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America: History of Our Nation® Online Textbook

 

 

 

 

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Unit 1

Section 1

Section 2

Section 4

Section 5

​Unit 2

The First English Settlements

(pages 66-70)

The New England Colonies

(pages 71-76)

The Middle Colonies

(pages 77-81)

The Southern Colonies

(pages 84-89)

Governing the Colonies

(pages 102-106)

Colonial Society

(pages 107-112)

Slavery in the Colonies

(pages 113-117)

The Spread of New Ideas 

(pages 118-123)

Unit 3

Trouble on the Frontier

(pages 140-144)

The Colonists Resist Tighter Control

(pages 145-149)

From Protest to Rebellion

(pages 150-153)

The War Begins

(156-161)

A Nation Declares Independence

(pages 170-173)

A Critical Time

(pages 179-184)

Winning Independence

(pages 191-195)

Unit 4 

Governing a New Nation 

(pages 204-209)

The Constitutional Convention

(pages 212-217)

Debating the Constitution

(pages 218-221)

Washington Takes Office

(pages 282-287)

The Birth of Political Parties

(pages 290-293)

Troubles at Home and Abroad

(pages 294-297)

The Presidency of John Adams

(pages 298-301)

Unit 5​​

Thomas Jefferson Takes Office

(pages 310-313)

The Louisiana Purchase

(pages 314-319)

A​ Time of Conflict

(pages 322-324)

​War of 1812 

​(pages 327-333)

​Unit 6
The Plantation South
​(396-405)
The Fight Against Slavery
​(422-426)
Growing Tensions Over Slavery
​(482-485)
Compromises Fail
(486-491)
The Crisis Deepens
​ (494-498)
The Coming of the Civil War
(499-503)
The Call to Arms
(512-517)
The Early Years of War 
(518-521)
The Emancipation Proclamation 
(524-527)
The War and American Life 
(528-532)
Decisive Battles 
(533-537)

Unit 7
Rebuilding the Nation 

(546-549)

The Battle Over Reconstruction 

(552-557)​​

The End of Reconstruction 

​(558-563)

Mining and Railroads
(578-581)
Native Americans Struggle
(584-589)
The Cattle Kingdom
(590-594)
Farming in the West
(595-599)
A New Industrial Revolution
(608-613)
Big Business and Organized Labor
(614-619)
Cities Grow and Change
(620-624)
The New Immigrants
(625-629)
Education and Culture
(632-635)
​The Gilded Age
(644-648)
The Progressive Presidents
(649-653)
The Rights of Women
(656-659)
Struggles for Justice
(660-665)

​Unit 8

Eyes on the Pacific

(Pages 680-685 )

The Spanish American War

(Pages 688-692 )

The United States and Latin America

(Pages  693-697)

The Road to War

(Pages 706-711)

Supporting the War Effort 

(Pages 712-715)

Americans at War

(Pages 718-722)

Shaping the Peace​

(Pages 723-727)

Unit 9

Adjusting to Peacetime

(pages 736-740)

Changes in American Society

(pages 741-745)

The Jazz Age

(pages 746-750)

The Economy of the 1920's

(pages 752-755)

Hoover and the Crash

(pages 770-775)

Roosevelt and the New Deal

(pages 776-781)

Life in the Great Depression

(pages 782-787)

Legacy of the New Deal

(pages 790-793)

Unit 10

Aggression Leads to War

(pages 802-807)

The United States at War

(pages 808-813)

The War at Home

(pages 816-820)

Towards Victory

(pages 821-827)

Unit 11
Roots of the Cold War
(pages 836-841)
A Time of Prosperity
(pages 842-847)
The Korean War Period
(pages 850-854)
Global Concerns in the Cold War
(pages 855-859)
The Vietnam War Begins
(pages 906-909)
American Involvement Grows
(pages 910-915)
The War Ends
(pages 918-923)
A Time of Uncertainty
(pages 924-927)
The End of the Cold War
(pages 943-952)

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