Look Inside Our Textbook: 'Wisconsin; Our State, Our Story' | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Look Inside! Our Textbook for Grades 3-5: 'Wisconsin; Our State, Our Story'

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Look Inside Our Textbook: 'Wisconsin; Our State, Our Story' | Wisconsin Historical Society

Here you'll find sample pages and the entire table of contents for the 1st and 2nd editions of "Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story," the definitive Wisconsin history textbook. Review these to see how the book addresses the fundamentals of Wisconsin history while promoting strong literacy skills.

Sample Pages

Download sample pages from the first or second editions of Chapter 6 of the Student Textbook, the Teacher's Edition, or the Student Activity Guide. Chapter 6 discusses immigration and migration, both in the past and in the present.

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Chapter 6 of the 4th grade textbook.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Connecting to Our State's Story
  • How Do We Tell Our State's Story?
  • What Does It Mean to Think Like a Historian?
  • What Kinds of Evidence Do Historians Use?
  • How Do Historians Use Evidence to Write History?

Chapter 2: A Place with a Past
  • A Landscape Shaped over Time: The Ice Age Trail
  • Locating Wisconsin in the United States
  • Locating Wisconsin in the World
  • Using Longitude and Latitude
  • Wisconsin Landforms
  • The Ice Age in Wisconsin
  • Glacial Landforms Today
  • Wisconsin's Waterways
  • Exploring Wisconsin's Five Regions: Identifying the Regions, Lake Superior Lowland
  • Exploring Wisconsin's Five Regions: Northern Highland, Central Plain
  • Exploring Wisconsin's Five Regions: Western Upland, Eastern Ridges and Lowlands
  • Favorite Places in Wisconsin to Visit

Chapter 3: Wisconsin's First People
  • Exploring Native People's History and Traditions
  • Ways to Discover the Long-Ago Past
  • Mammoths, Mastodons, and Earliest People
  • Inventions for a New Age: The Archaic Tradition
  • People of the Woodland: New Ways of Living
  • The Mysterious Mississippian Tradition
  • Early Wisconsin Farmers: The Oneota Tradition
  • Communicating in Many Forms
  • Changes over Thousands of Years

Chapter 4: The Fur Trade Era: Exploration and Exchange
  • Exploring and Learning
  • Native People near the Close of the Old Time
  • Explorers from Europe Arrive
  • Missionaries and Mapmakers
  • Beavers Mean Business: The French Fur Trade
  • Bringing Cultures Together
  • From French to British Control
  • Americans Take Over the Fur Trade
  • From Forts to Settlement
  • Changes over Two Hundred Years

Chapter 5: From Indian Lands to Territory to Statehood
  • Indian Lands Become American Lands
  • 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?
  • Looking Back at Our State's Beginnings

Chapter 6: Coming to Wisconsin:
Immigration and Settlement
  • Immigration and Migration: Then and Now
  • Making the Journey
  • A Stonemason in Cornwall, England, Comes to Mineral Point
  • Free at Last
  • A German Farmstead in Washington County
  • From Finland to Bayfield County
  • Lucky to Be in America
  • Bringing Texas North to Wisconsin
  • Mai Ya's Long Journey from Thailand to Wisconsin
  • Looking Back at Immigration and Settlement in Wisconsin

Chapter 7: Wisconsin and the Civil War
  • Free States, Slave States, and Fugitive Slaves
  • Abolitionists in Wisconsin
  • The Civil War Comes to Wisconsin
  • Wisconsin's Soldiers
  • Two Stories
  • Lives Changed
  • Places to Remember the War

Chapter 8: Lead, Soil, and Saw Dust, 1820-1914
  • 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 Mills
  • Lumber, Pulp, and Paper
  • Learning More about Mining, Farming, and Logging

Chapter 9: Transportation and Industry Change Wisconsin
  • Wisconsin's Changing Landscape
  • Shipping by Water: From Schooners to Steamers
  • Maritime Archaeology
  • 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
  • Turning Points in Transportation and Industry

Chapter 10: Good Times, Hard Times, and Better Times
  • Changes in Ways of Living
  • New Century, New Roads
  • Vacations for Some
  • World War I
  • The Great Depression: Looking for Work and Making Do
  • World War II
  • Peacetime brings Growth and Change

Chapter 11: New Opportunities, New Challenges
  • Wisconsin and the World
  • Fighting Communism and the Korean War
  • Returning Home to the Suburbs
  • Protecting Our Environment
  • Professional Sports in Wisconsin
  • Outdoor Life
  • Struggles and Protests for Equal Rights
  • Vietnam and Protests
  • The Gulf War and 9/11
  • Challenges, Changes, and Championships

Chapter 12: A Place with a Future
  • Taking Care of Our State's Story
  • Saving Our Places and Our Spaces
  • Protecting Wisconsin's Story

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