History of US

Name: History of US
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ISBN: 9780195153316

ISBN-10: 0195153316

ISBN-13: 9780195153316

Edition: 3rd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Joy Hakim

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Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstructing America, 1865-1890 is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons were roaring across the country. New cities sprang up across the plains, and a new and different American West came into being: a land of farmers, ranchers, miners, and city dwellers. Back East, large-scale immigration was also going on, but not all Americans wanted newcomers in the country. Technology moved forward: Thomas Edison lit up the world with his electric light. And social justice was on everyone's mind with Carry Nation wielding a hatchet in her battle against drunkenness and Booker T. Washington and…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/7/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 9.29" wide x 7.72" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface: Are We Equal? Are We Kidding?


Feature: A Water Bird and A Sparrow



Reconstruction Means Rebuilding



Who Was Andrew Johnson?



Presidential Reconstruction



Slavery and States' Rights



Congressional Reconstruction



Thaddeus Stevens: Radical



Impeaching a President



Welcome to Meeting Street



A Southern Girl's Diary



A Failed Revolution



Meanwhile, Out West



Riding the Trail



Rails Across the Country



Taking the Train



Fencing the Homestead


Feature: Conscience, Conservationism, and Courage--All in One Man...


Feature: On the Lone Prairie



Reaping a Harvest



The Trail Ends on a Reservation


Feature: Pitiful Last Becomes a Winner



The People of the Pierced Noses


Feature: The Route of the Nez Perce, 1877



A Villain, a Dreamer, a Cartoonist



Phineas Taylor Barnum



Huck, Tom, and Friends



Immigrants Speak


Feature: Hurrah for America, My Free Country



More About Immigrants



The Strange Case of the Chinese Laundry



Going to Court



Tea in Wyoming



Are You a Citizen If You Can't Vote?


Feature: Law and the Ladies



Mary in the Promised Land



One Hundred Candles



How Were Things in 1876?



The Wizard of Electricity



Jim Crow--What a Fool!



Ida B. Wells



Lynching Means Killing by a Mob



A Man and His Times



A Man Ahead of His Times



End Words


Chronology of Events


More Books to Read


Picture Credits


Index


A Note From the Author


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