Early settlers risked their lives to set up new homes in a strange new land. Every day, they worked to stay alive.
A generation later, the work paid off. Britain’s 13 colonies began to grow and do well in North America. Roads connected one village to the next. Colonists learned from the Native Americans how to make it through the winter. Trade between the colonies began. And a dependable economy took shape. But life was still hard in colonial America. As in earlier days, illness claimed many lives. And winters were long and hard in the northern colonies. But survival was no longer a surprise. Families planted their roots, and a new nation began to sprout.
