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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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12.1 378 Agricultural Advertisements and Improvements

Image - James Boyd: Patent Sponge Boots, for Horses Feet (1825).

Image - John McElroy & Son. Manufacturers of light and heavy farm wagons! Wish to Call the Attention of Farmers to the Superior Farm Wagons, Known as the McElroy Wagon (exact date unknown).

Image - Hickok's Patent Cider Mill (1852).

Image - Valuable invention! Dana's Premium Cultivator (1855).

Image - Valuable invention! Highly important to farmers! C. H. Dana's Premium Hand Corn Planter (1855).

12.2 384 Slave Recollections

Text - Nat Turner: FROM The Confessions of Nat Turner (1832).

Image - Nat Turner: FROM The Confessions of Nat Turner [Title Page] (1832).

Text - Benjamin Drew: The Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives (1850).

Text - The Fugitive Slave Act (1850).

Text - Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856)

Text - Frederick Law Olmsted: FROM A Journey in the Seabord States (1856).

Text - Benjamin Drew: Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855).

Audio - Lightning and Group: Long John

Text - George Fitzhugh: FROM The Blessings of Slavery (1857).

12.3 386 Slave Spirituals

Audio - Dock Reed, Henry Reed and Vera Hall: Handwriting on the Wall

Audio - Willie Williams and Group: The New Buryin' Ground

Audio - Frank Jordan and Group: I'm Going to Leland

Audio - Jimmie Strothers: The Blood-Stained Banders

Audio - Wash Dennis and Charlie Sims: Lead Me to the Rock

12.4 402 Steamboat Accident

Audio - Mark Twain: FROM Life on the Mississippi(1883).

Text - Mark Twain: FROM Life on the Mississippi(1883).

 

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