Test your knowledge of the thirteen colonies with these interactive games. You'll find matching, concentration, flashcards, and a word search, along with a list of terms to refresh your memory.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an overview of the original 13 colonies, including information about the individual colonies, fun facts, an interactive quiz and maps.

This colorful map depicts the original thirteen colonies as well as the rest of the eastern part of America, showing the owners of the land at that time.

After studying the 13 original colonies young scholars will create their own colonies in cooperative groups. This will help students understand the difficulties the colonist had to endure in learning to work together. Young scholars will...

Play this interactive game to test your knowledge of the original thirteen colonies. Can you find them on a map?

This is a great timeline that shows what happens in America between 1520 and 1788 when all the colonies have become states. Lots of events are listed.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the composition of the thirteen original colonies and asks students to identify the colonies on a map.

Learn some quick facts about each of the original thirteen English colonies.

This brief, multiple choice quiz, is a great way to wrap up a unit on the thirteen colonies. Click "check answers" at the bottom to view questions you answered correctly.

The religious and civil conflict in England in the mid-17th century limited immigration, as well as the attention the mother country paid the fledgling American colonies. In part to provide for the defense measures England was...

After examining a map showing the expansion of the United States, click to read about each addition to the country and see where that addition is. Play Expansion Concentration to test your skills.

This website gives just a brief run-down of the founding of the 13 original colonies.

Primary source material from the conference that ended French control of Indochina. 13 points are listed.

Aimed at younger students learning about government, this section of the larger 'Congress for Kids' website focuses on Democracy. Links to related topics include democracy vs autocracy, 13 Colonies, Declaration of Independence, and...

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.

This is a very brief article detailing the votes cast in the First Continental Congress.

Find out about the original thirteen colonies of the United States, and then complete the word search activity.

A collection that uses primary sources to explore religion during the Colonial period of United States History.

This site provides an extensive look into the people and events surrounding the founding of the original 13 colonies in America.

This site provides an extensive look into the people and events surrounding the founding of the original 13 colonies in America.

This site provides an extensive look into the people and events surrounding the founding of the original 13 colonies in America.

This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the development of regions in the Thirteen Colonies.

After students have researched one of the thirteen original colonies, they will be asked to present a flyer encouraging others to come settle in their assigned colony. Oral presentations to the class must be accompanied by a written...

This site is provided for by the Library of Congress. Do you know when "the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English colony at Jamestown?" Do you know what the capital of the Confederacy was? Explore the history of Virginia...