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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. American Growth
    1. Population Growth
    2. Port Cities
    3. Agriculture
    4. Westward Movement
    5. Manufacturing and Transportation
    6. Science
  2. Thomas Jefferson’s Republic
    1. Principles
      1. Invention
      2. Distrust of cities and manufacturing
      3. Reverence for "freehold agriculture"
      4. The "empire of liberty": expansion
      5. Slavery
    2. Policies
      1. Economic plan
        1. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin
        2. reduction in size and power of national government
        3. retirement of national debt
        4. smaller, gunboat navy
        5. smaller army
      2. Judiciary
        1. Federalist stronghold
        2. Judiciary Act of 1801 and the "midnight appointments"
        3. repeal of Judiciary Act of 1801
        4. removal of Judge John Pickering
        5. impeachment of Supreme Court justice Samuel Chase
        6. Chief Justice John Marshall
          1. Marbury v. Madison (1803)
          2. precedent for judicial review
      3. The Louisiana Purchase (1803)
        1. safety valve
        2. French reacquisition of Louisiana from Spain
        3. closure of New Orleans to American traffic (1802)
        4. Livingston and Monroe’s negotiations with Napoleon
        5. Louisiana Purchase Treaty
      4. Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery (1804–6)
  3. Toward War
    1. Decline of the Federalist Party
    2. Napoleonic Wars
      1. Economic warfare
        1. British Orders in Council
        2. Napoleon’s decrees
      2. Impressment
    3. The Chesapeake Affair (1807)
    4. Embargo of 1807
      1. Depression and evasion
      2. "Cotton mill fever"
      3. Gallatin’s "Report on Roads and Canals" (1808)
        1. the National Road (1806)
        2. Act of Arming and Equipping the Militia (1808)
    5. Election of President Madison (1808)
    6. Non-Intercourse Act: Trade with All Nations but Great Britain and France (1809)
    7. Macon’s Bill Number Two: Trade with Either Great Britain or France (1810)
    8. Trans-Appalachian Frontier
      1. Jefferson’s Indian policy
      2. The Shawnees
        1. Tenskwatawa, the "Prophet"
        2. Tecumseh
      3. William Henry Harrison’s Battle of Tippecanoe (1811)
    9. The War Hawks: Henry Clay and John Calhoun
    10. "Mr. Madison’s War": The War of 1812 (1812–14)
      1. Battle of the Thames
      2. Creek War
      3. Burning of Washington, D.C.
      4. Battle of Fort McHenry: Francis Scott Key’s "Star-Spangled Banner"
      5. Treaty of Ghent (1814)
      6. Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans (1815)
    11. The Hartford Convention (1814)
    12. Election of 1816: Madison’s Reelection and the Virginia Dynasty
  4. Machines
    1. Steam Power
      1. Robert Fulton’s Clermont (1807)
      2. Oliver Evans’s steam engine
    2. Water Power
    3. Textiles
      1. Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham, Massachusetts
      2. "Alabama fever"
      3. "King Cotton"
    4. Outwork
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