American Studies/Notes

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• Chap 1-3 - Colonial Notes
• Chap 4 - Slavery and the Empire, Development of North American Slave Societies, Becoming African American, Slavery and the Structure of Freedom
• Chap 5 - Cultures of Colonial North America
• Chap 6 - From Empire to Independence - Seven Year War in America, Imperial Crisis in British North America, Save your Money and Your Country, From Resistance to Rebellion, Deciding for Independence, Cause and Effect Chart
• Chap 7 - Creation of the United State - War for Independence, Page 2, United States in Congress Assembled, Page 2
• Chap 8 - United States of North America - Forming a New Government, A New Nation, Page 2, Federalists and Republicans, Rising Glory of America, Immigration Before 1800
• Chap 9 - An Agrarian Republic - Growth of American Communities from Coast to Coast, A National Economy, Renewed Imperial Rivalry, War of 1812, Defining the Boundaries, Page 2
• Chap 10 Growth of Democracy - New Democratic Politics, The Jackson Presidency, Internal Improvements: Building an Infrastructure, Page 2, Jackson and his Opponents: The Rise of the Whigs, Page 2, The Second Party System, PowerPoint Notes
• Chap 11: The South and Slavery - King Cotton and Southern Exports, To Be a Slave, The African American Community, Page 2, Yeomen and Poor Farmers, Planters, Defense of Slavery, Slave Revolts Chart
• Chap 12: Industry and the North - Preindustrial Ways of Working, The Market Revolution, Page 2, From Artisan to Worker, A New Social Order, Page 2, Comparison Chart, Page 2
• Chap 13: Coming to Terms with the New Age - Urban America, Page 2, Labor Movement and Urban Politics, Social Reform Movements, Page 2, Anti-Slavery and Abolitionism, Women's Rights Movement, Changing Face of Ethnicity, Questions

• Chap 14: The Territorial Expansion of the United States - Alamo and Texas, The Politics of Expansion, Page 2, Mexican American War Notes, California and the Gold Rush, Politics of Manifest Destiny, Evolution of Political Parties Chart
• Chap 15: The Coming Crisis - America in the 1850, The Compromise of the 1850, Crisis of the National Party System, The Differences Deepen, The South Secedes, The Road to Secession Chart
• Chap 16: The Civil War - Communities Mobilize for War, Lincoln's Presidency, The Confederacy, (Group Summery), Fighting through 1862, Page 2, The Death of Slavery, The Front Lines and the Home Front, Page 2, The Tide Turns, Major Battles of the Civil War Chart
• Chap 17: Reconstruction - Politics of Reconstruction, Page 2, The Meaning of Freedom, Southern Politics and Society, Reconstructing the North, Page 2, Presentation Notes, Page 2
• Chap 18: Conquest and Survival - Indian People Under Siege, Internal Empire, Cattle Industry, Farming Communities on the Plains, The World's Breadbasket, The Western Landscape, Transformation of Indian Society, Be Sure to Know
• Chap 19 - Incorporation of America - Rise of Business, Labor in the Age of Big Business, The Industrial City, The New South, The New South in Class Notes, Culture and Society in the Gilded Age, Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common
• Chap 20 - Commonwealth and Empire - Toward a National Governing Class, Farmers and Workers Organize their Communities, The Crisis of the 1890s, Politics of Reform and Order, Imperialism of Righteousness, Spanish-American War, Wizard of Oz, Page 2, Election of 1896
• Chap 21: Urban America and the Progressive Era - Culture of Progressivism, Page 2, Social Control and Its Limits, Working Class Communities and Protest, Page 2, Woman's Movement and the Black Awakening, National Progressivism, Page 2
• Chap 22: Becoming a World Power, Page 2, The Great War, American Mobilization, Over Here, Page 2, Repression and Reaction, An Uneasy Peace
• Chap 23: The Twenties - Post War Prosperity and Its Price, Page 2, The New Mass Culture, Page 2, The State, the Economy, and Business, Resistance to Modernity, Promises Postponed, Page 2, The Changing Face of Ethnicity 1860-1930, Strange Fruit
• Chap 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal - Hard Times, In Class Notes, FDR and the First New Deal, Family Life In-Class Notes, Left Turn and the Second New Deal, The New Deal and the West, Depression Era Culture, Limits of Reform
• Chap 25: World War 2 - The Coming of World War 2, Page 2, Arsenal of Democracy, The Home Front, Men and Woman in Uniform, The World at War, The Last Stages of War
• Chap 26: The Cold War - Policies of Containment, The Truman Presidency, The Cold War at Home, The Age of Anxiety, End of a Democratic Era, Page 2, Global Insecurities at War's End
• Chap 27: America at Mid-Century - American Society, Page 2, Mass Culture and its Discontents, Youth Culture, The Cold War Continued, Page 2, JFK In class Notes, JFK and the New Frontier, Page 2
• Chap 28: Civil Rights Movement - Origins of the Movement, No Easy Road to Freedom, Page 2, Movement at High Tide, Page 2, Forgotten Minorities, Page 2
• Chap 29: War Abroad, War at Home - Vietnam: America's Longest War.JPG, A Generation In Conflict, Wars of Poverty, 1968, The Politics of Identity, Page 2, The Nixon Presidency, Watergate
• Chap 30: The Overextended Society - Stagflation, Page 2, "Lean Year" Presidents, The New Poverty, Community and Grass Roots Politics, The New Conservatism, Adjusting to a New World, Carter's Crisis of Confidence
• Chap 31: The Conservative Ascendancy and the New Millennium - The Regan Revolution, Page 2, Regan's Foreign Policy, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times, Page 2, End of an Era?, Page 2, The New Millennium, A Global Community, Terrorist Attack on America