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Tables of Contents for The Essential America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps
xiii
Preface
xv
PART 1 A New World
Discovery and Settlement
1
27
On-Line Tutor: The Great Biological Exchange (WWW.WWNORTON.COM/EAMERICA/CH1/TOPIC.HTM)
2
1
Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations
3
2
First Contacts
5
2
Exploration and Conquest of the New World
7
6
Settling the Chesapeake
13
2
Settling New England
15
5
Renewed Settlement
20
5
Thriving Colonies
25
3
Colonial Ways of Life
28
19
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29
1
The Shape of Early America
30
2
Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies
32
4
Society and Economy in New England
36
4
Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies
40
2
Colonial Cities
42
1
The Enlightenment
43
1
The Great Awakening
44
3
The Imperial Perspective
47
14
On-Line Tutor: The French and Indian War (WWW.WWNORTON.COM/EAMERICA/CH3/TOPIC.HTM)
48
1
English Administration of the Colonies
49
3
The Habit of Self-Government
52
1
Troubled Neighbors
53
3
The Colonial Wars
56
5
From Empire to Independence
61
16
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62
1
The Heritage of War
63
1
Western Lands
63
1
Grenville's Colonial Policy
64
2
Fanning the Flames
66
2
Discontent on the Frontier
68
1
A Worsening Crisis
69
2
Shifting Authority
71
3
Independence
74
3
PART 2 Building a Nation
The American Revolution
77
19
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78
1
1776: Washington's Narrow Escape
79
1
American Society at War
80
1
1777: Setbacks for the British
81
3
1778: Both Sides Regroup
84
1
The War in the South
85
4
Negotiations
89
1
The Political Revolution
89
3
The Social Revolution
92
2
Emergence of an American Culture
94
2
Shaping a Federal Union
96
15
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97
1
The Confederation
98
7
Adopting the Constitution
105
5
``A More Perfect Union''
110
1
The Federalists: Washington and Adams
111
16
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112
1
A New Nation
113
1
Hamilton's Vision of America
114
3
The Republican Alternative
117
1
Crises Foreign and Domestic
118
3
Land Settlement
121
1
Transfer of Power
122
1
The Adams Years
123
4
Republicanism: Jefferson and Madison
127
18
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128
1
Jefferson in Office
129
5
The Jeffersonians in Power
134
1
War in Europe
135
2
The War of 1812
137
8
Nationalism and Sectionalism
145
14
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146
1
Economic Nationalism
147
2
``Good Feelings''
149
2
Crises and Compromises
151
2
Judicial Nationalism
153
1
Nationalist Diplomacy
154
1
One-Party Politics
155
4
PART 3 An Expansive Nation
The Jacksonian Impulse
159
17
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160
1
A New Political Culture
161
1
Jackson Takes Office
162
2
Nullification
164
3
Racial Prejudice in the Jacksonian Era
167
3
The Bank Controversy
170
3
Van Buren and the New Party System
173
2
Assessing the Jackson Years
175
1
The Dynamics of Growth
176
18
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177
1
Agriculture and the National Economy
178
1
Transportation and the National Economy
179
4
The Growth of Industry
183
2
The Popular Culture
185
2
Immigration
187
4
Organized Labor
191
1
Jacksonian Inequality
192
2
An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform
194
15
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195
1
Rational Religion
196
1
The Second Great Awakening
197
2
Romanticism in America
199
2
The Flowering of American Literature
201
2
Education
203
1
Some Movements for Reform
204
5
Manifest Destiny
209
18
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210
1
The Tyler Years
211
1
The Western Frontier
212
3
Moving West
215
3
Annexing Texas
218
2
Polk's Presidency
220
2
The Mexican War
222
5
PART 4 A House Divided and Rebuilt
The Old South: An American Tragedy
227
14
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228
1
Distinctive Features of the Old South
229
1
White Society in the South
230
2
Black Society in the South
232
4
The Culture of the Southern Frontier
236
1
Antislavery Movements
237
4
The Crisis of Union
241
22
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242
1
Slavery in the Territories
243
3
The Compromise of 1850
246
4
Foreign Adventures
250
1
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis
250
5
Deepening Sectional Crisis
255
4
The Center Comes Apart
259
4
The War of the Union
263
24
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264
1
End of the Waiting Game
265
3
The War's Early Course
268
7
Emancipation
275
1
Women and the War
276
1
Government During the War
277
2
The Faltering Confederacy
279
3
The Confederacy's Defeat
282
3
A Modern War
285
2
Reconstruction: North and South
287
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288
1
The War's Aftermath
289
2
The Battle Over Reconstruction
291
4
Reconstructing the South
295
3
The Reconstructed South
298
5
The Grant Years
302
Further Reading
A1
Appendix
A13
The Declaration of Independence
A13
Articles of Confederation
A16
The Constitution of the United States
A21
Presidential Elections
A33
Admission of States
A37
Population of the United States
A38
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-1998
A39
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-1998
A40
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State
A44
Credits
A49
Index
A51