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A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
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, CONTENTS
PART 1 Contact and Exploration, 1491–1607
1. The World before 1492 1
2. First Encounters, First Conquests, 1492–1607 24
PART 2 Settlements Old and New, 1607–1754
3. Settlements, Alliances, and Resistance, 1607–1718 48
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4. Creating the Culture of British North America, 1689–1754 73
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PART 3 A New Birth of Freedom—Creating the United States of America,
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1754–1800
5. The Making of a Revolution, 1754–1783 99
6. Creating a Nation, 1783–1788
7. Practicing Democracy, 1789–1800
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PART 4 Crafting a Nation, People, Land, and a National Identity, 1800–1848
8. Creating a New People, Expanding the Country, 1801–1823 174
9. New Industries, New Politics, 1815–1828 203
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10. Democracy in the Age of Andrew Jackson, 1828–1844 231
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11. Manifest Destiny: Expanding the Nation, 1830–1853 259
PART 5 Expansion, Separation, and a New Union, 1844–1877
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12. Living in a Nation of Changing Lands, Changing Faces,
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Changing Expectations, 1831–1854 288
13. The Politics of Separation, 1850–1861 308
14. And the War Came: The Civil War, 1861–1865 327
15. Reconstruction, 1865–1877 348
, PART 6 Becoming an Industrial World Power—Costs, Benefits, and
Responses, 1865–1914
16. Conflict in the West, 1865–1912 367
17. The Gilded Age: Building a Technological and Industrial Giant
and a New Social Order, 1876–1913 388
18. Responses to Industrialism, Responses to Change, 1877–1914 407
19. Progressive Movements, Progressive Politics, 1879–1917 424
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PART 7 War, Prosperity, and Depression, 1890–1945
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20. Foreign Policy and War in a Progressive Era, 1890–1919 445
21. A Unique, Prosperous, and Discontented Time, 1919–1929 464
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22. Living in Hard Times, 1929–1939 486
23. Living in a World at War, 1939–1945 505
PART 8 Fears, Joys, and Limits, 1945–1980
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24. The World the War Created, 1945–1952 531
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25. Complacency and Change, 1952–1965 551
26. Lives Changed, 1961–1968 572
27. Rights, Reaction, and Limits, 1968–1980 592
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PART 9 Certainty, Uncertainty, and New Beginnings, 1980 to the Present
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28. The Reagan Revolution, 1980–1989 615
29. A New World Order, 1989–2001 635
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30. Entering a New Time, 2001–to the Present 654
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