Download or read book American Colonies ENHANCED eBook written by Tim McNeese and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American Colonies" provides a detailed and richly illustrated overview of the trials of Europeans in the New World. From the earliest primitive encampments on the Atlantic seacoast to the settled societies of the later colonial period, this book vividly describes the disastrous first years, the strained reliance on native peoples, the horrors of the African slave trade, and deteriorating relations with England, which stand in marked contrast to the hope, strength, resilience, and determination with which colonialists carved a nation out of the North American wilderness. Challenging review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. Maps, tests, answer key, and extensive bibliography are included.

Download or read book The American Colonies written by Tim McNeese and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American Colonies" provides a detailed and richly illustrated overview of the trials of Europeans in the New World. From the earliest primitive encampments on the Atlantic seacoast to the settled societies of the later colonial period, this book vividly describes the disastrous first years, the strained reliance on native peoples, the horrors of the African slave trade, and deteriorating relations with England, which stand in marked contrast to the hope, strength, resilience, and determination with which colonialists carved a nation out of the North American wilderness. Challenging review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. Maps, tests, answer key, and extensive bibliography are included.

Download or read book American Colonies written by Alan Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and conquest, and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss. "Formidable . . . provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity." -The New York Times Book Review

Download or read book Declaration of Independence ENHANCED eBook written by Douglas M. Rife and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence, analyzing a political cartoon and testing their knowledge with a variety of discussions and activities, students will discover the impact of this document on our present lives.

Download or read book Life in the Colonies written by Emily R. Smith and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2004-12-14 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Road to Revolution ENHANCED eBook written by Linda Armstrong and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the fascinating world of colonial and revolutionary America—a time of strength, courage and ingenuity. The War for Independence established the United States as a sovereign nation. The Constitution, approved a few years after the war, created the balanced system of government that serves us today. The activities in this book provide insight into the history, customs, culture, art, life, and government of the British colonies during the colonial and revolutionary periods. The eight full-color transparencies at the back of the book (print books) or the included PowerPoint slides (eBooks) can be used alone or with specific activities listed in the table of contents. For a print book with the PowerPoint presentation instead of transparencies, please see MP8824.

Download or read book America s Civil War ENHANCED eBook written by Tim McNeese and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Civil War provides a detailed overview of the cultural and ideological landscape of post-colonial America that set the stage for war, and vividly describes the course of the conflict that took more American lives than any war in history and altered the course of the nation. Emphasis is placed on the fierce cultural and economic rivalry between the industrial North and the agricultural South and the pivotal rift concerning slavery that led to this irrepressible and bloody fight. The lives of common soldiers, the weapons and methods of warfare, the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, and the role of other significant political and military leaders are among the topics discussed as well as the abolitionist movement, the underground railroad, and dramatic figures such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown. Challenging review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. Maps, tests, answer key, and extensive bibliography are included.

Download or read book The American Colonies written by R. C. Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Penguin History of the United States of America written by Hugh Brogan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading to Independence from both the American and the British points of view, touching on permanent features of 'the American character' - both the good and the bad. He provides a masterly synthesis of all the latest research illustrating America's rapid growth from humble beginnings to global dominance.

Download or read book U S Constitution ENHANCED eBook written by Tim McNeese and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Constitution traces the complicated evolution of our nation's most important document. From its roots in English political history through the Magna Carta and the writings of John Locke to early colonial treaties such as the Mayflower Compact and the Articles of Confederation, this volume vividly documents the challenges and difficulties in securing the "blessings of liberty." Challenging review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. Tests, answer key, bibliography, and bonus timeline included.

Download or read book Colonies Move Toward Independence ENHANCED eBook written by Moehl Mitchell and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 1971-09-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colonies Move Toward Independence contains 12 full-color transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks), 28 reproducible pages including five pages of test material, and a richly detailed teacher's guide. This volume covers the colonies from 1763 through the writing of the Declaration of Independence and preparation for war.

