America's History: for the AP® Course

Chapter 1: Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600

• • The Native American Experience
• • The First Americans
• • American Empires
• • Chiefdoms and Confederacies
• • Patterns of Trade
• • Sacred Power
• • Western Europe: The Edge of the Old World
• • Hierarchy and Authority
• • Peasant Society
• • Expanding Trade Networks
• • Myths, Religions, and Holy Warriors
• • West and Central Africa: Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade
• • Empires, Kingdoms, and Ministates
• • Trans-Saharan and Coastal Trade
• • The Spirit World
• • Exploration and Conquest
• • Portuguese Expansion
• • The African Slave Trade
• • Sixteenth-Century Incursions
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD Altered Landscapes
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST How Connected Were Native American Communities Before 1492?
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN Colliding Cultures
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES A Spanish Priest Criticizes His Fellow Colonists
• • CHAPTER 1 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 1 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 2: American Experiments, 1521–1700

• • Spain’s Tribute Colonies
• • A New American World
• • The Columbian Exchange
• • The Protestant Challenge to Spain
• • Plantation Colonies
• • Brazil’s Sugar Plantations
• • England’s Tobacco Colonies
• • The Caribbean Islands
• • Plantation Life
• • Neo-European Colonies
• • New France
• • New Netherland
• • The Rise of the Iroquois
• • New England
• • Instability, War, and Rebellion
• • Native American Resistance
• • Bacon’s Rebellion
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN Who Was Pocahontas?
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST What Role Did Climate Play in American Colonization?
• • AP® AMERICA IN GLOBAL CONTEXT Plantation Colonies Versus Neo-Europes
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES Susanna Martin, Accused Witch
• • CHAPTER 2 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 2 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 3: The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750

• • Colonies to Empire, 1607–1713
• • Self-Governing Colonies and New Elites, 1607–1660
• • The Restoration Colonies and Imperial Expansion
• • From Mercantilism to Imperial Dominion
• • The Glorious Revolution in England and America
• • Imperial Wars and Native Peoples
• • Tribalization
• • Indian Goals
• • The Imperial Slave Economy
• • The South Atlantic System
• • Africa, Africans, and the Slave Trade
• • Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina
• • An African American Community Emerges
• • The Rise of the Southern Gentry
• • The Northern Maritime Economy
• • The Urban Economy
• • Urban Society
• • The New Politics of Empire, 1713–1750
• • The Rise of Colonial Assemblies
• • Salutary Neglect
• • Protecting the Mercantile System
• • Mercantilism and the American Colonies
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES Native Americans and European Empires
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal "Middle Passage"
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST Why Did Americans Adopt Slavery?
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN Servitude and Slavery
• • CHAPTER 3 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 3 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 4: Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763

• • New England’s Freehold Society
• • Farm Families: Women in the Household Economy
• • Farm Property: Inheritance
• • Freehold Society in Crisis
• • Diversity in the Middle Colonies
• • Economic Growth, Opportunity, and Conflict
• • Cultural Diversity
• • Religion and Politics
• • Commerce, Culture, and Identity
• • Transportation and the Print Revolution
• • The Enlightenment in America
• • American Pietism and the Great Awakening
• • Religious Upheaval in the North
• • Social and Religious Conflict in the South
• • The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750–1763
• • The French and Indian War
• • The Great War for Empire
• • British Industrial Growth and the Consumer Revolution
• • The Struggle for Land in the East
• • Western Rebels and Regulators
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN Women’s Labor
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD Transatlantic Migration, 1500–1760
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST Did Diversity Lead to Toleration?
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES Evangelical Religion and Enlightenment Rationalism
• • CHAPTER 4 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 4 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 5: The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776

• • An Empire Transformed
• • The Costs of Empire
• • George Grenville and the Reform Impulse
• • An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act
• • The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770
• • Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd
• • The Ideological Roots of Resistance
• • Another Kind of Freedom
• • Parliament and Patriots Square Off Again
• • The Problem of the West
• • Parliament Wavers
• • The Road to Independence, 1771–1776
• • A Compromise Repudiated
• • The Continental Congress Responds
• • The Rising of the Countryside
• • Loyalists and Neutrals
• • Violence East and West
• • Lord Dunmore’s War
• • Armed Resistance in Massachusetts
• • The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War
• • Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
• • Independence Declared
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD Britain’s Atlantic and Asian Empires
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST Beyond the Proclamation Line
• • AP® INTERPRETATIONS Did British Administrators Try to Protect or Exploit Native Americans?
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES The Debate over Representation and Sovereignty
• • CHAPTER 5 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 5 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 6: Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789

