Khan Academy
Tea, Taxes, and the American Revolution
Rather than simply summarizing the events that led to the American Revolution, have your learners listen as John Green offers some interesting points to be used as discussion or writing prompts in your review of the war. Green details...
C-SPAN
On This Day: Mayflower Compact
Learners consider how the Mayflower Compact created a sense of order for the new residents of North America. Video clips include a scholar and a re-enactor playing Plymouth Gov. William Bradford, and others include Native American...
Crash Course
North America Gets a Theater...Riot: Crash Course Theater #29
Welcome to America! A very entertaining video teaches pupils the history of drama and how it made its way to America. It discusses those that were not pleased with the appearance of theater in the New World and even tells the tale of a...
Crash Course
The Seven Years War
Colonial America brought two nations to war: the British and the French. Scholars research just what caused this conflict to take place, while looking into the long-term ramifications in the American colonies, with an informative and...
Crash Course
The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange completely changed the way the world traded goods with one another. Scholars watch a video to get a close look at the positives and negatives of the Columbian Exchange—and how the world would never be the same.
Bill of Rights Institute
Mercantilism and The Colonial American Economy
The invisible hand of trade. Viewers use the AP review video to learn the impact of mercantilism on the American Colonies. They examine the question of taxation without representation as the colonists get more and more upset with...
Crash Course
When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America
Discover the first attempts made to colonize and establish the first permanent English colonies in the North American region, from Sir Walter Raleigh's colony at Roanoke and settlement at Jamestown, Virginia to colonies in Maryland and...
Curated OER
World History of Colonial America 1497 - 1763
A fast-paced history of the colonization of North America takes viewers through almost 300 years of world history in just over six minutes! The major explorations, first settlements, and claims of land made by a variety of countries are...
TED-Ed
The Story Behind the Boston Tea Party
The event in American history now known as the Boston Tea Party was really anything but a party. Discover how the tax on tea in pre-revolutionary America was seen by colonists as an infringement on their rights and livelihoods, and how...
National Cable Satellite Corporation
C Span: Writings of William Bradford
An extensive video biography about writer William Bradford. Includes general information about Bradford's life, works, and writings, including the Mayflower Compact. Also includes links to other Bradford sites. [02:37:59]
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 30 1776
Today, we'll visit colonial America. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
Other
Preservation Virgina: Captain John Smith
This resource provides a biography about Captain John Smith, an important historical figure in the settlement of America. The site also includes a portrait. Includes video (2 minutes, 57 seconds). Requires Adobe Flash.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Colonial America
American colonial life existed just shy of 180 years before the United States of America emerged as a nation independent of British rule. These formative years are reflected in the FREE videos below.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: European and American Differences Pt. 1: Land of Opportunity
What were some of the important differences between eighteenth-century Europe and America? Find out on today's podcast.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: European and American Differences Pt. 2: No Rigid Class System
In colonial America, equality was very important, and laws made it easier to own land than in Europe.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: European and American Differences Pt. 3: Equality, Opportunity
America was a land where a person could rise from the least advantaged circumstances to the highest levels of society.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics:european and American Differences Pt. 4:life, Liberty, Property
Property was important in colonial America: If you didn't own any, you couldn't vote.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: American Colonies
On the podcast today, we begin our discussion of how basic ideas of constitutional government were developed and used in the American colonies.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Colonial Prosperity
On today's episode, we discuss how some colonial Americans achieved prosperity in the New World.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: We the People Les. 1 Pt. 1: Why Study the British Colonies?
Today, 60-Second Civics begins our exploration of the colonies of British North America.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: We the People Les. 1 Pt. 3:where Did British Colonists Settle?
Today we learn about the impressive size of the American colonies.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Factions in Colonial America
A look at the role of factional politics in early American political life.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Colonial Factionalism Based on Religious Prejudice
Factional politics based on religious prejudices played a role in early American political life.