The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

■American Lives Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi 91 Davy Crockett 264 Sojourner Truth 328 Nat Love 452 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 51 ...

Features xxi Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt? 413 Did the Frontier Promote Individualism and Democracy? 446 Did Immigran ...

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PrefacePreface xxiii “RELEVANT HISTORY” Many colleges and universities require the study of American history. The reasons are nu ...

xxiv Preface Discontent and the Populist Challenge,” fea- tures a new map on Populism in Texas in the 1890s. Many other new maps ...

summarizes the chief elements of the Second American Party Systemby comparing the fun- damental ideas of the Democrats and Whigs ...

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xxviii Robert Brooks, Tyler Junior College Dale Carnagey, Blinn College Carrie Coston, Blinn College Shannon Cross, Tyler Junior ...

Last H1 on Spread xxix xxix About the AuthorsAbout the Authors M ARK C. CARNESreceived his undergraduate degree from Harvard and ...

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2 ■These photos show an aerial view of the Great Serpent Mound in Locust Grove, Ohio, built by Mississippian peoples around 1100 ...

CONTENTS 3 Were ancient peoples different from you? Some 400 years before Columbus was born, Indians living near what is now Pee ...

4 Prologue Beginnings First Peoples The first human beings emerged over 3 million years ago, probably in Africa. Some eventually ...

The Maize Revolution 5 Mexico, in what is now the United States, population likely remained stagnant: The garbage pits from arch ...

6 MAPPING THE PAST Debate over the Earliest Route to the Americas Lake Baikal ARCTIC OCEAN ASIA 40,000 BP JAPAN Laurentide Ice S ...

7 Overland Coastal NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA MEXICO Folsom N.M. 12,000 BP Monte Verde CHILE 14,000 BP Clovis N.M. 13,000 BP Me ...

8 Prologue Beginnings which would culminate in the great corn-growing civilizations of the Mayans and Aztecs.^1 Eventually corn ...

Population Growth After AD 800 9 north, early cold snaps killed existing varieties of the plant. Moreover, corn cultivation in f ...