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American Beginnings Natives and Exploration: Climate and Geology of the New World How Geography Affected Exploration and Settlement of America Columbus Spanish Explorers Dutch and Swedish Settlements Cartier and Cabot Jamestown Colonial Life: Life on Colonial Farms Colonial Government The Colonies Education, Leisure, Gender, and Class Differences in the Colonies Plantation Life Religion in the Colonies Life in A Colonial City: Philadelphia Events Leading to the Revolutionary War: The French and Indian War The Louisiana Purchase Boston Massacre: Fact and Fiction The Boston Tea Party British Oppression English Oppression America Declares Independence The Revolutionary War: 1776 - 1777 War in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania The Difficult Winter at Valley Forge The War Ends: The Treaty of Paris The Winter of 1777-1778: Encampment at Valley Forge The Constitution: Composing the Constitution The Bill of Rights: Establishing the Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights The Early Republic:: George Washington George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson 1791-1792, First Political Parties Formed, Bill of Rights Approved 1791 - Conflicting Views on the Role of the Government 1789: The First Year of the New US Government Foreign Affair Dilemmas: 1809: Problems Over America's Shipping Rights Conflicts and Resolutions of 1797-1798 Napolean Bonaparte The Barbary Wars: 1801-1815 The Dictatorship Begins: Napolean Becomes Emperor of France The Monroe Doctrine Prelude to the War of 1812 James Madison James Monroe Tecumseh and Native American Resistance The Embargo Act and Its Impact Thomas Jefferson The North and South: Cotton Gin The Cotton Gin and Southern Expansion Andrew Jackson: A Man of the People Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson's Rise to Power Our Changing Nation: From James Monroe to Andrew Jackson Trail of Tears John Quincy Adams Martin Van Buren The Tariff Laws The Unfinished Nation: He Brought the People With Him Westward Expansion: James Knox Polk The Louisiana Purchase Zachary Taylor Mexico, the Alamo, and Davy Crockett Florida: America Acquires Florida from the Spanish Reform Movements: Abolitionists The Anti-Slavery Movement Public Education and Women in the 1800's Second Great Awakening Women and Civil Rights The Civil War: 1860: Lincoln is Elected and Inherits a Mess: The South Secedes Abraham Lincoln Fort Sumter and the Beginning of the Civil War John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry North vs. South Dred Scott and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates The Election of 1860 The North Before the War: Antislavery Movements Increase - Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Underground Railroad