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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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Massachusetts Constitution (adopted March 2, 1780).

Virginia Constitution, not including the Bill of Rights (adopted June 9, 1776).

The Virginia Declaration of Rights (adopted June 12, 1776).

An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown (1689).

John Murray, Earl of Dunmore: A Proclamation (November 14, 1775).

Thomas Jefferson: FROM Notes on the State of Virginia (February 27, 1787).

Involuntary Servitude Resolution (April 23, 1784).

Abigail Adams: Letter To John Adams (September 22, 1774).

George Washington Letter to Samuel Chamberlain, April 3, 1788

George Washington to Arthur Young, December 12, 1793

George Washington to Arthur Young, June 18, 1792

Letter, George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, July 6, 1796

George Washington to Arthur Young, December 12, 1793

George Washington to William Tilghman, July 21, 1793

George Washington to Burgess Ball, July 27, 1794

George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, September 14, 1798

George Washington to Arthur Young, June 18, 1792

George Washington to Robert Lewis and Sons, February 1, 1785

Tobias Lear to Charles Vancouver, November 5, 1791

George Washington to Henry Lee, October 16, 1793

George Washington to Thomas C. Martin, October 3, 1797

George Washington to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786

George Washington to John Fowler, February 2, 1788

George Washington to Charles Pinckney, March 17, 1792

George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, November 23, 1794

George Washington to John F. Mercer, December 19, 1786

George Washington to Henry Lee, February 4, 1787

Anthony Whiting from George Washington, April 28, 1793

Diary Selection from Julian Niemcewicz, "Under a Vine and Fig Tree: Travels through America in 1979-1799, 1805 with some further account of life in New Jersey"

Anthony Whiting from George Washington, December 23, 1792

George Washington to Anthony Whiting, March 3, 1793

George Washington to William Pierce, Oct. 27, 1793

George Washington to William Pearce, May 18, 1794

George Washington to William Pearce, June 7, 1795

George Washington's Will

 

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