America Will Be : Houghton Mifflin Social Studies

by Armento, Beverly J.; De Alva, J. Jorge Klor; Nash, Gary B.; Salter, Christopher L.; Wilson, Louis E.; Wixson, Karen K.

• ISBN13: 9780395809303
• ISBN10: 0395809304
• Edition: Student
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div

Table of Contents

About Your Book	xii
Map and Globe Handbook	1
Unit 1 The United States: Past and Present	1	(75)
A Nation of Many Peoples	2	(26)
A Tale of One City	4	(8)
A Land of Immigrants	12	(5)
A Country of Many Cultures	17	(11)
This Land of Ours	28	(28)
Understanding Geography	30	(4)
Regions of America	34	(7)
Studying Globes and Maps	41	(8)
Stories Maps Tell	49	(7)
Clues to Our Past	56	(20)
Lesson 1 What Is History?	58	(5)
Lesson 2 What Does a Historian Do?	63	(7)
Lesson 3 Why Study History?	70	(6)
Unit 2 Exploring and Settling America	76	(76)
The First People of the Americas	78	(24)
People Come to the Americas	80	(6)
Four American Indian Cultures	86	(8)
Life in an Iroquois Village	94	(8)
The Age of Exploration	102	(24)
Europe in the Age of Exploration	104	(5)
Portuguese and Spanish Exploration	109	(9)
French, Dutch, and English Voyages	118	(8)
Settling a New World	126	(26)
Spanish and French Colonization	128	(4)
English Settlement in the South	132	(6)
English Settlement in New England	138	(5)
English Settlement in the Middle Colonies	143	(9)
Unit 3 Life in the English Colonies	152	(80)
The Southern Colonies	154	(24)
A New Settlement in Virginia	156	(7)
Rebellion in Virginia	163	(4)
Slavery in the Southern Colonies	167	(11)
The New England Colonies	178	(28)
The Puritans Come to America	180	(6)
Life in New England	186	(5)
Challenging Authority	191	(7)
Trade in New England	198	(8)
The Middle Colonies	206	(26)
The Land of the Middle Colonies	208	(5)
A Mixture of Many Cultures	213	(11)
Farming and Trade	224	(8)
Unit 4 The Struggle for Independence	232	(80)
Crisis with Britain	234	(24)
Ties to Great Britain	236	(5)
The Seven Years' War	241	(6)
A New British Policy	247	(11)
War Breaks Out	258	(32)
Forming a New Government	260	(8)
Fighting the War	268	(16)
Building a New Society	284	(6)
Searching for Unity	290	(22)
Forming a Government	292	(5)
The Constitution	297	(9)
Becoming American	306	(6)
Unit 5 Life in a Growing Nation	312	(86)
Birth of a New Nation	314	(24)
Launching a New Government	316	(4)
Jefferson and National Unity	320	(4)
Economic Life of the New Nation	324	(5)
Everyday Life in the Young Nation	329	(9)
Moving West	338	(30)
The Moving Frontier	340	(5)
Life on the New Frontier	345	(7)
The Next Frontier	352	(8)
The American Indians in Retreat	360	(8)
Settling the Far West	368	(30)
Texas and the Struggle with Mexico	370	(7)
The Road to Oregon	377	(6)
Migrating to California and Utah	383	(6)
Conflicts with the American Indians	389	(9)
Unit 6 A Nation in Conflict	398	(74)
Southern Society	400	(20)
Plantation Society	402	(5)
A Look at Slavery	407	(6)
Life in the Other South	413	(7)
The Industrial North	420	(22)
Industrial Growth	422	(4)
New People, New Problems	426	(4)
Life in Northern Cities	430	(4)
Making a Better Society	434	(8)
A Divided Nation	442	(30)
Crisis and Compromise	444	(6)
The Growing Conflict	450	(12)
A House Divided	462	(10)
Unit 7 Toward the Modern Age	472	(64)
The Civil War and Reconstruction	474	(28)
Outbreak of the War	476	(7)
The Home Fronts	483	(6)
The End of the War	489	(5)
Reconstruction	494	(8)
Life in a Changing America	502	(34)
Changes on the Great Plains	504	(12)
Entering the Modern Age	516	(6)
Coming to America	522	(8)
Into Growing Cities	530	(6)
Conclusion A Look at the Twentieth Century	536	(39)
Time/Space Databank	575	(1)
Declaration of Independence	576	(4)
Constitution	580	(20)
Minipedia	600	(14)
Atlas	614	(14)
Glossary of Geographic Terms	628	(2)
Gazetteer	630	(3)
Biographical Dictionary	633	(5)
Glossary	638	(5)
Index	643	(9)
Acknowledgments	652