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1) The Stock Market Crash of 1929: the end of prosperity

Author

Series

Milestones in American History

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Explains the causes and effects of the Great Depression of 1929.

2) The Louisiana Purchase: growth of a nation

Author

Series

Milestones in American history

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

3) The Boston Tea Party: colonists protest the British government

Author

Crompton, Samuel Willard

Series

Milestones in American history

Publisher

Chelsea House

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

4) The Donner Party: a doomed journey

Author

Series

Milestones in American history

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

Description

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Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.

5) The attack on Pearl Harbor: the United States enters World War II

Author

Davenport, John

Series

Milestones in American history

Publisher

Chelsea House

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

6) The robber barons and the Sherman Antitrust Act: reshaping American business

Author

Series

Milestones in American history

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

7) The invention of the moving assembly line: a revolution in manufacturing

Author

Series

Milestones in American history

Publisher

Chelsea House

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

Description

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"Though the automated assembly line seems the most logical and natural of ideas, its development took place over a long period of time. It would take Henry Ford and his dream of building an affordable Model T automobile to put all the pieces together. In doing so, Ford changed the world forever. The invention impacted prices, wages and demand; labor unions; and even popular culture. In The Invention of the Moving Assembly Line, learn how one simple...

8) The Transcontinental Railroad: the gateway to the West

Author

Renehan, Edward

Series

Milestones in American history

Publisher

Chelsea House

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

9) Toward the promised land, 1851-1861: from Uncle Tom's cabin to the onset of the Civil War

Author

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

10) Centuries of greatness, 750-1900: the West African kingdoms

Author

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House

Pub. Date

1995.

Language

English

11) Pursuing the dream, 1965-1971: from the Selma to Montgomery march to the formation of PUSH

Author

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

12) Braving the New World, 1619-1784: from the arrival of the enslaved Africans to the end of the American Revolution

Author

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

13) Days of sorrow, years of glory, 1831-1850: from the Nat Turner revolt to the fugitive slave law

Author

Paulson, Timothy J

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House

Pub. Date

1994.

Language

English

14) Bound for glory 1910-1930: from the great migration to the Harlem renaissance

Author

Candaele, Kerry

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

15) A glorious past: ancient Egypt, Ethiopia, and Nubia

Author

Jenkins, Earnestine

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

16) Marching toward freedom, 1957-1965: from the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to the assassination of Malcom X

Author

Weisbrot, Robert

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsa House

Pub. Date

[1994]

Language

English

17) The gathering storm 1787-1829: from the framing of the Constitution to Walker's appeal

Author

Sisson, Mary Barr

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

Description

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Presents a partial history of slavery and the abolitionist movement in the United States.

18) Great ambitions: from the "separate but equal" doctrine to the birth of the NAACP (1896-1909)

Author

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

19) The turning tide: from the desegregation of the armed forces to the Montgomery bus boycott (1946-1958)

Author

Dornfeld, Margaret

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

20) The path to equality: from the Scottsboro case to the breaking of baseball's color barrier, 1931-1947

Author

Hine, Darlene Clark

Series

Milestones in Black American history

Publisher

Chelsea House

Pub. Date

1995.

Language

English

Description

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A chronology of significant events in African American history from 1931 to 1947.

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