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Title Page

Copyright

About The Authors

Brief Conient

Contents

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LIST OF FEATURES

TO THE STUDENT

USING THE DISCOVERY SECTIONS

PREFACE

1 WHEN OLD WORLDSCOLLIDE:CONTACT,CONQUEST,CATASTROPHE

2 THE CHALLENGE TO SPAIN AND THE SETTLEMENT OF NORTH AMERICA

3 ENGLAND DISCOVERS ITSCOLONIES:EMPIRE,LIBERTY,AND EXPANSION

4 PROVINCIAL AMERICA AND THE STRUGGLEFOR A CONTINENT

5 REFORM,RESISTANCE,REVOLUTION

6 THE REVOLUTIONARY REPUBLIC

7 COMPLETING THE REVOLUTION,1789-1815

8 NORTHERN TRANSFORMATIONS,1790-1850

9 THE OLD SOUTH,1790-1850

10 TOWARD AN AMERICAN CULTURE

11 DEMOCRATS AND WHIGS

12 ANTEBELLUM REFORM

13 MANIFEST DESTINY:AN EMPIRE FOR LIBERTY—OR SLAVERY?

14 THE GATHERING TEMPEST,1853-1860

15 SECESSION AND CIVILWAR,1860-1862

16 A NEW BIRTH OFFREEDOM,1862-1865

17 RECONSTRUCTION,1863-1877

18 A TRANSFORMED NATION:THE WEST AND THE NEW SOUTH,1865-1900

19 THE RISE OF CORPORATEAMERICA,1865-1914

20 CITIES,PEOPLES,CULTURES,1890-1920

21 PROGRESSIVISM

22 BECOMING A WORLD POWER,1898-1917

23 WAR AND SOCIETY,1914 -1920

24 THE 1920S

25 THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL,1929-1939

26 AMERICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

27 THE AGE OF CONTAINMENT,1946-1953

28 AFFLUENCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS,1953-1963

29 AMERICA DURING ITS LONGEST WAR,1963-1974

30 UNCERTAIN TIMES,1974-1992

31 ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY

32 A TIME OF HOPE AND FEAR,1993-2012

CHAPTER REVIEW

DISCOVERY

APPENDIX

INDEX