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. Chapter 1: The Americas, Europe, and Africa before 1492 ...
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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. Chapter 1: The Americas, Europe, and Africa before 1492 Chapter 2: Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492-1650 Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500-1700 Chapter 4: Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660-1763 Chapter 5: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774 Chapter 6: America's War for Independence, 1775-1783 Chapter 7: Creating Republican Governments, 1776-1790 Chapter 8: Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790-1815 Chapter 9: Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800-1850 Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1820-1840 Chapter 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800-1850 Chapter 12: Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800-1860 Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820-1860 Chapter 14: Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s Chapter 15: The Civil War, 1860-1865 Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Chapter 17: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900 Chapter 18: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900 Chapter 19: The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 Chapter 20: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900 Chapter 21: Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920 Chapter 22: Age of Empire: Modern American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914 Chapter 23: Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 Chapter 24: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 Chapter 25: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 Chapter 26: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 Chapter 27: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945 Chapter 28: Postwar Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 Chapter 29: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s Chapter 30: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980 Chapter 31: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 Chapter 32: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century Appendix A: The Declaration of Independence Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States Appendix C: Presidents of the United States Appendix D: United States Political Map Appendix E: United States Topographical Map Appendix F: United States Population Chart Appendix G: Suggested Reading
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