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Chapter 1: Geography of the Americas (Prehistory - Present)

Five Themes of Geography
Lines of Latitude and Longitude
Landforms / Bodies of Water

Chapter 2: The First Americans (Prehistory - 1600)

First Americans / Archaeology / Mound Builders
Peoples of the Southwest
Peoples of the North, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains
Iroquois
Aztecs
Incas

Chapter 3: Europeans Reach the Americas (1000 - 1650)

The Crusades
Eurasian Trade Routes			N/A
European Competition / African Middle Kingdoms
Christopher Columbus			N/A
Cortes and the Aztecs / and Pizarro and the Incas
Search for the Northwest Passage			N/A
Protestant Reformation
Roanoke Island / Founding of Jamestown
Life in Jamestown
Middle Passage / Slavery
Pilgrims

Chapter 4: The 13 English Colonies (1630 - 1750)

The Abolitionist Movement
The Women's Rights Movement / Seneca Falls Convention		N/A	N/A

Chapter 15: The Road to Civil War (1820 - 1860)

Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850 / Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas - Nebraska Act / "Bleeding Kansas"
Dred Scott Decision / Lincoln - Douglas Debates
John Brown's Raid / Election of 1860 / Secession / Fort Sumter

Chapter 16: Torn by War (1861 - 1865) - The American Nation, 1998 edition
Chapter 17: The Civil War (1864 - 1877) - The American Nation, 2005 edition

Advantages and Disadvantages of the Union and Confederacy / Strategies for Victory
Battles of Bull Run and Antietam / Naval Action
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Gettysburg / Gettysburg Address / The War Ends

Chapter 18: Reconstruction and the Changing South (1863 - 1896)

Reconstruction Plans / Freedmen's Bureau
Lincoln's Assassination		N/A	N/A
President Johnson / Black Codes
Radical Reconstruction: The President and Congress Clash
President Grant / Fifteenth Amendment / Ku Klux Klan
Sharecroppers / Election of 1876 / Jim Crow Laws / Plessy v. Ferguson

Chapter 19: The New West (1865 - 1914)

Boomtowns and Ghost Towns
Transcontinental Railroad
Chivington Massacre / Battle of Little Bighorn
Wounded Knee / Chief Joseph / Dawes Act
Cattle Kingdom / Cowhands
Homesteaders / Farmers Unite / Populism

Chapter 20: Industrial Growth (1865 - 1914)

Railroads and Industry / Cornelius Vanderbilt
Steel Industry / Andrew Carnegie
Free Enterprise			N/A
Standard Oil trust / John D. Rockefeller / J. Pierpont Morgan
Advances in Technology	N/A		N/A
Henry Ford / America On Wheels		N/A
Working Conditions / Workers Organize / American Federation of Labor
Pullman Strike / Mother Jones / Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Chapter 21: A New Urban Culture (1865 - 1914)

Immigration
Tenements / Reform
Anti-Immigrant Feelings
Growth of Cities / Changes in City Life
Realism / Yellow Journalism

Chapter 22: The Progressive Era (1876 - 1920)

The Spoils System / Regulating Big Business
Reforming City Governments / Muckrakers
Progressives in Action
The Life of Theodore Roosevelt - In Pictures			N/A
Theodore Roosevelt the Trustbuster / Legislation Under Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and the Election of 1912
Suffragist Movement / Alice Paul / Temperance Movement			N/A
Ida B. Wells / Booker T. Washington / W.E.B. DuBois / NAACP
Gentleman's Agreement / Mexican Immigration

Chapter 23: Becoming a World Power (1865 - 1916)

"Unlocking Japan" / Alaska
Imperialism / Hawaii
China / Spheres of Influence
Cuba / Yellow Journalism / Causes of the Spanish-American War
Results of the Spanish-American War
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary / Dollar Diplomacy / Troubles in Mexico

Chapter 24: World War I (1914 - 1919)

Causes of World War I / Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Trench Warfare
American Neutrality / Lusitania / Zimmerman Telegram
Organizing the War Effort
Russian Revolutions / Communism
Tensions and Protests / Americans in France
Final Battles / Peace at Last
Wilson's Fourteen Points / Paris Peace Conference
The Senate and the Treaty

Chapter 25: The Roaring Twenties (1919 - 1929)

The Teapot Dome Scandal / Kellogg-Briand Pact
1920's: A Booming Economy / Effects of the Car Industry
The Bull Market and the Consumer Revolution
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-First Amendments / A Mass Society
Jazz Age / Harlem Renaissance
The Other Half: Farmers and Laborers
Red Scare / "Closing the Golden Door"
Scopes Trial / Ku Klux Klan / Marcus Garvey / Election of 1928

Chapter 26: The Great Depression (1929 - 1941)

Stock Market Crash / Causes of the Great Depression
Effects of the Great Depression / Herbert Hoover / The Bonus Army
Franklin Delano Roosevelt / New Deal / the Hundred Days
New Deal Programs
Criticisms of the New Deal / FDR and the Supreme Court
Labor Reforms / New Deal: Pros and Cons
The Dust Bowl
Eleanor Roosevelt / Minority Groups During the Great Depression

Chapter 27: World War II Era (1935 - 1945)

Neutrality Act / Good Neighbor Policy / Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
Fascism Venn Diagram: Hitler and Mussolini	see above
Stalin / Japanese agression / Munich Conference / appeasement / Nazi-Soviet Pact
Axis v. Allies / Lend-Lease Act / Atlantic Charter / Pearl Harbor			N/A
Mobilization / Japanese Internment			N/A
Major Battles: 1942 - 1944			N/A
Harry Truman / V-E Day / Atom Bomb / V-J Day
Bataan Death March / the Holocaust / Nuremberg Trials

Chapter 28: The Cold War Era (1945 - 1991)

Cold War / Truman Doctrine / Marshall Plan / Berlin
United Nations / NATO / Warsaw Pact / Emerging Nations
China / Korea / Gen. MacArthur
Sen. Joseph McCarthy / The Cold War in Africa and Asia
Crisis Over Cuba / Latin America / Arms Race
Vietnam / Cambodia
The Fall of Communism

Chapter 29: Prosperity, Rebellion, and Reform (1945 - 1980)

Baby Boom / 1950's
Brown v. B.O.E. of Topeka, KS / Little Rock, AR
Montgomery Bus Boycott / Rosa Parks / Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Assassination of JFK/ Presidencies of Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter
NAACP, CORE and the SCLC / Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Civil Rights Laws
Black Muslims / Black Panthers / Urban riots / Affirmative Action / NOW

Chapter 30: The Nation in a New World (1970 - Present)

The Conservative Revolution / An End to the Cold War
International Relations
2000 and Beyond
Afghanistan
Iran
Iraq
September 11, 2001