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Provides basic information about U.S. history, discussing important events and influential figures, from the discovery and settlement of early America up to the twenty-first century.
List of contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with US History 5
Chapter 1: America: A Short Biography 7
Chapter 2: Native Americans and Explorers: 14,000 BC (?)-1607 21
Chapter 3: Pilgrims' Progress: The English Colonies, 1607-1700 39
Chapter 4: You Say You Want a Revolution: 1700 -1775 53
Chapter 5: Yankee Doodlin': 1775 -1783 69
Chapter 6: Blueprints and Birth Pains: 1783-1800 83
Part II: Growing Pains 95
Chapter 7: "Long Tom" and One Weird War: 1800-1815 97
Chapter 8: Pulling Together to Keep from Falling Apart: 1815-1844 115
Chapter 9: War, Gold, and a Gathering Storm: 1845-1860 137
Chapter 10: A Most Uncivil War: 1861-1865 151
Chapter 11: Putting the Country Back Together: 1865-1876 167
Part III: Coming of Age 179
Chapter 12: Growing Up: 1876-1898 181
Chapter 13: Growing into the 20th Century: 1899 -1918 199
Chapter 14: Gin, Jazz, and Lucky Lindy: 1919-1929 215
Chapter 15: Uncle Sam's Depressed: 1930-1940 231
Chapter 16: The World at War: 1941-1945 247
Part IV: America in Adulthood 265
Chapter 17: TV, Elvis, and Reds under the Bed: 1946-1960 267
Chapter 18: Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1974 283
Chapter 19: Hold the Malaise, or, Ayatollah So: 1975 -1992 299
Chapter 20: No Sex, Please, I'm the President: 1993 -1999 313
Part V: Facing the New Millennium 325
Chapter 21: Terror Comes Home; America Goes to War(s) 327
Chapter 22: Recessions Can Be Really Depressing 341
Chapter 23: Reforming Healthcare Is No Tea Party 353
Chapter 24: This New America 367
Part VI: The Part of Tens 379
Chapter 25: Ten Events That Defined American Culture 381
Chapter 26: Ten Unfor tunate Statements by US Presidents 385
Part VII: The Appendixes 389
Appendix A: The Bill of Rights: Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution 391
Appendix B: The Declaration of Independence 393
Index 397
