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1 First Contacts (28,000 BCE-1821 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.1 Native American History: Origins of Early People in the Americas . . 3

1.2 Mesoamerican Civilizations: The Olmecs to Cortes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

1.3 The Inca Civilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

1.4 Corte’s and Pizarro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

1.5 Pre-Columbian America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

1.6 Pre-Columbian Civilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

1.7 North American Indians Before Europeans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

1.8 Effects of European Colonization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

1.9 Christopher Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

1.10 Native Americans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

1.11 Spanish Explorers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

1.12 Spanish Colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

1.13 The Columbian Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

2 Settling North America (1497-1732) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

2.1 North American Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

2.2 Colonies of France & England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

2.3 The Settlement of Jamestown Colony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

2.4 North American Settlements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

2.5 New France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

2.6 New Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

2.7 Plymouth Rock Settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

2.8 The Mayflower Settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

2.9 Founding of the New England Colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

2.10 The Puritans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

2.11 The Southern Colonies: Settlement and Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

2.12 The Middle Colonies: New York, Delaware, New Jersey & Pennsylva-

nia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

2.13 The 13 Colonies: Life in Early America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

2.14 Rise of the Slave Trade: Black History in Colonial America . . . . . . 740

2.15 First Thanksgiving: History, Facts & Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806

2.16 Mayflower Compact: Definition, Summary & History . . . . . . . . . . . . 825

3 The Road to Revolution (1700–1774) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835

3.1 The American Enlightenment: Intellectual and Social Revolution . 835

3.2 The First Great Awakening: Religious Revival and American Indepen-

dence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863

3.3 The French and Indian War: Causes, Effects & Summary . . . . . . . . 879

3.4 Sons of Liberty: Resistance to the Stamp Act and British Rule . . . 931

3.5 Boston Massacre: Declaratory & Townshend Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941

3.6 The Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts & First Continental Congress 959

4 The American Revolution (1775-1783) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991

4.1 Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill: The American Revolution Be-

