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- The Declaration of Independence
- Slavery and the Missouri Compromise
- Increasing political battles over slavery in the mid-1800s
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- The Gettysburg Address - setting and context
- The Gettysburg Address - full text and analysis
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- The origins of Jim Crow - introduction
- Origins of Jim Crow - the Black Codes and Reconstruction
- Origins of Jim Crow - the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
- Origins of Jim Crow - Compromise of 1877 and Plessy v. Ferguson
- Plessy v. Ferguson
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- Native American societies before contact
- Early English settlements - Jamestown
- Jamestown - John Smith and Pocahontas
- Jamestown - the impact of tobacco
- Jamestown - life and labor in the Chesapeake
- The West Indies and the Southern colonies
- Society and religion in the New England colonies
- The Middle colonies
- Manifest Destiny: causes and effects of westward expansion
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- Native American culture of the West
- Native American culture of the Southwest
- Native American culture of the Northeast
- Native American culture of the Southeast
- Native American culture of the Plains
- Lesson summary: Chesapeake and Southern colonies
- Puritan New England: Plymouth
- Puritan New England: Massachusetts Bay
- Lesson summary: New England and Middle colonies
- The Navigation Acts
- Manifest Destiny
- Stagflation and the oil crisis
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- Early colonization projects
- Movement in the early republic
- Westward expansion: economic development
- Westward expansion: social and cultural development
- Immigration and migration in the Gilded Age
- Responses to immigration in the Gilded Age
- World War I: homefront
- 1920s: cultural and political controversies
- Economy from 1945 to 1960
- The Great Society
- Migration and immigration in the 1990s and 2000s
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- French and Dutch colonization
- England in the Age of Exploration
- Motivations for English colonization
- The Lost Colony of Roanoke - background and first attempts
- The Lost Colony of Roanoke - settlement and disappearance
- Westward expansion: social and cultural development
- Immigration and migration in the Gilded Age
- Misunderstanding evolution: a historian's perspective on Social Darwinism
- Misunderstanding evolution: a biologist's perspective on Social Darwinism
- World War I: Homefront
- 1920s urbanization and immigration
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- French and Dutch exploration in the New World
- Lesson summary: French and Dutch colonization
- Westward expansion: economic development
- The Homestead Act and the exodusters
- Chinese immigrants and Mexican Americans in the age of westward expansion
- The reservation system
- The Dawes Act
- The Indian Wars and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee
- America moves to the city
- Social Darwinism in the Gilded Age
- The United States in World War I
- The reemergence of the KKK
- Republican ascendancy: politics in the 1920s
- The presidency of Calvin Coolidge
- The GI Bill
- African Americans, women, and the GI Bill
- The growth of suburbia
- The dark side of suburbia
- The presidency of Bill Clinton
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- Articles of Confederation
- The Constitutional Convention and debates over ratification
- Constitution
- Shaping a new republic
- The rise of political parties and the era of Jefferson
- Politics and regional interests
- Expanding democracy
- Jackson and federal power
- Failure of compromise
- Election of 1860 and secession
- Reconstruction
- Politics in the Gilded Age
- The Progressives
- The New Deal
- The Great Society
- The African American Civil Rights Movement, 1960s
- Society in transition
- Reagan and conservatism
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- The Articles of Confederation
- The Constitutional Convention
- Constitutional compromises: The Electoral College
- Constitutional compromises: The Three-Fifths Compromise
- The US Constitution
- Jacksonian Democracy - background and introduction
- Jacksonian Democracy - the "corrupt bargain" and the election of 1824
- Jacksonian Democracy - mudslinging and the election of 1828
- Jacksonian Democracy - spoils system, Bank War, and Trail of Tears
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Start of the Civil War - secession and Fort Sumter
- An overview and the 13th Amendment
- The 14th Amendment
- The 15th Amendment
- The Progressives
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- Shays's Rebellion
- Challenges of the Articles of Confederation
- The Constitutional Convention
- The Federalist Papers
- The Bill of Rights
- The presidency of George Washington
- The presidency of John Adams
- Shaping a new republic: lesson overview
- Jefferson's presidency and the turn of the nineteenth century
- The election of 1800
- The War of 1812
- The Louisiana Purchase and its exploration
- The presidency of John Quincy Adams
- Indian Removal
- The presidency of Andrew Jackson
- The Nullification crisis
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act and party realignment
- Black Codes
- The First KKK
- The Freedmen's Bureau
- The Compromise of 1877
- The Compromise of 1877
- The Populists
- The Progressive Era
- Muckrakers
- The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- The Nineteenth Amendment
- FDR and the Great Depression
- The New Deal
- John F. Kennedy as president
- Lyndon Johnson as president
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Richard Nixon as president
- Watergate
- The presidency of Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan: Election and domestic policies
- Emergence of the AIDS crisis
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- Articles of Confederation
- The Constitutional Convention and debates over ratification
- Constitution
- Shaping a new republic
- The rise of political parties and the era of Jefferson
- Politics and regional interests
- Expanding democracy
- Jackson and federal power
- The Progressives
- The New Deal
- The Great Society
- The African American Civil Rights Movement, 1960s
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- Old and new worlds collide
- Spanish colonization
- Seven Years' War (the French and Indian War)
- Taxation without representation
- The American Revolution
- Social consequences of revolutionary ideals
