Learn the history of the United States of America from its roots over four hundred years ago. You will begin your journey in a West African nation in the days before the Atlantic slave trade and learn about how the rich culture that Africans brought with them. Then you will visit the Powhatan Confederacy in the years shortly before English arrival, getting to know the shared traditions of Eastern Woodland Indigenous peoples. As you sail the seas with European explorers, you will play games to pass the time and read an old ghost story. Visit three European colonizer settlements at St. Augustine, Jamestown, and Plymouth to discover the very different reasons Europeans colonized the Americas. Find out how to spend the cold winters or be a ranger during the French and Indian War. Then find out how the United States became a nation in the American Revolution and following years. Hop over to the west coast for another perspective with Mission Unboxed then cover the continent in between on an adventure with Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea. Find out how and why people moved westward (or were made to move west) in Going West. Then see how the issue of slavery led to the Civil War as you discover the war’s forgotten heroes and play a historical instrument.