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Ancestry

Immigrants: Indentured Servants

For Students 9th - 10th
This page gives information about the indentured servants brought from England to Colonial Virginia during the seventeenth century.
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Fales Library and Special Collections: Jacob Leisler Papers Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource chronicles the life and times of Jacob Leisler, "a political figure [who] played a major role in the North American world of European settlements in the seventeenth century," and leader of the Leisler's Rebellion.
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State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: Logging

For Students 9th - 10th
For more than four centuries, North Carolinians have benefited from the commercial use of the state's timber resources. As early as the seventeenth century, the Carolina colony's rich forests gave rise to a lucrative naval stores...
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Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: Take a Seat!

For Students 2nd - 5th
Take a virtual seat in the chairs that can be found in Aston Hall. The page includes a picture and description of these unique chairs.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Anglo India After Clive's Departure , 1760

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the eastern coast of India showing the Anglo-India (East India Company) possessions after Robert Clive's departure in 1760. The map is color-coded to show the extent of the British territories at the time, and shows the...
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut: Stanley Whitman House

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic seventeenth century New England saltbox.
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Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: History and Archaeology: Indigo

For Students 9th - 10th
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.