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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Not-so-"New" World | |
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| The Collision of Cultures | |
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| Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations | |
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| European Visions of America | |
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| The Expansion of Europe | |
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| The Voyages of Columbus | |
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| The Great Biological Exchange | |
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| Professional Explorers | |
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| The Spanish Empire | |
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| The Protestant Reformation | |
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| Challenges to the Spanish Empire | |
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| Britain and Its Colonies | |
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| The English Background | |
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| Settling the Chesapeake | |
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| Settling new England | |
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| Indians in new England | |
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| The English Civil War in America | |
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| Settling the Carolinas | |
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| Settling the Middle Colonies and Georgia | |
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| Thriving Colonies | |
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| Colonial Ways of Life | |
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| The Shape of Early America | |
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| Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies | |
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| Society and Economy in new England | |
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| Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies | |
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| Colonial Cities | |
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| The Enlightenment in America | |
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| The Great Awakening | |
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| From Colonies to States | |
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| English Administration of the Colonies | |
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| The Habit of Self-Government | |
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| Troubled Neighbors | |
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| The Colonial Wars | |
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| Regulating the Colonies | |
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| Fanning the Flames | |
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| A Worsening Crisis | |
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| Shifting Authority | |
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| Independence | |
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| Building a Nation | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| 1776: Washington's Narrow Escape | |
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| American Society at War | |
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| 1777: Setbacks for the British | |
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| 1778: Both Sides Regroup | |
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| The War in the South | |
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| The Treaty of Paris | |
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| The Political Revolution | |
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| The Social Revolution | |
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| The Emergence of an American Culture | |
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| Shaping a Federal Union | |
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| The Confederation Government | |
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| Creating the Constitution | |
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| The Federalist Era | |
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| A New Nation | |
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| Hamilton's Financial Vision | |
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| The Republican Alternative | |
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| Crises Foreign and Domestic | |
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| Settlement of New Land | |
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| Transfer of Power | |
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| The Adams Administration | |
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| The Early Republic | |
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| The New American Nation | |
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| Jeffersonian Simplicity | |
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| Divisions in the Republican Party | |
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| War in Europe | |
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| The War of 1812 | |
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| An Expansive Nation | |
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| The Dynamics of Growth | |
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| Transportation and the Market Revolution | |
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| A Communications Revolution | |
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| Agriculture and the National Economy | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| The Popular Culture | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Organized Labor | |
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| The Rise of the Professions | |
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| Jacksonian Inequality | |
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| Nationalism and Sectionalism | |
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| Economic Nationalism | |
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| "An Era of Good Feelings" | |
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| Crises and Compromises | |
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| Judicial Nationalism | |
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| Nationalist Diplomacy | |
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| One-Party Politics | |
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| The Jacksonian Era | |
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| Setting the Stage | |
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| Nullification | |
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| Jackson's Indian Policy | |
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| The Bank Controversy | |
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| Contentious Politics | |
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| Van Buren and the New Party System | |
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| Assessing the Jackson Years | |
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| The Old South | |
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| The Distinctiveness of the Old South | |
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| White Society in the South | |
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| Black Society in the South | |
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| The Culture of the Southern Frontier | |
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| Religion, Romanticism, and Reform | |
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| Rational Religion | |
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| The Second Great Awakening | |
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| Romanticism in America | |
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| The Flowering of American Literature | |
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| Education | |
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| The Reform Impulse | |
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| Anti-Slavery Movements | |
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| A House Divided and Rebuilt | |
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| An Empire in the West | |
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| The Tyler Presidency | |
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| The Western Frontier | |
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| Moving West | |
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| Annexing Texas | |
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| The Mexican War | |
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| The Gathering Storm | |
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| Slavery in the Territories | |
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| The Compromise of 1850 | |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis | |
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| The Deepening Sectional Crisis | |
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| The Center Comes Apart | |
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| The War of the Union | |
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| The End of the Waiting Game | |
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| The Balance of Force | |
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| The War's Early Course | |
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| Emancipation | |
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| The War Behind the Lines | |
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| Government During the War | |
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| The Faltering Confederacy | |
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| The Confederacy's Defeat | |
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| A Modern War | |
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| Reconstruction: North and South | |
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| The War's Aftermath | |
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| The Battle Over Political Reconstruction | |
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| The Assassination of Lincoln | |
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| Reconstructing the South | |
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| The Reconstructed South | |
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| The Grant Years | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Appendix | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| Articles of Confederation | |
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| The Constitution of the United States | |
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| Amendments to the Constitution | |
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| Presidential Elections | |
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| Admission of States | |
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| Population of the United States | |
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| Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 | |
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| Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 | |
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| Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |