Unit 1 The Age of Exploration / Text A Early Exploration and Settlements / Text B Columbus’s Discovery of America / Text C The Legacy of the Puritans / Text D The Thanksgiving Story /
Unit 2 The Colonial America / Text A The Original 13 Colonies / Text B Colonial Life of the Early Settlers / Text C Slavery in Colonial America /
Unit 3 The Road to Independence / Text A The War of Independence / Text B The American Revolution / Text C Causes of the American Revolution /
Unit 4 The Young Republic / Text A The Creation of a National Government / Text B Benjamin Franklin / Text C The Essence of the Constitution /
Unit 5 The Westward Movement / Text A The Frontier of the American West / Text B The Donner Party / Text C Louisiana Purchase /
Unit 6 The Civil War / Text A Causes of the Civil War / Text B The Gettysburg Address / Text C Eye Witness Accounts of the Assassination /
Unit 7 Reconstruction (1865—1877) / Text A Reconstruction after the Civil War / Text B Education after the Civil War / Text C A Shattered Fairy Tale /
Unit 8 The Gilded Age (1877—1917) / Text A The Gilded Age / Text B Industrialization / Text C The Gilded Age Society /
Unit 9 America in World War I (1914—1918) / Text A The U.S.A. and World War I / Text B Wilson’s Declaration of Neutrality / Text C U.S. Entry into World War I /
Unit 10 The Roaring Twenties / Text A The Roaring Twenties / Text B Mass Entertainment in the 1920s / Text C The Lost Generation /
Unit 11 The Great Depression / Text A The Great Depression in America / Text B Iowa in the 1920s and the 1930s / Text C Franklin D. Roosevelt /
Unit 12 America in World War II / Text A World War II / Text B The Origins of World War II / Text C American Domestic Situation During World War Ⅱ/
Unit 13 Postwar American Society / Text A American Society in the 1950s / Text B The Postwar Economy: 1945—1960 / Text C Desegregation /
Unit 14 America in Transition / Text A America in the 1960s / Text B America in the 1970s / Text C The Cuban Missile Crisis /
Unit 15 Toward a New Century / Text A America Entering a New Century / Text B The Gulf War / Text C No Ordinary Day /
Appendixes Appendix 1 States, Their Entry into Union & Their Settlement / Appendix 2 Presidents & Vice Presidents of the U.S. / Appendix 3 U.S. History Timeline /
