INSTRUCTOR’S MANUAL — By The People, Combined Volume, 1st Edition — James W. Fraser — ISBN 9780131366183

The Instructor’s Manual for By The People, Combined Volume, 1st Edition by James W. Fraser (ISBN 9780131366183) is a comprehensive teaching resource that accompanies the full U.S. history survey text. It provides structured chapter outlines, discussion questions, suggested lecture strategies, key terms, and exam materials to guide instructors in delivering effective lessons and assessments. Each section is carefully aligned with the textbook’s narrative focus on storytelling and analysis, helping educators foster student engagement with American history from pre-contact societies through the early 21st century. The manual covers the complete volume in sequence, beginning with Part 1: Contact and Exploration, 1491–1607, including Chapter 1: The World before 1492 and Chapter 2: First Encounters, First Conquests, 1492–1607. Part 2: Settlements Old and New, 1607–1754 includes Chapter 3: Settlements, Alliances, and Resistance, 1607–1718 and Chapter 4: Creating the Culture of British North America, 1689–1754. Part 3: A New Birth of Freedom—Creating the United States of America, 1754–1800 presents Chapter 5: The Making of a Revolution, 1754–1783, Chapter 6: Creating a Nation, 1783–1788, and Chapter 7: Practicing Democracy, 1789–1800. Part 4: Crafting a Nation, People, Land, and a National Identity, 1800–1848 includes Chapter 8: Creating a New People, Expanding the Country, 1801–1823, Chapter 9: New Industries, New Politics, 1815–1828, Chapter 10: Democracy in the Age of Andrew Jackson, 1828–1844, and Chapter 11: Manifest Destiny: Expanding the Nation, 1830–1853. Part 5: Expansion, Separation, and a New Union, 1844–1877 covers Chapter 12: Living in a Nation of Changing Lands, Changing Faces, Changing Expectations, 1831–1854, Chapter 13: The Politics of Separation, 1850–1861, Chapter 14: And the War Came: The Civil War, 1861–1865, and Chapter 15: Reconstruction, 1865–1877. Part 6: Becoming an Industrial World Power—Costs, Benefits, and Responses, 1865–1914 includes Chapter 16: Conflict in the West, 1865–1912, Chapter 17: The Gilded Age: Building a Technological and Industrial Giant and a New Social Order, 1876–1913, Chapter 18: Responses to Industrialism, Responses to Change, 1877–1914, and Chapter 19: Progressive Movements, Progressive Politics, 1879–1917. Part 7: War, Prosperity, and Depression, 1890–1945 presents Chapter 20: Foreign Policy and War in a Progressive Era, 1890–1919, Chapter 21: A Unique, Prosperous, and Discontented Time, 1919–1929, Chapter 22: Living in Hard Times, 1929–1939, and Chapter 23: Living in a World at War, 1939–1945. Part 8: Fears, Joys, and Limits, 1945–1980 includes Chapter 24: The World the War Created, 1945–1952, Chapter 25: Complacency and Change, 1952–1965, Chapter 26: Lives Changed, 1961–1968, and Chapter 27: Rights, Reaction, and Limits, 1968–1980. Finally, Part 9: Certainty, Uncertainty, and New Beginnings, 1980 to the Present covers Chapter 28: The Reagan Revolution, 1980–1989, Chapter 29: A New World Order, 1989–2001, and Chapter 30: Entering a New Time, 2001 to the Present.