Hello friends, welcome to the Blood Your Here With Me for another episode of Here's Where

Kids Interesting.

And today we'll continue to talk about some key players of the Jacksonian era.

And before we get to this infamous scandal in Washington that I've been teasing you about,

we need to learn about one of our other first ladies who never made it to the White House.

Our next president's wife actually passed away almost two decades before she would have

been first lady.

And although it was cut short, the story of her life has so many interesting correlations

to her history here in the United States of America.

So let's explore some of our country's historical foundations through the life of Hannah Van

Buren, the wife of our eighth president, Martin Van Buren.

I'm Sheriff McMan, and here's where it gets interesting.

Consider these words, frolic, spooky, wiggle, loiter, cookies.

Can you do a connection between them?

I would be surprised if you can, right?

They don't seem like they have much in common, but they actually do.

They're common words, but they all have Dutch origins.

And when we think about the European colonization of America, our minds conjure up the key facts

we've memorized in history classes like the pilgrims and Jamestown and the British, right?

But there was actually another lesser known and extremely important influence on our

nation's beginning.

It came from the Dutch settlers who arrived on American shores early in the 17th century.

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