You Choose: Historical Eras: Colonial America
You Choose: Historical Eras: Colonial America

Author: Allison Louise Lassieur

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1620650312

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Europeans came to the American colonies in the 1600s and 1700s in search of a better life. They worked hard and built farms, homes, and towns. But they were still under Great Britain's rule. Many wanted to make their own laws, but that meant going to war against a rich and powerful country. Will you: Travel to Virginia as an indentured servant? Choose between careers as a sailor or a soldier in Massachusetts? Decide which side you'll take as the country marches closer to revolution?

You Choose: Historical Eras
You Choose: Historical Eras

Author: Elizabeth Raum

Publisher: You Choose Books

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 896

ISBN-13: 9781429694766

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Delve into fascinating time periods! This series allows readers to explore different times and places in history from different perspectives. The narrative format, suspenseful action, and path navigation keep readers reading

Colonial British America
Colonial British America

Author: Jack P. Greene

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9780801830556

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"Taken together, these essays constitute a better summing up--part critique, part appreciation--than anything else in print of work done in any field of American history. Nowhere else can we learn so easily and so well what to read about colonial America. . . . A very useful volume of considerable distinction".--William Abbott, editor, "The Papers of George Washington".

Colonial America
Colonial America

Author: Richard Middleton

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-03-21

Total Pages: 579

ISBN-13: 1444396285

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Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies. Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written and updated chapters on families and women Features enhanced coverage of the English colony of Barbados and trans-Atlantic influences on colonial development Provides a greater focus on the perspectives of Native Americans and their influences in shaping the development of the colonies

Entertainment in Colonial America
Entertainment in Colonial America

Author: Charlie Samuel

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2002-12-15

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780823966004

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Discusses the different forms of entertainment during Colonial times, including sports, games, music, and theater.

Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party

Author: James E. Knight

Publisher: Troll Communications

Published: 1998-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780816748020

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A Boston merchant describes the day-to-day events leading up to and including the famous Boston Tea Party rebellion. Book sin this series of history tells absorbing stories while relaying to the reader important information about life during the colonization of America. Illustrations.

Daily Life in Colonial America
Daily Life in Colonial America

Author: Don Nardo

Publisher: Lucent Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781420502640

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The Lucent Library of Historical Eras offers young readers insight into important periods in world history. Individual books in every multivolume set present readers with a historical perspective and comprehensive picture of the cultural, political, and social events that characterize a given era. Fully documented primary and secondary source accounts enliven the text. Bibliographies, maps and photographs, sidebars, and indexes make these useful tools for student research. Book jacket.

Life in the Colonies
Life in the Colonies

Author: Emily R. Smith

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2004-12-14

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 074398742X

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Young readers will be fascinated to learn what life was like for the colonists in early America. The detailed images and easy to read text explore such topics as Puritans, the Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, Navigation Acts, and slavery. Along with brief biographies on colonists and Indians like John Smith, William Penn, and Pocahontas and John Rolfe, this engaging reader explains mean of survival and living through farming, colonial crops, and plantations. A table of contents and glossary are provided to enhance readers' understanding of the content and vocabulary.

Colonial American Travel Narratives
Colonial American Travel Narratives

Author: Various

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1994-08-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780140390889

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Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological challenges of colonial life. Essential primary texts in the study of early American cultural life, they are now conveniently collected in a single volume. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

American Colonial History
American Colonial History

Author: Thomas S. Kidd

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0300187327

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Conclusion: The Crisis of the British Empire in America -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y