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" Pennsylvania / "
Craig A. Doherty, Katherine M. Doherty.
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BL
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1042471
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b796841
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Doherty, Craig A.
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Pennsylvania /\ Craig A. Doherty, Katherine M. Doherty.
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New York :: Facts On File,, ©2005.
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The thirteen colonies
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xvii, 142 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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0816054134
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: 9780816054138
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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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.
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Pennsylvania, History, 1775-1865, Juvenile literature.
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Pennsylvania, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Juvenile literature.
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Pennsylvania, History, Revolution, 1775-1783, Juvenile literature.
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Pennsylvania.
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United States.
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974.8/02
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F152.D625 2005
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Doherty, Katherine M.
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