colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Describes what life was like in the first French colonies in the Americas.

Describes what life was like in the first English colonies in the Americas.

Examines people and events that were crucial to the development of the United States during the Colonial time period.

Explores how the characters and lives of King George III of England and George Washington affected the progress and outcome of the American Revolution.

Presents 250 alphabetically-arranged entries that describe the political, social, and cultural history of the Jamestown Colony; and profiles major events and people, census of first and second settlers, native tribes, colonial expansion.

A fact-based drama about a woman accused of witchcraft in 1692 Salem who survives imprisonment and ten years later attempts to establish both her innocence and that of her two sisters who had been hanged as witches.

Provides information about the jobs people had during colonial times in America, how they learned the skills they needed, how jobs were chosen, and how modern work compares with that of the colonists.

Photographs and illustrations describe America's first settlements.

The Colonial America Reference Library provides students with the comprehensive information on the Colonial American period they need to write reports and class assignments including biographical profiles and primary source documents.

From the final decades of the 1500s through the mid-1700s, the North American continent witnessed a whirlwind of competition and colonization. Learn how these colonists flourished in the midst of overwhelming obstacles.