Chapter 1: Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds

Native American creation myths and stories
Native Americans mythology
Chronology of Native American History
Great League of Peace or Iroquois Confederacy
LEIFUR EIRÍKSSON
Middle Ages: Reformation and Renaissance
The Black Plague
Biographical material on Niccolo Machiavelli
Biographical material on Henry VII
Biographical material on Martin Luther
European Voyages of Exploration and Conquest
Maps and Manuscripts
Columbus, Myth and Man
1492 -- The Caribbean
Spanish Explorers encounters with Native Americans
1492 -- Middle America
European Explorers and Encounters with Native Americans
1492 -- Incursions in North America
Cabaza an early expedition into the Southwest
Biographical material on Martain Waldseemuller
311 facsimile globe, (Martin Waldseemüller), (1507)


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Chapter 2: The First Experiments, 1540-1680

Mercantilism
Encomienda - forced labor and tribute
King Ferdinand's letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians
 "Las Casas, Bartolomé de"
Fort Mose Free African Settlement
Pueblo Indians
French and Spanish colonization
Timeline of French Huguenots and their migration to North America
Jacques Cartier
New France - Overview of immigration, history, etc.
ROBERT CAVELIER, SIEUR DE LA SALLE
Charter of the Dutch West India Company : 1621
A Brief Outline of Dutch History and the New Netherland Colony
Peter Minuit
CABOT, JOHN. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000
John White, artist, cartographer, Virginia pioneer.  
ROANOKE ISLAND
Captain John Smith
History of Jamestown
Virginia Company
Virginia charter 1
Virginia charter 2
Virginia charter 3
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Powhatan Virginia's History
Virginia's Indians, Past & Present
The Colonial History of Maryland
Church and state in early New England
King Charles I
Onancock Virginia: Historic waterfront Onancock and the Chesapeake Bay
Securing the Leg Irons: Restriction of Legal Rights for Slaves in Virginia and Maryland, 1625 - 1791 - The Early America Review, Winter 1996-97
Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789
History of American slavery until 1820
Overview of the development of Slavery and European Imperialism
Puritans in Colonial America
Mayflower And Early Families
William Bradford
William Laud
Pilgrims and Puritans: Background
Chronology of the Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts
Plymouth Colony Grows
John Winthrop
Bacon's Castle  The Beginning, Progress, and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, In the Years 1675 and 1676
Bacon's rebellion
William Berkeley on Bacon's rebellion
Robert Beverley on Bacon's rebellion


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Chapter 3: Imperial Connections, 1660-174?

History of Western North Carolina - Colonial Days
The North Carolina Biennal Act, 1715
South Carolina Counties and Districts
The History of the Carolinas
Rise of the Georgetown Rice Culture
Richard Nicolls
A Brief Outline of Dutch History and the New Netherland Colony
Charles II (of England)
Charles II's Grant of New England to the Duke of York, 1676
New Jersey History
The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of New Jersey
New York (History)
William Penn
Mason-Dixon Line
William Penn: Frame of Government of Pennsylvania, 1682
Penn's Plan of Union, 1697
Pennsylvania colony: Formation of government
Delaware - A brief history
The Maryland Toleration Act
Mercantilism
Casa de Contratación
Sir Edmund Adros
Colonial North America: 1492-1763
John Locke a Timeline
John Locke: A guide to his writings
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke electronic copy
The Glorious Revolution of England
Salem Witch Trials
King William of England Addresses Parliament
King William's War
History of the Iroquois connection to European wars
French and English Conflicts or The French Indian Wars
Caddo Indians
Queen Anne's War
 The Charter of New England: 1620
Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents
Edward Randolph condemns the Massachusetts Bay Company
King George's War
 Paris treaty 1763
Timeline of the 18th century
People of Action during the Enlightenment - By Miles Hodges
The World of Benjamin Franklin
Brian W. Fairbanks/The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, How I Became a Printer in Philadelphia
John Peter Zenger
The Seven Years War between the French and the English


