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    Remember the Alamo?: American History in Bite-Sized Chunks
    Remember the Alamo?: American History in Bite-Sized Chunks
    Remember the Alamo?: American History in Bite-Sized Chunks
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    Remember the Alamo?: American History in Bite-Sized Chunks

    By Alison Rattle and Allison Vale

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    For most people the details of the American Revolution, the history of Thanksgiving and the Battle of the Alamo are sketchy at best. However, help is at hand as Remember the Alamo? contains all the American history you learnt at school and promptly forgot, and perhaps some things that you were never taught in the first place. Broken down into easily digested bite-sized chunks, this book will teach you the basics of over 150 key events from Columbus to Nixon and from cowboys to cosmonauts. Remember the Alamo? assumes no other knowledge of world history and doesn't contain anything but the most salient points so that anyone can become clued up on the history of one of the world's most developed nations. Concise and informative, yet entertaining and engagingly written, Remember the Alamo? contains everything you will ever need to know about the United States.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael O'Mara
    Release dateNov 10, 2011
    ISBN9781843178606
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      Remember the Alamo? - Alison Rattle

      First published in Great Britain in 2009 by

      Michael O’Mara Books Limited

      9 Lion Yard

      Tremadoc Road

      London SW4 7NQ

      This electronic edition first published in 2011

      ISBN: 978-1-84317-860-6 in EPub format

      ISBN: 978-1-84317-859-0 in Mobipocket format

      ISBN: 978-1-84317-381-6 in hardback print format

      ISBN: 978-1-78243-510-5 in paperback print format

      Copyright © Michael O’Mara Books Limited 2009, 2016

      Copyright illustrations © Andrew Pinder 2009, 2016

      All rights reserved. You may not copy, store, distribute, transmit, reproduce or otherwise make available this publication (or any part of it) in any form, or by any means (electronic, digital, optical, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Cover design by Ana Bjezancevic

      Text design and typesetting by Glen Saville

      Ebook compilation by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk

      www.mombooks.com

      CONTENTS

      Timeline

      List of Presidents of the United States

      COLONIAL AMERICA

      Columbus and Other Discoverers of America

      The Conquistadors and the Rising Creole Population

      The English Quest for Colonies and a Northwest Passage

      Jamestown: The First English Settlement in America

      Puritans and Pilgrims

      The Mayflower and Plymouth Rock

      Slavery and the First Plantations

      The Rush for Religious Freedom

      The Salem Witch Trials

      French America

      New Netherland: Dutch America

      The Indian Wars of the Seventeenth Century

      The French and Indian War

      REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA

      King George’s Proclamation Line

      The Tyranny of Taxation

      The Sons of Liberty

      The Boston Massacre

      The Boston Tea Party

      The Intolerable Acts

      The First Continental Congress

      The Battle of Concord

      The Battle of Bunker Hill

      The Declaration of Independence

      Early Successes and Failures

      Trenton, Saratoga, and Philadelphia

      The Articles of Confederation

      Last Years and Victory at Yorktown

      THE BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES

      Betsy Ross and the First Stars and Stripes Flag

      The United States Constitution

      The Bill of Rights

      Benjamin Franklin and the Founding Fathers

      George Washington

      John Adams

      Federalists v. Republicans: The Presidential Campaign of 1800

      Thomas Jefferson

      Marbury v. Madison and the Power of the Supreme Court

      AMERICAN EXPANSION AND REFORM

      The Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

      The War of 1812

      The National Anthem

      The Mountain Men

      The Missouri Compromise

      The Monroe Doctrine

      Andrew Jackson

      The Nullification Crisis

      The Whigs

      Remember the Alamo!

      At War with Mexico

      The Battles of Monterrey and Veracruz

      Manifest Destiny

      Westward Ho!

      Strike It Lucky: The Gold Rush of ’49

      The Cotton Gin and Uncle Tom’s Cabin

      Abraham Lincoln

      The Kansas-Nebraska Act

      The Abolitionist Movement

      Frederick Douglass

      The Underground Railroad

      The Dred Scott Decision

      The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

      The Presidential Election of 1860

      THE CIVIL WAR

      Confederate States and Southern Secession

      General Robert E. Lee

      The First Battle of Bull Run

      Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Sherman

      The Battle of Shiloh

      The Battle of Antietam

      The Emancipation Proclamation

      The Battle of Gettysburg

      The Gettysburg Address

      Sherman’s March to the Sea

      Surrender at Appomattox

      The Assassination of Lincoln

      RECONSTRUCTION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION

      The Homestead Act

      Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction

      The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

      The Gilded Age

      The Age of Invention

      Industrialization and the Rise of the Industrial Tycoon

      Andrew Carnegie and John Pierpoint Morgan, Sr.

      Transcontinental Railroads and the Robber Barons

      Custer’s Last Stand

      Taming the Wild West

      Immigration and the Making of Modern America

      The Rise of the Unions

      The Sherman Antitrust Act

      Remember the "Maine!" The Spanish-American War

      Black America: Separate But Equal

      Susan B. Anthony

      The Struggle for Equality

      Theodore Roosevelt

      The Muckrakers

      Woodrow Wilson

      The Sixteenth Amendment: Income Tax

      The Panama Canal

      WORLD WAR ONE AND THE ROARING TWENTIES

      America the Peace Broker

      The Lusitania and America’s Declaration of War

      Making the World Safe

      The Impact of War at Home

      Wilson’s Fourteen Points

      The League of Nations and a Return to Isolationism

      The Roaring Twenties: The Age of Wonderful Nonsense

      Prohibition and the Rise of the Mob

      THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR TWO

      The Wall Street Crash

      The Great Depression

      Herbert C. Hoover

      Franklin D. Roosevelt

      The New Deal

      American Isolation and the Threat of War

      The Outbreak of World War Two

      Pearl Harbor

      The Darkest Weeks

      Bataan and the Death March

      The Battle of Midway

      The War at Home

      The Allied Invasions of North Africa and Italy

      D-Day

      The Battle of the Bulge

      VE Day

      Guadalcanal and South Pacific Island-Hopping

      The Battle of Leyte Gulf

      Hiroshima and Nagasaki

      War Crimes and the Creation of the State of Israel

      POST-WAR AMERICA

      The United Nations

      Harry S. Truman

      The Superpowers

      The Iron Curtain

      The Marshall Plan

      The Berlin Airlift

      The McCarthy Witch-Hunts

      The Korean War: The Seeds are Sown

      The Invasion of South Korea

      The Korean War: Stalemate

      Dwight D. Eisenhower

      The Civil Rights Movement: The Origins

      The Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education

      The Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks

      Martin Luther King

      The Election of John F. Kennedy

      The Bay of Pigs Invasion

      The Cuban Missile Crisis

      The Assassination of JFK

      Lyndon B. Johnson

      The Great Society and the Civil Rights Act

      Malcolm X and the Rise of Black Power

      THE VIETNAM WAR YEARS

      The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

      The Vietnam War

      Counterculture, Controversy, and a Giant Leap for Mankind

      Richard Nixon

      Cambodia

      Watergate and Nixon’s Resignation

      Index

      TIMELINE

      LIST OF PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES

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