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U.S. History

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

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01: The Americas Europe and Africa Before 1492
1.01: The Americas
1.02: Europe on the Brink of Change
1.03: West Africa and the Role of Slavery
02: Early Globalization- The Atlantic World 14921650
2.01: Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
2.02: Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
2.03: Challenges to Spains Supremacy
2.04: New Worlds in the Americas- Labor Commerce and the Columbian Exchange
03: Creating New Social Orders- Colonial Societies 15001700
3.01: Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
3.02: Colonial Rivalries- Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
3.03: English Settlements in America
3.04: The Impact of Colonization
04: Rule Britannia The English Empire 16601763
4.01: Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
4.02: The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
4.03: An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
4.04: Great Awakening and Enlightenment
4.05: Wars for Empire
05: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests 1763-1774
5.01: Confronting the National Debt- The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
5.02: The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
5.03: The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
5.04: The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
5.05: Disaffection- The First Continental Congress and American Identity
06: America's War for Independence 1775-1783
6.01: Britains Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
6.02: The Early Years of the Revolution
6.03: War in the South
6.04: Identity during the American Revolution
07: Creating Republican Governments 17761790
7.01: Common Sense- From Monarchy to an American Republic
7.02: How Much Revolutionary Change
7.03: Debating Democracy
7.04: The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
08: Growing Pains- The New Republic 17901820
8.01: Competing Visions- Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
8.02: The New American Republic
8.03: Partisan Politics
8.04: The United States Goes Back to War
09: Industrial Transformation in the North 18001850
9.01: Early Industrialization in the Northeast
9.02: A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
9.03: On the Move- The Transportation Revolution
9.04: A New Social Order- Class Divisions
10: Jacksonian Democracy 18201840
10.01: A New Political Style- From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
10.02: The Rise of American Democracy
10.03: The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
10.04: Indian Removal
10.05: The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
11: A Nation on the Move- Westward Expansion 18001860
11.01: Lewis and Clark
11.02: The Missouri Crisis
11.03: Independence for Texas
11.04: The Mexican-American War 18461848
11.05: Free Soil or Slave The Dilemma of the West
12: Cotton is King- The Antebellum South 18001860
12.01: The Economics of Cotton
12.02: African Americans in the Antebellum United States
12.03: Wealth and Culture in the South
12.04: The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses 18201860
13.01: An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
13.02: Antebellum Communal Experiments
13.03: Reforms to Human Health
13.04: Addressing Slavery
13.05: Womens Rights
14: Troubled Times- the Tumultuous 1850s
14.01: The Compromise of 1850
14.02: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
14.03: The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
14.04: John Brown and the Election of 1860
15: The Civil War 18601865
15.01: The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
15.02: Early Mobilization and War
15.03: 1863- The Changing Nature of the War
15.04: The Union Triumphant
16: The Era of Reconstruction 18651877
16.01: Restoring the Union
16.02: Congress and the Remaking of the South 18651866
16.03: Radical Reconstruction 18671872
16.04: The Collapse of Reconstruction
17: Go West Young Man Westward Expansion 1840-1900
17.01: The Westward Spirit
17.02: Homesteading- Dreams and Realities
17.03: Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
17.04: The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
17.05: The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
18: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business 1870-1900
18.01: Inventors of the Age
18.02: From Invention to Industrial Growth
18.03: Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
18.04: A New American Consumer Culture
19: The Growing Pains of Urbanization 1870-1900
19.01: Urbanization and Its Challenges
19.02: The African American Great Migration and New European Immigration
19.03: Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
19.04: Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
20: Politics in the Gilded Age 1870-1900
20.01: Political Corruption in Postbellum America
20.02: The Key Political Issues- Patronage Tariffs and Gold
20.03: Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
20.04: Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
21: Leading the Way- The Progressive Movement 1890-1920
21.01: The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
21.02: Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
21.03: New Voices for Women and African Americans
21.04: Progressivism in the White House
22: Age of Empire- American Foreign Policy 1890-1914
22.01: Turner Mahan and the Roots of Empire
22.02: The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
22.03: Economic Imperialism in East Asia
22.04: Roosevelts Big Stick Foreign Policy
22.05: Tafts Dollar Diplomacy
23: Americans and the Great War 1914-1919
23.01: American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
23.02: The United States Prepares for War
23.03: A New Home Front
23.04: From War to Peace
23.05: Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
24: The Jazz Age- Redefining the Nation 1919-1929
24.01: Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
24.02: Transformation and Backlash
24.03: A New Generation
24.04: Republican Ascendancy- Politics in the 1920s
24.05: Page Title
25: Brother Can You Spare a Dime The Great Depression 1929-1932
25.01: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
25.02: President Hoovers Response
25.03: The Depths of the Great Depression
25.04: Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
26: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932-1941
26.01: The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
26.02: The First New Deal
26.03: The Second New Deal
26.04: Page Title 2
27: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II 1941-1945
27.01: The Origins of War- Europe Asia and the United States
27.02: The Home Front
27.03: Victory in the European Theater
27.04: The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
28: Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears 1945-1960
28.01: The Challenges of Peacetime
28.02: The Cold War
28.03: The American Dream
28.04: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
28.05: Page Title 3
28.06: Popular Culture and Mass Media
29: America in the 1960s
29.01: The Kennedy Promise
29.02: Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
29.03: The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
29.04: Challenging the Status Quo
30: Political Storms at Home and Abroad 1968-1980
30.01: Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
30.02: Coming Apart Coming Together
30.03: Vietnam - The Downward Spiral
30.04: Watergate - Nixon's Domestic Nightmare
30.05: Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
31: From Cold War to Culture Wars 1980-2000
31.01: The Reagan Revolution
31.02: Political and Cultural Fusion
31.03: A New World Order
31.04: Bill Clinton and the New Economy
31.05: Terms and Questions
32: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
32.01: The War on Terror
32.02: The Domestic Mission
32.03: New Century Old Disputes
32.04: Hope and Change
32.05: Terms and Questions