Sabrina Crewe
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2005
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Exciting innovations in the United States of the 1920s, such as the automobile, brought change to the lives of many Americans. The decade also offered opportunities for easy wealth in the rapidly rising stock market. Suddenly, in October 1929, the stock market crashed. This book tells the story of the crash, looking at its background and causes.
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2005
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The Battle of Yorktown in Virginia took place in 1781. For more than five years, Americans had been fighting for their independence from Britain in the American Revolution. This book tells the story of the famous Revolutionary battle and looks at the events that led up to the moment when the Americans and their French allies laid siege to the British army at Yorktown, forcing it to surrender.
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2005
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Tells the story of the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, held in 1848 as the first organized effort to demand equality for women, including the right to vote, and discusses how the campaign was carried on by succeeding generations until 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.
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c2005
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Tells the story of how the Panama Canal was built, describing the project's backgound and the people who were involved. Follows the progress of the construction, detailing the engineering achievements and the experiences of the thousands of workers who labored on the ten-year project, and takes a look at the canal today.
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2005
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Tells the story of the Scopes trial and introduces the colorful charcters involved in the event. Explains why the confrontation between traditional religious teachings and modern science became such an important issue and examines later decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court to tackle the problem.
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