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Colonies in Revolt |
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Mr. Thomson’s fourth grade |
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BUILDING A COLONY IS HARD WORK! Hello, we’re Mr. Thomson’s fourth grade class. We’ve been studying how America became a free nation from the original thirteen colonies. We created colonies. Each colony elected its own governor and law maker, and then we elected a class president. The colonies have experienced the French and Indian war and the American Revolution. During the thirteen colonies people had trades or jobs. Each person in Mr. Thomson’s class had one of those trades. That’s what this website is all about. Now, go ahead and explore the website, discover ancient trades and how they helped the colonies gain independence! |
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SOURCES “Colonial Williamsburg Trades”; 2008 The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; November 11, 2007; http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm “Maker and Fixers”; Colonial Albany Social History Project; November 11, 2007; http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/trades/tanner.html The United States, Its History and Neighbors; Landmark Edition; Harcourt Brace Javanovich, Publishers; 1988 Our United States; Silver Burdett Ginn; Parsippany, New Jersey: 1997. |
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HOW TO USE OUR WEBSITE To find out about our colonies, click the Colonies link to the left. To find out about our trades, click the Trade links to the left. We created a shingle to advertise our trades. Click on the shingles to exit that page. To see a video of our work, click on the link to the right. |
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From first settlement to independence, we tell America’s story. |
