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1641: Massachusetts Body of Liberties | Online Library of Liberty
1641: Massachusetts Body of Liberties | Online Library of Liberty
The colony of Massachusetts invited immigrants fleeing persecution and insisted on the rule of law - 130 years before the Revolution. And - there was a death penalty for worshiping any other god, but the lord god.
If any people of other Nations professing the true Christian Religion shall flee to us from the Tiranny or oppression of their persecutors, or from famyne, warres, or the like necessary and compulsarie cause, They shall be entertayned and succoured amongst us, according to that power and prudence god shall give us.
1. If any man after legall conviction shall have or worship any other god, but the lord god, he shall be put to death. dut. 13.6.10, dut. 17.2.6, ex. 22.20
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#primary source
·oll.libertyfund.org·
1641: Massachusetts Body of Liberties | Online Library of Liberty
Colonel William Byrd on Slavery and Indented Se...
Colonel William Byrd on Slavery and Indented Se...
In this 1739 from a aristocratic slave owner to a Trustee of the colony of Georgia, teachers and students can look into the complexity of slavery in the 1730s. How can a plantation owner who profits from slavery complain about the system and wish that Britain would end slavery in the colonies? How can a slaveowner express such disgust for slave traders (who, he claims, would paint their wives and children's faces black if they could get away with selling them)? If you look close enough, you can see his prediction of John Brown's dream of a slave insurrection in the mountains.
#slavery#primary source#US I Unit 1 - Colonization
·archive.org·
Colonel William Byrd on Slavery and Indented Se...
New York Slavery Records Index – Records of Enslaved Persons and Slave Holders in New York from 1525 though the Civil War
New York Slavery Records Index – Records of Enslaved Persons and Slave Holders in New York from 1525 though the Civil War
Search more than 35,000 records of slavery within the State of New York from 1525 through the Civil War. The data come from census records, slave trade transactions, cemetery records, birth certifications, manumissions, ship inventories, newspaper accounts, private narratives, legal documents and many other sources
#slavery#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#US I Unit 3 Constitution and New Nation#digitization#5th Grade Unit 2 - Colonization and Settlement
·nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu·
New York Slavery Records Index – Records of Enslaved Persons and Slave Holders in New York from 1525 though the Civil War
Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving
Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving
This academically rigorous article may be beyond even the highest functioning AP US History students. But all teachers will find this article aiming a question directly at their curriculum - Do you teach a myth as a cultural affirmation? The essay argues that "traveling home to turkey and all the trimmings was "invented", not in 17th century Massachusetts, but in 19th century Philadelphia in the pages of the nation's most widely circulated magazines and in respond to the changing American scene. Two hundred years after the Pilgrims' quit commemorations, Thanksgiving developed a uniform national profile, impelled by its promoters ideas about republican identity, ideas diffused by a publishing industry with increasingly national reach"
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#Thanksgiving#US I Unit 2: Market Revolution
·backstoryradio.org·
Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving
Fugitive Slaves laws (1619-1865) - Marion Gleason
Fugitive Slaves laws (1619-1865) - Marion Gleason
This is a compendium of colonial, state and federal fugitive slave laws. Available for research, or quick skimming to reveal the nature of slavery this resource shows how quickly runaway slave laws came to the colonies right after the Pilgrims. It also shows the overlapping of indentured servant law and slave law and how the system of slavery evolved over 250 years
#US I Unit 2 - Revolutionary America#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#slavery#primary source
·books.google.com·
Fugitive Slaves laws (1619-1865) - Marion Gleason
Farber Gravestone Collection
Farber Gravestone Collection

The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource documenting the sculpture on over 9,000 gravestones most of which were made prior to 1800. Many of the tombstones are from the 1600s. Why not do something different for your "day before Halloween" lesson this year and have students look through these primary source artifacts tell us something about some of the people who lived at that time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbhR1f_L_xE

#US History I#primary source#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#US I Unit 2 - Revolutionary America
·farber.davidrumsey.com·
Farber Gravestone Collection
A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True | The National Endowment for the Humanities
A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True | The National Endowment for the Humanities
History folks are familiar with the divide between the reality of the past and public memory, but the characterization of pirates is perhaps the greatest of all. This reading shows many examples of pirates, piracy and their role in history
#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#US I Unit 2 - Revolutionary America
·neh.gov·
A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True | The National Endowment for the Humanities
Prevalence of Slavery in New Jersey | Truehart Productions
Prevalence of Slavery in New Jersey | Truehart Productions
"New Jersey, the Garden State, is known for its produce, but not for the enslaved people who tilled the soil. In this two-part documentary, descendants and historians tell their stories and why it was the last northern state to end the institution of slavery."
#slavery#video documentary#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#US I Unit 2 - Revolutionary America#US I Unit 2: Market Revolution
·truehartproductions.org·
Prevalence of Slavery in New Jersey | Truehart Productions
Civics and Government - Themed Resources
Civics and Government - Themed Resources
Review an early draft of the Constitution with revisions and marginal notations as well as the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation. Read about presidents and the presidency, leaders of the new nation, elections, and inaugurations. Find resources to teach about constitutional issues ranging from women's suffrage to slavery and desegregation from Library of Congress
#US History#US History I#US History II#lesson plans#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#primary source
·loc.gov·
Civics and Government - Themed Resources
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New England | EDSITEment
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New England | EDSITEment
In this lesson, students learn to interpret the built environment through text and image. They also study maps as a key way of shaping territory and transmitting cultural knowledge. This lesson explores the landscape of New England as a way of understanding the contrasting ways that the Europeans and Indians understood the land and how to use it
#lesson plan#US History I#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#native americans
·edsitement.neh.gov·
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New England | EDSITEment
Daily Life and Diversity in 18th Century Philadelphia
Daily Life and Diversity in 18th Century Philadelphia
In this education program, students will develop an understanding of daily life in 18th century Philadelphia by exploring the people, material culture, and larger historical context related to four specific households. Guided webquest takes students through houses to meet residents and learn about their lives. Site sponsored by the National Park Service
#US History I#lesson plan#US I Unit 1 - Colonization
·independenceparkinstitute.com·
Daily Life and Diversity in 18th Century Philadelphia
Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"
dominated as it was by the religion of popes, the government of kings, the frenzy for money that marked Western civilization
This description of the avarice of European nation states is described in Jarad Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel"
#textbook#US I Unit 1 - Colonization
·historyisaweapon.com·
Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
Colonial | Stanford History Education Group
Colonial | Stanford History Education Group
The lessons in the Colonial Unit introduce students to many of the themes in the curriculum.  In the Pocahontas lesson, students question Disney's account of Pocahontas's encounter with John Smith.  Students engage in three additional inquiries: one about the Puritans, one about the causes of King Philip's War, and one about the causes of the Salem Witch trials.  The Colonial Unit is unique in that it introduces students to different types of historical evidence such as maps and passenger lists, and asks students to consider what claims can be made on the basis of these special documents.
#lesson plan#US I Unit 1 - Colonization
·sheg.stanford.edu·
Colonial | Stanford History Education Group