Skip to Main Content
I’m a Parent/ Guardian
I’m a Teacher
ML Logo link
Mobile ML Logo link
Hamburger_Menu
Mobile ML Logo link
Shopping Cart
0
Sign in
Browse
By Subject
Language Arts
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
Browse
By Details
Get Help & FAQs
  • Browse

    Browse

    back
    • Language Arts
    • Mathematics
    • Science
    • Social Studies
  • Help

    Help

    back
    • Get Help & FAQs
search icon
Sign in Sign In
Shopping Cart
0
Cover: Fabric of a Nation, 2nd Edition by Jason Stacy; Matthew J. Ellington

Get more with Achieve.

Achieve's online courseware includes an e-book, quizzes, videos, and more. It's your most economical choice, even if your instructor doesn't require it.

FIND YOUR ACHIEVE COURSE

Achieve is only available for selected titles.

Fabric of a Nation

Second  Edition|©2024  Jason Stacy; Matthew J. Ellington

  • Format
E-book from $58.99

ISBN:9781319533656

Accessible on multiple devices. Bookmark, search, and highlight in an interactive and downloadable e-book

$58.99
Subscribe until 11/12/2025

$89.99
Subscribe until 05/11/2026

$120.99
Hardcover $180.99

ISBN:9781319484422

Read and study in the print textbook.

$180.99
  • About
  • Digital Options
  • Contents
  • Authors

About

Everything You Need to Succeed in APUSH

Fabric of a Nation has a unique blend of historical content, skill workshops, primary and secondary sources, and AP® exam practice – everything a student needs to succeed in APUSH.

Get more with Achieve.

Achieve's online courseware includes an e-book, quizzes, videos, and more. It's your most economical choice, even if your instructor doesn't require it.

BUY ACHIEVE FOR $68.99

Digital Options

E-book

Our e-books are accessible on multiple devices. Read online (or offline), bookmark, search, and highlight in an interactive and downloadable e-book.

Learn More

Contents

Table of Contents

Brief Contents


Period 1: 1491–1607 Europeans Make Claims in the Americas

Module 1.1 Contextualizing Period 1

Module 1.2 Native American Societies 

Module 1.3 European Exploration in the Americas

Module 1.4 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest

Module 1.5 Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System

Module 1.6 Cultural Interactions among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

Module 1.7 Causation in Period 1


Period 2: 1607–1754 Colonial America amid Global Change

Module 2.1 Contextualizing Period 2

Module 2.2 European Colonization

Module 2.3a The Regions of British Colonies: The South and the British West Indies

Module 2.3b The Regions of British Colonies: New England and the Middle Colonies

Module 2.4 The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Economy

Module 2.5 Interactions between American Indians and Europeans

Module 2.6 Slavery in the British Colonies

Module 2.7 Colonial Society and Culture

Module 2.8 Comparison in Period 2


Period 3: 1754–1800 A Revolutionary Era

Module 3.1 Contextualizing Period 3

Module 3.2 The Seven Years’ War

Module 3.3 Taxation without Representation

Module 3.4 Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution

Module 3.5 The American Revolution

Module 3.6 The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals

Module 3.7 The Articles of Confederation

Modules 3.8 & 3.9 The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification & The Constitution

Module 3.10 Shaping a New Republic

Module 3.11 Developing an American Identity

Module 3.12 Movement in the Early Republic

Module 3.13 Continuity and Change in Period 3


Period 4: 1800–1848 Democracy, Industrialization, and Reform

Module 4.1 Contextualizing Period 4

Module 4.2 Political and Economic Transformations

Module 4.3 Politics, Economics, and Regional Interests 

Module 4.4 America on the World Stage

Module 4.5 Market Revolution: Industrialization

Module 4.6 Market Revolution: Society and Culture

Module 4.7 Expanding Democracy 

Module 4.8 Jackson and Federal Power

Module 4.9 Development of an American Culture

Module 4.10 The Second Great Awakening

Module 4.11 An Age of Reform

Modules 4.12 & 4.13 African Americans & The Society of the South in the Early Republic

