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Chapter 1 First Contacts 1
Chapter 2 Colonial North America 27
Chapter 3 Awakening, Enlightenment, and Empire
in British North America 57Chapter 4 An Atlantic Empire 85
Chapter 5 A Republic Envisioned and Revised 115
Chapter 6 Growing Pains 145Chapter 7 Reform and Reaction 169
Chapter 8 The Market Revolution 191
Chapter 9 Expansionism: Part 1 213Chap ter 10 Expansionism: Part 2 235
C h a p t e r 11 The Union Undone? 251
Chap ter 12 War and Emancipation 275Chap ter 13 A Gilded Age 307
Chap ter 14 The Throes of Assimilation 327
Cha p ter 15 New Ideas and Old Ideas in the
New Industrial Age 343Chap ter 16 Prosperity and Reform 361
Chap ter 17 Challenges to the Status Quo 381
Chap ter 18 Isolated No More 405Cha p ter 19 Containment and Conflict 427
Chapter 20 The Breakdown of Consensus 447
Chapter 21 Discontinuities 473Chapter 22 A Conservative Tenor 489
Pe r i oD o n e
1491–PerioD two
1607–175 4P erioD tHree
175 4 –P erioD four
1800 –18 4 8P e r i oD fiVe
18 4 4 –Pe r i oD SiX
1865 –PerioD SeVen
1890 –19 4 5PerioD eigHt
19 4 5 -PerioD nine
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