By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the challenges that the United States faced following the conclusion of World War IExplain Warren G. Harding’s landslide victory in the 1920 presidential election

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the role that the United States played at the end of World War IDescribe Woodrow Wilson’s vision for the postwar worldExplain why the United States never formally approved the Treaty of Versailles nor joined the League of Nations

American Isolationism and the European Origins of the WarThe United States Prepares for WarA New Home FrontFrom War to PeaceDemobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the steps taken by the U.S. government to secure enough men, money, food, and supplies to prosecute World War IExplain how the U.S. government attempted to sway popular opinion in favor of the war effort

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain how Great Britain’s response to the destruction of a British shipment of tea in Boston Harbor in 1773 set the stage for the RevolutionDescribe the beginnings of the American Revolution

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain Loyalist and Patriot sentimentsIdentify different groups that participated in the Revolutionary War

Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its ConsequencesThe Early Years of the RevolutionWar in the SouthIdentity during the American Revolution

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the British and American strategies of 1776 through 1778Identify the key battles of the early years of the Revolution

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Outline the British southern strategy and its resultsDescribe key American victories and the end of the warIdentify the main terms of the Treaty of Paris (1783)

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the different approaches to reforming the institution of slaveryDescribe the abolitionist movement in the early to mid-nineteenth century

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the connection between evangelical Protestantism and the Second Great AwakeningDescribe the message of the transcendentalists

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify similarities and differences among utopian groups of the antebellum eraExplain how religious utopian communities differed from nonreligious ones

An Awakening of Religion and IndividualismAntebellum Communal ExperimentsReforms to Human HealthAddressing SlaveryWomen’s Rights

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the different reforms aimed at improving the health of the human bodyDescribe the various factions and concerns within the temperance movement

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the connections between abolition, reform, and antebellum feminismDescribe the ways antebellum women’s movements were both traditional and revolutionary

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the successes and failures of Herbert Hoover’s presidencyDetermine the fairness and accuracy of assessments of Hoover’s presidency

The Stock Market Crash of 1929President Hoover’s ResponseThe Depths of the Great DepressionAssessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal