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When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #47: Abe Lincoln at Last!, they had lots of questions. What was it like to grow up in a log cabin? How did Lincoln become president? What was his family like? Why did the US fight the Civil War? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.
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Li'l Dan, a slave on a Southern plantation, loves to play his drum. When a company of Union soldiers announce that the slaves have been set free, Dan has no place to go, so he follows the soldiers, who make him their mascot. But Confederate soldiers attack, and Dan discovers that he is the only one who can save his friends.
The only children's book ever written and illustrated by legendary American artist Romare Bearden, Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy was just recently discovered. Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. has written a personal introduction to the book, describing his own memories of the artist while Bearden created this memorable tale.
On an accompanying CD, Dr. Maya Angelou, three-time Grammy Award winner for spoken word recordings, reads the text.
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Confederate general Robert E. Lee came to Richmond, Virginia in the spring of 1861. During this visit, Lee was given a bay stallion named Richmond. Richmond was a nervous horse, and proved unsatisfactory. When Richmond was near strange horses, he would tend to squeal. This was not a good thing for a CivilWar horse to do. Lee took Richmond to West Virginia and purchased other horse called The Roan or Brown-Roan. Unfortunately, The Roan began to go blind During the Seven Days' Battle in June and July of 1862. The horse Richmond died after Malvern Hill. After Second Bull Run, cavalryman Jeb Stuart got Lee a mare named Lucy Long. Also colse to this time, Lee received a sorrel horse named Ajax.
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When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #47: Abe Lincoln at Last!, they had lots of questions. What was it like to grow up in a log cabin? How did Lincoln become president? What was his family like? Why did the US fight the Civil War? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.
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When Lee rode to Appomattox Court House to surrender on April 9, 1865, he was riding his beloved and most known horse. This gray colored horse was Traveller. After the CivilWar, when Robert E. Lee was president at Washington University (later renamed to Washington and Lee University), Lee's beloved old war-horse Traveller was still with him. When Lee died, the horse Traveller walked behind Lee's hearse in the funeral procession. Traveller walked with his head bowed and in a slow gait. Traveller is buried covering of the Lee Chapel on the campus of Washington and Lee University. Robert E. Lee is interred in a crypt beneath the Lee Chapel.
Lexington, Sam, and William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman had two horses that were his favorites During the CivilWar. These horse's names were Lexington and Sam. Sherman rode Lexington at Atlanta and in the Grand recapitulate in Washington at the close of the war. Sam was injured any times During the CivilWar. At Shiloh, three of Sherman's horses were killed During the battle. Two of these three horses died as an orderly held their reigns.
Cincinnati and Ulysses S. Grant
As a young man, Ulysses S. Grant advanced a love of horses when he worked at his father's farm. Grant became a skilled equestrian. While a cadet at West Point, Grant was an exceptional equestrian and he did not stand out as having special talents in anything else while at West Point. Grant wanted a commission in the cavalry when he concluded at West Point. Instead, he wound up in the infantry because the cavalry had no vacancies. The infantry assignment must have been a frustration for the horse-loving equestrian Ulysses S. Grant.
Grant's beloved horse During the CivilWar was Cincinnati. An admirer gave Cincinnati to Grant after the Battle of Chattanooga. Cincinnati was seldom ridden by anything other than Grant, one famous exception being President Abraham Lincoln when Lincoln last visited City Point, Virginia. Other horses Grant had in the CivilWar were Jack, Fox, and Kangaroo. Kangaroo was left on the Shiloh battlefield by the Confederates. This horse was described as ugly and raw-boned. Grant however, having an eye for horses, knew that Kangaroo was a thoroughbred. After becoming a Yankee horse, Kangaroo got rest and care and became a fine horse.
Old Sorrel and Stonewall Jackson
Old Sorrel was Confederate general Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson's horse. Stonewall was riding this horse when he was shot by kindly fire at Chancellorsville. Old Sorrel became Jackson's horse in May of 1861 at Harpers Ferry. The horse was about eleven-years-old at this time.
That Devil Dan and George B. McClellan
Union general George B. McClellan's beloved war-horse was named Daniel Webster. Members of general McClellan's staff began to call this horse "that devil Dan" because Daniel Webster was a fast horse. The horses of McClellan's staff members had issue keeping up with "that devil Dan." Daniel Webster was with McClellan at Antietam. This horse was described as being a dark bay, about seventeen hands high, a pure bred, handsome, and he seldom showed signs of fatigue. Daniel Webster was a fine example of a horse. When McClellan retired from military service, the horse Daniel Webster went with him. The horse nicknamed "that devil Dan" became the house horse of the McClellan family.
