American History with a focus on Colonial and Revolutionary Philadelphia. Washington, Betsy Ross, Jefferson, Declaration, and much more.

Discover primary source documents from early American history--- scenes and portraits from original newspapers, maps and writings.

Discover primary source documents from early American history--- scenes and portraits from original newspapers, maps and writings.

Discover primary source documents from early American history--- scenes and portraits from original newspapers, maps and writings.

This page presents brief descriptions and links to numismatic sites based on materials housed in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame. The sites currently featured include 'Coins of Colonial and Early America' and 'Colonial Currency' as well as 'Washington Tokens'.

An exhibit featuring hundreds of examples of colonial paper currency with supplementary sections on colonial lottery tickets and fiscal documents. Currency examples range from the 1720 Louisiana issues to the fractional currency privately emitted in the 1790's during the copper panic.

Welcome to Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities the home of the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project.

Learn early American history with the biographies of America's founding fathers from the 1829 book, Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence.

Two American milestones, one historic place... 1607 and 1781, and you are there.... The story of America s beginnings - from the first permanent English settlement in 1607 to the decisive Revolutionary War victory in 1781 - is told at Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center. Through film, indoor exhibition galleries and outdoor living history, discover the lives of English settlers and ...

Web exhibit by the Colonial Albany Social History Project of the New York State Museum ...

Site Contents New World Colonial America Revolutionary America Revolutionary Georgia Union & Expansion American Civil War Frontier to New South Savannah & the Coast Transportation Trouble Printing Imaging Services Publishing Information Rare Map Reference Questions Rare Map Collection - Colonial America Map No. Map Name & Negative Number Author (year) File Size Map 1625 L3 Florida et regiones ...

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Davistown Plantation became Liberty & Montville Maine. History from 16th - 20th century includes tool manufacturing, indians, bibliographies, web links ...

Its primary objective is to complete the transcription, translation, and publication of all Dutch documents in New York repositories relating to the seventeenth-century colony of New Netherland. This unique resource has already proven invaluable to scholars in a wide variety of disciplines. It also serves to heighten the general awareness of the major Dutch contributions to America over the ...

History of Jamestowne Companies of Jamestowne Society Qualifying for Membership Society Meetings Ancestor Search Society Fellowship Send us Email Articles for Sale Links SEAL of Jamestowne Society 1607-1700 Mission Statement The Jamestowne Society was organized for educational, historical, and patriotic purposes, and to that end: To discover and record the names of all living descendants of ...

About DPLS Services Collection User Guides Crossroads Catalog Search Home On-Line Data Archive Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ...

A jewish american art and history exhibit you can borrow for hanging on the walls of your school, church, synagogue, community center or public agency.

Historic Spanish Point offers visitors a look into Southwest Florida's environment and unique past, including pioneers, maritime history and others.

Introduction Roanoke Revisited supplements concepts in core curricula courses and provides teachers and their students with appropriated information for the study of pre-colonial America. Although each classroom teacher is likely to find multiple uses for the materials, the suggested method for implementation is through the use of peer-counseling techniques and experiential activities. This ...

Electronic Copies of Poor Richard's Almanac and other materials from 1700's that can be found in the Gettysburg College Special Collections.

Researched and published by the staff at Plimoth Plantation of Plymouth, MA. The Living Museum of the 17th century, gives the truth behind the folklore of the First Thanksgiving. The findings may suprise you!Also find out how to re-create a ...

Be a history detective. Go back in time and investigate the daily lives of the Daggetts, a colonial family from northeastern Connecticut. Collect clues to uncover answers to 7 questions about colonial life in the 1700s. Then prove your skills as a history detective by discovering What's wrong with this picture Begin! Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village ~ http://www.hfmgv.org ...

Lessons: Trade in Colonial America / NAFTA Timing is Everything Developing a Financial Investment Portfolio Widgets: Producing More, Using Less How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice Mystery Workers Demand Shifters Government Spending Those Golden Jeans The Great Depression Mystery Understanding the Colonial Economy: Mexico / NAFTA Click here for Teacher Version Often teachers and students ...

A timeline of significant events.

Little-Known U.S. Document Signed by President Adams Proclaims America's Government Is Secular by Jim Walker Some people today assert that the United States government came from Christian foundations. They argue that our political system represents a Christian ideal form of government and that Jefferson, Madison, et al, had simply expressed Christian values while framing the Constitution. If ...

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Context and Developments THE PILGRIMS The immigration of the Pilgrims to New England occurred in stages. But that they had to go somewhere became apparent soon enough. Theirs was the position of the Separatist: they believed that the reforms of the Anglican church had not gone far enough, that, although the break with Catholicism in 1535 had moved some way toward the Puritan belief in and idea ...

Photographic Documentation of HABS/HAER and Landscapes ...

