The Colonial Period: 1607 to 1763

Chapter Outlines: (Click for outline)

    1. New World Beginning

2. The Planting of English America

    3. Settling the Northern Colonies

    4. American Life in the 17th Century

    5. Colonial Society on the Eve of the Revolution

Additional Notes:                               Outside Readings:

Discovery: Main Ideas                         Native American Excerpts: Alan Taylor

Southern Colonies                              Salem Trials Interpretations

New England and Middle Colonies         Puritans: Bigots or Builders? Opposing Viewpoints

Puritanism Historiography                    Those Misunderstood Puritans: Samuel Morison

Colonial Rebellions                            "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God" J. Edwards 

Society in the 1700's