• • The Trials of War, 1776–1778
• • War in the North
• • Armies and Strategies
• • Victory at Saratoga
• • The Perils of War
• • Financial Crisis
• • Valley Forge
• • The Path to Victory, 1778–1783
• • The French Alliance
• • War in the South
• • The Patriot Advantage
• • Diplomatic Triumph
• • Creating Republican Institutions, 1776–1787
• • The State Constitutions: How Much Democracy?
• • Women Seek a Public Voice
• • The War’s Losers: Loyalists, Native Americans, and Slaves
• • The Articles of Confederation
• • Shays’s Rebellion
• • The Constitution of 1787
• • The Rise of a Nationalist Faction
• • The Philadelphia Convention
• • The People Debate Ratification
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN The Black Soldier’s Dilemma
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD China’s Growing Empire
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST Was the Constitution Necessary?
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES The First National Debate over Slavery
• • CHAPTER 6 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 6 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 7: Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820

• • The Political Crisis of the 1790s
• • The Federalists Implement the Constitution
• • Hamilton’s Financial Program
• • Jefferson’s Agrarian Vision
• • The French Revolution Divides Americans
• • The Rise of Political Parties
• • A Republican Empire Is Born
• • Sham Treaties and Indian Lands
• • Migration and the Changing Farm Economy
• • The Jefferson Presidency
• • Jefferson and the West
• • The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics
• • Conflict in the Atlantic and the West
• • The War of 1812
• • The Federalist Legacy
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST Did Hamilton’s Economic System Endanger the Legacy of the Revolution?
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN The Social Life of Alcohol
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Race
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES Factional Politics and the War of 1812
• • CHAPTER 7 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 7 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 8: Economic Transformations, 1800–1848

• • Foundations of a New Economic Order
• • Credit and Banking
• • Transportation and the Market Revolution
• • The Cotton Complex: Northern Industry and Southern Agriculture
• • The American Industrial Revolution
• • Origins of the Cotton South
• • The Cotton Boom and Slavery
• • Technological Innovation and Labor
• • The Spread of Innovation
• • Wageworkers and the Labor Movement
• • The Growth of Cities and Towns
• • New Social Classes and Cultures
• • Planters, Yeomen, and Slaves
• • The Northern Business Elite
• • The Middle Class
• • Urban Workers and the Poor
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN The Entrepreneur and the Community
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD The Fate of the American and Indian Textile Industries
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES The Debate over Free and Slave Labor
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST Did the Market Revolution Expand Opportunities for Women?
• • CHAPTER 8 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 8 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 9: A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848

• • The Rise of Popular Politics
• • The Decline of the Notables and the Rise of Parties
• • Racial Exclusion and Republican Motherhood
• • The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
• • The Election of 1824
• • The Last Notable President: John Quincy Adams
• • "The Democracy" and the Election of 1828
• • Jackson in Power, 1829–1837
• • Jackson’s Agenda: Rotation and Decentralization
• • The Tariff and Nullification
• • The Bank War
• • Indian Removal
• • Jackson’s Impact
• • Class, Culture, and the Second Party System
• • The Whig Worldview
• • Labor Politics and the Depression of 1837–1843
• • "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD Alexis de Tocqueville: Letter to Louis de Kergorlay, June 29, 1831
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES The Character and Goals of Andrew Jackson
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST Was Indian Removal Humanitarian or Racist?
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN Becoming Literate: Public Education and Democracy
• • CHAPTER 9 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 9 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 10: Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848

• • Spiritual Awakenings
• • The Second Great Awakening
• • Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism
• • Utopian Experiments
• • Urban Cultures and Conflicts
• • Sex in the City
• • Popular Fiction and the Penny Press
• • Urban Entertainments
• • African Americans and the Struggle for Freedom
• • Free Black Communities, North and South
• • The Rise of Abolitionism
• • The Women’s Rights Movement
• • Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
• • From Antislavery to Women’s Rights
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST What Motivated Antebellum Reformers?
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES Saving the Nation from Drink
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN Dance and Social Identity in Antebellum America
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD Women’s Rights in France and the United States, 1848
• • CHAPTER 10 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 10 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 11: Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848

