Mrs. Hallbach
Team 8A

Colonial Life in America

 Research your topic using at least three resources.  They can be printed and Internet resources.  Determine what you want to say about your topic.

 Select three images that best support your ideas.

 Use them in an 11 x 17 inch poster.  The poster must include your information on a 5x8 inch index card, and at least 3 pictures.  The pictures must be in color.   You may draw, copy or trace pictures.  I prefer book pictures if you copy, but you may use pictures from the Internet.

 Develop a brief, interesting, oral presentation for the class about your topic using the poster to support your presentation.  Identify your main idea and support it with the poster and what you say.  Each student will make a small presentation to the class.

 To get extra credit, show Mrs. Hallbach where you have found the information.

Below are some links to Web sites that you may find useful.

Colonial Life in America

General Colonial Sites

A-Z History:  Colonial Life in America
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozhistory/c/124100.html

The American 13 Colonies
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~jonnaro/colonies/

America's Story from America's Library:  Colonial America
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/1492-1763

Colonial America 1600-1775:  K12 Resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm

Colonial Kids
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/

Children in Colonial Times
http://www.nps.gov/fofr/col_kids.htm

American Life:  A Comparison of Colonial Life to Today’s Life
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1990/5/90.05.04.x.html

Colonial Families
http://63.111.53.150/Almanack/life/family/famhdr2.htm

 New England Colonies
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_NE_Colonies.html

 Southern Colonies
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_S_Colonies.html

  13 Originals:  Founding of the American Colonies
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html  

Quaboag Regional Middle-High School
Virtual Classroom:  U.S. History:  Settlements and Colonies:  Settlements, Colonies, and the Emerging American Identity
http://quaboag.k12.ma.us/library/virtual/settle.html

Colonial America:  Photos and Images
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Colonial.html#Photos

Discovery, Exploration, Colonies,& Revolution
http://www.teacheroz.com/colonies.htm

 Famous Personalities of Colonial Times

General

Gallery of Early American Portraits
http://www.earlyamerica.com/portraits/

ICONN
Click on "from school"
Click on Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrations
Check Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrations Database
Search under the name of the person
http://www.iconn.org

Learning Network:  Encyclopedia
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia.html

Benjamin Franklin
http://earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/index.html

 Benjamin Franklin:  A Documentary History
http://www.english.udel.edu/lemay/franklin/

 Benjamin Franklin:  Glimpses of the Man
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html

 Benjamin Franklin:  Founding Father
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/notables/bf.html

John Cotton
http://members.tripod.com/clipclop/CD/cotton/john2.html

John Cotton
www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE012954.html

The New England Clergy:  THOMAS HOOKER, THOMAS SHEPARD, JOHN COTTON, NATHANIEL WARD, ROGER WILLIAMS, JOHN ELIOT, THE MATHERS
http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/270/1820/21946/1/frameset.html  

Thomas Hooker
http://members.aol.com/intoutreach/biog.html

The New England Clergy:  THOMAS HOOKER, THOMAS SHEPARD, JOHN COTTON, NATHANIEL WARD, ROGER WILLIAMS, JOHN ELIOT, THE MATHERS
http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/270/1820/21946/1/frameset.html  

Anne Hutchinson
http://cpcug.org/user/billb/hutch.html

The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kids/civilrights/features_hutchison.html

 Anne Hutchinson
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0824642.html

 This Day in History:  July 20
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul20.html#hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/hutchinson.html  

 The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton. 1637
http://www.universitylake.org/history/hutchinson.html  

William Penn
http://www.quaker.org/wmpenn.html  

John Smith
Today in History:  September 10, 1608
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep10.html

Roger Williams
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/williamr.html

 Roger Williams
http://worldpolicy.org/americas/religion/williams.html

 Today in History:  February 5, 1631
Roger Williams
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb05.html  

The New England Clergy:  THOMAS HOOKER, THOMAS SHEPARD, JOHN COTTON, NATHANIEL WARD, ROGER WILLIAMS, JOHN ELIOT, THE MATHERS
http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/270/1820/21946/1/frameset.html  

