Part One The Colonial Period ( 1607 - 1776) Sedion A Texts I. The European Explorers II. The British Colonies Section B Supplementary Readings Passage One Native Americans and Europeans Passage Two Why Did They Come to America? Passage Three Life in Colonial America Passage Four The Evolution of Thanksgiving Section C Exercises Part Two The Revolutionary Period (1763 -1789) Section A Texts I. Conflict Between the American Colonies and the Mother Country II. War for Independence III. The New Constitution and Government Section B Supplementary Readings Passage One A Century of Imperial War Passage Two The Issue of Representation Passage Three Thomas Paine Passage Four James Madison s Contribution to the Constitution Passage Five The Independence Hall Section C Exercises Part Three The Young Republic ( 1790 - 1828) Section A Texts I. The washington Administration II. The John Adams Administration I!1. The Jefferson Administration IV. The Madison Administration V. The James Monroe Administration VI. The John Quincy Adams Administration Section B Supplementary Readings Passage One Alexander Hamilton and Finance in the Washington Administration Passage Two The Louisiana Purchase Passage Three Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase Passage Four The Monroe Doctrine Section C Exercises Part Four Western Expansion and Reform (1829 -1859) Section A Texts I. The Jackson Administration II. Manifest Destiny and the Mexican American War II1. The Gold Rush IV. Movement to the West V. Reform VI. Slavery and the Drift Toward the Civil War Section B Supplementary Readings Passage One The Early Banking System Passage Two The Indian Removal Act of 1830 Passage Three The Underground Railroad Passage Four Harriet Tubman Passage Five Elizabeth Cady Stanton Passage Six Horace Mann Section C Exercises Part Five The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860 -1877) Section A Texts I. The Civil War II. Reconstruction Section B Supplementary Readings Passage One First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Passage Two The Gettysburg Address Passage Three Freedmen s Bureau Passage Four Ku Klux Klan Passage Five General Robert E. Lee Section C Exercises Part Six The Gilded Age (1865 -1900) Section A Texts I. Industrialization II. Urbanization III. Immigration IV. The Rise of U. S. Imperialism Section B Supplementary Readings Passage One Immigration in the United States Passage Two Tenements Passage Three Rockefeller and Standard Oil —— Rags to Riches Passage Four Yellow Journalism Passage Five Joseph Pulitzer Section C Exercises Part Seven The Progressive Era and World War I (1890 -1917) Section A Texts I. The Progressive Movement II. World War I III. The End of the Progressive Agenda Section B Supplementary Readings Passage One Jane Addams Passage Two The Spoils System Versus the Merit System Passage Three American Life at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Passage Four Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation ;Passage Five World War I on the Home Front Passage Six The,F(xiàn)ederal Reserve System Section C Exercises Part Eight Prosperity and Depression ( 1918 - 1933) section A Texts I. Prosperity: the Roaring Twenties II. The Great Depression Section B Supplementary Readings Passage One Henry Ford Passage Two Prohibition Passage Three F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream Passage Four Herbert Hoover Section C Exercises Part Nine The New Deal and World War 11 (1933 -1945) Sedion A Texts I. The New Deal II. World War II Section B Supplementary Readings Passage One Social Security in the United States Passage Two Isolationism Passge Three The Cruel Injustice of Japanese Internment: Camp Harmony Passage Four The Dust Storm: Mass Exodus from the Plains Sedion C Exercises Part Ten The Modern Era (1946 - present) Sedion A Texts I. The United States in the 1950s II. The United States in the 1960s III. The United States in the 1970s IV. The United States from 1980 to 2000 V. The United States Enters the 21st Century Section B Supplementary Readings Passage One The Truman Doctrine Passage Two I Have a Dream Passage Three Rosa Parks Passage Four Malcom X Section C Exercises Appendixes Appendix I: Map of the United States Appendix II: Outstanding Events in American History Appendix m: Historical Documents Bibliography