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| Preface |
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| PROLOGUE Beginnings |
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The Demise of the Big Mammals |
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The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals, 9000 B.C.-1000 B.C. |
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The First Sedentary Communities, 1000 B.C. |
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Corn Transforms the Southwest |
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8 | (2) |
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10 | (1) |
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Population Growth After 800 A.D. |
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11 | (1) |
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Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture |
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12 | (1) |
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The Collapse of Urban Centers |
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13 | (2) |
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American Beginnings in Eurasia and Africa |
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15 | (1) |
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15 | (3) |
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Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas |
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18 | (30) |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (2) |
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Relativity of Cultural Values |
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24 | (1) |
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Disease and Population Losses |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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The Protestant Reformation |
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26 | (2) |
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English Beginnings in America |
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28 | (1) |
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The Settlement of Virginia |
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29 | (2) |
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``Purifying'' the Church of England |
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31 | (1) |
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Bradford and Plymouth Colony |
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32 | (4) |
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Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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36 | (1) |
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Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson |
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37 | (2) |
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Other New England Colonies |
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39 | (1) |
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French and Dutch Settlements |
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39 | (1) |
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Maryland and the Carolinas |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (3) |
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Indians and Europeans as ``Americanizers'' |
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45 | (3) |
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American Lives Tisquantum |
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34 | (14) |
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American Society in the Making |
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48 | (32) |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
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``Solving'' the Labor Shortage: Slavery |
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53 | (1) |
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Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco |
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54 | (2) |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (2) |
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Home and Family in the South |
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59 | (2) |
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Georgia and the Back Country |
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61 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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Puritan Women and Children |
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62 | (1) |
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Visible Puritan Saints and Others |
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63 | (1) |
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Democracies Without Democrats |
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64 | (1) |
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Dedham: A ``Typical'' Town |
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65 | (1) |
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The Dominion of New England |
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66 | (1) |
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67 | (3) |
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Higher Education in New England |
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70 | (1) |
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Prosperity Undermines Puritanism |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (2) |
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The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis |
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74 | (1) |
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The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples |
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74 | (1) |
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``The Best Poor Man's Country'' |
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75 | (1) |
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The Politics of Diversity |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (3) |
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Re-Viewing The Past The Crucible |
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68 | (12) |
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America in the British Empire |
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80 | (32) |
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The British Colonial System |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (2) |
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85 | (1) |
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The Effects of Mercantilism |
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85 | (2) |
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87 | (1) |
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The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards |
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88 | (1) |
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The Enlightenment in America |
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89 | (1) |
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Colonial Scientific Achievements |
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90 | (1) |
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Repercussions of Distant Wars |
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91 | (3) |
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The Great War for the Empire |
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94 | (2) |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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Tightening Imperial Controls |
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98 | (2) |
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100 | (1) |
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American Colonists Demand Rights |
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100 | (1) |
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The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (1) |
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107 | (1) |
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From Resistance to Revolution |
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108 | (4) |
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American Lives Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi |
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92 | (20) |
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112 | (28) |
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``The Shot Heard Round the World'' |
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114 | (1) |
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The Second Continental Congress |
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114 | (1) |
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The Battle of Bunker Hill |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (2) |
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1776: The Balance of Forces |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (1) |
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Saratoga and the French Alliance |
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121 | (3) |
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124 | (1) |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (4) |
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Forming a National Government |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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State Republican Governments |
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131 | (1) |
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131 | (2) |
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Effects of the Revolution on Women |
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133 | (1) |
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Growth of a National Spirit |
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134 | (1) |
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The Great Land Ordinances |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (3) |
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Re-Viewing The Past The Patriot |
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126 | (14) |
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The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant |
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140 | (30) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (1) |
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Daniel Shays's ``Little Rebellion'' |
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144 | (1) |
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To Philadelphia, and the Constitution |
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145 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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The Compromises That Produced the Constitution |
