Homework Helpers: U.S. History: From the Discovery of America Through the Civil War is a user-friendly book that will make any student?or those trying to help them?feel like he or she has a private tutor. Each chapter focuses on a major theme and explains it with a variety of diagrams, charts, and maps. Each chapter also contains detailed questions that allow students to assess how well they?ve mastered various concepts. Not only are the right answers to these self-study questions included, but also detailed explanations as to why the wrong answers are wrong.