U.S. History I

• Western Hemisphere's First Inhabitants
• European Contact

• Expanding Outward
• Portuguese Explorations and West Africa
• Columbus and the Spanish Explorations
• French and Dutch Explorations
• English Exploration, Early Settlements

• Settling the Colonies
• New England Colonies
• Chesapeake Colonies: Virginia, Maryland
• Restoration Colonies

• Colonial Society and Economy
• Enlightenment and Religious Revival
• Rivals for Empire

• Discontent in the Colonies
• Drifting toward Revolution
• Start of the American Revolution

• War for Independence
• Governing the New Nation
• Drafting the Constitution

• Organizing the Government
• Foreign Policy Challenges
• Ideological Challenges

• Jefferson's First Term
• Neutrality under Jefferson and Madison
• War of 1812
• A Spirit of Nationalism

• Improvements in Transportation
• Toward a Market Economy
• Growth of Manufacturing
• Changes in American Society

• Politics of the Jacksonian Era
• Jackson as President
• Van Buren and New Political Alignments
• Assessing Jacksonian Democracy

• Religious Revival
• Impulse for Reform
• Antebellum America: Literature, Art
• Antebellum America: Recreation, Leisure

• Slavery, the Economy, and Society
• Slave Society and Culture
• Resistance to and the Defense of Slavery

• Expansion of America
• Mexican Borderlands and Oregon
• Politics of Expansion
• War with Mexico
• Slavery in the New Lands

• Compromise of 1850
• Political Realignment in the 1850s
• Union in Crisis

• Balance of Forces
• Fighting the War
• Emancipation
• Politics and Economics of the War
• Triumph of the Union

• Politics of Reconstruction
• Reconstruction in Practice
• Grant Administration; Reconstruction Ends