United States History 1 Textbook
- Preface
- 1. The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
- 2. Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650
- Introduction
- 2.1. Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
- 2.2. Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
- 2.3. Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
- 2.4. New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
- 2.5. Key Terms
- 2.6. Summary
- 2.7. Review Questions
- 2.8. Critical Thinking Questions
- 3. Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
- 4. Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
- 5. Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
- Introduction
- 5.1. Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
- 5.2. The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
- 5.3. The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
- 5.4. The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
- 5.5. Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
- 5.6. Key Terms
- 5.7. Summary
- 5.8. Review Questions
- 5.9. Critical Thinking Questions
- 6. America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
- 7. Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
- 8. Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820
- 9. Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
- 10. Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
- Introduction
- 10.1. A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
- 10.2. The Rise of American Democracy
- 10.3. The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
- 10.4. Indian Removal
- 10.5. The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
- 10.6. Key Terms
- 10.7. Summary
- 10.8. Review Questions
- 10.9. Critical Thinking Questions
- 11. A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
- Introduction
- 11.1. Lewis and Clark
- 11.2. The Missouri Crisis
- 11.3. Independence for Texas
- 11.4. The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
- 11.5. Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
- 11.6. Key Terms
- 11.7. Summary
- 11.8. Review Questions
- 11.9. Critical Thinking Questions
- 12. Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
- 13. Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
- Introduction
- 13.1. An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
- 13.2. Antebellum Communal Experiments
- 13.3. Reforms to Human Health
- 13.4. Addressing Slavery
- 13.5. Women’s Rights
- 13.6. Key Terms
- 13.7. Summary
- 13.8. Review Questions
- 13.9. Critical Thinking Questions
- 14. Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
- 15. The Civil War, 1860–1865
- 16. The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
- 17. Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
- Introduction
- 17.1. The Westward Spirit
- 17.2. Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
- 17.3. Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
- 17.4. The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
- 17.5. The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
- 17.6. Key Terms
- 17.7. Summary
- 17.8. Review Questions
- 17.9. Critical Thinking Questions
- 18. Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
- 19. The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
- 20. Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
- 21. Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
- 22. Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
- Introduction
- 22.1. Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
- 22.2. The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
- 22.3. Economic Imperialism in East Asia
- 22.4. Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
- 22.5. Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
- 22.6. Key Terms
- 22.7. Summary
- 22.8. Review Questions
- 22.9. Critical Thinking Questions
- 23. Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
- 24. The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
- 25. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
- 26. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
- Introduction
- 26.1. The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
- 26.2. The First New Deal
- 26.3. The Second New Deal
- 26.4. Key Terms
- 26.5. Summary
- 26.6. Review Questions
- 26.7. Critical Thinking Questions
- 27. Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
- 28. Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
- Introduction
- 28.1. The Challenges of Peacetime
- 28.2. The Cold War
- 28.3. The American Dream
- 28.4. Popular Culture and Mass Media
- 28.5. The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
- 28.6. Key Terms
- 28.7. Summary
- 28.8. Review Questions
- 28.9. Critical Thinking Questions
- 29. Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
- Introduction
- 29.1. The Kennedy Promise
- 29.2. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
- 29.3. The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
- 29.4. Challenging the Status Quo
- 29.5. Key Terms
- 29.6. Summary
- 29.7. Review Questions
- 29.8. Critical Thinking Questions
- 30. Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
- Introduction
- 30.1. Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
- 30.2. Coming Apart, Coming Together
- 30.3. Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
- 30.4. Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
- 30.5. Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
- 30.6. Key Terms
- 30.7. Summary
- 30.8. Review Questions
- 30.9. Critical Thinking Questions
- 31. From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
- Introduction
- 31.1. The Reagan Revolution
- 31.2. Political and Cultural Fusions
- 31.3. A New World Order
- 31.4. Bill Clinton and the New Economy
- 31.5. Key Terms
- 31.6. Summary
- 31.7. Review Questions
- 31.8. Critical Thinking Questions
- 32. The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
- Introduction
- 32.1. The War on Terror
- 32.2. The Domestic Mission
- 32.3. New Century, Old Disputes
- 32.4. Hope and Change
- 32.5. Key Terms
- 32.6. Summary
- 32.7. Review Questions
- 32.8. Critical Thinking Questions
- 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
- 33. Answer Key
- Chapter 1
- 33.1. Chapter 2
- 33.2. Chapter 3
- 33.3. Chapter 4
- 33.4. Chapter 5
- 33.5. Chapter 6
- 33.6. Chapter 7
- 33.7. Chapter 8
- 33.8. Chapter 9
- 33.9. Chapter 10
- 33.10. Chapter 11
- 33.11. Chapter 12
- 33.12. Chapter 13
- 33.13. Chapter 14
- 33.14. Chapter 15
- 33.15. Chapter 16
- 33.16. Chapter 17
- 33.17. Chapter 18
- 33.18. Chapter 19
- 33.19. Chapter 20
- 33.20. Chapter 21
- 33.21. Chapter 22
- 33.22. Chapter 23
- 33.23. Chapter 24
- 33.24. Chapter 25
- 33.25. Chapter 26
- 33.26. Chapter 27
- 33.27. Chapter 28
- 33.28. Chapter 29
- 33.29. Chapter 30
- 33.30. Chapter 31
- 33.31. Chapter 32
- Index