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Chapter 1 - 'Men Prone to Wonder': America Before 1600 Chapter 2 - The European Settlement of North America: The Atlantic Coast to 1660 Chapter 3 - Empires: 1660-1702 Chapter 4 - Benjamin Franklin's World: Colonial North America, 1702-1763 Chapter 5 - Toward Independence, 1764-1783 Chapter 6 - Inventing the American Republic: The States Chapter 7 - Inventing the American Republic: The Nation Chapter 8 - Establishing the New Nation Chapter 9 - The Fabric of Change, 1800-1815 Chapter 10 - A New Epoch: 1815-1828 Chapter 11 - Political Innovation in a Mechanical Age: 1828-1840 Chapter 12 - Worker Worlds in Antebellum America Chapter 13 - The Benevolent Empire: Religion and Reform, 1825-1846 Chapter 14 - National Expansion, Sectional Division: 1839-1850 Chapter 15 - A House Dividing: 1851-1860 Chapter 16 - Civil War: 1861-1865 Chapter 17 - Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Chapter 18 - The Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry: 1870-1900 Chapter 19 - An Industrial Society: 1870-1910 Chapter 20 - Politics, Industrialism, and the State: 1876-1900 Chapter 21 - A New Place in the World: 1865-1914 Chapter 22 - The Progressive Era Chapter 23 - War, Prosperity, and the Metropolis: 1914-1929 Chapter 24 - The New Deal Chapter 25 - Whirlpool of War Chapter 26 - Fighting for Freedom Chapter 27 - From Hot War to Cold War Chapter 28 - Korea, Eisenhower, and Affluence Chapter 29 - Renewal of Reform Chapter 30 - Years of Rage Chapter 31 - Conservative Revival Chapter 32 - The Reagan Revolution Chapter 33 - Inventing a New Order
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CHAPTER OUTLINE

CHAPTER OUTLINE

  1. The New Federal Government
    1. Federal Hall, New York City
    2. Protocol
      1. Washington’s example
      2. Roman model of simplicity
    3. Executive Branch
      1. Executive departments: the cabinet
        1. Alexander Hamilton: Department of the Treasury
        2. Henry Knox: Department of War
        3. Thomas Jefferson: Department of Foreign Affairs
          1. reconstituted as Department of State
          2. patent and copyright
        4. president’s dismissal power
      2. Postmaster general
        1. Treasury Department (1789–92)
        2. Post Office Act (1792)
    4. Judicial Branch: Federal Judiciary Act of 1789
      1. Supreme Court
        1. chief justice (John Jay)
        2. five associate justices
      2. Circuit courts
      3. District courts
      4. Right of appeal to Supreme Court
      5. Section 25: Supreme Court’s jurisdiction over constitutional questions
      6. Attorney general (Edmund Randolph)
    5. Bill of Rights
      1. James Madison
      2. Antifederalists
      3. Ratification of the Bill of Rights, first ten amendments to the Constitution (1791)
        1. Ninth Amendment: unenumerated rights
        2. Tenth Amendment: reserved powers retained by states or people
      4. North Carolina’s and Rhode Island’s ratification of the Constitution (1789–90)
    6. Federal Financial System
      1. Tariff of 1789
      2. Coastal navigation
      3. Hamilton’s four reports to Congress (1790–91)
        1. public credit
          1. proposal to pay domestic war debt at face value, or "par"
            1. Madison’s alternate proposal
            2. congressional approval of Hamilton’s plan
          2. proposal to assume states’war debt
            1. sectional division
            2. compromise resulting in new capital (1790)
        2. national bank
          1. Madison’s objections
          2. congressional approval
        3. mint
          1. Jefferson’s objections
          2. congressional approval
        4. manufactures
          1. congressional rejection of protective duties and bounties
          2. passive federal role in encouraging manufacturing
  2. The National Economy
    1. Passaic River: Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
    2. Potomac River: National Capital
      1. District of Columbia
      2. Pierre-Charles L’Enfant
      3. Capitol building
    3. Coastal Cities
      1. International trade
      2. Port of Boston
    4. Exports and the Carrying Trade
      1. European and colonial markets
        1. revolution and war in Europe (1789–1815)
        2. closing of British empire to American trade (1783)
        3. opening of French empire to American trade (1793)
        4. opening of Spanish empire to American trade (1797)
      2. The reexport trade
      3. American consumer revolution
    5. Transportation
      1. Seamen
      2. Shipyards
      3. Transportation and communication improvements: rivers, canals, and bridges
      4. Navigation improvements
        1. longitude
          1. chronometers
          2. reflecting quadrant
          3. Nathaniel Bowditch’s New American Practical Navigator (1802)
    6. Cotton
      1. Long-staple and short-staple
      2. Samuel Slater’s spinning mill, Pawtucket, Rhode Island (1793)
      3. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin (1793)
      4. Consolidation of slavery
  3. Politics
    1. The Federalist Party
      1. Alexander Hamilton
      2. John Fenno’s Gazette of the United States
    2. The Republican Party
      1. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
      2. Philip Freneau’s National Gazette
      3. Democratic societies
    3. National Authority
      1. Militia Act of 1792
      2. Excise taxes
      3. Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
  4. Foreign Affairs
    1. Federalist Affinity for Great Britain
    2. Republican Admiration for France
    3. French Revolution (1789)
      1. Execution of King Louis XVI (1793)
      2. Reign of Terror
    4. Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
    5. Jefferson’s Resignation as Secretary of State
    6. Edmond Genet’s mission to the United States
    7. British Campaign Against American Trade
      1. Orders in Council
      2. Rule of 1756
      3. Reexports
      4. Impressment
    8. Jay’s Treaty (1795)
    9. Indian Wars
      1. Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794)
      2. Treaty of Greenville (1795)
    10. Pinckney’s Treaty / Treaty of San Lorenzo (1795)
  5. The Adams Presidency
    1. Washington’s Farewell Address
    2. Election of 1796
    3. The Adams Administration
      1. The XYZ Affair
      2. Military buildup against France
        1. Eli Whitney and interchangeable parts
        2. Department of the Navy (1798)
        3. Joshua Humphreys’s ship design
        4. three new frigates: United States, Constellation, Constitution ("Old Ironsides")
    4. The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
    5. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798)
    6. Election of 1800
      1. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr
      2. "Revolution of 1800"
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