The American Journey

(2nd. Edition)
David Goldfield, et. al.

ISBN# 0-13-090756-1
Prentice-Hall, 2001

A Documentary History of the United States  (6th. Edition)

Richard D. Heffner
Mentor Books, 1999
ISBN# 0-451-62882-9

United States History:  Preparing for the A. P. Examination

John J. Newman & John M. Schmalbach
AMSCO School Publications, 1998
ISBN#1-56765-602-1

College Board A. P. U. S. History Main Page

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1.  Founding the Colonies


2.  Early Colonial Society


3.  Britain Asserts Her Power


4.  The American Revolution

 


5.  The Early Republic 


6.  Jeffersonian Republicanism


7.  The Jacksonian Era


8.  The Beginnings of Industrialization

 


9.  Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny


10.  The Antebellum South


11.  Early 19c Reform Movements


12.  The Politics of Sectionalism

 


13.  The Civil War

14.  Reconstruction &
The New South


15.  Transforming the West

16.  The Rise of Big Business
and Labor

 


17.  Immigration &
The Rise of the Big Cities


18.  The Gilded Age


19.  Imperial America


20.  The Progressive Age

 


21.  World War I


22.  The Roaring '20s


23.  Depression & the
New Deal


24.  World War II

 


25.  The Beginnings of the Cold War


26.  The 1950s--Uniformity
and Affluence


27.  The 1960s--Social Unrest and the Counterculture


28.  The 1970s--Disillusionment and Decline

 


29.  The 1980s--The Conservative Revolution


30.  The 1990s--Searching for the Political Center


31.  The New Millenium


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