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| Founding the New Nation, c. 33,000 B.C.–A.D. 1783 | |
| New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.–A.D. 1769 | |
| The geology of the New World | |
| Native Americans before Columbus | |
| Europeans and Africans | |
| The ecological consequences of Columbus's discovery | |
| Spain builds a New World empire | |
| Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadores | |
| The Planting o... MORE | |
| England in the age of expansion | |
| The planting of Jamestown, 1607 | |
| The growth of Virginia and Maryland | |
| England in the Caribbean | |
| Settling the Carolinas and Georgia | |
| Makers of America: The Iroquois | |
| Settling the Northern Colonies 1619–1700 | |
| The Puritan faith Plymouth Colony, 1620 | |
| The Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts | |
| Bay Colony, 1630 | |
| The expansion of New England | |
| New Netherland becomes New York | |
| Pennsylvania and the Middle Colonies | |
| Makers of America: The English | |
| Varying Viewpoints: Europeanizing | |
| America or Americanizing Europe? | |
| American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607–1692 | |
| Life and labor in the Chesapeake region | |
| Indentured servants and Bacon's | |
| Rebellion in Virginia, 1676 | |
| Slavery and African-American culture | |
| Families in New England | |
| The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692 | |
| The changing New England way of life | |
| Makers of America: From African to African-American | |
| Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700–1775 | |
| Population growth and ethnic diversity | |
| Colonial society and economy | |
| The Atlantic economy | |
| The Great Awakening of the 1730s | |
| Education and culture Political patterns | |
| Makers of America: The Scots-Irish | |
| Varying Viewpoints: Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus? | |
| The Duel for North America 1608–1763 | |
| New France Anglo-French colonial rivalries | |
| The French and Indian War, 1754–1763 | |
| The ousting of France from North America, 1763 | |
| The consequences of war Makers of America: The French | |
| The Road to Revolution 1763–1775 | |
| The merits and menace of mercantilism | |
| The Stamp Act crisis, 1765 | |
| The Townshend Acts, 1767 | |
| The Boston Tea Party, 1773 | |
| The Intolerable Acts and the Continental Congress, 1774 | |
| Lexington, Concord, and the gathering clouds of war, 1775 | |
| Varying Viewpoints: Whose Revolution? | |
| America Secedes from the Empire 1775–1783 | |
| Early skirmishes, 1775 American "republicanism" | |
| The Declaration of Independence, 1776 | |
| Patriots and Loyalists | |
| The fighting fronts | |
| The French alliance, 1778 Yorktown, 1781 | |
| The Peace of Paris, 1783 | |
| Makers of America: The Loyalists | |
| Building the New Nation 1776–1860 | |
| The Confederation and the Constitution 1776–1790 | |
| Changing political sentiments | |
| Economic troubles | |
| The Articles of Confederation, 1781–1788 | |
| The Northwest Odinance, 1787 Shays's Rebellion, 1786 | |
| The Constitutional Convention, 1787 | |
| Ratifying the Constitution, 1787–1790 | |
| Varying Viewpoints: The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary? | |
| Launching the New Ship of State 1789–1800 | |
| Problems of the young Republic The first presidency, 1789–1793 | |
| The Bill of Rights, 1791 | |
| Hamilton's economic policies | |
| The emergence of political parties | |
| The impact of the French Revolution | |
| Jay's Treaty, 1794 | |
| President Adams keeps the peace | |
| The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798 | |
| The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 1798–1799 | |
| Federalists versus Republicans | |
| The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy 1800–1812 | |
| The "Revolution of 1800" | |
| The Jefferson presidency John Marshall and the Supreme Court | |
| The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 | |
| The Embargo, 1807–1809 | |
| Napoleon manipulates | |
| Madison Battle with the Shawnees | |
| A declaration of war 12 | |
| The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812–1824 | |
| Invasion of Canada, 1812 | |
| The war on land and sea | |
| The Treaty of Ghent, 1814 | |
| The Hartford Convention, 1814–1815 | |
| A new national identity | |
| The "American System" | |
| James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings Westward expansion | |
| The Missouri Compromise, 1820 | |
| The Supreme Court under John Marshall Canada and Florida | |
| The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 | |
| Makers of America: Settlers of the Old Northwest | |
| The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824–1840 | |
| The "corrupt bargain" of 1824 | |
| President John Quincy Adams, 1825–1829 | |
| The triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828 | |
| The "Tariff of Abominations," 1828 | |
| The spoils system | |
| The South Carolina nullification crisis, 1832–1833 | |
| Indian removal Jackson's war on the Bank of the United States | |
| The emergence of the Whig Party, 1836 | |
| Martin Van Buren and the depression of 1837 | |
| The Texas revolution William Henry | |
| Harrison's "log cabin" campaign, 1840 | |
| The establishment of the two-party system | |
| Makers of America: Mexican or Texican? | |
| Varying Viewpoints: What Was Jacksonian Democracy? | |
| Forging the National Economy 1790–1860 | |
| The westward movement Irish and German immigrants | |
| Nativism and assimilation | |
| The coming of the factory system | |
| Women and the economy | |
| The ripening of commercial agriculture | |
| The transportation revolution | |
| Overseas trade and communication | |
| Makers of America: The Irish Makers of America: The Germans | |
| The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790–1860 | |
| Religious revivals | |
| The Mormons Educational advances | |
| The roots of reform Women's roles and women's rights | |
| Utopian experiments | |
| A national literature Makers of America: The Oneida Community | |
| Varying Viewpoints: Reform: Who? What? How? and Why? | |
| Testing the New Nation 1820–1877 | |
| The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793–1860 | |
| The economy of the Cotton Kingdom | |
| Poor whites and free blacks | |
| The plantation system | |
| The human face of the "peculiar institution" | |
| The abolitionist crusade | |
| Southern and northern responses to abolitionism | |
| Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery? | |
| Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841–1848 | |
| "Tyler Too" becomes President, 1841 | |
| The annexation of Texas, 1845 | |
| Oregon and California James K. Polk, the "dark horse" of 1844 | |
| War with Mexico, 1846–1848 | |
| Makers of America: The Californios | |
| Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848–1854 | |
| "Popular sovereignty" | |
| The Compromise of 1850 | |
| The inflammatory Fugitive Slave | |
| Law President Pierce and expansion, 1853–1857 | |
| Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 | |
| Drifting Toward Disunion 1854–1861 | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin and the spread of abolitionist sentiment in the North | |
| The contest for Kansas | |
| The election of James Buchanan, 1856 | |
| The Dred Scott case, 1857 | |
| The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858 | |
| John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859 | |
| Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860 | |
| Secession Varying Viewpoints: The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible? | |
| Girding for War: The North and the South 1861–1865 | |
| The attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861 | |
| The crucial Border States | |
| The balance of forces | |
| Diplomacy and the threat of European intervention | |
| Lincoln and civil liberties | |
| Men in uniform Wartime finance and economy | |
| Women and the war | |
| The fate of the South | |
| The Furnace of Civil War 1861–1865 | |
| Bull Run ends the "ninety-day war" | |
| The Peninsula campaign | |
| The Union wages total war | |
| The battle of Antietam | |
| The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 | |
| Black soldiers Confederate high tide at Gettysburg | |
| Politics in wartime Appomattox, 1865 | |
| The assassination of Lincoln, April 1865 | |
| The legacy of wa | |
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