ABOUT BOOK

Overview: This course will survey American history from its colonial origins to the end of the Civil War in 1865.Chapter 1: The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492Chapter 2: Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies,1500–1700Chapter 4: Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763Chapter 5: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774Chapter 6: America's War for Independence, 1775-1783Chapter 7: Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790Chapter 8: Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820Chapter 9: Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840Chapter 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860Chapter 12: Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860Chapter 14: Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850sChapter 15: The Civil War, 1860–1865