A History of US Book 2: Making Thirteen Colonies (1600-1740)

by Hakim, Joy

• ISBN13: 9780195127546
• ISBN10: 0195127544
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Each book in this award-winning series is accurate and reliable history written in the tradition of great storytelling. The narrative and informal text includes off-beat, little-known events and singular personalities that make the traditional meat-and-potatoes of American history anything but boring.

Table of Contents

Preface: Our Mixed-Up Civilization	9	(6)
A Sign in the Sky	15	(3)
Across the Ocean	18	(3)
The First Virginians	21	(4)
English Settlers Come to Stay	25	(4)
John Smith	29	(3)
The Starving Time	32	(2)
A Lord, A Hurricane, A Wedding	34	(3)
A Share in America	37	(3)
Jamestown Makes It	40	(2)
1619---A Big Year	42	(3)
Indians vs. Colonists	45	(2)
Massacre in Virginia, Poverty in England	47	(4)
Feature: America, Land of the Free	50	(1)
The Mayflower: Saints and Strangers	51	(4)
Pilgrims, Indians, and Puritans	55	(4)
Feature: Giving Thanks	57	(2)
Puritans, Puritans, and More Puritans	59	(4)
Feature: What's in a Word	62	(1)
Of Towns and Schools and Sermons	63	(5)
Roger Williams	68	(3)
``Woman, Hold Your Tongue''	71	(3)
Statues on the Common	74	(2)
Of Witches and Dinosaurs	76	(5)
Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine	81	(4)
Feature: Land Greed	84	(1)
King Philip's War	85	(3)
The Indians Win This One	88	(4)
What's a Colony?	92	(4)
Silvernails and Big Tub	96	(4)
West to Jersey	100	(2)
Cromwell and Charles	102	(3)
William the Wise	105	(4)
Ben Franklin	109	(5)
Maryland's Form of Toleration	114	(3)
Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny	117	(4)
The Good Life	121	(4)
Virginia's Capital	125	(5)
Pretend Some More	130	(3)
Carolina: Riches, Rice, Slaves	133	(3)
Carolina: Dissenters and Pirates	136	(4)
Royal Colonies and a No-Blood Revolution	140	(2)
A Nasty Triangle	142	(7)
Feature: Africa, The Unknown Continent	146	(3)
Four and Nine Make Thirteen	149	(3)
Over the Mountains	152	(3)
Westward Ho	155	(4)
The End---and the Beginning	159	(1)
Chronology of Events	160	(1)
More Books to Read	161	(1)
Picture Credits	162	(1)
Index	163	(4)
A Note from the Author	167