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U.S. history 101 : historic events, key people, important locations, and more! /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sears, Kathleen
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Avon, Mass. : Adams Media, [2015]
Subjects:
United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Crossing the land bridge
  • Leif Ericson and Vinland
  • Columbus's voyages
  • Native Americans
  • Jamestown
  • The Mayflower Compact
  • The Salem witch trials
  • French wars in the new world
  • Tobacco and cotton
  • Taxation and representation
  • Lexington and Concord
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • George Washington
  • Bunker Hill to Yorktown
  • The Constitutional convention
  • Federalists and anti-Federalists
  • The Louisiana Purchase
  • The War of 1812
  • Jacksonian democracy
  • Slavery
  • Railroads and telegraphs
  • Manifest Destiny
  • The gold rush
  • The great compromise
  • Lincoln's election
  • Fort Sumter
  • Gettysburg
  • Grant and Lee
  • Reconstruction and reaction
  • Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Mellon
  • Busting the trusts
  • Organized labor
  • The automobile
  • World War I
  • The roaring twenties
  • Crash!
  • Votes for women
  • The New Deal
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • World War II
  • Life on the home front
  • McCarthyism
  • The Korean War
  • Martin Luther King and civil rights
  • Black power
  • John F. Kennedy
  • The missiles of October
  • Vietnam
  • The space race
  • The counterculture
  • Women's liberation
  • Environmentalism
  • Watergate
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Iran-Contra
  • The collapse of communism
  • The first Gulf War
  • 9/11
  • The Afghan and Iraq wars
  • The occupation of Iraq
  • The great recession
  • Barack H. Obama.