ASIN: B01IE52Z78
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 58
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the coal wars from Mother Jones and other important participants*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.” – Mother Jones America is famous around the world for being the land of opportunity, and in many respects it has been for the nearly 400 years since its colonization. However, that opportunity has always come at some sort of price. In the times of wooden sailing vessels, men and women risked life and limb to sail across the Atlantic on small, creaking ships, but later, transportation became safer and easier with the invention of the coal powered steam engine. Over time, coal came to be used to power other advances in industry and technology, such as plants that produced steel and electricity. By the dawn of the 20th century, it seemed that there ...
