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1. Pre-Columbian Societies

 * 1) Early inhabitants of the Americas
 * 2) American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley
 * 3) American Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact

2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492–1690

 * 1) First European contacts with Native Americans
 * 2) Spain’s empire in North America
 * 3) French colonization of Canada
 * 4) English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South
 * 5) From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region
 * 6) Religious diversity in the American colonies
 * 7) Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt

3. Colonial North America, 1690–1754

 * 1) Population growth and immigration
 * 2) Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports
 * 3) The eighteenth-century back country
 * 4) Growth of plantation economies and slave societies
 * 5) The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening
 * 6) Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America

4. The American Revolutionary Era, 1754–1789

 * 1) The French and Indian War
 * 2) The Imperial Crisis and resistance to Britain
 * 3) The War for Independence
 * 4) State constitutions and the Articles of Confederation
 * 5) The federal Constitution

5. The Early Republic, 1789–1815

 * 1) Washington, Hamilton, and the shaping of the national government
 * 2) Emergence of political parties: Federalists and Republicans
 * 3) Republican Motherhood and education for women
 * 4) Beginnings of the Second Great Awakening
 * 5) Significance of Jefferson’s presidency
 * 6) Expansion into the trans-Appalachian West; American Indian resistance
 * 7) Growth of slavery and free Black communities
 * 8) The War of 1812 and its consequences

6. The Transformation of Economy and Society in Antebellum America

 * 1) The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy
 * 2) Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures
 * 3) Immigration and nativist reaction
 * 4) Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South

7. The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America

 * 1) Emergence of the second party system
 * 2) Federal authority and its opponents: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff controversy, and states’
 * 3) rights debates
 * 4) Jacksonian democracy and its successes and limitations

8. Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum America

 * 1) Evangelical Protestant revivalism
 * 2) Social reforms
 * 3) Ideals of domesticity
 * 4) Transcendentalism and utopian communities
 * 5) American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions

9. Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny

 * 1) Forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi West
 * 2) Western migration and cultural interactions
 * 3) Territorial acquisitions
 * 4) Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War

10. The Crisis of the Union

 * 1) Pro- and antislavery arguments and conflicts
 * 2) Compromise of 1850 and popular sovereignty
 * 3) The Kansas–Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party
 * 4) Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and secession

11. Civil War

 * 1) Two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent
 * 2) Military strategies and foreign diplomacy
 * 3) Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war
 * 4) Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West

12. Reconstruction

 * 1) Presidential and Radical Reconstruction
 * 2) Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures
 * 3) Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy
 * 4) Compromise of 1877
 * 5) Impact of Reconstruction

13. The Origins of the New South

 * 1) Reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping and crop lien system
 * 2) Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization
 * 3) The politics of segregation: Jim Crow and disfranchisement

14. Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century

 * 1) Expansion and development of western railroads
 * 2) Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians
 * 3) Government policy toward American Indians
 * 4) Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West
 * 5) Environmental impacts of western settlement

15. Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth Century

 * 1) Corporate consolidation of industry
 * 2) Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace
 * 3) Labor and unions
 * 4) National politics and influence of corporate power
 * 5) Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nation
 * 6) Proponents and opponents of the new order, e.g., Social Darwinism and Social Gospel

16. Urban Society in the Late Nineteenth Century

 * 1) Urbanization and the lure of the city
 * 2) City problems and machine politics
 * 3) Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment
 * 4) About AP U.S. History

17. Populism and Progressivism

 * 1) Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century
 * 2) Origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national
 * 3) Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidents
 * 4) Women’s roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform
 * 5) Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives

18. The Emergence of America As a World Power

 * 1) American imperialism: political and economic expansion
 * 2) War in Europe and American neutrality
 * 3) The First World War at home and abroad
 * 4) Treaty of Versailles
 * 5) Society and economy in the postwar years

19. The New Era: 1920s

 * 1) The business of America and the consumer economy
 * 2) Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
 * 3) The Culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment
 * 4) Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition
 * 5) The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women

20. The Great Depression and the New Deal

 * 1) Causes of the Great Depression
 * 2) The Hoover administration’s response
 * 3) Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
 * 4) Labor and union recognition
 * 5) The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left
 * 6) Surviving hard times: American society during the Great Depression

21. The Second World War

 * 1) The rise of fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany
 * 2) Prelude to war: policy of neutrality
 * 3) The attack on Pearl Harbor and United States declaration of war
 * 4) Fighting a multifront war
 * 5) Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conferences
 * 6) The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age

22. The Home Front During the War

 * 1) Wartime mobilization of the economy
 * 2) Urban migration and demographic changes
 * 3) Women, work, and family during the war
 * 4) Civil liberties and civil rights during wartime
 * 5) War and regional development
 * 6) Expansion of government power

23. The United States and the Early Cold War

 * 1) Origins of the Cold War
 * 2) Truman and containment
 * 3) The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan
 * 4) Diplomatic strategies and policies of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations
 * 5) The Red Scare and McCarthyism
 * 6) Impact of the Cold War on American society

24. The 1950s

 * 1) Emergence of the modern civil rights movement
 * 2) The affluent society and “the other America”
 * 3) Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle-class America
 * 4) Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels
 * 5) Impact of changes in science, technology, and medicine

25. The Turbulent 1960s

 * 1) From the New Frontier to the Great Society
 * 2) Expanding movements for civil rights
 * 3) Cold War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe
 * 4) Beginning of Détente
 * 5) The antiwar movement and the counterculture

26. Politics and Economics at the End of the Twentieth Century

 * 1) The election of 1968 and the “Silent Majority”
 * 2) Nixon’s challenges: Vietnam, China, Watergate
 * 3) Changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the service economy
 * 4) The New Right and the Reagan revolution
 * 5) End of the Cold War

27. Society and Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century

 * 1) Demographic changes: surge of immigration after 1965, Sunbelt migration, and the graying of America
 * 2) Revolutions in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers
 * 3) Politics in a multicultural society

28. The United States in the Post–Cold War World

 * 1) Globalization and the American economy
 * 2) Unilateralism vs. multilateralism in foreign policy
 * 3) Domestic and foreign terrorism
 * 4) Environmental issues in a global context