This page is part of FOTW Flags Of The World website Rattlesnake Flags (United States) Historical Last modified: 2001-12-15 by rick wyatt Keywords: united states | gadsden | culpeper | first navy jack | rattlesnake | jack | sullivan's life guards | Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors Origin of the Rattlesnake Gadsden First Navy Jack Culpeper ...

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Securing the Leg Irons: Restriction of Legal Rights for Slaves in Virginia and Maryland, 1625 - 1791. Slavery In Early America's Colonies-- Seeds of Servitude Rooted in The Civil Law of Rome by Charles P.M. Outwin CLICK FOR INTRODUCTION BY AUTHOR Introduction First devised during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the laws and justice system governing the institution of Negro ...

The Colony At Roanoke, presented in The National Center for Public Policy Research's Archive of Historical Documents ...

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School The Charter of New England : 1620 JAMES, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. to all whom these Presents shall come, Greeting, Whereas, upon the humble Petition of divers of our well disposed Subjects, that intended to make several Plantations in the Parts of America, between the Degrees of ...

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The fascinating story of how the rattlesnake became a potent symbol of American independence, and -- with all due respect to the stars and stripes -- inspired a better American flag for symbolizing the spirit of '76.

What did the colonists eat Home: Exhibits: Dale House: Eats The animal bones from food supplies found in a pit dating prior to 1610 reveal that the 104 men and boys who landed at Jamestown survived primarily on fish and turtles! Sturgeon was the most common fish. A sturgeon may live up to 60 years, weigh up to 800 pounds and reach lengths of up to 15 feet. Tortoyses here (such as in the ...

Spanish Colonial America Living History Organizations reenacting Spanish Colonial America and portraying Spanish Colonial Soldiers, Newsletters about Spanish Colonial Living History, Las Provincias Internas, Publisher is Richard Collins, The Calalonian Volunteers of Arizona a living history organization portraying spanish soldiers in Arizona, including food and recipies on the frontier, the ...

Volume Thirty-Four 1992 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. The Colonial Currency, Prices, and Exchange Rates Leslie V. Brock Professor Emeritus of History, College of Idaho with Introductory Comments by Ron Michener, Associate Professor Department of Economics, University of Virginia The following article, The Colonial Currency, ...

History and pictures of signs from early American taverns. Accounts from travellers and various stories about taverns ...

William Johnson, circa 1751 Sir William Johnson - Indian Superintendent The Role of Sir William Johnson In the Colonial Development of America and His Involvement in the Expansionist Policies of the British Imperial Government. by Paul Redmond Drew AS THE TITLE STATES, this essay will look closely at Johnson's role in the colonial development of America, and particularly the key concern over ...

The University of Oklahoma Law Center Resolutions of the Stamp Act October 19, 1765 &#160 &#160 &#160 &#160 &#160 The members of this Congress, sincerely devoted, with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty to His Majesty's Person and Government, inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the Protestant succession, and with minds deeply impressed by a sense of the present ...

Archaeologists compared every historic map they could find with the route of the so-called Big Dig, identifying four areas where remains of colonial America might have survived.

The Tea Act British Parliment - 1773 An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the India Company's sales; and to impower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free. WHEREAS by an act, made in ...

Bitter Puritanical opposition to plays and play-acting. Severe laws passed prohibiting stage entertainment of any kind. Earliest records of theatrical performance in America. Tony Aston, the first actor to appear in New York. Performance in Boston causes a riot. First theatre in America built in Williamsburg, VA.

The Intolerable Acts Quartering Act Quebec Act Massachusetts Government Act Administration of Justice Act Boston Port Act The government spent immense sums of money on troops & equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. The revenue generated by the Townshend duties, in 1770, ...

THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS OCTOBER 19, 1765 1 Saturday, Oct. 19th, 1765, A.M. -- The congress met according to adjournment, and resumed, etc., as yesterday; and upon mature deliberation, agreed to the following declaration of the rights and grievances of the colonists in America, which were ordered to be inserted. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS The members of this congress, ...

Table of Contents Explanatory Essays The Comparative Value of Money between Britain and the Colonies When the English colonists arrived in America they naturally continued to use the monetary units of Britain, namely the pound, shilling and pence for which #1 equalled 20s and 1s equalled 12d. This appeared to be a simple transplantation of economic units, but due to British colonial policy the ...

THE DECLARATORY ACT MARCH 18, 1766 1 AN ACT FOR THE BETTER SECURING THE DEPENDENCY OF HIS MAJESTY'S DOMINIONS IN AMERICA UPON THE CROWN AND PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN Whereas several of the houses of representatives in His Majesty's colonies and plantations in America have of late, against law, claimed to themselves, or to the general assemblies of the same, the sole and exclusive right of ...

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Life in Colonial America In New England Why were the Northern colonies settled Religious purposes (Climate suited more for manufacturing than for agriculture) Who settled the area Puritans - left religious persecution in England. They thought the New World would be a utopia, a mansion on a hill for God. Their lifestyle was based on relative equality, unlike the divided social structure of the ...

