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Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A mere 45 words, the First Amendment to the Constitution stands as a pillar of our democracy and has had an incalculable influence on the development of human freedom in the United States and the Western world. By defining the relationship between the people and the state and placing checks on governmental power to silence its populace, its protections have important ramifications for every American. But the First Amendment is not simply a legal construct...
Series
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles and achievements during 1910-1919. Includes information about William Howard Taft; the political comeback of Teddy Roosevelt; the "Bull Moose" party; enactment of child labor laws; the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand that started World War I; the sinking of the Lusitania in which 1198 died; the submarine battles of World War I; U.S. participation...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
For more than a decade starting in 1920, millions of regular Americans ignored the law of the land. Parents became bootleggers, kids smuggled illegal alcohol, and outlaws became celebrities. It wasn't supposed to be that way, of course. When Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States, supporters believed it would create a better, stronger nation. Instead it began an era of lawlessness,...