Authors and Textbook Consultants
Arkansas History Teacher Consultants
Author and Consultant Locations
Selected Student Bibliography
Dedication and Recognitions
Contents
Before You Read
After You Read
While You Read
Ask Yourself
Are You Ready? Let’s Go!
Unit 1 - Young Arkansans Exploring Arkansa sRoad Trip
Ch.1 - Welcome to Arkansas!
Section 1 - Defining Ourselves
Section 2 - The Souvenir Shop
Chapter Reflection
Ch.2 - Geography—Let’s Take a Road Trip!
Section 1 - Ready, Set, Explore!
Section 2 - Our Place in the World
Chapter Reflection
Reference Atlas
Ch.3 - State and Local Government—How We Govern Ourselves
Section 1 - Our National and State Governments
Section 2 - Arkansas Governors
Section 3 - Our Local Governments
Chapter Reflection
Ch.4 - Economics and Tourism—Where We Learn, Work, Live,
and Play
Section 1 - Arkansas’s Economy
Section 2 - Where We Learn
Section 3 - Where We Work
Section 4 - Where We Live
Section 5 - Where We Play
Chapter Reflection
Unit 2 - Our State’s History Through Discovery, Exploration and Settlement The lands of Arkansas
Ch. 5 - The First Arkansans, The Beginning to 1540
Section 1 - What Is History?
Section 2 - The First People
Section 3 -The Historic Indians
Chapter Reflection
Ch.6 - Discovery, Exploration ,and Settlement 1541–1802
Section 1 - The First Explorers
Section 2 - Arkansas Post
Chapter Reflection
Unit 3 - Nineteenth-CenturyArkansas:The Territorial Period, Statehood, and Slavery, 1803–1860
Ch.7 - Jefferson’s Louisiana and the Exploration of a Rugged New Land 1803–1812
Section 1 - The Journey Began In Arkansas
Section 2 - Ready, Set, Explore!
Section 3 - Life in the Rugged New Land
Chapter Reflection
Ch. 8 - Growing Pains Territorial Power, Politics, and Compromise 1803–1835
Section 1 - Territorial Power
Section 2 - Politics, People, and the Challenges of Progress
Chapter Reflection
Ch.9 - Statehood and Slavery 1836–1860
Section 1 - The Decision for Statehood
Section 2 - Agricultural Life and Society
Section 3 - Daily Life in the Fledgling State
Section 4 - Expansion
Chapter Reflection
Unit 4 - The Civil War ,Reconstruction ,and the New South,1861–1899
Ch.10 - Secession and Civil War 1861–1865
Section 1 - War Looms
Section 2 - War Arrives
Chapter Reflection
Ch.11 - The Politics of Rebuilding 1866–1899
Section 1 - Lincoln, Johnson, and Their Impacts on Arkansas
Section 2 - Government Muscle
Section 3 - Power to the People
Unit 5 - Early Twentieth-Century ArkansasA New South—Progression, War,and Depression, 1900–1939
Ch.13 - Progressing into the New Century 1900s–1920s
Section 1 - Progressing with Spirit
Section 2 - A Poor State Continues the Struggle for Progress
Section 3 -New Developments in Industry
Chapter Reflection
Ch.14 - Wars and Wonderment 1914–1928
Section 1 - Wars with the World
Section 2 - Wars with Weapons and Words
Section 3- Wonderment
Section 4 - War Against Change
Chapter Reflection
Ch.15 - Hard Times The Great Depression 1927-1939
Section 1 - Nature’s Wrath
Section 2 - The Great Depression
Section 3 - A Hero With a Plan
Chapter Reflection
Unit 6 - Mid-Twentieth–Century Arkansas: The Great War, Recovery, and Prosperity 1940–1966
Ch.16 - World War II and the Postwar World 1940-1954
Section 1 - War and Peace
Section 2 - Economy and Equality
Chapter Reflection
Ch.17 - From Fulbright to Faubus—Representation and Circumstance 1942-1966
Section 1 - The Election of 1944
Section 2 - The Rise and Demise of Orval Faubus
Chapter Reflection
Unit 7 - The Cycle of Conflict and Change 1955–1991
Ch.18 - Separate and Unequal
Section 1 - Crisis in the Schools: The End of Segregation
Section 2 - The National Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas
Section 3 - Life in the 1960s
Chapter Reflection
Ch.19 - Defining Ourselves 1966-1991
Section 1 - The New Faces ofArkansas Politics
Section 2 - The Arrival of Clinton
Chapter Reflection
Unit 8 - A Global, Modern Arkansas, 1992–
Ch.20 - The White House, Arkansas on the National Stage, and the Future
Section 1 - The Presidency
The National Archives and Presidential Libraries
Section 2 - Following in the Footsteps
Section 3 - You Are Arkansas’s Future—The Crystal Ball
Chapter Reflection
Appendix
Index
Photo Credits