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目录 1

Part One The Colonial Period(1607-1776) 1

Section A Texts 1

Ⅰ．The European Explorers 1

Ⅱ．The British Colonies 3

Section B Supplementary Readings 9

Passage One Native Americans and Europeans 9

Passage Two Why Did They Come to America? 11

Passage Three Life in Colonial America 14

Passage Four The Evolution of Thanksgiving 17

Section C Exercises 19

Part Two The Revolutionary Period(1763-1789) 20

Section A Texts 21

Ⅰ．Conflict Between the American Colonies and the Mother Country 21

Ⅱ．War for Independence 24

Ⅲ．The New Constitution and Government 26

Section B Supplementary Readings 32

Passage One A Century of Imperial War 32

Passage Two The Issue of Representation 34

Passage Three Thomas Paine 36

Passage Four James Madison's Contribution to the Constitution 39

Passage Five The Independence Hall 40

Section C Exercises 41

Part Three The Young Republic(1790-1828) 42

Section A Texts 42

Ⅰ．The Washington Administration 42

Ⅱ．The John Adams Administration 46

Ⅲ．The Jefferson Administration 46

Ⅳ．The Madison Administration 49

Ⅴ．The James Monroe Administration 50

Ⅵ．The John Quincy Adams Administration 52

Passage One Alexander Hamilton and Finance in the Washington Administration 53

Section B Supplementary Readings 53

Passage Two The Louisiana Purchase 55

Passage Three Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 56

Passage Four The Monroe Doctrine 57

Section C Exercises 60

Part Four Western Expansion and Reform(1829-1859) 61

Section A Texts 61

Ⅰ．The Jackson Administration 61

Ⅱ．Manifest Destiny and the Mexican American War 63

Ⅲ．The Gold Rush 65

Ⅳ．Movement to the West 66

Ⅴ．Reform 67

Ⅵ．Slavery and the Drift Toward the Civil War 69

Section B Supplementary Readings 76

Passage One The Early Banking System 76

Passage Two The Indian Removal Act of 1830 78

Passage Three The Underground Railroad 79

Passage Four Harriet Tubman 80

Passage Five Elizabeth Cady Stanton 82

Passage Six Horace Mann 83

Section C Exercises 86

Part Five The Civil War and Reconstruction(1860-1877) 87

Section A texts 87

Ⅰ．The Civil War 87

Ⅱ．Reconstruction 94

Section B Supplementary Readings 100

Passage One First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln 100

Passage Two The Gettysburg Address 107

Passage Three Freedmen's Bureau 108

Passage Four Ku Klux Klan 109

Passage Five General Robert E.Lee 110

Section C Exercises 113

Part Six The Gilded Age(1865-1900) 114

Section A Texts 115

Ⅰ．Industrialization 115

Ⅱ．Urbanization 120

Ⅲ．Immigration 121

Ⅳ．The Rise of U.S.Imperialism 123

Section B Supplementary Readings 125

Passage One Immigration in the United States 125

Passage Two Tenements 128

Passage Three Rockefeller and Standard Oil—Rags to Riches 129

Passage Four Yellow Journalism 130

Passage Five Joseph Pulitzer 132

Section C Exercises 134

Part Seven The Progressive Era and World War Ⅰ(1890-1917) 135

Ⅰ．The Progressive Movement 136

Section A Texts 136

Ⅱ．World War I 144

Ⅲ．The End of the Progressive Agenda 146

Section B Supplementary Readings 147

Passage One Jane Addams 147

Passage Two The Spoils System Versus the Merit System 148

Passage Three American Life at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 149

Passage Four Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation 154

Passage Five World War I on the Home Front 158

Passag Six The Federal Reserve System 160

Section C Exercises 163

Part Eight Prosperity and Depression(1918-1933) 164

Section A Texts 165

Ⅰ．Prosperity:the Roaring Twenties 165

Ⅱ．The Great Depression 171

Passage One Henry Ford 177

Section B Supplementary Readings 177

Passage Two Prohibition 180

Passage Three F.Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream 182

Passage Four Herbert Hoover 184

Section C Exercises 188

Part Nine The New Deal and World War Ⅱ(1933-1945) 189

Section A Texts 190

Ⅰ．The New Deal 190

Ⅱ．World War Ⅱ 197

Section B Supplementary Readings 204

Passage One Social Security in the United States 204

Passage Two Isolationism 206

Passge Three The Cruel Injustice of Japanese Internment:Camp Harmony 210

Passage Four The Dust Storm:Mass Exodus from the Plains 215

Section C Exercises 218

Ⅰ．The United States in the 1950s 220

Section A Texts 220

Part Ten The Modern Era(1946-present) 220

Ⅱ．The United States in the 1960s 227

Ⅲ．The United States in the 1970s 234

Ⅳ．The United States from 1980 to 2000 238

Ⅴ．The United States Enters the 21st Century 242

Section B Supplementary Readings 243

Passage One The Truman Doctrine 243

Passage Two I Have a Dream 248

Passage Three Rosa Parks 252

Passage Four Malcom X 253

Section C Exercises 259

Appendixes 260

Appendix Ⅰ：Map of the United States 260

Appendix Ⅱ：Outstanding Events in American History 263

Appendix Ⅲ：Historical Documents 272

Bibliography 296