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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction

[edit] Colonial America (1690 - 1754)

  1. Pre-Columbian Societies (Before 1492)
  2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings(1492 - 1690)
  3. Colonial North America (1690 - 1754)

[edit] The Early Republic (1754 -1815)

  1. The American Revolutionary Era (1754 - 1789)
  2. The Early Republic (1787 - 1810)

[edit] Antebellum America

America before, and leading up to the Civil War

  1. Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny (1824 - 1849)
  2. The Indian Tribes of America
  3. Friction Between the States (1849 - 1860)
  4. States' Rights
  5. Secession
  6. The Civil War (1860 - 1865)
  7. Reconstruction (1865 - 1877)

[edit] The Republic from 1877 to 1989

  1. The Age of Invention and the Gilded Age (1877 - 1900)
  2. The Progressive Era (1900 - 1914)
  3. Advancements
  4. World War I and the Treaty of Versailles (1914 - 1920)
  5. The Roaring Twenties and Prohibition (1920 - 1929)
  6. The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929 - 1939)
  7. Spanish Civil War(1936-1939)
  8. World War II and the Rise of the Atomic Age (1939 - 1945)
  9. Truman and the Cold War (1945 - 1953)
  10. Eisenhower, Civil Rights, and the Fifties (1953 - 1961)
  11. Kennedy and Johnson (1961 - 1969)
  12. Nixon presidency and Indochina (1969 - 1974)
  13. Ford, Carter and Reagan presidencies (1974 - 1989)

[edit] 1989 to 2008

Warning: this section of the book should not be used for academic studies because it deals in events that are too recent for "historical perspective".

  1. Bush and Clinton presidencies,1st Gulf War (1989 - 2000)
  2. George W. Bush, September 11, 2nd Gulf War, and Terrorism
  3. Growing Crisis with Iran (2002-)
  1. Election 2008
  2. Obama

[edit] Appendices

  1. Appendix A: Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States
  2. Appendix B: Supreme Court Decisions
  3. Appendix C: Chief Justices
  4. Appendix D: Famous Third Parties
  5. Authors

[edit] Keywords (People, events, etc)

  1. Keywords
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  6. Keywords5
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