Table of Contents
By Bobbie Malone and Kori Oberle
Chapter 1: Connecting to Our State’s Story
- Chapter Introductions with Map, Chapter Topics, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Symbols
- Focus: How Do We Tell Our State’s Story?
- What Does Thinking Like a Historian Mean?
- What Kinds of Evidence Do Historians Use?
- Chapter Conclusion: How Do Historians Use Evidence to Write History?
Chapter 2: A Place with a Past
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Geographer Questions, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- Focus: A Landscape Shaped over Time: The Ice Age Trail
- Locating Wisconsin in the United States
- Locating Wisconsin in the World
- What does Wisconsin Look Like Today?
- Reshaped by a Long Ago and Very Cold Past
- Identifying Glacial Features in Wisconsin Today
- Connected by Water: Wisconsin Waterways
- Exploring Wisconsin’s Five Regions: Lake Superior Lowland
- Exploring Wisconsin’s Five Regions: Northern Highland, Central Plain
- Exploring Wisconsin’s Five Regions: Western Upland, Eastern Ridges and Lowlands
- Chapter Conclusion: Favorite Places in Wisconsin to Visit
Chapter 3: First People
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- Focus: How do Native People Today Celebrate their History and Traditions?
- Archaeology and Evidence
- Mammoths, Mastodons, and Paleo-Indians
- Archaic Indians: Inventions for a New Age
- Woodland Peoples: New Ways of Living in a Warmer Wisconsin
- The Mysterious Mississippians
- Early Wisconsin Farmers: The Oneota
- Communicating in Many Forms
- Chapter Conclusion: Change Over Thousands of Years
Chapter 4: Exploration and Exchange
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- Focus: Exploring and Learning Today
- Native Peoples near the Close of the Old Time
- Explorers from Europe Find Wisconsin
- Missionaries and Mapmakers
- Beavers Mean Business: The French Fur Trade in Wisconsin
- Bringing Cultures Together: The Métis Experience
- Fighting Over Furs: From French to British Control
- Same Trade, New Leaders: Americans Take Over
- From Forts to Settlements
- Chapter Conclusion: Changes over Two Hundred Years
Chapter 5: From Indian Lands to Statehood
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- Focus: Wisconsin Lands Change Hands
- Treaty Making
- Living on the Lead Frontier
- The Black Hawk War
- Measuring and Mapping Land to Sell
- Wisconsin Becomes a Territory
- Wisconsin Becomes the 30th State
- What Happens at the Wisconsin Capitol?
- Chapter Conclusion: Looking Back at Our State’s Beginnings
Chapter 6: They Came to Wisconsin and They’re Still Coming
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- Focus: Immigration and Migration: Then and Now
- Making the Journey
- A Stonemason in Cornwall, England Comes to Mineral Point
- A German Farmstead in Washington County
- Free at Last
- From Finland to Bayfield County
- Lucky to Be in America
- Bringing Texas North to Wisconsin
- A Long Journey from Thailand to Wisconsin
- Chapter Conclusion: Looking Back at Immigration and Settlement in Wisconsin
Chapter 7: Civil War Wisconsin
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- Focus: Free States, Slave States, and Fugitive Slaves
- Abolitionists in Wisconsin
- The Civil War Comes to Wisconsin
- Those Who Fought
- Wisconsin Goes to War: Two Stories
- Wisconsin Goes to War: Lives Changed
- Chapter Conclusion: Places to Remember the War
Chapter 8: Lead, Soil, and Saw Dust
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- Focus: Wisconsin: A Land Rich in Natural Resources
- Getting the Minerals Out
- Farming to Feed the Family
- From One Crop to Many Crops and Many Animals
- Learning about Farming in the Past
- We Become a Dairy State
- From Milking to Marketing
- Timber!
- From the Woods to the River
- Lumber, Pulp, and Paper
- Chapter Conclusion: Learning More about Mining, Farming, and Logging
Chapter 9: Shipping and Industry Change Wisconsin
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- Focus: Wisconsin’s Changing Landscape
- Shipping by Water: From Schooners to Steamers
- Shipping by Land: Railroads
- Big Industry Leads to Bigger Cities
- The Growth of Milwaukee
- Engineers and Entrepreneurs
- Comparing and Contrasting Wisconsin’s Top Industries
- A New World for Workers
- Progressives and Positive Change
- Chapter Conclusion: Turning Points in Transportation and Industry
Chapter 10: Good Times, Hard Times, and Better Times
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- Focus: Changes in Ways of Living
- New Century, New Roads
- Vacations for Some
- Wisconsin Goes to War: World War I
- Great Depression: Trying to Find Work and Making Do
- Wisconsin Goes to War: World War II
- Chapter Conclusion: People Return to Peace and Work
Chapter 11: New Opportunities, New Challenges
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- Focus: Wisconsin and the World
- Wisconsin Goes to War: Fighting Communism and the Korean War
- Suburbs and Interstate Highways
- Protecting Our Environment
- Organized Sports and Sports Fans
- Hunting and Fishing: A Wisconsin Tradition
- Struggles and Protests for Equal Rights
- Wisconsin Goes to War: Vietnam and Protests
- Wisconsin Goes to War: Gulf War and 9/11
- Chapter Conclusion: Bringing People Together
Chapter 12: A Place with a Future
- Chapter Introduction with Map, Chapter Topics, Timeline, Key Vocabulary, Thinking Like a Historian Questions
- How Does the Past Connect Us to the Future (Environment)?
- How Does the Past Connect Us to the Future (Cultural Resources)?
- Chapter Conclusion: How Can We Participate in Preserving the Past?
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