Arkansas History for Young People

by Baker, T. Harri; Browning, Jane

• ISBN13: 9781557287229
• ISBN10: 1557287228
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr

Summary

ADOPTED BY THE STATE OF ARKANSAS FOR 2003. Once again, the State of Arkansas has adopted An Arkansas History for Young People as an official textbook for junior-high-school-Arkansas-history classes. This third edition incorporates the fruits of new research and of extensive consultations with teachers, curriculum supervisors, and students themselves. It includes many new features while preserving popular and useful aspects of previous editions. This edition has an entirely new format, clear and friendly to the student reader. The text has been re-set in double-column pages, with wider margins and more white space setting off text and illustrations. A preview section at the beginning of each chapter ("What to Look For") and study questions at the end now guide students' reading. Vocabulary words appear in boldface in the text and then are listed with definitions at the end of each chapter. The updated text incorporates new material on the Clinton presidency, the Huckabee governorship, term limits, the 2000 census, demographic changes, recent scholarship on Arkan

Table of Contents

Prefaces	ix
How to Use This Book	xi
The First Arkansas People: The Beginning to 1541	1	(24)
Arkansas Becomes a Part of the European World: 1541-1803	25	(28)
The Territorial Period: 1803-1836	53	(30)
Arkansas Becomes a State: 1836-1860	83	(34)
Secession and Civil War: 1860-1865	117	(30)
Reconstruction and the New South: 1865-1900	147	(34)
Arkansas in the Progressive Era: 1900-1920	181	(38)
Hard Times: 1920-1940	219	(46)
World War II and the Postwar World: 1940-1955	265	(32)
Conflict and Change: 1955-1975	297	(30)
Arkansas Today: 1975-Present	327	(32)
Governors of Arkansas	359	(2)
Index	361