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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...
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When Napoleon offered to sell French Louisiana, America was launched on a fateful and fraught journey west. Brands takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. Life in the west evoked both selfless heroism and unspeakable violence, against indigenous peoples and one another. It was soon evident that El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it...
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"The Creek War was one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. What began as a vicious internal conflict among the Creek Indians metastasized like a cancer. The ensuing Creek War of 1813-1814 shattered Native American control of the Deep South and led to the infamous Trail of Tears, in which the government forcibly removed the southeastern Indians from their homelands....
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2021.
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English
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"It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's 'First Frontier' beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate...
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Congressman, governor, military leader, and senior statesman--no person played a longer, more influential, or more varied role in the shaping of Minnesota than Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-91). Yet Sibley's history reveals universal tensions about the duality of the nineteenth century frontiersman who is at once an accommodating trade partner of the Indian/European/Metis worlds and the conquering government official of the ever-expanding West. Rhoda...
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950L
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English
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Describes the Louisiana Purchase that doubled the size of the United States in 1803. Examines the history of the territory, the political events that led to the purchase of the land from France, the explorations of Lewis and Clark, and the consequences on relations with Native peoples. Includes a timeline, glossary, and bibliography.
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650L
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112 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Describes the people and events of the age of Manifest Destiny and the American West. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a traveler on the Oregon Trail, a laborer, or a Sioux warrior"--Provided by publisher.
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Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
650L
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1 online resource (25 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
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English
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Describes how the United States grew through the Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas, the War with Mexico, and the acquisition of Alaska. With text, maps, and illustrations, the book describes how the U.S. grew to reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
12) The Oregon Trail
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2005
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1130L
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
1030L
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1 online resource (30 pages, 3 pages, 30 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
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English
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American Indians had lived in North America for thousands of years by the time European settlers arrived. The settlers came in search of land and were eager to build farms, roads, and towns. The Indians lived off the land and believed it belonged to everyone. When the U.S. government completed the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the plan to expand the country to the Pacific Ocean set up a collision course between the two groups' ways of life.
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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940L
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1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps.
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English
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Imagine being asked to explore an unknown part of the country. That's exactly what happened to Daniel Boone in the mid-1700s. Boone and others cut a path through the wilderness of Kentucky and Virginia. Lively language, historical illustrations, and primary source journal entries from Boone and his fellow settlers help readers feel as if they were a part of the journey. Meets Common Core critical thinking standards, and provides strong ties to social...
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2012
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Widescreen ver.
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3 videodiscs (427 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A Confederate soldier, out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who murdered his wife, follows their trail to the raucous, traveling town alongside the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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English
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"We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an 'empire,' exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories--the islands, atolls, and archipelagos--this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals...
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
780L
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1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
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English
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Details the factors that influenced the United States' westward expansion during the nineteenth century and reveals how these influences shaped the nation and its people, as well as the environment and the native population. Includes color illustrations, a glossary, and further reading sources.
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
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xxiv, 515 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European...