• American Beginnings to 1877
o Exploration
o Colonial Era
o Revolution
o Early Republic
o Slavery
o Constitution
o Civil War
o Abolition
o Reconstruction
• Migration and Industrialization (1877-1917)
o Industrialism
o Railroads
o Big Business and Labor
o New Immigration
o Urbanization
o Gilded Age
• Modern America Emerges (1890-1920)
o Women in Public Life
o Teddy Roosevelt and the Square Deal
o Wilson’s New Freedom
o American Imperialism
o Spanish American War
o World War I: US involvement and aftermath
o Life at the turn of the Century
• The 1920s (1919-1929)
o Post WWI issues
o Business in America
o Changing Ways of Life
o Role of Women
o Education and Popular Culture
o Harlem Renaissance
• The Great Depression (1929-1940)
o Nation’s Sick Economy
o Hardships during Depression
o Hoover’s Srtuggles
o The New Deal
o Second New Deal
o Culture of 1930s
o Impact of the New Deal
• World War II and Aftermath (1931-1980)
o Causes of WWII
o American Mobilization for War
o European, North African and Pacific Theaters
o The Home Front
o The Cold War
o Post War America
o Civil Rights Movements and Social Change
• Passage to a New Century (1980-Present)
o Conservatism under Reagan and Bush
o Social Concerns in the 1980s
o Foreign Policy after the Cold War
o 1990s, New Millennium and the New Global Economy
o Technology and Modern Life
o Changing Face of America