Download or read book Americans Move West 1846 1860 written by Teresa LaClair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States’ boundaries have expanded over the centuries—and at the same time, Americans’ ideas about their country have grown as well. The nation the world knows today was shaped by centuries of thinkers and events. In the 1830s, over fifty years after the United States had won its independence from Britain, Americans were still delighted with their young country. That sense of hope and freedom are still a part of the United States today. As you learn about the settlers who rode the Oregon Trail to new land in the West, you will gain a better understanding of how America became America
Download or read book From Sea to Shining Sea written by Sheila Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic framework of the American nation was laid out by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Over the years, these have been amended and reinterpreted, but the central core remains. This title helps to learn about these essential aspects of the United States.
Download or read book A Nation on the Move Westward Expansion 1800 1860 written by The Open The Open Courses Library and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860 U.S. History After 1800, the United States militantly expanded westward across North America, confident of its right and duty to gain control of the continent and spread the benefits of its "superior" culture. In John Gast's American Progress, the white, blonde figure of Columbia--a historical personification of the United States--strides triumphantly westward with the Star of Empire on her head. She brings education, symbolized by the schoolbook, and modern technology, represented by the telegraph wire. White settlers follow her lead, driving the helpless natives away and bringing successive waves of technological progress in their wake. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the quest for control of the West led to the Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas, and the Mexican-American War. Efforts to seize western territories from native peoples and expand the republic by warring with Mexico succeeded beyond expectations. Few nations ever expanded so quickly. Yet, this expansion led to debates about the fate of slavery in the West, creating tensions between North and South that ultimately led to the collapse of American democracy and a brutal civil war. Chapter Outline: Introduction Lewis and Clark The Missouri Crisis Independence for Texas The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West The Open Courses Library introduces you to the best Open Source Courses.
Download or read book The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846 1890 written by Robert M. Utley and published by Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, is considered a classic for both students and scholars. For this revision, Utley includes scholarship and research that have become available in recent years."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book U S History written by P. Scott Corbett and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Download or read book America Moves West written by Robert E. Riegel and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Far Western Frontier 1830 1860 written by Ray Allen Billington and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Dual objective[s] ... to describe, as thoroughly as space limitations permitted, both the movement of settlers into the Far West and the national or world events which directly influenced their migration ... second purpose: to advance evidence pertaining to the generations-old conflict over the so called : 'frontier hypothesis' ..."--Preface
Download or read book The Civil War America Torn Apart 1860 1865 written by Wesley Windsor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuries—and at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well. The nation the world knows today was shaped by centuries of thinkers and events. The Civil War brought an end to the terrible practice of slavery—but it also left deep wounds across the United States. As you learn more about this war's conflicts, you will gain a better understanding of what makes America the nation it is today.
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and the Growing United States 1800 1811 written by Constance Sharp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuries—and at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well. The nation the world knows today was shaped by centuries of thinkers and events. Thomas Jefferson was one of the most important of these thinkers. During his presidency, the Louisiana Purchase doubled the geographic size of the United States. And perhaps most important, Jefferson helped define what is best about America.
Download or read book A Nation Moving West written by Robert W. Richmond and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1966-05-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facets of the pioneer experience on the changing American frontier from the Revolution to 1900.
Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Download or read book Homelands and Waterways written by Adele Logan Alexander and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom. Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a recently freed slave, Alexander shows three generations of Bonds as they take chances and break new ground. From Victorian England to antebellum Virginia, from Herman Melville's New England to the Jim Crow South, from urban race riots to the battlefields of World War I, this fascinating chronicle sheds new light on eighty crucial years in our nation's troubled history. The Bond family's rise from slavery, their interaction with prominent figures such as W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, and their eventual, uneasy realization of the American dream shed a great deal of light on our nation's troubled heritage.
Download or read book America Is Born 1770 1800 written by Constance Sharp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuries—and at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well. The nation the world knows today was shaped by centuries of thinkers and events. People like Thomas Paine, George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson built the foundation of values and ideals on which America still stands. Learning about America's birth will help you understand the country it is today.
Download or read book The Southern Colonies The Search for Wealth 1600 1770 written by Teresa LaClair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuries—and at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well. The nation the world knows today was shaped by centuries of thinkers and events. The people who lived in the Southern colonies were successful and prosperous Americans, with an identity of their own. They helped shape America into the country it is today.
Download or read book Wars at Home America Forms an Identity 1812 1820 written by Michelle Quinby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the beginning of the 1800s, America was a young country led by people who were ready to fight to defend American rights on the seas and at home. They were eager to teach Europe's older nations a lesson, and they wanted to add to America's land. America fought the War of 1812 as well as a war in Florida. The US came out of these wars stronger than ever— and the people of the United States were ready for America to grow still bigger.
Download or read book Is This Tomorrow written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in the midst of the cold war, Is This Tomorrow is a classic example of red scare propaganda. The story envisions a scenario in which the Soviet Union orders American communists to overthrow the US Government. Charles Schulz contributed to the artwork throughout the issue. Reprinted here for the first time in 70 years.
Download or read book Beyond Our Shores America Extends Its Reach 1890 1899 written by Constance Sharp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is full of many stories. Each group of people has its own stories. No two stories are exactly the same. The Monroe Doctrine—America's policy of intervention in other nations' affairs—has played a major role in the stories the United States has told about itself. This book will tell you another chapter in America's story—and it will also tell you the stories of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines.
