Life in Colonial America (Dover History Coloring Book)
by Peter F. Copeland Author
(From Amazon): Forty-four detailed, ready-to-color illustrations depict the stirring drama of American life before the Revolution. Images include arrival from Europe, encounters with Native Americans, the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, the deck of a slave ship, a frontier fort, a colonial kitchen, and much more. Descriptive captions provide brief history lessons.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780486418612
- Print Status
- In Print
- Pages
- 48
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 3rd
- Geographical Setting
- Colonial North America
- Historical Setting
- 1600 - 1776
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Copyright
- 2002
Pages
- 1 A passage to the New World, early 1600s (The Mayflower)
- 2 Arrival in the New World, early 1600s (Plymouth)
- 3 Encountering the Native Americans, early 1600s
- 4 Spanish Settlement at St. Augustine, Florida, early 1600s
- 5 The lost colony (1590-Roanoke)
- 6 Building houses at Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1627
- 7 Clearing land and building houses in the Maryland colony (1634)
- 8 New Sweden, 1638 (Delaware)
- 9 A Dutch patroon and his wife, ca. 1640 (New Netherlands/New York)
- 10 Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1640
- 11 A colonial bedroom
- 12 A colonial kitchen
- 13 A colonial shipyard, 1650s
- 14 Dutch New Amsterdam, 1653
- 15 A post windmill (New Amsterdam)
- 16 Sir William Berkeley, royal governor of Virginia, and Lady Berkeley, 1675
- 17 An ox team, ca. 1680
- 18 A hunting party, ca. 1685
- 19 An early Pennsylvania farm home, 1680s
- 20 Indian slaves in Charles Town, South Carolina (1685)
- 21 On the deck of a slave ship
- 22 The Deerfield Massacre of 1704 (Massachusetts)
- 23 Colonial dressmaking
- 24 Slaves in a southern plantation kitchen
- 25 A horse race
- 26 French voyageurs in the northwest forest, 1730s
- 27 A sailors' tavern in Boston, 1735
- 28 Bringing tobacco to market (Virginia and Maryland)
- 29 Reading the newspaper, 1740
- 30 George Washington as a young surveyor (Virginia)
- 31 Urban crime in Philadelphia, 1755
- 32 The funeral of General Braddock, 1755
- 33 A Dutch wagon, 1750s
- 34 Quebec, 1759
- 35 A frontier fort, 1760s (Virginia)
- 36 A post chaise, mid-eighteenth century
- 37 A Native American fort in the Appalachian wilderness, 1765 (North Carolina and Virginia)
- 38 A river ferry, ca. 1770
- 39 A stage wagon, ca. 1770
- 40 A Spanish priest in California, 1771
- 41 Lamplighter, ca. 1775
- 42 Militia muster, 1775
- 43 Pulling down a statue of King George III, 1776 (New York City)
- 44 The signing of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
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