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USKids History: Book of the American Colonies (Brown Paper School)
USKids History Book of the American Colonies - Brown Paper School Author:Howard Egger-Bovet, Marlene Smith-Baranzini Norsemen were the first Europeans to travel across the Atlantic Ocean to America. But it was not until Columbus' journeys in the late fifteenth century that men and women from Europe began to consider leaving their homelands to make new lives for themselves in these rich and rugged lands. Who were these Europeans, and what made them risk alm... more »ost everything they had to journey to America? How did their small settlements grow into thirteen thriving and diverse colonies? And how did the people who were already living in this "new world" react to the arrival of these European colonists, who want too settle on their lands? Through engaging narratives based on source documents, as well as dramatic readings and plays, poetry, songs, speeches, and activities, you can explore each of these questions and discover the beginnings of what would become the first thirteen states.« less