"Visit with your colonial cousins...
You might find life with your colonial cousins a little slower and a little quieter than life today. You would spend less time in school and more time in church. You would walk everywhere unless you were lucky enough to have a horse. Your would be expected to work, dress, and act like a small adult. But when there was time for fun, playtime might seem very familiar to you.
Your large family might live in a house built by Father with the help of your neighbors. Your family probably would eat Mom's cooking together at one long table, often with a visitor or two included. You would never lack for company and never have a bed to yourself.
By the mid-1700's you would be one of the English, Scots, Swedes, Dutch, Germans, Africans, and Native Americans living in the thirteen American Colonies, under the rule of Great Britain and its king. Early arrivals to the colonies brought and preserved their culture and traditions. They blended the old ways into the needs of the new land. But you and your cousins would become something new as well. You would become young Americans.
America's most important export throughout its history has been its ideas. As an American child, you have inherited these riches and will carry those ideas forward."
—from the introduction
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