2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492-1690

A. First European contacts with Native Americans
B. Spain's empire in North America
C. French colonization of Canada
D. English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South
E. From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region
F. Religious diversity in the American colonies
G. Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon's Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt

Links:

• Exploration of North America (Includes Europe in the sixteenth century)
  http://college.cengage.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_029600_explorationo.htm
• Spain and France in the New World
http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=152&review=yes
• French and Spanish Settlements –
  http://college.cengage.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_033900_frenchandspa.htm
• The Explorers
  http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/explor.html
• Colonial Settlement: Timeline http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/colonial/
• The Impact of Spanish and French Settlements in America –
  http://www.virginiawestern.edu/faculty/vwhansd/his121/Spain-France.html
• Lecture Notes on Plymouth and Jamestown
  http://curry.virginia.edu/socialstudies/projects/jvc/unit/broad/plymouth_lect.html
• History of Jamestown
  http://www.preservationvirginia.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=6
• An Outline of American History: Jamestown
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch1_p6.htm
• An Outline of American History: Colonial-Indian Relations
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch1_p9.htm
• From English to America
  http://www.virginiawestern.edu/faculty/vwhansd/HIS121/Lecture02.html
• Colonial America Timeline
  http://www.scarborough.k12.me.us/wis/teachers/dtewhey/webquest/colonial/colonial%20era%20timeline.htm
• Digital History: 17th Century America
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/resource_guides/content.cfm?tpc=2
• From Servitude to Slavery in the Chesapeake Region
http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=162&review=yes
• English Settlement and Religious Diversity
http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=68&review=yes
• America as a Religious Refuge – 17th Century
  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html
• Puritan New England”
  http://www.virginiawestern.edu/faculty/vwhansd/HIS121/Lecture03.html
• Chesapeake Colonies
  http://college.cengage.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_015900_chesapeakeco.htm
• Middle Colonies
  http://college.cengage.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_059400_middlecoloni.htm
• Colonial America
  http://www.virginiawestern.edu/faculty/vwhansd/HIS121/Lecture04.html
• Colonial Economy
  http://college.cengage.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_018100_colonialecon.htm
• An Outline of American History: Settlers, Slaves, & Servants
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch1_p11.htm
• Slavery on the Plantation
  http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/teacher/slavery.php
• Digital History: The Origins of New World Slavery
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=69
• Digital History: Enslavement
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=67
• The Newness of New World Slavery
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=62
• Slavery in Colonial North America
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=70
• Slavery
  http://college.cengage.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_079300_slavery.htm
• The First British Empire and Mercantilism
  http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/dfg/amrv/amrv-ii.htm#Mercantilism
• Chart: American Colonies
  http://faculty.cbhs.org/clewis/new_page_24.htm
• Slavery in the American Colonies
  http://faculty.cbhs.org/clewis/new_page_26.htm
• Bacon’s Rebellion: Colonial Society and Politics                                                
  http://caho-test.cc.columbia.edu/sim/15005.html
• The Glorious Revolution and the English Bill of Rights
  http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/files/The%20Glorious%20Revolution%20and%20the%20English%20Bill%20of%20Rights.pdf
• Trouble for the Spanish: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
  http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2002-11/pueblorevolt.html
• Resistance to Colonial Authority
http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=95&review=yes