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Rand McNally Co., Chicago, 1963, 434 pgs., index, maps, further
reading, chronological lists of events, paperback
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There are a huge number of large histories of the United States, some
text books fill two volumes - one pre Civil War and one Post Civil War - and
courses in American History frequently are divided by a semester in each. The
great detail is valuable for students, but can be overwhelming when wants to
focus on a specific, significant issue. This synopsis provides a convenient
source for such information. Re-reading American history one finds that many of
the same issues that created considerable political and social conflict from
colonial times are still at the center of conflicts today; such as the role of
banks, nature of money, agriculturaL versus industrial special interests and
rural versus urban interests..
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Chapter 1 - Beginnings, 1607-1700
England Discovers the New World
The Chesapeake Colonies: Virginia and Maryland
New England: Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay
Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire
English Strife and American Autonomy
Puritanism versus Modernity
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Chapter 2 - Britain's North American Empire, 1660-1763
The Proprietary Colonies
The Navigation Acts and the Colonial Economy
Administering the Empire
The Anglo-French Wars
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Chapter 3 - A New Society
The Americans
American Environments: New Towns and The Old West
Tensions in Colonial Society
The Enlightenment
The Great Awakening
"Thnis New Man"
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Chapter 4 - Toward Revolution, 1763-1775
The New Imperial Policy
The Radicals
The Second Crisis The
First Continental Congress
War
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Chapter 5 - Independence Achieved, 1775-1783
The First Year of War
"Conceived in Liberty"
The New State Constitutions The
Articles of Confederation
The Campaigns of 1776-1777The Fren ch
Alliance and the Southern Campaigns
The Treaty of Peace
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Chapter 6 - A Nation Emerges, 1780-1788
The Agrarian-Minded and the Commercial-Minded
Conflict in the States
Problems of the Confederation
The Confederation and the West
The Movement for a Stronger Government
The Constitutional Convention Ratification
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Chapter 7 - Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1800
Launching the New Government
The Hamiltonian Program
The Wars of the French Revolution
The Trials of John Adams
The Revolution of 1800
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Chapter 8 - Jeffersonian Republic in a Threatening World, 1800-1823
Vestiges of Federalism
An Empire for Liberty
The Perils of Neutrality
Madison Tries His Hand The War of 1812
The Century of Security
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Chapter 9 - The Market versus the Agrarian Republic
The Market Revolution
The Advance to the Mississippi
Commercial Agriculture
The Conquest of Distance
Enterprise and Public Policy
Republican Nationalism
Judicial Nationalim
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Chapter 10 - Depression Decade: Sectionalism and Democracy, 1819-1828
Political Sectionalism
Relief and Democracy
The Election of 1824
The Tribulations of the Second Adams
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Chapter 11 - The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840
Jacksonian Policies
TheTariff and Nulification
The Bank War
Boom and Bust Again
The New Politics
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C hapter 12 - Romanticism, Reform, Slavery
Romanticism
Romantic Christianity
Utopianism and Humitarianism
Abolitionism
The South and Slavery
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Chapter 13 - Manifest Destiny and Sectional Conflict, 1840-1852
Tippecanoe - and Tyler Too
The Presidenteial Election of 1844
The Polk Andimistration The Mexican War
The Compromise of 1850
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Chapter 14 - A House Dividing, 1843-1860
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Chapter 15 - The Civil War, 1861-1865
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Chapter 16 The Triumpf of American Industry 1865-1893
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Chapter 17 - The South After the War, 1865-1890
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Chapter 18 - The Last West, 1860-1890
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Chapter 19 - The Political Parade, 1868-1892
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Chapter 20 - The Ripening of Protest, 1870-1896
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Chapter 21 - Overseas Adventure, 1898-1900
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Chapter 22 - Roosevelt and the Progressive Era, 1901-1908
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Chapter 23 - The Peak of Progressivism, 1909-1917
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Chapter 24 - The First Overseas War
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Chapter 25 - The Twenties, Prosperity and Social Change
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Chapter 26 - Depression and Social Experiment, 1929-1938
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Chapter 27 - The Reversal of Foreign Policy, 1931-1941
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Chapter 28 - War for the World, 1941-1945
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Chapter 29 - Neither Peace4 nor War, 1946-1952
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Chapter 3 0 The Age of Permanent Crisis, 1953-1963
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