Hillary Clinton has told voters the presidential election is a "moment of reckoning", as she made history by accepting the Democratic nomination.
Speaking on the final night of the party's convention in Philadelphia, the first woman nominated by a major party said there were huge challenges.
"Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart," she said.
Mrs Clinton accused her Republican opponent in November's election, Donald Trump, of sowing discord.
"He wants to divide us - from the rest of the world, and from each other."
Campaign pledges she mentioned:
- Creating more jobs with rising wages and pay equality
- Campaign finance reform and protecting voting rights
- Addressing climate change through clean energy policy
- "Building a path to citizenship" for undocumented immigrants in the US
- Raising the national minimum wage
- "Common-sense" gun control
- Rejecting "unfair trade deals" and supporting "homegrown manufacturers"
However, she was confident these challenges could be overcome with the American values of "freedom and equality, justice and opportunity".
She acknowledged that too many Americans had been "left behind" by economic forces and addressed them directly: "Some of you are frustrated - even furious. And you know what? You're right."
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