Page 13 - American Stories, A History of the United States

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Video Series
1.1 A New World: To 1607 2
1.2 The First Americans 2
1.3 The Expansion of Europe 2
1.4 The Protestant Reformation 2
2.1 Beginnings of English Colonial Societies: 1607–1660 28
2.2 The Chesapeake 28
2.3 New England 28
2.4 Jamestown 28
3.1 The Age of Discovery and Slavery 56
3.2 Race Slavery 56
3.3 The Evolution of Slavery in North America 56
3.4 Slavery in the Colonies 56
4.1 Great Britain’s Empire in North America: 1713–1763 78
4.2 Scots-Irish Migration 78
4.3 The First Great Awakening 78
4.4 Seven Years’ War 78
5.1 The Burdens of an Empire: 1763–1775 104
5.2 The Stamp Act 104
5.3 Boston Massacre 104
5.4 The Boston Tea Party 104
6.1 The Making of a New Nation:1783–1789 132
6.2 Land Ordinance 132
6.3 Shays’s Rebellion 132
6.4 The Constitutional Convention 132
7.1 The First Presidency 158
7.2 Hamilton and Jefferson’s Conflicting Visions 158
7.3 The Development of Political Parties 158
7.4 The Adams Presidency 158
8.1 Demographic Expansion 180
8.2 Thomas Jefferson 180
8.3 The Louisiana Purchase of Lewis and Clark 180
8.4 The War of 1812 180
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9.1 Pushing West 202
9.2 A Market Economy 202
9.3 Missouri Compromise 202
9.4 The “Era of Good Feelings” 202
10.1 Expanding Democracy, 1819–1832 224
10.2 Andrew Jackson’s Rise to Power 224
10.3 The Indian Removal Act 224
10.4 The “Monster Bank” 224
11.1 The Antebellum South: 1790–1860 246
11.2 Slave Life and Culture 246
11.3 The Cotton Gin 246
11.4 Nat Turner 246
12.1 The Republic of Reform: 1820–1850 268
12.2 The Second Great Awakening 268
12.3 David Walker’s “Appeal” 268
12.4 Seneca Falls Convention 268
13.1 Manifest Destiny Marches West: 1832–1858 288
13.2 War with Mexico 288
13.3 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 288
13.4 Industrial Expansionism 288
14.1 Slavery at the Watershed: 1848–1860 310
14.2 The Compromise of 1850 310
14.3 The Dred Scott Decision 310
14.4 The Lincoln–Douglas Debates 310
15.1 The Civil War: 1861–1865 332
15.2 The Emancipation Proclamation 332
15.3 Gettysburg: The Turning Point 332
15.4 The Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 332
16.1 Reconstruction and Its Missed Opportunities:
1865–1877 354
16.2 The Amendments of Freedom 354
16.3 Presidential Reconstruction 354
16.4 The Compromise of 1877 354