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Chapter 4: Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680-1754

American colonial history: The early seeds of revolution
Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789
Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries
Historical Census Data for 1790
Outline of American History -The Colonial Period
The History of Maine
The Law of Coverture
Captain Kidd's Island
Indentured Servants
The history of Philadelphia
King George's war
John Peter Zenger
Early American Bookmarks - Peter Zenger and Freedom of the Press
Black Lives in Colonial New England
John Woolman
Study of Colonial Currency
James Oglethorpe
Georgia History
The Middle Passage
Gullah Language & Culture
Fort Mose
Stono's Rebellion
The First Great Awakening
History of Princeton University
Rhode Island (History)
The Founding of Rhode Island


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Chapter 5: Forging the American Experiment, 1754-1775

French And Indian War - History
SCALPING DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Braddock's Defeat - 1755 by George Washington
Braddock's Defeat
Roger's Rangers: British Warfare
The Life of George Washington: Service in the French and Indian war
The History of Vermont
Amherst and Smallpox
Ottawa
Virtual Law Office: Royal Proclamation of 1763
The Sugar Act
Daniel Boone
Cumberland Gap
If This Be Treason...Patrick Henry
Virginia Declaration of Rights
A User’s Guide to the Declaration of Independence
Avalon Project: Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
The Declaratory Act
John Hancock
Colonial Hall: Biography of John Dickinson
The Boston Massacre
John Adams
The Boston Massacre Trials, 1770
Revolutionary Fire: The Gaspee Affair
Boston Tea Party - Eyewitness Account
The Townsend Act
Avalon Project: Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Suffolk Resolves
Declaration of the Causes
The Rights of the Colonists: Samuel Adams, 1772


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Chapter 6: Winning Independence, 1775-1783

Declaration of Independence
The Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Massachusetts Provincial Congress
Bunker Hill, 1775
Battle of Breed's Hill / Bunker Hill
Benedict Arnold - Traitor or Hero
Ethan Allen
Olive Branch
John Dickinson
Thomas Paine
Minutemen
Continental Army – Lineage Series
The Loyal American Regiment: History
The Revolution's Black Soldiers
British March Salem Massachusetts
Major Battles of the Revolution
Valley Forge: History
Alexander Hamilton
Chronology of Benjamin Franklin's Life
The History Place - Conflict and Revolution 1775-1776
Maryland Loyalist and the American Revolution
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Concord
The Articles of Confederation
The Revolutionary War in South Carolina - 1775-1783
Declarations for Suspension of Arms and Cessation of Hostilities 1783


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Chapter 7: The Federal Experiment, 1783-1800

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
African Slavery in America - Paine
Letter to Rev. Samson Occum
Judith Sargent Murray (1751 - 1820)
Alexander Hamilton Page
Shays' Rebellion
Land Ordinance of 1785
James Wilkinson
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Northwest Ordinance; July 13, 1787
James Madison: His Legacy
The “ Virginia Plan”
The Federalist Papers
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
Anti-Federalist Papers
The U. S. Bill of Rights
The Constitution
The Federalist; Biography of Madison
Madison and ten amendments
Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
Thomas Jefferson: Opinions of a National Bank
The French Revolution
A Tale of Two Revolutions
Thomas Pickney: Treaty with Spain
 Statutes of the United States Concerning Native Americans
Whiskey Rebellion – 1794
Lyon, Matthew
Adams and the Constitution
The Sedition Act of 1798
President George Washington's Farewell Address, 1796


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Chapter 8: Striving for Nationhood, 1800-1824

Chief Justice John Marshall
The John Marshall Papers
James Madison, His Legacy: Marbury vs. Madison
1819 McCulloch vs. Maryland – Federalist Principles
Letters from an American Farmer 1782
Fredrick Jackson Turner
Louisiana Purchase
Robert Livingston
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton Duel
The Five Civilized Tribes Museum
Removal of the Cherokee Nation
Tecumseh
Tenskwatawa - The Prophet
Cherokee
Shawnee
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
George Washington – Farwell address
 Chesapeake incident of 1807
America at War: War of 1812
John C. Calhoun in the U.S. Capitol
Henry Clay
War of 1812
War of 1812 (-1815)
Oliver Hazard Perry (Military Leader)
Battle of New Orleans
The Era of Good Feelings
Hartford Convention 1814
The Missouri Compromise
John Quincy Adams


