Discovery, colonization, American Revolution, establishment of the Constitution, foreign affairs, westward expansion, slavery, sectionalism, Civil War, and reconstruction.

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Course Outline
Module 1: A New World
Module 2: English America Beginnings, 1607 - 1660
Module 3: Creating Anglo America, 1660 - 1750
Module 4: Slavery, Freedom, and Struggle for Empire to 1763
Module 5: America Revolution, 1763 - 1783
Module 6: Revolution Within
Module 7: Founding a Nation, 1783 - 1791
Module 8: Securing a Republic, 1791 - 1815
Module 9: The Market Revolution, 1800 - 1840
Module 10: Democracy in America, 1815 - 1840
Module 11: The Peculiar Institution
Module 12: Age of Reform, 1820 - 1840
Module 13: A House Divided, 1840 - 1861
Module 14: The Civil War
Module 15: Reconstruction, 1865 - 1877
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Give Me Liberty! An American History, Brief 6th ed. vol. 1 (Required)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Required)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Required)
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