American History Population, Social Statistics, Political System

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United States History Index
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Source: United States Information Agency

  * [EARLY AMERICA. The first Americans](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fearly%5Famerica.html)  
           * [Mound builders and pueblos](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fmound%5Fbuilders%5Fand%5Fpueblos.html)  
           * [Native American cultures](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fnative%5Famerican%5Fcultures.html)  
           * [The first Europeans](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fthe%5Ffirst%5Feuropeans.html)  
           * [Early settlements](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fearly%5Fsettlements.html)  
           * [Jamestown](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fjamestown.html)  
           * [Massachusetts](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fmassachusetts.html)  
           * [New Netherland and Maryland](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fnew%5Fnetherland%5Fand%5Fmaryland.html)  
           * [Colonial - Indian relations](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fcolonial%5Findian%5Frelations.html)  
           * [Second generation of British colonies](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fsecond%5Fgeneration%5Fof%5Fbritish%5Fcolonies.html)  
           * [Settlers slaves and servants](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fsettlers%5Fslaves%5Fand%5Fservants.html)  
           * [ The enduring mystery of the Anasazi](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fside%5Fbar%5Fthe%5Fenduring%5Fmystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fanasazi.html)
  * [THE COLONIAN PERIOD. New peoples](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fthe%5Fcolonial%5Fperiod.html)  
           * [New england](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fnew%5Fengland.html)  
           * [The middle colonies](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fthe%5Fmiddle%5Fcolonies.html)  
           * [The southern colonies](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fthe%5Fsouthern%5Fcolonies.html)  
           * [Society, schools and culture](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fsociety%5Fschools%5Fand%5Fculture.html)  
           * [Emergence of colonial government](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Femergence%5Fof%5Fcolonial%5Fgovernment.html)  
           * [The French and Indian war](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fthe%5Ffrench%5Fand%5Findian%5Fwar.html)  
           * [ The witches of Salem](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fsidebar%5Fthe%5Fwitches%5Fof%5Fsalem.html)
  * [THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE](united%5Fstates%5Fhistory%5Fthe%5Froad%5Fto%5Findependence.html)

- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Government Policy Toward Native Americans * A new colonial system * Stamp act * Taxation without representation * Townshend acts * Samuel Adams * Boston "Tea Party" * The Coercive acts * The revolution begins * Common sense and independence * Defeats and victories * Franco-American alliance * The British move south * Victory and independence * Loyalists during the American revolution * THE FORMATION OF A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. State constitutions
* Articles of confederation
* The problem of expansion
* Constitutional convention
* Debate and compromise
* Ratification and the bill of rights
* President Washington
* Hamilton vs. Jefferson
* Citizen genet and foreign policy
* Adams and Jefferson
* Louisiana and Britain
* War of 1812
* The second great awakening * WESTWARD EXPANSION AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES

- National Expansion And Reform, 1815-1860 * Building unity * Extension of slavery * Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine * Factionalism and political parties * Nullification crisis * Battle of the bank * Whigs, Democrats and "Know Nothings" * Stirrings of reform * Women's rights * Westward * Seneca falls * SECTIONAL CONFLICT

- Civil War And Reconstruction, 1861-1877 * Two Americas * Lands of promise * Slavery and sectionalism * The abolitionists * Texas and war with Mexico * The compromise of 1850 * A divided nation * Lincoln, Douglas and Brown * Secession and Civil War * Western advance, Eastern stalemate * Gettysburg to Appomattox * With malice toward none * Radical reconstruction * The end of reconstruction * Peace Democrats, Copperheads and draft riots * GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION

- Rise Of Industrial America, 1876-1900
- Immigration To The United States, 1851-1900 * Technology and change * Carnegie and the era of steel * Corporations and cities * Railroads, regulations and the tariff * Revolution in agriculture * The divided South * The last frontier * The plight of the Indians * Ambivalent empire * The canal and the Americas * United States and Asia * DISCONTENT AND REFORM. Agrarian distress and the rise of populism
- Progressive Era To New Era, 1900-1929
* The struggles of labor
* The reform impulse
* Roosevelt's reforms
* Taft and Wilson
* A nation of nations * WAR , PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION. War and neutral rights * United States enters World War I * The League of Nations * Postwar unrest * The booming 1920s * Tensions over immigration * Clash of cultures * The great depression * THE NEW DEAL AND WORLD WAR. Roosevelt and the new deal

- Great Depression To World War II, 1929-1945 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933-1945 - World War Two * Unemployment * Agriculture * The second New Deal * A new coalition * Eve of World War II * Japan, Pearl Harbor and War * The War in North Africa and Europe * The War in the Pacific * The politics of War * War, victory and the bomb * The rise of industrial unions * POSTWAR AMERICA. Consensus and change
- Postwar United States, 1945-1968
* Cold War aims
* Harry Truman's leadership
* Origins of the Cold War
* Containment
* The Cold War in Asia and the Middle East
* Eisenhower and the Cold War
* The Cold War at home
* The postwar economy 1945-1960
* The Fair Deal
* Eisenhowers approach
* The culture of the 1950s
* Origins of the civil rights movement
* Desegregation * DECADES OF CHANGE * Kennedy and the New Frontier * Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society * Confrontation over Cuba * The space program * The war in Vietnam * Detente * Nixon's accomplishments and defeats * The Ford interlude * Post-Vietnam foreign policy * The civil rights movement 1960-1980 * The women's movement * The Latino movement * The Native American movement * The counter culture and environmentalism * TOWARD THE 21st CENTURY. A society in transition
* Conservatism and the rise of Ronald Reagan
* The economy in the 1980s
* Foreign affairs
* U.S. - Soviet relations
* Space shuttle
* Iran contra and Black Monday
* The presidency of George Bush
* Budgets and deficits
* End to the Cold War
* The Gulf War
* Panama and Nafta
* 1992 presidential election
* Afterword
* A nation of immigrants - Third party and independent candidates * BRIEF READING LIST IN AMERICAN HISTORY * ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTE: The information regarding United States on this page is re-published from The Library of Congress Country Studies. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of United States History information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about United States History should be addressed to the Library of Congress.

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