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Making Thirteen Colonies (A History of Us, Vol 2)
Making Thirteen Colonies - A History of Us, Vol 2 Author:Joy Hakim People are coming to America--all kinds of people. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born, each with its own story. Meet Pocahontas and John Smith in... more » Jamestown. Join William Penn and the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Sit with the judges at the Salem witch trials. Hike over the mountains with Daniel Boone. And let Ben Franklin give you some salty advice in his Poor Richard's Almanac in this remarkable journey through the dynamic creation of what one day becomes the United States.
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 --
Of 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 --
After words: a cartographer makes maps, not wagons« less