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The Invasion of Normandy, also known as D-Day, may very well be one of the most well known dates on the timeline of World War 2. In fact, D-Day is what how we know the event of Allied troops invading and reclaiming Normandy, France. The Invasion of Normandy was known as operation Overlord and really ranged from 6 June 1944 to about mid-July of that same year. during this invasion, more than 156,000 Allied troops arrived via the sea through the English Channel from the United Kingdom.
The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Free French commandos, along with a few others eventually, participated in the storming of Normandy. The battle began with both glider and parachute landings during the night, air attacks, and naval bombardments followed by an early morning amphibious landing. An amphibious landing refers to troops rushing to the beaches from boats a short distance from the shore.
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More than 6,900 vessels were complicated in the D-Day events which would ultimately secure the downfall of Nazi Germany. There were many Allied preparations made especially for this battle, along with specially armored vehicles designed just for these purposes. Some of these vehicles consist of the Duplex Driver Sherman tanks, which could "swim", the Churchill Crocodile flame throwing tanks, road-laying tanks, bridge-laying tanks, mine-clearing tanks, and the armored vehicle.
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22 Union Soldiers up to 2-1/8 inches (52mm) tall
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50 Piece set of plastic Civil War Soldier Figures and accessories. Includes about 9 different Union in blue and 9 different Confederate troop figures in gray, along with horses, cannon, and ammo carts.
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Just prior to the D-Day events, or even on the day itself, there were some leaks which may have given the Germans a heads up to what was about to unfold. However, the Germans did not take many of these leaks seriously, which caused them to wait too long before piquant extra units and troops in to help fend off the Allies, which aided in their success.
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Today, it isn't that uncommon for some children and teenagers to work. They may earn extra money by baby-sitting, doing yard work, or maybe even walking dogs. Others, once they go on to high school, may go to work in their local grocery store, malls, or food chains. However, in the Victorian Age, it wouldn't seem at all strange to see children as young as five or six, go to work full-time (sometimes sixteen hours a day!) in often dangerous conditions.
As you read, ask yourself questions. Why do you think children so young were working? What type of jobs do you do for extra money? What types of jobs did the Victorian Age children have to do? What would you do to help stop child labor? How do you think your life would be dissimilar if instead of getting an education, you had to go to work in a paper mill, or on an assembly line?
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Children—white and black, northern and southern—endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy invaders and snatched opportunities to run toward the promise of freedom.
Offering a fascinating look at how children were affected by our nation's greatest crisis, James Marten examines their toys and games, their literature and schoolbooks, the letters they exchanged with absent fathers and brothers, and the hardships they endured. He also explores children's politicization, their contributions to their homelands' war efforts, and the lessons they took away from the war. Drawing on the childhoods of such diverse Americans as Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt, and on sources that range from diaries and memoirs to children's "amateur newspapers," Marten examines the myriad ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children.
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During the first United States Census it was reported that the estimate of children working in 1870, equalled nearly 750,000. This only included children under the age of fifteen, and didn't count those children who were working on their house farms, or in the family's business. The estimate of children working prolonged to increase as new technology and the industry grew. What were some of the things that caused families to send their children to work? What about the employers that hired them?
Poverty
One mom in the Victorian Age, Mrs. Smith, was quoted as saying:
"I have three children working in Wilson's mill; one 11, one 13, and the other 14. They work regular hours there. We don't complain. If they go to drop the hours, I don't know what poor habitancy will do. We have hard work to live as it is.....My Husband is one of the same mind about it...last summer my husband was 6 weeks ill; we pledged practically all our things to live; the things are not all out of pawn yet... We complain of nothing but short wages...My children have been in the mill three years. I have no complaint to make of their being beaten...I would rather they were beaten than fined."
Another roadblock to change was that most habitancy thought that by letting children have jobs, it would serve to help the poor families to make more money.
There were many ways that children entered the workforce. Orphaned children were often sent to a distant mill or premise owner to be fed and cared for while working to earn their keep. Others were indentured, or sold to a business owner by their parents for a obvious estimate of years. Other, more fortunate working children lived with their families while working full-time.
Industrial Needs
While some premise owners and leaders of the industries spoke out against putting children to work so young, others hired children because they didn't have to be paid as much as adults did. Children were also hired for premise and mill jobs because many of the machines that they used were very small. Children were seen as the ideal candidates to work the machines, and to fix them when they were broken.
It's also foremost to remember that children were raised and treated differently in the Victorian Age. There were some employers who didn't think that there was whatever wrong with hiring young children to work. They believed that by hiring these children, the children would ultimately grow-up as responsible, hard workers.
However, as you will see in the next section, many of the jobs that children were hired for were often very hard, at times even dangerous.
