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Table of Contents
Chapters:
I. Colonial America
II. The Early Republic
III. The
Crisis of the Republic
IV. Wealth, Innovation, and World Power
V. Into
the American Century
VI. America as a Superpower
VII. Hope, Adversity and
Challenges for the New Century
Appendix:
Appendix A: Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United
States
Appendix B: Famous Third Parties
Appendix C: Outline of United
States history
Appendix D: Constitutional documents
I. Colonial America (1690 - 1754)
1. Pre-Columbian Societies
(Before 1492)
2. European History (Before 1492)
3. Transatlantic
Encounters and Colonial Beginnings (1492 - 1690)
4. Colonial North America
(1690 - 1754)
II. The Early Republic (1754 - 1837)
1. The American Revolutionary
Era (1754 - 1789)
2. The Early Republic (1787 - 1810)
3. Jeffersonian
Democracy
4. War, Nationalism, and Division (1812-1837)
III. The Crisis of the Republic (1837 - 1877)
1. Manifest Destiny
and the Slavery Question (1837-1861)
2. A Nation Divided: The American Civil
War (1861-1865)
3. Reconstruction (1865-1877)
IV. Wealth, Innovation, and World Power (1877 - 1913)
1. The
Age of Invention and the Gilded Age (1877 - 1900)
2. The Progressive Era
(1900 - 1914)
3. Advancements
V. Into the American Century (1913 - 1945)
1. The War to End
All Wars (1914 - 1920)
2. The Roaring Twenties (1920 - 1929)
3. The
Great Depression and the New Deal (1929 - 1939)
4. Spanish Civil War
(1936-1939)
5. The World At War (1939 - 1945)
VI. America as a Superpower (1945 - 2001)
1. The Cold War (1945 -
1953)
2. The Fifties (1953 - 1961)
3. The Sixties (1961 - 1969)
4.
National and International Crises (1969 - 1981)
5. The Reagan Revolution
(1981 - 1993)
6. Bush and Clinton presidencies, 1st Gulf War (1989 - 2000)
VII. Hope, Adversity and Challenges for the New Century (2001 -
2009)
1. George W. Bush, September 11, 2nd Gulf War, and Terrorism
2. Growing Crisis with Iran (2002-)
3. Election 2008
4. Obama
5.
Election 2012
