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Table of Contents

1. Chapter Introductions with Map, Chapter Topics, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Symbols
2. Focus: How Do We Tell Our State’s Story?
3. What Does Thinking Like a Historian Mean?
4. What Kinds of Evidence Do Historians Use?
5. Chapter Conclusion: How Do Historians Use Evidence to Write History?

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Geographer Questions, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. Focus: A Landscape Shaped over Time: The Ice Age Trail
3. Locating Wisconsin in the United States
4. Locating Wisconsin in the World
5. What does Wisconsin Look Like Today?
6. Reshaped by a Long Ago and Very Cold Past
7. Identifying Glacial Features in Wisconsin Today
8. Connected by Water: Wisconsin Waterways
9. Exploring Wisconsin’s Five Regions: Lake Superior Lowland
10. Exploring Wisconsin’s Five Regions: Northern Highland, Central Plain
11. Exploring Wisconsin’s Five Regions: Western Upland, Eastern Ridges and Lowlands
12. Chapter Conclusion: Favorite Places in Wisconsin to Visit

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. Focus: How do Native People Today Celebrate their History and Traditions?
3. Archaeology and Evidence
4. Mammoths, Mastodons, and Paleo-Indians
5. Archaic Indians: Inventions for a New Age
6. Woodland Peoples: New Ways of Living in a Warmer Wisconsin
7. The Mysterious Mississippians
8. Early Wisconsin Farmers: The Oneota
9. Communicating in Many Forms
10. Chapter Conclusion: Change Over Thousands of Years

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. Focus: Exploring and Learning Today
3. Native Peoples near the Close of the Old Time
4. Explorers from Europe Find Wisconsin
5. Missionaries and Mapmakers
6. Beavers Mean Business: The French Fur Trade in Wisconsin
7. Bringing Cultures Together: The Métis Experience
8. Fighting Over Furs: From French to British Control
9. Same Trade, New Leaders: Americans Take Over
10. From Forts to Settlements
11. Chapter Conclusion: Changes over Two Hundred Years

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. Focus: Wisconsin Lands Change Hands
3. Treaty Making
4. Living on the Lead Frontier
5. The Black Hawk War
6. Measuring and Mapping Land to Sell
7. Wisconsin Becomes a Territory
8. Wisconsin Becomes the 30th State
9. What Happens at the Wisconsin Capitol?
10. Chapter Conclusion: Looking Back at Our State’s Beginnings

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. Focus: Immigration and Migration: Then and Now
3. Making the Journey
4. A Stonemason in Cornwall, England Comes to Mineral Point
5. A German Farmstead in Washington County
6. Free at Last
7. From Finland to Bayfield County
8. Lucky to Be in America
9. Bringing Texas North to Wisconsin
10. A Long Journey from Thailand to Wisconsin
11. Chapter Conclusion: Looking Back at Immigration and Settlement in Wisconsin

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. Focus: Free States, Slave States, and Fugitive Slaves
3. Abolitionists in Wisconsin
4. The Civil War Comes to Wisconsin
5. Those Who Fought
6. Wisconsin Goes to War: Two Stories
7. Wisconsin Goes to War: Lives Changed
8. Chapter Conclusion: Places to Remember the War

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. Focus: Wisconsin: A Land Rich in Natural Resources
3. Getting the Minerals Out
4. Farming to Feed the Family
5. From One Crop to Many Crops and Many Animals
6. Learning about Farming in the Past
7. We Become a Dairy State
8. From Milking to Marketing
9. Timber!
10. From the Woods to the River
11. Lumber, Pulp, and Paper
12. Chapter Conclusion: Learning More about Mining, Farming, and Logging

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. Focus: Wisconsin’s Changing Landscape
3. Shipping by Water: From Schooners to Steamers
4. Shipping by Land: Railroads
5. Big Industry Leads to Bigger Cities
6. The Growth of Milwaukee
7. Engineers and Entrepreneurs
8. Comparing and Contrasting Wisconsin’s Top Industries
9. A New World for Workers
10. Progressives and Positive Change
11. Chapter Conclusion: Turning Points in Transportation and Industry

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. Focus: Changes in Ways of Living
3. New Century, New Roads
4. Vacations for Some
5. Wisconsin Goes to War: World War I
6. Great Depression: Trying to Find Work and Making Do
7. Wisconsin Goes to War: World War II
8. Chapter Conclusion: People Return to Peace and Work

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. Focus: Wisconsin and the World
3. Wisconsin Goes to War: Fighting Communism and the Korean War
4. Suburbs and Interstate Highways
5. Protecting Our Environment
6. Organized Sports and Sports Fans
7. Hunting and Fishing: A Wisconsin Tradition
8. Struggles and Protests for Equal Rights
9. Wisconsin Goes to War: Vietnam and Protests
10. Wisconsin Goes to War: Gulf War and 9/11
11. Chapter Conclusion: Bringing People Together

1. Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
2. How Does the Past Connect Us to the Future (Environment)?
3. How Does the Past Connect Us to the Future (Cultural Resources)?
4. Chapter Conclusion: How Can We Participate in Preserving the Past?