Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Colonizing America

9th - 10th
John Green teaches you about the (English) colonies in what is now the United States. He covers the first permanent English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the various theocracies in Massachusetts, the feudal kingdom in Maryland, and even...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies

9th - 10th
John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachusetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Before the English got there though, the colony was full of Dutch people who treated women pretty fairly,...
Instructional Video
Other

You Tube: Comparing the Colonies

1st - 5th
This PowToon animated video compares and contrasts the reasons for founding, geography, economy, and government of some of the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies. [5:05]
Instructional Video
Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Spanish Colonization of the Americas

9th - 10th
Video part one of a lecture series on European colonization looks at the Spanish colonies of the Americas. Mr. Richey uses maps, photos and graphs to illustrate lectures. [8:24]