United States History - Supplemental Course Notes
(Notes are from a course using Bailey's American Pageant)

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1 - New World Beginnings
2 - The Planting of English America
3 - Settling the Northern Colonies
4 - American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607 to 1692
5 - Colonial Society on the Eve of the Revolution 1770 to 1775
6 - The Duel for North America 1608 to 1763
7 - The Road to Revolution 1763 to 1775
8 - America Secedes from the Empire 1775 to 1783
9 - The Confederation and the Constitution 1776 to 1790
10 - Launching the New Ship of State 1789 to 1800
11 - The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy 1800 to 1812
12 - The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1815 to 1824
13 - The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy 1824 to 1830
14 - Jacksonian Democracy at Flood Tide 1830 to 1840
15 - Forging the national economy 1790 to 1860
16 - The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790 to 1860
17 - The South and the Slavery Controversy 1790-1860
18 - Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841-1848
19 - Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848-1854
20 - Drifting Toward Disunion 1854-1861
21 - Girding for War: The North and South 1861-1865
22 - The Furnace of the Civil War 1861-1865
23 - The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865-1877
24 - Politics in the Gilded Age 1869-1889
25 - Industry Comes of Age 1865-1900
26 - America Moves to the City 1865-1900
27 - The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution 1865-1890
28 - The Revolt of the Debtor 1889-1900
29 - The Path of Empire 1890-1899
30 - America on the World Stage 1899-1909
31 - Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901 to 1912
32 - Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad 1912 to 1916
33 - The War to End War 1917 to 1918
34 - American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1919 to 1929
35 - The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920 to 1932
36 - The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933 to 1938
37 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadows of War 1933 to 1941
38 - America in World War II 1941 to 1945
39 - The Cold War Begins 1945 to 1952
40 - The Eisenhower Era 1952 to 1960
41 - The Stormy Sixties 1960 to 1968
42 - The Stalemated Seventies 1968 to 1980
43 - The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980 to 1996