Fabric of a Nation

Brief Contents

Period 1: 1491–1607 Europeans Make Claims in the Americas

Module 1.1 Contextualizing Period 1

Module 1.2 Native American Societies 

Module 1.3 European Exploration in the Americas

Module 1.4 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest

Module 1.5 Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System

Module 1.6 Cultural Interactions among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

Module 1.7 Causation in Period 1

Period 2: 1607–1754 Colonial America amid Global Change

Module 2.1 Contextualizing Period 2

Module 2.2 European Colonization

Module 2.3a The Regions of British Colonies: The South and the British West Indies

Module 2.3b The Regions of British Colonies: New England and the Middle Colonies

Module 2.4 The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Economy

Module 2.5 Interactions between American Indians and Europeans

Module 2.6 Slavery in the British Colonies

Module 2.7 Colonial Society and Culture

Module 2.8 Comparison in Period 2

Period 3: 1754–1800 A Revolutionary Era

Module 3.1 Contextualizing Period 3

Module 3.2 The Seven Years’ War

Module 3.3 Taxation without Representation

Module 3.4 Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution

Module 3.5 The American Revolution

Module 3.6 The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals

Module 3.7 The Articles of Confederation

Modules 3.8 & 3.9 The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification & The Constitution

Module 3.10 Shaping a New Republic

Module 3.11 Developing an American Identity

Module 3.12 Movement in the Early Republic

Module 3.13 Continuity and Change in Period 3

Period 4: 1800–1848 Democracy, Industrialization, and Reform

Module 4.1 Contextualizing Period 4

Module 4.2 Political and Economic Transformations

Module 4.3 Politics, Economics, and Regional Interests 

Module 4.4 America on the World Stage

Module 4.5 Market Revolution: Industrialization

Module 4.6 Market Revolution: Society and Culture

Module 4.7 Expanding Democracy 

Module 4.8 Jackson and Federal Power

Module 4.9 Development of an American Culture

Module 4.10 The Second Great Awakening

Module 4.11 An Age of Reform

Modules 4.12 & 4.13 African Americans & The Society of the South in the Early Republic

Module 4.14 Causation in Period 4

Period 5: 1844–1877 Expansion, Division, and Civil War

Module 5.1 Contextualizing Period 5

Module 5.2 Manifest Destiny

Module 5.3 The Mexican-American War 

Module 5.4 The Compromise of 1850

Module 5.5 Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences

Module 5.7 Election of 1860 and Secession

Module 5.8 Military Conflict in the Civil War

Module 5.9 Government Policies during the Civil War

Module 5.10 Reconstruction 

Module 5.11 The Failure of Reconstruction

Module 5.12 Comparison in Period 5

Period 6: 1865–1898 A Gilded Age

Module 6.1 Contextualizing Period 6

Module 6.2 Westward Expansion: Economic Development

Module 6.3 Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Developments

Module 6.4 The “New South”

Module 6.5 Technological Innovation

Module 6.6 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism

Module 6.7 Labor in the Gilded Age

Module 6.8 Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age

Module 6.9 Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age 

Module 6.10 Development of the Middle Class

Module 6.11 Reform in the Gilded Age 

Module 6.12 Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age

Module 6.13 Politics in the Gilded Age

Module 6.14 Continuity and Change in Period 6

Period 7: 1890–1945 New Imperialism and Global Conflicts

Module 7.1 Contextualizing Period 7

Module 7.2 Imperialism: Debates

Module 7.3 The Spanish-American War

Module 7.4a The Progressives: Social Reform

Module 7.4b The Progressives: Political Reform

Module 7.5 World War I: Military and Diplomacy

Module 7.6 World War I: The Home Front

Module 7.7 1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology

Module 7.8 1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies

Module 7.9 The Great Depression

Module 7.10 The New Deal

Module 7.11 Interwar Foreign Policy

Module 7.12 World War II: Mobilization

Modules 7.13 & 7.14 World War II: Military & Postwar Diplomacy

Module 7.15 Comparison in Period 7

Period 8: 1945–1980 Cold War America

Module 8.1 Contextualizing Period 8

Module 8.2 The Cold War

Module 8.3 The Second Red Scare

Module 8.4 The Economy after 1945

Module 8.5 Culture after 1950

Module 8.6 Early Steps in the Civil-Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)

Module 8.7 America as a World Power

Module 8.8 The Vietnam War

Module 8.9 The Great Society

Module 8.10 The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)

Module 8.11 The Civil Rights Movement Expands

Module 8.12 The Youth Culture 

Module 8.13 The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980

Module 8.14 Society in Transition

Module 8.15 Continuity and Change in Period 8

Period 9: 1980–The Present Challenges in a Globalized World

Module 9.1 Contextualizing Period 9

Module 9.2 Reagan and Conservatism

Module 9.3 The End of the Cold War

Modules 9.4 & 9.5 A Changing Economy & Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s

Module 9.6 Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

Module 9.7 Causation in Period 9

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