1. THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
A LOOK BACK

2. POST-CIVIL WAR ISSUES Reconstruction—establishing political unity
Political equality to blacks—Fifteenth Amendment
Development of the new South-industrialization
Development of the New West, Transcontinental Railroad

3. INDIANS AND SETTLERS Homestead Act of 1862 Little Big Horn 1876
Wounded Knee massacre 1890
The Vanishing American

4. THE CLOSURE OF THE FRONTIER
--The arrival of immigrants --New immigration : Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History --Frontier: a crucible, a sort of a melting pot --a tool of Americanization

5. THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
A comprehensive reform movement
Direct Democracy
Economic Justice
Temperance
Women’s suffrage
Nativism, xenophobia

6. FROM COLONY TO COLONIAL NATION
Isolationism-Monroe Doctrine
Annexation of Hawaii
Spanish-American War
Roosevelt Corollary
Dollar Diplomacy

7. WORLD WAR ONE European background Strained neutrality
We make the world safer for democracy
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Paris Peace Talks
Failure of the League of Nations

8. THE ROARING TWENTIES
--The Red Scare --The rise of nativism --Clash between modern and traditional America --Economic prosperity --The flapper --the stock market crash --Hoover’s response-associationalism, insistence on traditional values (individualism, American Dream, wealth will trickle down)

9. THE GREAT DEPRESSION We have nothing to fear, but fear itself
FDR The First Hundred Days
The Social Security Act of 1935
Saving capitalism, establishing the broker state, and the foundation of the welfare state

10. WORLD WAR TWO Rise of totalitarianism From Neutrality to Pearl Harbor
From the Coral Sea to Nagasaki
The rise of a superpower