Hewitt Homeschooling Resources

Readers will enjoy an interesting look at not only the man, but the nineteenth century world in which he lived. Britain's enormous growth and emergence as a democracy; Germany united under Bismarck; Russia freeing the serfs; Japan opened to foreign trade; the U.S. in turmoil over slavery; and many other cultural, social, and economic events are all shared in Foster's engaging text. The book has time lines, charts, and illustrations, maps, and index. It can be purchased separately, in a set of Foster's books, and in the Junior-High Early American and World History pack from Beautiful Feet (see Related Items below). From the Book:

Indiana had entered as a free state, the year the Lincolns moved there, because it was north of the Ohio River. As far away as the Mississippi, the Ohio acted as a continuation of the Mason and Dixon line dividing the free states to the north from slave states to the south. . . . finally the Compromise was made.
Missouri was to be admitted as a slave state, BUT from then on slavery was to be barred from all territory north of its southern boundary line, as far west as the Rocky Mountains. Maine was to be admitted as a new free state, thus making free and slave states equal again. The country heaved a sigh of relief. The Union had been saved. The dangerous question of slavery, they hoped, had been hushed forever.
"Hushed it is, indeed, for the moment," said Thomas Jefferson dismally, "but this is not the final sentence." The day of reckoning, he knew, would come.

Related Items:
Early American and World History
Set of Five Foster Books