Student Resources Skip Navigation [Skip Navigation] First Founders European Footholds on the Fringes of North America, 1600-1660 Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715 African Enslavement: The Terrible Transformation An American Babel, 1713-1763 The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763-1775 Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783 New Beginnings: The 1780s Revolutionary Legacies, 1789-1803 Defending and Expanding the New Nation, 1803-1818 Defending and Expanding the New Nation The Rise of the West: Society and Politics in the "Age of the Common Man," Peoples in Motion The Crisis over Slavery To Fight to Gain a Country: The Civil War In the Wake of War: Consolidating a Triumphant Union Standardizing the Nation: Innovations in Technology, Business, and Culture Challenges to Government and Corporate Power: Resistance and Reform Political and Cultural Conflict in a Decade of Depression and War: The 1890s The Promise and Perils of Progressive Reform War and Revolution The Promise of Consumer Culture: The 1920s Hardship and Hope in the 1930s: The Great Depression Global Conflict: World War II Cold War and Hot War Domestic Dreams and Atomic Nightmares The Nation Divides: The Vietnam War and Social Conflict Reconsidering National Priorities The Cold War ReturnsÑand Ends Post-Cold War America A Global Nation for the New Millennium Old outline A Continent of Villages When Worlds Collide Planting Colonies in North America Slavery and Empire The Cultures of Colonial North America From Empire to Independence The American Revolution The New Nation An Agrarian Republic The Growth of Democracy The Growth of Democracy Industry and the North Coming to Terms with the New Age The Territorial Expansion of the United States The Coming Crisis, the 1850s The Civil War Reconstruction Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West The Incorporation of America Commonwealth and Empire Commonwealth and Empire Urban America and the Progressive Era World War I The Twenties The Great Depression and the New Deal World War II The Cold War America at Midcentury The Civil Rights Movement War Abroad, War at Home The Conservative Ascendancy