AN OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY

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AN OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY


	AN OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY \| Ch 1 \| Ch 2 \| Ch 3 \| Ch 4 \| Ch 5 \| Ch 6 \| Ch 7 \| Ch 8 \| Ch 9 \| Ch 10 \| Ch 11 \| Ch 12 \| Ch 13 \| Ch 14 \| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER 1: EARLY AMERICA The First Americans -- Mound Builders and Pueblos -- Native American Cultures The First Europeans -- Early Settlements -- Jamestown -- Massachusetts New Netherland and Maryland -- Colonial-Indian Relations -- Second Generation of British Colonies -- Settlers, Slaves and Servants The Enduring Mystery of the Anasazi CHAPTER 2: THE COLONIAL PERIOD New Peoples -- New England -- The Middle Colonies The Southern Colonies -- Society, Schools and Culture -- Emergence of Colonial Government The French and Indian War -- The Witches of Salem CHAPTER 3: THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE A New Colonial System -- Stamp Act -- Taxation Without Representation Townshend Acts -- Samuel Adams -- Boston "Tea Party" -- The Coercive Acts The Revolution Begins -- Common Sense and Independence -- Defeats and Victories Franco-American Alliance -- The British Move South -- Victory and Independence Loyalists During the American Revolution CHAPTER 4: THE FORMATION OF A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT State Constitutions -- Articles of Confederation -- The Problem of Expansion Constitutional Convention -- Debate and Compromise -- Ratification and the Bill of Rights President Washington -- Hamilton vs. Jefferson -- Citizen Genet and Foreign Policy Adams and Jefferson -- Louisiana and Britain -- War of 1812 The Second Great Awakening CHAPTER 5: WESTWARD EXPANSION AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES Building Unity -- Extension of Slavery -- Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine Factionalism and Political Parties -- Nullification Crisis -- Battle of the Bank Whigs, Democrats and "Know-Nothings" -- Stirrings of Reform -- Women's Rights Westward -- Seneca Falls CHAPTER 6: SECTIONAL CONFLICT Two Americas -- Lands of Promise -- Slavery and Sectionalism -- The Abolitionists Texas and War with Mexico -- The Compromise of 1850 -- A Divided Nation Lincoln, Douglas and Brown -- Secession and Civil War Western Advance, Eastern Stalemate -- Gettysburg to Appomattox With Malice Toward None -- Radical Reconstruction The End of Reconstruction -- Peace Democrats, Copperheads and Draft Riots CHAPTER 7: GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION Technology and Change -- Carnegie and the Era of Steel -- Corporations and Cities Railroads, Regulations and the Tariff -- Revolution in Agriculture -- The Divided South The Last Frontier -- The Plight of the Indians -- Ambivalent Empire The Canal and the Americas -- United States and Asia CHAPTER 8: DISCONTENT AND REFORM Agrarian Distress and the Rise of Populism -- The Struggles of Labor -- The Reform Impulse Roosevelt's Reforms -- Taft and Wilson -- A Nation of Nations CHAPTER 9: WAR, PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION War and Neutral Rights -- United States Enters World War I -- The League of Nations Postwar Unrest -- The Booming 1920s -- Tensions Over Immigration -- Clash of Cultures The Great Depression CHAPTER 10: THE NEW DEAL AND WORLD WAR Roosevelt and the New Deal -- Unemployment -- Agriculture -- Industry and Labor The Second New Deal -- A New Coalition -- Eve of World War II Japan, Pearl Harbor and War -- The War in North Africa and Europe -- The War in the Pacific The Politics of War -- War, Victory and the Bomb -- The Rise of Industrial Unions CHAPTER 11: POSTWAR AMERICA Consensus and Change -- Cold War Aims -- Harry Truman's Leadership Origins of the Cold War -- Containment -- The Cold War in Asia and the Middle East Eisenhower and the Cold War -- The Cold War at Home -- The Postwar Economy: 1945-1960 The Fair Deal -- Eisenhower's Approach -- The Culture of the 1950s Origins of the Civil Rights Movement -- Desegregation CHAPTER 12: DECADES OF CHANGE Kennedy and the New Frontier -- Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society Confrontation Over Cuba -- The Space Program -- The War in Vietnam -- Detente Nixon's Accomplishments and Defeats -- The Ford Interlude -- The Carter Years Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy -- The Civil Rights Movement 1960-1980 The Women's Movement -- The Latino Movement The Native American Movement -- The Counter-Culture and Environmentalism CHAPTER 13: TOWARD THE 21ST CENTURY A Society in Transition -- Conservatism and the Rise of Ronald Reagan The Economy in the 1980s -- Foreign Affairs -- U.S.-Soviet Relations -- Space Shuttle Iran-Contra and Black Monday -- The Presidency of George Bush -- Budgets and Deficits End to the Cold War -- The Gulf War -- Panama and Nafta -- 1992 Presidential Election Afterword -- A Nation of Immigrants -- Third-Party and Independent Candidates CHAPTER 14: BRIEF READING LIST IN AMERICAN HISTORY


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