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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Explores the role of rivers as roads in the exploration and westward expansion of America since precolonial times, discussing the histories of the Hudson, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, and Colorado rivers, the Rio Grande, and the Erie Canal.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Uncharted Territory In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French for $15,000,000. The purchase made President Jefferson's dream of extending the U.S. west of the Mississippi River come true. Now the much larger United States had difficult questions to answer: How would Louisiana be governed? How would it be divided into states? Would those states be free states or slave states? What would happen to the Native Americans?...
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