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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Cities & Towns, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Four accounts of the visits to and growth of colonial cities in Spanish, British, and French New World settlements that demonstrate why certain communities developed successfully.
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Early Settlements

For Students 9th - 10th
The early 1600s saw the beginning of a great tide of emigration from Europe to North America. Spanning more than three centuries, this movement grew from a trickle of a few hundred English colonists to a flood of millions of newcomers....
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Handout
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: The American Colonies

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of 14 Grade-Leveled texts (4-11) on the topic "The American Colonies." What was life like for European settlers in the New World? How did American colonies function before the Revolutionary War? Explore life in the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1491 1607: Quiz 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick, five question quiz over the Columbian Exchange, Spanish conquest, and the Spanish Colonial system.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Hardships, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Three English, a French, and a Spanish primary account of the staggering losses, misery, and deprivation that characterized early European settlement as well as the resilience needed to overcome those challenges.
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Handout
Other

Jeff Miller: A West Virginia Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site provides a timeline of the European-American settlement of West Virginia and later events up to the present.
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Other

New Netherland Institute: Early Descriptions of New Netherland

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664, published in 1909, and available for free from Google Books. The first excerpt is from a 1644 account of Henry Hudson's descriptions of the new land he saw on his 1609 voyage. The...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Go Ahead, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

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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Handout
Mayflower History

Mayflower history.com: Tisquantum ("Squanto")

For Students 4th - 8th
A detailed biography of the life of Tisquantum, known as Squanto. Covers some history of the Plymouth Colony and of relations between the colonists and the native peoples.
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Lesson Plan
iCivics

I Civics: Columbus to the Colonies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From the time Columbus first set foot in the New World, Europeans were fascinated with this new land. In this lesson, students learn about the Three Gs that drove them here- gold, God, and glory- and find out how these settlers gave...
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: Early Colonial Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a timeline of significant events between (1000-1700) win the discovery and colonization of the New World.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: New Frontier, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A speech and an essay that alternately praise the acquisition of foreign territory by the U.S. and that raise questions about the costs and value of these imperialistic adventures.
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: Geography: People: Amerindians of the Amazon

For Students 4th - 8th
Discusses the plight of the Amerindians who made the Amazon rainforest their home. Many died from diseases brought by European colonists and many others continue to lose their lands to greedy companies or farmers.
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Article
Henry J. Sage

Sage American History: Native American Cultures: Pre History of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief article about Native American culture and history prior to European settlement and with arrival of Europeans.
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Article
Henry J. Sage

Sage American History: Native American Cultures: The Pre History of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on pre-Columbian Native American history and culture, including discussion on the impact of the Europeans.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Map: Imperialism and the Balance of Power

For Students 9th - 10th
World maps of the Colonial Empires of 1914 as well as their revenues during that time period. There are also maps depicting urban growth, type of government, wars and atrocities, and living conditions of the world in 1900.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Map: Imperialism and the Balance of Power

For Students 9th - 10th
World maps of the Colonial Empires of 1914 as well as their revenues during that time period. There are also maps depicting urban growth, type of government, wars and atrocities, and living conditions of the world in 1900.
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Handout
University of Iowa

University of Iowa: Arts and Life in Africa: Sierra Leone

For Students 6th - 8th
A record of statistics concerning modern day Sierra Leone, up to 1998. Scroll down to history section to see a brief, but informative description of pre-colonial and post-colonial history for Sierra Leone.
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Other

The Descendants of Henry Doude: Perspectives: The Pequot War

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of the Pequot War, a conflict between the Pequots and the English colonists from the Massachusetts Bay colony. There are two maps showing the location of Indian tribes in 1636 and again in 1639.
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Website
ibiblio

Ibiblio: 1492: An Ongoing Vogage: Inventing America

For Students 9th - 10th
Archived exhibition reveals how European writers and mapmakers thought about America during the Age of Discovery. Describes the allegorical images Europeans sometimes used to portray America and features the Gutierrez map, drawn in 1562,...
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Handout
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: History of Pirates

For Students 3rd - 8th
Piracy has been around since ancient times but was especially prevalent during the days of European exploration, and still occurs in some parts of the world. Learn some of the devious methods pirates used to overpower victim ships and...
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Website
Other

Fales Library and Special Collections: Jacob Leisler Papers Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource chronicles the life and times of Jacob Leisler, "a political figure [who] played a major role in the North American world of European settlements in the seventeenth century," and leader of the Leisler's Rebellion.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo Attributed to Juan Rodriguez

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mestizo belongs to a larger series of works that seek to document the inter-ethnic mixing occurring in New Spain among Europeans, indigenous peoples, Africans, and the existing mixed-race population. This genre of painting is known...
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Website
Other

The British Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
Although this is a personal site, the History Channel calls it "Very comprehensive." That is definitely true! Author provides extensive timelines, biographies, information on science and technology, discussions, and more! Be sure to...

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