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146 | (4) |
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Ratifying the Constitution |
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150 | (5) |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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Hamilton and Financial Reform |
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156 | (3) |
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The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground |
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159 | (1) |
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159 | (2) |
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Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties |
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161 | (1) |
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1794: Crisis and Resolution |
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162 | (1) |
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162 | (1) |
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1795: All's Well That Ends Well |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (2) |
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165 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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The Alien and Sedition Acts |
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166 | (1) |
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The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves |
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167 | (3) |
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Mapping the Past East Versus West: Political Conflict in the New Nation |
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152 | (18) |
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170 | (24) |
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The Federalist Contribution |
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173 | (1) |
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Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist |
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174 | (1) |
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174 | (2) |
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Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (1) |
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177 | (3) |
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180 | (1) |
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181 | (3) |
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184 | (2) |
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Domestic Concerns Vex Jefferson |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (1) |
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187 | (1) |
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The Impressment Controversy |
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188 | (2) |
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190 | (4) |
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Mapping the Past A Water Route to the Pacific? |
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182 | (12) |
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194 | (30) |
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195 | (1) |
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Tecumseh and Indian Resistance |
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196 | (1) |
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Depression and Land Hunger |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (1) |
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198 | (3) |
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Britain Assumes the Offensive |
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201 | (1) |
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``The Star Spangled Banner'' |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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The Battle of New Orleans |
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203 | (1) |
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Victory Weakens the Federalists |
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204 | (1) |
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Anglo-American Rapprochement |
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205 | (1) |
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The Transcontinental Treaty |
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206 | (1) |
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206 | (2) |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (4) |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (2) |
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218 | (1) |
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John Quincy Adams as President |
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219 | (1) |
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Calhoun's Exposition and Protest |
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219 | (3) |
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The Meaning of Sectionalism |
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222 | (2) |
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Mapping the Past North-South Sectionalism Intensifies |
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220 | (4) |
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Toward a National Economy |
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224 | (24) |
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Gentility and the Consumer Revolution |
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225 | (1) |
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America's Industrial Revolution |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (3) |
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An Industrial Proletariat? |
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230 | (2) |
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Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers |
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232 | (1) |
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Irish and German Immigrants |
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232 | (1) |
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The Persistence of the Household System |
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233 | (1) |
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233 | (1) |
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Cotton Revolutionizes the South |
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234 | (2) |
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236 | (2) |
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238 | (1) |
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Transportation and the Government |
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239 | (1) |
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Development of Steamboats |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (1) |
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New York City: Emporium of the Western World |
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242 | (2) |
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244 | (4) |
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Mapping the Past The Making of the Working Class |
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228 | (20) |
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248 | (24) |
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``Democratizing'' Politics |
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250 | (1) |
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1828: The New Party System in Embryo |
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251 | (1) |
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252 | (1) |
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253 | (1) |
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President of All the People |
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254 | (1) |
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Sectional Tensions Revived |
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254 | (1) |
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Jackson: ``The Bank ... I Will Kill It!'' |
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255 | (1) |
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256 | (1) |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (2) |
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260 | (2) |
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262 | (1) |
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263 | (1) |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson |
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264 | (2) |
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266 | (6) |
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American Lives Horace Greeley |
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268 | (4) |
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The Making of Middle-Class America |
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272 | (20) |
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Tocqueville and Beaumont in America |
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274 | (1) |
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274 | (1) |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (1) |
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The Second Great Awakening |
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277 | (4) |
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281 | (1) |
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281 | (2) |
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283 | (1) |
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284 | (1) |
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285 | (3) |
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288 | (4) |
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Mapping the Past Fertility and the Frontier |
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278 | (14) |
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292 | (22) |
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In Search of Native Grounds |
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293 | (2) |
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The Romantic View of Life |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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300 | (1) |
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The Wider Literary Renaissance |
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301 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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303 | (2) |
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Reading and the Dissemination of Culture |
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305 | (3) |
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The State of the Colleges |
