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  • Key Inventions and Innovations
    Invention or Innovation Political, Economic, or Social Effect(s)
    Toll roads Expanded transportation routes
    Steamboats Allowed faster travel, shipping, and upstream movement
    Canals Expanded transportation routes; improved commerce by linking farms to cities; opened new regions to settlement
    Railroads Cost less to build than canals and could move farther and faster, and carry more weight; connected East and West
    Textile mills Provided jobs; increased the speed of producing textiles
    Interchangeable parts Made possible the efficient production of a wide range of manufactured goods
  • Causes and Effects of the Cotton Boom
    A box illustrating the causes and effects of the cotton boom. d
  • Key Nationalist Supreme Court Cases
    Case Issues Outcome of Decision
    McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
    • Does the government have the power to create a national bank?
    • Do states have the right to tax institutions created by the federal government?
    • Reinforced the principle of the power of the national government over state governments; states could not interfere with an agency of the national government and, therefore, could not tax the national bank
    Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
    • Who has the power to regulate commerce: the states, the federal government, or both?
    • What if states passed laws that affected business between states?
    • Established the federal government’s right to regulate all aspects of interstate commerce

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Table of Contents

Prentice Hall: United States History CHAPTER 1 Many Cultures Meet (Prehistory–1550) CHAPTER 2 Europeans Establish Colonies (1492–1752) CHAPTER 3 The American Colonies Take Shape (1607–1765) CHAPTER 4 The American Revolution (1765–1783) CHAPTER 5 Creating the Constitution (1781–1789) CHAPTER 6 The New Republic (1789–1816) CHAPTER 7 Nationalism and Sectionalism (1812–1855) CHAPTER 8 Religion and Reform (1812–1860) CHAPTER 9 Manifest Destiny (1800–1850) CHAPTER 10 The Union in Crisis (1846–1861) CHAPTER 11 The Civil War (1861–1865) CHAPTER 12 The Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) CHAPTER 13 The Triumph of Industry (1865–1914) CHAPTER 14 Immigration and Urbanization (1865–1914) CHAPTER 15 The South and West Transformed (1865–1900) CHAPTER 16 Issues of the Gilded Age (1877–1900) CHAPTER 17 The Progressive Era (1890–1920) CHAPTER 18 An Emerging World Power (1890–1917) CHAPTER 19 World War I and Beyond (1914–1920) CHAPTER 20 The Twenties (1919–1929) CHAPTER 21 The Great Depression (1928–1932) CHAPTER 22 The New Deal (1932–1941) CHAPTER 23 The Coming of War (1931–1942) CHAPTER 24 World War II (1941–1945) CHAPTER 25 The Cold War (1945–1960) CHAPTER 26 Postwar Confidence and Anxiety (1945–1960) CHAPTER 27 The Civil Rights Movement (1945–1975) CHAPTER 28 The Kennedy and Johnson Years (1960–1968) CHAPTER 29 The Vietnam War Era (1954–1975) CHAPTER 30 An Era of Protest and Change (1960–1980) CHAPTER 31 A Crisis in Confidence (1968–1980) CHAPTER 32 The Conservative Resurgence (1980–1993) CHAPTER 33 Into a New Century (1992–Today) Reflections: Enduring Issues Five Themes of Geography Profile of the Fifty States Atlas Presidents of the United States Economics Handbook Landmark Decisions of the Supreme Court Documents of Our Nation English and Spanish Glossary Index Acknowledgments