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America's History: for the AP® Course
Preparing for the AP® U. S. History ExamNinth Edition ©2018
America’s History for the AP® Course offers a thematic approach paired with skills-oriented pedagogy to help students succeed in the redesigned AP® U.S. History course. Known for its attention to AP® themes and content, the new edition features a nine part structure that closely aligns with...
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Current interpretations for the new AP® course.
America’s History for the AP® Course offers a thematic approach paired with skills-oriented pedagogy to help students succeed in the redesigned AP® U.S. History course. Known for its attention to AP® themes and content, the new edition features a nine part structure that closely aligns with the chronology of the AP® U.S. History course, with every chapter and part ending with AP®-style practice questions. With a wealth of supporting resources, America’s History for the AP® Course gives teachers and students the tools they need to master the course and achieve success on the AP® exam.
"America’s History offers teachers well-organized units, a document set that is full of variety, and thematic introductions that provide the "big picture." Its thematic approach helps students see change and continuity over time."
—Caren Saunders, Kent County High School, MD"America’s History is a college level textbook that does a really thorough job of covering U.S. history as it will be addressed on the new AP exam. This is an excellent textbook for students with real AP level skills.”
—Louisa Bond Moffitt, Marist School, GA“America’s History is a well-conceived text that follows the deep cause-and-effect logic of events and is a great source for teaching historical thinking.”
—Timothy R. Mahoney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Table of Contents
PART 1 Transformations of North America, 1491–1700
CHAPTER 1
Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600
The Native American Experience
The First Americans
American Empires
Chiefdoms and Confederacies
Patterns of Trade
Sacred Power
Western Europe: The Edge of the Old World
Hierarchy and Authority
Peasant Society
Expanding Trade Networks
Myths, Religions, and Holy Warriors
West and Central Africa: Origins of the Atlantic Slave
Trade
Empires, Kingdoms, and Ministates
Trans-Saharan and Coastal Trade
The Spirit World
Exploration and Conquest
Portuguese Expansion
The African Slave Trade
Sixteenth-Century Incursions
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Altered Landscapes
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
How Connected Were Native American Communities
Before 1492?
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Colliding Cultures
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
A Spanish Priest Criticizes His Fellow Colonists
CHAPTER 1 REVIEW
CHAPTER 1 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 2
American Experiments, 1521–1700
Spain’s Tribute Colonies
A New American World
The Columbian Exchange
The Protestant Challenge to Spain
Plantation Colonies
Brazil’s Sugar Plantations
England’s Tobacco Colonies
The Caribbean Islands
Plantation Life
Neo-European Colonies
New France
New Netherland
The Rise of the Iroquois
New England
Instability, War, and Rebellion
Native American Resistance
Bacon’s Rebellion
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Who Was Pocahontas?
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
What Role Did Climate Play in American
Colonization?
AP® AMERICA IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
Plantation Colonies Versus Neo-Europes
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Susanna Martin, Accused Witch
CHAPTER 2 REVIEW
CHAPTER 2 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
PART 1 AP® PRACTICE ESSAY QUESTIONS
PART 2 British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763
CHAPTER 3
The British Atlantic World,
1607–1750
Colonies to Empire, 1607–1713
Self-Governing Colonies and New Elites,
1607–1660
The Restoration Colonies and Imperial Expansion
From Mercantilism to Imperial Dominion
The Glorious Revolution in England and America
Imperial Wars and Native Peoples
Tribalization
Indian Goals
The Imperial Slave Economy
The South Atlantic System
Africa, Africans, and the Slave Trade
Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina
An African American Community Emerges
The Rise of the Southern Gentry
The Northern Maritime Economy
The Urban Economy
Urban Society
The New Politics of Empire, 1713–1750
The Rise of Colonial Assemblies
Salutary Neglect
Protecting the Mercantile System
Mercantilism and the American Colonies
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Native Americans and European Empires
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
O laudah Equiano: The Brutal "Middle Passage" A
P® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Why Did Americans Adopt Slavery?
