AP United States History
America, Past & Present
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Chapter 1 New World Encounters
During the sixteenth century the Spanish, French, and English
explored the Americas,
displaced Native American cultures, and established colonies in the Western Hemisphere. These changes forced both cultures to
adapt and change, though Native American cultures often suffered the most in
these early exchanges.
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Chapter 2 England's
Colonial Experiments
In the seventeenth century, different and sometimes
disparate groups of English settlers established several colonies in North America. The English way of colonization differed
from that of the Spanish in that English colonization did not emanate from a
desire to create a centralized empire in the New World.
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Chapter 3 Putting Down
Roots
The character of the early English settlements
varied because of regional factors. A common language and heritage helped pull
English American settlers together, however. By the 1690s, Parliament began to
establish a uniform set of rules for an expanding American empire, bringing the
colonies into closer contact with the “motherland.”
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Chapter 4 Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth Century America
Eighteenth-century Americans, living in closer
contact than their ancestors with the mother country, were in many ways torn
between two cultures. Despite their increased contact with and influence by England, the
colonists also began to develop a distinctly American culture as well. Few
societies in history have expanded in population as rapidly as colonial America in the
eighteenth century.
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Chapter 5 The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular
Revolt, 1763-83
Between 1763 and 1783, Americans increasingly
rebelled against English rule, declared independence, and finally won the
military struggle against the British, establishing the United States of America.
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Chapter 6 The Republican Experiment
After the Revolution, Americans tried to construct
practicing governments based on republican principles.
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Chapter 7 Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics,
1788-1800
A debate in the first United States Senate in 1789
over what title to use when addressing George Washington as president revealed
the range of political questions to be considered by early politicians, and
perhaps foreshadowed later attitudes adopted by rival groups over the proper
roles and powers of the new government.
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Chapter 8 Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision
Jeffersonian democrats theoretically declared their
passion for liberty and equality. Nonetheless, they lived in a society whose
members accepted slavery and sought to remove Native Americans from the path of
the White man's progress. Jeffersonians also insisted upon a strict
interpretation of the constitution, peaceful foreign relations, and reduction
of the size and powers of the federal government. As president, however,
Jefferson interpreted the Constitution broadly to accommodate the Louisiana Purchase, increased federal power to enforce
the embargo of 1807, and led the country to the brink of war. Some Americans
praised Jefferson's pragmatism; others felt betrayed.
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Chapter 9 Nation
Building and Nationalism
A great surge of westward expansion and economic
development, accompanied by soaring nationalist fervor, characterized the United States
after the War of 1812. Marquis de Lafayette’s return to the United States
in 1824 facilitated widespread support for his tour of the nation, he had
helped win independence. His declarations praising the young nation’s success
further fed nationalist sentiment.
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Chapter 10 The Triumph Of White Men’s Democracy
The 1820s and 1830s
witnessed the rise of popular democracy and a swelling of national political
involvement. European visitors were amazed at the equalizing tendencies that
were exposed in American legal institutions, clerical professions, and public
spaces. Specifically, hotels epitomized a new institution that oftentimes
blurred social distinctions. At the same time, hotels revealed the limitations
of American democracy: African Americans, Native Americans, and women were
generally denied service—just as they were the denied the right to vote.
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Chapter 11 Slaves and Masters
In the South in the
first half of the nineteenth century, an elite group of Whites dominated the
society and made profits on the labor of Black slaves, who nonetheless were
able to develop a rich culture of their own.
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Chapter 12 The Pursuit Of Perfection
Social and economic
upheaval in the early nineteenth century resulted in religious fervor, moral
reform, and sometimes confusion that divided communities and undermined
established institutions. Abolitionism, one of the most prominent reform
movements of the era, challenged the central facet of southern society and
contributed to political conflict and eventually civil war.
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Chapter 13 An Age Of Expansionism
A popular mood known
as “Young America” emerged in the 1840s. Its adherents brashly promoted
territorial and economic expansion and development of the United States,
but displayed little concern or awareness of the practical consequences of such
actions.
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Chapter 14 The Sectional Crisis
The caning of Senator
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts
by Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina demonstrated the growing
sectional conflict of the 1850s and foreshadowed the violence on the
battlefield between armies of the North and the South.
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Chapter 15 Secession And The Civil War
Lincoln
effectively guided the Union through the Civil
War by inspiring Northerners with his conviction that the struggle would be
won. The war tested the American ideal of democracy and was a defense of
political liberalism at a time when much of Europe
had rejected it. It was also the first tentative step toward racial equality.
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Chapter 16 The Agony Of Reconstruction
After the Civil War,
the South and the nation as a whole faced a difficult period of rebuilding its
government and economy and of dealing with the newly freed African Americans.
