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Native Peoples in the Americas
Europeans Make Claims to North America
Religious and Imperial Transformations
Pilgrims and Puritans settle New England
Conclusion: European Empires in North America
European Wars and American Consequences
The Benefits and costs of Empire
Conclusion: Changing Fortunes in British North America
Diversity and competition in colonial society
Postwar British Policies and Colonial Unity
Resistance to Britain Intensifies
Conclusion: Liberty within Empire
Governing in Revolutionary Times
Conclusion: Legacies of the Revolution
Reframing the American Government
Conclusion: A Young Nation Comes of Age
Conclusion: New Frontiers and New Challenges
Expanding the Economy and the Nation
Jacksonian Democracy in Action
Conclusion: The Nation Faces New Challenges
Planters Expand the Slave System
Democrats Face Political and Economic Crises
The National Government Looks to the West
Conclusion: Geographical Expansion and Political Division
Abolitionism Expands and Divides
Conclusion: From the North to the Nation
Expansion and the Politics of slavery
Conclusion: The Coming of the Civil War
Fighting for Union or against slavery?
War Transforms the North and the South
Conclusion: An Uncertain Future
The Unmaking of Reconstruction
Conclusion: The Legacies of Reconstruction
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND PERPETUAL UNION
The Constitution of The United States
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
Admission of States to the Union
Presidents of the United States