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U.S. History

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Contents

Preface
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, 1790–1820
Chapter 9 Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
Chapter 10 Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
Chapter 11 A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
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: 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 Post-War 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 of America
Appendix D U.S. Political Map
Appendix E U.S. Topographical Map
Appendix F United States Population Chart
Appendix G Further Reading
Answer Key
Index

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