Grade 8

The land seemed endless. It was dirt cheap. It was a deal too good to be true! But it was true! And today, the heartland of America is what is because President Jefferson knew a good deal when he saw one. With this book, kids of all ages will have front-row seats for the closing of the biggest real estate deal in history! This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! Each book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study the Louisiana Purchase. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 32-page book is reproducible and educational.

No war is more frightening--or more deadly--than a war between the peoples of one country. The repercussions of the American Civil War are still rippling through time, affecting the history we're part of every day. Kids need to know the truth. What started it? Did it really end April of 1865? This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! This book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study the Civil War. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 32-page book is reproducible and educational.

It began long before John Hancock inked his signature on the Declaration of Independence... but when the first shots were fired, they were heard around the world! And when the cannons' thunder faded, the world was forever changed - and a new country was about to be born! This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! This book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study the American Revolution. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 32-page book is reproducible and educational.

The Founding Fathers had worked hard through the long, hot summer of 1787. When all was said and done, the foundation of America's government had been poured into the Constitution of the United Sates. Their work, however, was not yet finished. The States, in adopting the new Constitution, argued that the next layer of the foundation must establish and protect the rights of individual citizens. This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! This book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study the Bill of Rights. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 28-page book is reproducible and educational.

Years before George Washington would become President of a brand new country called "The United States of America," Thomas Jefferson hunkered down in a candle-it room and penned a letter that shook loose the heavy iron chains of tyrannical monarchy. In writing the simple, "... we hold these truths to be self-evident - that all men are created equal." Thomas Jefferson told the King of England that the colonists were not going to be treated as his inferior subjects any longer. This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! This book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study the Declaration of Independence. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 32-page book is reproducible and educational.

This book provides an in-depth look at the stock market crash of 1929 and the beginning of the great depression. This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! Each book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation and lost opportunities. Your students will also learn how the depression caused major political changes, particularly the New Deal and how it relieved much of the economic hardship. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 28-page comprehensive book is reproducible and educational.

The industrial revolution marked a major turning point in human society and the world. This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! Each book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study how the Industrial Revolution impacted major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 32-page book is reproducible and educational.

This book provides an in-depth look at our nations history along with the political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! This book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study the Civil Rights Movement, an important piece of legislation that stopped segregation and discrimination in public accommodations and helped victims of discrimination. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 32-page comprehensive book is reproducible and educational.

This book provides an in-depth look at our nations history and the importance of the U.S. Constitution. This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! This book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study the U.S. Constitution, one of the most influential legal documents in existence. Since its creation some two hundred years ago, over one hundred countries around the world have used it as a model for their own. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 28-page comprehensive book is reproducible and educational.

Slavery in the South was a dark chapter in American history. Yet in this desperate time, a shining light of hope emerged from the darkness-the Underground Railroad! The Underground Railroad was not powered by noisy, dirty steam engines, but by the hearts, minds, and hands of Americans. This network of courageous men and women, safe houses, and secret messages moved close to 100,000 slaves to freedom in the first art of the 19th century. This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! This book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study the Underground Railroad. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 28-page book is reproducible and educational.

World War I was the beginning of "Modern Warfare." The Great War's new weaponry: poison gas, machine guns, tanks, airplanes, and even submarines forever changed the way battles were fought. Who would ever think that a single bullet from an assassin's gun could start a war that would be fought on a larger scale than ever before? Probably no one; but that's what happened! In this book, kids will see for themselves the events leading up to the first "World War"; and will hunker down in the trenches of Eastern Europe with the troops of many nations as they fight "the war to end all wars."