U.S. history 101
Subtitle: historic events, key people, important locations and more!
By: Kathleen Sears
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Avon, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781440586484; 9781440586491
Subjects: History
Other titles: United States history 101
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Crossing the land bridge; title: Leif Ericson and Vinland; title: Columbus's voyages; title: Native Americans; title: Jamestown; title: The Mayflower Compact; title: The Salem witch trials; title: French wars in the new world; title: Tobacco and cotton; title: Taxation and representation; title: Lexington and Concord; title: The Declaration of Independence; title: Thomas Jefferson; title: George Washington; title: Bunker Hill to Yorktown; title: The Constitutional convention; title: Federalists and anti-Federalists; title: The Louisiana Purchase; title: The War of 1812; title: Jacksonian democracy; title: Slavery; title: Railroads and telegraphs; title: Manifest Destiny; title: The gold rush; title: Lincoln's election; title: Fort Sumter; title: Gettysburg; title: Grant and Lee; title: Reconstruction and reaction; title: Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Mellon; title: Busting the trusts; title: Organized labor; title: The automobile; title: World War I; title: The roaring twenties; title: Crash!; title: Votes for women; title: The New Deal; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt; title: World War II; title: Life on the home front; title: McCarthyism; title: The Korean War; title: Martin Luther King Jr and civil rights; title: Black power; title: John F. Kennedy; title: The missiles of October; title: Vietnam; title: The space race; title: The counterculture; title: Women's liberation; title: Environmentalism; title: Watergate; title: Ronald Reagan; title: Iran-Contra; title: The collapse of communism; title: The first Gulf War; title: 9/11; title: The Afghan and Iraq wars; title: The occupation of Iraq; title: The great recession; title: Barack H. Obama.