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Servitude and Slavery
CHAPTER 3 REVIEW
CHAPTER 3 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 4
Growth, Diversity, and Conflict,
1720–1763
New England’s Freehold Society
Farm Families: Women in the Household
Economy
Farm Property: Inheritance
Freehold Society in Crisis
Diversity in the Middle Colonies
Economic Growth, Opportunity, and Conflict
Cultural Diversity
Religion and Politics
Commerce, Culture, and Identity
Transportation and the Print Revolution
The Enlightenment in America
American Pietism and the Great Awakening
Religious Upheaval in the North
Social and Religious Conflict in the South
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social
Conflict, 1750–1763
The French and Indian War
The Great War for Empire
British Industrial Growth and the Consumer
Revolution
The Struggle for Land in the East
Western Rebels and Regulators
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Women’s Labor
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Transatlantic Migration, 1500–1760
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Did Diversity Lead to Toleration?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Evangelical Religion and Enlightenment
Rationalism
CHAPTER 4 REVIEW
CHAPTER 4 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
PART 2 AP® PRACTICE ESSAY QUESTIONS
PART 3 Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800
CHAPTER 5
The Problem of Empire,
1754–1776
An Empire Transformed
The Costs of Empire
George Grenville and the Reform Impulse
An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act
The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770
Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd
The Ideological Roots of Resistance
Another Kind of Freedom
Parliament and Patriots Square Off Again
The Problem of the West
Parliament Wavers
The Road to Independence, 1771–1776
A Compromise Repudiated
The Continental Congress Responds
The Rising of the Countryside
Loyalists and Neutrals
Violence East and West
Lord Dunmore’s War
Armed Resistance in Massachusetts
The Second Continental Congress Organizes
for War
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Independence Declared
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Britain’s Atlantic and Asian Empires
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Beyond the Proclamation Line
AP® INTERPRETATIONS
Did British Administrators Try to Protect or Exploit
Native Americans?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
The Debate over Representation and
Sovereignty
CHAPTER 5 REVIEW
CHAPTER 5 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 6
Making War and Republican
Governments, 1776–1789
The Trials of War, 1776–1778
War in the North
Armies and Strategies
Victory at Saratoga
The Perils of War
Financial Crisis
Valley Forge
The Path to Victory, 1778–1783
The French Alliance
War in the South
The Patriot Advantage
Diplomatic Triumph
Creating Republican Institutions, 1776–1787
The State Constitutions: How Much Democracy?
Women Seek a Public Voice
The War’s Losers: Loyalists, Native Americans,
and Slaves
The Articles of Confederation
Shays’s Rebellion
The Constitution of 1787
The Rise of a Nationalist Faction
The Philadelphia Convention
The People Debate Ratification
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
The Black Soldier’s Dilemma
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
China’s Growing Empire
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Was the Constitution Necessary?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
The First National Debate over Slavery
CHAPTER 6 REVIEW
CHAPTER 6 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 7
Hammering Out a Federal Republic,
1787–1820
The Political Crisis of the 1790s
The Federalists Implement the Constitution
Hamilton’s Financial Program
Jefferson’s Agrarian Vision
The French Revolution Divides Americans
The Rise of Political Parties
A Republican Empire Is Born
Sham Treaties and Indian Lands
Migration and the Changing Farm Economy
The Jefferson Presidency
Jefferson and the West
The War of 1812 and the Transformation of
Politics
Conflict in the Atlantic and the West
The War of 1812
The Federalist Legacy
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Did Hamilton’s Economic System Endanger the
Legacy of the Revolution?
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
The Social Life of Alcohol
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Race
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Factional Politics and the War of 1812
CHAPTER 7 REVIEW
CHAPTER 7 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
PART 3 AP® PRACTICE ESSAY QUESTIONS
PART 4 Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848
CHAPTER 8
Economic Transformations,
1800–1848
Foundations of a New Economic Order
Credit and Banking
Transportation and the Market Revolution
The Cotton Complex: Northern Industry and Southern
Agriculture
The American Industrial Revolution
Origins of the Cotton South
The Cotton Boom and Slavery
Technological Innovation and Labor
The Spread of Innovation
Wageworkers and the Labor Movement
The Growth of Cities and Towns
New Social Classes and Cultures
Planters, Yeomen, and Slaves
The Northern Business Elite
The Middle Class
Urban Workers and the Poor
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
The Entrepreneur and the Community
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
The Fate of the American and Indian Textile
Industries
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
The Debate over Free and Slave Labor
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Did the Market Revolution Expand Opportunities for
Women?
