Here are some websites you could use for colonial research, although this is not nearly a complete list. Remember, we are studying the period of history just prior to the Revolutionary War.
http://www.kidinfo.com/School_Subjects.html#AmericanHistory
Select
Biographies:
http://www.colonialhall.com/
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/jeo300/contents.htm
http://www.english.udel.edu/lemay/franklin/
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/notable/index.html
http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/pilgrim.htm
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PENN/pnhome.html
Landmark
Events:
http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/index.html
http://www.ocmayflower.org/compact.htm
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/beverley.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/
http://salemwitchmuseum.com/
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~msk5d/hariot/main.html
Colonial America-Daily Life:
http://www.ctstateu.edu/noahweb/amusements.html
- Amusements
http://earlyamerica.com/
http://www.apva.org/history/
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/forestoakms/geddes/TitlePage.html
- Early trades
http://www.history.org/- Colonial
Williamsburg
http://www.historybuff.com/library/reffirstten.html
http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/enquirer/
http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/dutch_sc.htm
- New Amsterdam
http://etext.virginia.edu/users/deetz/
- Plymouth Colony
http://alumni.cc.gettysburg.edu/~s330558/schooling.html
- Education
http://www.alcasoft.com/soapfact/history.html
- History of soap making
http://www.15122.com/3rivers/History/BraddocksField/
http://www.lihistory.com/3/chap3cov.htm
- Long Island in colonial period
http://www.monticello.org/
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