Economic and Technological Innovation | |
| |
| |
Judicial Nationalism | |
| |
| |
Crisis and the Collapse of the National Republican Consensus | |
| |
| |
The Panic of 1819 | |
| |
| |
Denmark Vesey's Rebellion | |
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| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Chapter Review | |
| |
| |
| |
The Democratization of American Culture, 1824-1840 | |
| |
| |
Democratic Culture | |
| |
| |
Competing Visions Should White Men without Property Have the Vote? | |
| |
| |
Davy Crockett and the Frontier Myth Andrew Jackson and His Age | |
| |
| |
The Election of 1824 and "The Corrupt Bargain" | |
| |
| |
The Election of 1828: "Old Hickory's" | |
| |
| |
Triumph | |
| |
| |
The Reign of "King Mob" | |
| |
| |
States' | |
| |
| |
Rights and the Nullification Crisis | |
| |
| |
White Man's Democracy | |
| |
| |
Race and Politics in the Jacksonian Era | |
| |
| |
The Cherokee Cases | |
| |
| |
Resistance and Removal | |
| |
| |
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES | |
| |
| |
Acquiescence or Resistance: The Cherokee Dilemma | |
| |
| |
Democrats, Whigs, and the Second Party System | |
| |
| |
Third Party Challenges: Anti-Masonry and Workingmen's Parties | |
| |
| |
The Bank War and the Rise of the Whigs | |
| |
| |
Images As History "Old Hickory" | |
| |
| |
or "King Andrew": Popular Images of Andrew Jackson | |
| |
| |
Economic Crisis and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren | |
| |
| |
Playing the Democrats' | |
| |
| |
Game: Whigs in the Election of 1840 | |
| |
| |
Gender and Social Class: The Whig Appeal | |
| |
| |
Democrats and Whigs: Two Visions of Government and Society | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Chapter Review | |
| |
| |
| |
Workers, Farmers, and Slaves: The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815-1848 | |
| |
| |
The Market Revolution | |
| |
| |
Agricultural Changes and Consequences | |
| |
| |
A Nation on the Move: Roads, Canals, Steamboats, and Trains | |
| |
| |
Images As History Nature, Technology, and the Railroad: George Innes' | |
| |
| |
Lackawanna Valley (1855) | |
| |
| |
Spreading the News | |
| |
| |
The Spread of Industrialization | |
| |
| |
From Artisan to Worker | |
| |
| |
Women and Work | |
| |
| |
The Lowell Experiment | |
| |
| |
Competing Visions The Lowell Strike of 1834 | |
| |
| |
Urban Industrialization | |
| |
| |
The Changing Urban Landscape | |
| |
| |
Old Port Cities and the New Cities of the Interior | |
| |
| |
Immigrants and the City | |
| |
| |
Free Black Communities in the North | |
| |
| |
Riot, Unrest, and Crime | |
| |
| |
Southern Society | |
| |
| |
The Planter Class | |
| |
| |
Yeoman and Tenant Farmers | |
| |
| |
Free Black Communities | |
| |
| |
White Southern Culture | |
| |
| |
Life and Labor under Slavery | |
| |
| |
Varied Systems of Slave Labor | |
| |
| |
Life in the Slave Quarters | |
| |
| |
Slave Religion and Music | |
| |
| |
Resistance and Revolt | |
| |
| |
Slavery and the Law | |
| |
| |
Choices And Consequences Conscience or Duty: Judge Ruffin's Quandary | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Chapter Review | |
| |
| |
| |
Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance, 1820-1850 | |
| |
| |
Revivalism and the Market Revolution | |
| |
| |
Temperance | |
| |
| |
Competing Visions Temperance Reform and Its Critics | |
| |
| |
Schools, Prisons, and Asylums | |
| |
| |
Abolitionism and the Pro-Slavery Response | |
| |
| |
The Rise of Immediatism | |
| |
| |
Images As History "The Greek Slave" | |
| |
| |
Anti-Abolitionism and the Abolitionist Response | |
| |
| |
The Pro-Slavery Argument | |
| |
| |
The Cult of True Womanhood, Reform, and Women's Rights | |
| |
| |
The New Domestic Ideal | |
| |
| |
Controlling Sexuality | |
| |
| |
The Path Toward Seneca Falls | |
| |
| |
Religious and Secular Utopianism | |
| |
| |
Millennialism, Perfectionism, and Religious Utopianism | |
| |
| |
Choices And Consequences Mary Cragin's Experiment in Free Love at Oneida | |
| |
| |
Secular Utopias | |
| |
| |
Literature and Popular Culture | |
| |
| |
Literature and Social Criticism | |
| |
| |
Domestic Fiction, Board Games, and Crime Stories | |
| |
| |
Slaves Tell Their Story: Slavery in American Literature | |
| |
| |
Lyceums and Lectures | |
| |
| |
Nature's Nation | |
| |
| |
Landscape Painting | |
| |
| |
Parks and Cemeteries | |
| |
| |
Revival and Reform in American Architecture | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Chapter Review | |
| |
| |
| |
"To Overspread the Continent:" | |
| |
| |
Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840-1848 | |
| |
| |
British, French, and Indian Encounters | |
| |
| |
Manifest Destiny and the Overland Trail | |
| |
| |
The Native American Encounter with Manifest Destiny | |
| |
| |
Images As History George Catlin and Mah-to-toh-pa: Representing Indians for an American Audience | |
| |
| |
The Mormon Flight to Utah | |
| |
| |
American Expansionism into the Southwest | |
| |
| |
The Transformation of Northern Mexico | |
| |
| |
The Clash of Interests in Texas | |
| |
| |
The Republic of Texas and the Politics of Annexation | |
| |
| |
Polk's Expansionist Vision | |
| |
| |
The Mexican War and Its Consequences | |
| |
| |
A Controversial War | |
| |
| |
Choices And Consequences Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience | |
| |
| |
War with Mexico | |
| |
| |
Images of the Mexican War | |
| |
| |
The Wilmot Proviso | |
| |
| |
Sectionalism and the Election of 1848 | |
| |
| |
COMPETING VISIONS | |
| |
| |
Slavery and Election of 1848 | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Chapter Review | |
| |
| |
| |
Slavery and Sectionalism: The Political Crisis of 1848-1861 | |
| |
| |
The Slavery Question in the Territories | |
| |
| |
The Gold Rush | |
