Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Us History: The American Revolution
US History learning module on the American Revolution with interactive assignments, projects, and assessment.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Ap Us History Study Guide, Period Two: 1607 1754
[Free Registration/Login Required] Advanced placement U.S. History learning module on the emerging colonial and native societies between 1607-1754. Resources for students include video, essays, timeline and primary source documents.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1491 1607: Environmental/health Effects in New World
European arrival in the Americas decimated both indigenous people and previously-flourishing ecosystems.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Within These Walls
Two hundred years' worth of American history all in one house. Learn what a close examination of a single-family dwelling can tell us about what life was like during five different periods of American history: the colonial era, the...
University of Groningen
American History: Documents: Documents
Browse U.S. historical documents according to historical period or search documents via search engine.W.11-12.9b US Doc Analysis
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Colonial Society and Culture 1607 1754
Using primary sources, a self-assessment of Colonial Society and Culture (1607-1754).
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Colonial Society and Culture the Consumer Revolution
An overview of the development of the eighteenth century Atlantic economy allowing American colonists access to British goods leading to a consumer revolution and made printed materials available (novels, magazines, pamphlets).
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 1 2
Week 1: Why study immigration? What does the study of immigration reveal about U.S. history and which stories we tell about ourselves as a people? Week 2: Settlers, Servants, and Slaves in British, French, and Spanish Colonial America:...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Revolution: Continental Congress [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines the rules by which the Continental Congress governed colonial America. Learners will identify people who held positions of leadership...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Colonial Society and Culture the Enlightenment
An overview of how the Age of Enlightenment influenced the American colonies in thought, Benjamin Franklin, and the colony of Georgia.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Colonial Society and Culture the Great Awakening
An overview of the Great Awakening and how the Protestant Revivalism effected England and the American colonies during the eighteenth century.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Making Rules
Follow the incremental process that the colonial leaders took over a ten-year period of time making new rules that would finally result in independence from Great Britain. See how many of them really didn't plan on independence, but that...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress
An overview of the American colonists response to the Intolerable Acts and how it began to unify the colonists.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Taxation Without Representation Uproar Over the Stamp Act
An overview of the American colonist reaction to the Stamp Act.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Townshend Acts and Committees of Correspondence
An overview of the Townshend Acts and Committees of Correspondence during American colonial times.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Transatlantic Trade
An overview of the Transatlantic Trade whereby Europe, Africa, and the America's engaged in a network of people, raw materials, finished goods, merchants, and sailors bringing wealth to colonial empires. The consequences of the...
Other
Plimouth Plantation
Plimoth Plantation brings us "Living, breathing history," and lots of fun delving into various aspects like the Wampanoag, the English Colonists, the colony itself, and, of course, Thanksgiving - myth and reality. This is a site with...