​American History From Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium

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1. Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization
   1. Diversity of Native American Groups
   2. The Anasazi
   3. The Algonkian Tribes
   4. The Iroquois Tribes
2. Britain in the New World
   1. Early Ventures Fail
   2. Joint-Stock Companies
   3. Jamestown Settlement and the "Starving Time"
   4. The Growth of the Tobacco Trade
   5. War and Peace with Powhatan's People
   6. The House of Burgesses
3. The New England Colonies
   1. The Mayflower and Plymouth Colony
   2. William Bradford and the First Thanksgiving
   3. Massachusetts Bay — "The City Upon a Hill"
   4. Puritan Life
   5. Dissent in Massachusetts Bay
   6. Reaching to Connecticut
   7. Witchcraft in Salem
4. The Middle Colonies
   1. New Netherland to New York
   2. Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
   3. City of Brotherly Love — Philadelphia
   4. The Ideas of Benjamin Franklin
5. The Southern Colonies
   1. Maryland — The Catholic Experiment
   2. Indentured Servants
   3. Creating the Carolinas
   4. Debtors in Georgia
   5. Life in the Plantation South
6. African Americans in the British New World
   1. West African Society at the Point of European Contact
   2. "The Middle Passage"
   3. The Growth of Slavery
   4. Slave Life on the Farm and in the Town
   5. Free African Americans in the Colonial Era
   6. "Slave Codes"
   7. A New African-American Culture
7. The Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking
   1. The Impact of Enlightenment in Europe
   2. The Great Awakening
   3. The Trial of John Peter Zenger
   4. Smuggling
   5. A Tradition of Rebellion
   6. "What Is the American?"
8. America's Place in the Global Struggle
   1. New France
   2. The French and Indian War
   3. George Washington's Background and Experience
   4. The Treaty of Paris (1763) and Its Impact
9. The Events Leading to Independence
   1. The Royal Proclamation of 1763
   2. The Stamp Act Controversy
   3. The Boston Patriots
   4. The Townshend Acts
   5. The Boston Massacre
   6. The Tea Act and Tea Parties
   7. The Intolerable Acts
10. E Pluribus Unum
    1. Stamp Act Congress
    2. Sons and Daughters of Liberty
    3. Committees of Correspondence
    4. First Continental Congress
    5. Second Continental Congress
    6. Thomas Paine's Common Sense
    7. The Declaration of Independence
11. The American Revolution
    1. American and British Strengths and Weaknesses
    2. Loyalists, Fence-sitters, and Patriots
    3. Lexington and Concord
    4. Bunker Hill
    5. The Revolution on the Home Front
    6. Washington at Valley Forge
    7. The Battle of Saratoga
    8. The French Alliance
    9. Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris
12. Societal Impacts of the American Revolution
    1. The Impact of Slavery
    2. A Revolution in Social Law
    3. Political Experience
    4. "Republican Motherhood"
