Marshall Cavendish.Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591 $20.95 Each 1-800-831-9881 Nearly 50 pages of information pack each book in Dennis Brindell Fradin's 'Turning Points in American History' series titles, making them perfect picks for elementary grades 3-4 who are teaching early U.S. history. JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA Jamestown, Virginia first permanent English settlement in New World (1607). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 255] See : Colonization (076142122X) tells of the first settlement to last in America, surveying the settlers' experiences and the Natives who aided them, THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT Mayflower Compact, in U.S. colonial history, an agreement providing for the temporary government of Plymouth Colony. The compact was signed (1620) on board the Mayflower (0761421254) tells of the Pilgrims who sailed to the New World searching for religious freedom and how they signed a compact or promise to seek equality for all; THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (0761421297) follows how the declaration came to be written; THE ALAMO Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. (0761421270) considers the key elements and influences of a major battle which is remembered to this day; CUSTER'S LAST STAND Custer’s Last Stand U.S. troops led by Col. Custer are massacred by the Indians at Little Big Horn, Montana (1877). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 701] See : Wild West (0761421246) tells of the Battle of Little Bighorn which represented changes not only for Natives but for whites, and THE ASSASSINATION Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (0761421238) tells of the first murder of an American president and its lasting effects on race relations. Each book draws important connections between past events and modern history. Each comes with a timeline of events, glossary, and bibliography for further reading. No elementary-level collection should be without it. |
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