Annual Editions: United States History, Volume 1: Colonial through Reconstruction

by Maddox, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780078050541
• ISBN10: 0078050545
• Edition: 21st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-25
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

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Table of Contents

Preface

Correlation Guide

Topic Guide

Internet References

The New Land

Unit Overview

America's First Immigrants

1491

A Desperate Trek across America

Brave New World: The Watercolors That John White Produced in 1585 Gave England Its First Startling Glimpse of America

Champlain among the Mohawks, 1609: A Soldier-Humanist Fights a War for Peace in North America

The Birth of America: Struggling from One Peril to the Next, the Jamestown Settlers Planted the Seeds of the Nation's Spirit

Strangers in a New Land: Henry Hudson's First American Adventure

Blessed and Bedeviled

The Real Pirates of the Caribbean, USA Today, January 2009

Wilderness Ordeal

Revolutionary America

Unit Overview

The Gain from Thomas Paine

Benjamin Franklin: Revolutionary Spymaster

Dirty Little Secret

God and the Founders

The Rocky Road to Revolution

March on Quebec

A Day to Remember: July 4, 1776

The Baron DeKalb: Plotter or Patriot?

Getting Out: The First Rule of Holes

National Consolidation and Expansion

Unit Overview

Fallen Timbers Broken Alliance

The Best of Enemies

Cliffhanger

The Revolution of 1803

Women in the Early Republic

The Everyday Life of Enslaved People in the Antebellum South

Liberty Is Exploitation: The Force of Tradition in Early Manufacturing

Play Ball!

The Change Agent

The Inebriated Election of 1840

The Awful March of the Saints

The Civil War and Reconstruction

Unit Overview

The Emancipation Question

Abolitionist John Doy

There Goes the South

Lincoln and the Constitutional Dilemma of Emancipation

Steven Hahn Sings the Slaves Triumphant, Interview

A Slave's Audacious Bid for Freedom

How the West Was Lost

Creating a Military Image: Lincoln as Commander in Chief

The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage

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