To the Student
Be a Historian: Building Skills in History and Geography
Using Maps and Globes
Using Primary and Secondary Sources
Using Time Lines
Using Graphs and Charts
Using Resources
Unit 1: The Earliest Americans
Reading: The First to Come to the Americas
Reading: The Polar Regions
Listening: The Inuit
Reading: The Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas
Reading: Moctezuma Meets Cortés
Listening: The Iroquois and the Anasazi
Expansion: Foods from the Americas
Unit 2: Explorers and Explorations
Listening: Why People Explore
Reading: Christopher Columbus
Reading: The Wet Tropical Regions
Reading: Estevan
Writing: Report on an Explorer of North America
Reading: The Northern Forest Regions
Expansion: Recent Explorers
Unit 3: European Colonies in North America
Reading: New Spain
Reading: Jamestown and Plymouth: The First Permanent English Colonies
Viewing: Images of English and Spanish Colonial Life
Listening: Massasoit
Reading: Anne Hutchinson and the Puritans
Writing: Report on Anne Hutchinson’s Life
Reading: The Mid-Latitude Forest Regions
Reading: New France and New Amsterdam
Reading: The Thirteen English Colonies
Reading: The French and Indian War
Reading: Benjamin Franklin: A Revolutionary Life
Expansion: Benjamin Franklin’s Inventions
Unit 4: From Colonies to Nation
Reading: The Colonists Begin to Protest
Reading: The War for Independence Begins
Reading: The Colonies Declare Independence
Writing: Report on the War for Independence
Reading: A Great American Leader
Writing: Report on a Revolutionary War Hero
Reading: The United States Constitution
Reading: The Three Branches of Government
Reading: The Bill of Rights: Amendments 1—10
Expansion: Federal and State Governments
Unit 5: The Nation Grows
Reading: Moving West
Reading: Daniel Boone: A Pathfinder to the West
Reading: Land Gained by Purchase and Treaty
Reading: Jefferson: Writer, Thinker, President
Listening: The Journey of Lewis and Clark
Reading: The Highland Regions
Listening: James Madison and the War of 1812
Reading: The Monroe Doctrine
Reading: Settling the West
Reading: The Mediterranean Regions
Reading: Andrew Jackson: A Controversial Leader
Reading: Native Americans Lose Their Homelands
Writing: Report on a Native American Leader
Reading: At War with Mexico
Time Line: Presidents from 1797 to 1850
Expansion: The Impact of Inventions
Unit 6: The Civil War and Reconstruction
Reading: The South and the North
Reading: Slaves and Slavery
Reading: Free States and Slave States
Reading: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Reading: John Brown: A Famous Abolitionist
Writing: Report on John Brown
Reading: The Nation Falls Apart
Reading: A Nation Divided
Listening: Abraham Lincoln: A Leader in Difficult Times
Writing: Report on a Nineteenth-Century American
Reading: Putting the Nation Back Together
Reading: The Lives of Free Blacks
Reading: Three Important African-American Leaders in the Civil War Era
Time Line: Presidents from 1850 to 1875
Expansion: U.S. Decisions about War
Unit 7: Industrialization and Change
Reading: The United States, 1865—1900
Reading: What Was the Industrial Revolution?
Reading: Life after the Industrial Revolution
Reading: The Grassland Regions
Reading: The Cowboy
Reading: Treaties and Territories
Listening: Sitting Bull
Reading: The Desert Regions
Reading: Inventions in the United States, 1834—1903
Reading: People with Ideas for Change
Reading: Women in the United States
Reading: A Nation of Immigrants
Writing: Report on an Immigrant to the United States
Time Line: Presidents from 1875 to 1900
Expansion: Obstacles Immigrants Faced
Unit 8: The Early Twentieth Century
Reading: A New Era
Reading: Workers’ Power Grows
Reading: New Opportunities
Reading: The Progressive Movement
Reading: “The War to End All Wars”
Viewing: Images of World War I
Reading: The War Experience
Reading: The Treaty of Versailles
Reading: Times of Contrast
Viewing: Images of the Roaring Twenties
Reading: A Decade of Excess
Reading: The Stock Market Crashes
Reading: The New Deal
Listening: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Woman of Vision
Writing: Report on an Important Twentieth-Century American
Time Line: Presidents from 1900 to 1940
Expansion: Thinking Like an Historian
Unit 9: World War II and the Postwar Era
Reading: From Depression to War
Reading: World Conflicts Lead to War
Reading: Peace or War for the United States?
Viewing: Images of the War Effort
Listening: The Code Talkers
Reading: The Axis Powers Are Defeated
Reading: Boom Times
Reading: Prejudice Follows the Soldiers Home
Reading: A New Kind of War
Reading: Cold War Fears
Reading: Social and Technological Changes
Writing: Report on an Inventor or Scientist of the Mid-Twentieth Century
Time Line: Presidents from 1940 to 1960
Expansion: The Postwar Period
Unit 10: Decades of Protest: The 1960s and Beyond
Reading: A New Frontier
Reading: The Cold War Intensifies
Reading: The Civil Rights Movement
Listening: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reading: Other Groups Struggle for Equality
Reading: End of an Era
Reading: The United States in Vietnam
Reading: Protecting the Environment
Writing: Report on a Leader Who Acted for Change
Reading: Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter
Time Line: Presidents from 1960 to 1980
Expansion: Songs of Protest
Unit 11: Entering the Twenty-First Century
Reading: Jobs Change; People Move
Reading: Schools Meet America’s Changing Needs
Listening: The Sánchez Sisters
Reading: Environmental Concerns Increase
Reading: Inventions Change Our Lives Again
Reading: Information Explosion
Reading: Four Recent Presidents
Viewing: Interpreting Political Cartoons
Reading: Globalization
Reading: September 11, 2001, and Its Aftermath
Reading: Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon
Viewing: Images of U.S. Concerns at Home and Abroad
Time Line: Presidents from 1980 to 2007
Expansion: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Glossary
Credits
Index
List of Maps
Highland Regions
Mediterranean Regions
Native American Homelands
Free States and Slave States and Territories after the Missouri Compromise, 1821
The United States after Secession, 1861
The Civil War
The United States in the Pacific and Latin America, 1900
Grassland Regions
Reservations in the West, 1890
Desert Regions
Women’s Suffrage before 1920
Europe in 1914
Europe after World War I
German Aggression, 1938—1941
Allied Advances in the Pacific, 1941—1945
Allied Advances in Europe and North Africa, 1942—1945
Europe after World War II
Range of Soviet Missiles
Soviet Threat and U.S. Response
War in Southeast Asia
Central Asia: The Middle East