CHAPTER 8 REVIEW
CHAPTER 8 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 9
A Democratic Revolution,
1800–1848
The Rise of Popular Politics
The Decline of the Notables and the Rise
of Parties
Racial Exclusion and Republican Motherhood
The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
The Election of 1824
The Last Notable President: John Quincy Adams
"The Democracy" and the Election of 1828
Jackson in Power, 1829–1837
Jackson’s Agenda: Rotation and Decentralization
The Tariff and Nullification
The Bank War
Indian Removal
Jackson’s Impact
Class, Culture, and the Second Party System
The Whig Worldview
Labor Politics and the Depression of 1837–1843
"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Alexis de Tocqueville: Letter to Louis de Kergorlay,
June 29, 1831
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
The Character and Goals of Andrew Jackson
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Was Indian Removal Humanitarian or Racist?
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Becoming Literate: Public Education
and Democracy
CHAPTER 9 REVIEW
CHAPTER 9 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 10
Religion, Reform, and Culture,
1820–1848
Spiritual Awakenings
The Second Great Awakening
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism
Utopian Experiments
Urban Cultures and Conflicts
Sex in the City
Popular Fiction and the Penny Press
Urban Entertainments
African Americans and the Struggle for Freedom
Free Black Communities, North and South
The Rise of Abolitionism
The Women’s Rights Movement
Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
From Antislavery to Women’s Rights
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
What Motivated Antebellum Reformers?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Saving the Nation from Drink
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Dance and Social Identity in Antebellum
America
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Women’s Rights in France and the
United States, 1848
CHAPTER 10 REVIEW
CHAPTER 10 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 11
Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848
The Expanding South
Planters, Small Freeholders, and Poor Freemen
The Settlement of Texas
The Politics of Democracy
The African American World
Evangelical Black Protestantism
Forging Families and Communities
Negotiating Rights
Manifest Destiny, North and South
The Push to the Pacific
The Plains Indians
The Fateful Election of 1844
The U.S.-Mexico War, 1846–1848
The "War of a Thousand Deserts"
Polk’s Expansionist Program
American Military Successes
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Childhood in Black and White
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
What Explains American Enthusiasm for
Manifest Destiny?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
The U.S.-Mexico War: Expansion and Slavery
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Financing War
CHAPTER 11 REVIEW
CHAPTER 11 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
PART 4 AP® PRACTICE ESSAY QUESTIONS
PART 5 Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877
CHAPTER 12
Sectional Conflict and Crisis,
1844–1861
A Divisive War, 1844–1850
"Free Soil" in Politics
California Gold and Racial Warfare
1850: Crisis and Compromise
The End of the Second Party System, 1850–1858
The Abolitionist Movement Grows
The Whig Party’s Demise
Immigrants and Know-Nothings
The West and the Fate of the Union
Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph,
1858–1860
Lincoln’s Political Career
The Union Under Siege
The Election of 1860
Secession Winter, 1860–1861
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Did Slavery Have a Future in the West?
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
The Gold Rush: California and Australia
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
The Irish in America
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
To Secede or Not to Secede?
CHAPTER 12 REVIEW
CHAPTER 12 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 13
Bloody Ground: The Civil War,
1861–1865
War Begins, 1861–1862
Early Expectations
Campaigns East and West
Antietam and Its Consequences
Toward "Hard War," 1863
Politics North and South
The Impact of Emancipation
Citizens and the Work of War
Vicksburg and Gettysburg
The Road to Union Victory, 1864–1865
Grant and Sherman Take Command
The Election of 1864 and Sherman’s March
The Confederacy Collapses
The World the War Made
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
How Divided Was the Confederate Public?
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Military Deaths — and Lives Saved — During the
Civil War
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
These Honored Dead
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
War Debt: Britain and the United States,
1830–1900
CHAPTER 13 REVIEW
CHAPTER 13 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 14
Reconstruction, 1865–1877
The Struggle for National Reconstruction
Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to
Johnson
Congress Versus the President
Radical Reconstruction
Women’s Rights Denied
The Meaning of Freedom
The Quest for Land
Republican Governments in the South
Building Black Communities
The Undoing of Reconstruction
The Republicans Unravel
Counterrevolution in the South
Reconstruction Rolled Back
The Political Crisis of 1877
Lasting Legacies
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
How Free Were Freedwomen in Reconstruction?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
The Impact of Terror
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
The South’s "Lost Cause"
CHAPTER 14 REVIEW
CHAPTER 14 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 15
Conquering a Continent,
1860–1890
The Republican Vision
The New Union and the World
Integrating the National Economy
Incorporating the West
Mining Empires
Cattlemen on the Plains
Homesteaders
The First National Park
A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed
The Civil War and Indians on the Plains
Grant’s Peace Policy
The End of Armed Resistance
Strategies of Survival
Western Myths and Realities
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
The Santa Fe Railroad in Mexico and the
United States
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Women’s Rights in the West
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
What Factors Motivated America’s Indian
Policies?
