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(1920–2001) This page intentionally left blank BPrreiefaf cCeontents List of Maps xv How They Lived xvii Preface xix CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 10 Discoveries Inventing a Country Indians, Europeans, and the Americas About American Constitutions 1781–1789 160 15,000 B.C. to A.D. 1550 1 CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 2 We the People Settlements Across the Sea Putting the Constitution to Work Motives, Failures, and Finally, a Colony 1789–1800 178 1550–1624 20 CHAPTER 12 The Age of Jefferson CHAPTER 3 Thirteen Colonies Frustration Abroad 1800–1815 196 England’s North American Empire CHAPTER 13 1620–1732 39 Nationalism: Culture, Politics, Diplomacy 1815–1824 216 CHAPTER 4 English Designs, American Facts of Life CHAPTER 14 Colonial Society in the 1600s 55 Machines, Cotton, Land Economy and Society 1790–1824 234 CHAPTER 5 Other Americans CHAPTER 15 Indians and Africans in the Colonies 71 The People’s Hero Andrew Jackson and a New Era CHAPTER 6 1824–1830 252 Contest for a Continent French America and British America CHAPTER 16 1608–1763 91 In the Shadow of Old Hickory Personalities and Politics 1830–1842 269 CHAPTER 7 Family Quarrels CHAPTER 17 Religion and Reform Dissension in the Colonies 1763–1770 112 Evangelicals and Enthusiasts 1800–1850 284 CHAPTER 8 From Riot to Rebellion CHAPTER 18 The Peculiar Institution The Road to Independence 1770–1776 126 Southern Slavery 301 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 19 The War for Independence From Sea to Shining Sea The Rebels Victorious 1776–1781 143 Expansion 1820–1848 319 ix