[Free Registration/Login Required] Advanced placement U.S. History learning module on the emerging colonial and native societies between 1607-1754. Resources for students include video, essays, timeline and primary source documents.

Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in American history from pre-European times until post-World War II.

A quick, five question quiz over the Columbian Exchange, Spanish conquest, and the Spanish Colonial system.

The Spanish gained an early foothold in the colonies, quickly becoming the most powerful European power in the New World.

European arrival in the Americas decimated both indigenous people and previously-flourishing ecosystems.

The beginning of the Atlantic slave trade uprooted previously established societal norms in West Africa.

Two hundred years' worth of American history all in one house. Learn what a close examination of a single-family dwelling can tell us about what life was like during five different periods of American history: the colonial era, the...

Browse U.S. historical documents according to historical period or search documents via search engine.W.11-12.9b US Doc Analysis

A self-evaluation using primary sources assesses labor, slavery, and caste in the Spanish colonial system.

Using primary sources, a self-assessment of Colonial Society and Culture (1607-1754).

An overview of the development of the eighteenth century Atlantic economy allowing American colonists access to British goods leading to a consumer revolution and made printed materials available (novels, magazines, pamphlets).

A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines the rules by which the Continental Congress governed colonial America. Learners will identify people who held positions of leadership...

An overview of how the Age of Enlightenment influenced the American colonies in thought, Benjamin Franklin, and the colony of Georgia.

An overview of the Great Awakening and how the Protestant Revivalism effected England and the American colonies during the eighteenth century.

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...

An overview of the American colonists response to the Intolerable Acts and how it began to unify the colonists.

An overview of the American colonist reaction to the Stamp Act.

An overview of the Townshend Acts and Committees of Correspondence during American colonial times.

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...

Plimoth Plantation brings us "Living, breathing history," and lots of fun delving into various aspects like the Wampanoag, the English Colonists, the colony itself, and, of course, Thanksgiving - myth and reality. This is a site with...