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Representing Indians
CHAPTER 15 REVIEW
CHAPTER 15 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
PART 5 AP® PRACTICE ESSAY QUESTIONS
PART 6 Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917
Experiments,
CHAPTER 16
Industrial America: Corporations
and Conflicts, 1877–1911
The Rise of Big Business
Innovators in Enterprise
The Corporate Workplace
On the Shop Floor
Immigrants, East and West
Newcomers from Europe
Asian Americans and Exclusion
Labor Gets Organized
The Emergence of a Labor Movement
The Knights of Labor
Farmers and Workers: The Cooperative Alliance
Another Path: The American Federation of Labor
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
How Modern Were Late-Nineteenth-Century
Corporations?
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Poverty and Food
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Emigrants and Destinations, 1881–1915
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Jewish Immigrants in the Industrial Economy
CHAPTER 16 REVIEW
CHAPTER 16 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 17
Making Modern American Culture,
1880–1917
Science and Faith
Darwinism and Its Critics
Religion: Diversity and Innovation
Realism in the Arts
Commerce and Culture
Consumer Spaces
Masculinity and the Rise of Sports
The Great Outdoors
Women, Men, and the Solitude of Self
Changing Families
Education
Toward Women’s Emancipation
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
William Graham Sumner and W. E. B. Du Bois on
Heredity and Success
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Christianity in the United States and Japan
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Was Professional Baseball a Pastime or a Business
Monopoly — or Both?
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
WCTU Women "Do Everything"
CHAPTER 17 REVIEW
CHAPTER 17 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 18
"Civilization’s Inferno": The Rise and
Reform of Industrial Cities,
1880–1917
The New Metropolis
The Shape of the Industrial City
Newcomers and Neighborhoods
City Cultures
Governing the Great City
Urban Machines
The Limits of Machine Government
Crucibles of Progressive Reform
Fighting Dirt and Vice
The Movement for Social Settlements
Cities and National Politics
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
The World’s Biggest Cities, 1800–2000
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Making Mass Media: Newspaper Empires
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
How Did Urban Progressive Reformers Approach
Environmentalism?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
"These Dead Bodies Were the Answer":
The Triangle Fire
CHAPTER 18 REVIEW
CHAPTER 18 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 19
Whose Government? Politics,
Populists, and Progressives,
1880–1917
Reform Visions, 1880–1892
Electoral Politics After Reconstruction
The Populist Program
The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s
Depression and Reaction
Democrats and the "Solid South"
New National Realities
Reform Reshaped, 1901–1912
Theodore Roosevelt as President
Diverse Progressive Goals
The Election of 1912
Wilson and the New Freedom, 1913–1917
Economic Reforms
Progressive Legacies
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Making Modern Presidents
AP® INTERPRETATIONS
Were the "Gilded Age" and "Progressive Era"
Separate Periods?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
The Omaha Platform, 1892
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Economic Output and Government Social
Spending, 1913
CHAPTER 19 REVIEW
CHAPTER 19 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
PART 6 AP® PRACTICE ESSAY QUESTIONS
PART 7 Domestic and Global Challenges, 1890–1945
CHAPTER 20
An Emerging World Power,
1890–1918
From Expansion to Imperialism
Foundations of Empire
The War of 1898
Spoils of War
A Power Among Powers
The Open Door in Asia
The United States and Latin America
The United States in World War I
From Neutrality to War
"Over There"
War on the Home Front
Catastrophe at Versailles
The Fate of Wilson’s Ideas
Congress Rejects the Treaty
ANALYZING VOICES
Debating the Philippines
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
The Human Cost of World War I
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
German Americans in World War I
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Was Wilson’s Internationalism Successful?
