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Module 1: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877	FOR INSTRUCTORS: Important Guidelines for Using This Template	PLEASE READ: This page contains information about some best practices for using this template.
	Chapter 1.0 Introduction
	Chapter 1.1 Restoring the Union
	Chapter 1.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
	Chapter 1.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
	Chapter 1.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
	Chapter 1 Key Terms
	Chapter 1 Summary
	Chapter 1 Review Questions
	Chapter 1 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 1 PowerPoint

Module 2: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900	Chapter 2 Introduction
	Chapter 2.1 The Westward Spirit
	Chapter 2.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
	Chapter 2.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
	Chapter 2.4 The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture
	Chapter 2.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
	Chapter 2 Key Terms
	Chapter 2 Summary
	Chapter 2 Review Questions
	Chapter 2 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 2 PowerPoint

Module 3: Industrialization, 1870-1900 & The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900	Chapter 3 Introduction
	Chapter 3.1 Inventors of the Age
	Chapter 3.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
	Chapter 3.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
	Chapter 3.4 A New American Consumer Culture
	Chapter 3 Key Terms
	Chapter 3 Summary
	Chapter 3 Review Questions
	Chapter 3 Critical Thinking Questions
	Chapter 4 Introduction
	Chapter 4.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
	Chapter 4.2 The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
	Chapter 4.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
	Chapter 4.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
	Chapter 4 Key Terms
	Chapter 4 Summary
	Chapter 4 Review Questions
	Chapter 4 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 3 PowerPoints

Module 4: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900	Chapter 5 Introduction
	Chapter 5.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
	Chapter 5.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
	Chapter 5.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
	Chapter 5.4 Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
	Chapter 5 Key Terms
	Chapter 5 Summary
	Chapter 5 Review Questions
	Chapter 5 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 4 PowerPoint

Module 5: Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920	Chapter 6 Introduction
	Chapter 6.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
	Chapter 6.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
	Chapter 6.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
	Chapter 6.4 Progressivism in the White House
	Chapter 6 Key Terms
	Chapter 6 Summary
	Chapter 6 Review Questions
	Chapter 6 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 5 PowerPoint

Module 6: Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914	Chapter 7 Introduction
	Chapter 7.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
	Chapter 7.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
	Chapter 7.3 Economic Imperialism in East Asia
	Chapter 7.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
	Chapter 7.5 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
	Chapter 7 Key Terms
	Chapter 7 Summary
	Chapter 7 Review Questions
	Chapter 7 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 6 PowerPoint

Module 7: Americans in the Great War, 1914-1919	Chapter 8 Introduction
	Chapter 8.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
	Chapter 8.2 The United States Prepares for War
	Chapter 8.3 A New Home Front
	Chapter 8.4 From War to Peace
	Chapter 8.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
	Chapter 8 Key Terms
	Chapter 8 Summary
	Chapter 8 Review Questions
	Chapter 8 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 7 PowerPoint

Midterm Assessment/Additional Exam Module	FOR INSTRUCTORS: Adding a Midterm Assessment or Additional Exam	INSTRUCTORS: Read this page for information about adding a midterm assessment or additional exam. Delete or hide this page before course launches.
	Exam Information and Instructions

Module 8: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929	Chapter 9 Introduction
	Chapter 9.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
	Chapter 9.2 Transformation and Backlash
	Chapter 9.3 A New Generation
	Chapter 9.4 Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
	Chapter 9 Key Terms
	Chapter 9 Summary
	Chapter 9 Review Questions
	Chapter 9 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 8 PowerPoint

Module 9: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932	Chapter 10 Introduction
	Chapter 10.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
	Chapter 10.2 President Hoover’s Response
	Chapter 10.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
	Chapter 10.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
	Chapter 10 Key Terms
	Chapter 10 Summary
	Chapter 10 Review Questions
	Chapter 10 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 9 PowerPoint

Module 10: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941	Chapter 11 Introduction
	Chapter 11.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
	Chapter 11.2 The First New Deal
	Chapter 11.3 The Second New Deal
	Chapter 11 Key Terms
	Chapter 11 Summary
	Chapter 11 Review Questions
	Chapter 11 Critical Thinking Questions

Module 11: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945	Chapter 12 Introduction
	Chapter 12.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
	Chapter 12.2 The Home Front
	Chapter 12.3 Victory in the European Theater
	Chapter 12.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
	Chapter 12 Key Terms
	Chapter 12 Summary
	Chapter 12 Review Questions
	Chapter 12 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 11 PowerPoint

Module 12: Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960	Chapter 13 Introduction
	Chapter 13.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
	Chapter 13.2 The Cold War
	Chapter 13.3 The American Dream
	Chapter 13.4 Popular Culture and Mass Media
	Chapter 13.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
	Chapter 13 Key Terms
	Chapter 13 Summary
	Chapter 13 Review Questions
	Chapter 13 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 12 PowerPoint

Module 13: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s	Chapter 14 Introduction
	Chapter 14.1 The Kennedy Promise
	Chapter 14.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
	Chapter 14.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
	Chapter 14.4 Challenging the Status Quo
	Chapter 14 Key Terms
	Chapter 14 Summary
	Chapter 14 Review Questions
	Chapter 14 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 13 PowerPoint

Module 14: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980	Chapter 15 Introduction
	Chapter 15.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
	Chapter 15.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
	Chapter 15.3 Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
	Chapter 15.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
	Chapter 15.5 Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
	Chapter 15 Key Terms
	Chapter 15 Summary
	Chapter 15 Review Questions
	Chapter 15 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 14 PowerPoint

Module 15: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 & The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century	Chapter 16 Introduction
	Chapter 16.1 The Reagan Revolution
	Chapter 16.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
	Chapter 16.3 A New World Order
	Chapter 16.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
	Chapter 16 Key Terms
	Chapter 16 Summary
	Chapter 16 Review Questions
	Chapter 16 Critical Thinking Questions
	Chapter 17 Introduction
	Chapter 17.1 The War on Terror
	Chapter 17.2 The Domestic Mission
	Chapter 17.3 New Century, Old Disputes
	Chapter 17.4 Hope and Change
	Chapter 17 Key Terms
	Chapter 17 Summary
	Chapter 17 Review Questions
	Chapter 17 Critical Thinking Questions
	Module 15 PowerPoints

Final Exam/Final Project Module	Instructions for Adding the Final Assessment	INSTRUCTORS: Read this page for information about adding a final assessment. Delete or hide this page before course launches.