A Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to the United States Congress, Broke Down Barriers, and Changed the Country
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1419710362
ISBN13:9781419710360
Release Date:March 2014
Publisher:Abrams Books for Young Readers
Length:134 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 8.6" x 10.1"
Age Range:8 to 12 years
Grade Range:Grades 3 to 7
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