عنوان

Pennsylvania /

(Number (ISBN

0816054134

(Number (ISBN

9780816054138

Number

b796841

Title Proper

Pennsylvania /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Craig A. Doherty, Katherine M. Doherty.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Facts On File,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2005.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvii, 142 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

The thirteen colonies

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- First Contacts: Conflicting Claims -- Captain John Smith (ca. 1579 -- 1631) -- Map 2: Early European exploration of Pennsylvania, 1608 -- 1670 -- Lenni Lenape -- Territory and language groups of the Lenni Lenape -- Corn-- Wampum -- First settlements in Pennsylvania -- Dutch -- Peter Minuit (1580 -- 1638) -- New Sweden -- Johan Printz, 1592 -- 1663 -- English conquest -- James, Duke of York and Albany, later King James II (1633-1701) -- Creation of Pennsylvania -- Quakers -- Land granted to William Penn in the Charter of Pennsylvania -- Lands Granted to William Penn, 1681 -- Quakers in Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Brick by Brick -- Penn and the Indians -- Excerpt from William Penn's address to the chiefs -- Industry and a agriculture -- Pennsylvania rifle -- Paper and printing presses -- Population growth in Pennsylvania, 1680 -- 1790 -- Problems for Penn and his colony -- Excerpt from the Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania, October 28, 1701 -- Other Pennsylvanians -- Benjamin Franklin (1706 -- 1790) -- Germans -- Excerpt from Pastorius's description of Pennsylvania, 1700 -- Pennsylvania "Dutch" -- Slaves and indentured servants -- Slave Trade -- Scots-Irish -- Walking purchase -- Other Settlers -- French and Indian War, 1755 -- 1762: Virginia starts a War in Pennsylvania -- Albany Congress, 1754 -- Redcoats vs. frontier Fighters -- Conestoga Wagons -- Pitt Wins the war -- Forts and battles of the French and Indian War, 1755 -- 1763 -- Pontiac's Rebellion -- Road to Revolution: Sugar Act, April 5, 1764 -- Stamp Act, March 22, 1765 -- Sons of Liberty -- Stamp Act Congress, October 1765 -- Excerpt from the Resolutions of the Continental Congress October 19, 1765 -- Townshend Duties, June 29, 1767 -- Excerpt from the first letter from a Pennsylvani -- Intolerable acts, 1774 -- First Continental Congress, September 5, 1774 to October 26, 1774 -- Loyalists, Patriots, and Undecideds -- Resolutions of the First Continental Congress -- Battle of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775 -- Minutemen -- Second Continental Congress, 1775 -- 1789 -- Excerpt from common sense, January 10, 1776 -- First paragraph of the Declaration of Independence -- Pennsylvania's Signers of the Declaration of Independence, August 2, 1776 -- War for Independence: Betsy Ross (1752 -- 1836) -- Battle of the Brandywine -- Hessians -- Battle of the Brandywine, September 11, 1777 -- Battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777 -- Battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777 -- Valley Forge, Winter 1777 -- 1778 -- Smallpox inoculation -- Baron Frederich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730 -- 1794) -- French Allies -- Evacuation of Philadelphia -- War on the Frontier -- Becoming part of a nation -- Shaping Pennsylvania -- Mason-Dixon Line -- Pennsylvania Lands, 1682 -- 1792 -- State Constitution -- Abolition of Slavery -- Articles of Confederation -- Constitutional Convention, 1787 -- Pennsylvania Delegation to the Constitutional Convention, 1787 -- Preamble to the U.S. Constitution -- Pennsylvania timeline -- Pennsylvania historic sites -- For Further Reading.

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Text of Note

Describes the native peoples of the area, early explorers, European colonial settlements, the battles and events of the Revolutionary War, and the colony's role in the ratification of the Constitution.

Pennsylvania, History, 1775-1865, Juvenile literature.

Pennsylvania, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Juvenile literature.

Pennsylvania, History, Revolution, 1775-1783, Juvenile literature.

Pennsylvania.

United States.

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Doherty, Craig A.

Doherty, Katherine M.

Date of Transaction

20201207093941.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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