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Chapter 1: The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
1.1 The Americas
1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery
Chapter 2: Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650
2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian
Exchange
Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
3.3 English Settlements in America
3.4 The Impact of Colonization
Chapter 4: Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
4.3 An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
4.5 Wars for Empire
Chapter 5: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and
Indian War
5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
5.3 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
5.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
5.5 Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American
Identity
Chapter 6: America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
6.2 The Early Years of the Revolution
6.3 War in the South
6.4 Identity during the American Revolution
Chapter 7: Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
7.2 How Much Revolutionary Change?
7.3 Debating Democracy
7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
Chapter 8: Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820
8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
8.2 The New American Republic
8.3 Partisan Politics
8.4 The United States Goes Back to War
Chapter 9: Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions
Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
10.2 The Rise of American Democracy
10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
10.4 Indian Removal
10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
Chapter 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
11.1 Lewis and Clark
11.2 The Missouri Crisis
11.3 Independence for Texas
11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
11.5 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
Chapter 12: Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
12.1 The Economics of Cotton
12.2 African Americans in the Antebellum United States
12.3 Wealth and Culture in the South
12.4 The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
13.3 Reforms to Human Health
13.4 Addressing Slavery
13.5 Women’s Rights
Chapter 14: Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
14.1 The Compromise of 1850
14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
14.4 John Brown and the Election of 1860
Chapter 15: The Civil War, 1860–1865
15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
15.2 Early Mobilization and War
15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
15.4 The Union Triumphant
Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
16.1 Restoring the Union
16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
16.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
Chapter 17: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
17.1 The Westward Spirit
17.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
17.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
17.4 The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
17.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic
Citizens
Chapter 18: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business,
1870-1900
18.1 Inventors of the Age
18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
18.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
18.4 A New American Consumer Culture
Chapter 19: The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
19.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
19.2 The African American “Great Migration” and New European
Immigration
19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
Chapter 20: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
20.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
20.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
20.4 Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
Chapter 21: Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
21.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
21.4 Progressivism in the White House
Chapter 22: Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
22.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
22.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
22.3 Economic Imperialism in East Asia
22.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
22.5 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
Chapter 23: Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
23.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
23.2 The United States Prepares for War
23.3 A New Home Front
23.4 From War to Peace
23.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
Chapter 24: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
24.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
24.2 Transformation and Backlash
24.3 A New Generation
24.4 Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
Chapter 25: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression,
1929-1932
25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
25.2 President Hoover’s Response
25.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
25.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
Chapter 26: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
26.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
26.2 The First New Deal
26.3 The Second New Deal
Chapter 27: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
27.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
27.2 The Home Front
27.3 Victory in the European Theater
27.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
Chapter 28: Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
28.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
28.2 The Cold War
28.3 The American Dream
28.4 Popular Culture and Mass Media
28.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
Chapter 29: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
29.1 The Kennedy Promise
29.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
29.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
29.4 Challenging the Status Quo
Chapter 30: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
30.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
30.3 Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
30.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
30.5 Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
Chapter 31: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
31.1 The Reagan Revolution
31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
31.3 A New World Order
31.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
Chapter 32: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
32.1 The War on Terror
32.2 The Domestic Mission
32.3 New Century, Old Disputes
32.4 Hope and Change
Appendixes
A The Declaration of Independence
B The Constitution of the United States
C Presidents of the United States of America
C Presidents of the United States of America
C Presidents of the United States of America
F United States Population Chart
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