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Author Hakim, Joy.

Title Reconstructing America / Joy Hakim.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 973.8 HAKIM    Check Shelf
Edition Third edition, revised.
Description 193 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Series A history of US ; bk. 7
Hakim, Joy. History of US (2005) ; bk. 7.
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.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Juvenile literature.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- 1865-1898.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
Added Author Hakim, Joy. Reconstruction and reform.
ISBN 0195189000: $19.95
9780195189001
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