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Section
1: The World in Transition, Prehistory to 1500s
The First
Americans
Meso-American
Civilizations
The New
Cultural Europe
Medieval
Asia and Africa
Europeans
Seek the East
Section
2: The Age of Exploration, 1000-1682
Creating New
Trade Routes by Sea
Voyages of
Columbus
Spain in
America
New Ventures
Section
3: Colonial America, 1578-1776
The Problems
in England
The
Elizabethan Age
The
Settlement at Jamestown
The Southern
Colonies
The
New England Colonies
The Middle
Colonies
The Indians
of North America
The Indians
of the Eastern Woodlands
The French
in North America
The Slave
Trade with Africa
The Iroquois
Nation
Section
4: The Road to Revolution, 1650-1775
Struggle for
Independence
Diversity
within the Colonies
Control and
Protest
The Breach
Widens
The Stamp
Act Crisis
The French
and Indian Wars
Section
5: War for Independence, 1775-1783
Foundations
of Freedom
The
Declaration of Independence
Fighting for
Independence
The War in
the North
The War
Deepens
The War Ends
Section
6: A More Perfect Union, 1775-1789
Government
in Transition
The New
Confederation
The
Constitutional Convention
The
Constitution of the United States
The Struggle
for Ratification
Section
7: The Federalist Era, 1789-1800
Organizing
the Government
Solving
National Problems
The Birth of
Political Parties
Republicans
v. Federalists
Foreign
Affairs under Washington
President
John Adams
Section
8: Age of Jefferson, 1800-1815
The Changing
Political Scene
Looking
Westward
Foreign
Affairs
The
Louisiana Purchase
The War of
1812
Section
9: Nationalism and Change, 1816-1824
The Era of
Good Feelings
Tying the
Nation Together
Monroe and
Foreign Affairs
The
Industrial Revolution
A Strain on
National Unity
Section
10: Sectionalism, 1820-1842
Growth in
the North
Growth in
the South and West
The Election
of 1824
Rivalry and
Compromise
Section
11: Age of Jackson, 1828-1842
Growth of
Democracy
Jackson's
First Term
Jackson's
Indian Policy
Political
Controversies
The Effects
of the "Bank War"
Section
12: The Spirit of Reform, 1820-1854
Advances in
Education
Trappers and
Traders Create New Commerce
The Republic
of Texas
The Oregon
Country
Struggle for
Rights
Social,
Cultural and Religious Activity
Section
13: Manifest Destiny, 1825-1854
The Thirst
for New Lands
War with
Mexico
Global
Interests
Section
14: The Nation at Mid-Century, 1830-1850
Life in the
Different Regions
Conditions
of African Americans
Immigrants
and the Workforce
The
California Gold Rush
The
Gold Rush and Chinese Immigration
Section
15: Compromise and Conflict, 1848-1861
A Union in
Danger
Dispute over
Slavery
Bleeding
Kansas
The
Compromise of 1850
The Failure of
Compromise
Drifting
toward War
Section
16: The Civil War, 1861-1865
Summary of
the Conflict
Timeline
of Events
Civil
War Photo Album
Resistance
to Slavery
Lesson
Plan: Teaching the American Civil War
in
the Twenty-First Century
The Outbreak
of War
Wartime
Diplomacy
Foreign Aid
and Intervention
Activities
in the Border States
Strategies
of the North and South
Secession of
the South
Significance
of Slavery
The Role of
African Americans
The Role of
Native Americans
Raising and
Supplying the Armies
War on the
Battlefields, North and South
The War in
the West
Naval
Battles
Civil Rights
New York
Riot of 1862
Wartime
Government Power
The
Gettysburg Address
The
Emancipation Proclamation and its Effects
Women in the
War
Sherman's
March
Ending the
War
Effects on
the South
Casualties
Medals of
Honor
The Election
of 1864
Treatment of
Veterans
Individual
Biographies
Louisa May
Alcott
Susan B.
Anthony
James M.
Ashley
Alexander
T. Augusta
Nathaniel
Banks
Clara
Barton
Edward
Bates
Montgomery
Blair
John
Wilkes Booth
Braxton
Bragg
Mary Ann
Brickerdyke
William
Wells Brown
James
Buchanan
Francis
Burns
Ambrose
Burnside
Benjamin
F. Butler
Richard
Harvey Cain
William H.
Carney
Salmon P.
Chase
Jefferson
Davis
Martin R.
Delany
William M.
Dickson
Dorothea
Dix
Abner
Doubleday
Stephen A.
Douglas
Frederick
Douglass
George T.
Downing
Jubal
Early
Sarah
Edmounds
David
Farragut
Christian
Fleetwood
Charlotte
Forten
Clayborne
Fox
John
Charles Fremont
Henry
Highland Garnet
Horace
Greeley
Henry
Halleck
Hannibal
Hamlin
Frances
Ellen Watkins Harper
Joe Hooker
Oliver
Otis Howard
David
Hunter
Thomas
"Stonewall" Jackson
Andrew
Johnson
Elizabeth
Keckley
John M.
