Overview

United States history examines the development of American society, politics, economics, culture, and global power across multiple centuries. This textbook begins with Indigenous North America and early systems of trade, diplomacy, and sovereignty before tracing colonization, slavery, revolution, constitutional development, expansion, sectional conflict, civil war, reconstruction, industrial capitalism, immigration, reform, imperialism, world wars, the Cold War, civil rights struggles, social movements, and the challenges of contemporary America.

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1: Studying U.S. History
  2. Chapter 2: Indigenous North America before 1492
  3. Chapter 3: Native Nations, Cultural Worlds, and Sovereignty
  4. Chapter 4: Trade, Diplomacy, Warfare, and Change before Colonization
  5. Chapter 5: European Exploration and the Columbian Exchange
  6. Chapter 6: Spanish, French, Dutch, and English Colonization
  7. Chapter 7: Native Resistance
  8. Chapter 8: African Slavery and the Atlantic World
  9. Chapter 9: Colonial Regions
  10. Chapter 10: Imperial Wars
  11. Chapter 11: Crisis in the British Empire
  12. Chapter 12: American Revolution
  13. Chapter 13: Independence, Loyalty, and War for the Republic
  14. Chapter 14: Articles of Confederation
  15. Chapter 15: Constitution and Bill of Rights
  16. Chapter 16: The Early Republic and the First Party System
  17. Chapter 17: Citizenship, Liberty, and Slavery in the New Nation
  18. Chapter 18: Jeffersonian America and the Louisiana Purchase
  19. Chapter 19: Market Revolution and Social Change
  20. Chapter 20: Jacksonian Democracy and Indian Removal
  21. Chapter 21: Slavery, Cotton, and the Old South
  22. Chapter 22: Religion, Reform, Abolition, and Women's Rights
  23. Chapter 23: Westward Expansion, Texas, Mexico, and Manifest Destiny
  24. Chapter 24: Sectional Crisis and the Road to Civil War
  25. Chapter 25: Secession and the Civil War
  26. Chapter 26: Emancipation, Black Soldiers, and the Meaning of War
  27. Chapter 27: Union Victory and the Costs of War
  28. Chapter 28: Reconstruction and the Remaking of Citizenship
  29. Chapter 29: White Resistance, Jim Crow, and the End of Reconstruction
  30. Chapter 30: The Gilded Age and Industrial Capitalism
  31. Chapter 31: Labor Unions and Class Conflict
  32. Chapter 32: Immigration, Urbanization, and American Cities
  33. Chapter 33: The West, Native Dispossession, and Federal Power
  34. Chapter 34: Segregation, Race, and Regional Inequality
  35. Chapter 35: Populism, Imperialism, and the United States as a World Power
  36. Chapter 36: The Progressive Era
  37. Chapter 37: World War I and the Home Front
  38. Chapter 38: The 1920s: Mass Culture, Migration, and Conflict
  39. Chapter 39: The Great Depression and the New Deal
  40. Chapter 40: World War II and the Rise of American Global Power
  41. Chapter 41: Cold War, Korea, and Containment
  42. Chapter 42: Postwar Prosperity, Suburbs, and Consumer America
  43. Chapter 43: Black Freedom Struggle and the Civil Rights Movement
  44. Chapter 44: Vietnam, Protest, and the Crisis of the 1960s
  45. Chapter 45: Women, Latino, Native, and New Social Movements
  46. Chapter 46: The 1970s, Conservative Resurgence, and Reagan America
  47. Chapter 47: Globalization, Technology, Immigration, and the Post-Cold War Era
  48. Chapter 48: Contemporary America
  49. Chapter 48B: Contemporary America II
  50. Back Matter

Learning Outcomes