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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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"Immorality. Fellow Citizens. Can we vote for the man who openly sets the laws of the great Jehovah at defiance, thereby showing a bad example to our children?" [Anti-Adams broadside] (1828).

Mournful tragedy [Cuts] or, The death of Jacob Webb, David Morrow, John Harris, Henry Lewis, David Hunt, and Edward Lindsay, six militia men who were condemned to die, the sentence approved by Major General Jackson, and by his order the whole six shot (1828).

Andrew Jackson's inaugural address, on being sworn into office, as President of the United States, March 4th, 1829 (1829).

Robert Cruikshank: President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House, Washington, [March 4, 1829] (1841).

Huzza! for General Jackson (exact date unknown)

A list of the principal places on the Erie Canal, and their distance from each other (1846).

A list of the principal places on the Erie Canal, and their distance from each other (1846).

Table of the New Rates of Toll on the Erie Canal, as Established by the Canal Board, and in Effect on said Canal (1846).

John Collier: Lock on the old Erie Canal not in use. New York (1941)

John Collier: Erie Canal lock, New York (1941).

Poster Circulated in Philadelphia in 1839 to Discourage the Coming of the Railroad (1839).

Illinois Central Railroad Company: Farm Lands for Sale (1855).

Original Air Line and United States mail route! St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Air Line Railroad (1857).

Original Air Line and United States mail route! St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Air Line Railroad (1857).

Andrew J. Russell: Aquia Creek and Fredericksburg Railroad, Construction Corps at work, Virginia (ca. 1860-1865).

Matthew Brady: Cars of U.S. Military R. R., and Bridge Built by Soldiers. Orange and Alexandria R. R. (ca. 1860-1865).

 

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