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List of Maps, Tables, and Figures

About the Author
Preface
American Colonies to 1763
A New World
The Expansion of Europe
Peoples of the Americas
The Spanish Empire
The First North Americans
England and the New World
The Freeborn Englishman
Voices of Freedom: From Henry Care, English Liberties, or, The
Free-Born Subject's Inheritance (1680)
American Beginnings, 1607-1650
The Coming of the English
Settling the Chesapeake
Origins of American Slavery
The New England Way
Voices of Freedom: From John Winthrop, Speech to the
Massachusetts General Court (July 3, 1645)
New Englanders Divided
The New England Economy
Crisis and Expansion: North American Colonies, 1650-1750
Empires in Conflict
The Expansion of England's Empire
Voices of Freedom: From William Penn, England's Present
Interests Discovered (1675)
Colonies in Crisis
The Eighteenth Century: A Growing Society
Social Classes in the Colonies
Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763
Slavery and the Empire
Slave Culture and Slave Resistance
An Empire of Freedom
The Public Sphere
The Great Awakening
Imperial Rivalries
Battle for the Continent
Voices of Freedom: From Pontiac, Speeches (1762 and 1763)
A New Nation, 1763-1840
The American Revolution, 1763-1783
The Crisis Begins
The Road to Revolution
The Coming of Independence
Voices of Freedom: From Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

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Securing Independence
The Revolution Within
Democratizing Freedom
Toward Religious Liberty
Defining Economic Freedom
The Limits of Liberty
Slavery and the Revolution
Voices of Freedom: From Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts
Legislature (1773 and 1777)
Daughters of Liberty
Founding a Nation, 1783-1789
America under the Articles of Confederation
A New Constitution
The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights
Voices of Freedom: From James Madison, The Federalist no. 51,
and Anti-Federalist Essay Signed "Brutus" (1787)
We the People
Securing the Republic, 1790-1815
Politics in an Age of Passion
Voices of Freedom: From Address of the Democratic-Republican
Society of Pennsylvania (December 18, 1794)
The Adams Presidency
Jefferson in Power
The "Second War of Independence"
The Market Revolution
A New Economy
Market Society
Voices of Freedom: From Josephine L. Baker, "A Second Peep at
Factory Life," Lowell Offering (1845)
The Free Individual
The Limits of Prosperity
Democracy in America, 1815-1840
The Triumph of Democracy
Voices of Freedom: From "The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders
of the City of Richmond" (1829)
Nationalism and Its Discontents
Nation, Section, and Party
The Age of Jackson
The Bank War and After
Slavery, Freedom, and the Crisis of the Union, 1840-1877
The Peculiar Institution
The Old South
Voices of Freedom: From John C. Calhoun, Speech in Congress
(1837)
Life under Slavery
Slave Culture

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Resistance to Slavery
An Age of Reform, 1820-1840
The Reform Impulse
The Crusade against Slavery
Black and White Abolitionism
The Origins of Feminism
Voices of Freedom: From Angelina Grimke, Letter in The Liberator
(August 2, 1837)
A House Divided, 1840-1861
Fruits of Manifest Destiny
A Dose of Arsenic
The Rise of the Republican Party
Voices of Freedom: From William H. Seward, "The Irrepressible
Conflict" (1858)
The Emergence of Lincoln
The Impending Crisis
A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865
The First Modern War
The Coming of Emancipation
The Second American Revolution
Voices of Freedom: From Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary
Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864)
The Confederate Nation
Turning Points
Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War
"What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877
The Meaning of Freedom
Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the
Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865)
The Making of Radical Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction in the South
The Overthrow of Reconstruction
Appendix
Documents
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
The Constitution of the United States (1787)
From George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)
From Frederick Douglass's "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of
July?" Speech (1852)
The Gettysburg Address (1863)
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
The Populist Platform of 1892
Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933)
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Admission of States
Population of the United States
Historical Statistics of the United States
Workforce
Immigration, by Origin
Glossary
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