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The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492 |
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The Americas | |||
Europe on the Brink of Change | |||
West Africa and the Role of Slavery | |||
Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650 |
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Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest | |||
Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World | |||
Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy | |||
New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange | |||
Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700 |
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Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society | |||
Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions | |||
English Settlements in America | |||
The Impact of Colonization | |||
Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763 |
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Charles II and the Restoration Colonies | |||
The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire | |||
An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution | |||
Great Awakening and Enlightenment | |||
Wars for Empire | |||
Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774 |
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Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War | |||
The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty | |||
The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest | |||
The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts | |||
Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity | |||
America’s War for Independence, 1775-1783 |
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Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences | |||
The Early Years of the Revolution | |||
War in the South | |||
Identity during the American Revolution | |||
Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790 |
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Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic | |||
How Much Revolutionary Change? | |||
Debating Democracy | |||
The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution | |||
Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820 |
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Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans | |||
The New American Republic | |||
Partisan Politics | |||
The United States Goes Back to War | |||
Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850 |
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Early Industrialization in the Northeast | |||
A Vibrant Capitalist Republic | |||
On the Move: The Transportation Revolution | |||
A New Social Order: Class Divisions | |||
Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840 |
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A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson | |||
The Rise of American Democracy | |||
The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War | |||
Indian Removal | |||
The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority | |||
A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860 |
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Lewis and Clark | |||
The Missouri Crisis | |||
Independence for Texas | |||
The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848 | |||
Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West | |||
Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860 |
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The Economics of Cotton | |||
African Americans in the Antebellum United States | |||
Wealth and Culture in the South | |||
The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States | |||
Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 |
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An Awakening of Religion and Individualism | |||
Antebellum Communal Experiments | |||
Reforms to Human Health | |||
Addressing Slavery | |||
Women’s Rights | |||
Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s |
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The Compromise of 1850 | |||
The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party | |||
The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife | |||
John Brown and the Election of 1860 | |||
The Civil War, 1860–1865 |
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The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War | |||
Early Mobilization and War | |||
1863: The Changing Nature of the War | |||
The Union Triumphant | |||
The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 |
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Restoring the Union | |||
Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866 | |||
Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872 | |||
The Collapse of Reconstruction | |||
Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900 |
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The Westward Spirit | |||
Homesteading: Dreams and Realities | |||
Making a Living in Gold and Cattle | |||
The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture | |||
The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens | |||
Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900 |
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Inventors of the Age | |||
From Invention to Industrial Growth | |||
Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor | |||
A New American Consumer Culture | |||
The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 |
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Urbanization and Its Challenges | |||
The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration | |||
Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life | |||
Change Reflected in Thought and Writing | |||
Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900 |
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Political Corruption in Postbellum America | |||
The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold | |||
Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era | |||
Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s | |||
Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920 |
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The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America | |||
Progressivism at the Grassroots Level | |||
New Voices for Women and African Americans | |||
Progressivism in the White House | |||
Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914 |
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Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire | |||
The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire | |||
Economic Imperialism in East Asia | |||
Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy | |||
Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy” | |||
Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 |
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American Isolationism and the European Origins of War | |||
The United States Prepares for War | |||
A New Home Front | |||
From War to Peace | |||
Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath | |||
The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
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Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment | |||
Transformation and Backlash | |||
A New Generation | |||
Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s | |||
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 |
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | |||
President Hoover’s Response | |||
The Depths of the Great Depression | |||
Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal | |||
Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
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The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt | |||
The First New Deal | |||
The Second New Deal | |||
Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945 |
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The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States | |||
The Home Front | |||
Victory in the European Theater | |||
The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb | |||
Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
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The Challenges of Peacetime | |||
The Cold War | |||
The American Dream | |||
Popular Culture and Mass Media | |||
The African American Struggle for Civil Rights | |||
Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s |
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The Kennedy Promise | |||
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society | |||
The Civil Rights Movement Marches On | |||
Challenging the Status Quo | |||
Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980 |
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Identity Politics in a Fractured Society | |||
Coming Apart, Coming Together | |||
Vietnam: The Downward Spiral | |||
Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare | |||
Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm | |||
From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 |
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The Reagan Revolution | |||
Political and Cultural Fusions | |||
A New World Order | |||
Bill Clinton and the New Economy | |||
The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century |
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The War on Terror | |||
The Domestic Mission | |||
New Century, Old Disputes | |||
Hope and Change |