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Tables of Contents for Who Built America?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
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part one: Colonization and Revolution, 1492--1815
2
296
A Meeting of Three Worlds: Europe Colonizes the Americas, 1492--1680
6
58
Peoples of the New World
8
6
Europe: The Background to Overseas Expansion
14
2
West African Societies
16
5
Portugal, Spain, and American Colonization
21
5
The Need for Labor
26
1
Africa and the American Slave Trade
27
6
The Dutch, French, and English in North America
33
4
The Roots of English Migration to America
37
3
Colonizing the Chesapeake
40
5
Colonizing New England
45
2
The English Revolution and Its Effects on the Colonies
47
3
Native Americans: Collapse, Resistance, Exchange
50
6
The Remaking of Three Worlds
56
2
The Years in Review
58
3
Suggested Readings
61
2
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63
1
Servitude, Slavery, and the Growth of the Southern Colonies, 1620--1760
64
56
The Southern Colonies in Context
67
2
The Demand for Labor: Servitude in the Chesapeake
69
8
Conditions in the Chesapeake: 1650s to 1670s
77
3
Bacon's Rebellion of 1676: A Turning Point in the Chesapeake
80
4
From Servitude to Slavery
84
3
The Spread of Slavery to the Carolinas and Georgia
87
7
African-American Culture in the South
94
5
The Fear of Slave Rebellion
99
5
Slave Societies: Material Prosperity and Inequality
104
5
Slave Societies: Deference and Conflict
109
2
The Challenge of the Great Awakening
111
2
Southern Society at Mid Eighteenth Century
113
2
The Years in Review
115
3
Suggested Readings
118
1
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119
1
Family Labor and the Growth of the Northern Colonies, 1640--1760
120
60
Freeholders in Early New England
123
4
Equality and Inequality in Puritan Society
127
3
Conflict with Indians
130
5
Early Proprietors in the Middle Colonies
135
4
The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689
139
1
How the Iroquois Set Limits on Settlement
140
2
Patterns on the Land: The Eighteenth Century
142
2
Rural Societies
144
7
Cities by the Sea
151
3
Urban Elites
154
2
Artisans, Laborers, and Seamen
156
3
The Unfree: Servants and Slaves
159
4
Government and Power in the Colonial North
163
3
Direct Action and Popular Politics
166
3
Growing Tension: Northern Colonies in the Mid Eighteenth Century
169
6
The Years in Review
175
3
Suggested Readings
178
1
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179
1
Toward Revolution, 1750--1776
180
56
Why Were the Thirteen Colonies Primed for Rebellion?
183
3
Political and Social Tensions in the Thirteen Colonies
186
2
Land Rioters and Demands for Freehold Rights
188
3
Conflict on the Frontier
191
3
Britain's Imperial Triumph
194
4
The Costs of War
198
5
The Stamp Act and Townshend Duties Crises
203
2
Elite Protest
205
2
Popular Protest
207
7
Resistance Becomes Revolution
214
7
War Begins
221
3
The People Take Sides
224
5
Independence
229
2
The Years in Review
231
3
Suggested Readings
234
1
And on the World Wide Web
235
1
Revolution, Constitution, and the People, 1776--1815
236
62
The Toils of War
238
7
War on the Frontier
245
2
The Movement for a People's Government
247
4
The Limits to Democratization
251
2
Conflict Over Economic Issues
253
4
Slaves and the American Revolution
257
6
Revolutionary Rhetoric and New Possibilities
263
2
Constitution and Compromise
265
4
Elites and the People: The Fight for Ratification
269
5
Securing a Bill of Rights
274
1
American Society: Competing Visions
275
5
Opportunity for Some, Exclusion for Others
280
3
Revolution and Territory: Crisis in the Spanish Empire
283
3
Revolution and Territory: Indian Resistance
286
4
Legacies of Revolution
290
2
The Years in Review
292
3
Suggested Readings
295
2
And on the World Wide Web
297
1
part two: Free Labor and Slavery, 1790--1850
298
236
The Consolidation of Slavery, 1790--1836
302
54
The Invention of the Cotton Gin
305
2
Territorial Expansion and New Opportunities
307
5
War in 1812, Compromise in 1820
312
4
American Indians: Resistance and Retreat
316
4
Native Americans Seek Justice but Face Removal
320
2
Cotton, Rice, Tobacco, and Sugar: Crops, Regions, and Labor Organization
322
6
The Internal Slave Trade
328
2
The Planter Class
330
4
Poor Whites and Small Farmers Engulfed in a Slave Society
334
2
Evangelical Religion in Black and White
336
3
A Battle of Wills: Daily Resistance and Open Rebellion
339
3
The Failure of Gradual Emancipation in the South
342
4
The South's Free Blacks Face a Reign of Terror
346
2
The Planter Class Consolidates Power
348
3
The Years in Review
351
3
Suggested Readings
354
1
And on the World Wide Web
355
1
Northern Society and the Growth of Wage Labor, 1790--1837
356
62
Early Nineteenth-Century Ideology: An Agrarian Republic and ``Natural Aristocracy''
359
1
The Rural North in the Early Nineteenth Century
360
3
Towns and Commerce in the Early Nineteenth Century
363
1
Start of a Transformation: Manufacturing, Urbanization, and Westward Expansion
364
3
Improvements in Communication
367
4
The Beginnings of an Industrial Revolution
371
3
Industrialization and Social Stratification
374
2
Jacksonian Democracy
376
3
The New Middle Class and Family Ideals
379
3
Evangelical Revivals and Social Reform
382
3
Paths to Wage Labor: Artisans and Outworkers
385
6
Paths to Wage Labor: Manual Laborers and Factory Operatives
391
4
Working People Resist Capitalism
395
3
The Workingmen's Movement
398
3
Strikes and Protests
401
4
Two Outlooks: Morality or the Market?
