Alpha Teach Yourself American History in 24 Hours,9780028644073

Alpha Teach Yourself American History in 24 Hours

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ISBN13: 9780028644073
ISBN10: 0028644077
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-08-01
Publisher(s): DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary

This Alpha Tech Yourself title offers a concise step-by-step survey of the great events, personalities and ideas symbolizing American History, including the arrival of the first (native) Americans, the formation of the American colonies, our country's road to independence through the Revolution, westward expansion, slavery and the sectionalism of America, the Civil War, reform and the immigrant inflow to America, our darkest economic hour in the Depression and the promise of The New Deal, all the World Wars, Vietnam and the "Cold" one, the Civil Rights Movement, the counter-culture and environmentalism, the 80s new conservatism, the space shuttle, and coming to grips with the new terror now facing our nation.

Table of Contents

Introduction xvii
Part I The Foundations of America 1(84)
Coming to America
3(14)
The Emigration Begins
3(2)
Building Mounds
5(1)
Potlatch
5(1)
Native American Cultures
6(1)
Who Were the Anasazi?
7(1)
The First Europeans
8(3)
Early Settlements
11(2)
Jamestown
13(1)
Hour's Up!
14(3)
The Europeans Keep Coming
17(14)
Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colony
17(2)
Rhode Island
19(1)
New Haven Colony
20(1)
New Netherland
20(1)
Maryland
21(1)
Relations with the Indians
22(2)
Second Generation of British Colonies
24(3)
New Amsterdam
25(1)
The Carolinas
26(1)
Pennsylvania
26(1)
Georgia
27(1)
Settlers, Slaves, and Servants
27(1)
New England
28(1)
Hour's Up!
29(2)
The Colonies Grow
31(14)
The Middle Colonies
31(1)
The Southern Colonies
32(2)
The Witches of Salem
34(1)
New Peoples
35(1)
An American Culture Emerges
35(4)
Colonial Education
35(2)
Free Press
37(1)
The Great Awakening
38(1)
The Emergence of Colonial Government
39(3)
Hour's Up!
42(3)
A Country Forms
45(16)
The French and Indian War
45(2)
A New Colonial System
47(2)
Stamp Act
49(1)
Taxation Without Representation
50(1)
Townshend Acts
51(3)
Samuel Adams
54(1)
Sam Adams Hosts a ``Tea Party''
54(2)
The Intolerable Acts
56(2)
Hour's Up!
58(3)
The Road to Independence
61(12)
The Revolution Begins
61(2)
Common Sense and Independence
63(2)
Defeats and Victories
65(2)
France Enters the War
67(1)
The British Move South
68(1)
Victory and Independence
68(1)
Loyalists During the American Revolution
69(1)
State Constitutions
70(2)
Hour's Up!
72(1)
The Constitution
73(12)
Articles of Confederation
73(1)
Growing Pains
74(1)
Thirteen State Limit
74(2)
Constitutional Convention
76(2)
Debate and Compromise
78(3)
Ratification and the Bill of Rights
81(1)
Hour's Up!
82(3)
Part II Expansion from Sea to Shining Sea 85(80)
A National Government
87(14)
President Washington
87(2)
Hamilton vs. Jefferson
89(1)
Citizen Genet and Foreign Policy
90(2)
Adams Takes Charge
92(1)
A New Broom
93(1)
The Louisiana Purchase
94(1)
The Impressment Issue
95(1)
The War of 1812
96(2)
Hour's Up!
98(3)
The New Country
101(12)
The Great Awakening, the Next Generation
101(2)
Building Unity
103(1)
The Supremes Get Some Respect
104(1)
Slavery Goes West
104(2)
The Monroe Doctrine
106(1)
The New Politics
107(2)
Nullification Crisis
109(1)
Hour's Up!
110(3)
Westward Expansion
113(12)
The All-New Battle of the Bank
113(2)
A Whig Can Also Be a Party
115(1)
A Show About ``Know-Nothings''
116(1)
Stirring Up Reform
117(1)
Westward Ho the Wagons
118(2)
The Indian Removal
120(1)
Women Have Rights, Too
121(1)
Women Declare Their Independence
122(1)
Hour's Up!
123(2)
Slavery Divides the Country
125(14)
Two Americas
126(1)
The Land of Milk and Honey
126(1)
Slavery Divides the Country Against Itself
127(2)
The Abolitionists
129(2)
Remember the Alamo!
131(2)
Yet Another Compromise
133(1)
A Nation Divided Against Itself
134(2)
What Dred Hath Scott Wrought?
136(1)
Hour's Up!
136(3)
Sectional Conflict
139(14)
Lincoln and Douglas Debate
139(1)
John Brown's Body
140(1)
The War Between the Yankees and the Americans
141(1)
Run Bull, Run
142(3)
The Emancipation Proclamation
145(1)
