A History of US: Book 7: Reconstruction and Reform (1865-1896)
by Joy Hakim Author
(From Amazon): The American West beckons and new cities spring up across the plains. Meet P.T. Barnum, Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, Lee Yick, Thaddeus Stevens, Thomas Alva Edison, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Mary Antin, and a nasty fellow named Jim Crow. Turn these pages and read all about them.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0-19-512763-3
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 37
- Pages
- 192
- Suggested Grades
- 4th - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- United States of America
- Historical Setting
- 1865 - 1896
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 2
- Copyright
- 1999
- Written
- 1994
Chapters
- 1 Preface and Reconstruction Means Rebuilding
- 2 Who Was Andrew Johnson?
- 3 Presidential Reconstruction
- 4 Slavery and States' Rights
- 5 Congressional Reconstruction
- 6 Thaddeus Stevens: Radical
- 7 Impeaching a President
- 8 Welcome to Meeting Street
- 9 A Southern Girl's Diary
- 10 A Failed Revolution
- 11 Meanwhile, Out West
- 12 Riding the Trail
- 13 Rails Across the Country
- 14 Taking the Train
- 15 Fencing the Homestead
- 16 Reaping a Harvest
- 17 The Trails Ends on a Reservation
- 18 The People of the Pierced Noses
- 19 A Villain, A Dreamer, a Cartoonist
- 20 Phineas Taylor Barnum
- 21 Huck, Tom, and Friends
- 22 Immigrants Speak
- 23 More About Immigrants
- 24 The Strange Case of the Chinese Laundry
- 25 Going to Court
- 26 Tea in Wyoming
- 27 Are You a Citizen if You Can't Vote?
- 28 Mary in the Promised Land
- 29 One Hundred Candles
- 30 How Were Things in 1876?
- 31 The Wizard of Electricity
- 32 Jim Crow - What a Fool!
- 33 Ida B. Wells
- 34 Lynching Means Killing by a Mob
- 35 A Man and His Times
- 36 A Man Ahead of His Time
- 37 End Words
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