All About History Book of the Founding of the United States Third Edition



Despite its relatively short history, the U.S. has seen diverse change, from its inception as a colony of the British Crown, through revolution and a turbulent social history. Here we take a look at how those changes happened, from the 18th Century wars that began the revolution and led to America's independence, to the events that led to the creation of the U.S. Constitution.

Discover the origins of the most powerful nation in the world

Founding of the United States
- Join the story during the revolutionary wars of 1763 and beyond

Founding Fathers
- Learn all about the key figures that formed the basis of the United States

The Constitution
- Find out how this groundbreaking document changed history

Exhibits
- Throughout the book, you'll find historic documents, including the Bill of Rights and more

Also inside...
- A map of the Revolutionary War
- A map of the War of 1812
- The French and Indian War ends
- The intolerable acts
- Rebels and Redcoats collide
- The British feed the rebel cause
- Gunfire at Lexington and Concord
- Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill
- Washington chosen to lead
- Declaration of Independence
- The British Soldier
- The Continental Soldier
- The British return to the colonies
- From New York to the New Jersey woods – Washington retreats
- First Trenton, then Princeton
- Winter quarters at Morristown
- The fateful defeat of 'Gentleman Johnny' Burgoyne
- Articles of Confederation
- Into Valley Forge
- The American army is tested at Monmouth
- Fight Americans with Americans
- Cowpens
- Yorktown
- America looks west for elbow room
- The United States asserts itself – The Tripolitan War
- A senseless duel and the Corps of Discovery
- Trouble with Britain – again
- The land war of 1812
- The war at sea and the end of the beginning
- Creating a country from scratch
- A document whose time had come
- The great compromise
- One size fits all
- Establishing a financial system
- It's perfect – let's change it
- The Bill of Rights
- Distribution of power
- Growing the country
- The Missouri compromise
- Acquisition by conquest
- The Homestead Act
- The polar bear garden
- The NASA Act
- Our Constitution divided
- The Thirteenth Amendment
- Challenges to the Constitution
- The South skirts around the Constitution
- The road to black suffrage
- The Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws
- Testing the Electoral College and its power
- Theodore Roosevelt takes over
- Presidents, Congress, Supreme Court and cvil rights
- Legislating human bondage
- The Fugitive Slave Act
- The Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese internment
- Legislating morality
- Prohibition
- Desegregation of the military
- Corrections and clarifications
- FDR attacks the Depression
- The Lend-Lease Act and World War II
- And yet she stands

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