CONTENTS

Unit 1: PREHISTORY-EARLY 1600s 1
1. The First People in America EVER! 2
2. Native Americans in North America 9
3. They Came, They Saw, They Conquered 17

Unit 2: COLONIAL AMERICA, 1607-1780s 37
4. Slavery in the Americas 38
5. Jamestown: Virginia Do-over 45
6. The Thirteen Colonies 53
7. Regional Differences 67
8. Pre- Revolutionary War 79
9. Parliament and Protests 87
10. The British Are Coming! 95

Unit 3: AMERICAN REVOLUTION and the EARLY REPUBLIC, 1776-1791 107
11. The American Revolution 108
12. A New Government 123
13. President Precedents 142

Unit 4: AMERICAN EXPANSION, 1801-1861 155
14. President Thomas Jefferson 156
15. The War of 1812 and Other Failures to Communicate 167
16. New American Borders 179
17. Westward Ho! 193
18. The Lone Star Non-State 203
19. The Mexican-American War 209
20. The More Things Change: Reform 219

Unit 5: CIVIL WAR and RECONSTRUCTION, 1850s-1870s 229
21. North versus South 230
22. The Civil War 243
23. Reconstruction 259

UNIT 6: RESHAPING the NATION, 1850-1917 269
24. Trains, Bonanzas, and Buckaroos 270
25. Native American Reservations 279
26. The Second Industrial Revolution 285
27. New Immigrants, New Cities 295
28. Progress!(ivism) 303
29. Expansionism and Imperialism 313
30. Spanish-American War 319
31. A Man and His Plan: More Progressivism 327

Unit 7: WORLD WARS and MODERN AMERICA, 1900s-1930s 337
32. The Great War 338
33. The Roaring Twenties 355
34. The Great Depression 365

Unit 8: WORLD WAR II, 1930s-1945 379
35. World War II Begins 380
36. America Enters the War in Europe 393
37. War in the Pacific 401

Unit 9: POST-WORLD WAR II ERA, 1945-1980 409
38. America After the War 410
39. The Korean War 421
40. American Affluence and the Baby Boom 429
41. The Civil Rights Movement 435
42. Civil Rights Grows 447
43. The Vietnam War 455
44. Nixon's Politics 467
45. Carter in the 1970s 475

Unit 10: AMERICAN HISTORY . . . and CURRENT-ISH EVENTS! 481
46. Ronald Reagan 482
47. To the Present Day 489