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Smart: Colonial Life

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Factors that shaped British Colonial America. Compare and contrast life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies.
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Digital History

Digital History: British Mercantilism and the Cost of Empire [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the theory of mercantilism and how it affected the economies of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. Practice making a bar graph showing the value of exports to and imports from England between 1700 and 1774 with...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Beginnings of Verse:1610 1808

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a brief background about the lack of poetry writing in the early literature of the Middle and Southern colonies.
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George Mason University

Chnm: Differences Among Colonial Regions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will explore the differences among the three colonial regions of New England, Mid-Atlantic/Middle, and the Southern colonies. In small groups for each region, students will observe and note details of pictures, maps, and...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Thirteen Colonies

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students will drag the name of each colony onto the map. Then drag the color coded stars to the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies. Lastly, they will drag the important events to the colony in which it happened.
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Organization for Community Networks

Academy Curricular Exchange: Original Thirteen Colonies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan for helping students remember the names of the the original thirteen American colonies.
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Other

Hillcrest: England and Its Colonies [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
A textbook chapter about England and its relationship to its American colonies. Included are maps and map questions, study help, and assessments.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Architecture of New England,southern Colonies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Describes the chronology of architectural design in New England and the South and what the architecture revealed about class building techniques. Includes ideas for lesson activities.
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Digital History

Digital History: Regional Contrasts

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the populations of the New England colonies as compared to the Southern colonies in the 1600s. See how the numbers of Native Americans decreased dramatically particularly in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: William Byrd (1674 1744)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short essay about William Byrd from the colonial period of American history who detailed life in the Southern colonies.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Colonial Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
Whatever early colonial prosperity there was resulted from trapping and trading in furs. In addition, the fishing industry was a primary source of wealth in Massachusetts. But throughout the colonies, people relied primarily on small...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Colonization

For Students 9th - 10th
For a variety of reasons, those who came to settle the early colonies sought a new homeland. Puritans, for example, established several settlements in Massachusetts. These English colonists were a pious, self-disciplined people who...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Thirteen Colonies

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart includes information and maps of the original thirteen colonies and describes the characteristics of the three regions involved-- Northeast, Middle and Southern. Questions to check for...
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Travel in the 18th Century

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site has a lesson plan that contrasts the methods of travel during Colonial Times, with those of today.
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Archaeological Institute of America

The Americas First Colony?

For Students 9th - 10th
Skeletal remains of a juvenile with jade ax blades suggests a possible Olmec colony in Southern Mexico.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Colonial Period

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief discussion of the colonial period in the United States. Includes information on New England, the middle colonies, and the southern colonies. Also, find out about the early government, and the French and Indian War.
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Other

America Dept. Of State: Outline of American Literature [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online book presents an overview of American literature chronologically. Eras and movements are explained and biographies of significant authors are provided. This is a good way to understand the background and influences of...
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Library of Virginia

Library of Virginia: Taxes in Colonial Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
Explanation of the various taxes paid by Virginia colonists, something that historians and researchers need to understand.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The British Move South

For Students 9th - 10th
With the French now involved, the British stepped up their efforts in the southern colonies since they felt that most Southerners were Loyalists. A campaign began in late 1778, with the capture of Savannah, Georgia. Shortly thereafter,...
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Curated OER

Etc: Chief Greek Colonies in Southern Italy, 734 710 Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
The Grecian colonies in southern Italy began to be planted at nearly the same time as in Sicily.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Post Wwi Central and Southern Africa, 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of central and southern Africa in 1920 showing colonial possessions of the British, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Belgians, including the former German colonies, lost after WWI, to French and British control per the...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Post Wwi Central and Southern Africa, 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of central and southern Africa in 1920 showing colonial possessions of the British, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Belgians, including the former German colonies, lost after WWI, to French and British control per the...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: British Colonies After the French and Indian War, 1764

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the eastern portion of North America showing the British, Spanish, and Indian territories after the French and Indian War (1754-1763), with the proclamation line as established by the Treaty of Paris (1763). "The newly acquired...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: English Iii, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Three seventeenth-century buildings, two portraits, and three original accounts from Virginia and the Carolinas about the qualities and conditions of life in these southern English colonies that led to success and growth.

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