The Virginia Colony

Author

Kevin Cunningham

Call Number

• J 975.5 CUNN (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Children's Press, c2012.

Physical Description

48 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 22 cm.

Summary

Describes the history of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in the early seventeenth century, including the colonists' relationship with the local Native Americans and the struggle to thrive in a new land.

Contents

• Virginia's Native Americans : what sources provided food for Algonquin peoples?
• The settlers : how did Virginia change after the early years at Jamestown?
• Living in Virginia : how did men and women on farms divide the work?
• The road to revolution : why did British taxes make Virginians so angry?
• The big truth
• Virginia's founders
• How did the Virginia Declaration of rights influence other important documents?
• True statistics.