Gov. John Winthrop (Massachusetts Bay Colony)
http://www.johnwinthrop.com/

Gov. John Winthrop
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0852497.html

Gov. John Winthrop
http://www.wwnorton.com/naal/explore/winthrop.htm

Portrait
http://www.steelpenny.net/milam/frontpg/winthrop.htm

A Model of Christian Charity
http://www.winthropsociety.org/charity.htm

 Winthrop's Journal
http://www.winthropsociety.org/journal1.htm

 John Winthrop, Reasons for Emigrating to New England (1631)
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/15-win.html

On Liberty
http://www.constitution.org/bcp/winthlib.htm

A Symposium on Spiritual Leaders:  John Winthrop
http://dylee.keel.econ.ship.edu/ubf/leaders/winthrop.htm

"John Winthrop" by Michelle Anderson
http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/Phil%26Rel/JE/WinthropJ/AndersonM.html

"The Life of a Model Christian" by Sarah Swafford
http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/Phil%26Rel/JE/WinthropJ/SwaffordS.html

"John Winthrop, First Governor Of Massachusetts" by Cindy Thomas
http://www.americancolonialhistory.com/article1012.html  

Games and Recreation in Colonial Times

Amusements of Colonial New England
http://www.ctstateu.edu/noahweb/amusements.html  

An American Time Capsule:  Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Emphemera
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html

Colonial Sports
http://www.earlyamerica.com/towncrier/messages2/200102000438.html

Colonial Music Institute Resources
http://www.colonialmusic.org/Resource/Resources.htm

Toys and Games:  Artifacts from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
http://www.history.org/history/argy/kids/argykid6.htm

La Royal:  Cotillion dance for four couples in a square formation
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/laroyale.htm

 The Virginia Reel
http://homepages.apci.net/~drdeyne/dances/vareel.htm

 Nine Men’s Morris Game
http://www.plimoth.org/Education/ninemens.htm

  17^th Century Riddles
http://www.plimoth.org/Education/riddles.htm

  Roanoke

  Roanoke
http://www.arch.dcr.state.nc.us/1stcolo.htm

 The Lost Colony of Roanoke
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3826/intro.html

 How do You Loose a Colony?  [The Lost Colony of Roanoke]
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002559/

 Roanoke
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Roanoke.html

 Jamestown

Jamestown:  Bacon’s Rebellion
http://www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/BacRebel.html

 Jamestown
http://www.williamsburg.com/wol/tour/james/james.html

 History of Jamestown
http://www.widomaker.com/~apva/history/index.html

 Jamestowne
http://www.jamestowne.org/index.html

 Jamestown Society:  clothing
http://www.jamestowne.org/Fashion.htm

 Jamestown
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Jamestown.html

Today in History:  Jamestown
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?amtoday:16:./temp/~ammem_G4vd:: 

Virtual Jamestown
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/page2.html

The Pilgrims

Thanksgiving
http://www.2020tech.com/thanks/temp.html

First Thanksgiving Dinner
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Thanksgiving/afirst.htm

Fun Facts about Pilgrim Children
http://www.plimoth.org/Education/funfacts.htm

History of the Mayflower
http://members.aol.com/calebj/ship.html

Pilgrim Clothing:  Dress in Early America
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/costume.htm

  Pilgrim Clothing
http://members.aol.com/calebj/clothing.html

 Plymouth
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Plymouth.html  

Plymouth Colony History
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/library.htm#plycol

A Virtual Tour of Plymouth Plantation
http://pilgrims.net/plymouth/

Southern Plantations

Plantations
http://www.williamsburg.com/wol/tour/plant/plant.html

James River Plantations:  Shirley
http://www.jamesriverplantations.org/Shirley.html

Southern Colonies
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_S_Colonies.html

Southern Colonies
 http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~jonnaro/colonies/southcolo.htm

Colonial Clothing
http://63.111.53.150/Almanack/life/clothing/home.html

 Pilgrim Clothing
http://members.aol.com/calebj/clothing.html

Pilgrim Clothing:  Dress in Early America
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/costume.htm