Module 4.14 Causation in Period 4


Period 5: 1844–1877 Expansion, Division, and Civil War

Module 5.1 Contextualizing Period 5

Module 5.2 Manifest Destiny

Module 5.3 The Mexican-American War 

Module 5.4 The Compromise of 1850

Module 5.5 Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences

Module 5.7 Election of 1860 and Secession

Module 5.8 Military Conflict in the Civil War

Module 5.9 Government Policies during the Civil War

Module 5.10 Reconstruction 

Module 5.11 The Failure of Reconstruction

Module 5.12 Comparison in Period 5


Period 6: 1865–1898 A Gilded Age

Module 6.1 Contextualizing Period 6

Module 6.2 Westward Expansion: Economic Development

Module 6.3 Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Developments

Module 6.4 The “New South”

Module 6.5 Technological Innovation

Module 6.6 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism

Module 6.7 Labor in the Gilded Age

Module 6.8 Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age

Module 6.9 Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age 

Module 6.10 Development of the Middle Class

Module 6.11 Reform in the Gilded Age 

Module 6.12 Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age

Module 6.13 Politics in the Gilded Age

Module 6.14 Continuity and Change in Period 6


Period 7: 1890–1945 New Imperialism and Global Conflicts

Module 7.1 Contextualizing Period 7

Module 7.2 Imperialism: Debates

Module 7.3 The Spanish-American War

Module 7.4a The Progressives: Social Reform

Module 7.4b The Progressives: Political Reform

Module 7.5 World War I: Military and Diplomacy

Module 7.6 World War I: The Home Front

Module 7.7 1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology

Module 7.8 1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies

Module 7.9 The Great Depression

Module 7.10 The New Deal

Module 7.11 Interwar Foreign Policy

Module 7.12 World War II: Mobilization

Modules 7.13 & 7.14 World War II: Military & Postwar Diplomacy

Module 7.15 Comparison in Period 7


Period 8: 1945–1980 Cold War America

Module 8.1 Contextualizing Period 8

Module 8.2 The Cold War

Module 8.3 The Second Red Scare

Module 8.4 The Economy after 1945

Module 8.5 Culture after 1950

Module 8.6 Early Steps in the Civil-Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)

Module 8.7 America as a World Power

Module 8.8 The Vietnam War

Module 8.9 The Great Society

Module 8.10 The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)

Module 8.11 The Civil Rights Movement Expands

Module 8.12 The Youth Culture 

Module 8.13 The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980

Module 8.14 Society in Transition

Module 8.15 Continuity and Change in Period 8


Period 9: 1980–The Present Challenges in a Globalized World

Module 9.1 Contextualizing Period 9

Module 9.2 Reagan and Conservatism

Module 9.3 The End of the Cold War

Modules 9.4 & 9.5 A Changing Economy & Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s

Module 9.6 Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

Module 9.7 Causation in Period 9


Practice AP® Exam

Glossary/Glosario

Credits

Index

Authors

Headshot of Jason Stacy

Jason Stacy

Jason Stacy is Professor of U.S. History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville. Before joining the history department at SIU-Edwardsville, Stacy taught AP® U.S. History for eight years at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Stacy has served as an AP® U.S. History reader, table leader, exam leader, consultant, senior auditor, and question author for the AP® U.S. History exam. Author and editor of multiple books on authors like Walt Whitman and Edgar Lee Masters, his research has appeared in Social Education, the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and American Educational History. Stacy is also a contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive, where he edits Whitman’s journalism. Recently, he published Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town with the University of Illinois Press. Stacy has served as the president of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies, the editor of The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies, and a reviewer for many academic journals and presses.


Headshot of Matthew J. Ellington

Matthew J. Ellington

Matthew Ellington has taught AP® U.S. History at Ruben S. Ayala High School in Chino Hills, California, since 1998, where he has also served as an instructional coach, induction mentor for new teachers, social science department chairperson, and a member of his school district’s Teaching and Learning Taskforce. Ellington has been an active AP® U.S. History workshop consultant and exam reader for more than twenty years. He has also served as an AP® Mentor and as a member on the College Board’s Consultant Advisory Panel. Ellington coauthored The Survival Guide for AP® U.S. History and contributed to Teaching Ideas for AP® History: A Video Resource. Ellington and Stacy have been featured together on C-SPAN’s AP® U.S. History televised annual review sessions since 2020.


