A Short History of the United States

Contents

1 Discovery and Settlement of the New World 1

7 Manifest Destiny, Progressivism, War,

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2 Inde pendence and Nation Building 31

3 An Emerging Identity 63

4 The Jacksonian Era 95

5 The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War 127

6 Reconstruction and the Gilded Age 155

and the Roaring Twenties 187

8 The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II 215

9 The Cold War and Civil Rights 245

10 Violence, Scandal, and the End of the Cold War 277

11 The Conservative Revolution 305

Reading List 337

Index 343

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