Physical Description:48 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 22 cm. print
Publisher:New York : Children's Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 44) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Summary, etc.:
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.