Name: Access to History: America: Civil War and Westward Expansion 1803–90 Sixth Edition
Price: 34.79 USD
ISBN: 9781510457409

Hodder Education

Alan Farmer

Access to History: America: Civil War and Westward Expansion 1803–90 Sixth Edition

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Exam board: AQA; OCR
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2015
First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)

Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over 30 years.

Updated to meet the demands of today's A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to History titles includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners' reports, free online activity worksheets and contextual information that underpins students' understanding of the period.

- Develop strong historical knowledge: in-depth analysis of each topic is both authoritative and accessible

- Build historical skills and understanding: downloadable activity worksheets can be used independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork and homework

- Learn, remember and connect important events and people: an introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines and links to additional online resources support lessons, revision and coursework

- Achieve exam success: practical advice matched to the requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the lessons learnt from previous exams

- Engage with sources, interpretations and the latest historical research: students will evaluate a rich collection of visual and written materials, plus key debates that examine the views of different historians

Language

English

ISBN

9781510457409

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Dedication

Introduction: about this book

Chapter 1 Context

Chapter 2 Mid-nineteenth-century USA

1 Introduction

2 The US political system

3 Social and economic development

4 The growth of sectionalism

5 The nature of American slavery

Question practice

Chapter 3 The problems of western expansion 1803–54

1 Westward expansion 1800–40

2 The Native American experience 1800–40

3 Missouri, Texas and Mexico

4 The impact of the Mexican War 1846–50

5 The 1850 Compromise

6 North–South problems 1850–3

7 The problem of Kansas–Nebraska

Question practice

Chapter 4 The rise of the Republican Party

1 The collapse of the second party system

2 The 1856 presidential election

3 James Buchanan’s presidency

Question practice

Chapter 5 The 1860 election, secession and civil war

1 The 1860 presidential election

2 Secession

3 The creation of the Confederacy

4 The search for compromise

5 The problem of Fort Sumter

6 Key debate

Question practice

Chapter 6 War on the home and foreign fronts

1 The Confederate war effort

2 Confederate opposition to the war

3 The Union war effort

4 Union opposition to the war

5 The international situation

Question practice

Chapter 7 The war 1861–5

1 Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses

2 The nature of the war

3 The war in 1861–2

4 The war in 1863

5 Union victory 1864–5

6 Key debate

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Chapter 8 Reconstruction

1 The emancipation of the slaves

2 The African American war effort

3 The problem of Reconstruction

4 Reconstruction in the South 1867–77

5 The results of Reconstruction

6 The impact of the Civil War

Question practice

Chapter 9 The winning of the West 1865–c.1900

1 The situation in 1865

2 The Indian Wars of the 1860s/1870s

3 The mining frontier

4 The impact of the railways

5 Farmers, cowboys and shepherds

6 The romance of the West

Question practice

Exam focus

Timeline

Glossary of terms