01: Colonization

01: Colonization

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1641: Massachusetts Body of Liberties | Online Library of Liberty
1641: Massachusetts Body of Liberties | Online Library of Liberty
The colony of Massachusetts invited immigrants fleeing persecution and insisted on the rule of law - 130 years before the Revolution. And - there was a death penalty for worshiping any other god, but the lord god.
1641: Massachusetts Body of Liberties | Online Library of Liberty
Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal
Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal

The oatmeal beats Columbus like a rented mule in this article/presentation. Although sans citation, this isn't sourced, but nonetheless in the aggregate, mostly accurate. What is truly remarkable is that there are countless elementary school classrooms in which students are sitting right now, as you read this, still learning the Columbus myth. Still.

Easy discussion prompt for worthwhile discussion from middle school on up - How does a myth survive?

Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal
American Journeys | Lesson Plans
American Journeys | Lesson Plans
Viking exploration and French/English religious nature of colonization of North America from the Wisconsin Historical Society
American Journeys | Lesson Plans
Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life - Lesson
Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life - Lesson

Lesson Plans - For Teachers (Library of Congress) European settlement patterns were influenced by geographic conditions such as access to water, harbors, natural protection, arable land, natural resources and adequate growing season and rainfall. Examine a variety of primary sources to determine why colonists were drawn to a particular region of the country.

Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life - Lesson
Inclusion and exclusion in two historic Thanksgiving cartoons
Inclusion and exclusion in two historic Thanksgiving cartoons
Every history teacher should read this short article about different representations of the Thanksgiving Holiday. It describes how Thanksgiving is a reminder that questions of inclusion and exclusion are constantly asked and answered in American history, including (perhaps especially) during holidays. From the National Museum of American History
Inclusion and exclusion in two historic Thanksgiving cartoons
Historic Trades - Williamsburg Videos
Historic Trades - Williamsburg Videos
At a half hour each, there is more material here than could be fit into one lesson - but perhaps students could be tasked with watching just one, then reporting to the class what it would be like to be that person
Historic Trades - Williamsburg Videos
Colonial Unit - Montgomery Schools Maryland
Colonial Unit - Montgomery Schools Maryland
5th grade curricular document can help Social Studies teacher approach the American Revolution with a focus on political change both within and outside the system. Useful graphic could be applied to this as well as other eras
Colonial Unit - Montgomery Schools Maryland
American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins | EDSITEment
American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins | EDSITEment
Students will become historical detectives and learn to gather information from artifacts and make inferences about the lives and times they represent. They will then use what they have learned to write historical fiction in the form of friendly letters between fictitious cousins in Massachusetts and Delaware.
American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins | EDSITEment
All About Explorers
All About Explorers
Show this site to students and see how long it take them to figure it out
All About Explorers
Colonel William Byrd on Slavery and Indented Se...
Colonel William Byrd on Slavery and Indented Se...
In this 1739 from a aristocratic slave owner to a Trustee of the colony of Georgia, teachers and students can look into the complexity of slavery in the 1730s. How can a plantation owner who profits from slavery complain about the system and wish that Britain would end slavery in the colonies? How can a slaveowner express such disgust for slave traders (who, he claims, would paint their wives and children's faces black if they could get away with selling them)? If you look close enough, you can see his prediction of John Brown's dream of a slave insurrection in the mountains.
Colonel William Byrd on Slavery and Indented Se...
American Indians in Children's Literature - Columbus Lesson
American Indians in Children's Literature - Columbus Lesson
Lesson plan that has students looking through several books on Columbus and comparing them. This is a solution to 3rd grade teachers trying to determine what to do with Columbus
American Indians in Children's Literature - Columbus Lesson
New York Slavery Records Index – Records of Enslaved Persons and Slave Holders in New York from 1525 though the Civil War
New York Slavery Records Index – Records of Enslaved Persons and Slave Holders in New York from 1525 though the Civil War
Search more than 35,000 records of slavery within the State of New York from 1525 through the Civil War. The data come from census records, slave trade transactions, cemetery records, birth certifications, manumissions, ship inventories, newspaper accounts, private narratives, legal documents and many other sources
New York Slavery Records Index – Records of Enslaved Persons and Slave Holders in New York from 1525 though the Civil War
Trans-Atlantic - Slave Ship in 3D Video
Trans-Atlantic - Slave Ship in 3D Video
4 minute narrated video describes in detail the design of an 18th century slave ship. The tour of the trip describes how the slave ship was built for the sole purpose of transporting enslaved Africans. The animation and description is based on a specific French boat.
Trans-Atlantic - Slave Ship in 3D Video
Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving
Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving
This academically rigorous article may be beyond even the highest functioning AP US History students. But all teachers will find this article aiming a question directly at their curriculum - Do you teach a myth as a cultural affirmation? The essay argues that "traveling home to turkey and all the trimmings was "invented", not in 17th century Massachusetts, but in 19th century Philadelphia in the pages of the nation's most widely circulated magazines and in respond to the changing American scene. Two hundred years after the Pilgrims' quit commemorations, Thanksgiving developed a uniform national profile, impelled by its promoters ideas about republican identity, ideas diffused by a publishing industry with increasingly national reach"
Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving
Fugitive Slaves laws (1619-1865) - Marion Gleason
Fugitive Slaves laws (1619-1865) - Marion Gleason
This is a compendium of colonial, state and federal fugitive slave laws. Available for research, or quick skimming to reveal the nature of slavery this resource shows how quickly runaway slave laws came to the colonies right after the Pilgrims. It also shows the overlapping of indentured servant law and slave law and how the system of slavery evolved over 250 years
Fugitive Slaves laws (1619-1865) - Marion Gleason