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Author : Jill Mulhall
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433390166
The westward expansion of the United States included obtaining several areas of land, including the Louisiana Territory, Texas, the Gadsden Purchase, and Alaska. These acquisitions changed the course of America forever.
Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781476502366
"Describes the causes of and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on US history"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781476534022
"Describes the causes of and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on US history"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Robert A. Miles
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 827 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483635750
This book, that has been 22 years in the making, is the first printing of the R.A. Miles Collection of the Southwest History from 1831 to 1889. It’s in chronological order by events and dates, and is a true and revealing account of the American history of the Southwest. It is an impartial, sometimes disconcerting, portrayal of the expanding United States westward. History is not always pleasant, but that is how it transpired sometimes in those years, and this book recounts both favorable and adverse events that need to be told.
Author : Blythe Lawrence
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781489698766
In the 1790s, trade was a major part of the U.S. economy. At this time, most goods were sent by boat. So, the country needed cities with ports. The city of New Orleans was especially important. It sits on the Mississippi River, and it borders the Gulf of Mexico. Find out more in The Louisiana Purchase, a title in the Building Our Nation series. Building Our Nation is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.
Author : Jill Mulhall
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433390166
Readers will learn all about the United States' westward expansion in this interesting nonfiction book that uses appealing images, helpful maps, and supportive text to keep children engaged from beginning to end! The captivating facts will have readers excited and eager to learn more about such topics as the Louisiana Purchase, Monroe Doctrine, and the Alamo. A supporting glossary and table of contents are featured to aid in further understanding of the content and vocabulary.
Author : Robert Kagan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375724916
Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their global power and influence from the beginning. Driven by commercial, territorial, and idealistic ambitions, the United States has always perceived itself, and been seen by other nations, as an international force. This is a book of great importance to our understanding of our nation’s history and its role in the global community.
Author : Robert A. Miles
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483635668
This book, that has been 22 years in the making, is the first printing of the R.A. Miles Collection of the Southwest History from 1831 to 1889. It's in chronological order by events and dates, and is a true and revealing account of the American history of the Southwest. It is an impartial, sometimes disconcerting, portrayal of the expanding United States westward. History is not always pleasant, but that is how it transpired sometimes in those years, and this book recounts both favorable and adverse events that need to be told. This country was expanding! It was growing; there were many heroes, many battles and many tragedies in the expansion of this country. It was like a glass of water sitting in the frigid cold. It froze and began to expand, the expansion could not be stopped, soon the glass burst. The final results were predictable and inevitable. The expansion couldn't go east because of an ocean, it could only go west to the other ocean, and that it did. This collection is about the events that transpired during the mid to late 1800's as a direct result of that westward growth. I have traveled these mountains for 7 of the 22 years in researching this book, from El Paso, Texas through Silver City, Lordsburg, Las Cruces and Stein, New Mexico and into Apache Pass in Arizona. I've explored Carlisle Canyon and drank the water at Goat Camp spring in Goat; journeyed through Camp Canyon, Hells Canyon, Steeple Rock Canyon, Red Rock, Crookson Peak and more. I have followed the trails of the old Butterfield Stage Line and found an old stage way station. I have found and taken pictures of over 150 old gold and silver mines and listed their histories, and listened to stories from an old miner as old as I am. What is most important, is I enjoyed every minute of it... Robert A. Miles
Author : John Bicknell
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781613730102
The presidential election of 1844 was one of the two or three most momentous elections in American history. Had Henry Clay won instead of James K. Polk, we'd be living in a very different country today. It cemented the westward expansion that brought Texas, California, and Oregon into the union. It also took place amid religious turmoil that included anti-Mormon and anti-Catholic violence, and the "Great Disappointment" in which thousands of followers of an obscure preacher named William Miller believed Christ would return to earth in October 1844. Author and journalist John Bicknell details even more compelling, interwoven events that occurred during this momentous year-the murder of Joseph Smith, the religious fermentation of the Second Great Awakening, John C. Frémont's exploration of the West, Charles Goodyear's patenting of vulcanized rubber, the near-death of President John Tyler in a freak naval explosion, and much more. All of these elements illustrate the competing visions of the American future-Democrats v. Whigs, Mormons v. Millerites, nativists v. Catholics, those who risked the venture westward and those who stayed safely behind-and how Polk's victory cemented the vision of a continental nation. John Bicknell has written and edited for FCW, Congressional Quarterly, Roll Call, and was coeditor of the 2012 edition of Politics in America, CQ's 1200-page guide to the US Congress. He lives in Haymarket, Virginia.
