• The World Before 1600
• First Americans & Early Native American Culture in North America
• Colonization of the Americas
• European Colonies in America (Includes Roanoke & Jamestown)
• Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade

• Colonization of New England
• Colonization of the Middle & Southern Colonies
• Life in Colonial America
• Salem Witch Hysteria & Trials Pictorial
• The French & Indian War

• European Colonization of the Americas (Primary Documents, Charts, & Graphs)
• The Peopling of America (Primary Documents, Charts, & Graphs)
• Origins of Slavery in America (Primary Documents, Charts, & Graphs)
• Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
• Salem Witch Trials Primary Source Documents
• Bacon's Rebellion Primary Source Documents (DBQ)
• French & Indian War Primary & Secondary Sources
• Excerpts from the Proclamation of 1763 with Background
• Excerpts from the Treaty of Paris (1763)

• European Explorers Reading
• First Americans: Native American Culture Before 1400
• Salem Witch Trials Background
• Rye Ergot & Witches (article)
• Colonial America Activity (Map, Chart, & Questions)
• Life in the New England Colonies
• Life in the Middle Colonies
• Life in the Southern Colonies
• Albany Congress
• Colonial Wars for Empire (Reading & Comparison Chart)
• Background of the French & Indian War
• Pontiacs Rebellion
• Paxton Boys
• Colonial Maps (1750 & 1763)

Exploration, Discovery and Settlement:

1492-1700

Thirteen Colonies and the British Empire:      1607-1750

Colonial Society in the Eighteenth Century

• Native Americans: Land bridge, Sioux, Pawnee, Pueblo, Iroquois, Maya, Inca, Aztecs

• Ferdinand and Isabella

• Henry the Navigator

• Christopher Columbus

• New World

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Conquistadores

• Asiento system

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier

• Samuel de Champlain

• Henry Hudson

• Joint-stock company

• Father Junipero Serra

• Virginia Company

• Jamestown

• Capitan John Smith

• John Rolfe

• Pocahontas

• Royal colony

• Puritans

• Plymouth colony

• Separatists

• Pilgrims

• Mayflower / Mayflower Compact

• John Winthrop

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Corporate colonies

• Proprietary colonies

• Chesapeake colonies

• George Calvert

• Lord Baltimore

• Act of Toleration (1649)

• Bacon’s Rebellion

• Indentured servant

• Headright system

• Slavery

• Roger Williams

• Providence

• Anne Hutchinson

• Antinomianism

• Rhode Island

• Thomas Hooker

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)

• John Davenport

• Connecticut

• New Hampshire

• Halfway covenant

• New England Confederation

• Wampanoags

• Metacom’s (King Philip’s) War

• Restoration colonies

• The Carolinas

• Rice plantations

• Tobacco farms

• New York

• New Jersey

• Pennsylvania

• Quakers

• William Penn

• Holy experiment

• Frame of Government (1682-1683)

• Charter of Liberties (1701)

• Delaware

• Georgia

• James Oglethorpe

• Mercantilism

• Navigation Acts

• Triangular trade

• Slave trade

• Middle Passage

• Immigrants

• Self-government

• Religious toleration

• Hereditary aristocracy

• Social mobility

• Colonial families

• Subsistence farming

• Established Church

• Great Awakening

• Jonathan Edwards

• George Whitefield

• Georgian style

• John Copley

• Cotton Mather

• Benjamin Franklin

• Poor Richard’s Almanac

• Phillis Wheatley

• John Bartram

• Sectarian / Non Sectarian

• Professions: Religion, medicine, law

• John Peter Zenger – Libel Case

• Andrew Hamilton

• Colonial governors

• Colonial legislatures

• Town meetings

• County government

• Limited democracy