CHAPTER 20 REVIEW
CHAPTER 20 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 21
Unsettled Prosperity: From War
to Depression, 1919–1932
Resurgent Conservatism
The Red Scare
Racial Backlash
The Business of America
Politics of Normalcy
Making a Modern Consumer Economy
Postwar Abundance
Consumer Culture
The Automobile and Suburbanization
The Politics and Culture of a Diversifying Nation
Women in a New Age
Culture Wars
The Harlem Renaissance
The Coming of the Great Depression
From Boom to Bust
Early Depression Years
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Hollywood in Europe
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
H ow Did Immigrants Experience America at the
Turn of the Century?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Urban Writers Describe Small-Town America
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Who Joined the Ku Klux Klan?
CHAPTER 21 REVIEW
CHAPTER 21 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 22
Managing the Great Depression,
Forging the New Deal, 1929–1938
Early Responses to the Depression, 1929–1932
Enter Herbert Hoover
Rising Discontent
The 1932 Election
The New Deal Arrives, 1933–1935
Roosevelt and the First Hundred Days
The New Deal Under Attack
The Second New Deal and the Redefining of
Liberalism, 1935–1938
The Welfare State Comes into Being
From Reform to Stalemate
The New Deal and American Society
A People’s Democracy
Reshaping the Environment
The New Deal and the Arts
The Legacies of the New Deal
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Ordinary People Respond to the New Deal
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Was the New Deal a Reform or a Revolution?
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Economic Nationalism in the United States
and Mexico
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
The New Deal and Public Works
CHAPTER 22 REVIEW
CHAPTER 22 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 23
The World at War, 1937–1945
The Road to War
The Rise of Fascism
War Approaches
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Organizing for a Global War
Financing the War
Mobilizing the American Fighting Force
Workers and the War Effort
Politics in Wartime
Life on the Home Front
"For the Duration"
Migration and the Wartime City
Japanese Removal
Fighting and Winning the War
Wartime Aims and Tensions
The War in Europe
The War in the Pacific
The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War
The Toll of the War
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
The Scales of War: Losses and Gains During
World War II
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Women in the Wartime Workplace
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Mobilizing the Home Front
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Why Did the United States Drop the Atomic Bomb
on Japan?
CHAPTER 23 REVIEW
CHAPTER 23 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
PART 7 AP® PRACTICE ESSAY QUESTIONS
PART 8 The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980
CHAPTER 24
Cold War America,
1945–1963
Containment in a Divided Global Order
Origins of the Cold War
The Containment Strategy
Containment in Asia
Cold War Liberalism
Truman and the End of Reform
Red Scare: The Hunt for Communists
The Politics of Cold War Liberalism
Containment in the Postcolonial World
The Cold War and Colonial Independence
John F. Kennedy and the Cold War
Making a Commitment in Vietnam
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Why Was There a Cold War?
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
The Global Cold War
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Arming for the Cold War
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Hunting Communists: The Case of Paul Robeson
CHAPTER 24 REVIEW
CHAPTER 24 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 25
Triumph of the Middle Class,
1945–1963
Postwar Prosperity and the Affluent Society
Economy: From Recovery to Dominance
A Nation of Consumers
Youth Culture
Religion and the Middle Class
The American Family in the Era of Containment
The Baby Boom
Women, Work, and Family
Challenging Middle-Class Morality
A Suburban Nation
The Postwar Housing Boom
Rise of the Sunbelt
Two Societies: Urban and Suburban
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Was Rock ’n’ Roll an Agent of Social Change?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Coming of Age in the Postwar Years
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
The Suburban Landscape of Cold War America
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Hanoch Bartov: Everyone Has a Car
CHAPTER 25 REVIEW
CHAPTER 25 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 26
Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil
Rights Movement, 1941–1973
The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle, 1941–1957
Life Under Jim Crow
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
World War II: The Beginnings
Cold War Civil Rights
Mexican Americans and Japanese Americans
Fighting for Equality Before the Law
Forging a Protest Movement, 1955–1965
Nonviolent Direct Action
Legislating Civil Rights, 1963–1965
Beyond Civil Rights, 1966–1973
Black Nationalism
Urban Disorder
Rise of the Chicano Movement
The American Indian Movement
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Freedom in the United States and Africa
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Race and Geography in the Civil Rights Era
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Radical or a
Reformer?
