Maestro, Betsy

Text and illustrations describe the unceasing activity at a busy seaport, including various ships coming and going, and cargo moved by big machines.

Describes how the lives of America's native inhabitants are changed forever by European explorers who claim the land and its resources for their countries.

No school today! out come the snowsuits and shovels. While children play in the snow, adults work.

Describes how the Constitution was drafted and ratified and the spirit of late-eighteenth-century America.

Discusses the relations between the European colonists and the Native Americans, the disputes between settlers from France, England, and Spain, and the role these conflicts played in the history of North America.

Traces the history of immigration to the United States and examines the reasons why people chose to move to America.

Traces the competition among the American Indians, French, English, Spanish, and Dutch for land, furs, timber, and other resources of North America.

Discusses both hypothetical and historical voyages of discovery to America by the Phoenicians, Saint Brendan of Ireland, the Vikings, and such later European navigators as Columbus, Cabot, and Magellan.