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The Industrial Revolution was one of the most dramatic eras of all time, filled with fascinating people, strange events, and incredible stories. Readers are drawn deep into the facts not covered in history textbooks, like working conditions, inventions, failures, and characters, to make this important history lesson fun and engaging.
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Examines the history of children working and living during the American Revolution. Presents stories of child labor and the orphan trains typical of the era. Includes maps, text-related questions with an answer key, a glossary, resources for further information, and archival photographs.
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"THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION FOR KIDS introduces young readers to the Industrial Revolution not only through the usual people, places, and inventions of the time--the incredibly wealthy Rockefellers and Carnegies, dirty and dangerous factories, and new forms of transportation and communication--but also through the eyes of everyday workers, kids, sports figures, and social activists whose names never appear in history books"--