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Chapter 1 In the Beginning: The World of Native Americans
America Before Columbus

Chapter 2 Europe's Quest for Empire in America
*Exploration in the New World, 1492-1542
Europe and West Africa in the 15th Century

Chapter 3 Colonial Competition and Cultural Struggle, 1598-1700
New Mexico, ca. 1680
Map of Virginia, 1607
New England at the Time of Metacom's War, 1675-1676
French, English, Dutch, and Swedish Colonies in Eastern North America, 1650

Chapter 4 The Emergence of Colonial Cultures, 1675-1765
African-American Population in Colonial British America, ca. 1760
German and Scots-Irish Settlements in Colonial British America, ca. 1760
Southeastern North America in the Early 18th Century

Chapter 5 Patriarchal Politics and the Colonial Crisis, 1689-1776
Seven Years' War in North America
Colonial Overseas Trade

Chapter 6 Independence, Confederation, and the Republican Experiment, 1776-1787
Battles in Eastern Massachusetts
Northern Campaigns, 1776-1778
Western Land Cessions, 1782-1802
Land Ordinance of 1785

Chapter 7 Building a Republican Government, 1787-1800
Ratification of the Constitution
Conflict in the Northwest Territory, 1790-1796
The Election of 1800

Chapter 8 An Expanding Society, 1801-1815
Map of the West, ca. 1802
Western Exploration, 1803-1807

Chapter 9 A Nation of Regions, 1816-1828
*Redrawing the Nation's Boundaries, 1783-1826
Paths of Northern Migration
Location of Cotton Mills, 1828
Missouri Compromise
Indian Nations Before Removal
The Removal of the American Indians
The Election of 1828

Chapter 10 The Politics Of Northern Development, 1815-1840
*Redrawing the Nation's Boundaries, 1783-1826
Paths of Northern Migration
The Election of 1828
The Election of 1840

Chapter 11 Slavery and the Southern Economy, 1828-1844
Paths of the Slave Trade
Percentage of Population Enslaved, 1820, 1840
The Election of 1840

Chapter 12 Manifest Destiny and the National Identity, 1844-1850
The Election of 1848
Dispute over Oregon Boundary
Railroads and Overland Mail, 1850
Foreign-Born Population, 1840-1860

Chapter 13 The Collapse of the Union, 1850-1861
The Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska and Slavery
The Election of 1856
The Election of 1860

Chapter 14 War for the Union, 1861-1865
The Civil War in the West, 1861-1862
The Civil War in the East, Spring 1862
The Civil War in the East, Summer and Fall 1862
The Vicksburg Campaign, April to July 1863
War in the East, 1863
Black Soldiers in the Union Army
The Civil War, 1864-1865
The Election of 1864

Chapter 15 Reconstructing the National Identity, 1865-1877
The Election of 1868
The Indian Reservations in the West
The Election of 1872
Reconstruction in the South
The Election of 1876

Chapter 16 The Triumph of a National Marketplace, 1877-1893
The Railroad Network, 1880
Railroad Land Grants
The Election of 1880
The Election of 1884
Election of 1888
Election of 1892

Chapter 17 The Crisis of the 1890s
*Presidential Election Results, 1876-1896
*The Spanish-American War, 1898

Chapter 18 Industrial Society and Progressive Reform, 1900-1915
The Election of 1900

Chapter 19 The Corporate Economy and Progressive Politics, 1901-1916
Forest Reserves & National Parks in the Western United States, 1901
The Election of 1904
The Election of 1908
The Election of 1912

Chapter 20 The Search for World Order, 1913-1920
American Interventions in Latin America
Europe on the Eve of World War I
The March of Woman Suffrage
Woman Suffrage in States, 1912
The Election of 1916
*American Participation on the Western Front, 1918
Europe After the Peace Conference, 1920

Chapter 21 Colliding Cultures of the 1920s
American Commitments in the Caribbean
The Election of 1924
The Election of 1928

Chapter 22 Hard Times, 1929-1939
The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
The Election of 1932
The Tennessee Valley
The Dust Bowl
*1936 Election

Chapter 23 The War Against Fascism, 1931-1945
Japanese-American Relocation
The War in the Pacific

Chapter 24 Cold War Society, 1945-1952
The Election of 1948
The Korean War

Chapter 25 A Troubled Consensus, 1952-1960
The National Highway System

Chapter 26 Advancing a Liberal Agenda, 1960-1963
The Election of 1960

Chapter 27 Disputing the National Agenda, 1963-1968
The Election of 1964
The Vietnam War

Chapter 28 The "Imperial Presidency" of Richard Nixon, 1969-1974
*Presidential Elections, 1956-1968
The Struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment

Chapter 29 An Age of Limits: The 1970s
The Election of 1976
The Election of 1980

Chapter 30 Politics in a Multicultural Society, 1981-2001
The Election of 1984
The Election of 1988
*The War in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991
The Election of 1992
The Election of 1996
Clinton Impeachment Votes