1) 50,000 BC - 1607 (Text: Chapter 1; pages 1-24)
PRE-COLUMBIAN (50,000 BC-1492)
DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION (1492-1565,1607)
SPAIN'S NEW WORLD EMPIRE
2) 1565,1607 - 1775 (Text: Chapters 2-5; pages 25-104)
SETTLEMENT (1565...)
COLONIAL AMERICA (1650 - 1775)
FIRST GREAT AWAKENING (1730'S->)
3) 1763 - 1783 (Text: Chapters 6-8; pages 105-163)
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754 - 1763)
ROAD TO REVOLUTION (1763 - 1775)
REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775 - 1783)
4) 1783 - 1824: THE NEW NATION (Text: Chapters 9-12; pages 164-255)
GOVERNMENT UNDER THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (1781 - 1789)
CONSTITUTION (1787 - 1789)
FEDERALIST ERA (1789 - 1801)
AGE OF JEFFERSON (1801 - 1825)
WAR OF 1812 (1812 - 1814)
5) 1825 - 1849: AGE OF JACKSON (Text: Chapters 13-16; pages 256-357)
EARLY INDUSTRIALIZATION; WESTWARD EXPANSION; SECOND GREAT AWAKENING
WAR OF TEXAS INDEPENDENCE (1836)
6) 1849 - 1877: A HOUSE DIVIDED (Text: Chapters 17-23; pages 358-509)
MEXICAN WAR (1846-1848)
COTTON KINGDOM; SECTIONALISM, ROAD TO WAR
CIVIL WAR (1861-1865)
RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1877)
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7) 1877 - 1890: ECONOMIC EXPANSION (Text: Chapters 24-27; pages 510-622)
GILDED AGE
INDUSTRY, LABOR, AND BIG BUSINESS
THE FRONTIER SAGA
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
8) 1890 - 1913: TRANSITIONS (Text: Chapters 28-31; pages 623-702)
MONEY CRISIS AND THE CROSS OF GOLD
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE; SPANISH AMERICAN WAR (1898)
PROGRESSIVISM (1901-1916)
9) 1913 - 1939: WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH (Text: Chapters 32-36; pages 722-824)
WILSON AND WORLD WAR I
ROARING TWENTIES
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
FDR AND THE NEW DEAL
10) 1939 - 1952: WAR REVISITED (Text: Chapters 37-39; pages 825-907)
WORLD WAR II
TRUMAN AND THE POST-WAR ERA
BEGINNINGS OF THE COLD WAR (1945-1952)
11) 1953 - 1969: TENSION (Text: Chapters 40-41; pages 908-965)
AGE OF CONSENSUS (1953 - 1961)
SIXTIES REVOLUTIONS
12) 1969 - 1989+: MODERN AMERICA (Text: Chapters 42-44; pages 966-1044)
WAR IN VIETNAM (1950-1975)
DETENTE, WATERGATE, CARTER (1969 - 1981)
THE NEW CONSERVATISM (1981 - 1993)
CLINTON (1993 - 2001)
GEORGE W. BUSH (2001- )