Colonial America

Fifth Class Links

Plymouth

Plymouth - It's History and People

Virtual Tour of the Plymouth Plantation

Mayflower Web

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Jamestown

The Jamestown Adventure

Virtual Jamestown

James Fort

Jamestown

Nat Geo Jamestown

Jamestown Settlement

The History of Jamestown

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Roanoke

Roanoke Colony

Roanoke

The Colony At Roanoke

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

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Santa Elena

Santa Elena

Wikipedia Santa Elena

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Quebec

Quebec

Colonial Quebec

Quebec Early History
Since many continental explorations began in the region, Quebec has been called the cradle of Canada. In 1534, Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the Gaspé and the following year he sailed up the St. Lawrence. In 1608, Samuel de Champlain built a trading post on the site of the present-day Quebec city, and from this and subsequent settlements Catholic missionaries, explorers, and fur traders penetrated the North American continent. The activities of private fur-trading companies ended, for a time, in 1663 when Louis XIV made the region, then known as New France, a royal colony and chose Jean Baptiste Talon to be intendant, or administrator.

The long struggle to protect the colony and the fur trade from the Iroquois (other tribes were allies of the French) and the British was effectively lost in 1759, when the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham (see Abraham, Plains of). By the Treaty of Paris of 1763, Great Britain acquired New France. In an attempt to conciliate the French inhabitants, the British passed the Quebec Act of 1774, under which the colony was allowed to continue its semifeudal system of land tenure and to retain its language, religion, legal system, and customs.

After the American Revolution, many British Loyalists came to settle in Quebec. By the Constitutional Act of 1791 the British separated the area west of the Ottawa River and created the colony of Upper Canada (now Ontario) there. Quebec became known as Lower Canada, and in 1791 the first elective assembly was introduced.

 

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Montreal

History of Montreal

Old Montreal

Montreal History
A stockaded Native American village, Hochelaga, was found on the site (1535) by Cartier, and the island was visited in 1603 by Champlain, but it was not settled by the French until 1642, when a band of priests, nuns, and settlers under Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, founded the Ville Marie de Montréal. The settlement grew to become an important center of the fur trade and the starting point for the western expeditions of Jolliet, Marquette, La Salle, Vérendrye, and Duluth. It was fortified in 1725 and remained in French possession until 1760, when Vaudreuil de Cavagnal surrendered it to British forces under Amherst. Americans under Richard Montgomery occupied it briefly (1775–76) during the American Revolution.

 

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Fort Caroline

Fort Caroline Pictures

Wikipedia

Fort Wiki

Fort Caroline

Fort Caroline short history

Fort Caroline, settlement near the mouth of the St. Johns River, NE Fla.; est. 1564 by French Huguenots under René de Laudonnière. A Spanish force led by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés attacked the fort in 1565, killed most of the colonists, and renamed the fort San Mateo. This was avenged by a French force led by Dominique de Gourgues, who in 1568 wiped out the garrison at San Mateo.

 

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Fort Orange

Dutch Colonies

Wikipedia

Fort Orange

Fort Orange NY

A Brief History of Albany
Henry Hudson, with the support of 18 crew members on the small ship Half Moon, was the first explorer to venture up the 'River" from Manhattan. Commissioned by the Dutch East India Company in 1609 to report on the new world, Hudson told of the magnificent river, and the bounty of Albany, then known as Fort Orange.

The Dutch ignored Hudson's observations until 1613, when the East India Company sent five more vessels on Hudson's course. This time, the aggressive explorers set about gathering proof of the region's assets, mostly in the form of impressive furs.

In 1621 the Dutch established the colony of New Netherland, with the intent of developing trading posts in Manhattan, and in Albany. A few years later 18 French Huguenot families, along with soldiers and traders, settled in Fort Orange.

Fort Orange remained in Dutch control, with nearly 10,000 settlers, until 1664 when the English sailed over in four warships. They easily took control of Manhattan, and then ventured up the river to capture Fort Orange for "His Majesty". Fort Orange was renamed to honor the Duke of Albany, and in 1686 the British granted Albany a founding charter as a city.

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New Amsterdam

New Amsterdam History

Life in New Amsterdam in the 17th Century

Nieuw Amsterdam to New York

Fort Amsterdam

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St. Augustine

St. Augustine Wikipedia

Augustine .com

History of St. Augustine

New Amsterdam, Dutch settlement at the mouth of the Hudson River and on the southern end of Manhattan island; est. 1624. It was the capital of the colony of New Netherland from 1626 to 1664, when it was captured by the British and renamed New York.

 

 

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MAPS

13 Colonies	America in 1713	Immigrant distribution in the Colonies
Slave Trade	U.S. - 1775	1776 Reproducible Map

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Pictures

Pilgrim Man Clothes	Pilgrim Woman Clothes	Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette - January 2, 1750
Articles of Confederation

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Dates

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