A profile of the migration and settlement of Ukrainian settlers in Alberta. Links to more specific topics are included as are a series of audio clips!

This resource provides a brief overview of how many settlers in the colonies were indentured servants and how the system of indentured servitude tied to slavery.

Read about the Dutch colonization of the Hudson River Valley in this comprehensive essay about the Dutch in America. Pages 3-7 deal with the Dutch colonies.

This site from the National Parks Service gives a brief history, and description of the California trail system which was used by settlers moving to California during the 1849 Gold Rush days.

Review this discourse of the many treaties enacted between the settlers and Native Americans during the development of the Great Plains, the problems that arose, and the creation of reservations.

A brief overview of the immigration and settlement of German settlers in Alberta. Audio clips are included as well.

How did the new government deal the Native Americans living in the Northwest Territory? Find out what the government did to keep the peace between the original inhabitants and the new settlers.

The immigration and settlement of early Manitobais profiled. The government's policy, treaties, the waves of incoming settlers, and the role played by women are each reviewed in detailed.

An excellent resource on the Lower Chinook Tribe and the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes. It covers their modern and historical culture, as well as their relationship with the United States during the days of European settlers. This...

Provides a detailed history of New Netherland. Looks at why it was founded, where settlers came from, how they reached there, why they came, their homes, occupations, possessions, diet, childhood, school, play, and what eventually...

The Dutch East India Company established a colony at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 and administered it until 1795 when it fell into British hands. The British returned Cape Colony to the Company for a three-year period before finally...

Analyzes the role slavery played in the history and economy of the British Empire, explains the effects of the 1739 Stono Rebellion and the 1741 New York Conspiracy Trials, and describes the consumer revolution and its effect on the life...

This document presents important questions about the Jamestown settlement, along with detailed answers. Topics include the Native American Powhatan Indians and their interactions with the settlers, the purpose of creating the settlement...

Part of an online exhibit on the westward migration of African-Americans, this lesson plan looks at those with agricultural backgrounds who moved west following the Civil War and availed themselves of the opportunity to homestead....

Learn about the writings of Oklahoma historian Angie Debo and her work as a civil rights activist,

This extensive learning module examines how the United States' efforts to increase foreign trade, add new territory, and isolate itself from Europe affected its foreign policy and other initiatives. It investigates how advances in...

The earliest waves of settlers to the Americas, up through the first half of the 19th century, constitute the era of 'old' immigration. There are some distinctions between those settlers who came prior to the Revolutionary War and those...

It was the most famous road trip and the most important victory in Tennessee history. During the American Revolution, a British commander named Patrick Ferguson led an army through South Carolina. Along the way, he sent a threatening...

This chapter covers a time in Texas history during the mid-nineteenth century when Mexico offered land grants to American settlers, but conflict developed over religion and other cultural differences.

Learn what it was like to live as a settler in the Thirteen Colonies through this page with accessible text and multi-media features.

Describes the struggles that pioneer settlers who established farms on the Plains faced. Without trees, they had to build homes using sod and cow dung. Temperatures were extreme and farms were isolated, making life lonely.

Written in 1784, this piece by Benjamin Franklin, considers the relative meaning of civilization and manners while he recalls several anecdotes of interaction between the European settlers and the Natives of North America.

Tells the story of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World. She was the granddaughter of John White, Governor of the colony established on Roanoke Island in 1587. While White was on a trip to England to replenish the...

This is the full text of the novel The Free Rangers by Joseph A. Altsheler, the story of five young "trailers" and "forest rangers," helping the settlers against the Indians and the Spaniards.