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Chapter 9: An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790-1820

Edward Everett
Albert Gallatin
War of 1812
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton: His Life and Its Treasures
“Clinton’s Folly” early 1800s
Alexander Hamilton
Report on Manufactures in 1791
Samuel Slater
Simeon North
Child Labor Laws
Postal Service
Colonial America Resources
Virginia Economy
1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses: Microfilm
Robert Morris
Eli Whitney Museum
Savannah History
Charles Grandison Finney
Historical Maps From Early America - Archiving Early America
History of slavery from 1830 to end


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Chapter 10: Transforming the Political Culture, 1820-1840

John Jay
James Monroe
Monroe's Inaugural Address (1817)
Joseph Story: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
Presidential Elections of 1824
De Witt Clinton
John Quincy Adams' Inaugural Address (1825)
The Constitution Community Lesson Plan: The Electoral College 1824
Andrew Jackson
Jackson’s Hermitage
Elias Smith
Kentucky Constitution
Media History Timeline: 1830s
Martin Van Buren
Benjamin Latrobe
Henry Clay
Restoration Movement
Presidential Election History -- 1828
History of the Democratic Party
Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet
Samuel Worcester, Pastor, Missionary to the Cherokee Indians
Trail of Tears-North Georgia History-
The Cherokee Nation and Andrew Jackson
Indian Removal Act
Chief Black Hawk
Money in North American History
Presidential Election of 1832
Daniel Webster
Ordinance of Nullification
Second Bank of the United States
Nicholas Biddle
The Whig Party
The Working Men's Declaration of Independence
Locofoco Party
Election of 1840
William Henry Harrison
Independent Treasury Act
John Tyler
Preemption Act of 1841


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Chapter 11: Industry and Reform in the North, 1820-1850

Martin Van Buren
John Tyler
Cincinnati
Samuel Phelps
John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor "A Self-Invented Money-Making Machine"
A Short History of Machine Tools
Elias Howe
Isaac Singer
Sewing Machine
The Jacksonian Era
The Know Nothing Party--Violent Acts
The Black Ball Line
Morse, Samuel F.B.
Samuel F. B. Morse Home Page
Gail Borden, Jr. (1801-1871)
Cyrus Hall McCormick
United States Labor History
Factory System
Modern History Sourcebook: Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls
The Long Road to Womens Suffrage
Early Temperance Movements
Temperance Movement
Dorothea Dix
Catherine Esther Beecher: Women's History
Beecher's Domestic Treatise
Horace Mann
Women's Rights: Living the Legacy 1848-1998
Seneca Falls Conference: The Beginning of Women's Rights
Susan B. Anthony - Biography
Godey's Lady's Book
Manifest Destiny
Brigham Young
Joseph Smith
 The Millerites & Early Adventists, 1840-1870
Shakers
The Transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau


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Chapter 12: Living with Slavery, North and South, 1820-1850

American Colonization Society
New England:place> Anti-Slavery Society
Frances Wright
Fredrick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Sojourner Truth
Alexis de Tocqueville
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
Black Codes
Elijah P. Lovejoy
George Fitzhugh
Abolitionists
Philadelphia:place>:City> Female Anti-Slavery Society
Women in America
The Slave Trade
The Slave Trade and Imperialism
Underground Railroad


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Chapter 13: The Westward Experiment, 1820-1850

