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Author
Series
Magic tree house fact trackers volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a picture of life in colonial America and reviews the causes and major events of the American Revolution.
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
©2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the European immigrants who came to North America as explorers and settlers, their interactions with native people, and the wars that ultimately led to their independence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Describes the reform efforts made in the decades prior to the American Civil War, discussing the individuals who worked to establish the nation's free public schools, prisons, and hospitals, and examining the conditions and motivations that led to these reforms.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
America experienced unprecedented expansion and turmoil in the years between 1815 and 1848. Historian David S. Reynolds illuminates the period's political story as well as the social and cultural movements that influenced it. He casts fresh light on Andrew Jackson, who redefined the presidency, along with John Quincy Adams and James K. Polk, who expanded the nation's territory and strengthened its position internationally. Waking Giant captures the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"In The Genuine Article, Edmund Morgan's first collection of essays in several decades, he presents a story that begins with the arrival of the first settlers in 1607 at the doomed Jamestown colony and ends as the Founding Fathers begin the arduous task of governing a formerly rebellious and often restless people."--BOOK JACKET