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308 | (1) |
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309 | (1) |
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310 | (1) |
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311 | (3) |
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American Lives Sojourner Truth |
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306 | (8) |
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314 | (24) |
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316 | (1) |
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The Webster-Ashburton Treaty |
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316 | (1) |
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317 | (1) |
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318 | (1) |
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319 | (1) |
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320 | (1) |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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323 | (2) |
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To the Halls of Montezuma |
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325 | (1) |
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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326 | (1) |
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The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States |
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327 | (3) |
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Slavery: The Fire Bell in the Night Rings Again |
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330 | (1) |
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331 | (1) |
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331 | (1) |
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332 | (6) |
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Mapping the Past Irish and German Immigration |
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328 | (10) |
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The Sections Go Their Ways |
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338 | (26) |
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340 | (1) |
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340 | (2) |
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Antebellum Plantation Life |
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342 | (1) |
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343 | (4) |
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Psychological Effects of Slavery |
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347 | (2) |
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Manufacturing in the South |
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349 | (1) |
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The Northern Industrial Juggernaut |
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350 | (1) |
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351 | (1) |
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352 | (1) |
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353 | (2) |
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355 | (1) |
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Steam Conquers the Atlantic |
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355 | (1) |
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356 | (1) |
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357 | (1) |
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Railroads and the Economy |
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358 | (2) |
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Railroads and the Sectional Conflict |
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360 | (1) |
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The Economy on the Eve of Civil War |
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360 | (4) |
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Re-Viewing the Past Amistad |
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344 | (20) |
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The Coming of the Civil War |
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364 | (26) |
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The Slave Power Comes North |
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365 | (1) |
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366 | (1) |
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Diversions Abroad: The ``Young America'' Movement |
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367 | (3) |
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Douglas: ``The Little Giant'' |
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370 | (1) |
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371 | (2) |
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Know-Nothings and Republicans |
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373 | (1) |
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374 | (2) |
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Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism |
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376 | (1) |
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377 | (1) |
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377 | (2) |
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The Lecompton Constitution |
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379 | (1) |
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379 | (2) |
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
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381 | (2) |
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383 | (1) |
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384 | (2) |
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386 | (4) |
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Mapping the Past Runaway Slaves: Hard Realities |
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368 | (22) |
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The War to Save the Union |
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390 | (30) |
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391 | (1) |
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Fort Sumter: The First Shot |
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392 | (1) |
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393 | (2) |
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The Test of Battle: Bull Run |
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395 | (1) |
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396 | (1) |
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396 | (2) |
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398 | (1) |
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398 | (1) |
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McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior |
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399 | (2) |
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Lee Counterattacks: Antietam |
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401 | (1) |
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The Emancipation Proclamation |
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402 | (2) |
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404 | (1) |
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404 | (1) |
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African American Soldiers |
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404 | (4) |
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408 | (1) |
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Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg |
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409 | (2) |
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Economic and Social Effects, North and South |
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411 | (1) |
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412 | (1) |
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413 | (1) |
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414 | (2) |
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To Appomattox Court House |
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416 | (1) |
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Winners, Losers, and the Future |
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416 | (4) |
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Re-Viewing the Past Glory |
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406 | (14) |
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Reconstruction and the South |
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Presidential Reconstruction |
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422 | (1) |
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423 | (3) |
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426 | (1) |
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426 | (1) |
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427 | (1) |
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428 | (1) |
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``Black Republican'' Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers |
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429 | (4) |
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433 | (2) |
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Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System |
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435 | (2) |
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437 | (1) |
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438 | (2) |
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The Disputed Election of 1876 |
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440 | (1) |
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Mapping the Past The Politics of Reconstruction |
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| Appendix |
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1 | (1) |
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The Declaration of Independence |
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3 | (2) |
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The Articles of Confederation |
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5 | (4) |
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The Constitution of the United States of America |
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9 | (5) |
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Amendments to the Constitution |
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14 | (5) |
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Presidential Elections, 1789-2000 |
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19 | (5) |
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Present Day United States |
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24 | (2) |
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| Picture Credits |
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1 | (1) |
| Index |
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