Category: Colonial Era Resources

Sep042012September 4, 2012October 11, 2012NoCommentby Matt Henchen

500 Nations Documentary

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500 Nations 500 Nations is an eight-part documentary on the Native Americans of North and Central America. It documents from pre-Columbian to the end of the 19th century. Much of the information comes from text, eyewitnesses, pictorials, and computer graphics. The series was hosted by Kevin Costner, narrated by Gregory Harrison, and directed by Jack…

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Sep042012September 4, 2012October 11, 2012NoCommentby Matt Henchen

Colonial Expansion

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Overview The Virginia Colony (1607) – The first permanent English colony The New England Colonies (1620) The ‘Other’ Colonies…

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Dec162011December 16, 2011October 11, 2012NoCommentby Matt Henchen

New England Colonies Lecture

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Video below……

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Dec142011December 14, 2011October 11, 2012NoCommentby Matt Henchen

The Silencing of Mary Dyer

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Learn more about Mary Dyer and Anne Hutchinson by clicking here to read the Teaching Tolerance article, “The Silencing of Mary Dyer“. See if you can answer the following quesitons: READING VOCABULARY–Use a dictionary to define the following words.  Keep in mind that the definition needs to make sense in the context of the reading….

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Dec132011December 13, 2011October 11, 2012NoCommentby Matt Henchen

The War That Made America

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“The War That Made America” brings to life a vastly important—but often misunderstood—period of American history, a period that set in motion forces that would culminate in the American Revolution. The dramatic documentary tells the story of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), which began in the wilderness of the Pennsylvania frontier and spread throughout…

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