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Essential Events Set 8
Essential Events Set 8
Subtitle:
Bleeding Kansas
Book Category:
Juvenile Nonfiction > History > United States > 19th Century
Author:
Reece, Richard
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9781617833076
Price:
34.22
Publication Year:
2012

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Paul Skaj,

ABDO Publishing Company,
8000 West 78th Street,
Edina ,
Minnesota - 55439,
USA
Web: www.abdopublishing.com

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This title examines an important historic event - bleeding Kansas. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the history of America during this violent time period as territories entered the Union as free or slave states. Readers will learn about the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the man behind it, Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas, the signer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, President Franklin Pierce, and the effects of this event on society. Also discussed are the abolition movement, Nat Turner's Rebellion, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Features include a table of contents, glossary, selected bibliography, Web links, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Essential Events is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

 
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