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epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Allison Crotzer Kimmel [Kimmel, Allison Crotzer]

the committee report that includes the Missouri Compromise, dated March 1, 1820 THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE TENSION TURNS TO VIOLENCE Tensions over slavery continued to grow between the North and South. ...
( Category: History January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-28 | Author:Nell Musolf [Musolf, Nell]

LOUISIANA PURCHASE In 1803 the United States increased in size considerably. That was the year the United States bought 828,000 square miles (2.1 million square km) of land from France. ...
( Category: History January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-24 | Author:Christopher Tolkien [Tolkien, Christopher]

( Category: Mythology January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Steven Otfinoski [Otfinoski, Steven]

Isoroku Yamamoto Yamamoto spent nearly a decade in the United States between 1919 and 1928. He learned English at Harvard University and later served as an admiral’s aide in the ...
( Category: Asia January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Krystyna Poray Goddu [Goddu, Krystyna Poray]

Printed in 1775 this map of the British battle plan was drawn by an officer at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Below the map appears a letter written by British ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-26 | Author:Brenda Haugen [Haugen, Brenda]

CHAPTER 2 THREATS TO PEACE The British saw the colonists’ acts of rebellion as threats to peace. British officials hoped the arrival of General Thomas Gage in Boston in May ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-08 | Author:Michael Burgan [Burgan, Michael]

RESISTANCE NESTS Part of the German defenses along the French coast were widerstandsnests (WNs) or “resistance nests.” Many were just trenches dug in the ground with tunnels that connected them ...
( Category: Children's eBooks January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Rebecca Langston-George [Langston-George, Rebecca]

With nowhere else to go, migrants camped on roadsides in California and other states. Although only about 20 percent of the Dust Bowl migrants came from Oklahoma, all the migrants ...
( Category: 1900s January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Steven Otfinoski [Otfinoski, Steven]

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH The California Herald newspaper printed a full page article on December 26, 1848, encouraging people to come to the “gold region.” While California had new settlers too, ...
( Category: History January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:John Micklos Jr. [Micklos, John]

Bloody Battles The Civil War cost more lives than any other war in U.S. history. About 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Many died in battle. About two out ...
( Category: 1800s January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:John Micklos Jr. [Micklos, John]

The Miner’s Ten Commandments were the only rules many miners lived by in their camps. THE VEINS RUN DRY Most of the easy-to-reach gold was gone by 1851. At that ...
( Category: History January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Akila Sankar McConnell

IN 1895, THE AFRICAN American community in Atlanta buzzed as it planned for the opening of the Negro Building at the Cotton States and International Exposition, the black community’s first ...
( Category: Architecture January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Dan Soucoup

Academy of Music, Barrington Street, c.1908. The academy opened in 1877 and was one of the first public buildings in the city to be lighted by electricity. —Courtesy Dan Soucoup ...
( Category: Canada January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 1948-01-15 | Author:Joseph Smith [Smith, Joseph]

Footnotes ^1. The use of the term “organized” here means merely that the various councils and quorums were arranged by their respective presidencies in the order proper for that assembly, ...
( Category: other January 12,2023 )