The Thirteen English Colonies (1630 - 1750) - 7th Grade - The American Story

The New England Colonies

This edition of Mr. Zoller's Social Studies Podcasts focuses on England's thirteen original colonies in the new world. Specifically, this podcast discusses the New England Colonies: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. (14:35 min.)

Puritans vs. Pilgrims PowerPoint
PILGRIM AND PURITAN: A DELICATE DISTINCTION
An essay by Richard Howland Maxwell from Pilgrim Hall Museum.
About the Pilgrims
Explore the Pilgrim Story and Biographical Information, Wills, Inventories and Other 17th Century Documents (from Pilgrim Hall Museum).

The Puritans Leave England for Massachusetts

Problems in Massachusetts Bay

Puritans at War with Native Americans

Life in New England Towns and Villages

17th Century New England - Daily Life

The Southern Colonies

This edition of Mr. Zoller's Social Studies Podcasts focuses on England's thirteen original colonies in the new world. Specifically, this podcast discusses the Southern Colonies: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. (14:31 min.)

Life in the Colonies

Codman family papers
The Codman family papers reflect the personal, social, and professional lives of the Codman family of Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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Art work; correspondence; ephemera and objects; financial records; genealogical material; inventories; legal documents; medical records; military records; photographic material; printed material; school papers; scrapbooks; site plans; writings; etc.; reflecting the life and work of the Codman family of Lincoln, Massachusetts.
The Life of the Colonists

The Middle Colonies

This edition of Mr. Zoller's Social Studies Podcasts focuses on England's thirteen original colonies in the new world. Specifically, this podcast discusses the Middle Colonies: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. (11:21 min.)

Roots of Self Government

The Middle Passage

The Atlantic Slave Trade (Whitney Plantation)

The African-American Migration Experience
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds.
U. S. Slave Trade ( The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - NY Public Library)
Includes texts and images.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.

Edited clip of the Middle Passage from Steven Spielberg's 1997 historical drama; clip edited by a history teacher for use with his students. (Graphic) (3:33 min.)

Anti-slavery collection, 1725-1911
This UMass Amherst collection contains several hundred printed pamphlets and books pertaining to slavery and antislavery in New England, 1725-1911. The holdings include speeches, sermons, proceedings and other publications of organizations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society and the American Colonization Society, and a small number of pro-slavery tracts.
The Middle Passage
From PBS "Africans in America"

7th Grade - The American Story: The Thirteen English Colonies (1630 - 1750)

Chapter 4 The Thirteen English Colonies (1630 - 1750)