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Colonial America

                  last updated 10/24/02

This site provides links that support the current Colonial America Unit.
13 Originals: Founding the Original 13 Colonies
Time Page- brief history, maps, constitution and multiple links
Bradford, William Of Plimoth Plantation
Excerpts from his book
Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth:1629
Granted to William Bradford and His Associates
Charter of the Dutch West India Company : 1621
The Avalon Project- at the Yale Law School-Text
Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh : 1584
The Avalon Project- at the Yale Law School-Text
Colony at Roanoke
National Center for Public Policy Research-Text
 First Settlement at Roanoke (Virginia)
North Carolina State Library
Enchanted Learning
Flags, maps +more
How the Pilgrims Lived
National Center for Public Policy Research-Text
Jamestown Rediscovery (Archaeology)
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Jamestown
University of Virginia-Text
Jamestown
Virtual-Maps, records, newspapers and more
Voyage on the Mayflower
Explore the nooks and crannies of the ship and learn what daily life at sea was like.
Through the Looking Glass
Various information and documents related to the Mayflower
Mayflower 
Passenger list, the ship, documents + more
Mayflower Compact 
National Center for Public Policy Research-Text
Mayflower Compact 1620
The Avalon Project- at the Yale Law School-Text
New York 
State History
Pilgrim Memorial State Park
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plimoth Plantation 
Virtual Tour of the 1627 Village
Plimoth:  1621 
What was daily life like for the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag as you go back to the year of the First Thanksgiving.
Pocahontas
Library of Congress-Brief description + additional stories
Pocahontas 
Spectrum-Brief description
Raleigh, Sir Walter
North Carolina State Library
Religion and the Founding of the Colonies 
Library of Congress
Squanto(Tisquantum)
Text only
Smith, Captain John 
Maryland Archives-Articles -(Jamestown)
Thanksgiving
Scholastic site which includes picture timelines, life in Plimoth, voyage of the Mayflower and a cyber challenge
The History Place
Timeline of Early Colonial Events
The Founding Fathers
Story of US during first decades with special emphasis of Presidents during that time