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America: A Narrative History, Brief 9e
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
Chapter 2: Britain and Its Colonies
Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
Chapter 4: From Colonies to States
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution
Chapter 6: Shaping a Federal Union
Chapter 7: The Federalist Era
Chapter 8: The Early Republic
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Chapter 9: The Dynamics of Growth
Chapter 10: Nationalism and Sectionalism
Chapter 11: The Jacksonian Era
Chapter 12: The Old South
Chapter 13: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform
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Chapter 14: An Empire in the West
Chapter 15: The Gathering Storm
Chapter 16: The War of the Union
Chapter 17: Reconstruction: North and South
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Chapter 18: Big Business and Organized Labor
Chapter 19: The South and the West Transformed
Chapter 20: The Emergence of Urban America
Chapter 21: Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Reform
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Chapter 22: Seizing an American Empire
Chapter 23: "Making the World Over": The Progressive Era
Chapter 24: America and the Great War
Chapter 25: An "Epoch of Confusion": the 1920s
Chapter 26: Republican Resurgence and Decline
Chapter 27: The New Deal America
Chapter 28: The Second World War
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Chapter 29: The Fair Deal and Containment
Chapter 30: The 1950s: Affluence and the Atomic Age
Chapter 31: New Frontiers: Political and Social Change in the 1960s
Chapter 32: Rebellion and Reaction: the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 33: A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990
Chapter 34: America in a New Millenium
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Chapter 5
The American Revolution
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I. 1776: Washington’s narrow escape
A. Howe assembled largest British army ever
B. American defeat on Long Island
C. Thomas Paine’s
The American Crisis
D. Washington’s attack on Trenton, Christmas 1776
E. Washington’s second minor success at Princeton
F. Washington wintered in Morristown, New Jersey
II. American society at war
A. Division of support in the colonies
1. Three groups: Patriots, Tories, and an indifferent middle group
2. Who were the Tories?
3. British and Tory frustrations
4. Patriot groups materialized when troops were needed, then vanished
B. Analysis of the colonial war effort
1. The militia
2. The Continental army
3. Supplies obtained directly from farmers
4. Difficulties of financing the war
5. Washington orders mass inoculation at Morristown
III. Setbacks for the British
A. Problems of the British war effort
B. Three-pronged attack in New York led to turning point of the war
1. Howe took Philadelphia
2. Washington retired to Valley Forge for the winter
3. Burgoyne moved south in New York
4. Battle of Saratoga
C. Saratoga escalated war to worldwide proportions
1. French entered war to help Americans
2. Spain entered as ally of France
3. Britain declared war on the Dutch
IV. Both sides regroup
A. War in the East in 1778
1. Clinton replaced Howe
2. Winter at Valley Forge
a. Sufferings of the troops
b. Contributions of von Steuben and Lafayette
c. A renewed army
3. Stalemate
B. Western successes of colonials
1. George Rogers Clark in Illinois
2. Iroquois power broken
3. Daniel Boone in Kentucky
4. Later effects of battles with frontier Indians
V. Southern campaign
A. Reasons for the move south
B. Reasons for lack of British success in the South
C. Savannah and Charleston captured by the British
D. Cornwallis routed Gates’s forces at Camden, South Carolina
E. Tarleton and Ferguson defeated at Kings Mountain
F. Greene placed in command of colonials in the South
G. Morgan’s victory at Cowpens
H. Cornwallis fights his way northward
I. Benedict Arnold’s contributions to the British
J. Exploits of the American navy
K. Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1. Nature of the Yorktown campaign
2. Results and their significance
VI. Peace negotiations
A. Negotiators
B. Nature of the problems with France and with Spain
C. American initiatives with Britain
D. Terms of the Peace of Paris, September 3, 1783
VII. The political revolution
A. Nature of the revolutionary concepts developed in America
1. Nature of republican governmental ideas
2. The necessity of a virtuous citizenry
B. Changes in state governments
1. Concept of written constitutions
2. Features of new state constitutions
C. Articles of Confederation
1. Difficulties in obtaining ratification
2. Powers of central government under the Articles
VIII. The social revolution
A. Loyalists abandon America
B. Impact of independence on lower socioeconomic groups
C. Impact of the Revolution on land tenure
D. Impact of the Revolution on slavery
1. Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
E. Impact of the Revolution on women
F. Impact of the Revolution on Indians
G. Impact of the Revolution on religion
IX. Emergence of an American culture
A. Independence Day
B. General impact of nationalism—America’s special destiny