Unit 1 The Age of Exploration / 1 Text A Early Exploration and Settlements / 2 Text B Columbuss Discovery of America / 3 Text C Spanish Discovery of the New World / 7 Text D The Legacy of the Puritans / 9 Text E The Thanksgiging Story / 10 Unit 2 The Colonial America / 14 Text A The Original 13 Colonies / 15 Text B Colonial Life of the Early Settlers / 21 Text C Slavery in Colonial America / 23 Unit 3 The Road to Independence / 27 Text A The War of Independence / 28 Text B The American Revolution / 33 Text C Causes of the American Revolution / 34 Unit 4 The Young Republic / 39 Text A The Creation of a National Government / 40 Text B Benjamin Franklin / 45 Text C The Essence of the Constitution / 47 Unit 5 The Westward Movement / 52 Text A The Frontier of the American West / 53 Text B The Donner Party / 59 Text C Louisiana Purchase / 60 Unit 6 The Civil War / 64 Text A Causes of the Civil War / 65 Text B The Gettysburg Address / 70 Text C Eye Witness Accounts of the Assassination / 71 Text D Cost of the War / 72 Unit 7 Reconstruction (1865 1877) / 77 Text A Reconstruction after the Civil War / 78 Text B Education after the Civil War / 83 TextC TheKuKluxKlan/ 83 Text D A Shattered Fairy Tale / 84 Unit 8 The Gilded Age (1877——1917) / 88 Text A The Gilded Age / 89 Text B Industrialization / 94 Text C The Gilded Age Society / 95 Unit 9 America in World War I (1914——1918) / 100 Text A TheU. S.A. and World War I / 101 Text B Wilsons Declaration of Neutrality / 108 Text C U.S. Entry into World War I / 109 Unit 10 The Roaring Twenties / 113 Text A The Roaring Twenties / 114 Text B Formation of Modern American Mass Culture / 118 Text C The Lost Generation / 120 Unit 11 The Great Depression / 125 Text A The Great Depression in America / 126 Text B The Great Depression / 131 Text C Iowa in the 1920s and the 1930s / 132 Text D Franklin D. Roosevelt / 134 Unit 12 America in World War II / 136 Text A World War II / 137 Text B The Origins of World War II / 142 Text C War in Europe / 145 Text D War in the Pacific / 145 Text E American Domestic Situation During World War II / 146 Unit 13 Postwar American Society / 151 Text A American Society in the 1950s / 152 Text B The Postwar Economy. 1945——1960 / 157 Text C Desegregation / 159 Unit 14 America in Transition / 164 Text A America in the 1960s / 166 Text B America in the 1970s / 167 Text C The Cuban Missile Crisis / 171 Text D The Space Race / 173 Unit 15 Toward a New Century / 177 Text A America Entering a New Century / 178 Text B U.S.-Soviet Relations / 182 Text C The Gulf War / 183 Text D No Ordinary Day / 184 Appendixes Appendix 1 States, Their Entry into Union & Their Settlement / 190 Appendix 2 Presidents & Vice Presidents of the U.S. / 192 Appendix 3 U.S. History Timeline / 195 Appendix 4 Keys to the Exercises / 208 重点参考书目和网站/ 216