Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Who Am I? (Portrait Puzzler)
Match the portraits of eight famous Americans who played major roles in the American Revolution with their famous deeds. A short exercise that can be used by individual learners to test their understanding of basic U.S. history content...
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...
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:...
The History Place
The History Place: The Past Into the Future: Main Exhibits
Informative website focussing on American history from the Colonial period to present-day. Many on-line exhibits include timelines, photographs and famous quotes.
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.
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: 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...