Colonial America: This course is on the Colonial Americas which culminated with the Revolutionary War in 1775. It is our goal to have a course on each of the revolutions, so please edit and add when needed. [100%] 2024-01-12 [United States of America] [History]...
Colonial America: Colonial America refers to the area now known as the eastern United States and parts of Canada from the time of European settlement to the time of the American Revolution. Spain and France made some early attempts at colonizing Florida ... [100%] 2024-01-12
Pets in Colonial America: Pets in Colonial America were kept by the colonists for the same reasons they were in Europe: for companionship and, in the case of dogs, for protection, hunting, and herding. Cats controlled vermin in homes and barns until the 18th ... [70%] 2021-04-19
Slavery in Colonial America: Slavery in Colonial America, defined as white English settlers enslaving Africans, began in 1640 in the Jamestown Colony of Virginia but had already been embraced as policy prior to that date with the enslavement and deportation of Native Americans. Although ... [70%] 2021-04-22
Religion in Colonial America: Religion in Colonial America was dominated by Christianity although Judaism was practiced in small communities after 1654. Christian denominations included Anglicans, Baptists, Catholics, Congregationalists, German Pietists, Lutherans, Methodists, and Quakers among others. Religion was fully integrated into the lives of ... [70%] 2021-04-12
Daily Life in Colonial America: Life in Colonial America was difficult and often short but the colonists made the best of their situation in the hopes of a better life for themselves and their families. The early English colonists, used to purchasing what they needed ... [63%] 2021-04-08
Native American Enslavement in Colonial America: Slavery was practiced by the Native Americans before any Europeans arrived in the region. People of one tribe could be taken by another for a variety of reasons but, whatever the reason, it was understood that the enslaved had done ... [57%] 2021-05-03
Pre-Colonial North America: Pre-Colonial North America (also known as Pre-Columbian, Prehistoric, and Precontact) is the period between the migration of the Paleo-Indians to the region between 40,000-14,000 years ago and contact between indigenous tribes and European colonists ... [70%] 2021-05-06
Slavery in colonial Spanish America: Slavery in the Spanish American colonies was an economic and social institution which existed throughout the Spanish Empire including Spain itself. Indigenous peoples were enslaved and their populations decimated. (Economic and social institution central to the operation of the Spanish Empire) [63%] 2024-01-12 [Encomenderos] [Spanish colonization of the Americas]...
African Slave Life in Colonial British America: African slave life in Colonial British America was far worse than slavery practiced in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans. The indigenous tribes took people as slaves in raids, enslaved those convicted of crimes, and traded slaves between ... [53%] 2021-04-26