Basic American History II:

Post-Civil War America to the Present

Basic American History II, a nationally distributed product, is being newly released, encased in a state-of-the-art intuitive Web-based interface that it shares with WorldView's other highly acclaimed products. With each user possessing his or her own account, students will enjoy learning from this interactive, workbook-style product wherever they have access to the Internet, either at home or in school – their work securely stored and easily retrieved "from the cloud."

This middle school program traces history from Post-Civil War America to the Present. The content, divided into 18 chapters and 7 themes, is explored in such depth and breadth as to put Basic American History II into the realm of an electronic textbook. Each chapter is accompanied by a comprehensive overview, tutorials, review and test questions, writing activities, written and graphical documents, case studies, and projects.

Resource materials include:

• 49 original source documents
• 41 graphical-based documents
• 900+ glossary entries
• 800+ chronology entries
• 200+ biographies
• 18 case studies
• 6 tutorial lessons

Assessment materials include:

• 1000+ questions/mini-lessons
• 14 skill-development projects
• 18 essay questions with sample essays
• 90 written and graphical dbq's

Accolades:

• 2004 Alabama State Textbook Committee approved Basic American History II for state textbook funding.