US History Handbook

US History Reference Handbook

The Handbook of US History learn about the time Europeans first discovered North America until the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. They examine the reasons the Europeans desired to leave their homelands in search of a new land. The settlers’ encounters with the Native Americans are discussed along with the conflicts that arise with the arrival of the colonists in the New World.

Table of Content

1. Ancient America Before 1492

2. European Encounters with the New World

3. Britain and the Settling of the Colonies. 1600-1750

4. Expansion of the Colonies. 1650-1750

5. The Colonial Crisis. 1750-1775

6. The American Revolution. 1775-1783

7. Founding a Nation. 1783-1789

8. The Federalist Era. 1789-1801

9. Securing the Republic. 1800-1815

10. Democracy in America. 1815-1840

11. The Market Revolution. 1815-1840

12. Religion, Romanticism, and Cultural Reform. 1820-1860

13. The Westward Movement and Manifest Destiny. 1812-1860

14. Slavery in the Antebellum U.S.. 1820-1840

15. A House Dividing. 1840-1861

16. The Civil War. 1861-1865

17. Reconstruction. 1865-1877

18. The Gilded Age. 1870-1900

19. The Progressive Era. 1890-1917

20. World War I. 1914-1919

21. The Roaring Twenties. 1920-1929

22. The New Deal. 1933-1940

23. From Isolation to World War II. 1930-1945

24. The Cold War

25. Politics and Culture of Abundance. 1943-1960

26. The Sixties. 1960-1969

27. The Conservative Turn of America. 1968-1989

28. Bush, Clinton, and a Changing World

29. America in the 21st Century

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