01: Colonization

01: Colonization

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A New Life – Puritan and Indian Children
A New Life – Puritan and Indian Children
There were many instances of Indian children taken in by colonial families and raised in their lifestyle and vice versa. Yet, according to Ben Franklin, Indian children would often escape to go back live with their own people, yet colonial children would often stay with their new Indian families. More research would be needed to gauge the true extent of this phenomenon, but this is enough to share with students. Perhaps just the quote, would serve as a class intro activity.
#native americans#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#5th Grade Unit 2 - Colonization and Settlement
·futilitycloset.com·
A New Life – Puritan and Indian Children
Early America’s Jewish Settlers
Early America’s Jewish Settlers
Proving there's no end to discovery in history, this Gilder Lehrman article explores the settlement of the first Jewish people in North America. When students and teachers think they have studied every perspective and aspect of a period and place in history, more information and more specific people are found to build the breadth of complexity necessary to truly understand an era/
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#5th Grade Unit 2 - Colonization and Settlement
·gilderlehrman.org·
Early America’s Jewish Settlers
"For a Noble Man, a Prince": Images and Identity in Colonial America
"For a Noble Man, a Prince": Images and Identity in Colonial America

Images and objects from paintings to wallpaper and almanac prints to furniture served to shape their owners identities in British America before the revolution. This activity assists in deciphering the messages in visual images that convey social status and economic power in the late colonial period.

This is part of the "Lessons for Looking" project out of the City University of New York

