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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART 1. FIRST ENCOUNTERSThe Meaning of AmericaUtilizing the Native Labor ForceNew World FantasiesLabor NeedsThe Black LegendA Critique of the Slave TradePART 2. EUROPEAN COLONIZATION NORTH OF MEXICOJustifications for English Involvement in the New WorldA Rationale for New World ColonizationEngland's First Enduring North American SettlementLife in Early VirginiaRace War in VirginiaIndentured ServitudeThe Shift to SlaveryRegional ContrastsThe Pilgrims Arrive in PlymouthReasons for Puritan ImmigrationThe Idea of the CovenantServitude in New EnglandMounting Conflict with Native AmericansNative Americans as Active AgentsPuritan EconomicsKing Philip's WarStruggles for PowerAn Indian Slave Woman Confesses to WitchcraftThe Sin of SlaveholdingEnglish LibertiesPART 3. A LAND OF CONTRASTSMercantilist IdeasNew Netherlands: America's First Multicultural SocietyNew Netherlands Becomes New YorkIndian AffairsThe Schenectady MassacrePersecution of the QuakersThe Quaker Ideal of Religious ToleranceSouth CarolinaGeorgiaEnglish Liberties and DeferenceQueen Anne's WarImmigration and Ethnic DiversityIndentured ServitudeSuspicion of Arbitrary PowerThe Great AwakeningFear of Slave RevoltsAmerica as a Land of OpportunityPART 4. THE SEVEN YEARS' WARBritish North America in 1775A Soldier's DiaryFasting and RepentanceThe Capture of QuébecThe Seven Years' War and the Growth of Antislavery SentimentThe Fate of Native AmericansPART 5. THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONThe Proclamation of 1763The Stamp Act CrisisThe Townshend ActsThe Boston MassacreThe RegulatorsSamuel AdamsThe Boston Tea PartyAmerican Resistance to BritainThe Battles of Lexington and ConcordDeclaring IndependenceSlavery and the American RevolutionBenedict Arnold's TreasonThe War in the SouthThe Articles of ConfederationPART 6. CREATING A NEW NATIONNative Americans and the American RevolutionThe Newburgh ConspiracySlavery in Postrevolutionary AmericaWhite SlaveryRelations with BritainThe Critical Period and Shays' RebellionNorthwest OrdinanceCreating Republican GovernmentsThe U.S. ConstitutionDebates within the Constitutional ConventionThe Three-fifths CompromiseFugitive Slaves and the ConstitutionA Proslavery Document? Ratification DebatesThe New RepublicThe Birth of Political PartiesThe Haitian RevolutionThe Citizen Genet AffairThe Whiskey RebellionWashington's Farewell AddressThe Quasi-War with France and the XYZ AffairJeffersonian RepublicanismThe Jeffersonians in PowerREPEAL OF THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1801, Judicial Review, Louisiana, Expansion, and Disunionist Conspiracies, Slavery and Race in Jeffersonian America, The American Eagle, the French Tiger, and the British Shark, The Dambargo of 1807, The Road to War, The "War Hawks", Clearing the Land of Indians, Missionary Work and Indian PolicyPART 7. ANTEBELLUM AMERICASHIFTS IN SENSIBILITY: FAMILY, GENDER ROLES, RELIGION, AND THE RISE OF HUMANITARIANISM, The Emergence of the Republican Family, Republican Motherhood, Religious Liberalism and Evangelical Revivalism, DisestablishmentORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REFORM TRADITION, Dueling, Education, Colonization, Postward Nationalism and Division1818 AND 1819: WATERSHED YEARS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, The Second Bank of the United States, iMcCullough/i v. Maryland, Acquiring Florida, The Monroe Doctrine, The Missouri Crisis, Slavery and Sectionalism, The Underground Railroad, The Rise of the Second Party System, The Election of 1824POWER AND IDEOLOGY IN JACKSON'S AMERICA, Nullification and the Bank War, Political Democratization and the Dorr War, Party Competition and the Rise of the Whigs, Antebellum Reform: The Shift to Immediatism, Abolition and Slavery, Nat Turner's Insurrection, Narrative and Testimony of Sarah M. Grimké, Testimony of Angelina Grimké, A Proslavery New Yorker, From Antislavery to Women's RightsMANIFEST DESTINY, Gone to Texas, Texas Annexation, Mounting Sectional Antagonisms, The iAmistad Affair, Political Antislavery, The Free Soil Party, The Mexican WarTHE ESCALATING CONFLICT OVER SLAVERY, The Compromise of 1850, Mass Immigration, The Know-Nothings and the Disintegration of the Second-Party SystemAMERICA AT MIDCENTURY, Revival of the Slavery Issue, Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Sumner, The Dred Scott Decision, The Gathering Storm, Harpers Ferry, The Secession CrisisPART 8. CIVIL WARTHE SIGNIFICANCE OF NAMES, The Emancipation Proclamation, GettysburgTOWARD RECONSTRUCTION, The Nature and History of the Gilder Lehrman Collection
