Table of Contents TruthQuest History: American History for Young Students III, 1865- 2000+
1 Feisty!
2 Picking Up the Pieces (Reconstruction)
3 Westward Ho! 3a Prairie pioneers Sidebar: Orphan Trains 3b Prairie wheat 3c Locust/grasshopper plagues 3d Mayo Brothers
4 The Wild West! 4a Cowboys and other western goodies Sidebar: Texas heroes Sidebar: Settlers in Florida 4b Famous westerners 4c Stagecoaches 4d Western artists Frederic Remington Charles Russell George Catlin 4e Cowboy of legend, Pecos Bill
5 Choo-Choo: Trains across America! Sidebar: John Henry Sidebar: Kate Shelley
6 More Gold!
7 Native American Indians 7a General resources 7b Geographical listing 7c Specific tribes Apache Indians Arapaho Indians Blackfoot Indians Cheyenne Indians Chumash Indians Comanche Indians Crow Indians Kiowa Indians Mission (or California) Indians Navajo (Navaho) Indians Nez Percé Indians Northwest Indians Omaha Indians Papago Indians Pueblo Indians Shoshone Indians Sioux Indians Ute Indians 7d General fiction and picture books 7e Activity and art books
8 War in the West! 8a General and miscellaneous resources 8b Custer’s Last Stand 8c George Custer 8d Comanche (a US Cavalry horse 8e Battle of Wounded Knee 8f Geronimo 8g Chief Joseph 8h Oklahoma Land Run
9 Middle America...and New Ideas ThinkWrite 1: “What’s the big deal?” 9a America’s heartland and countryside Sidebar: Lumbering 9b Mississippi River, steamboats, and river culture
10 Aloha!
11 Immigrants...and the ‘Lady’ Who Greeted Them!
12 Life in the Big City Sidebar: Great Chicago Fire & San Francisco Earthquake
13 Business is Booming! Sidebar: Circus Time!
14 Technology! ThinkWrite 2: “What do you make of it?!” 14a General resources 14b Specific discoveries and inventors Anesthesia Automobiles Aviation Alexander Graham Bell Luther Burbank Marie & Pierre Curie Lee DeForest Drake’s first oil well George Eastman Thomas Edison Henry Ford John Holland Joseph Lister Marconi Jan Matzeliger Matthew Maury Panama Canal Louis Pasteur Roebling family Röntgen Steinmetz Transatlantic Cable Westinghouse Wright Brothers
15 Achieve-A-Rama! 15a Arctic explorers Richard Byrd Matthew Henson Robert Peary 15b Daredevils 15c Achievements of women Elizabeth Blackwell Maria Mitchell Nellie Bly Ruth Law and Jacqueline Cochran Ellen Richards Linda Richards Blanche Leathers 15d Achievements of blacks/African-Americans George Washington Carver Booker T. Washington Mary McLeod Bethune 15e Achievements of the handicapped Helen Keller Thomas Gallaudet
16 Battle of Beliefs
17 Teddy Roosevelt
18 Spanish-American War
19 Ideas in Art, Books, and More! Part I: Visual Arts Mary Cassatt Winslow Homer, George Inness, Thomas Eakins, Whistler, and J.S. Sargent Sculpture Part II: Music Aaron Copland and John Philip Sousa Edward MacDowell Part III: Literature Louisa May Alcott Emily Dickinson Mary Mapes Dodge Thomas Nelson Page Mark Twain Cautionary note for parents regarding the Transcendentalists
20 More Heroes!
21 Peace? No! World War One! 20a General resources 20b Specific battles, events, and squadrons 20c Individuals, dogs, and pigeons of note! 20d Fiction/Historical Fiction
22 After the War...and How ‘Art’ America? 22a General Resources 22b Abstract painters 22c Realistic/naturalistic artists George Bellows Edward Hopper Grant Wood Thomas Hart Benton Georgia O’Keeffe Andrew Wyeth (caution)
23 The Roaring ‘20s 23a General Resources 23b Baseball and Babe Ruth 23c Charles Lindbergh 23d Bessie Coleman 23e Authors 23f Scientists 23g American jazz & national music 23h Sports
24 Hard Times–The Great Depression 24a The Great Depression 24b Dust Bowl 24c Herbert Hoover
25 Stop and Think... 26 Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Was His ‘New Deal’ the ‘Right Deal?’
27 The 1930s 27a Scientists 27b Authors 27c Grandma Moses and Norman Rockwell 27d Hoover Dam and the Empire State Building 27e Amelia Earhart 27f Hindenburg Disaster 27gJesse Owens, Joe Louis, and Lou Gehrig 27h Johnstown Flood 27i ‘Big Band’ Music
28 War Clouds! (World War II) 28a General Resources 28b Events of 1938 28c Events of 1939 28d Events of 1940 28e Events of 1941 28g Events of 1943 28h Events of 1944 28i Events of 1945 28j Manhattan Project/Atomic Power/Atomic Bomb 28k Holocaust/Jewish suffering 28l Winston Churchill 28m True stories of individuals 28n Military leaders 28o Special topics 28p Miscellaneous Fiction/Historical Fiction 28q Miscellaneous Films
29 Nuremberg Trials
30 The 1940s
31 From ‘Hot War’ to ‘Cold War’ to ‘Hot War’ Again! 31a The Cold War 31b The Korean War 31c The Cuban Missile Crisis 31d The Vietnam War
32 The Cold War “Takes Off ” (Space Exploration)
33 The 1950s & 1960s 33a General events and ideas 33b Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson
34 The Civil Rights Movement
35 People...and Nature 36 From the 1970s...to Today!
37 Another Wrong Turn (Postmodernism) ThinkWrite 3: “The truth about loving the lovely truth!”
APPENDIX 1: ThinkWrite Responses...... 141 APPENDIX 2: List of Resources Cited in this Guide...... 143
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