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Virtual Jamestown: Laws on Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the original text of Virginia colonial laws concerning different aspects of slavery for Africans, Native Americans, and indentured servants.
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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: King Philip's War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students analyze original documents to evaluate the conflict between colonists under King Philip and Native Americans.
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Website
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

History Is Fun: Jamestown Questions and Answers [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This document presents important questions about the Jamestown settlement, along with detailed answers. Topics include the Native American Powhatan Indians and their interactions with the settlers, the purpose of creating the settlement...
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Activity
National Geographic

National Geographic: Society: A History of Trade in New York City

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson based on the New York City seal that explores the trading relationship between the Dutch and Native Americans in New Amsterdam.
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Unit Plan
Texas Public Broadcasting

Texas Pbs: Texas Our Texas: Spanish Colonial 1689 1821

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the struggle between the native tribes and the Spanish missionaries during the Spanish Colonial era in Texas from 1690 until 1821.
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Colonial Indian Relations

For Students 9th - 10th
By 1640 the British had solid colonies established along the New England coast and the Chesapeake Bay. In between were the Dutch and the tiny Swedish community. To the west were the original Americans, the Indians.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs:the Living Edens/manu Native People of Manu

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An article on the Machiguenga, the native people of the Manu rainforest in Peru. This article talks about their culture, history, and their use of plants and animals.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Dimensions of Change in Colonial New England

For Students 9th - 10th
Dissension in Massachusetts Bay Colony resulted in the formation of other New England colonies. Read about their formations, and the impact on the Native Americans in the area.
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Graphic
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: New World: Part I: American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
A variety of paintings and drawings that display European images of their first encounters with the land, plants, animals, and native peoples of the western hemisphere. With questions for discussion.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A series of illustrations and accounts of Spanish conquest of Indians that reflect the fascination with and the brutality directed against native cultures.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

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

For Students 9th - 10th
Fifty seven primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-and one secondary historical account that explore imperial conflict, European economic rivalry, and the impact of colonial rule on native peoples.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Struggles for Power in Colonial America

For Students 9th - 10th
A very brief explanation of the power struggle between the French and English in the New World and how the Native Americans were caught in the middle.
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Unit Plan
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration: Racial Encounters in Colonial America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Copper plate engravings offer one example of the racialization of colonized peoples. At the turn of the 17th century, most Europeans' visual conceptions of the Americas came from the engravings of the workshop of Flemish print-maker...
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Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: American Indians and English Settlers in Colonial America

For Teachers 5th
In this lesson, 5th graders examine the relations between Indians and the settlers in the 1600s and 1700s. Background information for teachers is included. Students will work in groups to look at three different colonies and read primary...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: The First Thanksgiving Celebration

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: 7 Famous Loyalists of the Revolutionary War Era

For Students 9th - 10th
From a son of Benjamin Franklin to a Mohawk leader to the governor of Massachusetts, these men chose to side with the British. In a way, the American Revolution was also a civil war. By 1774, American colonists were divided into two...
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Article
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Pocahontas

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a brief biography of Pocahontas, the legendary Native American heroine who saved the life of Captain John Smith.
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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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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Transatlantic Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Transatlantic Trade whereby Europe, Africa, and the America's engaged in a network of people, raw materials, finished goods, merchants, and sailors bringing wealth to colonial empires. The consequences of the...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: About All You Can Eat: A Feast at Plimouth Plantation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan in the culinary delicacies of the Plymouth Plantation in 1627. In this integrated lesson plan, students examine the history of foods eaten during this colonial era and prepare an actual meal based on what they have learned....
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Article
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Spanish, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Two maps and four accounts of the Spanish exploration of North America that reflect the goals of the conquistadors and fascination with the land they examined-and the brutality of their treatment of native peoples.
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Website
Other

Arkansas Archeological Survey: Indians of Arkansas

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed view of the Native peoples who inhabited Arkansas, both pre- and post-European contact with history, archaeology, and culture addressed. The navigation menu on the left provides links to specific periods of time and to...
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Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Washington's Rise Begins: A Journal of a Noteworthy Journey

For Teachers 5th
In this lesson, 5th graders examine letters and entries from George Washington's diaries to understand more about his character and ambitions, and the conflict and cooperation that existed between the French and English colonists and the...
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eBook
Curated OER

National Park Service: Fort Raleigh: The Roanoke Voyages: A Mystery Story for Young People

For Students 4th - 8th
The history of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island is told in story form. It tells of the conflict between England and Spain to establish a foothold in the New World, the voyages arranged by Sir Walter Raleigh, the establishment of a...