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The American Yawp is a collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for general readers and college-level history courses. Over three hundred academic historians—scholars and experienced college-level instructors—have come together and freely volunteered their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century readers.

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Contents· 329 sections

01: The New World
1.01: Introduction
1.02: The First Americans
1.03: European Expansion
1.04: Spanish Exploration and Conquest
1.05: Conclusion
1.06: Primary Sources
1.07: Reference Material
02: Colliding Cultures
2.01: Introduction
2.02: Spanish America
2.03: Spain's Rivals Emerge
2.04: English Colonization
2.05: Jamestown
2.06: New England
2.07: Conclusion
2.08: Primary Sources
2.09: Reference Materials
03: British North America
3.01: Introduction
3.02: Slavery and the Making of Race
3.03: Turmoil in Britain
3.04: New Colonies
3.05: Riot Rebellion and Revolt
3.06: Conclusion
3.07: Primary Sources
3.08: Reference Material
04: Colonial America
4.01: Introduction
4.02: Consumption and Trade in the British Atlantic
4.03: Slavery Anti-Slavery and Atlantic Exchange
4.04: Persuing Political Religious and Individual Freedom
4.05: Seven Years War
4.06: Pontiac's War
4.07: Conclusion
4.08: Primary Sources
4.09: Reference Material
05: The American Revolution
5.01: Introduction
5.02: The Origins of the American Revolution
5.03: The Causes of the American Revolution
5.04: Independence
5.05: The War for Independence
5.06: The Consequences of the American Revolution
5.07: Conclusion
5.08: Primary Sources
5.09: Reference Material
06: A New Nation
6.01: Introduction
6.02: Shay's Rebellion
6.03: The Constitutional Convention
6.04: Ratifying the Constitution
6.05: Rights and Compromises
6.06: Hamilton's Financial System
6.07: The Whiskey Rebellion and Jay's Treaty
6.08: The French Revolution and the Limits of Liberty
6.09: Religious Freedom
6.10: The Election of 1800
6.11: Conclusion
6.12: Primary Sources
6.13: Reference Material
07: The Early Republic
7.01: Introduction
7.02: Free and Enslaved Black Americans and the Challenge to Slavery
7.03: Jeffersonian Republicanism
7.04: Jefferson as President
7.05: Native American Power and the United States
7.06: The War of 1812
7.07: Conclusion
7.08: Primary Sources
7.09: References
08: The Market Revolution
8.01: Introduction
8.02: Early Republic Economic Development
8.03: The Decline of the Northern Kingdom and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
8.04: Changes in Labor Organization
8.05: Changes in Gender Roles and Family
8.06: The Rise of Industrial Labor in Antebellum America
8.07: Conclusion
8.08: Primary Sources
8.09: Reference Material
09: Democracy in America
9.01: Anti-Masons Anti-Immigrants and the Whig Coalition
9.02: Race and Jacksonian Democracy
9.03: Primary Sources
9.04: Reference Material
9.05: Introduction
9.06: Democracy in the Early Republic
9.07: The Missouri Crisis
9.08: The Rise of Andrew Jackson
9.09: The Nullification Crisis
9.10: The Eaton Affair and the Politics of Sexuality
9.11: The Bank War
9.12: The Panic of 1837
9.13: Rise of the Whigs
10: Religion and Reform
10.01: Introduction
10.02: Revival and Religious Change
10.03: Atlantic Origins of Reform
10.04: The Benevolent Empire
10.05: Antislavery and Abolitionism
10.06: Women's Rights in Antebellum America
10.07: Conclusion
10.08: Primary Sources
10.09: Reference Material
11: The Cotton Revolution
11.01: Introduction
11.02: The Importance of Cotton
11.03: Cotton and Slavery
11.04: The South and the City
11.05: Southern Cultures
11.06: Religion and Honor in the Slave South
11.07: Conclusion
11.08: Primary Sources
11.09: Reference Material
12: Manifest Destiny
12.01: Introduction
12.02: Antebellum Western Migration and Indian Removal
12.03: Life and Culture in the West
12.04: Texas Mexico and America
12.05: Manifest Destiny and the Gold Rush
12.06: The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny
12.07: Conclusion
12.08: Primary Sources
12.09: Reference Material
13: The Sectional Crisis
13.01: Introduction
13.02: Sectionalism in the Early Republic
13.03: The Crisis Joined
13.04: Free Soil Free Labor Free Men
13.05: From Sectional Crisis to National Crisis
13.06: Conclusion
13.07: Primary Sources
13.08: Reference Material
14: The Civil War
14.01: Introduction
14.02: The Election of 1860 and Secession
14.03: A War for Union 1861-1863
14.04: War for Emancipation 1863-1865
14.05: Conclusion
14.06: Primary Sources
14.07: Reference Material
15: Reconstruction
15.01: Reference Material
15.02: Introduction
15.03: Politics of Reconstruction
15.04: The Meaning of Black Freedom
15.05: Reconstruction and Women
15.06: Racial Violence in Reconstruction
15.07: Economic Development during the Civil War and Reconstruction
15.08: The End of Reconstruction
15.09: Conclusion
15.10: Primary Sources
16: Capital and Labor
16.01: Reference Material
16.02: Introduction
16.03: The March of Capital
16.04: The Rise of Inequality
16.05: The Labor Movement
16.06: The Populist Movement
16.07: William Jennings Bryan and the Politics of Gold