Download or read book Liberty Bell ENHANCED eBook written by Julia Hargrove and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chock-full of interesting facts for students to discover about this unique, and flawed, American symbol of freedom and about the birth of the American nation!

Download or read book A Short History of the English Colonies in America written by Henry Lodge and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the PREFACE. THE history of the thirteen American colonies is at best fragmentary and provincial, and does not assume the importance and value of the history of a nation until the meeting of the Stamp Act Congress at New York in the year 1765. But who and what the people were who fought the war for Independence and founded the United States-what was their life, what their habits, thoughts, and manners-seemed to me, when I began my study of American history, questions of the deepest interest. They were questions, too, which appeared to me never to have been answered in a compact and comprehensive form; and this volume is an attempt to supply the deficiency. The chapters, therefore, which purport to describe the various colonies in and about the year 1765 represent the purpose of the book. They have been worked out, in the course of several years, from a mass of material which has been collected in all directions, and which, although wholly in print, is in many cases as generally unknown as if it still slumbered in manuscript. To these chapters I have appended notes - mere references - partly to support conclusions which 1 thought might be questioned, and partly to aid other students in the same field. The notes represent, however, only a portion of the books, tracts, and newspapers actually consulted. There are many titles in my note-books of works which yielded nothing, and of others again which offered matter that had to be laid aside from mere superabundance of material: only the most valuable and important figure in the notes. When I had finished these chapters for which the work was undertaken, and which have been in part delivered in the form of lectures before the Lowell Institute of Boston, I felt that it was essential to my purpose to give an outline of the political history of each colony, in order to present a complete picture of the various communities. These sketches are as condensed as I could make them, although they have run to a far greater length than I hoped would be necessary. They make absolutely no pretence to original research, but are merely my own presentation of facts which ought to be familiar to everyone. For this reason I have thought it entirely superfluous to encumber them with notes. The question of arrangement was not an easy one where thirteen distinct histories were involved; but, after much reflection, I decided to deal with each colony by itself, and give its complete history down to the year 1765. This plan is open to the charge of repetition; but it seemed to me better than flitting from one colony to another, and thus distracting the reader's attention more than was absolutely necessary. The three concluding chapters are added, like those which treat of the political history of each colony, merely for the sake of completeness, and aim only to be a concise outline of the events which resulted in national existence. Many of the statistical details are, as I am only too well aware, very dry reading, and the same may be said of the political history of some of the colonies. It may be possible to make the political history of every colony in turn picturesque and exciting; but I know that in regard to certain of them, and in many portions of my history which could not be omitted, this was a task far beyond my powers. Yet at the same time I cannot but feel that the condition of the people of the American colonies in the years preceding the Revolution, however insufficiently I may have dealt with it, is a subject of deep interest and importance. I can only say that if anything I have written is of assistance to students, or helps any one to a better understanding of a nation and of a history of which we may be rightly proud, I shall feel more than repaid.

Download or read book Boston Tea Party ENHANCED eBook written by Mary Tucker and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which would you rather do--read about the Boston Tea Party OR dress up like an Indian, sneak onto a boat in the middle of the night and dump a whole bunch of tea into Boston Harbor?

Download or read book The Age of Absolutism ENHANCED eBook written by Tim McNeese and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Age of Absolutism" (1650—1789) covers the final years of the last great European monarchies and the divestiture of monarchical power through reform and revolution. Emphasis is given to the absolute reign of Louis XIV of France, and the growth of constitutional monarchy in late-17th century England. Enlightenment thinkers, such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and Locke, and their theorectical impact on the unraveling of royal power and the revolutions in France and America are discussed. Challenging map exercises and provocative review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. Tests and answer keys included.

Download or read book Colonial America written by Richard Middleton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book The American Colonies and the British Empire 1607 1783 Part I Vol 2 written by Steven Sarson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first part, volume 2 of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 to 1783.