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Pt. 1: Colonial foundations, to 1763 -- 1. European backgrounds -- The Commercial Revolution -- The rise of National Monarchies -- The Religious Revolution -- The Intellectual Awakening -- 2. Continental powers and the New World -- Portugal -- Spain -- France -- The Dutch -- 3. Early English settlements: Virginia and Maryland -- Sixteenth-Century England -- England turns to America -- The founding of Virginia -- Maryland -- Negro slavery in the Tobacco Colonies -- 4. The New England colonies -- The Pilgrims -- The Puritans -- Rhode Island -- Connecticut -- New Hampshire and Maine -- Indian Wars -- Codfish and witches -- 5. Organziation and development of the empire -- The Navigation Acts -- New Proprietary Colonies -- The restoration and the Glorious Revolution -- 6. Colonial life in the eighteenth century -- Settling the old west -- The broadening economy -- Cultural developments -- 7. Colonial politics and a cycle of wars -- Colonial political institutions -- New Mercantilist regulations -- Colonial Wars -- Part II: Beginnings of the Republic, 1763-1789 -- 8. The colonies and the empire, 1763-1774 -- The proclamation of 1763 and the western question -- The Stamp Act and the taxation question -- The Townshend Acts -- The Boston Tea Party -- 9. Towards American independence, 1774-1776 -- The Coercive Acts -- The first Continental Congress -- Lexington and Concord -- The second Continental Congress -- The Declaration of Independence -- 10. The American Revolution -- The war: character and general conditions -- The war: first phase, 1776-1778 -- The French Alliance -- Years of trial, 1778-1779 -- Last phases of the war, 1780-1781 -- Peace and independence -- 11. The internal revolution, 1776-1786 -- State Constitutions and Bills of Rights -- Extensions of individual freedom -- The cultural revolution -- 12. The Confederation, 1781-1789 -- Government under the articles -- Charters for the west -- The economic problem -- Foreign affairs under the confederation -- 13. The Constitution of 1787 -- The Federal Convention -- Framing the Constitution -- Ratification -- The success of the Constitution -- Select bibliography -- Appendices: Declaration of Independence -- The Constitution of the United States of America -- Amendments.

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