U.S. History

Senior Contributing Authors

P. Scott Corbett, Ventura College
Volker Janssen, California State University, Fullerton
John M. Lund, Keene State College
Todd Pfannestiel, Clarion University
Sylvie Waskiewicz
Paul Vickery, Oral Roberts University

Chapter 1 The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
• Introduction
• 1.1 The Americas
• 1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
• 1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 2 Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650
• Introduction
• 2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
• 2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
• 2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
• 2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 3 Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
• Introduction
• 3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
• 3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
• 3.3 English Settlements in America
• 3.4 The Impact of Colonization
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 4 Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
• Introduction
• 4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
• 4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
• 4.3 An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
• 4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
• 4.5 Wars for Empire
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 5 Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
• Introduction
• 5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
• 5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
• 5.3 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
• 5.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
• 5.5 Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 6 America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
• Introduction
• 6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
• 6.2 The Early Years of the Revolution
• 6.3 War in the South
• 6.4 Identity during the American Revolution
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 7 Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
• Introduction
• 7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
• 7.2 How Much Revolutionary Change?
• 7.3 Debating Democracy
• 7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 8 Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820
• Introduction
• 8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
• 8.2 The New American Republic
• 8.3 Partisan Politics
• 8.4 The United States Goes Back to War
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 9 Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
• Introduction
• 9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
• 9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
• 9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
• 9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 10 Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
• Introduction
• 10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
• 10.2 The Rise of American Democracy
• 10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
• 10.4 Indian Removal
• 10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 11 A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
• Introduction
• 11.1 Lewis and Clark
• 11.2 The Missouri Crisis
• 11.3 Independence for Texas
• 11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
• 11.5 Free or Slave Soil? The Dilemma of the West
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 12 Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
• Introduction
• 12.1 The Economics of Cotton
• 12.2 African Americans in the Antebellum United States
• 12.3 Wealth and Culture in the South
• 12.4 The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 13 Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
• Introduction
• 13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
• 13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
• 13.3 Reforms to Human Health
• 13.4 Addressing Slavery
• 13.5 Women’s Rights
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 14 Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
• Introduction
• 14.1 The Compromise of 1850
• 14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
• 14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
• 14.4 John Brown and the Election of 1860
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 15 The Civil War, 1860–1865
• Introduction
• 15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
• 15.2 Early Mobilization and War
• 15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
• 15.4 The Union Triumphant
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 16 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
• Introduction
• 16.1 Restoring the Union
• 16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
• 16.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
• 16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 17 Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
• Introduction
• 17.1 The Westward Spirit
• 17.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
• 17.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
• 17.4 The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture
• 17.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 18 Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
• Introduction
• 18.1 Inventors of the Age
• 18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
• 18.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
• 18.4 A New American Consumer Culture
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 19 The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
• Introduction
• 19.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
• 19.2 The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
• 19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
• 19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 20 Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
• Introduction
• 20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
• 20.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
• 20.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
• 20.4 Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 21 Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
• Introduction
• 21.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
• 21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
• 21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
• 21.4 Progressivism in the White House
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 22 Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
• Introduction
• 22.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
• 22.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
• 22.3 Economic Imperialism in East Asia
• 22.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
• 22.5 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 23 Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
• Introduction
• 23.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
• 23.2 The United States Prepares for War
• 23.3 A New Home Front
• 23.4 From War to Peace
• 23.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 24 The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
• Introduction
• 24.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
• 24.2 Transformation and Backlash
• 24.3 A New Generation
• 24.4 Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 25 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
• Introduction
• 25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
• 25.2 President Hoover’s Response
• 25.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
• 25.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 26 Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
• Introduction
• 26.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
• 26.2 The First New Deal
• 26.3 The Second New Deal
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 27 Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
• Introduction
• 27.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
• 27.2 The Home Front
• 27.3 Victory in the European Theater
• 27.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 28 Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
• Introduction
• 28.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
• 28.2 The Cold War
• 28.3 The American Dream
• 28.4 Popular Culture and Mass Media
• 28.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 29 Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
• Introduction
• 29.1 The Kennedy Promise
• 29.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
• 29.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
• 29.4 Challenging the Status Quo
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 30 Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
• Introduction
• 30.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
• 30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
• 30.3 Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
• 30.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
• 30.5 Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 31 From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
• Introduction
• 31.1 The Reagan Revolution
• 31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
• 31.3 A New World Order
• 31.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions

Chapter 32 The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
• Introduction
• 32.1 The War on Terror
• 32.2 The Domestic Mission
• 32.3 New Century, Old Disputes
• 32.4 Hope and Change
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions