Unit 1
Preface
Lesson 1
Preface
- Subject:
- American History
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Level:
- Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division
- Provider:
- Rice University
- Provider Set:
- OpenStax College
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- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution
- Language:
- English
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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.
Senior Contributing Authors
P. Scott Corbett, Ventura College
Volker Janssen, California State University, Fullerton
John M. Lund, Keene State College
Todd Pfannestiel, Clarion University
Paul Vickery, Oral Roberts University
Sylvie Waskiewicz
Unit 2
The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
The Americas
Lesson 3
Europe on the Brink of Change
Unit 3
Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650
Unit 4
Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
Unit 5
Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
Unit 6
Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
Lesson 1
Introduction
Unit 7
America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 4
War in the South
Unit 8
Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
Unit 9
Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 3
The New American Republic
Lesson 4
Partisan Politics
Unit 10
Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 3
A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
Unit 11
Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
Unit 12
A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
Lewis and Clark
Lesson 3
The Missouri Crisis
Lesson 4
Independence for Texas
Unit 13
Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
Unit 14
Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 3
Antebellum Communal Experiments
Lesson 4
Reforms to Human Health
Lesson 5
Addressing Slavery
Lesson 6
Women’s Rights
Unit 15
Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
Unit 16
The Civil War, 1860–1865
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 3
Early Mobilization and War
Lesson 5
The Union Triumphant
Unit 17
The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
Restoring the Union
Lesson 5
The Collapse of Reconstruction
Unit 18
Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
Unit 19
Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
Inventors of the Age
Lesson 5
A New American Consumer Culture
Unit 20
The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
Unit 21
Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
Unit 22
Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
Unit 23
Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 6
Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
Unit 24
Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 4
A New Home Front
Lesson 5
From War to Peace
Unit 25
The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 3
Transformation and Backlash
Lesson 4
A New Generation
Unit 26
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Lesson 3
President Hoover’s Response
Unit 27
Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
Lesson 3
The First New Deal
Lesson 4
The Second New Deal
Unit 28
Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 3
The Home Front
Lesson 4
Victory in the European Theater
Unit 29
Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
The Challenges of Peacetime
Lesson 3
The Cold War
Lesson 4
The American Dream
Lesson 5
Popular Culture and Mass Media
Unit 30
Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
The Kennedy Promise
Lesson 5
Challenging the Status Quo
Unit 31
Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 3
Coming Apart, Coming Together
Lesson 4
Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
Unit 32
From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
The Reagan Revolution
Lesson 3
Political and Cultural Fusions
Lesson 4
A New World Order
Lesson 5
Bill Clinton and the New Economy
Unit 33
The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
The War on Terror
Lesson 3
The Domestic Mission
Lesson 4
New Century, Old Disputes
Lesson 5
Hope and Change
Unit 34
The Declaration of Independence
Lesson 1
The Declaration of Independence
Unit 35
The Constitution of the United States
Unit 36
Presidents of the United States of America
Unit 37
U.S. Political Map
Lesson 1
U.S. Political Map
Unit 38
U.S. Topographical Map
Lesson 1
U.S. Topographical Map
Unit 39
United States Population Chart
Lesson 1
United States Population Chart
Unit 40
Further Reading
Lesson 1
Further Reading