Table of Contents

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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

• The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

• Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900

• Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900

• The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900

• Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900

• Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920

• Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919

• The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929

• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932

• Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941

• Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945

• Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960

• Contesting Futures: America in the 1960's

• Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980

• From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000

• The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

• 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