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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Big Country | |
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| Prehistory and the First Americans | |
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| North American Indians in 1500 | |
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| Europeans Explore and Exploit the Americas | |
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| Building the Spanish Empire, 1513-1542 | |
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| France and Spain Become Rivals in North America | |
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| England Comes Late to the Party | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Plantation South, 1607-1771 | |
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| Virginia's Early Days, 1607-1624 | |
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| Governor Sir William Berkeley's Virginia, 1642-1677 | |
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| The Great Planters Turn to Slavery | |
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| Founding the Other Southern Colonies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Religious New England, 1620-1760 | |
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| The Pilgrims Found Plymouth Colony, 1620 | |
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| England in 1620 | |
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| The Puritans Found Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629-1642 | |
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| Puritan Life Revolves around Religion | |
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| Troubles Come to Massachusetts, 1660-1692 | |
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| Awakenings, Commercial and Religious, 1700-1760 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Diverse Middle Colonies, 1624-1760 | |
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| The Dutch Found New Netherland, 1624-1664 | |
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| The English Add New York to Their Empire, 1651-1750 | |
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| Multiethnic Experimenting in Pennsylvania, 1681-1760 | |
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| Philadelphia Grows and Prospers, 1682-1760 | |
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| Founding the Other Middle Colonies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| The American Revolution, 1750-1783 | |
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| Americans Help Maintain the British Empire, 1750-1763 | |
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| The Mother Country Abuses Her Children, 1764-1774 | |
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| Americans Make a Revolution, 1774-1783 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| The New Nation, 1783-1800 | |
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| Living under the Articles of Confederation, 1783-1787 | |
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| Planning the United States Constitution, 1787-1789 | |
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| George Washington's Presidency, 1789-1797 | |
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| John Adams's Presidency, 1797-1801 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Thomas Jefferson's America, 1801-1829 | |
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| Thomas Jefferson Envisions a Great, Expanding Nation | |
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| Friction with Britain Leads to the War of 1812 | |
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| The Era of Good Feelings, 1816-1824 | |
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| John Quincy Adams's Presidency, 1825-1829 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Market Revolution, 1790-1850 | |
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| Textile Manufacturing Starts the Market Revolution | |
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| King Cotton Drives the Economy | |
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| Improved Transportation Stimulates Commerce | |
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| The Market Revolution Transforms Society | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Evangelical Religion and Reform, 1790-1850 | |
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| Southerners Embrace Revivals but Disdain Reform | |
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| Northeasterners Undertake Revivals with Reforms | |
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| Reformers Tackle Social Problems | |
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| Idealists Seek Change | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Andrew Jackson of the West | |
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| The Frontier West Gives Birth to Jacksonian Ideals | |
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| Jackson Brings Frontier Democracy to the Nation | |
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| Jackson Fights to Preserve the Union | |
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| Jackson Wrecks the Banking System and the Economy | |
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| Jackson Removes Eastern Indians to Western Reservations | |
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| Jackson Casts a Shadow, 1836-1845 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Problem of Slavery | |
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| The Revolutionary Generation Attacks Slavery | |
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| Black Life in the South | |
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| Colonizationists Urge Abolition with Removal | |
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| Southerners Adopt a Positive View of Slavery | |
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| Religious Abolitionists Call Slavery a Sin | |
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| Militant Abolitionists Denounce Slavery | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Americans at Midcentury: Unbounded Optimism | |
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| Rapid Growth Reshapes the Country | |
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| The Middle Class Adopts Modern Values | |
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| Americans Lay Claim to the Continent | |
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| The Texas Question Leads to War with Mexico | |
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| Adopting the Compromise of 1850 | |
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| Manifest Destiny and Filibusters | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Sectional Crisis, 1852-1861 | |
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| The Territorial Slavery Issue Returns, 1852-1854 | |
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| Violence Helps the Republican Party, 1854-1856 | |
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| James Buchanan's Presidency, 1857-1861 | |
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| Secession Crisis, 1860-1861 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Civil War, 1861-1865 | |
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| The War Begins, 1861 | |
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| The War Grows Long, 1862 | |
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| The Key Year, 1863 | |
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| The Confederacy Crumbles, 1864-1865 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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| Wartime Reconstruction, 1863-1865 | |
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| Johnson and Congress Quarrel, 1865-1866 | |
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| Radicals Continue Reconstruction, 1867-1873 | |
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| Conservatives Regain Power in the South, 1868-1877 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| The Constitution of the United States of America | |
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| U.S. Population Characteristics | |
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| Population for Selected Large Cities | |
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| Presidential Elections | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Maps | |
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| Location of Native Peoples around 1500 | |
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| European Explorations in North America | |
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| American Seaboard Colonies | |
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| The United States in 1783 | |
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| Water versus Land Transportation | |
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| The American West, 1818-1859 | |
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| The United States in 1861 | |
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| The Civil War in the East, 1861-1865 | |
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| The Civil War in the West, 1861-1862 | |
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| Gettysburg | |
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| The Civil War in the West, 1863-1865 | |
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| Tables | |
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| The Columbian Exchange | |
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| Estimated Immigration to British North America, 1700-1775 | |
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| The 1856 Presidential Election | |
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| The 1860 Presidential Election | |
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| Civil War Commanders | |