U.S. History

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: Americas 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