Unit 1 The Age of Exploration/1

  Text A Early Exploration and Settlements/2

  Text B Columbus's 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 Wilson's 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