Colonial America

Learn more about colonial life in America by visiting these sites!

Geographical Order
• A Brief History of New Hampshire  New Hampshire
• Plimoth Plantation  Massachusetts
• A Walking Tour of Plimoth Plantation  Massachusetts
• Rhode Island Early History  Rhode Island
• The Gene Pool: Abstracts from The East Haven Register  Rhode Island
• Connecticut History ConneCT Kids - A Robin's Eye View of Colonial Connecticut History
• Connecticut Life in the 1770's Noah Webster House Museum, Connecticut
• A Colonial Family and Community Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Connecticut
• Colonial New York City Centennial Classroom - captioned illustrations - New York
• New York State Historical Maps  New York
• The Country and the City, 1609-1825  New York
• The Gene Pool: History of Newark, New Jersey  New Jersey
• Delaware - A brief history  Delaware
• Facts and History of Delaware  Delaware
• Exploring Maryland's Roots Maryland Public Television Thinkport, Maryland
• Maryland History Timeline  Maryland
• Meet John Halfhead  Lesson Plans and Materials, Historic St. Mary's City, Maryland
• John Halfhead, Plantation Master  Historic St. Mary's City, Maryland
• St. Mary's City Maryland
• History of Jamestown  Virginia
• Stratford On the Plantation Virginia
• Your Teacher Takes You to Colonial Virginia Virginia
• North Carolina History Kidspage North Carolina
• South Carolina - Colonial Period  South Carolina
• Brief History of South Carolina South Carolina
• Georgia's Early Years  Georgia

General Topics
• The American Colonies KidInfo
• United States--History--1600-1775, Colonial Period  K12 Resources Colonial Period United States
• Outline of American History Chapter One: The Colonial Period
• Our America Scholastic
• The Colonial Period U-S-History.com
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents  Primary Documents
• 13 Originals
• Early America
• Historical Maps of the United States
• Colonial Gazette Webquest
• Colonial Trades
• Colonial Williamsburg  click on Explore & Learn
• Colonial Trades in America  student research projects
• Colonial Life in America Mrs. Hallbach's Team8A list of research links
• Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Clothing Williamsburg - Includes game
• Welcome to Archiving Early America
• USA: Outline of American History
• USA: index to sourcematerial
• Rare Map Collection - Colonial America
• 1755 - The French and Indian War Homepage
• ushistory.org  focuses on Philadelphia history and the American Revolution
• Betsy Ross Homepage
• Colonial America  America's Story, The Library of Congress
• Colonial Life  42eXplore
• Coins and Currency of Colonial and Early America
• Biographies of the Founding Fathers
• History of American Agriculture: The Colonial Period  Click on Syllabus, then Chapter 2.
• Schooling, Education, and Literacy in Colonial America
• Colonial Kids  Student Made ThinkQuest
• Colonial America extensive list of links
• American Life: A Comparison of Colonial Life to Today's Life Phyllis Grenet, grade one lesson plan
• Tinker, Tailor, Farmer, Sailor Library of Congress learning page - includes links to primary resources
• Early American Paintings Worchester Art Museum
• Raid on Deerfield: the Many Stories of 1704 Interactive, five points of view - Memorial Hall Museum
• Liberty, the American Revolution PBS
• What was life like in Colonial America?

Travilah fifth grade students visited Jamestown, Yorktown, and Williamsburg in December 1997. They saw many types of colonial buildings.

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