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Amazing Americans: The Rise of Industry - George Washington Carver (6-Pack)

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Format: Main Student Text
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After finishing college, George Washington Carver spent his life teaching farmers how to grow larger crops, and researching the use of peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. His inventions improved the lives of millions of people.

This engaging new series of leveled biographies brings history to life one dramatic story at a time.

By focusing on poignant moments as well as public triumphs, Amazing Americans makes paragons of American history feel accessible and real.

Features:

Amazing Americans profiles a diverse group of Americans in addition to the traditional heroes.
Each full-color book features a compelling narrative, photographs, a timeline, time capsule, historical trivia, and more.
Biographies align with the historical figures found throughout the American History 1 and 2 textbooks

	*Amazing Americans* aligned with Contemporary's American History 1
Colonization and Settlement		Revolutionary Period		The New Nation		Western Expansion and Reform		Civil War and Reconstruction
1585 - 1763		1754 - 1790		1791 - 1820		1801 - 1861		1850 - 1877
�	Pocahontas	�	Phillis Wheatley	�	Abigail Adams	�	Andrew Jackson	�	Frederick Douglass
�	Squanto	�	Patrick Henry	�	Eli Whitney	�	Levi Strauss	�	Abraham Lincoln
�	William Penn	�	James Madison	�	Thomas Jefferson	�	Sojourner Truth	�	Harriet Beecher Stowe
�	Anne Hutchinson	�	George Washington	�	Benjamin Banneker	�	Chief Seattle	�	Robert E. Lee
�	King Philip	�	Benjamin Franklin	�	Alexander Hamilton	�	Sacagawea	�	Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

	*Amazing Americans* aligned with Contemporary's American History 2
The Rise of Industry		The Emergence of Modern America		The Great Depression and WWII		Post-War United States		Contemporary United States
1870 - 1900		1890 - 1930		1929 - 1945		1945 - 1970		1968 - Present
�	Andrew Carnegie	�	Theodore Roosevelt	�	Franklin Roosevelt	�	John F. Kennedy	�	Neil Armstrong
�	Henry Ford	�	Woodrow Wilson	�	Dwight D. Eisenhower	�	Martin Luther King, Jr.	�	Sandra Day O'Connor
�	Madam C.J. Walker	�	Ida B. Wells	�	Dorthea Lange	�	Jackie Robinson	�	Muhammad Ali
�	George Washington Carver	�	Duke Ellington	�	Paul Robeson	�	Thurgood Marshall	�	I.M. Pei
�	Jane Addams	�	Duke Kahanamoku	�	Mary McLeod Bethune	�	C�sar Chavez	�	Bill Gates

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