Before European arrived in North America, there were over 500 Native American tribes spread across the continent.

An Internet Companion to the History of American Colonial Times

The American colonies witnessed many changes and developments over the course of two centuries.

We learn about how people and events on both sides of the Atlantic led to the creation of something no one had ever thought about or done before: Create a nation governed by its people, based on their ideals.

1. Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization
   1. Diversity of Native American Groups
   2. The Anasazi
   3. The Algonkian Tribes
   4. The Iroquois Tribes
2. Britain in the New World
   1. Early Ventures Fail
   2. Joint-Stock Companies
   3. Jamestown Settlement and the "Starving Time"
   4. The Growth of the Tobacco Trade
   5. War and Peace with Powhatan's People
   6. The House of Burgesses
3. The New England Colonies
   1. The Mayflower and Plymouth Colony
   2. William Bradford and the First Thanksgiving
   3. Massachusetts Bay -- "The City Upon a Hill"
   4. Puritan Life
   5. Dissent in Massachusetts Bay
   6. Reaching to Connecticut
   7. Witchcraft in Salem
4. The Middle Colonies
   1. New Netherland to New York
   2. Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
   3. City of Brotherly Love - Philadelphia
   4. The Ideas of Benjamin Franklin
5. The Southern Colonies
   1. Maryland - The Catholic Experiment
   2. Indentured Servants
   3. Creating the Carolinas
   4. Debtors in Georgia
   5. Life in the Plantation South
6. African Americans in the British New World
   1. West African Society at the Point of European Contact
   2. "The Middle Passage"
   3. The Growth of Slavery
   4. Slave Life on the Farm and in the Town
   5. Free African Americans in the Colonial Era
   6. "Slave Codes"
   7. A New African-American Culture
7. The Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking
   1. The Impact of Enlightenment in Europe
   2. The Great Awakening
   3. The Trial of John Peter Zenger
   4. Smuggling
   5. A Tradition of Rebellion
   6. "What Is the American?"
8. America's Place in the Global Struggle
   1. New France
   2. The French and Indian War
   3. George Washington's Background and Experience
   4. The Treaty of Paris (1763) and Its Impact
9. The Events Leading to Independence
   1. The Royal Proclamation of 1763
   2. The Stamp Act Controversy
   3. The Boston Patriots
   4. The Townshend Acts
   5. The Boston Massacre
   6. The Tea Act and Tea Parties
   7. The Intolerable Acts
10. E Pluribus Unum
    1. Stamp Act Congress
    2. Sons and Daughters of Liberty
    3. Committees of Correspondence
    4. First Continental Congress
    5. Second Continental Congress
    6. Thomas Paine's Common Sense
    7. The Declaration of Independence
11. The American Revolution
    1. American and British Strengths and Weaknesses
    2. Loyalists, Fence-sitters, and Patriots
    3. Lexington and Concord
    4. Bunker Hill
    5. The Revolution on the Home Front
    6. Washington at Valley Forge
    7. The Battle of Saratoga
    8. The French Alliance
    9. Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris
12. Societal Impacts of the American Revolution
    1. The Impact of Slavery
    2. A Revolution in Social Law
    3. Political Experience
    4. "Republican Motherhood"