Donner Party
Manifest Destiny 1841-1848
Oregon Trail
"In Search of the Heroes": Sam Houston--Man of Honor
Texas History
American West - The Oregon Trail
John Augustus Sutter
Sutter's Mill
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
James K. Polk
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Henry David Thoreau
Lewis Cass Papers
Martin Van Buren
People in The West - James Marshall
Journey of the Forty-niners: The Oregon Trail
People in The West - Levi Strauss
The Battle of the Alamo
 Zachary Taylor
Charles Pinckney's Speech on a Treaty with Spain
Davy Crockett
Jim Bowie


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Chapter 14: The Sectional Challenge, 1848-1860

California History Outline
Wilmot Proviso
Henry Clay
Great Pacificator
Jefferson Davis
The Fugitive Slave Act 
The Election of 1852
Winfield Scott
Franklin Pierce
Ostend Manifesto
James Buchanan
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Causes of the Civil War
Geary and Kansas - Introduction
Bloody Kansas
Free-Soil party
Nativism
1856 Election
Millard Fillmore
John C. Fremont
Dred Scott
James Buchanan
Stephen A. Douglas
Panic of 1857
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Election of 1860
The Confederate States of America


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Chapter 15: Transforming the Experiment: The Civil War, 1861-1865

John J. Crittenden
Fort Sumter
Major Robert Anderson
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis Biography
General P.G.T. Beauregard
General P.G.T. Beauregard
The Battle of Mill Springs: The Civil War Divides a Border State
Border States During the Civil War
America's Civil War: Border States' Population, 1860
The War in the Border States
First Battle of Bull Run 
First Battle of Bull Run Manassas Junction
General Irvin McDowell
General George McClellan
General Ulysses S. Grant
Admiral David G. Farragut
C.S.S. Hunley
Lord Palmerston
General Braxton Bragg
General Robert E. Lee
Mobilizing for War
Thaddeus Stevens
Greenbacks
FRBSF Currency Exhibit: Historical Context: Civil War
FRBSF Currency Exhibit: Civil War
Habeas Corpus
Habeas Corpus during the Civil War
Clement L. Vallandigham
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Homestead Act
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation
African American Troops
5th Regiment Cavalry, United States Colored Troops
Gettysburg 
Gettysburg NPS
The Generals of Gettysburg
General Ambrose Burnside
Gettysburg Address
The Election of 1864
Sherman's March to the Sea  
The Collapse of the Confederacy 
Alexander Stephens
The Valley of the Shadow Project


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Chapter 16: Reconstruction and the New South, 1864-1900

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Charles Sumner 
Thaddeus Stevens
Wade-Davis Manifesto
Benjamin Wade
Henry Winter Davis
Andrew Johnson
Thirteenth Amendment
Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction
"Black Codes"
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Freedmen's Bureau Bill
Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction, 1865-77
First Reconstruction Act
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
National Woman Suffrage Association
Tenure of Office Act
Scalawags
Tenant Farming
1868 Election
1872 Election
Panic of 1873
Colfax Massacre
Slaughterhouse Cases
The Compromise of 1877
Kate Chopin
Jim Crow Laws
Booker T. Washington


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Chapter 17: Conquering the West, 1862-1900

Timber Culture Act
Desert Land Act
Timber and Stone Act
United States v. Reynolds
Grenville Dodge
The Plains Indians
Treaty of Fort Laramie
William T. Sherman
Nelson A. Miles
Chief Black Kettle
Second Treaty of Fort Laramie
Sitting Bull
Battle of Little Bighorn
George Armstrong Custer
Helen Hunt Jackson
Henry Dawes
The Dawes Act of 1887
Coeur d'Alene Indian History
Cattle Trade of the West
Along the Chisholm Trail
People in The West - Joseph F. Glidden
Who was Henry George?
John Muir
 "Doc" Holliday
Wyatt Earp
Anti-Coolie Clubs
Hamlin Garland
Theodore Roosevelt
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis


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Chapter 18: The Industrial Experiment, 1865-1900

Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Wilbur and Orville Wright
George Westinghouse
Charles Brush
Train Air Brake Description and History
Pullman Sleeping Car
Wealth of Nations
Biography of Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Social Darwinism
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie: Gospel of Wealth
Horatio Alger
Edward Bellamy
Biography of Henry George - 1839-1897
The cases of Daniel McCallum and Gustavus Swift
John D. Rockefeller, 1839-1937
The Standard Oil Trust
J. Pierpont Morgan
James Buchanan Duke
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
Frederick W. Taylor
Strike - 1894 - Editorial Suppress the Rebellion
The Knights of Labor 
Haymarket Square Riot
Governor Peter Altgeld
Samuel Gompers


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Chapter 19: The New Urban Nation, 1865-1910

Migration of African Americans
Immigration To The United States
Mass Transit
The invention of the 2x4: Augustine Deodat Taylor
Chrysler Building
Woolworth Building
Empire State Building
Tenement Houses
William M. Tweed
Vaudeville
John L. Sullivan
James J. Corbett
Knickerbocker Club
Black Baseball Time Line
New York World
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
William Dean Howells
Cult of Domesticity
Gibson Girl
Frederick Law Olmsted
Comstock Law
Women's Christian Temperance Union
The Morrill Act and the Land-Grant Colleges


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Chapter 20: State and Society, 1877-1900

The Gilded Age
James G. Blaine
Roscoe Conkling
History of the Democratic Party
1884 Prohibition Party Platform
Populist Party
Rutherford B. Hayes
B&O Railroad Strike
James A. Garfield
Assassinated by Charles Guiteau in 1881
Chester A. Arthur
Pendleton Civil Service Act
The Election of 1884
James G. Blaine
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
John Wanamaker
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
McKinley Tariff
Sherman Antitrust Act
Dependent Pension Act
Agrarian Revolt
National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
Oliver Hudson Kelley
Munn v. Illinois
Dr. Charles W. Macune
James Baird Weaver
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Jacob Coxey
Pullman Strike
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Clay Frick
Eugene Debs
Richard Olney
John Peter Altgeld
Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust
"Cross of Gold" Speech
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
Gold Standard Act of 1900


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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1889-1916

William James
Lester Frank Ward
Thorstein Veblen
Charles A. Beard
John Dewey
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Women's Trade Union League
Mary Church Terrell
Florence Kelley
Theodore Roosevelt
Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair
Progressivism
Hazen Pingree
Robert La Follette
Charles Evans Hughes
Hiram Johnson
Seventeenth Amendment
Carrie Chapman Catt
Jane Addams
Nineteenth Amendment
Anti-Saloon League
Eighteenth Amendment
Black Niagara Movement
Ida Wells-Barnett
W.E.B. Du Bois
Eugene Debs
William Haywood
Emma Goldman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Margaret Sanger
Rough Riders
Expedition Act
Elkins Act
Gifford Pinchot
Roosevelt and the Trusts
Presidential Campaign of 1912
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson


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Chapter 22: The Experiment in American Empire, 1865-1917

Secretary of State William H. Seward
Seward's Folly
The New Manifest Destiny
Josiah Strong
Anti-Imperialist League
Grover Cleveland
Jane Addams
Samuel Gompers
Andrew Carnegie
Emilio Aguinaldo
William Howard Taft
General Leonard Wood
Platt Amendment
Foraker Act
Secretary of State John Hay
President William Howard Taft
"Open Door" Notes
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
"Boxer Rebellion"
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
The Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal Company
A Departure from the Monroe Doctrine
President Theodore Roosevelt
Lodge Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan
Lansing-Ishii Agreement
 General Victoriano Huerta Gains Control of Mexico
Venustiano Carranza
Francisco "Pancho" Villa


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Chapter 23: Making the World Safe for Democracy: America and World War I, 1914-1920

