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A

Short History

of the

United States

Robert V. Remini

For Joan,

Who has brought nothing but joy to my life

Contents

1 Discovery and Settlement of the New World

1

2 Independence and Nation Building

31

3 An Emerging Identity

63

4 The Jacksonian Era

95

5 The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War

127

6 Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

155

7 Manifest Destiny, Progressivism, War,

and the Roaring Twenties

187

Photographic Insert

8 The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II 215

9 The Cold War and Civil Rights

245

10 Violence, Scandal, and the End of the Cold War

277

11 The Conservative Revolution

305

Reading List

337

Index

343

About the Author

Other Books by Robert V. Remini

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