13. When Does the Revolution End?
    1. The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
    2. The War Experience: Soldiers, Officers, and Civilians
    3. The Loyalists
    4. Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery
    5. Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Women
    6. Revolutionary Limits: Native Americans
    7. Revolutionary Achievement: Yeomen and Artisans
    8. The Age of Atlantic Revolutions
14. Making Rules
    1. State Constitutions
    2. Articles of Confederation
    3. Evaluating the Congress
    4. The Economic Crisis of the 1780s
15. Drafting the Constitution
    1. Shays' Rebellion
    2. A Cast of National Superstars
    3. The Tough Issues
    4. Constitution Through Compromise
16. Ratifying the Constitution
    1. Federalists
    2. Antifederalists
    3. The Ratification Process: State by State
    4. After the Fact: Virginia, New York, and "The Federalist Papers"
    5. The Antifederalists' Victory in Defeat
17. George Washington
    1. Growing up in Colonial Virginia
    2. The Force of Personality and Military Command
    3. The First Administration
    4. Farewell Address
    5. Mount Vernon and the Dilemma of a Revolutionary Slave Holder
18. Unsettled Domestic Issues
    1. The Bill of Rights
    2. Hamilton's Financial Plan
    3. Growing Opposition
    4. U.S. Military Defeat; Indian Victory in the West
    5. Native American Resilience and Violence in the West
19. Politics in Transition: Public Conflict in the 1790s
    1. Trans-Atlantic Crisis: The French Revolution
    2. Negotiating with the Superpowers
    3. Two Parties Emerge
    4. The Adams Presidency
    5. The Alien and Sedition Acts
    6. The Life and Times of John Adams
20. Jeffersonian America: A Second Revolution?
    1. The Election of 1800
    2. Jeffersonian Ideology
    3. Westward Expansion: The Louisiana Purchase
    4. A New National Capital: Washington, D.C.
    5. A Federalist Stronghold: John Marshall's Supreme Court
    6. Gabriel's Rebellion: Another View of Virginia in 1800
21. The Expanding Republic and the War of 1812
    1. The Importance of the West
    2. Exploration: Lewis and Clark
    3. Diplomatic Challenges in an Age of European War
    4. Native American Resistance in the Trans-Appalachian West
    5. The Second War for American Independence
    6. Claiming Victory from Defeat
22. Social Change and National Development
    1. Economic Growth and the Early Industrial Revolution
    2. Cotton and African-American Life
    3. Religious Transformation and the Second Great Awakening
    4. Institutionalizing Religious Belief: The Benevolent Empire
    5. New Roles for White Women
    6. Early National Arts and Cultural Independence
23. Politics and the New Nation
    1. The Era of Good Feelings and the Two-Party System
    2. The Expansion of the Vote: A White Man's Democracy
    3. The Missouri Compromise
    4. The 1824 Election and the "Corrupt Bargain"
    5. John Quincy Adams
    6. Jacksonian Democracy and Modern America
24. The Age of Jackson
    1. The Rise of the Common Man
    2. A Strong Presidency
    3. The South Carolina Nullification Controversy
    4. The War Against the Bank
    5. Jackson vs. Clay and Calhoun
    6. The Trail of Tears — The Indian Removals
25. The Rise of American Industry
    1. The Canal Era
    2. Early American Railroads
    3. Inventors and Inventions
    4. The First American Factories
    5. The Emergence of "Women's Sphere"
    6. Irish and German Immigration
26. An Explosion of New Thought
    1. Religious Revival
    2. Experiments with Utopia
    3. Women's Rights
    4. Prison and Asylum Reform
    5. Hudson River School Artists
    6. Transcendentalism, An American Philosophy
27. The Peculiar Institution
    1. The Crowning of King Cotton
    2. Slave Life and Slave Codes
    3. The Plantation & Chivalry
    4. Free(?) African-Americans
    5. Rebellions on and off the Plantation
    6. The Southern Argument for Slavery
28. Abolitionist Sentiment Grows
    1. William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator
    2. African-American Abolitionists
    3. The Underground Railroad
    4. Harriet Beecher Stowe — Uncle Tom's Cabin
29. Manifest Destiny
    1. The Lone Star Republic
    2. 54° 40' or Fight
    3. "American Blood on American Soil"
    4. The Mexican-American War
    5. Gold in California
30. An Uneasy Peace
    1. Wilmot's Proviso
    2. Popular Sovereignty
    3. Three Senatorial Giants: Clay, Calhoun and Webster
    4. The Compromise of 1850
31. "Bloody Kansas"
    1. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
    2. Border Ruffians
    3. The Sack of Lawrence
    4. The Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
    5. Canefight! Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner
32. From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict
    1. The Dred Scott Decision
    2. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
    3. John Brown's Raid
    4. The Election of 1860
    5. The South Secedes
33. A House Divided
    1. Fort Sumter
    2. Strengths and Weaknesses: North vs. South
    3. First Blood and Its Aftermath
    4. Sacred Beliefs
    5. Bloody Antietam
    6. Of Generals and Soldiers
    7. Gettysburg: High Watermark of the Confederacy
    8. Northern Plans to End the War
    9. The Road to Appomattox
34. The War Behind the Lines
    1. The Emancipation Proclamation
    2. Wartime Diplomacy
    3. The Northern Homefront
    4. The Southern Homefront
    5. The Election of 1864
    6. The Assassination of the President
35. Reconstruction
    1. Presidential Reconstruction
    2. Radical Reconstruction
    3. A President Impeached
    4. Rebuilding the Old Order