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Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1 Notes: New World Beginnings
Chapter 2 Notes: The Planting of English America
Chapter 3 Notes: Settling the Northern Colonies
Chapter 4 Notes: American Life in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 5 Notes: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
Chapter 6 Notes: The Duel for North America
Chapter 7 Notes: The Road to Revolution
Chapter 8 Notes: America Secedes from the Empire
Chapter 9 Notes: The Confederation and the Constitution
Chapter 10 Notes: Launching the New Ship of State
Chapter 11 Notes: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic
Chapter 12 Notes: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism
Chapter 13 Notes: The Rise of a Mass Democracy
Chapter 14 Notes: Forging the National Economy
Chapter 15 Notes: The Ferment of Reform and Culture
Chapter 16 Notes: The South and the Slavery Controversy
Chapter 17 Notes: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
Chapter 18 Notes: Renewing the Sectional Struggle
Chapter 19 Notes: Drifting Toward Disunion
Chapter 20 Notes: Girding for War: The North and the South
Chapter 21 Notes: The Furnace of Civil War
Chapter 22 Notes: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Chapter 23 Notes: Political Paralysis in the Guilded Age
Chapter 24 Notes: Industry Comes of Age
Chapter 25 Notes: America Moves to the City
Chapter 26 Notes: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
Chapter 27 Notes: Empire and Expansion
Chapter 28 Notes: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
Chapter 29 Notes: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
Chapter 30 Notes: The War to End War
Chapter 31 Notes: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
Chapter 32 Notes: The Politics of Boom and Bust
Chapter 33 Notes: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Chapter 34 Notes: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
Chapter 35 Notes: America in World War II
Chapter 36 Notes: The Cold War Begins
Chapter 37 Notes: The Eisenhower Era
Chapter 38 Notes: The Stormy Sixties
Chapter 39 Notes: The Stalemated Seventies
Chapter 40 Notes: The Resurgence of Conservatism