1-1  Contextualizing Period 1
1-2  Native American Societies Before European Contact
1-3  European Exploration in the Americas
1-4  Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
1-5  Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
1-6  Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
1-7  Causation in Period 1

2-1  Contextualizing Period 2
2-2  European Colonization
2-3  The Regions of British Colonies
2-4  Transatlantic Trade
2-5  Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans
2-6  Slavery in the British Colonies
2-7  Colonial Society and Culture
2-8  Comparison in Period 2

3-1  Contextualizing Period 3
3-2  The Seven Years’ War (The French and Indian War)
3-3  Taxation Without Representation
3-4  Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution
3-5  The American Revolution
3-6  The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
3-7  The Articles of Confederation
3-8  The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification
3-9  The Constitution
3-10  Shaping a New Republic
3-11  Developing an American Identity
3-12  Movement in the Early Republic
3-13  Continuity and Change in Period 3

4-1  Contextualizing Period 4
4-2  The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson
4-3  Politics and Regional Interests
4-4  America on the World Stage
4-5  Market Revolution: Industrialization
4-6  Market Revolution: Society and Culture
4-7  Expanding Democracy
4-8  Jackson and Federal Power
4-9  The Development of an American Culture
4-10  The Second Great Awakening
4-11  An Age of Reform
4-12  African Americans in the Early Republic
4-13  The Society of the South in the Early Republic
4-14  Causation in Period 4

5-1  Contextualizing Period 5
5-2  Manifest Destiny
5-3  The Mexican–American War
5-4  The Compromise of 1850
5-5  Sectional Conflict:Regional Differences
5-6  Failure of Compromise
5-7  Election of 1860 and Secession
5-8  Military Conflict in the Civil War
5-9  Government Policies During the Civil War
5-10  Reconstruction
5-11  Failure of Reconstruction
5-12  Comparison in Period 5

6-1  Contextualizing Period 6
6-2  Westward Expansion: Economic Development
6-3  Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development
6-4  The “New South”
6-5  Technological Innovation
6-6  The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
6-7  Labor in the Gilded Age
6-8  Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age
6-9  Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
6-10  Development of the Middle Class
6-11  Reform in the Gilded Age
6-12  Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age
6-13  Politics in the Gilded Age
6-14  Continuity and Change in Period 6

7-1  Contextualizing Period 7
7-2  Imperialism: Debates
7-3  The Spanish–American War
7-4  The Progressives
7-5  World War I: Military and Diplomacy
7-6  World War I: Home Front
7-7  1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology
7-8  1920s: Cultural and ARC Political Controversies
7-9  The Great Depression
7-10  The New Deal
7-11  Interwar Foreign Policy
7-12  World War II: Mobilization
7-13  World War II: Military
7-14  Postwar Diplomacy
7-15  Comparison in Period 7

8-1  Contextualizing Period 8
8-2  The Cold War from 1945 to 1980
8-3  The Red Scare
8-4  Economy after 1945
8-5  Culture after 1945
8-6  Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)
8-7  America as a World Power
8-8  The Vietnam War
8-9  The Great Society
8-10  The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)
8-11  The Civil Rights Movement Expands
8-12  Youth Culture of the 1960s
8-13  The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980
8-14  Society in Transition
8-15  Continuity and Change in Period 8

9-1  Contextualizing Period 9
9-2  Reagan and Conservatism
9-3  The End of the Cold War
9-4  A Changing Economy
9-5  Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s
9-6  Challenges of the 21st Century
9-7  Causation in Period 9