The New York Colony
(2012)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
E/974.702/CUNNINGHAM,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Children's Press, [2012]
©2012
©2012
DESCRIPTION
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780531253946 (library binding), 0531253945 (library binding), 9780531266076 (pbk.), 0531266079 (pbk.), 9780329871543 (Follett bdg.), 0329871544 (Follett bdg.)
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
The Native Americans : what did the Iroquois peoples do to make themselves stronger? -- The settlers : how did Peter Stuyvesant rebuild New Netherland? -- Living in the colony : how did wealth change the kinds of jobs available in New York City? -- Fighting for independence : what happened in New York City during the Revolutionary War? -- The big truth -- New York's founders : what connections did these founders have in New York? -- True statistics
Provides a history of New York, from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to its involvement in the American Revolution and its admittance into the United States in 1788
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