US History Handbook

The Handbook of US History learn about the time Europeans first discovered North America until the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. They examine the reasons the Europeans desired to leave their homelands in search of a new land. The settlers’ encounters with the Native Americans are discussed along with the conflicts that arise with the arrival of the colonists in the New World. Table of Content 1. Ancient America Before 1492 2. European Encounters with the New World 3. Britain and the Settling of the Colonies. 1600-1750 4. Expansion of the Colonies. 1650-1750 5. The Colonial Crisis. 1750-1775 6. The American Revolution. 1775-1783 7. Founding a Nation. 1783-1789 8. The Federalist Era. 1789-1801 9. Securing the Republic. 1800-1815 10. Democracy in America. 1815-1840 11. The Market Revolution. 1815-1840 12. Religion, Romanticism, and Cultural Reform. 1820-1860 13. The Westward Movement and Manifest Destiny. 1812-1860 14. Slavery in the Antebellum U.S.. 1820-1840 15. A House Dividing. 1840-1861 16. The Civil War. 1861-1865 17. Reconstruction. 1865-1877 18. The Gilded Age. 1870-1900 19. The Progressive Era. 1890-1917 20. World War I. 1914-1919 21. The Roaring Twenties. 1920-1929 22. The New Deal. 1933-1940 23. From Isolation to World War II. 1930-1945 24. The Cold War 25. Politics and Culture of Abundance. 1943-1960 26. The Sixties. 1960-1969 27. The Conservative Turn of America. 1968-1989 28. Bush, Clinton, and a Changing World 29. America in the 21st Century Credits : Readium Project is a true open-source project, permissively licensed under the 3-part BSD license.