A History of Us: Reconstructing America: 1865-1890a History of Us Book Seven

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0195327217 ISBN13: 9780195327212 Release Date: February 2007 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Length: 208 Pages Weight: 1.02 lbs. Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 9.2" Age Range: 11 to 14 years Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9 Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstruction and Reform is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re United States. Railroad tycoons were roaring across the country. New cities sprang up across the plains, and a new and different American West came into being: a land of farmers, ranchers, miners, and city dwellers. Back East, large scale immigration was also going on, but not all Americans wanted newcomers in the country. Technology moved forward: Thomas Edison lit up the world with his electric light. And social justice was on everyone's min