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Civil Rights and Black Power: Strategy
and Ideology
CHAPTER 26 REVIEW
CHAPTER 26 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 27
Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and
Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972
Liberalism at High Tide
John F. Kennedy’s Promise
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society
Rebirth of the Women’s Movement
The Vietnam War Begins
Escalation Under Johnson
Public Opinion and the War
The Student Movement
Days of Rage, 1968–1972
War Abroad, Tragedy at Home
The Antiwar Movement and the 1968 Election
The Nationalist Turn
Women’s Liberation and Black and Chicana
Feminism
Stonewall and Gay Liberation
Rise of the Silent Majority
Nixon in Vietnam
The Silent Majority Speaks Out
The 1972 Election
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
What Are the Origins of 1960s Feminism?
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
The Toll of War
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Debating the War in Vietnam
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
The Global Protests of 1968
CHAPTER 27 REVIEW
CHAPTER 27 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 28
The Search for Order in an Era
of Limits, 1973–1980
An Era of Limits
Energy Crisis
Environmentalism
Economic Transformation
Urban Crisis and Suburban Revolt
Politics in Flux, 1973–1980
Watergate and the Fall of a President
Jimmy Carter: The Outsider as President
Reform and Reaction in the 1970s
Civil Rights in a New Era
The Women’s Movement and Gay Rights
After the Warren Court
The American Family on Trial
Working Families in the Age of
Deindustrialization
Navigating the Sexual Revolution
Religion in the 1970s: The New Evangelicalism
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
The Environmental Movement: Reimagining the
Human-Earth Relationship
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
Why Did the Postwar Boom Bust in the 1970s?
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Economic Malaise in the Seventies
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Debating the Equal Rights Amendment
CHAPTER 28 REVIEW
CHAPTER 28 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
PART 8 AP® PRACTICE ESSAY QUESTIONS
PART 9 Globalization and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present
CHAPTER 29
Conservative America in the Ascent,
1980–1991
The Rise of the New Right
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan: Champions of
the Right
Free-Market Economics and Religious
Conservatism
The Carter Presidency
The Dawning of the Conservative Age
The Reagan Coalition
Conservatives in Power
Morning in America
The End of the Cold War
U.S.-Soviet Relations in a New Era
A New Political Order at Home and Abroad
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Christianity and Public Life
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Yoichi Funabashi: "Japan and America:
Global Partners"
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Personal Computing: A Technological Revolution
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
How Conservative Was the Reagan Presidency?
CHAPTER 29 REVIEW
CHAPTER 29 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 30
Confronting Global and National
Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present
America in the Global Economy
The Rise of the European Union and China
A New Era of Globalization
Revolutions in Technology
Politics and Partisanship in a Contentious Era
An Increasingly Plural Society
Clashes over "Family Values"
Bill Clinton and the New Democrats
Post–Cold War Foreign Policy
Into a New Century
The Ascendance of George W. Bush
Violence Abroad and Economic Collapse at
Home
Reform and Stalemate in the Obama Years
AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Globalization: Its Proponents and Its Discontents
AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Global Trade, 1960–2009
AP® ANALYZING VOICES
Immigration After 1965: Its Defenders and Critics
AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST
How Should Historians Write the History of
Current Events?
CHAPTER 30 REVIEW
CHAPTER 30 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS
PART 9 AP® PRACTICE ESSAY QUESTIONS
DOCUMENTS
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America
Amendments to the Constitution (Including the
Six Unratified Amendments)
Appendix
Glossaries/Glosarios
Index
Authors
James Henretta
James A. Henretta  is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600–1820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, “Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,” in The Cambridge History of American Law.
Eric Hinderaker
Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston's Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.
Rebecca Edwards
Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865–1905; and the essay “Women's and Gender History” in The New American History. She is currently working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America's nineteenth-century empire.
Robert O. Self
Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.
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Annotated Teacher's Edition for America's History, For the AP® Course
James A. Henretta; Eric Hinderaker; Rebecca Edwards; Robert O. Self | Ninth Edition | ©2018 | ISBN:9781319065775
This indispensable guide for both new and experienced teachers offers planning tools, just-in-time tips, and helpful teaching suggestions.
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James A. Henretta; Eric Hinderaker; Rebecca Edwards; Robert O. Self | Ninth Edition | ©2018 | ISBN:9781319065911The Test Bank includes chapter-based questions and more than six AP®-style practice exams. This tool is available exclusively within the ExamView® Ass...
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James A. Henretta; Eric Hinderaker; Rebecca Edwards; Robert O. Self | Ninth Edition | ©2019 | ISBN:9781319065959
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