Joy Hakim | A History of US Making Thirteen Colonies 1600-1740

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A History of US

Making Thirteen Colonies

1600-1740

The American continent, long isolated from the rest of the world, has been rediscovered, this time by Europeans. Some come in search of freedom, some come hoping to find riches. Some who come are Africans; mostly they come in chains. As to the Native Americans, they face disease and competition from these newcomers. Read Making Thirteen Colonies to learn more. You will meet Pocahontas and John Smith in Jamestown, join William Penn and Quakers in Pennsylvania, sit with the judges at the Salem witch trials, hike over mountains with Daniel Boone, and read what Ben Franklin has to say in Poor Richard's Almanac. These diverse peoples will create a new kind of nation, one based on the idea that all people deserve equal treatment. Getting that fairness doctrine to work won't be easy.

Quotes

"These were times when most questions were answered by religious faith or superstition. Modern science was just being born. Stars were thought to be the lights of heaven, and the comets were said to be messengers sent to foretell danger and dire change."

"Captain John Smith would never have been able to make this map of Virginia without help from the Algonquian Indians, the Powhatans."

"Plantation children don't live at all the way you do. Some of the ways they live are nice, but some you wouldn't like... If you are a very rich planter's son you have to wear velvet pants and ruffled shirts and high-heeled shoes when company comes. That must be uncomfortable."