gins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991

4.2 The Second Continental Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999

4.3 Thomas Paine’s Common Sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1010

4.4 The Declaration of Independence: Text, Signers and Legacy . . . 1015

4.5 British Loyalists vs. American Patriots During the American Revolu-

tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035

4.6 George Washington’s Leadership at Trenton, Saratoga & Valley Forge 1046

4.7 End of the Revolutionary War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054

4.8 the Treaty of Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062

4.9 The Battle of Yorktown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072

4.10 American Revolution: Social and Economic Impact . . . . . . . . . . . 1081

4.11 The Second Great Awakening: Charles Finney and Religious Revival 1189

4.12 Paul Revere: Biography, Facts & Quotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191

5 Making of a New Nation (1776-1800) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249

5.1 Creating State Constitutions After the American Revolution . . . 1249

5.2 The Articles of Confederation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264

5.3 Northwest Ordinance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312

5.4 Shays Rebellion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328

5.5 The Constitutional Convention: The Great Compromise . . . . . . . 1354

5.6 The Ratification of the Constitution and the New U.S. Government 1371

5.7 The US Constitution: Preamble, Articles and Amendments . . . . 1381

5.8 The Bill of Rights: The Constitution’s First 10 Amendments . . . 1399

5.9 Thomas Jefferson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1440

5.10 Alexander Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1509

5.11 The French Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1526

5.12 Jay Treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1632

5.13 Battle of Fallen Timbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1635

5.14 The Whiskey Rebellion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1636

5.15 President John Adams: From Alien and Sedition Acts to XYZ Af-

fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1644

6 The Virginia Dynasty (1801-1825) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1677

6.1 President Jefferson’s Election and Jeffersonian Democracy . . . . . 1677

6.2 Thomas Jefferson’s Presidency: Louisiana Purchase, Lewis & Clark, and

More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1681

6.3 Embargo of 1807 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1700

6.4 Napoleonic Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703

6.5 Barbary Pirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1721

6.6 President Madison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1725

6.7 War of 1812 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1730

6.8 James Madison After the War of 1812: The Era of Good Feelings 1799

6.9 The Monroe Doctrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839

6.10 James Monroe’s Presidency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1871

6.11 John Marshall’s Supreme Court During the Virginia Dynasty . . . 1877

6.12 American Industrialization: Factory System and Market Revolution 1878

6.13 Education in Early America: Birth of Public Schools and Universities 1951

6.14 Henry Clay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1953

6.15 Missouri Compromise of 1820 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1955

6.16 War of 1812: Causes & Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1966

6.17 History of The Star-Spangled Banner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1967

6.18 Presidential Election of 1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1977

7 Jacksonian Democracy (1825-1850) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989

7.1 President John Quincy Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989

7.2 Election of 1824 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1992

7.3 President Andrew Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2000

7.4 Age of the Common Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2041

7.5 Whig Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2100

7.6 Jacksonian America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2100

7.7 The Trail of Tears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2138

7.8 Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2168

7.9 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2184

7.10 William Henry Harrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2204

7.11 Martin Van Buren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2205

8 Life in Antebellum America (1807-1861) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209

8.1 American Renaissance: Uniquely American Art, Literature and Cul-

ture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209

8.2 Reform Movements of the 19th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2232

8.3 The Transportation Revolution: Turnpikes to Steamboats to Railroads 2244

8.4 Slavery in America: Cotton, Slave Trade and the Southern Response 2253

8.5 Abolitionist Movement: Important Figures in the Fight to End Slav-

ery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2289

9 Manifest Destiny (1806-1855) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2301

9.1 The Oregon Trail: Westward Migration to the Pacific Ocean . . . 2301

9.2 Manifest Destiny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2341

9.3 Manifest Destiny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2343

9.4 Texas Annexation Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2408

9.5 President John Tyler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2427

9.6 President James K. Polk’s Accomplishments in the Lower 48 States 2428

9.7 The Mexican-American War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2431

9.8 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2482

9.9 the Wilmot Proviso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2483

9.10 Election of 1848 and the California Gold Rush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2486

9.11 President Fillmore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2510

9.12 Compromise of 1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2511

9.13 President Franklin Pierce’s Politics and Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . 2526

10 Sectional Crisis (1850-1861) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2529

10.1 Uncle Tom’s Cabin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2529

10.2 Tension Over Slavery in the 1850s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2538

10.3 Bloody Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2540

10.4 President Buchanan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2550

10.5 Dred Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2550

10.6 Fighting Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2578

10.7 John Brown’s Raid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2580

10.8 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2582

10.9 Lincoln’s Election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2585

10.10 Southern Secession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2588

10.11 The Battle of Fort Sumter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2592

10.12 Start of the Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2594

10.13 The Election of 1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2600

11 American Civil War (1861-1865) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2613

11.1 The First Battle of Bull Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2613

11.2 Key Civil War Battles in 1862 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2623

11.3 The Emancipation Proclamation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2630

11.4 Civil War Turning Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2646

11.5 End of the Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2647

11.6 Sherman’s March to the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2655

11.7 Lincoln’s Assassination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2659

11.8 Appomattox Courthouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2664

11.9 Gettysburg Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2666

12 Reconstruction (1865-1877) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2697

12.1 President Lincoln’s Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2697

