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Table of Contents

    • About the Author
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • 1Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds
      • 1.1The First Americans, to 1500
      • 1.2Old World Peoples in Africa and Europe, to 1500
      • 1.3Europe’s Internal Transformation, 1400–1600
      • 1.4From Across the Seas, 1420–1600
      • 1.5Conclusion
      • 1.6Chapter Summary
      • 1.7Competing Voices: Interpreting the Cultures of Strangers
    • 2The First Experiments: 1540–1680

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      • 2.1Struggles for New World Dominion, 1540–1680

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      • 2.2England’s Southern Plantings, 1607–1680

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      • 2.3The New England Colonies, 1620–1680

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      • 2.4Colonists and Indians: Coexistence and Conflict, 1630–1680

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      • 2.5Conclusion

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      • 2.6Chapter Summary

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      • 2.7Competing Voices: Race, Land, and Political Rights on the Frontier

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    • 3Imperial Connections, 1660–1748

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      • 3.1The Restoration Colonies, 1660–1685

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      • 3.2Shaping Imperial Commerce

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      • 3.3Crises at Home and Abroad, 1685–1700

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      • 3.4Politics and Culture in the New Century, 1700–1748

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      • 3.5Conclusion

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      • 3.6Chapter Summary

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      • 3.7Competing Voices: Two Views of Colonial Opportunity

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    • 4Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680–1754

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      • 4.1Growth and Diversity in the Colonies

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      • 4.2Varieties of Life in the North

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      • 4.3Varieties of Life in the South

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      • 4.4Maturity Brings Conflict, 1739–1754

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      • 4.5Conclusion

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      • 4.6Chapter Summary

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      • 4.7Competing Voices: Two Views About Transatlantic Slave Trading

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    • 5Forging the American Experiment, 1754–1775

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      • 5.1The Great War for the Empire, 1754–1763

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      • 5.2Rethinking Empire, 1763–1765

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      • 5.3Deepening Commitment, Rising Violence, 1765–1770

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      • 5.4Toward Independence, 1770–1773

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      • 5.5Forging a Political Community, 1774–1775

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      • 5.6Conclusion

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      • 5.7Chapter Summary

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      • 5.8Competing Voices: Two Views of the Boston Massacre, 1770

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    • 6Winning Independence 1775–1783

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      • 6.1The Decision for Independence, 1775–1776

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      • 6.2The Revolution in Earnest, 1776–1778

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      • 6.3The Character of War

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      • 6.4The New Republican Order

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      • 6.5Winning the War, 1778–1783

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      • 6.6Conclusion

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      • 6.7Chapter Summary

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      • 6.8Competing Voices: War’s Miseries—Two Views

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    • 7The Federal Experiment, 1783–1800

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      • 7.1The Critical Period, 1783–1787

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      • 7.2The National Founding

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      • 7.3Forming A National Government

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      • 7.4Federalists Versus Democratic-Republicans

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      • 7.5Factions, Interests, and American Identity

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      • 7.6Conclusion

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      • 7.7Chapter Summary

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      • 7.8Competing Voices: Subduing the Old Northwest

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    • 8Striving for Nationhood, 1800–1824

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      • 8.1Democratic-Republicans in Power

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      • 8.2Expansion and the Agrarian Republic

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      • 8.3America in the World, 1800–1815

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      • 8.4Conclusion

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      • 8.5Chapter Summary

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      • 8.6Competing Voices: Frontier Expansion and War

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    • 9An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790–1840

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      • 9.1New Social Identities

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      • 9.2Transforming the Empire for Liberty

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      • 9.3New Regional Identities

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      • 9.4Tensions in the Empire for Liberty

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      • 9.5Conclusion

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      • 9.6Chapter Summary

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      • 9.7Competing Voices: Houses in the Early Republic

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    • 10Transforming the Political Culture, 1820–1840

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      • 10.1Popular Politics, 1820–1828

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      • 10.2The Jacksonian Persuasion

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      • 10.3The Experiment in Action, 1829–1836

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      • 10.4Dissenting Strains, 1832–1840

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      • 10.5Conclusion

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      • 10.6Chapter Summary

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      • 10.7Competing Voices: Cherokee Removal

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    • 11Industry and Reform in the North, 1820–1850

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      • 11.1Immigration and Urbanization

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      • 11.2The Accelerating Industrial Experiment

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      • 11.3Varieties of Reform

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      • 11.4Conclusion

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      • 11.5Chapter Summary

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      • 11.6Competing Voices: Two Views on Working Conditions

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    • 12Living with Slavery, North and South: 1820–1850

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      • 12.1Abolition and Antislavery Movements

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      • 12.2Southern Society

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      • 12.3African-American Culture

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      • 12.4Planters and Yeomen

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      • 12.5Conclusion

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      • 12.6Chapter Summary

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      • 12.7Competing Voices: The Controversy Over Slavery

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    • 13The Westward Experiment, 1820–1850

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      • 13.1A Great Transfer of Peoples

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      • 13.2Destinations and Encounters

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      • 13.3Expansion and Sectionalism, 1840–1848

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      • 13.4Conclusion

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      • 13.5Chapter Summary

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      • 13.6Competing Voices: The Passage West

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    • 14The Sectional Challenge, 1848–1860

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      • 14.1Territory and Politics

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      • 14.2A New Party System Emerges

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      • 14.3The Slide into War, 1856–1859

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      • 14.4Lincoln and the Union, 1856–1860

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      • 14.5Conclusion

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      • 14.6Chapter Summary

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      • 14.7Competing Voices: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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    • 15Transforming the Experiment: The Civil War, 1861–1865

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      • 15.1The War Begins, 1861

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      • 15.2Stalemate on the Battlefield, 1861–1862

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      • 15.3Mobilizing for War, 1861–1863

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      • 15.4War and Society, 1861–1865

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      • 15.5The Decisive Year, 1863

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      • 15.6A New Experiment in Warfare, 1864–1865

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      • 15.7Conclusion

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      • 15.8Chapter Summary

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      • 15.9Competing Voices: Civil War Songs

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    • 16Reconstruction and the New South, 1865–1900

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      • 16.1Presidential Reconstruction: The First Experiment, 1864–1866

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      • 16.2Congressional Reconstruction: The Radical Experiment, 1866–1870

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      • 16.3The Radical Experiment in the South, 1865–1872

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      • 16.4President Grant and the Divided North, 1868–1876

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      • 16.5The Failure of Reconstruction, 1870–1877

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      • 16.6The New South, 1870–1900

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      • 16.7Conclusion

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      • 16.8Chapter Summary

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      • 16.9Competing Voices: Order Versus Freedom in the Reconstructed South

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