Fabric of a Nation combines historical content and sources with AP® skill Workshops and exam practice – everything you need, all in one place.

Everything You Need to Succeed in APUSH

Fabric of a Nation has a unique blend of historical content, skill workshops, primary and secondary sources, and AP® exam practice – everything a student needs to succeed in APUSH.

Get more with Achieve.

Achieve's online courseware includes an e-book, quizzes, videos, and more. It's your most economical choice, even if your instructor doesn't require it.

BUY ACHIEVE FOR $68.99

E-book

Our e-books are accessible on multiple devices. Read online (or offline), bookmark, search, and highlight in an interactive and downloadable e-book.

Learn More

Table of Contents

Brief Contents


Period 1: 1491–1607 Europeans Make Claims in the Americas

Module 1.1 Contextualizing Period 1

Module 1.2 Native American Societies 

Module 1.3 European Exploration in the Americas

Module 1.4 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest

Module 1.5 Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System

Module 1.6 Cultural Interactions among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

Module 1.7 Causation in Period 1


Period 2: 1607–1754 Colonial America amid Global Change

Module 2.1 Contextualizing Period 2

Module 2.2 European Colonization

Module 2.3a The Regions of British Colonies: The South and the British West Indies

Module 2.3b The Regions of British Colonies: New England and the Middle Colonies

Module 2.4 The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Economy

Module 2.5 Interactions between American Indians and Europeans

Module 2.6 Slavery in the British Colonies

Module 2.7 Colonial Society and Culture

Module 2.8 Comparison in Period 2


Period 3: 1754–1800 A Revolutionary Era

Module 3.1 Contextualizing Period 3

Module 3.2 The Seven Years’ War

Module 3.3 Taxation without Representation

Module 3.4 Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution

Module 3.5 The American Revolution

Module 3.6 The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals

Module 3.7 The Articles of Confederation

Modules 3.8 & 3.9 The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification & The Constitution

Module 3.10 Shaping a New Republic

Module 3.11 Developing an American Identity

Module 3.12 Movement in the Early Republic

Module 3.13 Continuity and Change in Period 3


Period 4: 1800–1848 Democracy, Industrialization, and Reform

Module 4.1 Contextualizing Period 4

Module 4.2 Political and Economic Transformations

Module 4.3 Politics, Economics, and Regional Interests 

Module 4.4 America on the World Stage

Module 4.5 Market Revolution: Industrialization

Module 4.6 Market Revolution: Society and Culture

Module 4.7 Expanding Democracy 

Module 4.8 Jackson and Federal Power

Module 4.9 Development of an American Culture

Module 4.10 The Second Great Awakening

Module 4.11 An Age of Reform

Modules 4.12 & 4.13 African Americans & The Society of the South in the Early Republic

Module 4.14 Causation in Period 4


Period 5: 1844–1877 Expansion, Division, and Civil War

Module 5.1 Contextualizing Period 5

Module 5.2 Manifest Destiny

Module 5.3 The Mexican-American War 

Module 5.4 The Compromise of 1850

Module 5.5 Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences

Module 5.7 Election of 1860 and Secession

Module 5.8 Military Conflict in the Civil War

Module 5.9 Government Policies during the Civil War

Module 5.10 Reconstruction 

Module 5.11 The Failure of Reconstruction

Module 5.12 Comparison in Period 5


Period 6: 1865–1898 A Gilded Age

Module 6.1 Contextualizing Period 6

Module 6.2 Westward Expansion: Economic Development

Module 6.3 Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Developments

Module 6.4 The “New South”