16.08: The Socialists
16.09: Conclusion
16.10: Primary Sources
17: Conquering the West
17.01: Reference Material
17.02: Introduction
17.03: Post-Civil War Westward Migration
17.04: The Indian Wars and Federal Peace Policies
17.05: Beyond the Plains
17.06: Western Economic Expansion- Railroads and Cattle
17.07: The Allotment Era and Resistance in the Native West
17.08: Rodeos Wild West Shows and the Mythic American West
17.09: The West as History- the Turner Thesis
17.10: Primary Sources
18: Life in Industrial America
18.01: Introduction
18.02: Industrial and Technological Innovation
18.03: Immigration and Urbanization
18.04: The New South and the Problem of Race
18.05: Gender Religion and Culture
18.06: Conclusion
18.07: Primary Sources
18.08: Reference Material
19: American Empire
19.01: Introduction
19.02: Patterns of American Interventions
19.03: 1898
19.04: Theodore Roosevelt and American Imperialism
19.05: Women and Imperialism
19.06: Immigration
19.07: Conclusion
19.08: Primary Sources
19.09: Reference Material
20: The Progressive Era
20.01: Introduction
20.02: Mobilizing for Reform
20.03: Women's Movements
20.04: Targeting the Trusts
20.05: Progressive Environmentalism
20.06: Jim Crow and African American Life
20.07: Conclusion
20.08: Primary Sources
20.09: Reference Material
21: World War I and its Aftermath
21.01: Conclusion
21.02: Primary Sources
21.03: Reference Material
21.04: Introduction
21.05: Prelude to War
21.06: War Spreads through Europe
21.07: America Enters the War
21.08: On the Home Front
21.09: Before the Armistace
21.10: The War and the Influenza Epidemic
21.11: The Fourteen Points and the League of Nations
21.12: Aftermath of World War I
22: The New Era
22.01: Introduction
22.02: Republican White House 1921-1933
22.03: Culture of Consumption
22.04: Culture of Escape
22.05: The New Woman
22.06: The New Negro
22.07: Culture War
22.08: Fundamentalist Christianity
22.09: Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
22.10: Conclusion
22.11: Primary Sources
22.12: Reference Material
23: The Great Depression
23.01: Voices of Protest
23.02: The Second New Deal (1935-1936)
23.03: Equal Rights and the New Deal
23.04: The End of the New Deal (1937-1939)
23.05: The Legacy of the New Deal
23.06: Primary Sources
23.07: Reference Material
23.08: Introduction
23.09: The Origins of the Great Depression
23.10: Herbert Hoover and the Politics of the Depression
23.11: The Bonus Army
23.12: The Lived Experience of the Great Depression
23.13: Migration and the Great Depression
23.14: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the First New Deal
23.15: The New Deal in the South
23.16: The New Deal in Appalachia
24: World War II
24.01: Introduction
24.02: The Origins of the Pacific War
24.03: The Origins of the European War
24.04: The United States and the European War
24.05: The United States and the Japanese War
24.06: Soldiers' Experiences
24.07: The Wartime Economy
24.08: Women and World War II
24.09: Race and World War II
24.10: Toward a Postwar World
24.11: Conclusion
24.12: Primary Sources
24.13: Reference Material
25: The Cold War
25.01: Introduction
25.02: Political Economic and Military Dimension
25.03: The Arms Buildup the Space Race and Technological Advancement
25.04: The Cold War Red Scare McCarthyism and Liberal Anti-Communism
25.05: Decolonization and the Global Reach of the American Century
25.06: Conclusion
25.07: Primary Sources
25.08: Reference Material
26: The Affluent Society
26.01: Introduction
26.02: The Rise of the Suburbs
26.03: Race and Education
26.04: Civil Rights in an Affluent Society
26.05: Gender and Culture in the Affluent Society
26.06: Politics and Ideology in the Affluent Society
26.07: Conclusion
26.08: Primary Sources
26.09: Reference Material
27: The Sixties
27.01: Reference Material
27.02: Introduction
27.03: Kennedy and Cuba
27.04: The Civil Rights Movement Continues
27.05: Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
27.06: The Origins of the Vietnam War
27.07: Culture and Activism
27.08: Beyond Civil Rights
27.09: Conclusion
27.10: Primary Sources
28: The Unraveling
28.01: Primary Sources
28.02: Reference Material
28.03: Introduction
28.04: The Strain of Vietnam
28.05: Racial Social and Cultural Anxieties
28.06: The Crisis of 1968
28.07: The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon
28.08: Deindustrialization and Rise of the Sunbelt
28.09: The Politics of Love Sex and Gender
28.10: The Misery Index
28.11: Conclusion
29: The Triumph of the Right
29.01: Introduction
29.02: Conservative Ascendance
29.03: The Conservatism of the Carter Years
29.04: The Election of 1980
29.05: The New Right in Power
29.06: Morning in America
29.07: African American Life in Reagans America
29.08: Bad Times and Good Times
29.09: Culture Wars of the 1980s
29.10: The New Right Abroad
29.11: Conclusion
29.12: Primary Sources
29.13: Reference Material
30: The Recent Past
30.01: Introduction
30.02: American Politics before September 11 2001
30.03: September 11 and the War on Terror
30.04: The End of the Bush Years
30.05: The Great Recession
30.06: The Obama Years
30.07: Stagnation
30.08: New Horizons
30.09: Conclusion
30.10: Primary Sources
30.11: Reference Material