Lands of Hope and Promise - A History of North America
by Catholic Textbook Project Author
This volume presents the history of North America from the landing of Columbus in 1492 to the late 20th century. It tells the story of the French, the Spanish, Dutch, Russian, and English settlements, and of the native peoples and cultures with which they interacted and came in conflict. It continues the story of the European settlement, focusing on the United States as the representative of Anglo-American culture and Mexico as the representative of Latin American culture. Though Lands of Hope and Promise tells the secular history found in standard textbooks, it includes the contributions of the Catholic Church, Catholic communities, and individual Catholics – along with Catholic ideas – to the rich and tempestuous of American story. And it tells this history as a story, with all the color and drama that belongs to it. End of chapter reviews and other material highlight dates and events, characters in history, and definitions of key terms.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781935644361
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 30
- Pages
- 884
- Suggested Grades
- 9th - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- North America
- Historical Setting
- 1492 - 2007
- Publisher
- Catholic Textbook Project
- Edition
- 1st
- Copyright
- 2018
- Written
- 2018
Chapters
- 1 Explorers and Conquistadors
- 2 The Progress of Spanish America
- 3 France Settles the New World
- 4 England Comes to America
- 5 The English Colonies
- 6 The Struggle for a Continent
- 7 Spanish America in the 17th and 18th Centuries
- 8 The Causes of the American Revolution
- 9 The American Revolution
- 10 A New Nation
- 11 The First Test of the Union
- 12 Revolution in New Spain
- 13 Good Feelings and Hard Times
- 14 War and Uncertain Peace in Mexico
- 15 On the Eve of Disunion
- 16 A House Divided
- 17 A Brothers' War
- 18 To the Bitter End
- 19 Liberalism Triumphs in Mexico
- 20 Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
- 21 A New America is Born
- 22 The End of the Century
- 23 At the Crossroads
- 24 The Second Mexican Revolution
- 25 The War to End All Wars
- 26 The Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash
- 27 Depression and War
- 28 World War II and the Cold War
- 29 The Atomic Age
- 30 Epilogue
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