Interactive OpenStax: U.S. History

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This interactive eText combines the content of OpenStax’s U.S. History with the dynamic engagement features of Top Hat to create a rich, accessible, and affordable learning experience. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

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Table of Contents for Interactive OpenStax: U.S. History

Front Matter
Chapter 1: The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
Chapter 2: Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492-1650
Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500-1700
Chapter 4: Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660-1763
Chapter 5: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
Chapter 6: America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
Chapter 7: Creating Republican Governments, 1776-1790
Chapter 8: Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790-1820
Chapter 9: Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800-1850
Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1820-1840
Chapter 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860
Chapter 12: Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800-1860
Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820-1860

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