Langston
John
Lawson
Robert E.
Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Nathaniel
Lyon
George
McClellan
Irvin
McDowell
George G.
Meade
William C.
Nell
Daniel A.
Payne
George
Pickett
John Pope
Sterling
Price
Charles
Lenox Remond
William
Rosecrans
John
B. Russwurm
Rufus
Saxton
William H.
Seward
Robert
Gould Shaw
Philip
Sheridan
William T.
Sherman
Albert
Sidney
Franz
Sigel
Robert
Smalls
Caleb B.
Smith
Edwin M.
Stanton
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
Alexander
H. Stephens
Thaddeus
Stevens
Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Charles
Sumner
Susie K.
Taylor
Lorenzo
Thomas
William
Tillman
Sojourner
Truth
Harriet
Tubman
Loreta Valazquez
Elizabeth
Van Lew
O.S.B.
Wall
Lewis S.
Wallace
Gideon
Welles
James F.
Wilson
Joseph T.
Wilson
Section
17: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
After
Slavery
Reconstructing
the South
Restoring
Southern Power
The Legacy
of Reconstruction
Section
18: Into the West, 1860-1900
The Last
Frontier
People of
the Plains
Ranching and
Mining
The Cattle
Industry
Farming
Moves West
The
Populists
Section
19: The Rise of Industry, 1860-1900
Industrialization
Takes Hold
Growth of
Big Business
Captains of
Industry
Section
20: An Urban Society, 1860-1900
The Workers'
Plight
The Rise of
New Unions
Patterns of
Immigration
City Life
and Problems
Big City
Politics
Section
21: The Gilded Age, 1865-1900
A Tarnished
Image
Calls for
Good Government
Growth of
the Railroads
Cultural
Life
Section
22: Politics and Protest, 1865-1900
Agrarian
Unrest
Rise and
Fall of Populism
Other Forces
for Reform
Section
23: Imperialism, 1867-1908
America
Looks Abroad
The
Spanish-American War
Becoming a
World Power
A New Arena
Section
24: The Progressive Era, 1893-1920
Sources of
Progressivism
Progressive
Reforms
Limits of
Progressivism
The Culture
of the "Gay Nineties"
Section
25: White House Reformers, 1900-1914
The Square
Deal
The Taft
Presidency
The Election
of 1912
Wilson's
Progressivism
Wilson and
the League of Nations
Section
26: World War I Era, 1914-1920
Prelude to
War
Timeline
of Events
America
Enters the War
War on the
Home Front
After the
War
Section
27: The Harding Years, 1921-1923
The
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
The
Political Scandals
Social
Tensions: Labor, Immigrants
Section
28: The Coolidge Years, 1923-1929
The Coolidge
Era
The
"Roaring Twenties"
The
Emergence of Organized Crime
Prosperity
and Business
The Stock
Market Grows
Charles
Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis
Section
29: The Depression Begins, 1928-1932
The Stock
Market Crashes
Hoover's
Policies
The
Depression Worsens
Section
30: The New Deal, 1932-1939
The Election
of 1932
Roosevelt
Takes Charge
Reform, Relief
and Recovery
The Second
New Deal
The Impact
of the New Deal
Section
31: World War II, 1933-1945
Timeline
of Events
Lesson Plans
World
Affairs, 1933-1939
Moving
Closer to War
American
Attitude
The
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Lesson
Plan: Reactions to the Attack and Mapping
African
Americans in
African
Theatre
Atomic Bomb
D-Day
Effects
on Immigration Policy
European
Theatre
Financing
Holocaust
Home Front
Isolationism
Japanese
Americans
Mobilization
and Scrap Drives
Neutrality
Pacific
Theatre
Peace
Postwar
Prosperity
Rationing
Social
Change
Soviet Union
Wartime
Diplomacy
Women in
Section
32: The Cold War, 1945-1952
The Start of
the Cold War
Domestic Policies
under Truman
The Threat
of China
Section
33: Search for Stability, 1952-1960
The
Eisenhower Years
The Straight
Road
An Affluent
Society
Camelot
Kennedy's
Foreign Policy
The Cold War
Continues
Section
34: The Civil Rights Era, 1954-1975
A New
Beginning
Successes
and Setbacks
New
Directions
The Great
Society
The Impact
of Civil Rights
Section
35: The Vietnam Era, 1954-1975
Cold War
Challenges
War in
Vietnam
Protest and
Reaction
Secrecy and
Summitry
Section
36: Camelot to Watergate, 1960-1975
Kennedy's
New Frontier
The Great
Society
An Imperial
Presidency
The
Watergate Scandal
Nixon-Kissinger
Foreign Policy
Section
37: Search for Solutions, 1976-1992
Crisis of
Confidence
A
Conservative Shift
A New
Presidency
Section
38: Toward a New Century, 1992-Present
Reinventing
Government
America in a
Changing World
Challenges
and Opportunities
The Growth
of the Internet
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