US History/Contents

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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction

[edit] Colonial America

  1. Brief overview of European history
  2. Pre-Columbian America (before 1492)
  3. Contribution of Norwegians (Vikings)
  4. European Exploration in the New World (1492 - mid-1600s)
  5. Early Colonial Period (1492 - 1607)
  6. The English Colonies (1607 - 1754)
  7. Road to Revolution (1754 - 1774)

[edit] The Republic Until 1877

  1. The American Revolution (1774 - 1783)
  2. A New Nation is Formed (1783 - 1787)
  3. The Early Years of the Constitutional Republic (1787 - 1800)
  4. Jeffersonian Republicanism (1800 - 1824)
  5. Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny (1824 - 1849)
  6. The Indian Tribes of America
  7. Friction Between the States (1849 - 1860)
  8. States' Rights
  9. Secession
  10. The Civil War (1860 - 1865)
  11. Reconstruction (1865 - 1877)

[edit] The Republic from 1877 to 1989

  1. The Age of Invention and the Gilded Age (1877 - 1900)
  2. The Progressive Era (1900 - 1914)
  3. World War I and the Treaty of Versailles (1914 - 1920)
  4. The Roaring Twenties and Prohibition (1920 - 1929)
  5. The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929 - 1939)
  6. Spanish Civil War(1936-1939)
  7. World War II and the Rise of the Atomic Age (1939 - 1945)
  8. Truman and the Cold War (1945 - 1953)
  9. Eisenhower, Civil Rights, and the Fifties (1953 - 1961)
  10. Kennedy and Johnson (1961 - 1969)
  11. Nixon presidency and Indochina (1969 - 1974)
  12. Ford, Carter and Reagan presidencies (1974 - 1989)

[edit] 1989 to Present

  1. Bush and Clinton presidencies,1st Gulf War (1989 - 2000)
  2. George W. Bush, September 11, 2nd Gulf War, and Terrorism
  3. Growing Crisis with Iran (2002-)
  4. Election 2008

[edit] Appendices

  1. Appendix A: Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States
  2. Appendix B: Supreme Court Decisions
  3. Appendix C: Chief Justices
  4. Appendix D: Famous Third Parties
  5. Authors

[edit] Keywords (People, events, etc)

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