This is Angela O'Dell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.

A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

This is a special first anniversary episode because it was one year ago on July 1st, 2019 that I launched the real cool

History for Kids podcast show. Happy birthday America.

America.

In this episode I'm going to tell you the story of what led up to the birth of the United States

of America.

Because I believe that you are old enough and smart enough to understand this part of our history,

the story I'm going to tell you in this episode is a bit different than the ones you may have heard about this topic.

This is not going to be the version of early American history that you might find in, let's say, a first grade

reader.

So make sure you pause the podcast once in a while if you need to talk

about it with your parent or your older sibling. For this story we're going to travel all the

way back to an era of American history called the colonial period.

This period of time officially started in the early 1600s when the first permanent British colony managed to survive on the continent of North America.

This was Jamestown, and the original population was made up entirely

of men who thought they were going to become rich

from the resources of the new world, which is what they called the Americas.

After the settlement of Jamestown, other English colonies began to spring up along the East Coast of what would become the United States of America.

Not all of the settlers were from England.

There were many immigrants from other European nations as well.

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