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Chapter 1 is the Demo

Chapter Index

Chapter 1: Great biological exchange and consequences of contact
Chapter 2: African Roots and Black Culture
Chapter 3: The French and Indian War
Chapter 4: Thomas Jefferson pens the Declaration of Independence
Chapter 5: Charles Willson Peale's depiction of the Revolutionary War
Chapter 6: The Constitutional Convention
Chapter 7: Pierre L'Enfant and the federal city
Chapter 8: Lewis and Clark
Chapter 9: The Monroe Doctrine
Chapter 10: Indian Removal Act / Indian Wars / The Trail of Tears
Chapter 11: Industrialization, urbanization, and immigration
Chapter 12: The Seneca Falls Convention
Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny - Life on the trail - Sante Fe Trail, Oregon Trail
Chapter 14: The Underground Railroad
Chapter 15: John Brown raids federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry (1859)
Chapter 16: Gettysburg
Chapter 17: Reconstruction - The Radical Reconstruction Plan
Chapter 18: Washington and DuBois
Chapter 19: Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel of Wealth
Chapter 20: Baseball: The National Passtime
Chapter 21: The Populists
Chapter 22: The Spanish-American War
Chapter 23: Teddy Roosevelt
Chapter 24: Mobilization and War Socialism
Chapter 25: The Jazz Age
Chapter 26: The Stock Market Crashes
Chapter 27: The First and Second New Deals - the TVA
Chapter 28: Pearl Harbor
Chapter 29: Executive Order 9066 mandates internment of Japanese Americans
Chapter 30: The House Un-American Activities Committee
Chapter 31: Conformity, Levittowns, and Changing Roles
Chapter 32: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Chapter 33: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chapter 34: Vietnam and Protests
Chapter 35: Berlin Wall torn down (1989)
Chapter 36: The Computer Revolution and the Internet

 

 

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