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Ages: 14 - 18
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The Enlightenment brought logic and reason into the way colonists thought about the natural world. However, religion remained a critical aspect of each colonist’s daily life. The biggest issue the church faced at the beginning of the eighteenth centu...ry was the fact that many settlers lived outside the reach of organized churches.
Isolated from their seaboard peers, the pioneers were often too far away to attend churches and religious gatherings. It was a common opinion in the eastern settlements that the westerners had become as "savage" as their Native American neighbors. Churches still used traditional means of gaining new members, including building new churches and teaching children the articles and liturgies, but ministers were inching toward the discovery of a new mechanism—the revival—that would recruit hundreds of people at once and which got to be known as The Great Awakening. (Video is of high quality with slides and narration.)
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December 8, 2009 at 09:40 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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Before Jamestown and Plymouth, the English attempted to forge a colony at Roanoke. Within three years, it had disappeared, leaving a mysterious clue behind. What really happened to the Roanoke settlers? (1:56) This would be a good video to watch alon...g with the reading of Roanoke the Lost Colony by Jane Yolen
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January 18, 2011 at 05:43 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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The origins of slavery can be traced back much further than the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century plantations in the southern United States. By the time the English had begun to settle permanent colonies in North America, the Spanish and Portuguese ...had developed a model of slavery to provide labor for commercial agriculture. This model was critical for the development of slavery in Anglo-America.
The development of the slave trade began with the Portuguese exploration of West Africa, primarily from Senegal to Angola, in the fifteenth century. With funding from Prince Henry, a patron of sciences who devoted his life to sponsoring innovation, the Portuguese sent expeditions to West Africa in hopes of finding gold and, later, an eastern water passage to facilitate trade with Asia. (Video is of high quality with slides and narration.)
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December 8, 2009 at 09:28 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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The first Puritans who settled in New England brought with them a passion and conviction in their religious beliefs. Many also believed in the reality and efficacy of magic. Especially in New England, the culture of wonders was rooted in providential...ism, a belief that God governs the world at each moment through His will and that all events occur as part of His ordained plan. Providentialism provides that one can best understand the natural world as the organic expression of God’s desire.
Subsequent generations of settlers remained tied to the church, but their piety weakened over time. As settlers turned their focus to the profitability and day-to-day management of their settlements, the number of conversions, or testimonials of God’s grace which gave them the right to join the church’s elite, decreased. (Video is of high quality with slides and narration.)
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December 8, 2009 at 09:36 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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This video explains Otis and his role in the Writs of Assistance and how this fit into the causes of the Civil War. A very good overview of this episode in time. The video is six minutes long and features a narrator. Excellent
October 19, 2011 at 05:44 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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Family and social life for all Anglo-American colonists was colored by certain common conditions: a pre-industrial economy that put a premium on owning land, primitive knowledge of medicine by modern standards, and a social hierarchy shaped by the no...tion that God had ordained some to be rich and others poor. While these characteristics shaped life throughout the colonies, there were regional differences, especially between the two most ethnically English regions, the Chesapeake and New England.
The Chesapeake colonies were typically considered to have a more challenging environment, both physically and emotionally. Mortality rates in the Chesapeake were high, and most children had lost one or both parents before adolescence.
In the Chesapeake region, all white men and women were expected to marry. Women were expected to give birth, rear children, and manage the household. (Video is of high quality with slides and narration.)
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December 8, 2009 at 09:33 PM
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Ages: 7 - 18
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Tobacco was the lifeblood of the early Southern colonies, and its
profits led directly to the rapid growth of slavery in the new nation. This video shows how the need for more labor resulted in the start of slavery and its impact on America at that... time. A good video to get students to think about something other than cotton as a reason for the slave trade.
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July 20, 2011 at 11:11 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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How did the quest for Gold, God and Glory shape our country? What was at the heart of the tension between the colonists and the Powhatans? In what ways does our colonial heritage continue to shape the stories, art and culture of our modern world? All... of that—and pirates too!
With interviews and insights from a roster of creative giants including Don Hahn (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King), Mike Gabriel (Pocahontas), and Oscar®-winning composer Hans Zimmer (Pirates of the Caribbean), Colonial America helps students engage with history curriculum in fresh and relevant ways.
This video discusses colonial portrait making. (4:10)
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October 29, 2011 at 11:22 PM
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Ages: 9 - 18
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How did the quest for Gold, God and Glory shape our country? What was at the heart of the tension between the colonists and the Powhatans? In what ways does our colonial heritage continue to shape the stories, art and culture of our modern world? All... of that—and pirates too!
With interviews and insights from a roster of creative giants including Don Hahn (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King), Mike Gabriel (Pocahontas), and Oscar®-winning composer Hans Zimmer (Pirates of the Caribbean), Colonial America helps students engage with history curriculum in fresh and relevant ways.
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October 29, 2011 at 11:34 PM
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Ages: 7 - 13
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Tailoring--the art of cutting. Kevin provides a history of tailoring in the colonial days. He draws while he teaches. This video is featured on http://mykidsturn.com. (3:40)
September 20, 2013 at 02:34 PM
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