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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
ix, 134 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress--even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
ix, 149 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For the first 128 years of Americas history, only men served in the Senate and House of Representatives. All that changed in January 1917 when Jeannette Rankin was sworn in as the first woman elected to Congress. From the womens suffrage movement to the 2018 election, Ilene Cooper highlights influential and diverse female leaders who opened doors for women in politics. Women featured include Nancy Pelosi (the first woman Speaker of the House), Margaret...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Description
48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Explora el funcionamiento del gobierno de estados unidos y cómo la historia del país ha dado forma a la manera como somos governados."--
"Explore how the government of the United States works and how the country's history has shaped the way we are governed."--Provided by publisher.
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