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 | No Thanks!Historian James McWilliams tells 18th Century History Guy Peter Onuf why the Pilgrims and Indians would probably have been grossed out by each other’s contributions to the Thanksgiving table.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| John Winthrop & Mass Bay Colony IDuring the 1630s, English Puritans by the thousands left their homeland to build a new home in Massachusetts. Many were inspired by their leader, John Winthrop.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| John Winthrop & Mass Bay Colony IIDuring the 1630s, John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, established strict order in Boston and in surrounding settlements, but the godly order he organized was soon under challenge.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| The Great Trek IIIn the 1830s with their way of life under challenge, South Africans of Dutch ancestry migrated away from the Cape Colony in the Great Trek.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| The Great Trek IIIIn the 1830s the migration of white Afrikaners away from what they considered the pollution of British civilization in South Africa brought them into conflict with powerful African tribes. Among the most aggressive were the Zulu.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| The Great Trek ITo escape what they considered to be invasions of their privacy and outside moral pollution, South Africans of Dutch ancestry migrated northeast in the 1830s away from the Cape Colony in the Great Trek.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
 | Colonial EntrepreneursIn a burst of entrepreneurial creativity, the Virginia Company, founder of the Jamestown colony, tried again and again and again to make the colony a commercial success.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Profit Motive and Global EconomyThe Virginia Company's huge investment finally paid off. Although it came too late to save the company, the profits from tobacco made Jamestown a significant player in the world economy.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Voyage to VirginiaIn late April 1607 after 6000 miles and over four months at sea, a little flotilla bearing 104 settlers and the hopes of English investors, rounded Cape Henry beginning the grand adventure that became Virginia.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Virginia ExpandsJamestown was the first English settlement in Virginia in 1607. Within a few years, though, the colony began to stretch its boundaries both in population and territory.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