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
American Neutrality
Central Powers
Triple Entente
President Woodrow Wilson
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan
Lusitania
Robert Lansing
Women's Peace Party
Presidential Election of 1916
Charles Evans Hughes 1910-1916
Zimmermann Telegram
Russian Revolution
George Norris
Jeannette Rankin
World War I
Herbert Hoover
Harry Garfield
Food Administration
William Gibbs McAdoo
Bernard Baruch
Felix Frankfurter
GeorgeFirst World War.com - Who's Who - George Creel Creel
Espionage Act
Sedition Act
Max Eastman
Victor Berger
Eugene Debs
Schenck v. U.S
Abrams v. U.S.
Anti-Saloon League
Volstead Act
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul
Nineteenth Amendment
General John J. Pershing
Belleau Wood
President Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
French Premier Georges Clemenceau
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando
Versailles Treaty
League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
A. Mitchell Palmer
J. Edgar Hoover
Deportation of Emma Goldman
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge


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Chapter 24: The New Era, 1920-1928

Henry Ford
Movies
Charlie Chaplin
Radio
Gene Tunney
Negro Baseball League
William Howard Taft
Sigmund Freud
Flapper Image
League of Women Voters
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Louis Mencken
Franz Boas
Ruth Benedict
Marcus Garvey
A. Philip Randolph
Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong
Archibald Motley, Jr.
Theory of Eugenics
Sacco & Vanzetti Case
Aimee Semple McPherson
"Speakeasies"
Al Capone
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
1924 Election
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Dawes Plan
1928 Election


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Chapter 25: "Fear Itself": Crash, Depression, and the New Deal, 1929-1938

Black Thursday
Dust Bowl
Migration of the Okies
Herbert Hoover
Humanitarian Background
Hoovervilles
FDR
1932 Election
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Fireside Chats
Second Glass-Steagall Banking Act
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Hoover Dam
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Father Charles Coughlin
Dr. Francis E. Townsend
Huey Long
Upton Sinclair
Social Security Act
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Theater Projects
Federal Writers Project
1936 Election
FDRs Court Packing Plan
Keynesian Economic Policy
William Faulkner
John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath
Thomas Hart Benton
Dorothea Lange
Superman
1939 New York Worlds Fair
Joe Louis, The Brown Bomber
Jesse Owens, The Ebony Antelope
Negro Baseball League
Satchel Paige
Josh Gibson
Charlie Chaplin
Ginger Rogers
Frank Capra
Mae West
Golden Age of Radio
Bob Hope
Jack Benny
The Lone Ranger
FDRs Fireside Chats
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
Orson Welles Mercury Theater
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)
Flint UAW Sit Down Strike
Eleanor Roosevelt
Marian Anderson
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Dawes Severalty Act
Frances Perkins
Grace Abbott


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Chapter 26: War and Society, 1933-1945

Jeanette Rankin
Wendell Willkie
Atlantic Charter
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
War Production Board (WPB)
Operation TORCH
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard Montgomery
Erwin Rommel
Casablanca Conference
George Patton
Tehran Conference
Operation Overlord
Battle of the Bulge
Omar Bradley
Harry S. Truman
Holocaust
Yalta Conference
Office of War Information (OWI)
Executive Order 9066
Korematsu v. U.S.
Rosie the Riveter
Executive Order 8802
Battle of the Coral Sea
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battle of Iwo Jima
Enola Gay


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Chapter 27: The Cold War, 1945-1952

Harry Truman
Vyacheslav Molotov
James Byrnes
Atomic Energy Commission
Winston Churchill
"Iron Curtain"
Arthur Vandenberg
George C. Marshall
George Kennan
Truman Doctrine
Communist Information Bureau (Cominform)
Berlin Airlift
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Organization of American States
Warsaw Pact
Taft-Hartley Act
President's Committee on Civil Rights
Executive Order 9981
"Fair Deal"
Mao Zedong
Douglas MacArthur
National Security Council Memorandum 68 (NSC-68)
Syngman Rhee
Dennis v U.S.
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Richard Nixon
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
House Committee on Un-American Activities
Internal Security Act of 1950
Joseph McCarthy


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Chapter 28: The Consumer Society, 1945-1960

