Get Ready! for Social Studies U. S. History

Name: Get Ready! for Social Studies U. S. History
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ISBN: 9780071377638

ISBN-10: 0071377638

ISBN-13: 9780071377638

Edition: 2002

Authors: Nancy White, Francine Weinberg

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Everything parents need to help their kids succeed in social studies The only comprehensive social studies skill-building series available, the Get Ready! For Social Studies series equips proactive parents with the tools they need to help their children develop the core skills required to perform at grade level in social studies-related subjects. Ranging from prehistory to the current day, U.S. History focuses on the United States--including the development of the free enterprise system--and its context within the world.

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Francine Weinberg (M.Ed, Teachers College, Columbia University) is an author and editor who has worked for more than 30 years on college and high school English textbooks. She's the author of the handbook in The Norton Field Guide to Writing.

Introduction	p. 1
Prehistory and Early Native American History before European Contact (30,000 B.C.-A.D. 1492)	p. 2
Word Power	p. 4
What Your Child Needs to Know	p. 5
Implications	p. 9
Fact Checker	p. 10
The Big Questions	p. 11
Skills Practice	p. 11
Top of the Class	p. 13
The Age of Exploration (1492-1609)	p. 14
Word Power	p. 16
What Your Child Needs to Know	p. 18
Implications	p. 21
Fact Checker	p. 22
The Big Questions	p. 23
Skills Practice	p. 23
Top of the Class	p. 25
Early Settlement and the Thirteen English Colonies (1607-1732)	p. 26
Word Power	p. 28
What Your Child Needs to Know	p. 29
Implications	p. 36
Fact Checker	p. 37
The Big Questions	p. 37
Skills Practice	p. 38
Top of the Class	p. 40
The Fight for Independence (1732-1783)	p. 42
Word Power	p. 44
What Your Child Needs to Know	p. 45
Implications	p. 51
Fact Checker	p. 52
The Big Questions	p. 53
Skills Practice	p. 53
Top of the Class	p. 55
The Birth of a New Nation (1781-1820)	p. 56
Word Power	p. 58
What Your Child Needs to Know	p. 59
Implications	p. 65
Fact Checker	p. 66
The Big Questions	p. 66
Skills Practice	p. 67
Top of the Class	p. 68
Westward Expansion (1803-1900)	p. 70
Word Power	p. 72
What Your Child Needs to Know	p. 73
Implications	p. 80
Fact Checker	p. 81
The Big Questions	p. 82
Skills Practice	p. 83
Top of the Class	p. 85
The Slavery Debate, Civil War, and Reconstruction (1820-1877)	p. 86
Word Power	p. 88
What Your Child Needs to Know	p. 89
Implications	p. 96
Fact Checker	p. 97
The Big Questions	p. 97
Skills Practice	p. 98
Top of the Class	p. 99
Industrialization and Immigration (1850-1920)	p. 102
Word Power	p. 104
What Your Child Needs to Know	p. 105
Implications	p. 111
Fact Checker	p. 112
The Big Questions	p. 113
Skills Practice	p. 113
Top of the Class	p. 115
War and U.S. Leadership (1914-1953)	p. 116
Word Power	p. 118
What Your Child Needs to Know	p. 119
Implications	p. 126
Fact Checker	p. 126
The Big Questions	p. 127
Skills Practice	p. 127
Top of the Class	p. 128
The Modern United States (1950-Present)	p. 130
Word Power	p. 132
What Your Child Needs to Know	p. 133
Implications	p. 139
Fact Checker	p. 140
The Big Questions	p. 140
Skills Practice	p. 141
Top of the Class	p. 142
Appendix A
Presidents of the United States	p. 145
Appendix B
Constitution of the United States of America	p. 149
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States	p. 154
Appendix C
Declaration of Independence	p. 159
Answers to Fact Checkers	p. 161
Index	p. 163
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