| Edition |
Third edition, revised. |
| Description |
186 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
A history of US ; 2 |
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A history of US ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 171) and index. |
| Contents |
Our mixed up civilization -- Sign in the sky -- Across the ocean -- First Virginians -- English settlers come to stay -- John Smith -- Starving time -- Lord, hurricane, wedding -- Share in America -- Jamestown makes it - 1619 - A big year -- Indians vs. colonists -- Massacre in Virginia, poverty in England -- Feature: America, land of the free -- Mayflower: Saints and strangers -- Pilgrims, Indians and Puritans -- Feature: Giving thanks -- Puritans, Puritans, and more Puritans -- Feature: What's in a word -- Towns and schools and sermons -- Roger Williams -- Woman, hold your tongue -- Statues on the common -- Witches and dinosaurs -- Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine -- Feature: Land greed -- King Phillip's war -- Pueblos win - least for now -- What's a colony? -- Silvernails and big tub -- West to Jersey -- Cromwell and Charles -- William the Wise -- Ben Franklin -- Maryland's form of toleration -- Carry me back to Ole Virginny -- Good life - Virginia's capital -- Pretend some more -- South Carolina: riches, rice, slaves -- North Carolina: Dissenters and pirates -- Royal colonies and a no-blood revolution -- Nasty triangle -- Feature: Africa, the unknown continent -- Four and nine make thirteen -- Over the mountains -- Westward Ho -- End and the beginning. |
| Summary |
Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
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| ISBN |
0195188950 |
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9780195188950 |
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