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The History Place

The History Place: English Colonial Era 1700 to 1763

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a timeline of important events that occurred in the United States during the early- and mid-18th century. The information provided is in-depth and worth checking out.
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History Teacher

Historyteacher.net: Early Discovery & Settlement: Quiz (5)

For Students 9th - 10th
Choose the correct word from the drop down menu for each of the nineteen questions to determine your proficiency of early Colonial America.
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Other

Early American Paintings in the Worcester Art Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
A site with examples and information about early American paintings from 1671-1829. Use the timeline to click on a time period, or click and select by artist, genre, or place of origin. Also includes an extensive bibliography.
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Website
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Colonial Religion

For Students 9th - 10th
The site provides a detailed overview of role religion played in the lives of the colonists. Content explores how religion played a part in the Revolution, and the statute for religious freedom, as well as providing a lesson plan, a link...
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Other

New York Public Library: Early New York [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A teacher package explaining how to use the included primary resources with students. Questions and writing prompts accompany original images of early New York, Henry Hudson's experiences, colonial leaders, and people who lived in New...
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Unit Plan
Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Ap u.s. History: Colonial America (1491 1754)

For Students 9th - 10th
Tom Richey provides a collection of videos, lessons, and assignments to assist with teaching or studying pre-Columbian cultures in the New World through the beginnings of the French and Indian War.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Early New England Historians

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Describes the themes and writing style of early New England historians. Clicking on the names at the bottom of each page will take you to information about individual historians.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Early Quaker Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A survey of the Quaker writers from the Colonial period extracted from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Early America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Revolution and Early America unit covers the standard eighteenth century topics that would appear in any textbook. These lessons, however, will push students to dig deeper as they read the documents...
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Other

Colonial Hall: Benjamin Rush (1745 1813)

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-profit site offers detailed biography of Benjamin Rush. the United States. Examines his early training, his years in Europe, his work in medicine, his role in the Revolutionary War, and his political career. Rest of site has...
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Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Benjamin Franklin: Colonial Printer and Journalist

For Teachers 5th
This lesson looks at the early career of Benjamin Franklin and he contributed to the spread of literacy in America, as well as his public service record at that time. Students will examine and analyze primary source documents to...
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Primary
Other

History 341: Colonial America: 1805 Copy of the New England Primer

For Students 9th - 10th
Clickable index for the full text of the 1805 New England Primer, a textbook that made public education possible in the early United States.
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Website
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg History

For Students 9th - 10th
This page goes directly to the homepage of Colonial Williamsburg, which historically reenacts the life of early English settlement in Virginia.
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Primary
Other

History of the Usa: Colonial Life: Colonial Government

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out the similarities and differences between the governments of the English colonies in this detailed account of early colonial government from the 1904 text written by Henry William Elson, History of the United States of America.
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Early American and Colonial Period to 1776

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Background information about the literary traditions of the pre-Colonial and Colonial period. Includes information about Native American oral traditions and Native American cultures. Follow the links to the Early American era and to...
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Handout
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Archiving Early America: Early Virginia River Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the waterways in Virginia that colonists used to expand their way of life, especially for tobacco sales.
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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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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1491 1607: Spanish Conquistadores and Colonial Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
The Spanish gained an early foothold in the colonies, quickly becoming the most powerful European power in the New World.
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Colonial Period

For Students 9th - 10th
The early settlers to the New World began to map strategy for their own system of government. This site details that strategy and what kinds of events spawned the idea of representative government.
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Article
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Archiving Early America: Committee of Correspondence: Moving to Independence

For Students 9th - 10th
A long article on the many men and events involved in the various Colonial Committees of Correspondence.
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Activity
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Colonial Period

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Background information about the literature of the Colonial period in American history. Discussions of capitalism, Puritan theology, and stewardship as found in the thought and literature of the period.
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Activity
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Colonial Period

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief discussion of the colonial period in the United States. Includes information on New England, the middle colonies, and the southern colonies. Also, find out about the early government, and the French and Indian War.
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Activity
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Religion in Early Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
This examination of religion in Virginia gives you an idea of where Anglicanism fit into colonial life there.
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Website
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial North America

For Students 9th - 10th
Scroll through this site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University to New England and click on the primary source documents concerning Edmund Andros. This site contains dozens of links related to colonial America. Sections...