- Shaping a new republic
- America on the world stage
- Mexican-American War
- Military conflict in the Civil War
- Imperialism: debates
- Spanish-American War
- World War I: military and diplomacy
- Interwar foreign policy
- World War II: military
- Postwar diplomacy
- The Cold War, 1945-1980
- America as a world power
- Vietnam War
- The end of the Cold War
- Challenges of the 21st century
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- Origins of European exploration in the Americas
- Christopher Columbus
- Consequences of Columbus's voyage on the Tainos and Europe
- Comparing European and Native American cultures
- Politics and native relations in the New England colonies
- The Seven Years' War: background and combatants
- The Seven Years' War: battles and legacy
- Latin American independence movements
- The Monroe Doctrine
- Strategy of the Civil War
- Early phases of Civil War and Antietam
- Significance of the battle of Antietam
- The battle of Gettysburg
- Later stages of the Civil War - 1863
- Later stages of the Civil War - the election of 1864 and Sherman's March
- Later stages of the Civil War - Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination
- The age of empire
- Blockades, u-boats and sinking of the Lusitania
- Zimmermann Telegram
- United States enters World War I
- Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
- Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles
- More detail on the Treaty of Versailles and Germany
- Beginning of World War II
- 1940 - Axis gains momentum in World War II
- 1941 Axis momentum accelerates in WW2
- 1942 Tide turning in World War II in Europe
- World War II in the Pacific in 1942
- 1943 Axis losing in Europe
- American progress in the Pacific in 1944
- 1944 - Allies advance further in Europe
- 1945 - End of World War II
- Origins of the Cold War
- Korean War overview
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Vietnam War
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- Motivation for European conquest of the New World
- Pueblo uprising of 1680
- Pontiac's uprising
- Seven Years' War: lesson overview
- The Townshend Acts and the committees of correspondence
- Uproar over the Stamp Act
- The Boston Massacre
- The Boston Tea Party
- The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress
- Taxation without representation: lesson overview
- Lexington and Concord
- The American Revolution: lesson overview
- Shaping a new republic: lesson overview
- Annexing Texas
- The Spanish-American War
- The presidency of Woodrow Wilson
- The Treaty of Versailles
- The League of Nations
- Pearl Harbor
- The Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb
- The United Nations
- Start of the Cold War - The Yalta Conference and containment
- Start of the Cold War - The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
- Start of the Cold War - The Berlin airlift and the creation of NATO
- The Korean War
- Atomic fears and the arms race
- The start of the Space Race
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Vietnam War
- Ronald Reagan: Foreign policy
- The Iran-Contra affair
- The Gulf War
- The election of 2000
- The presidency of George W. Bush
- September 11th
- The Great Recession
- The presidency of Barack Obama
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- Seven Years' War
- Taxation without representation
- The American Revolution
- Social consequences of revolutionary ideals
- Shaping a new republic
- America on the world stage
- Imperialism: debates
- Spanish-American War
- World War I: military & diplomacy
- Interwar foreign policy
- World War II: military
- Postwar diplomacy
- The Cold War (1945-1980)
- America as a world power
- Vietnam War
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- The Second Great Awakening - origins and major ideas
- The Second Great Awakening - influence of the Market Revolution
- The Second Great Awakening - reform and religious movements
- The early temperance movement - origins
- The early temperance movement - spread and temporary decline
- Sectional conflict: Regional differences
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- Old and new worlds collide
- Spanish colonization
- Social consequences of revolutionary ideals
- Movement in the early republic
- Market Revolution: society and culture
- African Americans in the early republic
- Sectional conflict: regional differences
- Development of the middle class
- World War II: mobilization
- Early steps in the civil rights movement, 1940s and 1950s
- The African American Civil Rights Movement, 1960s
- The Civil Rights Movement expands
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- The Columbian Exchange
- Spanish colonization
- Social consequences of revolutionary ideals
- Regional attitudes about slavery, 1754-1800
- The Market Revolution - impact and significance
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - influence of the Fugitive Slave Act
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - plot and analysis
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - reception and significance
- Sectional conflict: Regional differences
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- African societies and the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade
- The Columbian Exchange
- Environmental and health effects of European contact with the New World
- Lesson summary: The Columbian Exchange
- The Spanish conquistadores and colonial empire
- Lesson summary: The Spanish empire
- Women in the American Revolution
- Irish and German immigration
- Women's labor
- The slave economy
- Life for enslaved men and women
- Development of the middle class
- FDR and World War II
- Japanese internment
- American women and World War II
- The Eisenhower era
- Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement
- African American veterans and the Civil Rights Movement
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
- Emmett Till
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- "Massive Resistance" and the Little Rock Nine
- The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- SNCC and CORE
- Black Power
- Second-wave feminism
- Liberation movements of the 1970s
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- The Columbian Exchange
- The Spanish empire
- Social consequences of revolutionary ideals
- Movement in the early republic
- Market Revolution: society and culture
- African Americans in the early republic
- World War II: mobilization
- Early steps in the civil rights movement, 1940s and 1950s
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