INSTRUCTOR’S RESOURCE MANUAL Peter Porter
AMERICAN STORIES A History of the United States SECOND EDITION H.W. A. Brands University of Texas
T.H.H. Breen Northwestern University
R. Hal Williams Southern Methodist University
Ariela J. Gross University of Southern California
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
New World Encounters, Preconquest—1608
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Chapter 2
England’s New World Experiments, 1607–1732
11
Chapter 3
Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society, 1619–1692
22
Experience of Empire: Eighteenth‐Century America, 1680–1763
33
The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763–1783
45
Chapter 6
The Republican Experiment, 1783–1788
56
Chapter 7
Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788–1800
66
Republican Ascendancy: The Jefferson Vision, 1800–1814
77
Chapter 9
Nation Building and Nationalism, 1815–1825
87
Chapter 10
The Triumph of White Men’s Democracy, 1824–1840
95
Chapter 11
Slaves and Masters, 1793–1861
104
Chapter 12
The Pursuit of Perfection, 1800–1861
113
Chapter 13
An Age of Expansionism, 1830–1861
122
Chapter 14
The Sectional Crisis, 1846–1861
130
Chapter 15
Secession and the Civil War, 1860–1865
140
Chapter 16
The Agony of Reconstruction, 1863–1877
149
Chapter 17
The West: Exploiting an Empire, 1849–1902
160
Chapter 18
The Industrial Society, 1850–1901
171
Chapter 19
Toward an Urban Society, 1877–1900
181
Chapter 20
Political Realignments, 1876–1901
192
Chapter 21
Toward Empire, 1865–1902
204
Chapter 22
The Progressive Era, 1895–1917
213
Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 8
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Chapter 23
From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism, 1900–1920
222
Chapter 24
The Nation at War, 1901–1920
235
Chapter 25
Transition to Modern America, 1919–1928
247
Chapter 26
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1929–1939
257
Chapter 27
America and the World, 1921–1945
267
Chapter 28
The Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1960
277
Chapter 29
Affluence and Anxiety, 1945–1960
288
Chapter 30
The Turbulent Sixties, 1960–1968
296
Chapter 31
To a New Conservatism, 1969–1988
310
Chapter 32
To the Twenty‐first Century, 1989–2010
445
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Introduction to Brands, Breen, Williams, and Gross American Stories 2e MyHistoryLab Instructor’s Manual Welcome to American Stories 2e MyHistoryLab Instructor’s Manual. This guide is designed to provide several things: • • • • •
an overview of how to utilize the American Stories text with MyHistoryLab a syllabus demonstrating how to integrate MyHistoryLab with a U.S. survey course callouts to MyHistoryLab content in the chapter summaries a listing of relevant material from MyHistoryLab possible ideas on how to utilize MyHistoryLab in the classroom to further critical thinking skills
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Assignment Calendar Section allows you to completely lay out assignments from your course syllabus or outline and plan out your semester/quarter/year. Assignments once created can be selected to show on student calendar. Tools help instructor for planning and student for keeping track of deadlines. Study Plan & Assignments Contains several tools helpful for student planning including Learning Objectives, Study Plan, Exam, Media, Quick Reviews, and Summary subsections. •
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Study Plan – A personalized study plan for each student, arranges content from less complex thinking–like remembering and understanding–to more complex critical thinking–like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills and helps students succeed in the course and beyond
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