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Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the events that led Napoleon Bonaparte to sell the Louisiana Territory and the difficulties that Thomas Jefferson had in making the purchase that doubled the size of the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of American westward expansion, including the exploration of the frontier to the Pacific Ocean, the establishment of the Lone Star State and the Mormon kingdom of Deseret, Manifest Destiny, the California gold rush, the population of the plains, and the legacy of the American frontier.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Travel alongside pioneers as they cross the vast plains, deserts, and mountains of North America. Explore the routes the settlers took, experience daily life in a wagon train, and discover the dangers that families faced on the trails.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Describes the people and events of the age of Manifest Destiny and the American West. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a traveler on the Oregon Trail, a laborer, or a Sioux warrior"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates" comes an examination of Hawaii's emblematic and exceptional history, retracing the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England.
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.
20) The president and the assassin: McKinley, terror, and empire at the dawn of the American century
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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