Author : Tennessee Valley Authority
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Recreation areas
ISBN : UIUC:30112104107419
TVA reservoirs - built for navigation, flood control, and hydroelectric power - serve many other public purposes. They are a source of water for cities, farms, and industries. Their shorelines offer sites for homes and water-hungry industries. They also constitute vast new resources for outdoor recreation - a man-made recreation domain extending from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.
Author : Paul Frymer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691191560
How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role in its success. This book examines the politics of American expansion, showing how the government's regulation of population movements on the frontier, both settlement and removal, advanced national aspirations for empire and promoted the formation of a white settler nation. Building an American Empire details how a government that struggled to exercise plenary power used federal land policy to assert authority over the direction of expansion by engineering the pace and patterns of settlement and to control the movement of populations. At times, the government mobilized populations for compact settlement in strategically important areas of the frontier; at other times, policies were designed to actively restrain settler populations in order to prevent violence, international conflict, and breakaway states. Paul Frymer examines how these settlement patterns helped construct a dominant racial vision for America by incentivizing and directing the movement of white European settlers onto indigenous and diversely populated lands. These efforts were hardly seamless, and Frymer pays close attention to the failures as well, from the lack of further expansion into Latin America to the defeat of the black colonization movement. Building an American Empire reveals the lasting and profound significance government settlement policies had for the nation, both for establishing America as dominantly white and for restricting broader aspirations for empire in lands that could not be so racially engineered.
Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781407046143
Widely thought of as the best book Terry Pratchett ever wrote, this is a story of a Nation, a story of a friendship, a story of growing up and the truths we must learn. It is epic in every sense . . . Prepare for the world to be turned upside down . . . For Mau, halfway between boy and man, it happens when a great wave destroys his entire village. For Daphne, it’s when the same wave crashes her ship into the island that was once Mau’s home. Everything they once had is now so far away, lost to distance and time. But when Daphne stops trying to shoot Mau (she did apologise for it), and instead uses a salvaged invitation card to invite him to tea, they discover a new home can be theirs. And then people start arriving on the island – some very good, some very bad. And it’s soon clear that Daphne and Mau must fight for their Nation. Then a discovery is made that will change the entire world forever . . .
Author : Lorraine Harrison
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508149521
Manifest Destiny is the idea that the United States was destined to stretch "from sea to shining sea." To fulfill that destiny, the United States embarked on a period of rapid expansion in the 19th century. Readers discover the ways the dream of Manifest Destiny was achieved through informative text that supports common social studies curriculum topics. Historical images and primary sources help readers visualize how much the nation changed in such a short period time. Readers also discover how the idea of Manifest Destiny influenced U.S. foreign policy long after Americans reached the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
Author : Richard Kluger
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375712982
Less than 100 years after its creation as a fragile republic, the United States more than quadrupled its size, making it the world's third largest nation. No other country or sovereign power had ever grown so big so fast or become so rich and so powerful. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Kluger chronicles this epic achievement in a compelling narrative, celebrating the energy, daring, and statecraft behind America's insatiable land hunger while exploring the moral lapses that accompanied it. Comprehensive and balanced, Seizing Destiny is a revelatory, often surprising reexamination of the nation's breathless expansion, dwelling on both great accomplishments and the American people's tendency to confuse opportunistic success with heaven-sent entitlement that came to be called manifest destiny.
Author : Michael A. Verney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226819921
Jeremiah Reynolds and the empire of knowledge -- The United States exploring expedition as Jacksonian capitalism -- The United States exploring expedition in popular culture -- The Dead Sea expedition and the empire of faith -- Proslavery explorations of South America -- Arctic exploration and US-UK rapprochement.