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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Resources: Monroe Doctrine, 1823

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcript of the Monroe Doctrine written by President James Monroe in 1823. This document established a foreign policy that any European nations attempting to colonize in North or South America would be seen as aggression and the...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: French and Dutch Exploration in the New World

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the French, Dutch, and English explorers in the late 1500's and early 1600's.
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Activity
University of Groningen

American History: Essays: u.s. & the Netherlands

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is an overview of the relationship of the Dutch West India Company and the settling of New Netherlands under the "patroon" system, which brought many Dutch colonists to the New World.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: French and Dutch Exploration in the New World

For Students 9th - 10th
Outline text explaining how the French, Dutch, and English explorers began to make inroads into the Americans in the late 1500s and early 1600s.
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Curated OER

Etc: Proposed Isthmian Canal Routes, 1848 1884

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the proposed isthmian canal routes in Nicaragua and Panama between 1848-1884. The map shows the two chief proposals, the Nicaraguan from Greytown on the Caribbean to Lake Nicaragua and Brito on the Pacific, and the Panama...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Routes to the Panama Isthmus, 1913

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1913 of the eastern United States, the Caribbean, and the Panama Isthmus showing the directness of the steamship routes from New York and New Orleans to Colon. Since the Panama Canal did not open to commercial traffic until...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Chesapeake Colonies

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an extensive look into the people and events surrounding the founding of the original 13 colonies in America.
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Graphic
Curated OER

New England Colonies

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an extensive look into the people and events surrounding the founding of the original 13 colonies in America.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Middle Colonies

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an extensive look into the people and events surrounding the founding of the original 13 colonies in America.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Carolinas & Georgia

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an extensive look into the people and events surrounding the founding of the original 13 colonies in America.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Attempts at Huguenot Settlements in Florida, 1562 1565

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the southern Atlantic coastline showing the early attempts by the French Huguenots under Jean Ribault to establish settlements in the Spanish territory of Florida. The map shows the sites of Charles Fort (Charlesfort) South...
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: The Forts of Old San Juan: Guardians of the Caribbean

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit such Spanish sites in Puerto Rico as El Morro, the fort that provided the keystone to protection of the Spanish Empire that spread across the Caribbean. Many photographs and drawings.
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Los Castillos Del Viejo San Juan: Guardianes Del Caribe

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site for Spanish Exploration. See one of the greatest fortresses in the Western Hemisphere. King Phillip IV called it "The front and vanguard of all my West Indies, and consequently the most important of them all and the most...
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Website
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Three Worlds, Three Views

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay examining the cultural and environmental changes spanning 300 years in the pre-Revolutionary South as three worlds, Native American, European, and African collide. Site includes guiding questions for student discussion and scholars...
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Handout
Texas A&M University

Sons of De Witt Colony Texas: Manuel De Mier Y Teran

For Students 9th - 10th
A very long and detailed site from Texas A&M University with information on the military and political life of Manuel de Mier y Teran, "tragic friend and last hope for Mexican Texas."
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Lesson Plan
Other

Bringing History Home: Communities Long Ago

For Teachers K - 1st
This Grade 1 unit explores U.S. communities in a historical context. By exploring their own community's buildings and services of both long ago and today, children in non-Native American communities are introduced to concepts of change,...
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Handout
Other

New Mexico Office of the State Historian: Pope

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this fascinating information about Pope, the leader of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Learn how he was able to unite several tribes of Pueblo Indians who did not even speak the same language into a force that was able to push out the...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Bartolome De Las Casas

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource features Native American activist, Bartolome de las Casas, one of the first Europeans to speak on cruelty directed towards the Native Americans. Click on "Bartolome de las Casas Activites" for related artifacts and activities.
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Unit Plan
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the origins of Canada and the United States as Jamestown, Quebec, and Santa Fe celebrate their 400th anniversary.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Cross Cultural Colonial Conflicts

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary sources which explores cross-cultural conflicts during the Colonial period of United States history.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Virginia

Virginia Memory: James I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What connection did King James I have with Virginia? In 1606, James authorized the Virginia Company of London to found the Jamestown colony. The English successfully settled in Virginia, planting the foundation of Great Britain's...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Atrial Cross at Acolman

For Students 9th - 10th
The Atrial Cross at Acolman offers a fascinating look into the interactions between Spanish friars and Nahua converts in the years directly following the conquest of Mexico. View pictures and descriptions of the cross and the Augustinian...
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Activity
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Jamestown

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about the founding and development of the settlement at Jamestown.
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Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Enslaved Peoples, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two Spanish accounts of enslaved Indians in the Caribbean and enslaved Africans in Mexico and statements of the difficulty of maintaining slavery and the lurking threat of a slave revolt.

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