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Amazing Impossible Erie Canal
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Author :Cheryl Harness Publisher :Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers ISBN 13 :9780689825842 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (258 download)
Book Synopsis Amazing Impossible Erie Canal by : Cheryl Harness
Download or read book Amazing Impossible Erie Canal written by Cheryl Harness and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMPOSSIBLE! When De Witt Clinton, a young politician, first dreams of building a canal to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, folks don't believe such a thing can be done. But eight long years after the first shovelful of earth is dug, Clinton realizes his vision at last. The longest uninterrupted canal in history has been built, and it is now possible to travel by water from the American prairie all the way to Europe! Join Cheryl Harness on a fascinating and fun-filled trip as she depicts the amazing construction and workings of the Erie Canal. From the groundbreaking ceremony on the Fourth of July in 1817 to a triumphant journey down America's first superhighway, it's a trip you definitely don't want to miss.
Book Synopsis The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal by : Cheryl Harness
Download or read book The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal written by Cheryl Harness and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Erie Canal written by Peter Spier and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his intricately detailed and historically accurate illustrations, Spier brings delightful new dimensions to the popular folk song.
Download or read book Erie Canal written by Andrew P. Kitzmann and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Erie Canal was completed in 1825 and became the backbone of an economic and cultural explosion that defined the image of New York. The canal's development spurred successful industry and a booming economy, sparking massive urban growth in an area that was previously virtually unexplored wilderness. People poured west into this new space, drawn by the ability to ship goods along the canal to the Hudson River, New York City, and the world beyond. Erie Canal is a compilation of 200 vintage images from the Erie Canal Museum's documentary collection of New York's canal system. Vintage postcards depict life and industry along the canal, including not only the Erie itself but also the lateral and feeder canals that completed the state-wide system.
Download or read book Bond of Union written by Gerard Koeppel and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal and the memorable characters who turned a visionary plan into a successful venture. Koeppel's long years of research fill the pages with new findings about the construction of the canal and its enormous impact, providing a unique perspective on America's self perception as an empire destined to expand to the Pacific.
Book Synopsis Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation by : Peter L. Bernstein
Download or read book Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation written by Peter L. Bernstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller The epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history. The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public investments in American history. In Wedding of the Waters, best-selling author Peter L. Bernstein recounts the canal’s creation within the larger tableau of a youthful America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Leaders of the fledgling nation had quickly recognized that the Appalachian mountain range was a formidable obstacle to uniting the Atlantic states with the vast lands of the west. A pathway for commerce as well as travel was critical to the security and expansion of the Revolution’s unprecedented achievement. Gripped by the same fever that had driven explorers such as Hudson and Champlain, a motley assortment of politicians, surveyors, and would-be engineers set out to build a complex structure of a type few of them had ever actually seen, let alone built or operated: a manmade waterway cut through the mountains to traverse the 363 miles between Lake Erie and the Hudson River. By linking the seas to the interior and the interior to the seas, these pioneers ultimately connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Bernstein examines the social ramifications, political squabbles, and economic risks and returns of this mammoth project. He goes on to demonstrate how the canal’s creation helped bind the western settlers in the new lands to their fellow Americans in the original colonies, knitted the sinews of the American industrial revolution, and even influenced profound economic change in Europe. Featuring a rich cast of characters that includes political visionaries like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin van Buren; the canal’s most powerful champions, Governor DeWitt Clinton and Gouverneur Morris; and a huge platoon of Irish and American diggers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history.
Download or read book Heaven's Ditch written by Jack Kelly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning narrative, Heaven's Ditch offers an excitingly fresh look at a heady, foundational moment in American history. The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The Erie Canal made New York the financial capital of America and brought the modern world crashing into the frontier. Men and women saw God face to face, gained and lost fortunes, and reveled in a period of intense spiritual creativity. Heaven's Ditch by Jack Kelly illuminates the spiritual and political upheavals along this "psychic highway" from its opening in 1825 through 1844. "Wage slave" Sam Patch became America's first celebrity daredevil. William Miller envisioned the apocalypse. Farm boy Joseph Smith gave birth to Mormonism, a new and distinctly American religion. Along the way, the reader encounters America's very first "crime of the century," a treasure hunt, searing acts of violence, a visionary cross-dresser, and a panoply of fanatics, mystics, and hoaxers.
Book Synopsis Priscilla and the Hollyhocks by : Anne Broyles
Download or read book Priscilla and the Hollyhocks written by Anne Broyles and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young African American girl is sold away from her mother as a slave, and then later is sold to a Cherokee Indian, but eventually she is bought by a white man who not only sets her free, but adopts her into his family of fifteen children. Based on a true story; includes instructions for making a hollyhock doll.
Author :Department of English Language and Literature Linda Thompson Publisher : ISBN 13 :9781621698401 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (984 download)
Book Synopsis Building the Erie Canal by : Department of English Language and Literature Linda Thompson
Download or read book Building the Erie Canal written by Department of English Language and Literature Linda Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the construction of the Erie Canal, built during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to link Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes with the Atlantic Coast.
Book Synopsis Thunder at Gettysburg by : Patricia Lee Gauch
Download or read book Thunder at Gettysburg written by Patricia Lee Gauch and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1990-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fictional, but historically accurate account of a young girl's involvement in the Battle of Gettysburg, Tillie Pierce Alleman tells of her experiences helping wounded soldiers. A Child Study Children's Book Committee: Children's Book of the Year.
Download or read book Frozen Man written by David Getz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the discovery of a frozen man on the Austrian Alps in 1991 and the research used to discover that it was a prehistoric man.
Book Synopsis The Erie Canal by : New Word City Editors
Download or read book The Erie Canal written by New Word City Editors and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Erie Canal was a preposterous idea. Even President Thomas Jefferson, usually ahead of his time, believed that it could not be built for at least a century, and yet, the Erie Canal came to be just as its planners had thought it would. For the first time in the history of the United States, a cheap, fast route ran through the Appalachians, the mountains that had so effectively divided the West from the East of early America. With the canal, the country's fertile interior became accessible and its great inland lakes were linked to all the seas of the world. Here, from award-winning historian Ralph K. Andrist, is the canal's dramatic and little-told story.
Book Synopsis Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? by : Jean Fritz
Download or read book Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? written by Jean Fritz and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A light-hearted look at the various people who have stepped on Plymouth Rock since 1620.
Download or read book The Last Rail written by Darice Bailer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The building of the first transcontinental railroad"--Cover.
Book Synopsis The Floating House by : Scott Russell Sanders
Download or read book The Floating House written by Scott Russell Sanders and published by Aladdin Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1815, the McClures sail their flatboat from Pittsburgh down the Ohio River and settle in what would later become Indiana.
Book Synopsis Just for You to Know by : Cheryl Harness
Download or read book Just for You to Know written by Cheryl Harness and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a family of five noisy brothers, a dreamy mother, and a reckless dad, Carmen knows that she must have been kidnapped by this crazy family and so can't wait for the day when she can become the famous artist she knows she is destined to be.
Book Synopsis Ghosts of the White House by : Cheryl Harness
Download or read book Ghosts of the White House written by Cheryl Harness and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington's ghost pulls a girl out of her school White House tour and takes her on a personal tour of the building, introducing her to the ghosts of previous presidents and to the history of the White House and of the United States.
