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Author: Peter F. Copeland
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1992-05-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0486271234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKrealistic illustrations depict Vikings in Vinland, Columbus's ship Niña, Ponce de León in Florida, others. Captions.
Author: Christine Taylor-Butler
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2022-07-19
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1338856642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the origins of European exploration of the Americas. A True Book: American History series allows readers to experience the earliest moments in American history and to discover how these moments helped shape the country that it is today. This series includes an age appropriate (grades 3-5) introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects and a robust resource section that encourages independent study. This book describes the origins of European exploration of the Americas, including the Vikings, the search for a new route to Asia, for gold, and for a Northwest Passage, and discusses the Lewis and Clark Expedition and modern explorers.
Author: Kirsten A. Seaver
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780804731614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing new archaeological, scientific, and documentary information this book confronts head-on many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonization along the shores of the Davis Strait.
Author: Caroline Cox
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1604131969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpening Up North America, 1497-1800, Revised Edition integrates in a chronological narrative the voyages taken from Florida to Newfoundland, covering the first recorded contact of John Cabot in 1497 through Alexander Mackenzie's journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific in 1793. Through these stories, the geography of northeastern North America is pieced together and the impact European exploration had on Native American society continues to be felt today. Coverage of this title includes: the importance of cod fishing in the North Atlantic; Beaver hats and the role played by the fur trade in exploration of the continent's interior; Spanish, French, and English claims to territory in the southeast in the 16th century; and, exploration by Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, Etienne Brule, Rene-Robert Cavaller, Sieur de La Salle, and others.
Author: Evan-Moor Corporation
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781596732599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes: historical background and facts, maps and timeline, arts and crafts projects, reading and writing connections, and evaluation forms.
Author: Susanna Keller
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 1508100322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the European discovery of North America does not end within fact it does not really even begin withChristopher Columbus. This engaging title tells the story of the explorers who became the first Europeans to visit the lands that would later become the United States of America. Readers will learn about the Spanish explorers of the Southwest and the Gulf Coast, the English and Dutch explorers of the Atlantic Coast, and the French explorers of the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River. Theyll discover what the goals and motivations behind each expedition were, which native people the explorers encountered, and what sorts of obstacles had to be overcome for each expedition to succeed. A fascinating account of a formational period in American history.
Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 786
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmphasizes the discoveries and explorations of Columbus, Magellan and Drake during the period.
Author: David B. Quinn
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781000963816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-09-23
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0307488578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war—and because of it—that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones. King Philip's War became one of the most written-about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indigenous peoples and Anglos. Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves.
Author: Charles M. Hudson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 0820351601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the U. S. Southeast. Until the 1998 publication of Charles M. Hudson's foundational Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun, De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries. With this book, anthropologist Charles Hudson offers a solution to the question, "Where did de Soto go?" Using a new route reconstruction, for the first time the story of the de Soto expedition can be laid on a map, and in many instances it can be tied to specific archaeological sites. Arguably the most important event in the history of the Southeast in the sixteenth century, De Soto's journey cut a bloody and indelible swath across both the landscape and native cultures in a quest for gold and personal glory. The desperate Spanish army followed the sunset from Florida to Texas before abandoning its mission. De Soto's one triumph was that he was the first European to explore the vast region that would be the American South, but he died on the banks of the Mississippi River a broken man in 1542. With a new foreword by Robbie Ethridge reflecting on the continuing influence of this now classic text, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Knights is a clearly written narrative that unfolds against the exotic backdrop of a now extinct social and geographic landscape. Hudson masterfully chronicles both De Soto's expedition and the native societies he visited. A blending of archaeology, history, and historical geography, this is a monumental study of the sixteenth-century Southeast.
