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Welcome to the Student Resources section of The American People, Sixth Edition. Use the left-hand navigation bar to access Summaries, Learning Objectives, and Interactive Review Questions for each chapter of the book. You can also study the online Appendix and the online Glossary.

Chapter 1: Ancient America and Africa
Chapter 2: Europeans and Africans Reach the Americas
Chapter 3: Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 4: The Maturing of Colonial Society
Chapter 5: The Strains of Empire
Chapter 6: A People in Revolution
Chapter 7: Consolidating the Revolution
Chapter 8: Creating a Nation
Chapter 9: Society and Politics in the Early Republic
Chapter 10: Economic Transformations in the Northeast and the Old Northwest
Chapter 11: Slavery and the Old South
Chapter 12: Shaping America in the Antebellum Age
Chapter 13: Moving West
Chapter 14: The Union in Peril
Chapter 15: The Union Severed
Chapter 16: The Union Reconstructed
Chapter 17: Rural America: The West and the New South
Chapter 18: The Rise of Smokestack America
Chapter 19: Politics and Reform
Chapter 20: Becoming a World Power
Chapter 21: The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism
Chapter 22: The Great War
Chapter 23: Affluence and Anxiety
Chapter 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Chapter 25: World War II
Chapter 26: Postwar America at Home, 1945 – 1960
Chapter 27: Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945 – 1960
Chapter 28: Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960 – 1969
Chapter 29: Disorder and Discontent, 1969 – 1980
Chapter 30: The Revival of Conservatism, 1980 – 1992
Chapter 31: The Post-Cold War World: 1992 – 2002

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