Students will drag the name of each colony onto the map. Then drag the color coded stars to the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies. Lastly, they will drag the important events to the colony in which it happened.

A lesson plan for helping students remember the names of the the original thirteen American colonies.

This online book presents an overview of American literature chronologically. Eras and movements are explained and biographies of significant authors are provided. This is a good way to understand the background and influences of...

Explanation of the various taxes paid by Virginia colonists, something that historians and researchers need to understand.

A map of the southern Colonies showing the area of General Nathaneal Greene's campaign (1781) against the British under Charles Cornwallis in the closing years of the American Revolution. The map shows the important sites of Cowpens,...

Whatever early colonial prosperity there was resulted from trapping and trading in furs. In addition, the fishing industry was a primary source of wealth in Massachusetts. But throughout the colonies, people relied primarily on small...

The story of Angela, a young woman West Central Africa who was kidnapped in 1619, and ended up in Virginia as a slave to a planter named William Peirce.

This website explains why Virginia needed laborers, why it led to the use of African labor and how it was justified by Christians. Hyperlinks to related topics on the site.

This discussion by Prof. Peter Wood of Duke University explores what may have allowed the shift from indentured servitude to lifelong slavery for Africans and their children. Click on Teacher's Guide for teacher resources.

From PBS's "Africans in America," Reverend Peter Fontaine's defense of slavery to his brother in 1757. Click to read the text of the actual document.

Three seventeenth-century buildings, two portraits, and three original accounts from Virginia and the Carolinas about the qualities and conditions of life in these southern English colonies that led to success and growth.

Learn about the waterways in Virginia that colonists used to expand their way of life, especially for tobacco sales.

Mary Musgrove become a negotiator between English and Native American communities and played an important role in the development of Colonial Georgia.

Describes the planting, cultivating, harvesting, and preparing rice in the antebellum South. Contains review questions.

Discussion of how production of the blue dye, indigo, helped boost the economy of Georgia and South Carolina in the seventeenth and eighteenth century until the Revolutionary War when England stopped buying it and production collapsed.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart includes information and maps of the original thirteen colonies and describes the characteristics of the three regions involved-- Northeast, Middle and Southern. Questions to check for...

This article, published in the IIAS newsletter (November, 2003), discusses the issues surrounding the Chinese minority living in Vietnam, and how colonial governments such as the French dealt with the group. The article is provided in...

Read some excerpts from original colonial laws concerning slaves.

The Grecian colonies in southern Italy began to be planted at nearly the same time as in Sicily.

A map of Africa as it was known in 1882 before the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...

Extensive timeline (1492-1997) of tobacco cultivation--in three parts. Click links at bottom of pages to view Parts I, III, and IV.

Skeletal remains of a juvenile with jade ax blades suggests a possible Olmec colony in Southern Mexico.

Lesson plan teaching the rice culture of Georgetown County, South Carolina in the 1700's.

A map of eastern North America showing the early development of the European colonies and westward exploration to the Mississippi River. The map shows the routes of several early explorers with dates of exploration, including La Salle,...