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History 201 and 202 OpenStax

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Introduction to US History OpenStax for HIS201

US History 201 OpenStax includes the following chapters:

  • 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, 1790–1815
  • Chapter 9: Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
  • Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
  • Chapter 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1850
  • Chapter 12: Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
  • Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
  • Chapter 14: Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s
  • Chapter 15: The Civil War, 1860–1865

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