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 1550-1624.3. Thirteen Colonies: England's North American Empire 1620-1732.4. 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 1763-1770.8. From Riot to Rebellion: The Road to Independence 1770-1776.9. The War for Independence: The Rebels Victorious 1776-1781.10. Inventing a Country: American Constitutions 1781-1789.11. We the People: Putting the Constitution to Work 1789-1800.12. The Age of Jefferson: Frustration Abroad 1800-1815.13. Nationalism: Culture, Politics, Diplomacy 1815-1824.14. Machines, Cotton, Land: Economy and Society 1790-1824.15. The People's Hero: Andrew Jackson and a New Era 1824-1830.16. In the Shadow of Old Hickory: Personalities and Politics 1830-1842.17. Religion and Reform: Evangelicals and Enthusiasts 1800-1850.18. The Peculiar Institution: Southern Slavery.19. From Sea to Shining Sea: Expansion 1820-1848.20. Apples of Discord: Western Lands and Immigration 1844-1856.21. The Collapse of the Union: From Debate to Violence 1854-1861.22. Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities: The Civil War through 1862.23. Driving Dixie Down: General Grant's War of Attrition 1863-1865.24. Aftermath: The Era of Reconstruction 1863-1877.

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