INTOLERABLE ACTS AND THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party in 1774 by passing several laws that became known in America as the Intolerable Acts. One law closed Boston Harbor until Bostonians paid for the destroyed tea. Another law restricted the activities of the Massachusetts legislature and gave added powers to the post of governor of Massachusetts. Those ...

Commercial Banking in Colonial America by Robert E. Wright A discussion of economic theory and practice is likely to antagonize the student of political history. To begin a political study in this manner may therefore be courting disaster. But, like it or not, certain political events are unintelligible without reference to some kind of economic framework. -- Joseph Albert Ernst, Money and ...

Visit HistoryShopping.com Sugar Act April 5, 1764 An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for continuing, amending, and making perpetual . . . . . .; for applying the produce of such duties, and of the duties to arise by virtue of the said act, towards defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the said colonies and plantations; ...

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The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England (May 19, 1643) The Articles of Confederation between the Plantations under the Government of the Massachusetts, the Plantations under the Government of New Plymouth, the Plantations under the Government of Connecticut, and the Government of New Haven with the Plantations in Combination therewith: Whereas we all came into these ...

Search This Site Search Cooke & MA Search Document Center Search Colonial Gazette Home Up Contact Us A Brief History of the Pilgrims by Ron Collins The present state of Massachusetts, known legally as a commonwealth, was explored in the late 16th and early 17th centuries but was not permanently settled until the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth in 1620. These first permanent settlers in ...

The Quartering Act British Parliament - 1765 An act to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty s dominions in America, an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. WHEREAS in and by an act made in the present session of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing ...

The Stamp Act British Parliament - 1765 An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expences of defending, protecting, and securing the same; and for amending such parts of the several acts of parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the said colonies and plantations, as direct ...

The Sugar Act British Parliament - 1764 An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America, ; for continuing, amending, and making perpetual, an act passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, (initituled, An act for the better securing and encouraging the trade of his Majesty s sugar colonies in America;) for applying the ...

A HISTORY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA 1400 - 1800 By: Danny Dixon Kilgore Fort Nickelsville, Virginia Contents Foreword Overview Prior to 1500 1500's 1600's 1700 - 1749 1750's 1760's 1770's 1780's 1790's Return Home Foreword: The document that follows is the result of approximately 3 years of dabbling, snooping, and poking around in an almost innumerable collection of articles, ...

The Declaratory Act BRITISH PARLIAMENT, 1766 An act for the better securing the dependency of his majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain. Whereas several of the houses of representatives in his Majesty's colonies and plantations in America, have of late against law, claimed to themselves, or to the general assemblies of the same, the sole and exclusive ...

The Quartering Act March 24, 1765 AN ACT to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's dominions in America, an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. WHEREAS . . . . . . several regulations are made and enacted for the better government of the army, and their ...

The Liberty Tree -April 19th , 1775- Out of the Mists of a New England morn Rings a shot- A shot heard 'round the world. It does not matter which side fired this Immortal volley It is the bullet itself that carries significance. For this bullet, whining through the early Morning air signifies Freedom. With this one opening round, a group of people, A vast minority in the American Colonies will ...

The Intolerable Acts of 1774: Road to Independence by Elizabeth J. The colonies originally had charters or letters from the King giving them the right to run their own affairs. Eventually these charters were revoked. Some of the colonies became Crown colonies and their government was modeled after that of England. Instead of a King, they had a Royal Governor; instead of a House of Lords, they ...

Americans fought for liberty, but some of our tea-smuggling founders may have had a different Liberty in mind. ...

The Founding Fathers Discussion Deck.

The Intolerable or Coercive Acts After the French Indian War the British Government decided to reap greater benefits from the colonies. The colonies were pressed with greater taxes without any representation in Britain. This eventually lead to the Boston Tea Party. In retaliation the British passed what are now considered the Intolerable or Coercive Acts to Bring the colonies to the heal of the ...

Pilgrims (Separatist) Background by Stan Griffin The actions of Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe. By the end of that period, Spain and Italy were the only remaining Catholic countries (France was Catholic also, but it allowed a Protestant group called the Huguenots to remain.) Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia embraced the beliefs of Protestantism. In ...

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Visit HistoryShopping.com Quartering Act April, 1765 An act to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's dominions in America, an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. WHEREAS . . . . . . several regulations are made and enacted for the better government of the ...

Colonial Religions Discussion Deck.

Sugar Act 1764 - Excerpts I. Revenue, from taxing foreign molasses, for the defense of British colonies Whereas it is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this kingdom and for extending and securing the navigation and commerce between Great Britain and your Majesty's dominions in America, which, by the peace, have been so happily ...

The Townshend Revenue Act, 1767 Summary (Text of the Act below) In the summer of 1766, King George III of England replaced Prime Minister Rockingham with William Pitt. Pitt was popular in the colonies. He opposed the Stamp Act and believed that colonists were entitled to all the rights of English citizens. Pitt suddenly became sick. Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, took over the ...