The Handy American History Answer Book
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The Handy American History Answer Book

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Handy American History Answer Book

About this book

Take a walk through the biggest events, the wars, the economic, political, and social forces, the presidents, and lesser-known personalities as well as the sports, music, and entertainment that created, changed, and built the United States!


From Washington to the microchip, Columbus to modern terrorist threats, the Anasazi to the iPhone, The Handy American History Answer Book traces the development of the nation, including the impact of the Civil War, the discovery of gold in California, the inventions, the political and economic crises, and the technology transforming modern culture today. It answers nearly 900 commonly asked questions and offers fun facts about American, its history, and people, such as:

  • What were the first crops developed by the early Indian cultures?
  • What was the Lost Colony?
  • When did the first Africans arrive in the British colonies of North America?
  • What was the Stamp Act?
  • Did the American colonies have the death penalty?
  • Why did Elbridge Gerry, Edmund Randolph, and George Mason refuse to sign the Constitution?
  • What were the Lincoln–Douglas debates?
  • What Civil War nurse later founded the American Red Cross?
  • Who were the robber barons?
  • Who invented the sport of basketball?
  • How bad was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906?
  • What was the Harlem Renaissance?
  • Who were the “Four Horsemen”?
  • Was the U.S. mainland attacked during World War II?
  • When did the Cold War begin and why?
  • How was Earl Warren crucial to the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
  • What caused the Vietnam War?
  • What was Reaganomics?
  • What impact did the Challenger disaster have on the U.S. space program?
  • What record producer co-founded Def Jam?
  • Who became the first space tourist?

    This fun, fact-filled primer is a captivating, concise, and convenient history of America and Americans. The Handy American History Answer Book also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness.

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    Information

    Publisher
    Visible Ink Press
    Year
    2015
    Print ISBN
    9781578594719
    eBook ISBN
    9781578595471
    Topic
    History
    Subtopic
    Teaching History
    Index
    History

    Table of contents

    1. Front Cover
    2. Title Page
    3. Table of Contents
    4. Acknowledgments
    5. Introduction
    6. Timeline
    7. Early Americans and Pre-Revolutionary History
    8. The Revolutionary Period
    9. Creating the Constitution
    10. Pre-Civil War America
    11. The U.S. Civil War Era
    12. Late Nineteenth Century and the Progressive Era
    13. From World War I to the Roaring Twenties
    14. The Great Depression, World War II, and its Aftermath
    15. Social Conflict and Change: 1950s to 1970s
    16. Political Conflict and Change: 1950s to 1970s
    17. Transition to a New Century: 1980s to the Present
    18. Sports History
    19. Music and Entertainment
    20. Bibliography
    21. The American States
    22. Presidents
    23. U.S. Constitution
    24. Index
    25. Copyright