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• Powerpoints
• Quiz Inventory

The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492

• Introduction
• The Americas
• Video: The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
• Europe on the Brink of Change
• West Africa and the Role of Slavery

Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492-1650

• Introduction
• Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
• Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
• Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
• New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange

Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914

• Introduction
• Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
• The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
• Economic Imperialism in East Asia
• Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
• Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
• Video: American Imperialism

Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500-1700

• Introduction
• Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
• Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
• English Settlements in America
• Video: When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America
• Video: The Natives and the English
• The Impact of Colonization

Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660-1763

• Introduction
• Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
• The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
• An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
• Great Awakening and Enlightenment
• Wars for Empire
• Video: The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening

Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774

• Introduction
• Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
• The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
• The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
• The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
• Video: Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution
• Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity

America's War for Independence, 1775-1783

• Introduction
• Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
• The Early Years of the Revolution
• War in the South
• Identity during the American Revolution
• Video: Who Won the American Revolution?

Creating Republican Governments, 1776-1783

• Introduction
• Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
• How Much Revolutionary Change?
• Debating Democracy
• The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
• Video: The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
• Video: Where US Politics Came From

Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790-1820

• Introduction
• Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
• The New American Republic
• Partisan Politics
• Video: Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy
• The United States Goes Back to War
• Video: The War of 1812

Industrial Transformation in the North: 1800-1850

• Introduction
• Early Industrialization in the Northeast
• Video: The Market Revolution
• A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
• On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
• A New Social Order: Class Divisions

Jacksonian Democracy, 1820-1840

• Introduction
• A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
• The Rise of American Democracy
• The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
• Video: Age of Jackson
• Indian Removal
• The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority

A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860

• Introduction
• Lewis and Clark
• The Missouri Crisis
• Independence for Texas
• The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
• Video: War & Expansion
• Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West

Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800-1860

• Introduction
• The Economics of Cotton
• African Americans in the Antebellum United States
• Video: Slavery
• Wealth and Culture in the South
• The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States

Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820-1860

• Introduction
• An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
• Video: 19th Century Reforms
• Antebellum Communal Experiments
• Reforms to Human Health
• Addressing Slavery
• Women’s Rights
• Video: Women in the 19th Century

Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s

• Introduction
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
• John Brown and the Election of 1860
• Video: The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion
• The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife

The Civil War, 1860-1865

• Introduction
• The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
• Early Mobilization and War
• Video: Battles of the Civil War
• 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
• The Union Triumphant
• Videos: The Civil War

Appendices

• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution of the United States
• Presidents of the United States of America
• U.S. Political Map
• U.S. Topographical Map
• United States Population Chart
• Further Reading