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Here you will find the US History textbook, The Americans.  The book is divided into chapters and sections.  Use this resource if you need to complete any assignments from the book.

 

The Americans

 

Unit 1: American Beginnings to 1783

Chapter 1: Three Worlds Meet

Chapter 2: The American Colonies Emerge

Chapter 3: The Colonies Come of Age

Chapter 4: The War for Independence

 

Unit 2: A New Nation

Chapter 5: Shaping a New Nation

Chapter 6: Launching the New Nation

Chapter 7: Balancing Nationalism and Sectionalism

Chapter 8: Reforming American Society

 

Unit 3: An Era fo Growth and Disunion

Chapter 9: Expanding Markets and Moving West

Chapter 10: the Union in Peril

Chapter 11: The Civil War

Chapter 12: Reconstruction and Its Effects

 

Unit 4: Migration and Industrialization

Chapter 13: Changes on the Western Frontier

Chapter 14: A New Industrial Age

Chapter 15: Immigrants and Urbanization

Chapter 16: Life at the Turn of the 20th Century

 

Unit 5: Modern America Emerges

Chapter 17: The Progressive Era

Chapter 18: America Claims an Empire

Chapter 19: The First World War

 

Unit 6: The 1920s and the Great Depression

Chapter 20: Politics of the Roaring Twenties

Chapter 21: The Roaring Life of the 1920s

Chapter 22: The Great Depression Begins

Chapter 23: The New Deal

 

Unit 7: World War II and Its Aftermath

Chapter 24: World War Looms

Chapter 25: The United States in World War II

Chapter 26: Cold War Conflicts

Chapter 27: The Postwar Boom

 

Unit 8: Living with Great Turmoil

Chapter 28: The New Frontier and the Great Society

Chapter 29: Civil Rights

Chapter 30: The Vietnam War Years

Chapter 31: An Era of Social Change

 

Unit 9: Passage to a New Century

Chapter 32: An Age of Limits

Chapter 33: The Conservative Tide

Chapter 34: The United States in Today's World

Epilogue: Issues for the 21st Century

 

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