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1. How to Read the Textbook
2. How to Read Primary Sources
3. Instructor Resources from OpenStax College
4. PDF and EPUB files
5. Introduction to the Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
6. The Americas
7. Europe on the Brink of Change
8. West Africa and the Role of Slavery
9. Primary Source Reading: A Slave Revolt
10. Primary Source Reading: The Life of Gustavus Vassa
11. Assignment: The Black Atlantic
12. Introduction
13. Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
14. Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
15. Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
16. New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
17. Video: The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
18. Primary Source Reading: Aztec Accounts of the Conquest
19. Primary Source Reading: Vasco De Gama
20. Introduction
21. Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
22. Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
23. English Settlements in America
24. Video: When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America
25. Video: The Natives and the English
26. The Impact of Colonization
27. Primary Source Reading: Jamestown Charter
28. Primary Source Reading: Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation
29. Introduction
30. Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
31. The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
32. An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
33. Great Awakening and Enlightenment
34. Wars for Empire
35. Video: The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening
36. Primary Source Reading: The Social Contract
37. Primary Source Reading: A Treatise on Tolerance
38. Introduction
39. Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
40. The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
41. The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
42. The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
43. Video: Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution
44. Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
45. Primary Source Reading: Common Sense
46. Primary Source Reading: "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"
47. Primary Source Reading: The Declaration of Independence
48. Introduction
49. Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
50. The Early Years of the Revolution
51. War in the South
52. Identity during the American Revolution
53. Video: Who Won the American Revolution?
54. Introduction
55. Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
56. How Much Revolutionary Change?
57. Debating Democracy
58. The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
59. Video: The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
60. Video: Where US Politics Came From
61. Primary Source Reading: The U.S. Constitution
62. Listen: Early American Parties Podcast
63. Assignment: The Constitution
64. Introduction
65. Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
66. The New American Republic
67. Partisan Politics
68. Video: Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy
69. The United States Goes Back to War
70. Video: The War of 1812
71. Primary Source Reading: The Alien and Sedition Acts
72. Primary Source Reading: The Star-Spangled Banner
73. Introduction
74. Early Industrialization in the Northeast
75. Video: The Market Revolution
76. A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
77. On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
78. A New Social Order: Class Divisions
79. Primary Source Reading: The Mercantile System
80. Primary Source Reading: Lowell Mill Girls
81. Primary Source Reading: The Life of the Industrial Worker
82. Primary Source Reading: Irish Immigration
83. Extra Credit Assignments
84. Introduction
85. A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
86. The Rise of American Democracy
87. The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
88. Video: Age of Jackson
89. Indian Removal
90. The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
91. Primary Source Reading: "An Address to the Whites"
92. Primary Source Reading: Speech to Congress on India Removal
93. Primary Source Reading: Jackson and the Bank of the U.S.
94. Introduction
95. Lewis and Clark
96. The Missouri Crisis
97. Independence for Texas
98. The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
99. Video: War & Expansion
100. Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
101. Primary Source Reading: The Great Nation of Futurity
102. Introduction
103. The Economics of Cotton
104. African Americans in the Antebellum United States
105. Video: Slavery
106. Wealth and Culture in the South
107. The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
108. Primary Source Reading: Twelve Years a Slave
109. Primary Source Reading: Fredrick Douglass
110. Primary Source Reading: John Calhoun on Slavery
111. Primary Source Reading: The Life of Plantation Field Hands
112. Introduction
113. An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
114. Video: 19th Century Reforms
115. Antebellum Communal Experiments
116. Reforms to Human Health
117. Addressing Slavery
118. Women’s Rights
119. Video: Women in the 19th Century
120. Primary Source Reading: The Declaration of Sentiments
121. Primary Source Reading: The Liberator
122. Primary Source Reading: Henry Box Brown
123. Primary Source Reading: Letter from Anthony Burns to the Baptist Church
124. Introduction
125. The Compromise of 1850
126. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
127. John Brown and the Election of 1860
128. Video: The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion
129. The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
130. Introduction
131. The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
132. Early Mobilization and War
133. Video: Battles of the Civil War
134. 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
135. The Union Triumphant
136. Videos: The Civil War
137. Primary Source Reading: The Emancipation Proclamation
138. Primary Source Reading: Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
139. Primary Source Reading: Stephens' Cornerstone Address
140. Course Project
141. Introduction
142. Restoring the Union
143. Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
144. Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
145. The Collapse of Reconstruction
146. Video: Reconstruction and 1876
147. The Declaration of Independence
148. The Constitution of the United States
149. Presidents of the United States of America
150. U.S. Political Map
151. U.S. Topographical Map
152. United States Population Chart
153. Further Reading
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