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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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I) The Idea of Progress
  1. The Idea of Progress
    1. Machines
      1. Emily Dickinson’s "The Railway Train"
      2. Currier and Ives’s Across the Continent
      3. New York’s Crystal Palace exhibition (1853)
      4. Alexis de Tocqueville
    2. Art
      1. George Caleb Bingham
      2. George Catlin
      3. Thomas Cole and the Hudson River school
    3. Literature
      1. James Fenimore Cooper’s "Leatherstocking" tales
      2. Washington Irving
      3. Romanticism
      4. Transcendentalism
        1. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s "Nature" (1836)
        2. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854)
      5. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Celestial Railroad" (1846)
      6. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851)
      7. Inventor-artists: Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, and Oliver Evans
  2. The Second Great Awakening (1790s–1840s)
    1. Evangelical Protestantism
      1. Individual free will
      2. Revivalism
        1. "new measures"
        2. "exercises"
      3. Millennialists
        1. Second Coming of Christ
        2. Manifest Destiny
    2. Disestablishment
      1. Connecticut (1818)
      2. Massachusetts (1833)
    3. The "Burned-Over District"
      1. Western New York
      2. The "Benevolent Empire"
    4. Charles Grandison Finney
      1. Rochester, New York
      2. Oberlin College (Ohio)
  3. Utopian Communities
    1. Perfectionist Experiments
      1. Robert Owen and New Harmony
      2. The North American Phalanx
      3. The Shakers
      4. The Rappites
      5. Oneida Perfectionists
    2. Mormons (The Church of Latter-Day Saints)
      1. Joseph Smith
      2. The Book of Mormon (1830)
      3. Brigham Young
      4. Mormon Utah
  4. Evangelical Roots of Abolitionism
    1. Evangelical Reformers
      1. Theodore Dwight Weld
        1. Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati)
        2. the "Lane Rebels"
        3. Ohio Antislavery Society
      2. Henry B. Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
      3. James G. Birney
      4. William Lloyd Garrison
        1. Benjamin Lundy’s Genius of Universal Emancipation
        2. Garrison’s The Liberator (1831)
      5. Frederick Douglass’s North Star (1848)
    2. The American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
      1. The British Anti-Slavery Society
      2. William Lloyd Garrison and "moral suasion"
      3. Pamphleteering: the "great postal campaign"
    3. The Anti-Abolitionist Response
      1. Elijah Lovejoy’s murder in Alton, Illinois (1837)
      2. The "gag resolution" in the House of Representatives (1836)
  5. Political Abolitionism and Social Reform
    1. John Quincy Adams’s Campaign Against the Gag Rule
    2. Women’s Rights
      1. Angelina and Sarah Grimké
      2. "Garrisonian" reform
      3. Division of American Anti-Slavery Society (1840)
      4. American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
    3. The Liberty Party
      1. Nomination of James G. Birney for president (1840)
      2. "Immediatist" platform
    4. Black Abolitionists
      1. National Negro Convention Movement (1830)
      2. Sojourner Truth
      3. Frederick Douglass
    5. School Reform
    6. Nativism
      1. Catholic immigrants
        1. Germans
        2. Irish potato famine (1845)
      2. Anti-Catholicism
      3. Evangelical Protestant response
        1. American Temperance Society
        2. American Bible Society
        3. American Tract Society
        4. American Sunday School Union
    7. The Benevolent Empire
      1. Public school movement
      2. Transportation and communication improvements
      3. Idea of an American mission to save the world
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