Caught in the Draft
146(1)
Peaceniks and Copperheads
146(1)
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
147(1)
The Presidential Race
148(1)
Toward Appomattox
149(1)
Hour's Up!
150(3)
Reconstruction and Growth
153(12)
With Malice Toward Some
153(2)
Radical Reconstruction
155(2)
The End of Reconstruction
157(2)
Technology Changes the World
159(1)
The Man of Steel
159(1)
Big Business and Smoggy Cities
160(2)
Hour's Up!
162(3)
Part III One Nation, No Longer Divided 165(80)
Growth and Transformation
167(12)
Railroads Keep on Rollin'
167(2)
Agriculture Grows Through Invention and Education
169(1)
The Divided South
170(1)
West, the Final Frontier
171(2)
Custer's Last Stand
173(2)
The Charge Up San Juan Hill
175(2)
Hour's Up!
177(2)
Discontent and Reform
179(12)
The Panama Canal
179(1)
The Ugly American
180(1)
The Open Door Policy
181(1)
Home, Home, on the Grange
181(3)
The Struggles of Labor
184(3)
The Reformers and Do-Gooders
187(2)
The New Century
189(1)
Hour's Up!
189(2)
World War I
191(12)
The Square Deal
191(2)
The Income Taxman Cometh
193(2)
Give Me Your Huddled Masses
195(2)
The World at War
197(2)
Over There, Over There
199(1)
The League of Nations
200(1)
Reds
201(1)
Hour's Up!
202(1)
The Great Depression
203(14)
The Roaring Twenties
203(2)
Teapot Dome
204(1)
Silent Cal
205(1)
Don't Give Me Your Huddled Masses
205(1)
Culture Clash
206(2)
Black Exodus
208(1)
The Great Depression
209(1)
The New Deal
210(3)
The Grapes of Wrath
213(1)
This NRA Does Not Have Charlton Heston
214(1)
Social Security
214(1)
Hour's Up!
215(2)
World War II
217(14)
Roosevelt Wins a Second Term
217(1)
While America Slept
218(3)
Pearl Harbor
221(2)
The World at War
223(1)
The Nisei
223(1)
``Europe First'' Policy
224(1)
The War in the Pacific
225(2)
The Atomic Age Begins
227(2)
Hour's Up!
229(2)
The Cold War
231(14)
The Politics of War and Peace
231(2)
The Yalta Conference
233(1)
The Postdam Conference
233(1)
Judgment at Nuremberg
234(1)
United Nations
234(1)
The Buck Stops Here
235(1)
The War Turns Cold
235(1)
The Conflict Begins
236(1)
Containment
237(1)
Marshall Plan
238(1)
Berlin Airlift
239(1)
The Korean War
240(3)
Hour's Up!
243(2)
Part IV America Leads the World 245(132)
Civil Rights
247(14)
The Fair Deal
247(2)
Massive Retaliation
249(2)
The Red Menace
251(2)
The Economy Takes Off
253(1)
The Burbs
254(2)
The Beatniks
256(1)
We Shall Overcome
257(2)
Hour's Up!
259(2)
The Great Society
261(14)
Separate but Equal
261(2)
The New Frontier
263(2)
The Cuban Missile Crisis
265(1)
The Space Program
266(1)
The Great Society
267(2)
Good Morning, Vietnam
269(3)
Hour's Up!
272(3)
The Minorities Take Charge
275(14)
Tricky Dick
275(2)
Detente
277(1)
Watergate
277(1)
The Peanut Farmer
278(2)
We Shall Overcome
280(2)
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
282(2)
Latinos
284(1)
Indians Turn into Native Americans
285(1)
Hour's Up!
286(3)
Changing Culture
289(14)
Tune In, Turn On, and Drop Out, Man
289(1)
Tree Huggers
290(1)
Megabytes and Micro-Computers
291(2)
Homosexuals Turn Gay
293(1)
The Moral Majority
293(1)
Infanticide
294(1)
Mr. Bonzo Goes to Washington
295(1)
Supply-Side Economics
295(2)
Latin America
297(2)
Grenada
299(1)
South Africa
299(1)
Lebanon
300(1)
Hour's Up!
300(3)
Century's End
303(12)
Reagan's Death Star
304(1)
The Space Shuttle
305(1)
Black Monday
305(1)
George Bush---the First Generation
306(1)
The Savings and Loan Scandal
307(1)
Panama
307(1)
NAFTA
308(1)
End to the Cold War
308(1)
War in the Gulf
309(2)
Oslo Accords
311(1)
Hour's Up!
312(3)
The Modern World
315(62)
The 1992 Election
316(1)
Perot, Bull Moose, and Other Wild Parties
316(2)
The Clinton Presidency
318(4)
Monica and the Impeachment
320(1)
The End of Clinton's Term
321(1)
World Trade Center Bombing
322(1)
Oklahoma City Bombing
322(1)
Khobar Towers Bombing
323(1)
U.S. Embassy Bombings
323(1)
Attack on the USS Cole
323(1)
The Election Controversy
323(1)
September Eleventh
324(1)
The War on Terrorism
325(1)
Epilogue
326(1)
Hour's Up!
326(3)
Appendixes
Appendix A Test Answers
329(6)
Appendix B More Things to Know
335(6)
Appendix C American History Chronology
341(12)
Appendix D Famous Locations in American History
353(24)
Index 377

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