Loading
102 lessons across 9 topics
Causation in Period 1
Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
Contextualizing Period 1
Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
European Exploration in the Americas
Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
Native American Societies Before European Contact
Contextualizing Period 3
Continuity and Change in Period 3
Developing an American Identity
Movement in the Early Republic
Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution
Shaping a New Republic
Taxation Without Representation
The American Revolution
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War)
African Americans in the Early Republic
America on the World Stage
An Age of Reform
Causation in Period 4
Contextualizing Period 4
Expanding Democracy
Jackson and Federal Power
Market Revolution: Industrialization
Market Revolution: Society and Culture
Politics and Regional Interests
The Development of an American Culture
The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson
The Second Great Awakening
The Society of the South in the Early Republic
Comparison in Period 5
Contextualizing Period 5
Election of 1860 and Secession
Failure of Compromise
Failure of Reconstruction
Government Policies During the Civil War
Manifest Destiny
Military Conflict in the Civil War
Reconstruction
Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
The Compromise of 1850
The Mexican–American War
Contextualizing Period 6
Continuity and Change in Period 6
Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age
Development of the Middle Class
Labor in the Gilded Age
Politics in the Gilded Age
Reform in the Gilded Age
Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
Technological Innovation
The "New South"
The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
Westward Expansion: Economic Development
Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development
1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies
1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology
Comparison in Period 7
Contextualizing Period 7
Imperialism: Debates
Interwar Foreign Policy
Postwar Diplomacy
The Great Depression
The New Deal
The Progressives
The Spanish–American War
World War I: Home Front
World War I: Military and Diplomacy
World War II: Military
World War II: Mobilization
America as a World Power
Contextualizing Period 8
Continuity and Change in Period 8
Culture after 1945
Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)
Economy after 1945
Society in Transition
The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)
The Civil Rights Movement Expands
The Cold War from 1945 to 1980
The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980
The Great Society
The Red Scare
The Vietnam War
Youth Culture of the 1960s