How America became America

Discusses Thomas Jefferson's role in expanding the boundaries of the U.S. through the Louisiana Purchase, and looks at other key events that took place during his presidency, including the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Embargo Act.

Provides a cultural and historical context for the development of the United States during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes the first American colonies, the Jamestown settlement, Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia, and more.

Provides a cultural and historical context for the development of the United States during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode Island and Connecticut, New Netherland and New Sweden, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and more.

This book describes how manifest destiny was a popular idea for Americans and discusses how the wish for more land brought people to the Western United States.

This book describes how the United States is an economic power, having the power to shape the entire world's economy--jobs, businesses, factories, farms, and banks all around the world.

Provides a cultural and historical context for the development of the United States from 1800 to 1811, and includes Thomas Jefferson's story, the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, and more.

This book describes how the United States went to war against Britain in June of 1812, an action that became known as the War of 1812.

This book describes how Northern and Southern states were very different from each other and discusses how arguments about states' rights and slavery led to the Civil War.

Examines the political, social, and economical changes in America since the Declaration of Independence and discusses the various elements that make America the country that it is.