 | That Broad and Beckoning Highway: The Santa Fe Trail and the Rush for Gold in California and Colorado It portrays the trail as a living entity for those who trod it during these two epic eras in American history. For them it was a broad and beckoning highway 0.61 Mb.  16 | read |
 | Best Adult Nonfiction of 2012 Created By: Niel Hollands, Williamsburg Regional Library, and Rachel Bussan, ia1A Annotation: Describes the coercion of the post-World War II soviet Union in turning Eastern European countries into communist regimes. Focuses on Poland, Hungary 48.42 Kb. 1 | read |
| Setting the Stage An Expanding Nation Farther west lay regions claimed by Great Britain, Russia, France, and Spain. By the 1850s, the United States had acquired these lands, more than doubling its size, and extended its western border to the Pacific Ocean 1.36 Mb. 1 | read |
| Section 5 Mexican-American War You might think that Texas and Oregon were quite enough new territory for any president. But not for Polk. This humorless, hardworking president had one great goal. He wanted to expand the United States as far as he could 0.81 Mb. 5 | read |
| Ancient people of the southwest Audio: The Ancient Aztecs who traveled north to trade refer to it as Aztlan. Early Spanish explorers call it Pimeria Alta. Mexicans in the early nineteenth century named it El Norte and it was only after the Mexican-American War of 1848 that this region became known 139.02 Kb. 1 | read |
| When the Mexicas "Aztecs" came to the valley of Mexico, who did they conquered to become so powerful? Aztecs had other names then just Aztecs. They were also called "Aztlan," meaning "White Land," Tanochcas meaning "Great City," and "Mexicas" meaning the nation's name (Mexico) 17.17 Kb. 1 | read |
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