405
3
Depression and Crisis in Northern Society
408
4
The Years in Review
412
3
Suggested Readings
415
2
And on the World Wide Web
417
1
Immigration, Urban Life, and Social Reform in the Free Labor North, 1838--1855
418
58
An Era of Technological and Economic Expansion
421
4
A Changing World for Northern Working People
425
3
Immigrants Swell the Wage Labor Ranks
428
4
Irish Americans Trade Famine for Unskilled Labor
432
3
Germans Migrate Toward Crafts and Farms
435
1
Scandinavian, British, and Canadian Immigrants Find Opportunity
436
2
African Americans in the Free Labor North
438
2
Wage-Earning Women Expand Their Sphere But Not Their Rights
440
3
Attacks on Immigrants, African Americans, and Workers
443
4
Leisure Activities in an Industrial Age
447
4
Urban Disorder and Class Conflict
451
4
Middle-Class Efforts at Moral Reform
455
1
Radical Evangelicalism, Communal Experiments, and Cooperative Enterprises
456
5
Movements for Land Reform
461
2
Women Reformers Seek Rights for Themselves
463
3
Abolitionists Fight Slavery and Each Other
466
1
Political Parties Compete for the Electorate
467
4
The Years in Review
471
2
Suggested Readings
473
2
And on the World Wide Web
475
1
Crises Over Slavery, 1836--1848
476
58
The Master's Domain
479
5
The Ties That Bind: Religion and Slavery
484
3
Forms of Slave Resistance and Community
487
3
Native and African-American Rebellion on the Frontier
490
3
Free Blacks Threaten Planter Control
493
4
Can Western Expansion Ease the Conflicts?
497
5
The Ravages of the Internal Slave Trade
502
4
The Tensions of Plantation Life among Whites
506
2
The Proslavery Movement
508
5
The Limits of Economic Diversification
513
4
The Lure of New Territories
517
3
The War with Mexico
520
4
Manifest Destiny and Conflict over Slavery in the New Territories
524
3
The Conflict over Slavery Intensifies
527
2
The Years in Review
529
3
Suggested Readings
532
1
And on the World Wide Web
533
1
part three: War, Reconstruction, and Labor (1848--1877)
534
Manifest Destiny and the Deepening Rift Over Slavery, 1848--1860
538
56
Western Lands, Western Peoples
540
5
The Gold Rush
545
2
Workers in the West
547
5
An Uneasy Compromise
552
7
The Plight of Free Labor
559
6
Broken Convenant: The Kansas-Nebraska Act
565
3
Bleeding Kansas
568
3
Birth of the Republican Party
571
5
Defending the Rights of Labor
576
4
White Southerners Respond to Free Labor's Claims
580
3
The ``Worst Oppressed''
583
1
Toward a Showdown: The Raid on Harpers Ferry
584
3
A House Divided
587
2
The Years in Review
589
3
Suggested Readings
592
1
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593
1
The Civil War: America's Second Revolution, 1861--1865
594
62
The Forces Driving Secession
596
2
Southerners Debate Secession
598
2
The North Assesses the Price of Peace
600
3
The War for the Union
603
6
The War against Slavery
609
4
The Bittersweet Taste of Freedom
613
3
Union Officials Consider Emancipation
616
3
Soldiers' Lives
619
5
War Transforms the North
624
4
Dissent and Protest in the Union States
628
3
Building Consensus Through Victory
631
4
African Americans in the War
635
4
War Transforms the South
639
2
Dissent and Protest in the Confederate States
641
6
The War's End
647
4
The Years in Review
651
2
Suggested Readings
653
2
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655
1
Reconstructing an American Nation: 1865--1877
656
Freedpeople Explore the Meaning of Freedom
659
4
Freedpeople Need Votes and Land
663
3
Reconstruction: President Johnson Versus Congress
666
7
African Americans Become a Political Force in Southern Politics
673
6
Southern Democrats and the Klan ``Redeem'' the South
679
6
Railroads and the Settlers Move West
685
2
Intergroup Conflict in the West
687
5
Railroads Give Rise to Big Business
692
2
Wage Earners: White Laborers, Immigrants, and Women
694
4
An American Labor Movement Emerges
698
3
Racism and Sexism Stall the Labor Movement
701
4
The Panic of 1873 and Its Effects
705
6
The Final Assault on Reconstruction
711
4
The Great Uprising of 1877
715
2
The Years in Review
717
2
Suggested Readings
719
2
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721
appendix 1 The Declaration of Independence
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index
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