American History Web Links

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UNIT I

Early America

CHAPTER 1

Aboriginals and Europeans (1000–1700)

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The Jamestown colony

www.virtualjamestown.org

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The Salem witch trials, 1692

www.law.umkc.edu

CHAPTER 2

Colonial America (1700–1775)

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The transatlantic slave trade

www.slavevoyages.org

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The Deerfield Raid

deerfield.history.museum

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UNIT II

Revolutionary America

CHAPTER 3

Revolution (1774–1791)

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The American Revolution

www.theamericanrevolution.org

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The black Loyalists

epe.lac-bac.gc.ca

CHAPTER 4

Birth of the Republic (1789–1828)

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The Hamilton–Burr duel

www.pbs.org/wgbh

114

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

www.monticello.org

116

The journeys and discoveries of Lewis and Clark

www.nps.gov.htm

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UNIT III

Nationalism and Sectionalism

CHAPTER 5

Manifest Destiny (1828–1850)

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Alexis de Tocqueville

xroads.virginia.edu

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The Alamo

www.pbs.org/wgbh

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

www.pbs.org

CHAPTER 6

The Crisis of the Union (1850–1865)

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Spirituals

ctl.du.edu/spirituals

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Uncle Tom's Cabin and its impact

www.iath.virginia.edu/utc

190

The Civil War

www.pbs.org/civilwar

CHAPTER 7

Reconstruction and Expansion (1865–1880)

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The Reconstruction era

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

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The Great Fire of Chicago

www.chicagohs.org/fire

224

The transcontinental railroad

www.pbs.org/wgbh

226

Andrew Carnegie

www.pbs.org/wgbh

231

Mark Twain

www.pbs.org/marktwain

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The American West

www.pbs.org/weta

243

The Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876

libwww.library.phila.gov

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UNIT IV

Emerging Power

CHAPTER 8

The Gilded Age and Imperialism (1878–1901)

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Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty

www.ellisisland.org

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Jacob Riis and social reform movements

xroads.virginia.edu

269

The Haymarket Square riot

www.chicagohistory.org

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Joseph Pulitzer, the Columbia School of Journalism, and the Pulitzer Prize

www.pulitzer.org

CHAPTER 9

The Progressive Era and World War I (1900–1920)

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Theodore Roosevelt

www.pbs.org/wgbh

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Alice Paul

www.alicepaul.org

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America's entry into World War I

http://edsitement.neh.gov

CHAPTER 10

Between the Wars (1920–1940)

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The Roaring Twenties

www.fragrancex.com

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The Harlem Renaissance

www.nypl.org

340

Marcus Garvey

www.pbs.org/wgbh

347

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

www.neabigread.org

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UNIT V

World Power

CHAPTER 11

World War II and the Cold War (1941–1960)

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Pearl Harbor

nationalgeographic.com

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D-Day

www.pbs.org/wgbh

376

The internment of Japanese Americans

americanhistory.si.edu

www.usa-people-search.com

379

The Cold War

coldwar.org

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Jackson Pollock

www.nga.gov

CHAPTER 12

A Time of Hope, Disillusionment, and Protest (1960–1975)

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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Canada's response

archives.cbc.ca

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The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education

americanhistory.si.edu

412

The civil rights movement

www.civilrightsmuseum.org

417

The Vietnam War

www.pbs.org/wgbh

420

Muhammad Ali

www.ali.com/

425

The women's movement

www.history.com/

429

César Chávez

www.pbs.org/itvs

CHAPTER 13

A Time of Crises (1972–1989)

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Impeaching the president

www.senate.gov

450

US involvement in Chile

www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv

CHAPTER 14

Into a New Century (1989–Present)

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The Gulf War

www.pbs.org/wgbh

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Yugoslavia in the 1990s

news.bbc.co.uk

490

US domestic terrorism in the 1990s

academic.udayton.edu

494

The US Commission on Civil Rights' report on Florida voting

www.usccr.gov

495

The reconstruction of the World Trade Center

www.projectrebirth.org

497

Canadians in Afghanistan

www.forces.gc.ca

504

Hurricane Katrina

www.nytimes.com (PDF)

506

The Civil Rights Act of 2004 and SCHIP

www.civilrights.org

www.ncsl.org (PDF)

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Current economic indicators

www.gpoaccess.gov