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History of US (1865-1890), A - Reconstructing America

By: Oxford University Press

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Oxford University Press)


Product Info

Title
History of US (1865-1890), A - Reconstructing America
Category
Author
Joy Hakim
Publish Year
2003
Pages
200
Dimensions
7.5x9x.5"
NKG Part #
2148219011
Type
Softcover
Series
#7

Description

Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstruction and Reform 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 W. E. B. DuBois counseling newly freed African Americans to behave in very different ways. Through it all, the reunited nation struggles to keep the promises of freedom in this exciting chapter in the A History of US series.