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Download or read book Life in the Colonies written by Emily R. Smith and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2004-12-14 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers will be fascinated to learn what life was like for the colonists in early America. The detailed images and easy to read text explore such topics as Puritans, the Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, Navigation Acts, and slavery. Along with brief biographies on colonists and Indians like John Smith, William Penn, and Pocahontas and John Rolfe, this engaging reader explains mean of survival and living through farming, colonial crops, and plantations. A table of contents and glossary are provided to enhance readers' understanding of the content and vocabulary.