US History Handbook

The Handbook of US History learn about the time Europeans first discovered North America until the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. They examine the reasons the Europeans desired to leave their homelands in search of a new land. The settlers’ encounters with the Native Americans are discussed along with the conflicts that arise with the arrival of the colonists in the New World.

Table of Content

1. Ancient America Before 1492
2. European Encounters with the New World
3. Britain and the Settling of the Colonies. 1600-1750
4. Expansion of the Colonies. 1650-1750
5. The Colonial Crisis. 1750-1775
6. The American Revolution. 1775-1783
7. Founding a Nation. 1783-1789
8. The Federalist Era. 1789-1801
9. Securing the Republic. 1800-1815
10. Democracy in America. 1815-1840
11. The Market Revolution. 1815-1840
12. Religion, Romanticism, and Cultural Reform. 1820-1860
13. The Westward Movement and Manifest Destiny. 1812-1860
14. Slavery in the Antebellum U.S.. 1820-1840
15. A House Dividing. 1840-1861
16. The Civil War. 1861-1865
17. Reconstruction. 1865-1877
18. The Gilded Age. 1870-1900
19. The Progressive Era. 1890-1917
20. World War I. 1914-1919
21. The Roaring Twenties. 1920-1929
22. The New Deal. 1933-1940
23. From Isolation to World War II. 1930-1945
24. The Cold War
25. Politics and Culture of Abundance. 1943-1960
26. The Sixties. 1960-1969
27. The Conservative Turn of America. 1968-1989
28. Bush, Clinton, and a Changing World
29. America in the 21st Century

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