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    目录  
    Unit 1 The Age of Exploration  
    Text A Early Exploration and Settlements  
    Text B Columbus's Discovery of America  
    Text C Spanish Discovery of the New World  
    Text D The Legacy of the Puritans  
    Text E The Thanksgiving Story  
    Unit 2 The Colonial America  
    Text A The Original 13 Colonies  
    Text B Colonial Life of the Early Settlers  
    Text C Slavery in Colonial America  
    Unit 3 The Road to Independence  
    Text A The War of Independence  
    Text B The American Revolution  
    Text C Causes of the American Revolution  
    Unit 4 The Young Republic  
    Text A The Creation of a National Government  
    Text B Benjamin Franklin  
    Text C The Essence of the Constitution  
    Unit 5 The Westward Movement  
    Text A The Frontier of the American West  
    Text B The Donner Party  
    Text C Louisiana Purchase  
    Unit 6 The Civil War  
    Text A Causes of the Civil War  
    Text B The Gettysburg Address  
    Text C Eye Witness Accounts of the Assassination  
    Text D Cost of the War  
    Unit 7 Reconstruction(1865—1877)  
    Text A Reconstruction after the Civil War  
    Text B Education after the Civil War  
    Text C The Ku Klux Klan  
    Text D A Shattered Fairy Tale  
    Unit 8 The Gilded Age(1877—1917)  
    Text A The Gilded Age  
    Text B Industrialization  
    Text C The Gilded Age Society  
    Unit 9 America in World War Ⅰ(1914—1918)  
    Text A The U.S.A.and World War Ⅰ  
    Text B Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality  
    Text C U.S.Entry into World War Ⅰ  
    Unit 10 The Roaring Twenties  
    Text A The Roaring Twenties  
    Text B Formation of Modern American Mass Culture  
    Text C The Lost Generation  
    Unit 11 The Great Depression  
    Text A The Great Depression in America  
    Text B The Great Depression  
    Text C Iowa in the 1920s and the 1930s  
    Text D Franklin D.Roosevelt  
    Unit 12 America in World War Ⅱ  
    Text A World War Ⅱ  
    Text B The Origins of World War Ⅱ  
    Text C War in Europe  
    Text D War in the Pacific  
    Text E American Domestic Situation During World War Ⅱ  
    Unit 13 Postwar American Society  
    Text A American Society in the 1950s  
    Text B The Postwar Economy:1945—1960  
    Text C Desegregation  
    Unit 14 America in Transition  
    Text A America in the 1960s  
    Text B America in the 1970s  
    Text C The Cuban Missile Crisis  
    Text D The Space Race  
    Unit 15 Toward a New Century  
    Text A America Entering a New Century  
    Text B U.S.-Soviet Relations  
    Text C The Gulf War  
    Text D No Ordinary Day  
    Appendixes  
    Appendix 1 States,Their Entry into Union & Their Settlement  
    Appendix 2 Presidents & Vice Presidents of the U.S.  
    Appendix 3 U.S.History Timeline  
    Appendix 4 Keys to the Exercises  
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