 Jamestown Society:  clothing
http://www.jamestowne.org/Fashion.htm

 Visual Dictionary of Early American Clothing
http://web.bryant.edu/~history/h364proj/sprg_98/powderly/powd_menu.htm

 Millers’ clothing
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/millrestoration/clothing.html

Colonial Food

 Feeding the Colonial Family
http://www.cowboykisses.com/articles/colonial1.html

 Selected Recipes from Colonial Williamsburg
http://63.111.53.150/Almanack/life/food/foodhdr.htm  

A 17^th Century Harvest Feast
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Thanksgiving/17feast.htm

Medicine and Health in Colonial Times

Liberty:  The Chronicle of the Revolution:  Medicine
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/medicine.html

 Colonial Diseases
http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/colonial_life/colonial_diseases.htm

Occupations, Craftsmen and Trades in the Colonies

 Apothecary
http://63.111.53.150/Almanack/life/trades/tradeapo.htm

 Blacksmith
http://63.111.53.150/Almanack/life/trades/tradebla.htm

 Cooper
http://63.111.53.150/Almanack/life/trades/tradecoo.htm

 Milling

Miller
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/millrestoration/site.html

Millers’ clothing
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/millrestoration/clothing.html

Windmill, cooper, and Rural trades
http://www.history.org/search/index.asp?src=

The History of  Flour Milling in Early America
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/millrestoration/history.html

A History of  Historic Yates Mill, North Carolina
http://www.co.wake.nc.us/parksrec/website.nsf/1d063a21be7edec48525685e00809baa/c5f9e420010117bd8525699100702879!OpenDocument

 Shoemaker
http://63.111.53.150/Almanack/life/trades/tradesho.htm

 Silversmith
http://63.111.53.150/Almanack/life/trades/tradesil.htm  

Woodworking in Colonial America
http://www.replitiques.com/history.html#woodworking

New Amsterdam
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/6497/newnether.html

 A Brief Outline of Dutch History and the Province of  New Netherland
http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/Netherlands.html

 The United States of America and the Netherlands
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/newnetherlands/nl3.htm

 Mantus Map
http://www.nnp.org/documents/manatus.html

 The Orthodox Union Story
http://www.ou.org/orthodoxunion/unionstory/chapter1.htm

 Early Maps of Long Island:  1635 Dutch Map of Long Island
http://www.lihistory.com/2/hsmapmar.htm

 Half Moon History (Henry Hudson’s ship)
http://www.newnetherland.org/history.htm

 Peter Minuit
http://www.nyc.com/goexsite.asp?url=http://www.molsk.com/dar/minuit.html

 1639 Make of  Manhattan by Johannes Vingboons
http://www.nyc.com/goexsite.asp?url=http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm068.html

 The Dutch and English in New Netherlands:  A Brief History
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycoloni/dahist.html

 New View of Old New Amsterdam
http://www.mcny.org/newview.htm

 New York Colonial History
http://www.publicbookshelf.org/public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/newyorkc_gg.html

Dutch Colonization
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/kingston/colonization.htm

 Colonial Punishment
http://members.tripod.com/lylesj/trade/colondays.html

Colonial Crimes and Punishments
http://members.aol.com/mayfloweb/crime.html

 Colonial Homes

 Architecture for Kids:  Colonial House 1620-1800
http://www.takus.com/architecture/1colonial.html

 American Architecture Survey:  Key Monuments
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/255/km.html

Colonial Kitchens

Colonial Kitchens
http://www.replitiques.com/history.html#kitchen

The Town Green

The Green
http://www.cptv.org/TVCTExperienceGreens.shtml

 A Patch of Green
http://www.s-t.com/daily/07-98/07-17-98/c01li074.htm

Colonial Schooling

Basic Facts About Colonial Schooling
http://web.bryant.edu/~history/h364proj/fall_99/tripp/facts.html

Colonial Schooling
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/ch1_p9.htm

 Colonial Schooling in the U.S.
http://listproc.ucdavis.edu/class/200103/edu120-s01/0009.html

 The New England Primer
http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/neprimer.html

 Education to 1877
http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl%3FID%3D35015

 Resources on Education
http://www.gettysburg.edu/~s469753/Unit/Educresourcesec.html

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