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Historyteacher.net: Late 17 C and 18 C American Society: Quiz (1)

For Students 9th - 10th
This 11-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and includes a variety of questions covering life in the early colonies.
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Historyteacher.net: Early Settlements: Quiz (2)

For Students 9th - 10th
This 10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and includes a variety of questions covering early settlement of the New England colonies.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Thirteen Colonies

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart includes information and maps of the original thirteen colonies and describes the characteristics of the three regions involved-- Northeast, Middle and Southern. Questions to check for...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: 13 Colonies Map

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the composition of the thirteen original colonies and asks students to identify the colonies on a map.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: Land of the Brave: The Original 13 Colonies

For Students 9th - 10th
An illustrated guide to American colonization and the original 13 Colonies.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Problems England Faced After the French and Indian War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This offers a good overview of the problems England needed to deal with after signing the Treaty of Paris in 1763, ending the French and Indian War. What to do about the new lands they controlled, how to deal with their loss of income...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Iroquois Country, 1768

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York showing the Iroquois Six Nations lands as established by the Fort Stanwix treaty of 1768. The map show the expansion of English colonial settlers into the upper Hudson River Valley...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pocahontas

For Students 9th - 10th
Daughter of Powhatan, a distinguished Indian chief, born in 1595; died off Gravesend, England, in March, 1617. Her early life was spent among the Indians in Virginia. In 1607 she became connected with the early history of America by...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Penn

For Students 9th - 10th
(1644-1718) William Penn was an English colonist and best known as founder of Pennsylvania.
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Cengage Learning

Literature of Discovery and Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Teaching approach that examines the writings of European New World explorers from the late 1400s through the 1600s. Includes Christopher Columbus, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Fray...
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Other

University of Western Ontario: Early Writing in Canada: Catharine Parr Traill

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts of letters written by Catharine Parr Traill, which she collected and published, along with her journals, in The Backwoods of Canada (1836). In these excerpts, she writes about her arrival in Newfoundland and a journey to Quebec.
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Other

University of Western Ontario: Early Writing in Canada: Jameson: Winter Studies

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from Irish-born British writer Anna Brownell Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, a travelogue of her 1836 voyage to Canada.
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Article
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: The First Black Female Poet?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article looks at a ballad, 'Bars Fight,' by 18th century African-American writer Lucy Terry. It considers the literary qualities of a ballad, and its historical role in society. It then goes on to consider why a Black slave might...
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Curated OER

Bacon's Epitaph, Ca. 1676

For Students 9th - 10th
Five documents that examine a range of reactions to colonial rebellion and associated resistance to royal authority in English colonies in Barbados, Virginia, and Massachusetts.
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Curated OER

Spanish Fort of San Agustin, 1589

For Students 9th - 10th
A Spanish, an English, and a French account of the enormous challenges in maintaining a colonial presence in North America and of the potential national loss-of pride, wealth, and possibility for expansion-if nations abandoned these...
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Curated OER

Militiaman in New France, Ca. 1700

For Students 9th - 10th
Two maps of English and French rivalries in North America, and two side-by-side accounts of the English and French perspectives on King William's war over power, trade, and economic dominance of the continent.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Slideshow

For Students 9th - 10th
Four original source accounts, and four related maps, of successful English, French, and Spanish settlements in North America and the Caribbean that explain the qualities of these settlements and their reasons for permanence and prosperity.
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Curated OER

Virginia Tobacco Plantation

For Students 9th - 10th
Four accounts of the complex power relationships between slaves and slave holders within English colonies in Barbados, Virginia and Pennsylvania, as well as documents about slave revolts and anti-slavery agitation.
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Primary
Yale University

Yale Law School: Resolutions of the Continental Congress, 1765

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains the primary text of the resolutions against the Stamp Act sent to King George III.
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Website
Nagoya University (Japan)

Nagoya University: British Authors on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent and detailed site which lists over 750 British authors. The site provides links to more information about each author and is categorized by alphabet and time period. Some links may no longer work in the archived URL.
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Unit Plan
Digital History

Digital History: Explorations: Indentured Servitude and Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
South of New England, half of all immigrants arrived in various forms of unfreedom: as indentured servants, apprentices, tenants, convicts, or slaves. George Washington's namesake--a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses named George...
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Tempest by William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the full text of the five-act play The Tempest by William Shakespeare including a list of characters and an epilogue.
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Lesson Plan
Organization for Community Networks

Academy Curricular Exchange: A Practical Experiment in Colonization

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A detailed lesson plan depicting life in the early American colonies.
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Article
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

History Is Fun: Life at Jamestown [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A 16-page history of the establishment and growth of the colony of Jamestown. Covers the early challenges, the starving time, the Virginia Company, the conflict with Powhatan, the beginnings of the tobacco economy, the introduction of...

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