Description: 1. Discoveries: Indians, Europeans, and the Americas, About 15,000 B.C.A.D. 1550. 2. Settlements Across the Sea: Motives, Failures, and Finally, a Colony 15501624. 3. Thirteen Colonies: England's North American Empire 16201732. 4. English Designs, American Facts of Life: Colonial Society in the 1600s. 5. Other Americans: Indians and Africans in the Colonies. 6. Contest for a Continent: French America and British America 1608-1763. 7. Family Quarrels: Dissension in the Colonies 17631770. 8. From Riot to Rebellion: The Road to Independence 17701776. 9. The War for Independence: The Rebels Victorious 17761781. 10. Inventing a Country: American Constitutions 17811789. 11. We the People: Putting the Constitution to Work 17891800. 12. The Age of Jefferson: Frustration Abroad 18001815. 13. Nationalism: Culture, Politics, Diplomacy 1815-1824. 14. Machines, Cotton, Land: Economy and Society 17901824. 15. The People's Hero: Andrew Jackson and a New Era 18241830. 16. In the Shadow of Old Hickory: Personalities and Politics 18301842. 17. Religion and Reform: Evangelicals and Enthusiasts 1800-1850. 18. The Peculiar Institution: Southern Slavery. 19. From Sea to Shining Sea: Expansion 18201848. 20. Apples of Discord: Western Lands and Immigration 18441856. 21. The Collapse of the Union: From Debate to Violence 18541861. 22. Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities: The Civil War through 1862. 23. Driving Dixie Down: General Grant's War of Attrition 18631865. 24. Aftermath: The Era of Reconstruction 1863-1877. 25. Patronage and Pork: National Politics 1876-1892.

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