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Colonial America
Building toward Independence
By Worth, Richard
- ISBN
- 978-0-76602-569-1
- Publisher
- Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2006.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2006
Gr 5-8 Worth opens with a chapter on the Declaration of Independence and then turns back to the 1500s and 1600s to discuss English settlements. The narrative ends with commentary on the ratification of the Constitution. The author acknowledges the presence of the Spanish in America prior to the English but does not discuss Native peoples before the 1600s. He also explores how fighting wars with Spain and France both...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