• • The Expanding South
• • Planters, Small Freeholders, and Poor Freemen
• • The Settlement of Texas
• • The Politics of Democracy
• • The African American World
• • Evangelical Black Protestantism
• • Forging Families and Communities
• • Negotiating Rights
• • Manifest Destiny, North and South
• • The Push to the Pacific
• • The Plains Indians
• • The Fateful Election of 1844
• • The U.S.-Mexico War, 1846–1848
• • The "War of a Thousand Deserts"
• • Polk’s Expansionist Program
• • American Military Successes
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN Childhood in Black and White
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST What Explains American Enthusiasm for Manifest Destiny?
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES The U.S.-Mexico War: Expansion and Slavery
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD Financing War
• • CHAPTER 11 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 11 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 12: Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1861

• • A Divisive War, 1844–1850
• • "Free Soil" in Politics
• • California Gold and Racial Warfare
• • 1850: Crisis and Compromise
• • The End of the Second Party System, 1850–1858
• • The Abolitionist Movement Grows
• • The Whig Party’s Demise
• • Immigrants and Know-Nothings
• • The West and the Fate of the Union
• • Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858–1860
• • Lincoln’s Political Career
• • The Union Under Siege
• • The Election of 1860
• • Secession Winter, 1860–1861
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST Did Slavery Have a Future in the West?
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD The Gold Rush: California and Australia
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN The Irish in America
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES To Secede or Not to Secede?
• • CHAPTER 12 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 12 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 13: Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865

• • War Begins, 1861–1862
• • Early Expectations
• • Campaigns East and West
• • Antietam and Its Consequences
• • Toward "Hard War," 1863
• • Politics North and South
• • The Impact of Emancipation
• • Citizens and the Work of War
• • Vicksburg and Gettysburg
• • The Road to Union Victory, 1864–1865
• • Grant and Sherman Take Command
• • The Election of 1864 and Sherman’s March
• • The Confederacy Collapses
• • The World the War Made
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST How Divided Was the Confederate Public?
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN Military Deaths — and Lives Saved — During the Civil War
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES These Honored Dead
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD War Debt: Britain and the United States, 1830–1900
• • CHAPTER 13 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 13 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 14: Reconstruction, 1865–1877

• • The Struggle for National Reconstruction
• • Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnson
• • Congress Versus the President
• • Radical Reconstruction
• • Women’s Rights Denied
• • The Meaning of Freedom
• • The Quest for Land
• • Republican Governments in the South
• • Building Black Communities
• • The Undoing of Reconstruction
• • The Republicans Unravel
• • Counterrevolution in the South
• • Reconstruction Rolled Back
• • The Political Crisis of 1877
• • Lasting Legacies
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST How Free Were Freedwomen in Reconstruction?
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES The Impact of Terror
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN The South’s "Lost Cause"
• • CHAPTER 14 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 14 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 15: Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890

• • The Republican Vision
• • The New Union and the World
• • Integrating the National Economy
• • Incorporating the West
• • Mining Empires
• • Cattlemen on the Plains
• • Homesteaders
• • The First National Park
• • A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed
• • The Civil War and Indians on the Plains
• • Grant’s Peace Policy
• • The End of Armed Resistance
• • Strategies of Survival
• • Western Myths and Realities
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD The Santa Fe Railroad in Mexico and the United States
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES Women’s Rights in the West
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST What Factors Motivated America’s Indian Policies?
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN Representing Indians
• • CHAPTER 15 REVIEW
• • CHAPTER 15 AP® PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Chapter 16: Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911

• • The Rise of Big Business
• • Innovators in Enterprise
• • The Corporate Workplace
• • On the Shop Floor
• • Immigrants, East and West
• • Newcomers from Europe
• • Asian Americans and Exclusion
• • Labor Gets Organized
• • The Emergence of a Labor Movement
• • The Knights of Labor
• • Farmers and Workers: The Cooperative Alliance
• • Another Path: The American Federation of Labor
• • AP® INTERPRETING THE PAST How Modern Were Late-Nineteenth-Century Corporations?
• • AP® THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN Poverty and Food
• • AP® AMERICA IN THE WORLD Emigrants and Destinations, 1881–1915
• • AP® ANALYZING VOICES Jewish Immigrants in the Industrial E