Colonial Websites

COLONIAL AMERICA WEBSITES

A Good Place to Start:

• http://history.org/history/index.cfm Colonial Williamburg site
• http://www.cavendishsquaredigital.com/ UN: hmorgan PW: hmorgan Click on Colonial America

Geographical Order

• A Brief History of New Hampshire New Hampshire
• Rhode Island Early History Rhode Island
• The Gene Pool: Abstracts from The East Haven Register Rhode Island
• Connecticut History ConneCT Kids - A Robin's Eye View of Colonial Connecticut History
• Colonial New York City Centennial Classroom - captioned illustrations - New York
• New York State Historical Maps New York
• The Gene Pool: History of Newark, New Jersey New Jersey
• Facts and History of Delaware Delaware
• Exploring Maryland's Roots Maryland Public Television Thinkport, Maryland
• Maryland History Timeline Maryland
• History of Jamestown Virginia
• Stratford On the PlantationVirginia
• Your Teacher Takes You to Colonial VirginiaVirginia
• North Carolina History Kidspage North Carolina
• South Carolina - Colonial Period South Carolina
• Georgia's Early Years Georgia

Colonial Names:

Boy's names: http://nameberry.com/list/246/Colonial-Names-for-Boys

Girl's names: http://nameberry.com/list/245/Colonial-Names-for-Girls

Colonial Times:

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/colonialtimes.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002132/

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial

http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Colonial_Life.html

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/our_america/colonial/

Colonial Jobs:

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002132/jobs.html

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/occupation.html

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/SCHOOLS/FORESTOAKMS/site%20pages/Academics/Social%20Studies/Colonisl%20Times/index.html

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/jobs.htm

Colonial Homes:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/our_america/colonial/design.htm

http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/House-Styles/colonial-cape-cod-2268048.htm

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/williamsburg_homes.htm

http://lakelandschools.org/lt/colonialhomes/presentation.htm

Colonial Food:

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/food/foodhdr.cfm

http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcolonial.html

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,colonial_food,FF.html

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13coloniesfood.htm

http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/3ripley9899/food.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002132/food.html

Colonial Games:

http://www.history.org/kids/games/

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/sport.htm

Colonial Religions:

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13colonieschurch.htm

http://www.usahistory.info/colonial/education.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_religion_of_colonial_Virginia

Colonial Families:

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/family/famhdr2.cfm

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~colonialfamiliestonewjersey/

http://www.mindspring.com/~baumbach/ppoole/index.html

General Topics

• The American Colonies KidInfo
• Outline of American History Chapter One: The Colonial Period
• Our America Scholastic
• The Colonial Period U-S-History.com
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents Primary Documents
• 13 Originals
• Historical Maps of the United States
• Colonial Gazette Webquest
• Colonial Trades
• Colonial Williamsburg click on Explore & Learn
• Introduction to Eighteenth-Century ClothingWilliamsburg - Includes game
• Welcome to Archiving Early America
• USA: Outline of American History
• USA: index to sourcematerial
• Rare Map Collection - Colonial America
• 1755 - The French and Indian War Homepage
• ushistory.org focuses on Philadelphia history and the American Revolution
• Betsy Ross Homepage
• Colonial America America's Story, The Library of Congress
• Colonial Life 42eXplore
• Coins and Currency of Colonial and Early America
• Biographies of the Founding Fathers
• History of American Agriculture: The Colonial Period Click on Syllabus, then Chapter 2.
• Colonial Kids Student Made ThinkQuest
• American Life: A Comparison of Colonial Life to Today's Life Phyllis Grenet, grade one lesson plan
• Tinker, Tailor, Farmer, Sailor Library of Congress learning page - includes links to primary resources
• Early American PaintingsWorchesterArt Museum
• Raid on Deerfield: the Many Stories of 1704 Interactive, five points of view - MemorialHallMuseum
• Liberty, the American Revolution PBS
• What was life like in Colonial America?
• Colonial Leaders http://gibson.cr.k12.ia.us/Classroom/IMC/Colonial%20America.htm#ColonialLeaders
• Colonial America http://www.landofthebrave.info/

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