American Adventures: Part 2
Morrie Greenberg
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American Adventures, Part 2: True Stories from America's Past includes…
- Abigail Duniway tries to gain suffrage rights for women in Oregon in 1872
- An invasion of locusts threatens farm crops in 1974
- Thousands of settlers rush for land in Oklahoma in 1889
- By 1890 almost all of America's buffalo have disappeared
- President McKinley is assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt becomes the youngest president in 1901
- The Triangle Company factory fire rages in 1911
- Pilot Lincoln Beachey attempts daredevil dive off San Francisco Bay in 1815
- Ponzi promises huge profits to investors in 1920
- Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President in 1933
- German saboteurs land in New York and Florida in 1942
- Rosa Parks makes her courageous Civil Rights stand by refusing to move to the back of the bus in 1955
- In 1966, Corporal Fernandez acts heroically in battle during the Vietnam war even as citizens protest at home
- The first astronauts land on the moon in 1969
- San Diego police officers make heroic rescues in 1988
- The Shuttle Endeavor astronauts repair the Hubble Telescope in space in 1993
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Additional book information:Published: 1996
Pages: 96
Dimensions: 11" x 8 ½" (28cm x 21.6cm)
Cover: Soft cover/Paperback
Publisher: Brooke-Richards Press
Author: Morrie Greenberg