| Description |
199 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
A history of US ; bk. 7 |
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Hakim, Joy.
History of US ; bk. 7.
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| Note |
Previously published as: Reconstruction and reform, c1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 185) and index. |
| Summary |
A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization. |
| Contents |
Are we equal? are we kidding? -- 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 -- Southern girl's diary -- Failed revolution -- Meanwhile, out west -- Riding the trail -- Rails across the country -- Taking the train -- Fencing the homestead -- Conscience, conservationism, and courage, all in one man -- On the lone prairie -- Reaping a harvest -- Trail ends on a reservation -- Pitiful Last becomes a winner -- People of the pierced noses -- Route of the Nez Perce, 1877 -- Villain, a dreamer, a cartoonist -- Phineas Taylor Barnum -- Huck, Tom, and friends -- Immigrants speak -- Hurrah for America, my free country -- More about immigrants -- Strange case of the Chinese laundry -- Going to court --Tea in Wyoming -- Are you a citizen if you can't vote? -- Law and the ladies -- Mary in the promised land -- One hundred candles -- How were things in 1876? -- Wizard of electricity -- Jim Crow, what a fool! -- Ida B. Wells -- Lynching means killing by a mob -- Man and his times -- Man ahead of his times -- End words -- Chronology of events. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Juvenile literature.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Juvenile literature.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Author |
Hakim, Joy.
Reconstruction and reform.
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| ISBN |
0195189000 : $19.95 |
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9780195189001 |
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