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1998., Steck-Vaughn Call No: 973.916 ROS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Causes and consequencesSummary Note: Examines the reasons for the Great Depression, the events that happened during that period, and some of its tragic consequences.
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2022., Adolescent, Scholastic Focus Call No: HI-INT 341.6 GOL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "On December 7, 1941--'a date which will live in infamy'--the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000 Americans to what government officials themselves called 'concentration camps.' None of these citizens had been accused of a real crime. All of them were torn from their homes, jobs, schools, and communities, and deposited in tawdry, makeshift housing behind barbed wire, solely for the crime of being of Japanese descent. President Roosevelt declared this community 'alien,'--whether they were citizens or not, native-born or not--accusing them of being potential spies and saboteurs for Japan who deserved to have their Constitutional rights stripped away. In doing so, the president set in motion another date which would live in infamy, the day when the US joined the ranks of those Fascist nations that had forcibly deported innocents solely on the basis of the circumstance of their birth. In 1944 the US Supreme Court ruled, in Korematsu v. United States, that the forcible deportation and detention of Japanese Americans on the basis of race was a 'military necessity.' Today it is widely considered one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. But Korematsu was not an isolated event. In fact, the Court's racist ruling was the result of a deep-seated anti-Japanese, anti-Asian sentiment running all the way back to the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s. Starting from this pivotal moment, Constitutional law scholar Lawrence Goldstone will take young readers through the key events of the 19th and 20th centuries leading up to the fundamental injustice of Japanese American internment. Tracing the history of Japanese immigration to America and the growing fear whites had of losing power, Goldstone will raise deeply resonant questions of what makes an American an American, and what it means for the Supreme Court to stand as the 'people's' branch of government"--Provided by the publisher.
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2001., Grolier Educational Call No: 973.916 COO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Depression America Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: This first volume traces the causes of the Great Depression through the preceding decades of US history.
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2001., Grolier Educational Call No: 973.916 COO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Depression America Volume: bk. 3Summary Note: This third volume studies how the Great Depression affected the lives of ordinary Americans.
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2001., Grolier Educational Call No: 973.916 COO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Depression America Volume: bk. 4Summary Note: This fourth volume reveals the opposition FDR faced from both the political right and left during the Great Depression.
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2001., Grolier Educational Call No: 973.916 COO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Depression America Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: This second volume examines the first term of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal he put in place to temper the effects of the Great Depression.
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2001., Grolier Educational Call No: 973.916 COO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Depression America Volume: bk. 6Summary Note: This sixth volume places the Great Depression in the context of global extremism and the outbreak of World War II, the effects of which restored the United States to economic health.
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2001., Grolier Educational Call No: 973.916 COO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Depression America Volume: bk. 5Summary Note: This fifth volume explores the effect of the Great Depression on US society and culture.
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1993, Juvenile, Children's Press Call No: 973.91 6 Edition: Rev. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Cornerstones of freedomSummary Note: Describes the 1929 stock market crash and the events and effects of the depression that followed, including the New Deal programs intended to restore the economy.
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By Nardo, Don1998., Greenhaven Press Call No: 973.916 NAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Opposing viewpoints American history seriesSummary Note: This book presents contrasting viewpoints about the best remedies for the economic crisis of the 1930's, the implementation of President Roosevelt's New Deal, and the historical impact of both the Great Depression and the New Deal.