Craig A Doherty

For more than 200 years, since the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788, the government, courts, and people of the United States have been shaped by the words in the document. To understand how the United States came together as a nation, students must first acquaint themselves with the original 13 colonies, and how each of the original colonial followed its own path to the ratification of the Constitution. Rhode Island discusses life in...

In an engaging narrative style, South Carolina thoroughly examines life in the early colony, including such details as the Yamasee War, pirate attacks, slavery, and the effect of such crops as indigo and rice. An entire chapter focuses on the numerous American Indian tribes mainly the Cherokee and Catawba who lived throughout the colony, from the coast and lowlands up into the Appalachian Mountains. The highly engaging text covers South Carolina's...

Covers the history of the colony's growth from the time early European explorers visited the new world until the colony's ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Include black-and-white photographs, maps and a graph within chapters, a time live, list of historical sites in the state, further reading list, and an index. William Claiborne established settlements on Kent Island, and Leonard Calvert settled at Saint Mary's City. Maryland opens with a general...

For more than 200 years, since the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788, the government, courts, and people of the United States have been shaped by the words in the document. To understand how the United States came together as a nation, students must first acquaint themselves with the original 13 colonies, and how each of the original colonial followed its own path to the ratification of the Constitution. Covers the history of the colony's...

A history of Virginia from its discovery to the Revolutionary War.

Covers the history of the colony's growth from the time early European explorers visited the new world until the colony's ratification of the U.S. constitution. Include: black-and-white photographs, maps and a graph within chapters, a time line, list of historical sites in the state, further reading list, and an index. Annotation. After James Edward Oglethorpe received a charter from King George II in 1732, he and other colonists established a settlement...

Delaware describes life in the early colony, including the growth of the colony under William Penn and the Quakers, the success of farming and milling, and the diversity of the population. It discusses early explorers, the growth of European nation-states, and the American Indian civilizations that existed before the Europeans arrived, as well as early exploration in Delaware, and the settlements of the Dutch and Swedish. This lively volume ends with...