Modern American History

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Table of Contents

UNIT 1: Building a Powerful Nation

Chapter 1: American History to the Civil War (Beginnings–1861)
Chapter 2: The Civil War, 1861–1865
Chapter 3: Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Chapter 4: The Expansion of American Industry, 1850–1900
Chapter 5: Looking to the West, 1860–1900
Chapter 6: Politics, Immigration, and Urban Life, 1870–1915
Chapter 7: Daily Life in the Gilded Age, 1870–1915

UNIT 2: The United States on the Brink of Change, 1890–1920

Chapter 8: Becoming a World Power, 1890–1913
Chapter 9: The Era of Progressive Reform, 1890–1920
Chapter 10: The World War I Era, 1914–1920

UNIT 3: Boom Times to Hard Times, 1919–1938

Chapter 11: The Twenties, 1920–1929
Chapter 12: Crash and Depression, 1929–1933
Chapter 13: The New Deal, 1933–1938

UNIT 4: Hot and Cold War, 1939–1960

Chapter 14: World War II, 1939–1945
Chapter 15: World War II at Home, 1941–1945
Chapter 16: The Cold War, 1945–1960
Chapter 17: The Postwar Years at Home, 1945–1960

UNIT 5: The Upheaval of the Sixties, 1960–1975

Chapter 18: The Kennedy and Johnson Years, 1960–1968
Chapter 19: The Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1968
Chapter 20: Other Social Movements, 1960–1975
Chapter 21: The Vietnam War and American Society, 1960–1975

UNIT 6: Continuity and Change, 1968–Present

Chapter 22: The Nixon Years, 1968–1974
Chapter 23: The Post-Watergate Period, 1974–1980
Chapter 24: The Conservative Revolution, 1980–1992
Chapter 25: Entering a New Era, 1992–Present

UNIT 7: Pathways to the Future

Chapter 26: Immigration and the Golden Door
Chapter 27: Gun Control and Crime
Chapter 28: The Minimum Wage
Chapter 29: Rethinking Entitlements
Chapter 30: The Debate over Trade
Chapter 31: Foreign Policy After the Cold War
Chapter 32: Technology and You in the Next Century

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