Before the Civil War 1830-1860

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Themes: Graphic Novels, Illustrated, History, Nonfiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Fast-paced and easy-to-read, these graphic U.S. history titles teach student about key historical events in American history from 1500 to the present. Dramatic and colorful graphics highlights the text with easy transitions, which avoids a choppy narrative. These history titles offer a variety of rich material to support teaching to the standards. Book features include: Four-color throughout; speech bubbles and illustrations allow struggling readers multiple access points to the text; speech bubbles (in yellow) are clearly separated from nonfiction (in blue).

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• Publié par: Saddleback Educational Publishing
• Date de parution: 23 août 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602916890
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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Before the Civil War 1830–1860

Saddleback’sGraphic American History

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before the civil war

While American settlers in Oregon celebrated the treaty making that territory American, the rest of the United States was concerned with a large tract of land far to the south. Course not. But when I went to the Byes’ cabin, everybody was gone and they’d written Tom Tyler was a boy who lived in Tennessee. G.T.T. on the door! Why? Say, Dad, Stands for “Gone what does to Texas.” You G.T.T. mean? fixin’ to go?

Some people take off for Texas when they get in trouble with the law. Others, like the Byes, think they can get good land there cheap, and make more money.

Would you like to go?

Well, Texas is a big tract of land next to the United States that belongs to Mexico. A lot of land, not many people.

I reckon I wouldn’t like the rules. You have to become a Mexican citizen and join the Catholic church.

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By 1827, about 12,000 Americans had gone to Texas. They did not pay much attention to the Mexican rules. Soon they were quarelling with the government.

You heard the latest from the Mexican government?

You mean the high taxes?

This is a lot worse than taxes! They’vepassed a law against slavery!

That’s crazy! How’s anybody gonne raise cotton without slaves?

They’re just trying tokeep us Americans out!

Stephen Austin had brought the first group of American settlers to Texas. Now the Americans talked of revolt. Austin conferred with Sam Houston, a newcomer from Tennessee.

According to Santa Anna’s* latest decrees, we can’t gather in groups of more than 10 people. We can’t criticize the government. We can’t worship as Protestants! Americans won’t stand for it!

* Ruler of Mexico

I am going to Mexico City, Sam. Surely I can work out a compromise that will satisfy both sides.