Starting in the late 1500s, colonists searching for a better, or different, life left Europe and sailed to the New World. But things may not have always gone exactly the way they planned them to! Who were these early colonists and where did they settle? Was freedom the only thing colonists were searching for when they arrived? Who were the people living there before them? This up-close look at colonial America answers these questions and more for young readers in a fun question-and-answer format, accompanied by historical images.