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The American People, Brief Edition
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About The American People
About the Book
Student Resources
Chapter 1: Ancient America and Africa
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz
Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Recommended Reading
Chapter 2: Europeans and Africans Reach the Americas
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
European Explorers
Views of the New World
The Middle Passage
Recommended Reading
Chapter 3: Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Bacon's Rebellion
The Founding of Two Colonies: Virginia and Massachusetts
Views of Indentured Servitude
Recommended Reading
Chapter 4: The Maturing of Colonial Society
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Benjamin Franklin
The American Character
Recommended Reading
Chapter 5: The Strains of Empire
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Recommended Reading
Chapter 6: A People in Revolution
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
The Changing Nature of Early America
Recommended Reading
Chapter 7: Consolidating the Revolution
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Web Destinations
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Government after the Revolutionary War
James Wilson on Education for Women
The Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson--Notes on Slavery
Travels in North America
Recommended Reading
Chapter 8: Creating a Nation
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Alexander Hamilton on the Economic Role of the Federal Government
George Washington on Foreign Policy
The "Kentucky Resolutions"
Thomas Jefferson on the Whisky Rebellion
William Maclay on Hamilton
Recommended Reading
Chapter 9: Society and Politics in the Early Republic
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Black Hawk
Margaret Bayard Smith Meets Thomas Jefferson
Memoirs of a Monticello Slave
Republicanism in Jeffersonian America
The Louisiana Purchase
The Nation before the Civil War
Recommended Reading
Chapter 10: Economic Transformations in the Northeast and the Old Northwest
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Jacob Bigelow Inaugural Address
The Connnections between Economic Growth, Nationalism, and Expansionism
The Springfield Armory
The Textile Mills
Recommended Reading
Chapter 11: Slavery and the Old South
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Slave Resistance
Views on Slavery
Recommended Reading
Chapter 12: Shaping America in the Antebellum Age
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
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Economic Concerns in the 1830s
Education for Immigrants
John Humphrey Noyes and Bible Communism
Lyman Beecher on Intemperance
Niles' Weekly Register
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self-Reliance
Religious Revivalism
Walt Whitman, Nicholas Biddle, Michel Chevalier on America
Women and Reform Efforts in the 19th Century
Recommended Reading
Chapter 13: Moving West
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
America's Westward Expansion
Native American Land
Recommended Reading
Chapter 14: The Union in Peril
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Abolitionism
The Dred Scott Decision
Recommended Reading
Chapter 15: The Union Severed
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
African American Experiences During the Civil War
Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln on Secession and the Civil War
John Dooley--A Civil War Soldier
United States Sanitary Commission Document
Recommended Reading
Chapter 16: The Union Reconstructed
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk Virginia
The State of the South
Visions for Reconstruction
White Southerners on Reconstruction
Recommended Reading
Chapter 17: The Realities of Rural America
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
The Transcontinental Railroad
United States Interaction with Native Americans
Westward Expansion
Recommended Reading
Chapter 18: The Rise of Smokestack America
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Asians in North America
Causes of Urbanization
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Gender
Farmers and Workers Attitudes toward Industrial Society
Parks and the New Urban Culture
Urban Dwellers: The Advantages and Disadvantages of City Life
Visions of Utopia
Recommended Reading
Chapter 19: Politics and Reform
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
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The Industrial Economy
The Populist Party
Recommended Reading
Chapter 20: Becoming a World Power
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
American Imperialism
Recommended Reading
Chapter 21: The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
African Americans and Immigrants in the Progressive Era
Four Authors on Social Reform
Four Views on America
Getting Out the Women's Vote
The Commission Plan
The National Negro Committee
The Piece-Rate System
Women's Right to Vote
Flashcards
American History Appendix
American History Glossary
Recommended Reading
Chapter 22: The Great War
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Big Business and Government
The Great Migration
Recommended Reading
Chapter 23: Affluence and Anxiety
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Advertisements in the 1920s
Vanzetti Court Statement
Recommended Reading
Chapter 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
Father Charles E. Coughlin and Huey Long
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Speeches
Recommended Reading
Chapter 25: World War II
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
American Entry into World War II
American Negros in the War
Recommended Reading
Chapter 26: Postwar America at Home, 1945 – 1960
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
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National Security Considerations
The Fear of Communism
Brown v. Board of Education
Women in the 1950s
Recommended Reading
Chapter 27: Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945 – 1960
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
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Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Recommended Reading
Chapter 28: Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960 – 1969
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz
Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Civil Rights
Immigration in the 1960s and Before
Jimmy Carter's "Malaise" Speech
Movements of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
Recommended Reading
Chapter 29: Disorder and Discontent, 1969 – 1980
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz
Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Recommended Reading
Chapter 30: The Revival of Conservatism, 1980 – 1992
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz
Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Primary Sources
George Bush and the Gulf War
Ronald Reagan's Peace through Strength
The Reagan Era
Recommended Reading
Chapter 31: The Post-Cold War World: 1992 – 2002
Summary
Learning Objective
Multiple-Choice Quiz
True/False Quiz
Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz
Essay Questions
Web Destinations
Recommended Reading
Instructor Resources
Guide to Instructor Resources
Instructor Resource Center
PowerPoint Presentations
Maps, Graphs, and Tables
Blank Maps for Quizzes
Instructor Links
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