Böcker i Milestones in American History-serien

As the population of the 13 colonies grew and the economy developed, the desire to expand into new land increased. Nineteenth-century Americans believed it was their divine right to expand their territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. This title helps to learn how this philosophy to spread out across the land shaped our nation.

On February 23, 1836, general and dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and a Mexican force of more than 2,000 men launched an assault against Colonel William B Travis of Texas, his army of 155 men, and 15 civilians who were living in the fort known as the Alamo. This title examines this episode in the Texas War of Independence against Mexico.

Though the United States stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, the shape of the nation has shifted many times over the course of its history. This title tells the story of the purchase that opened up the possibility of American westward expansion.

When it was completed in 1825, the Erie Canal brought an increase in goods and capital, making New York the leading financial and commercial center in the nation. This book shows how this manmade waterway that extends from Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York, to the Hudson River in Albany helped shape the future of the Empire State.

On December 7, 1941, the planes of the Japanese First Carrier Striking Force sank or severely damaged 18 American warships lying at anchor at the Pearl Harbor naval base on the island of Oahu. This book examines the history leading up to the attack, and the specifics of the raid itself.

Tells the story of Alexander Graham Bell, the man who invented the telephone, the people who helped him, and the changes that came about because of one of the greatest inventions of all time.

In 1863, during the Civil War that had torn the United States apart, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves would be freed in the Confederate states at war. This work explains the document that is a precursor to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that ended slavery in the United States.

On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on federal troops stationed at Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina. With that, the Civil War had begun. This title examines the factors that led the nation to war.

The mass migration, known as the Gold Rush, reshaped the United States by accelerating the immigration to the far West. This book explores how this pivotal era introduced new ideas about work and wealth, luck and greed, and success and failure, into the way Americans looked at their lives, their livelihoods, and most of all, themselves.