United States History 1875-1900 Word Search: 100 Large Print Puzzles Exploring the Gilded Age, the Wild West, and America's Rise to World Power($11.99Value)

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The years between 1875 and 1900 transformed the United States from a recovering nation into an industrial world power. Railroads stitched the continent together. Carnegie's steel mills and Rockefeller's oil refineries built fortunes that reshaped the entire economy. Millions of immigrants poured through Ellis Island to build new lives in cities that were growing faster than anyone could have imagined. And at the century's end, a brief war with Spain announced America's arrival on the world stage. But this era of progress came at a painful cost. The promises of Reconstruction were betrayed as Jim Crow laws stripped Black citizens of their newly won rights. Workers labored in dangerous factories for subsistence wages while industrial titans lived in Newport mansions. Native American nations lost their homelands through forced allotment and violence. The Gilded Age glittered on the surface, but underneath lay deep inequality, political corruption, and struggles for justice that would define the nation for generations. This collection of 100 large print word search puzzles explores the people, places, and events of this extraordinary quarter century. Each of the ten sections opens with an educational vignette that brings the era to life, from the end of Reconstruction to the Gilded Age political machines, from the rise of industry to the labor movement, from the Wild West to the closing of the frontier, from the great wave of immigration to the age of invention, and from the Spanish-American War to the daily life of Victorian America. Features: 100 large print puzzles, 25 words per puzzle, 15x20 grids, solutions in back.