Chapter 5: Changes on the Western Frontier 1877-1900 Chapter Objective: To analyze the settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800's and to examine Native American policies, private property rights, and the Populist Movement.
Chapter 6: A New Industrial Age 1877-1900 Chapter Objective: To analyze the effects of various scientific discoveries and manufacturing innovations on the nature of work, the American labor movement and businesses.
Chapter 7: Immigrants and Urbanization 1877-1914 Chapter Objective: To analyze the economic, social, and political effects of immigration and to understand the immigrant experience.
Chapter 8: Life at the Turn of the 20th Century 1877-1917 Chapter Objective: To analyze significant turn-of-the-20th-century trends in such areas as technology, education, race relations, and mass culture.
Chapter 9: The Progressive Era 1890-1920 Chapter Objective: To explain how the progressive movement managed to increase the power of government to regulate business and to protect society from the injustices fostered by big business.
Chapter 10: America Claims an Empire 1890-1920 Chapter Objective: To understand how individuals and events moved the United States into the role of a world power and to recognize the effects of economic policies on U.S. diplomacy.
Chapter 11: The First World War 1914-1920 Chapter Objective: To understand the causes of World War I, the reasons the United States entered the war in 1917, and the consequences of the war.
Chapter 12: Politics of the Roaring Twenties 1920-1929 Chapter Objective: To trace the political and social changes after World War I and throughout the decade of the 1920s.
Chapter 13: The Roaring Life of the 1920s 1920-1929 Chapter Objective: To understand such issues as Prohibition, the changing role of women, and the influence of the Harlem Renaissance.
Chapter 14: The Great Depression Begins 1929-1933 Chapter Objective: To understand the causes and consequences of the Great Depression and the futility of Hoover's actions to limit the damage.
Chapter 15: The New Deal 1933-1940 Chapter Objective: To understand the impetus for FDR's New Deal legislations and the impact these policies on the American nation.
Chapter 16: World War Looms 1931-1941 Chapter Objective: To trace the rise of dictators, the beginnings of war, and the American response in the 1930s.
Chapter 17: The United States in World War II 1941-1945 Chapter Objective: To understand the military campaigns, political decisions, and efforts on the home front that won World War II.
Chapter 20: The New Frontier and the Great Society 1960-1968 Chapter Objective: To understand the achievements and challenges of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
Chapter 22: The Vietnam War Years 1954-1975 Chapter Objective: To understand the military and political events of the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia and its impact on life in the United States.
Chapter 23: An Era of Social Change 1960-1975 Chapter Objective: To understand the sweeping social protest movements of the 1960s and the quest for radical change initiated by Latinos, Native Americans, women, and young people.
Chapter 24: The Age of Limits 1968-1980 Chapter Objective: To understand the political, social, and economic events of the 1970s and the Nixon Administration.