Working for a Living
When teenagers go to work today, they can pick from many types of work. They can be cashiers, fry cooks, baby-sitters, front desk clerks, stockers or create their own lawn service. Children of the Victorian area didn't have these options.
So, what did these kids do for a living?
The most fortunate working children were hired on as apprentices for the major trades of the era. Some of these trades would include:
*Blacksmith
*Tinsmith
*Cooper
*Iron foundry
*Cobbler
*Lace making
*Leatherworking
While the children were still required to work, and sometimes required to work long hours, they were at least lucky adequate to be learning a profitable trade, which offered hope to them for their future.
Younger children might have started out working as road sweepers, "scavengers" or by selling newspapers. Scavengers were children who searched straight through trash, rubbish and refuse for items they could sell to junk stores, or even to their neighbors. Some of these items might have included pieces of rope, or metal scraps.
Still other children were put to work in more dangerous conditions.
Glass factories
Textile mills
Coal fields/mines
Cotton mills
Shipyards
These are only a few examples of the hard work children would face, sometimes working up to ninety hours a week!!
Sometimes the children who went to work and were often away from adult administration would fall into criminal activity. They would wind up involved in things like gambling, stealing, and sometimes even prostitution.
Making a Difference!!
Many habitancy worked very lard and hard to help protect children from being taken advantage of by the industries. Some key habitancy who fought to operate child labor were:
Charles Loring Brace - created the Children's Aid Society
Lewis Wikes Hine - photographer who exposed the child labor qoute to the collective at large
President Woodrow Wilson - created the Keating-Owen Act (see below)
Lord Ashley - created the Children's Employment Commission in 1842
Charles Dickens - wrote and spoke out against child labor. For more information, read Oliver Twist
Karl Marx - helped incite collective opinion
Michael Sadler - worked on the "Ten-Hour Movement"
Organizations that were involved in conference hold from individuals and law makers to operate child labor include:
"Short Time Committees"
The Children's Aid Society
The National Child Labor Committee
Progress was sometimes slow, but always encouraging. any premise Acts (1819-1878) were created in England, which increased the minimum age of children who were able to work. Along with the premise Acts, there was the "Ten-Hour Movement" which tiny shifts to ten hours, with a weekly limit of fifty-eight hours. Other laws in England that influenced the change of child labor laws included Lord Ashley's Children's Employment Commission (1842), which was followed by the Coal Mines Act in 1843. This Act stopped the Coal Mines from hiring women, or boys under the age of ten.
In America, activists joined together in groups and coalitions to work for labor law and reform, or change. They received a small victory in 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson created the Keating-Owen Act, which banned the interstate (between two or more states) sale of any items produced by child labor. However, this Act was later found to be unconstitutional. The real victory came in the year 1938, with the Fair Labor Standards Act. This Act created a national minimum wage and set the national working age to sixteen (eighteen if the job was dangerous). Children aged 14 and 15 were allowed to work under obvious conditions and fields of work, but only after school hours.
Because of the efforts of the Victorian habitancy and the new laws it created for the children of England and America, child labor isn't as large of a problem....for us. But child labor hasn't disappeared! according to some recent surveys and studies done by the International Labor Office, it was estimated that there are about 250,000,000 kids between five and fourteen working. Of these children, 120,000,000 are working full-time, often in dangerous conditions. Take some time to think of ways that you can help with the contemporary day global child labor reform!!
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Surprisingly, kids were some of the key instigators in the Civil Rights Movement, like Barbara Johns, who held a rally in her elementary school gym that eventually led to the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court school desegregation decision, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who was the first black student to desegregate elementary schools in New Orleans. In The Civil Rights Movement for Kids, children will discover how students and religious leaders worked together to demand the protection of civil rights for black Americans. They will relive the fear and uncertainty of Freedom Summer and learn how northern white college students helped bring national attention to atrocities committed in the name of segregation, and they’ll be inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Activities include: reenacting a lunch counter sit-in; organizing a workshop on nonviolence; holding a freedom film festival followed by a discussion; and organizing a choral group to sing the songs that motivated the foot soldiers in this war for rights.
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A Brother's War
Tom Rigby didn't think that anything could ever come between him and his twin, Jack. But things begin to change when Tom learns that they are not allowed to play with their friend Aaron anymore because he's a slave. Tom is upset, but Jack doesn't seem to care. All Jack cares about is playing soldier. Eleven years later, when war breaks out, Jack joins the Confederation army. But Tom can't bring himself to fight for a cause he doesn't believe in -- slavery. So Tom rides north to join the Union army -- even though he knows he may one day have to face his brother on the battlefield.
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