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    • Period 1 · 1491–1607
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    • Period 1 1491–1607
      • New World Beginnings Period summary
      • CH 1 New World Beginnings
      • CH 2 North American Colonization
      • CH 3 Settling the Northern Colonies
    • Period 2 1607–1754
      • Colonial Society Takes Shape Period summary
      • CH 4 American Life in the 17th Century
      • CH 5 Colonial Life on the Eve of Revolution
    • Period 3 1754–1800
      • Revolution & a New Republic Period summary
      • CH 6 The Duel for North America
      • CH 7 The Road to Revolution
      • CH 8 America Secedes from the Empire
      • CH 9 The Confederation and the Constitution
      • CH 10 Launching the New Ship of State
    • Period 4 1800–1848
      • The Young Republic Expands Period summary
      • CH 11 The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic
      • CH 12 The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism
      • CH 13 The Rise of a Mass Democracy
      • CH 14 Forging the National Economy
      • CH 15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture
      • CH 16 The South and the Slavery Controversy
      • CH 17 Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
    • Period 5 1844–1877
      • Civil War & Reconstruction Period summary
      • CH 18 Renewing the Sectional Struggle
      • CH 19 Drifting Toward Disunion
      • CH 20 Girding for War: The North and the South
      • CH 21 The Furnace of Civil War
      • CH 22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction
    • Period 6 1865–1898
      • The Gilded Age Period summary
      • CH 23 Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
      • CH 24 Industry Comes of Age
      • CH 25 America Moves to the City
      • CH 26 The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
    • Period 7 1890–1945
      • Boom, Bust, and Global War Period summary
      • CH 27 Empire and Expansion
      • CH 28 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
      • CH 29 Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
      • CH 30 The War to End War
      • CH 31 American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”
      • CH 32 The Politics of Boom and Bust
      • CH 33 The Great Depression and the New Deal
      • CH 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
      • CH 35 America in World War II
    • Period 8 1945–1980
      • Postwar America and the Cold War Period summary
      • CH 36 The Cold War Begins
      • CH 37 The Eisenhower Era
      • CH 38 The Stormy Sixties
      • CH 39 The Stalemated Seventies
    • Period 9 1980–present
      • The Contemporary Era Period summary
      • CH 40 The Resurgence of Conservatism
      • CH 41 America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era
      • CH 42 The American People Face a New Century

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