Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States

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Chapter 1: The First Americans

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- pueblo
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Chapter 2: Exploring the Americas

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- plantation
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- tenant farmer
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Chapter 3: Colonial America

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- joint-stock company
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- estate
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- constitution
- indigo
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Chapter 4: Life in the American Colonies

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- immigration
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- apprentice
- emphasis
- militia
- confederacy
- alliance
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Chapter 5: The Spirit of Independence

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- loyalist
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- reconciliation
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- infallible
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- petition
- discipline
- debate
- preamble
- status
Chapter 6: The American Revolution

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Chapter 7: A More Perfect Union

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- proportional
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- reformation
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- tradition
- federalism
- legislative
- executive
- electoral college
- judicial
- reside
- amendment
Chapter 8: The Constitution

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Chapter 9: The Federalist Era

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- nullify
Chapter 10: The Jefferson Era

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- restriction
- nationalism
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- goal
Chapter 11: Growth and Expansion

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- interchangeable
- patent
- capitalism
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- free enterprise
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- census
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- turnpike
- region
- canal
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- intense
- internal
- sectionalism
- monopoly
- interstate
- commerce
- cede
- sovereign
- tedious
- stoicism
- elephantine
- profane
- prodigal
- prodigious
- magnanimous
- heyday
Chapter 12: The Jackson Era

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- spoils system
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- convention
- federal
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- survive
- institution
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- symbol
Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny

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- manifest destiny
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- barricade
- annex
- subjugate
- usurpation
- immutable
- proffer
- resource
- justify
- boom town
- vigilante
- constitution
- incorporate
Chapter 14: North and South

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- union
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- community
- licensed
- famine
- nativist
- productivity
- process
- consequence
- domestic
- yeoman
- overseer
- legal
- spiritual
- brief
- Underground Railroad
- literacy
Chapter 15: The Spirit of Reform

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- utopia
- temperance
- lecture
- normal school
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- civil disobedience
- abolitionist
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- medical
- suffrage
- coeducation
- capable
- ministry
- hinder
- tidings
Chapter 16: Toward Civil War

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- ordain
- administer
- impaired
Chapter 17: The Civil War

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- bounty
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- resistance
- interpret
Chapter 18: The Reconstruction Era

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- impeach
- scalawag
- corruption
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- integrated
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- commission
- outcome
- poll tax
- literacy
- grandfather clause
- segregation
- lynch
Chapter 19: Opening the West

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- populism
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Chapter 20: The Industrial Age

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- mass production
- entrepreneur
- corporation
- stock
- shareholder
- dividend
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- trend
- merger
- sweatshop
- union
- identify
- collective bargaining
- environment
- strikebreaker
- injunction
Chapter 21: An Urban Society

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- urban
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- slum
- middle class
- suburb
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- settlement house
- skyscraper
- philosophy
- isolate
- yellow journalism
- spectator
- vaudeville
- jazz
- ragtime
Chapter 22: The Progressive Era

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- suffragist
- prohibition
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- arbitration
- square deal
- inspect
- conservation
- primary
- discrimination
- deny
- segregation
- biased
- mutualist
- barrio
Chapter 23: Rise to World Power

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- territory
- eventual
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- annual
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- dollar diplomacy
Chapter 24: World War I

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- consent
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- socialist
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- dissent
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Chapter 25: The Jazz Age

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Chapter 26: The Depression and the New Deal

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Chapter 27: America and World War II

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- civil defense
- internment
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Chapter 28: The Cold War Era

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- desegregate
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- demilitarize
- surplus
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- arms race
- nuclear
- summit
- standard of living
- affluence
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Chapter 29: The Civil Rights Era

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- feminist
- aspect
- Latino
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Chapter 30: The Vietnam War

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- credibility
- exclude
- authority
- demonstration
- martial
Chapter 31: A Troubled Nation

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- apartheid
- fundamentalist
- deregulation
- debt
- interpret
- theme
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- coalition
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- downsize
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- grassroots
- deficit spending
- adequate
- gross domestic product
- perjury
- scope
Chapter 32: New Challenges

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