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_d_. Give one fact which especially interests you in connection with each colony, and explain your interest.

_e_. In which colony would you have liked to live, and why?

TOPICS FOR SPECIAL WORK

_a_. Champlain's place in American history (Parkman's _Pioneers_).

_b_. The First American Legislature and its work (Hart's _Contemporaries_, I., No. 65).

_c_. Why did the Pilgrims come to America? (Bradford's _Plymouth_).

_d_. Arrange a table of the several settlements similar to that described on page 18.

_e_. Write a composition on life in early colonial days (Eggleston's _United States_, 91-113).

SUGGESTIONS TO THE TEACHER

In treating this chapter aim to make clear the reasons for and conditions of the settlement of each colony. Vividness can best be obtained by a study of the writings of the time, especially of Bradford's _History of Plymouth_. Use pictures in every possible way and molding board as well.

Emphasize the lack of true liberty of thought, and lead the children to understand that persecution was a characteristic of the time and not a failing of any particular colony or set of colonists.

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A CENTURY OF COLONIAL HISTORY, 1660-1760

Books for Study and Reading

References.--Fiske's _United States for Schools_ 133-180; McMaster's _School History_, 93-108 (life in 1763); _Source-Book_, ch.

vii; Fisher's _Colonial Era_; Earle's _Child Life_.

Home Readings.--Parkman's _Montcalm and Wolfe_; Franklin's _Autobiography_; Brooks's _In Leisler's Times_; Coffin's _Old Times in the Colonies_; Cooper's _Last of the Mohicans_; Scudder's _Men and Manners One Hundred Years Ago_.

CHAPTER 8

THE COLONIES UNDER CHARLES II

[Sidenote: The Puritan in England. Higginson and Channing, _English History for Americans_, 182-195.]

[Sidenote: The Colonies, 1649-60.]

65. The Puritans and the Colonists, 1649-60.--In 1649 Charles I was executed, and for eleven years the Puritans were supreme in England.

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