#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#lesson plan#primary source
·picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu·
"For a Noble Man, a Prince": Images and Identity in Colonial America
Picturing Colonial America
Picturing Colonial America
This essay provides a brief chronological overview of the visual evidence available for teaching about the British colonies in North America. Mancall provides information on some of the first European images of America from the 1590s that were crucial for Britain’s colonizing mission, the depictions of the Pequot War, and the drawings that addressed the political crisis of the 1760s.
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#WS Unit 3: Empires & Encounters
·picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu·
Picturing Colonial America
Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center
Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center
A collection of primary resources-historical documents, literary texts,and works of art-thematically organized with notes and discussion questions from National Humanities Center from National Humanities Center
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#lesson plans#lesson plan#primary source
·nationalhumanitiescenter.org·
Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center
American Beginnings: 1492-1690, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center
American Beginnings: 1492-1690, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center
A collection of primary resources-historical documents, literary texts,and works of art-thematically organized with notes and discussion questions from National Humanities Center from National Humanities Center
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#lesson plans#lesson plan#primary source#WS Unit 3: Empires & Encounters
·nationalhumanitiescenter.org·
American Beginnings: 1492-1690, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center
The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem
The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem
From Davidson and Lylte's "After the Fact", this chapter explores a scientific explanation for the mass hysteria associated with the Salem Witch trials. What can explain the physical manifestation of witchcraft? - this chapter ties to explain.
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization
·bpi.edu·
The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem
Encyclopedia Virginia: An Act directing the trial of Slaves, committing capital crimes; and for the more effectual punishing conspiracies and insurrections of them; and for the better government of Negros, Mulattos, and Indians, bond or free
Encyclopedia Virginia: An Act directing the trial of Slaves, committing capital crimes; and for the more effectual punishing conspiracies and insurrections of them; and for the better government of Negros, Mulattos, and Indians, bond or free
Instead of giving students excerpts from a set of documents and asking them to analyze and interpret them, you could ask them to just comb through one giant document and find what they could find. This would be the document, and slavery in the colonies would be the topic. Here they'll find explicit punishments that include getting ears nailed for giving false testimony and death for conspiracy. Students will also see how difficult it is to free slaves under this 1723 law
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#slavery#primary source
·encyclopediavirginia.org·
Encyclopedia Virginia: An Act directing the trial of Slaves, committing capital crimes; and for the more effectual punishing conspiracies and insurrections of them; and for the better government of Negros, Mulattos, and Indians, bond or free
Hannah Duston Monumental Dilemma
Hannah Duston Monumental Dilemma
This blog entry presents a rather comprehensive account of the first woman in the United States to be memorialized by a statue. The account of the Native American attack on Hannah Duston, her abduction and her killing of nine of her abductors and their children is just the sort of story left out of most accounts of Colonial America
#native americans#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#WS Unit 3: Empires & Encounters
·99percentinvisible.org·
Hannah Duston Monumental Dilemma
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade.
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade.
20, 528 slave voyages are shown moving across this map, tracing each trip from Africa to North and South America. Notice when the volume of slaves is at its highest - notice also where more of them go. What's happening to all of the slaves going to Latin America? Why aren't more going to North America?
#slavery#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#5th Grade Unit 2 - Colonization and Settlement
·slate.com·
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade.
New Haven Colony bestiality trial: The twisted, Puritan origins of our modern justice system.
New Haven Colony bestiality trial: The twisted, Puritan origins of our modern justice system.
Teachers will have to judge carefully whether they share this story with high school students, but they themselves should know of it. The gap between what life was like in the colonies and the way the history of the colonies is taught is deep and wide, and with every story like this, it gets even wider.
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization
·slate.com·
New Haven Colony bestiality trial: The twisted, Puritan origins of our modern justice system.
1491 - The Atlantic
1491 - The Atlantic
It is absolutely essential that high school US history teachers read this article. Perhaps it can be edited down or excerpts from it can be read by students. Elementary teachers, who tell students quite a bit about Native Americans, should read this also. It's likely they'll never describe Native Americans before Colombus the same way again.
Indians were here far longer than previously thought, these researchers believe, and in much greater numbers. And they were so successful at imposing their will on the landscape that in 1492 Columbus set foot in a hemisphere thoroughly dominated by humankind.
<p> Half the 102 people on the <i>Mayflower </i>made it through to spring, which to me was amazing. How, I wondered, did they survive?</p><p>In his history of Plymouth Colony, Bradford provided the answer: by robbing Indian houses and graves.</p>
The Indians in Peru, Dobyns concluded, had faced plagues from the day the conquistadors showed up—in fact, before then: smallpox arrived around 1525, seven years ahead of the Spanish. Brought to Mexico apparently by a single sick Spaniard, it swept south and eliminated more than half the population of the Incan empire.
Before Columbus, Dobyns calculated, the Western Hemisphere held ninety to 112 million people. Another way of saying this is that in 1491 more people lived in the Americas than in Europe.
#native americans#5th Grade Unit 1 - Three Worlds Meet#US I Unit 1 - Colonization
·theatlantic.com·
1491 - The Atlantic
Why Christopher Columbus Was the Perfect Icon for a New Nation Looking for a Hero | History | Smithsonian
Why Christopher Columbus Was the Perfect Icon for a New Nation Looking for a Hero | History | Smithsonian
It is not enough to disassemble the Columbus myth, it is necessary to ask why it was created in the first place. This article suggests the source can be found in the need for the colonial US to establish independence outside of a English (John Cabot) story.
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#WS Unit 3: Empires & Encounters
·smithsonianmag.com·
Why Christopher Columbus Was the Perfect Icon for a New Nation Looking for a Hero | History | Smithsonian
Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
In 1641 in the colony US students are taught was founded on the basis of freedom of religion, made the worship of any other God punishable by death. The law that sentences a man to death for worshiping another God is in a document entitled the "Massachusetts Body of Liberities"
If any man after legal conviction shall have or worship any other god, but the Lord God, he shall be put to death.
If any man shall blaspheme the name of God, the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost, with direct, express, presumptuous, or high-handed blasphemy, or shall curse God in the like manner, he shall be put to death.
#5th Grade Unit 2 - Colonization and Settlement#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#primary source
·constitution.org·
Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
Native American slavery: Historians uncover a chilling chapter in U.S. history.
Native American slavery: Historians uncover a chilling chapter in U.S. history.
This article explains how recent scholarship has found a much closer connection between the history of Native Americans, African Americans and slavery than was ever thought before. Should the teaching of the Pequot War include mention of its unique role in evolution of slavery in North America? Students are often taught of the first recorded shipment first shipment of African slaves to Virginia. Why are they not taught about the first recorded law regarding slavery in Massachusetts in 1641?
#5th Grade Unit 2 - Colonization and Settlement#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#slavery#African Americans#native americans
·slate.com·
Native American slavery: Historians uncover a chilling chapter in U.S. history.
The Great Dying: New England’s Coastal Plague, 1616-1619 | CVLT Nation
The Great Dying: New England’s Coastal Plague, 1616-1619 | CVLT Nation
Although many students think of the pilgrims as settling in bucolic wilderness populated by some Indians, it might be more accurate to think of pilgrims settling in a ghost town that had just experienced a demographic disaster. Although this article is posted on a site that may (and should) trigger some validity concerns, the articles is stocked up with more than forty footnotes. Perhaps a paragraph or two could be shared with students, or at least the quotes - though this is of real value to teachers .
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#myth canon
·cvltnation.com·
The Great Dying: New England’s Coastal Plague, 1616-1619 | CVLT Nation
Alfred W. Crosby on the Columbian Exchange | History | Smithsonian
Alfred W. Crosby on the Columbian Exchange | History | Smithsonian
Countless students have drawn diagrams of the "Columbian Exchange", this is an interview with Alfred Crosby, the man who coined the term in 1972. That date should surprise teachers, environmental history of this sort, an area popularized recently by Jared Diamond, is a relatively recent phenomenon
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#WS Unit 3: Empires & Encounters
·smithsonianmag.com·
Alfred W. Crosby on the Columbian Exchange | History | Smithsonian
1491 - The Atlantic
1491 - The Atlantic
This immense article by Charles Mann, author of "1491", should be required reading for every teacher who ever stands up in front of a room of students and says anything about Native Americans. The native population was larger and more sophisticated before European contact than is commonly acknowledged.
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#WS Unit 3: Empires & Encounters
·theatlantic.com·
1491 - The Atlantic
Columbian Exchange - 1493 (Charles Mann) excerpts reading lesson
Columbian Exchange - 1493 (Charles Mann) excerpts reading lesson
There are three excerpts, each with close reading questions from the book 1493, by Charles Mann. The first excerpt is a general overview of the Exchange, in the second students will explore a specific example of unintended consequences of the Columbian Exchange, when settlers thought they were simply bringing in an enjoyable food, but they wound up with an invasive pest. Finally, in excerpt three you can see the devastating effects of the Columbian Exchange upon the Taino Indians, the residents of Hispaniola before Columbus arrived.
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#lesson plans#secondary sources#WS Unit 3: Empires & Encounters
·americainclass.org·
Columbian Exchange - 1493 (Charles Mann) excerpts reading lesson