Let's review: U.S. history and government

Preface

Supreme Court Cases

United States History Documents

Unit 1. Constitutional Foundations of the United States

Chapter 1. The Constitution: The Foundation of American Society

Foundations, Revolution, and Confederation

Constitutional Convention, Ratification, and a Bill of Rights

Constitutional Structure, Function, and Thirteen Enduring Issues

Launching a New Government

Chapter 2. The Constitution Tested: Nationalism and Sectionalism

Constitutional Stress and Crisis

The Constitution in Jeopardy: The American Civil War

Unit 2. Industrialization of the United States

Chapter 1. The Reconstructed Nation

Reconstruction and the Nationalization of Civil Rights

Post-Civil War Economics

Emancipation: An Unsettled Issue

The End of Reconstruction

Chapter 2. The Rise of American Business, Industry, and Labor (1865-1920)

Technology and World Industrialism

Pre-Civil War Industrial Growth

Business Organization: Size and Structure

Transportation, Communication, and Resources

Representative Entrepreneurs

Business and Government

Labor Organization and Struggle

Chapter 3. Adjusting Society to Industrialism: American People and Places

Impact of Industrialism

Nation of Immigrants

The Last Frontier

American Society at the Turn of the Century

Unit 3. The Progressive Movement

Chapter 1. Reform in America

The Reform Tradition

Pressure for Reform

Progressivism and Government Action

Chapter 2. The Rise of American Power

The Industrial-Colonial Connection

An Emerging Global Involvement

Restraint and Involvement (1914-1920)

The Constitution and World War I

The Search for Peace and Arms Control (1914-1930)

Unit 4. At Home and Abroad: Prosperity and Depression

Chapter 1. War and Prosperity (1917-1929)

The First World War at Home

The Twenties: Business Boom or False Prosperity?

Optimism and Materialism

Chapter 2. The Great Depression and the New Deal (1933-1940)

Failure of the Old Order: Hoover and the Crash

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Relief, Recovery, and Reform

Constitutional Issues and the New Deal

The Human Factor

Unit 5. The United States in an Age of Global Crisis: Responsibility and Cooperation

Chapter 1. Peace in Peril (1933-1950)

Isolation and Neutrality

Failure of Peace: Triumph of Aggression

Home Front: The Human Dimensions of the War

The United States in World War II

Aftermath of World War II

Chapter 2. Peace with Problems (1945-1960)

International Peace Efforts

Communist Expansion and Containment in Europe and Asia

Internal Security and Constitutionalism

Unit 6. A World in Uncertain Times

Chapter 1. Toward a Post-Industrial world: Living in a Global Age

United States and Post-Industrialism

The World and Post-Industrialism

Chapter 2. Containment and Consensus (1945-1960)

Eisenhower Policies: Foreign Affairs

The Warren Court and Civil Rights

The Affluent Society

Chapter 3. Decade of Change (The 1960s)

The Kennedy Years: The New Frontier

Action in Foreign Policies

Johnson and the Great Society

The Movement for Equal Rights

Chapter 4. The Limits of Power: Turmoil at Home and Abroad (1965-1972)

Involvement in Asia

Protest and the Counterculture

Chapter 5. The Trend Toward Conservatism (1972-1992)

Nixon and the Imperial Presidency (1969-1974)

The Ford and Carter Presidencies (August 1974-January 1981)

The Reagan Era (1981-1989)

President George Bush (1989-1993)

Chapter 6. The Clinton Administrations

The Election of 1992

President Bill Clinton (1993-2001)

The Election of 1996

The Election of 2000

Unit 7. The New Millennium

Chapter 1. George W. Bush and Neoconservatism

The Election of 2010: Aftermath

Chapter 2. 9/11 and its aftermath

Domestic and World Events in the Months Before 9/11

Attack on America

Chapter 3. American Society Entering the 21st Century

Chapter 4. Operation Iraqi Freedom

United Nations and the Iraqi War

Chapter 5. Conservatism and One Party Rule

Chapter 6. Financial Crisis, Barack Obama, and an Uneasy World

Appendix A. Chronology of Major Events in American History

Appendix B. Notable Americans

Appendix C. Quotations

Answer Key

Glossary of Terms

June 2012 Regents Exam and Answers

Index