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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate in Early Colonial America

For Students 9th - 10th
Several examples of pots for coffee, tea, and chocolate from the colonial period. Learn how Americans adopted the practice of drinking coffee and tea, and how this practice affected society, daily life, and the decorative art created by...
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Tom Richey

Tom richey.net: Religious Freedom in Colonial New England [Ppt]

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents key ideas for examining the roles Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson played in promoting religious toleration in colonial America.
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Tom Richey

Tom richey.net: The Great Awakening: Religious Revival in Colonial America

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents key ideas for a discussion of what led to the Great Awakening religious movement.
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Mansions in Colonial America

For Students 9th - 10th
A variety of pictures demonstrating the kinds of mansions lived in by the wealthier landowners.
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Wells Thorn House: 1600 1740: Early Colonial Style: Interior Room

For Students 9th - 10th
An interior view of an early American colonial parlor.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Colonial Designs [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Scroll down through this unit for teacher facilitators to Appendix E and F to find maps of colonial settlement in eastern North America in 1600 and 1660. From Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Young America in Art

For Students 9th - 10th
An historical site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum that shows the growth of America through art work by over 45 artists. This site by the Smithsonian Institute has fascinating images showing American artists depicting the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Colonial America

For Students 6th - 8th
Scene of the American frontier, during colonial times.
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Wells Thorn House: 1600 1740: Early Colonial Style: Interior Room

For Students 9th - 10th
Interior of a colonial kitchen, or hall.
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Tom Richey

Tom richey.net: A Brief History of the Quakers [Ppt]

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents key ideas for examining the history of the Quakers in colonial America and their core beliefs.
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Etc: Types of Colonial Governments, 1682 1730

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of three maps of the British colonies in North America showing the types of colonial governments between 1682, 1692, and 1730, and the shift from charter colonies electing their own governors to the colonies with councilors...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Colonial Georgia, 1732 1763

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Colonial Georgia, showing the proclamation line of the original United States established at the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1763, the boundary when Georgia was established from the Carolinas as a buffer between the...
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Unesco: Dominican Republic: Colonial City of Santo Domingo

For Students 9th - 10th
After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, customs house and university in the Americas. This colonial town, founded in 1498, was laid out on a grid pattern...
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Etc: Maps Etc: The Thirteen Colonies at the End of the Colonial Period, 1774

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the British Thirteen Colonies at the end of the colonial period in 1774. The map shows the boundaries of the colonies and notes the uncolored territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes as claimed by Georgia,...
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Time Page: 13 Colonies: A Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a great timeline that shows what happens in America between 1520 and 1788 when all the colonies have become states. Lots of events are listed.
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Civics Online: Map of the 13 Colonies

For Students 9th - 10th
This colorful map depicts the original thirteen colonies as well as the rest of the eastern part of America, showing the owners of the land at that time.
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Virtual Jamestown: Occupations of the New World

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a chart of the many occupations in Jamestown at the beginning of the 17th century. Includes how many people for each occupation and when they arrived in America.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp: Roanoke Voyages

For Students 9th - 10th
View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1984 to commemorate the voyages to Roanoke Island. Includes a short passage on Sir Walter Raleigh's commissioning of the famous expedition that represents the beginning of English life...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Early Settlers in New England

For Students 3rd - 8th
A scene of early English colonists, or Pilgrims, in snow.
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Etc: Colonial Maryland and Virginia, 1607 1634

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the early colonies of Virginia and Maryland showing the first settlements of Jamestown (1607) and St. Mary's (1634). The future sites of Baltimore (1729) and Washington (1790) are also shown.
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Robert Yates Map 1770

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information about life in the colonial village of Albany. Includes many resources about important structures, happenings, and people. A great resource for information on colonial America as a whole.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Penn

For Students 9th - 10th
An English entrepreneur who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in colonial America.
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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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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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