Module 6.5 Technological Innovation

Module 6.6 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism

Module 6.7 Labor in the Gilded Age

Module 6.8 Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age

Module 6.9 Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age 

Module 6.10 Development of the Middle Class

Module 6.11 Reform in the Gilded Age 

Module 6.12 Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age

Module 6.13 Politics in the Gilded Age

Module 6.14 Continuity and Change in Period 6


Period 7: 1890–1945 New Imperialism and Global Conflicts

Module 7.1 Contextualizing Period 7

Module 7.2 Imperialism: Debates

Module 7.3 The Spanish-American War

Module 7.4a The Progressives: Social Reform

Module 7.4b The Progressives: Political Reform

Module 7.5 World War I: Military and Diplomacy

Module 7.6 World War I: The Home Front

Module 7.7 1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology

Module 7.8 1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies

Module 7.9 The Great Depression

Module 7.10 The New Deal

Module 7.11 Interwar Foreign Policy

Module 7.12 World War II: Mobilization

Modules 7.13 & 7.14 World War II: Military & Postwar Diplomacy

Module 7.15 Comparison in Period 7


Period 8: 1945–1980 Cold War America

Module 8.1 Contextualizing Period 8

Module 8.2 The Cold War

Module 8.3 The Second Red Scare

Module 8.4 The Economy after 1945

Module 8.5 Culture after 1950

Module 8.6 Early Steps in the Civil-Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)

Module 8.7 America as a World Power

Module 8.8 The Vietnam War

Module 8.9 The Great Society

Module 8.10 The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)

Module 8.11 The Civil Rights Movement Expands

Module 8.12 The Youth Culture 

Module 8.13 The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980

Module 8.14 Society in Transition

Module 8.15 Continuity and Change in Period 8


Period 9: 1980–The Present Challenges in a Globalized World

Module 9.1 Contextualizing Period 9

Module 9.2 Reagan and Conservatism

Module 9.3 The End of the Cold War

Modules 9.4 & 9.5 A Changing Economy & Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s

Module 9.6 Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

Module 9.7 Causation in Period 9


Practice AP® Exam

Glossary/Glosario

Credits

Index

Headshot of Jason Stacy

Jason Stacy

Jason Stacy is Professor of U.S. History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville. Before joining the history department at SIU-Edwardsville, Stacy taught AP® U.S. History for eight years at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Stacy has served as an AP® U.S. History reader, table leader, exam leader, consultant, senior auditor, and question author for the AP® U.S. History exam. Author and editor of multiple books on authors like Walt Whitman and Edgar Lee Masters, his research has appeared in Social Education, the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and American Educational History. Stacy is also a contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive, where he edits Whitman’s journalism. Recently, he published Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town with the University of Illinois Press. Stacy has served as the president of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies, the editor of The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies, and a reviewer for many academic journals and presses.


Headshot of Matthew J. Ellington

Matthew J. Ellington

Matthew Ellington has taught AP® U.S. History at Ruben S. Ayala High School in Chino Hills, California, since 1998, where he has also served as an instructional coach, induction mentor for new teachers, social science department chairperson, and a member of his school district’s Teaching and Learning Taskforce. Ellington has been an active AP® U.S. History workshop consultant and exam reader for more than twenty years. He has also served as an AP® Mentor and as a member on the College Board’s Consultant Advisory Panel. Ellington coauthored The Survival Guide for AP® U.S. History and contributed to Teaching Ideas for AP® History: A Video Resource. Ellington and Stacy have been featured together on C-SPAN’s AP® U.S. History televised annual review sessions since 2020.


Related Titles

Find Your School

Select Your Discipline

Select Your Course

search icon
No schools matching your search criteria were found !
No active courses are available for this school.
No active courses are available for this discipline.
Can't find your course?

Find Your Course

Confirm Your Course

Enter the course ID provided by your instructor
search icon

Find Your School

Select Your Course

No schools matching your search criteria were found.
(Optional)
Select Your Course
No Courses found for your selection.
  • Privacy Notice
  • | Ads & Cookies
  • | Terms of Purchase
  • | Terms of Use
  • | Piracy
  • | Accessibility
  • | Code of Conduct
  • | Customer Support
ML Logo
AP® and Pre-AP® are trademarks registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, these products.
  • macmillan learning facebook
  • macmillan learning twitter
  • macmillan learning youtube
  • macmillan learning linkedin
  • macmillan learning instagram
ML Logo
We are processing your request. Please wait...