Marcia Amidon Lusted - Americas Colonization and Settlement

Published in the United States of America
by Cherry Lake Publishing
Ann Arbor, Michigan

www.cherrylakepublishing.com

Printed in the United States of America
Corporate Graphics Inc
September 2011
CLFA09

Consultants: Brett Barker, associate professor of history, University of WisconsinMarathon County; Gail Saunders-Smith, associate professor of literacy, Beeghly College of Education, Youngstown State University

Editorial direction:
Rebecca Rowell

Series design and cover production:
Marie Tupy

Interior production:
Craig Hinton

Photo credits: The British Library/Heritage-Images, cover, 1; Amy Riley/iStockphoto, 5, 19; North Wind Picture Archives, 7, 11, 18, 21; Gina Groves/iStockphoto, 9; Andrew F. Kazmierski/ Shutterstock Images, 13; Shutterstock Images, 14; Brianna May/iStockphoto, 16; Red Line Editorial, Inc., 25; Kenneth Wiedemann/iStockphoto, 27; iStockphoto, 30

Copyright 2012 by Cherry Lake Publishing

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lsted, Marcia Amidon.

Americas colonization and settlement / by Marcia Amidon Lsted.

p. cm. (Language arts explorer. History digs.)

Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-61080-194-2 ISBN 978-1-61080-282-6 (pbk.)

1. United StatesHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775Juvenile literature. 2. United StatesSocial life and customsTo 1775Juvenile literature. 3. Community lifeUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile literature. 4. City and town lifeUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile literature. I. Title. E188.L95 2011

973.2dc22

2011015119

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You are being given a mission. The facts in What You Know will help you accomplish it. Remember the clues from What You Know while you are reading the story. The clues and the story will help you answer the questions at the end of the book. Have fun on this adventure!

Your mission is to learn to think like a historian. What tools do historians use to research the past? What kinds of questions do they ask, and where do they look for answers? On this assignment, your goal is to investigate U.S. history between 1585 and 1763. This was a time when the United States was not a nation but a group of colonies that belonged to England. Find out about colonial America. How was life in colonial times different from life today? What was life like for children? What types of jobs did people do? What can you learn about the past from artifacts of the time? As you read, keep What You Know in mind.

There are living history museums that show what life was like in a colonial town in the early eighteenth century.

Many types of people lived in colonial towns, including merchants, apprentices, indentured servants, and slaves.

The first English settlement in America that survived was Jamestown. It was located in what is now the state of Virginia. Archaeologists discovered much of what we know about life in Jamestown.

Slavery began in the colonies because plantation owners wanted workers for their fields.

This is a replica of a traditional Pilgrim settlers home at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Use this book to explore history in ways a historian might. Read the following journal to discover what one student learned about this time period during a visit to a living history museum.

My family is on vacation in Virginia. I walk through the gates of Colonial Smithtown with my family and feel as though I have stepped back in time. Its amazing!

There are horses and carts, and there are people dressed in colonial clothes. They arent dressed like us. Only other visitors are dressed like us, in modern clothes. Boys are playing on a large green lawn in front of a big white church. The boys are wearing pants with suspenders and funny hats that have three corners. There are some girls in long dresses and white caps, but they arent running around and playing like the boys.