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This wonderful website, Freedom, a History of US, based on the series by Joy Hakim, presents the tenth webisode, Yearning to be Breathe Free. Through text, photographs, and audio segments you can get a good picture of the state of America in the last part of the 19th century through the eight segments. Learn about big business, muckraking, economic depression, and the seminal election of 1896.
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- Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)