Baby Boom
Jonas Salk
William Levitt
Interstate Highway Act
Alan Freed
Antoine "Fats" Domino
C. Wright Mills
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert Taft
Adlai Stevenson
Charles E. Wilson
Submerged Lands Act
John Foster Dulles
Nikita Khrushchev
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Ho Chi Minh
Geneva Accords
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Alfred Kinsey
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sputnik
Fidel Castro
National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
John F. Kennedy


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Chapter 29: Consensus and Confrontation, 1960-1968

John F. Kennedy
McGeorge Bundy
Dean Rusk
Alliance for Progress
Bay of Pigs
Robert Kennedy
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
George Ball
Warren Commission
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Walter Heller
R. Sargent Shriver
Barry Goldwater
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Gideon v. Wainwright
Escobedo v. Illinois
Miranda v. Arizona
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Congress of Racial Equality
Martin Luther King, Jr.
James Meredith
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
William Westmoreland
Counterculture Movement
The Port Huron Statement
Hubert Humphrey
Richard Nixon


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Chapter 30: The Politics of Polarization, 1969-1979

Henry Kissinger
Khmer Rouge
Kent State University
The Pentagon Papers
Le Duc Tho
Paris Peace Accords
Leonid Brezhnev
Zhou Enlai
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
Richard Nixon
Apollo 11
Warren Burger
Spiro Agnew
George McGovern
Watergate
Key Players
Elliot Richardson
Gerald R. Ford
Bakke v. University of California
Milliken v. Bradley
Cesar Chavez
American Indian Movement (AIM)
The Feminine Mystique
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Title IX of the Higher Education Act
"Feminization of Poverty"
War Powers Act
Federal Election Campaign Act
Stagflation
Rachel Carson
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Jimmy Carter
Paul Volcker
Ayatollah Khomeini


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Chapter 31: The Reagan Experiment, 1979-1988

Jerry Falwell
Moral Majority
Arthur Laffer
California Proposition 13
Neoconservatives
Political Action Committees (PAC)
Edward Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
C. Everett Koop
Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
Allan Bloom
Nancy Reagan
James G. Watt
Sandra Day O'Connor
William Rehnquist
Wards Cove v. Atonio
Walter Mondale
Geraldine Ferraro
George Shultz
Jeanne Kirkpatrick
Evil Empire
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestroika
Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
Anastasio Somoza
Boland Amendment
Muammar Qaddafi
Oliver North
Lawrence E. Walsh
John Poindexter
Michael Milken
Hourglass Society


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Chapter 32: America After the Cold War, 1988-2000

George Bush
Robert Dole
Dan Quayle
Michael Dukakis
Jesse Jackson
Lloyd Bentsen
Lech Walesa
Hungary
Velvet Revolution
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Soviet Union
Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Frederik W. de Klerk
Nelson Mandela
Augusto Pinochet
Manuel Noriega
Yitzhak Rabin
Tiananmen Square 
Saddam Hussein
Invasion of Kuwait
President George Bush
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"No New Taxes" Pledge
Americans with Disabilities Act
Exxon Valdez
Rio de Janeiro "Earth Summit"
Clean Air Act 
Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Nomination
Anita Hill
Rodney King
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy
Health Care Proposal
Newt Gingrich
Jack Kemp
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
The President on Trial
Somalia
Oklahoma City Bombing
Slobodan Milosevic
Role of NATO
Weapons Inspection
Steve Wozniak
Communications Decency Act
Child Online Protection Act
Bill Gates
Hip Hop Nation
O.J. Simpson Trial
California Proposition 209
George W. Bush 
Al Gore
USS Cole Attack


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Chapter 33: Epilogue: The Challenges of the New Century

George W. Bush
Colin Powell
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Saddam Hussein
World Trade Center
September 11, 2001
Condoleezza Rice
War against Terrorism
Osama bin Laden
Al Qaeda
Taliban
Ground Zero
“Shock and Awe”
Operation Iraqi Freedom
David Kay
Kyoto Protocol
Strategic Defense Initiative
Ten-Year Tax-Cut Package
Department of Homeland Security
John Ashcroft
“Knowledge Work”
Enron


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