Immigration to colonial America / Jackie Heckt.
Material type:
TextSeries: Spotlight on immigration and migrationPublisher: New York : PowerKids Press, 2016Description: 24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781508140818 (pbk.)
- 1508140812 (pbk.)
- 9781508140849 (library bound)
- 1508140847 (library bound)
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 305.9069 H449 | Available | 33111008588721 | ||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 305.9069 H449 | Available | 33111008499952 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Readers board the boat to the New World as they read this book about early immigration to the American colonies. What made people want to move to an unknown world? What were the early colonies like for newcomers? This book answers those questions and more, as it follows the American story, from encountering native tribes to establishing farms to growing the seeds of American democracy. Readers will love the illustrations and primary sources, which are paired with exciting text to keep them engaged. This fact-filled book is sure to be a key resource when teaching important social studies standards.
Includes index.
A new world -- Establishing colonies -- Freedom of religion -- Encountering native tribes -- Farming in the South -- Slavery comes to America -- Life in colonial New England -- The start of American democracy -- Immigrants to the middle colonies -- Shaping a nation.
Relates some of the reasons people came to America and what their life was like here.