The Americans - Book Review

AMERICAN HISTORY

TEXTBOOK OVERVIEW: THE AMERICANS

INSTRUCTIONS: The following questionnaire is designed to help you become familiar with your American History textbook. Any knowledge that you gain about your textbook will help you to use your textbook more

effectively.

1. PARTS OF THE BOOK

A. On what page will you find a list of the U. S. Presidents?

B. What is the title of the Chapter that begins on page 460?

C. Of what unit is this chapter a part?

D. On what pages would you find information about Ellis Island?

E. How will the Section Assessment on page 574 help you?

F. How will the information on page 614-615 help you?

2. MAPS, CHARTS, ETC.

A. On page 330, list three things that you can observe about the Election of 1860.

B. On page 330, what do the dark green areas indicate?

C. According to the chart on page 706, list two governmental programs initiated by Franklin D.

Roosevelt's New Deal.

D. On page 200, what does the green line indicate?

3. VOCABULARY

A. On page 1070, for what does the abbreviation NAFTA stand?

B. Define NAFTA.

C. In the same paragraph on the trade agreement, how would you define "advocate" if you did not

know what it meant?

D. Rewrite the following sentence in your own words: "Members of Congress respected Washington

for his high qualifications as a military commander."

E. On page 780 in the section titled "The Allies Liberate Europe," read the sub-section titled "D-Day."

Complete this sentence, " June 6, 1944 ..."

F. On page 290 & 292, read the side-section titled "Key Players." Who were Santa Ana and Sam

Houston?

4. MAIN IDEA

A. What