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PRENTICE HALL These United States The Questions Of Our Past Volume I To 1877 Concise Edition (2Nd Edition) 2002 Edition by Irwin Unger
For survey courses in U.S. History.Written by a Pulitzer Prize winning author, this "concise" survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousands of years ago through the crisis following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. Inclusive of all the diverse groups that are and have been part of the American fabric, it shows how the story of America is a human story revealing the imperfections, as well as the triumphs of human endeavor and the human spirit. Using a unique "inquiry approach," each chapter is built around a specific question or theme designed to challenge students to consider the complexity of America's past. 1. The New World Encounters the Old: Why 1492? 2. The Old World Comes to America: What Brought Europeans and Africans to the New World? 3. Colonial Society: How Did Old World Life and Culture Change the Wilderness? 4. Moving Toward Independence: Why Did the Colonists Revolt? 5. The Revolution: How Did It Change America? 6. The Origins of the Constitution: By Popular Demand? 7. The First Party System: What Issues Divided the New Nation? 8. The Jeffersonians in Office: How Did Power Affect Republican Ideology? 9. The American Economic Miracle: What Made It Possible? 10. Jacksonian Democracy: What Was It and How Did It Change Political Life? 11. The Mexican War and Expansionism: Greed, Manifest Destiny, or Inevitability? 12. Americans Before the Civil War: What Where They Really Like? 13. The Old South: What Is Myth and What Was Real? 14. The Coming of the Civil War: What Caused the Division? 15. The Civil War: How Did the War Change the Nation? 16. Reconstruction: What Went Wrong?