Table of Contents, Historical Perspectives Vol. 1, Abigail Press History Reader and Study Guide

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Chapter 1	Discovery of the Americas	1
Chapter 2	Colonization	27
Chapter 3	Colonial Society	52
Chapter 4	Toward Revolution	74
Chapter 5	The New Nation Is Created	93
Chapter 6	The Early Republic	117
Chapter 7	Claiming the Commons: Constructing an American Identity	143
Chapter 8	Age of Reform	166
Chapter 9	American Life 1840-1860	189
Chapter 10	The Road to War	210
Chapter 11	The Civil War	236
Chapter 12	Reconstruction: The Turning Point That Never Turned	259
Chapter 13	Industrialization	282
Chapter 14	The Trans-Missouri West: The Last Frontier	316