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1. Overview of Instructor Resources
2. Instructor Resources from Openstax College
3. Introduction to Reconstruction
4. Politics of Reconstruction
5. The Meaning of Black Freedom
6. Reconstruction and Women
7. Racial Violence in Reconstruction
8. Economic Development during the Civil War and Reconstruction
9. The End of Reconstruction
10. Video: Reconstruction and 1876
11. Conclusion
12. Primary Source Reading: Atlanta Compromise Speech
13. Primary Source Reading: Souls of Black Folk
14. Primary Source Reading: Black Codes
15. Introduction
16. Industrialization and Technological Innovation
17. Video: The Industrial Economy
18. Immigration and Urbanization
19. Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration
20. The New South and the Problem of Race
21. Gender, Religion, Culture
22. Conclusion
23. Primary Source Reading: The Gospel of Wealth
24. Introduction
25. Post–Civil War Westward Migration
26. Video: Westward Expansion
27. The Indian Wars and Federal Peace Policies
28. Western Economic Expansion: Railroads and Cattle
29. The Allotment Era and Resistance in the Native West
30. Rodeos, Wild West Shows, and the Mythic American West
31. The West as History: The Turner Thesis
32. Introduction
33. The March of Capital
34. The Rise of Inequality
35. The Labor Movement
36. The Populist Movement
37. William Jennings Bryan and the Politics of Gold
38. Video: Gilded Age Politics
39. Early Twentieth-Century Socialism
40. Conclusion
41. Slideshow: Populism and the Wizard of Oz
42. Introduction
43. Video: American Imperialism
44. 1898
45. Video: Progressive Presidents
46. Theodore Roosevelt and American Imperialism
47. Women and Imperialism
48. Immigration
49. Patterns of American Interventions
50. Conclusion
51. Primary Source Reading: White Man's Burden
52. Introduction
53. Video: The Progressive Era
54. Mobilizing for Reform
55. Women's Movements
56. Video: Women's Suffrage
57. Targeting the Trusts
58. Progressive Environmentalism
59. Jim Crow and African American Life
60. Conclusion
61. Primary Source Reading: How the Other Half Lives
62. Primary Source Reading: The Jungle
63. World War I and Its Aftermath
64. Video: America in World War I
65. Prelude to War
66. War Spreads through Europe
67. America Enters the War
68. On the Homefront
69. Before the Armistice
70. The War and the Influenza Pandemic
71. The Fourteen Points and the League of Nations
72. Aftermath of World War I
73. Conclusion
74. Introduction
75. Video: The Roaring 20s
76. Republican White House, 1921–1933
77. Culture of Consumption
78. Culture of Escape
79. "The New Woman"
80. "The New Negro"
81. Culture War
82. Fundamentalist Christianity
83. Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
84. Conclusion
85. Primary Source Reading: Hobson Argues for Prohibition
86. Primary Source Reading: A Glimpse behind the Mask of Prohibition
87. Introduction
88. Video: The Great Depression
89. The Origins of the Great Depression
90. Herbert Hoover and the Politics of the Depression
91. The Bonus Army
92. The Lived Experience of the Great Depression
93. Migration and Immigration during the Great Depression
94. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the "First" New Deal
95. The New Deal in the South
96. Video: The New Deal
97. The New Deal of Appalachia
98. Voices of Protest
99. The “Second” New Deal (1935–1936)
100. Equal Rights and the New Deal
101. The End of the New Deal (1937–1939)
102. The Legacy of the New Deal
103. Primary Source Reading: Greater Security for the Average Man
104. Primary Source Reading: Herbert Hoover on Liberty
105. Introduction
106. Videos: World War II
107. The Origins of the Pacific War
108. The Origins of the European War
109. The United States and the European War
110. The United States and the Japanese War
111. Soldiers' Experiences
112. The Wartime Economy
113. Women and World War II
114. Race and World War II
115. Toward a Postwar World
116. Conclusion
117. Primary Source Reading: Nazi Party Platform
118. Propaganda Cartoons
119. Primary Source Reading: Eisenhower's Farewell
120. View: Maps
121. The Cold War
122. Videos: The Cold War
123. Political, Economic, and Military Dimensions
124. The Arms Buildup, the Space Race, and Technological Advancement
125. The Cold War Red Scare, McCarthyism, and Liberal Anti-Communism
126. Decolonization and the Global Reach of the ‘American Century’
127. Conclusion
128. Introduction
129. The Rise of Suburbs
130. Race and Education
131. Civil Rights in an Affluent Society
132. Video: Civil Rights and the 1950s
133. Gender and Culture in the Affluent Society
134. Political and Ideology in the Affluent Society
135. Conclusion
136. The Sixties
137. Video: The 1960s in America
138. The Civil Rights Movement Continues
139. Beyond Civil Rights
140. Culture and Activism
141. Politics and Policy
142. Foreign Affairs
143. Conclusion
144. Introduction
145. Vietnam
146. The Politics of Love, Sex, and Gender
147. Race and Social and Cultural Anxieties
148. Deindustrialization and the Rise of the Sunbelt
149. Video: The Rise of Conservatism
150. Nixon
151. Carter
152. Video: Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
153. Conclusion
154. Primary Source Reading: The Black Panther Party Platform
155. Introduction
156. Conservative Ascendance
157. The Conservatism of Carter Years
158. The Election of 1980
159. The New Right in Power
160. Morning in America
161. African American Life in Reagan's America
162. Bad Times and Good Times
163. Culture Wars of the 1980s
164. The New Right Abroad
165. Video: The Reagan Revolution
166. Conclusion
167. Primary Source Reading: Ronald Reagan "A Time for Choosing"
168. Introduction
169. Video: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
170. Video: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
171. American Politics from George H.W. Bush to September 11, 2001
172. September 11 and the War on Terror
173. Video: Terrorism, War, and Bush
174. The End of the Bush Years
175. The Great Recession
176. The Obama Presidency
177. Video: Obamanation
178. New Horizons
179. Conclusion
180. The Declaration of Independence
181. The Constitution
182. Presidents of the United States of America
183. U.S. Political Map
184. U.S. Topographical Map
185. Further Reading
Here’s the blank pre-WWI map and the global map that will be used on this unit test.
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