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Chapter 17 The West: Exploiting An Empire
After the Civil War,
Americans, who believed expansion was their “manifest destiny,” began moving
westward across the continent, subduing the Native Americans through various
means, creating a North American empire.
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Chapter 18 The Industrial Society
By their centennial of
1876, Americans were rapidly developing their society. Most important in this
development was an increase in industrialism and the effects of that
industrialism on American culture and society.
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Chapter 19 Toward An Urban Society, 1877-1900
The development of
American cities radically altered the nation's social environment and problems.
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Chapter 20 Political Realignments In The 1890s
Economic depression
dominated the 1890s and reshaped political alignments and attitudes.
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Chapter 21 Toward Empire
As the American
frontier “closed,” many in America
pushed for new frontiers of an empire for exploration, settlement, and new
markets.
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Chapter 22 The Progressive Era
In late
1902, writers for McClure's Magazine introduced a new type of journalism, investigating and
exposing the problems caused by rapid industrialization and urbanization. These
journalists, dubbed “muckrakers” by Theodore Roosevelt, contributed to a broad
reform movement called “progressivism.” From the mid-1890s through World War I,
progressives challenged the status quo and sought changes in the nation’s
society, politics, economy, culture, and environment.
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Chapter 23 From Roosevelt To Wilson
In The Age Of Progressivism
Presidents Roosevelt,
Taft, and Wilson all espoused the progressive spirit of reform in the
legislation that they championed and in their view of the federal government’s
role in the life of the nation. Despite trying to continue with Roosevelt’s basic policies and directions, Taft’s
presidency was far from smooth, and a bitter rift developed between the two men
and within their party opening the door for Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
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Chapter 24 The Nation At War
In
1915, the British steamship Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine off the
coast of Ireland
with 1,200 fatalities, horrifying Americans. The tragedy embroiled the United States more deeply in the European
crisis, and despite Wilson’s commitment to peace
and neutrality, America
went to war in 1917.
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Chapter 25 Transition to Modern America
The 1920s were marked
by rapid economic and urban growth as well as rapid social change, inspiring
tensions as rural America
resisted many of these far-reaching changes.
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Chapter 26 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
After a great rise in
the stock market, the 1929 crash brought about an economic depression, which
had to be dealt with first by Hoover, and then, more successfully, by Franklin
Delano Roosevelt.
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Chapter 27 America
and the World, 1921-1945
Refusing to assume an
important role in world affairs after the end of World War I, the United States
became more and more isolationist throughout the 1920s. In the 1930s, as
conflict brewed in Europe and Asia, the United States’ commitment to
isolationism grew deeper until 1941 when Nazism and Japanese imperialism forced
a foreign policy reversal and entrance into the second World War. At the
conclusion of World War II, the United
States remained highly involved in world
affairs and took a leading role in maintaining world order.
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Chapter 28 The Onset of the Cold War
Postwar antagonism
gradually led the United States
and the Soviet Union into the Cold War. The
contrasts between the countries were dramatically represented in their
leaders—Truman, who believed in the innate goodness of America, and Stalin, the hard-headed realist who
was determined to protect Russia’s
wartime conquests.
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Chapter 29 Affluence and Anxiety
In
postwar America, new affluence replaced the poverty and hunger of the Great
Depression, and people flocked to suburbs like Levittown to escape the city and
to raise their growing families. International events and the possibility of
nuclear war contributed to increasing feelings of anxiety among the populace.
The 1950s also saw the beginning of African Americans’ push for equality in the
face of the nation’s growing affluence.
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Chapter 30
The Turbulent Sixties
The 1960s was an era of angry
protests, violent demonstrations, and sweeping social change. Under both
Kennedy and Johnson, significant domestic reforms occurred while the continued
American involvement in Vietnam led to escalation and eventually stalemate.
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Chapter 31 To
A New Conservatism,
1969-1988
The Nixon administration's inordinate
fear of political enemies led to numerous illegal activities by Republican
officials and campaign supporters, including plans to break into the Democratic
national headquarters in the Watergate building.
In 1980 Ronald Reagan capitalized on
suburban middle-class resentment against increased taxes, welfare expenditures,
and government regulation and emerged as the perfect Republican candidate.
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Chapter 32 To
The 21st Century, 1989-2006
The United States in the 1990s was
characterized by a growing economy, changing demographics, and new foreign
policy concerns. The nineties saw an economic boom that emerged from increased
consumption and consumer confidence as well as technological innovations that
made higher productivity possible without causing inflation. Even so, 2001
brought about a significant economic downturn and loss of jobs. While the
American population continued to shift toward the Sunbelt, the growing ethnic
diversity caused by an influx of immigrants from Latin America made many
Americans anxious. With the tragic events of
September 11, 2001, the threat of
international terrorism emerged as the primary national concern.
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