Colorado's History

Herweck Rice Dona

Description

Get an inside look at Colorado’s rich history, from the time of early American Indians to the Colorado Gold Rush to today. This engaging social studies book is four chapters, covering major events, people, and time periods in Colorado history. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features.Colorado’s History covers the early history of American Indians in Colorado through the exploration of the territory, its path to statehood, westward expansion, developments in technology, and other important events throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This reader combines vibrant pictures and illustrations with rich text to craft a detailed account of Colorado, from 14,000 years ago to modern times.

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• Local history
• History of the Americas
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Teacher Created Materials
• Date de parution: 21 juin 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781087648453
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Read and Respond
1. How did the state get its name?
2. How were the lives of American Indians
living here changed by European
settlers?
3. How did gold mining affect the state?
4. Why did it take a long time for
Colorado to become a state?
5. How has the state’ s landscape affected
its history?
 

Dona Herweck Rice
C o lora d o ’ s
His to r y
 

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T able of C on t ents
Ch ap t er 1 : C olorado Long Ago ............ 4
Ch ap t er 2: C olorado in the 1 800s ......... 14
Ch ap t er 3 : C olorado T oday .............. 26
Ch ap t er 4: Chin Lin Sou:
“M ayor o f Chi natow n” ................. 34
Glo ssar y ........................... 38
Index ............................. 39
Hist or y in Y our C ommuni ty ............ 40
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C h a p te r 1
C olorado L ong Ago
Colorado has been a state for a long time. But it
has a history far older than its statehood.
T o explore the history of Colorado, we need to
look back in time thousands of years. Back before
anyone in U.S. history can remember . Back before
people wrote down what they did for future people
to read.
In this time long ago, the towering mountains
we now know as the Rockies were strung across the
land. W ide plains spread out east of the mountains.
The Grand Mesa stretched its wide, flat top into the
western clouds. But no buildings sprouted from
the landscape. No highways crossed the plains.
And the night sky , free from city lights, was lit with
more stars than the eye could see.
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Boulder , C olorado , 1900
Gra nd M esa
Grand Mesa is the larg est mesa, or
flat -t op ped mountain, in the wo rl d.
V olcanoes f ormed it 1 0 m illion y e ars
ago . Over time, erosion h as mo lded
it t o what we see t oday .
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