Table of Contents

Student Guide

• Chapter 1: History Close to Home 1
• • Lesson 1: What Is History? 1
• Chapter 2: Pennsylvania's Place in the World 5
• • Lesson 1: The Land We Call Home 5
  • Lesson 2: Place: What Kind of Place is Pennsylvania? 9
  • Lesson 3: Regions: What is a Region? 13
  • Lesson 4: Humans Interact with Their Environment 17
• Chapter 3: The First Pennsylvanians 21
• • Lesson 1: Early People Lived Here 21
  • Lesson 2: Eastern Woodland Indians 25 free
  • Lesson 3: Travel and Trade 29
• Chapter 4: Two Worlds Meet 33
• • Lesson 1: Changes in Europe 33
  • Lesson 2: The Race to Settle 37
  • Lesson 3: The Fur Trade 41
• Chapter 5: William Penn's Dream 45
• • Lesson 1: William Penn's Dream 45
  • Lesson 2: Penn Comes to Pennsylvania 50
  • Lesson 3: Who Came to Penn's Woods? 54
• Chapter 6: Colonial Life 58
• • Lesson 1: A Moving Frontier 58
  • Lesson 2: At Home in Colonial Pennsylvania 63
• Chapter 7: Birthplace of a Nation 67
• • Lesson 1: Claiming the Frontier 67
  • Lesson 2: Trouble with England 71
  • Lesson 3: The War Comes to Pennsylvania 75
  • Lesson 4: Becoming a Nation 79
• Chapter 8: Moving West 83
• • Lesson 1: Westward, Ho! 83
  • Lesson 2: The War of 1812 87
• Chapter 9: "A New Birth of Freedom" 91
• • Lesson 1: Two Minutes at Gettysburg 91
  • Lesson 2: The Civil War 95
• Chapter 10: An Industrial Powerhouse 99
• • Lesson 1: Big Booms 99
  • Lesson 2: Other Industries 103
• Chapter 11: Reforming Pennsylvania 107
• • Lesson 1: The Turn of the Century 107
  • Lesson 2: World War I 113
  • Lesson 3: A Second World War 118
  • Lesson 4: The 1980s and 90s - Unexpected Changes 122
• Chapter 12: Peopling Pennsylvania 126
• • Lesson 1: Everyone Came from Somewhere Else 126
  • Lesson 2: Creating a Community 130
• Chapter 13: Governing Pennsylvania 134
• • Lesson 1: Our Government 134
  • Lesson 2: How Our Government Works 138
  • Lesson 3: Government for Pennsylvania 142
• Chapter 14: Making a Living in Pennsylvania 146
• • Lesson 1: Meeting Our Needs 146
  • Lesson 2: Consumers Buy Goods and Services 151
  • Lesson 3: Earning a Living in Our State 155