Readers will investigate how climate and heritage shaped each colony in the new America—and the important, funny, and strange things colonists did there. Fun fact boxes offer little-known insights and details of colonial life. Detailed illustrations and photographs take readers into colonial lives from Massachusetts to Virginia.
They were an enterprising group with no scruples against trade. ... Despite the fantastic social hierarchy devised by John Locke and incorporated in the Fundamental Constitutions, this artificial hereditary system had little if any ...
Discusses the day-to-day aspects of country and city life in the American colonies for a variety of people including members of different professions, specific immigrant groups, and slaves.
Living in the American colonies was difficult at times as towns were built, governance was established, and people from many different backgrounds, including Native Americans, learned to live together.
Can you imagine what it was like in Colonial America? Who ran the government? What happened if you got sick? And wait until you read about what they wore and...
What happened if you got sick? And wait until you read about what they wore and ate! Primary sources, maps, and fun to read, fact filled texts provide the answers to what life was really like in the American colonies.
Readers will investigate how climate and heritage shaped each colony in the new America and the important, funny, and strange things colonists did there.
Sometimes the life in colonial America can seem picturesque: no technology, close ties to the nearby community, and local, homemade food to nourish the whole family.
This packet provides a detailed and richly illustrated overview of the trials of Europeans in the New World, from the origins and spread of slavery to colonial education and trade.
Presents the history of the British colonies in North America, beginning with the Jamestown settlement, through excerpts from letters, pamphlets, journal entries, and other documents of the time.
Travel back to a time when: All children wore dresses even boys. Chasing a pig was a form of entertainment. Step into the lives of the colonists, and get the scoop on clothes, homes, and daily life in colonial America.