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                   1   New World Encounters,                            8   Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian
                       Preconquest–1608  1                                  Vision, 1800–1814  179

                   2   England’s New World Experiments,                 9   Nation Building and Nationalism,

                       1607–1732  27                                        1815–1825  201

                   3   Putting Down Roots: Opportunity                 10  The Triumph of White Men’s Democracy,
                       and Oppression in Colonial Society,                  1824–1840  223
                       1619–1692  55
                                                                       11  Slaves and Masters, 1793–1861  245
                   4   Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century
                       America, 1680–1763  77                          12  The Pursuit of Perfection, 1800–1861  267

                   5   The American Revolution: From Elite Protest     13  An Age of Expansionism, 1830–1861  287

                       to Popular Revolt, 1763–1783  103
                                                                       14  The Sectional Crisis, 1846–1861  309
                   6   The Republican Experiment,                      15  Secession and The Civil War,
                       1783–1788  131
                                                                            1860–1865  331
                   7   Democracy and Dissent: The Violence             16  The Agony of Reconstruction,

                       of Party Politics, 1788–1800  157
                                                                            1865–1877  353




































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