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