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An ebook for iPad that introduce the history of the United States.
1. Introduction
2. Pre-Columbian Period
2.1. Origins
2.2. North America
2.3. Mesoamerica
2.4. South America
3. Colonial Period
3.1. Motives for Colonization
3.2. Early Colonial Failures
3.3. Spanish Colonies
3.4. New Netherland
3.5. New France
3.6. Russian Colonies
3.7. British Colonies
3.8. Unification of the British Colonies
3.9. From Unity to Revolution
3.10. Colonial Life
4. Formation of the United States of America (1776–1789)
4.1. American Revolution
4.2. Development of Federal Institutions
4.3. Emerging First Party System
5. Westward Expansion (1789–1849)
5.1. Federalist Era
5.2. Thomas Jefferson
5.3. Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812
5.4. Era of Good Feelings
5.5. Return of factionalism and political parties
5.6. Andrew Jackson
5.7. The Age of Reform
5.8. Westward expansion
6. Civil War era (1849–1865)
6.1. Economic and Cultural Change
6.2. Political Upheaval
6.3. Civil War
7. Reconstruction and Industrialization (1865–1890)
7.1. Reconstruction
7.2. Industrialization
7.3. Gilded Age
8. Imperialism, Progressive Era, and World War I (1890–1918)
8.1. Imperialism
8.2. Progressive Era
8.3. World War I
9. Woman Suffrage
10. Post-World War I and the Great Depression (1918–1940)
10.1. Red Scare
10.2. Aftermath of World War I
10.3. Roaring Twenties
10.4. Great Depression
11. World War II
11.1. Battle against Germany
11.2. Battle against Japan
12. The Cold War from 1945 to 1964
12.1. Origins
12.2. Containment and Escalation
12.3. Korean War
12.4. Eisenhower Administration
12.5. Kennedy Administration
13. The Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
13.1. Background
13.2. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
13.3. Sit-ins
13.4. Birmingham campaign
13.5. March on Washington
13.6. Honors and Assassination
14. Lyndon Johnson’s Administration and the Vietnam War (1963–1968)
14.1. Kennedy's Involvement in the War
14.2. Expansion of the War
14.3. The Tet Offensive and Its Impact
14.4. Election of 1968
15. Nixon Administration and the End of the Vietnam War (1969–1975)
15.1. The End of the Vietnam War
15.2. Watergate Scandal
16. Energy Crisis and Hyperinflation (1973-1980)
16.1. The Gold Standard
16.2. 1973 Oil Crisis
16.3. Carter Administration and Second Oil Crisis
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