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A History of Us: An Age of Extremes: 1880-1917a History of Us Book Eight

A History of Us: An Age of Extremes: 1880-1917a History of Us Book Eight

Hakim, Joy

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Series: A ^Ahistory of Us

History

Publisher Price: $19.98

ISBN10: 0195327225
ISBN13: 9780195327229
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 8 2007
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.45 Width: 7.46 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.

For the captains of industry men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers, it is a time of big struggles, with adults and children alike working 12 to 14 hours a day under extreme, dangerous conditions. The disparity between the rich and the poor was dismaying, which prompted some people to action. In An Age of Extremes, you'll meet Mother Jones, Ida Tarbell, Big Bill Haywood, Sam Gompers, and other movers and shakers, and get swept up in the enthusiasm of Teddy Roosevelt. You'll also watch the United States take its greatest role on the world stage since the Revolution, as it enters the bloody battlefields of Europe in World War I.

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