12.2 President Andrew Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701

12.3 The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2704

12.4 President Ulysses S. Grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2705

12.5 The Reconstruction Amendments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2710

12.6 Reconstruction’s Effects on African Americans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2731

12.7 Life in the South After the Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2830

12.8 Transcontinental Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2831

12.9 Homestead Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2868

12.10 Women’s Suffrage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2879

12.11 The Indian Wars: Struggle Between Native Americans and Settlers 2931

12.12 The End of Reconstruction and the Election of 1876 . . . . . . . . . . 2937

12.13 Reconstruction Acts of 1867 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2943

12.14 The Reconstruction Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2944

13 Westward Expansion, Industrialization & Urbanization (1870-

1900) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2963

13.1 Westward Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2963

13.2 Expanding the Transcontinental Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3047

13.3 Second Industrial Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3048

13.4 American Industry Development in the Gilded Age . . . . . . . . . . . . 3108

13.5 Andrew Carnegie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3205

13.6 Robber Barons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213

13.7 Gilded Age Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3228

13.8 The Grange and the Populist Party Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3238

13.9 Rise of Nativism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3240

13.10 Immigration in Industrial America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3244

14 The Progressive Era (1900-1917) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3295

14.1 Theodore Roosevelt & the Progressives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3295

14.2 The Muckrakers of the Progressive Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3313

14.3 Progressive Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3329

14.4 Presidential Election of 1912 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3331

15 American Imperialism (1890-1919) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3333

15.1 American Imperialism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3333

15.2 The Spanish-American War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3404

15.3 The United States in World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3456

15.4 End of WWI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3564

15.5 Treaty of Versailles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3572

15.6 League of Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3610

15.7 Causes of World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3633

16 The Roaring 20’s (1920-1929) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3659

16.1 1920s American Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3659

16.2 American Economy in the 1920s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3729

16.3 American Politics in the 1920s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3757

16.4 Prohibition of the 1920s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3788

16.5 American Organized Crime of the 1920s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3791

16.6 Art and Culture of the Harlem Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3814

16.7 The Ku Klux Klan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3851

16.8 Eugenics and Nativism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3854

16.9 The Scopes Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3854

16.10 Scottsboro Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3859

16.11 The Red Scare of the 1920s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3864

17 The Great Depression (1929-1940) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3869

17.1 The Great Depression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3869

17.2 The Wall Street Crash of 1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3949

17.3 The Dust Bowl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3951

17.4 President Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression . . . . . . . . . . 3959

17.5 Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3965

18 World War II (1941-1945) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3981

18.1 The Start of the Second World War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3981

18.2 The Attack on Pearl Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4094

18.3 The European Theater in WWII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4128

18.4 The Holocaust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4133

18.5 The Pacific Ocean Theater of WWII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4145

18.6 The D-Day Invasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4151

18.7 Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4157

18.8 The Yalta Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4165

18.9 The Potsdam Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4171

19 Post-War World (1946-1959) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4173

19.1 Post-War Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4173

19.2 Berlin Airlift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4177

19.3 the Marshall Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4186

19.4 Cold War in Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4194

19.5 Reconstruction of Japan’s Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4201

19.6 Korea’s Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4211

19.7 The Descent of the Iron Curtain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4253

20 The Cold War (1950-1973) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4259

20.1 The Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4259

20.2 McCarthyism and the Red Scare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4332

20.3 Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4344

20.4 John F. Kennedy and the Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4355

20.5 The Vietnam War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4386

21 Protests, Activism and Civil Disobedience (1954-1973) 4475

21.1 President Lyndon B. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4475

21.2 the Great Society Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4490

21.3 The Civil Rights Movement During the 1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4499

21.4 The Civil Rights Movement During the 1960s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4556

21.5 Hippies and the Counterculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4565

21.6 The Student Movement of the 1960s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4569

21.7 The Women’s Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4589

22 The 1970’s (1969-1979) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4603

22.1 Foreign Policies of President Nixon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4603

22.2 Conflict in the Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4630

22.3 Supreme Court Case Roe v. Wade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4645

22.4 The Watergate Scandal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4703

22.5 Gerald Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4707

22.6 Jimmy Carter as President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4715

23 The Rise of Political Conservatism (1980-1992) . . . . . . 4729

23.1 The Election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4729

23.2 Reaganomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4744

23.3 President Ronald Reagan’s Foreign Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4748

23.4 President George H.W. Bush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4763

24 Contemporary America (1992-2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4779

24.1 Bill Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4779

24.2 President Barack Obama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4782

24.3 President Donald Trump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4800

24.4 President Joe Biden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4810

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