| |
| |
Organizing California and New Mexico | |
| |
| |
The Compromise of 1850 | |
| |
| |
Choices And Consequences Resisting the Fugitive Slave Act | |
| |
| |
Political Realignment | |
| |
| |
Young America | |
| |
| |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
| |
| |
Republicans and Know-Nothings | |
| |
| |
Ballots and Blood | |
| |
| |
Images As History The "Foreign Menace" | |
| |
| |
Deepening Controversy | |
| |
| |
Two Societies | |
| |
| |
The Industrial North | |
| |
| |
Cotton Is Supreme | |
| |
| |
The Other South | |
| |
| |
Divergent Visions | |
| |
| |
A House Divided | |
| |
| |
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
| |
| |
John Brown's Raid | |
| |
| |
The Election of 1860 | |
| |
| |
Competing Visions Secession or Union? | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Chapter Review | |
| |
| |
| |
A Nation Torn Apart: The Civil War, 1861-1865 | |
| |
| |
Mobilization, Strategy, and Diplomacy | |
| |
| |
Comparative Advantages and Disadvantages | |
| |
| |
Mobilization in the North | |
| |
| |
Mobilization in the South | |
| |
| |
Wartime Diplomacy | |
| |
| |
The Early Campaigns, 1861-1863 | |
| |
| |
The Peninsular Campaign | |
| |
| |
A New Kind of War | |
| |
| |
Toward Emancipation | |
| |
| |
Slaughter and Stalemate | |
| |
| |
Images As History Photography and the Visualization of Modern War | |
| |
| |
Behind the Lines | |
| |
| |
Meeting the Demands of Modern War | |
| |
| |
Hardships on the Home Front | |
| |
| |
New Roles for Women | |
| |
| |
Copperheads | |
| |
| |
Conscription and Civil Unrest | |
| |
| |
Competing Visions Civil Liberties in a Civil War | |
| |
| |
Toward Union Victory | |
| |
| |
Turning Point: 1863 | |
| |
| |
The Confederacy Begins to Crumble | |
| |
| |
Choices And Consequences Equal Peril, Unequal Pay | |
| |
| |
Victory in Battle and at the Polls | |
| |
| |
War Is Hell | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Chapter Review | |
| |
| |
| |
Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863-1890 | |
| |
| |
Preparing for Reconstruction | |
| |
| |
Emancipation Test Cases | |
| |
| |
Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan | |
| |
| |
Radical Republicans Offer a Different Vision | |
| |
| |
The Fruits of Freedom | |
| |
| |
Freedom of Movement | |
| |
| |
Forty Acres and a Mule | |
| |
| |
Uplift through Education | |
| |
| |
The Black Church | |
| |
| |
The Struggle to Define Reconstruction | |
| |
| |
The Conservative Vision of Freedom: Presidential Reconstruction | |
| |
| |
COMPETING VISIONS | |
| |
| |
Demanding Rights, Protecting Privilege | |
| |
| |
Congressional Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment | |
| |
| |
Radical Republicans Take Control | |
| |
| |
Implementing Reconstruction | |
| |
| |
The Republican Party in the South | |
| |
| |
Creating Reconstruction Governments in the South | |
| |
| |
The Election of 1868 | |
| |
| |
The Rise of White Resistance | |
| |
| |
Reconstruction Abandoned | |
| |
| |
Corruption and Scandal | |
| |
| |
The North's Retreat | |
| |
| |
Images As History Political Cartoons Reflect the Shift in Public | |
| |
| |
Opinion | |
| |
| |
The Election of 1872 | |
| |
| |
The Return of Terrorism | |
| |
| |
The End of Reconstruction | |
| |
| |
The New South | |
| |
| |
Redeemer Rule | |
| |
| |
The Lost Cause | |
| |
| |
The New South Economy | |
| |
| |
The Rise of Sharecropping | |
| |
| |
Jim Crow | |
| |
| |
Choices And Consequences Sanctioning Separation | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Chapter Review | |
| |
| |
| |
Conflict and Conquest: The Transformation of the West, 1860-1900 | |
| |
| |
Congress Promotes Westward Settlement | |
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The Diversity of the Native American West | |
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Native American Tribes of the Great Plains | |
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The Great Westward Migration | |
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The Economic Transformation of the West | |
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The Railroad Fuels Western Development | |
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Hard Times for Farmers | |
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The Cattle Kingdom | |
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Fortunes Beneath the Ground: The Mining Booms | |
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The Environmental Legacy | |
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Competing Visions Preservation versus Exploitation | |
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Native Americans under Siege | |
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Mounting Problems for Native Americans | |
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Wars on the Plains | |
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War and Conflict in the Far West | |
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In Pursuit of a Solution | |
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Choices And Consequences Forced Assimilation versus Cultural | |
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Preservation | |
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Resistance and Romanticism | |
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Resistance and Persistence | |
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Creating Mythical Heroes and Images | |
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Images As History Annie Oakley | |
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The West in Art and Literature | |
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Historians Reinterpret the American West | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |