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	Colonial America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During this era, English proto-nationalism and national assertiveness blossomed under the threat of Spanish invasion, assisted by a degree of Protestant militarism and adoration of Queen Elizabeth.
		The Virginia Colony was strongly informed by the cultivation of tobacco and the ownership of slaves.
		The Middle Colonies, consisting of the present-day states of New York, Pennsylvania, the three counties of Delaware, and Maryland were characterized by a large degree of diversity - religious, political, economic, and ethnic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colonial_America (4605 words)

	Ecuador - SPANISH COLONIAL ERA
		Colonial administration at all levels was carried out in the name of the monarch.
		The jungle lowlands in both the Oriente and the coastal region of Esmeraldas were, in contrast, refuges for an estimated one-quarter of the total native population that remained recalcitrant and unconquered throughout most or all of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
		Ironically, the passing of the colonial era, according to most historians, occasioned a worsening of conditions for the indigenous population.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-3902.html (2042 words)

	Uganda THE COLONIAL ERA - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Colonial rule affected local economic systems dramatically, in part because the first concern of the British was financial.
		Two important principles of precolonial political life carried over into the colonial era: clientage, whereby ambitious younger officeholders attached themselves to older high-ranking chiefs, and generational conflict, which resulted when the younger generation sought to expel their elders from office in order to replace them.
		After the population losses during the era of conquest and the losses to disease at the turn of the century (particularly the devastating sleeping sickness epidemic of 1900- 1906), Uganda's population was growing again.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/uganda/uganda_history_the_colonial_era.html (1594 words)

	History of the Colonial Era, 1500-1700 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Spain planted colonies on the east coast, England on the south, and France on the north.
		The colonial regimes had garrisons in most of the cities in the interior, but their grip was conditional and sometimes quite ineffective.
		Colonial administrators and military commanders dominated the interior only by cajoling, hiring or threatening the local mayors, chiefs and iregemi.
	www.bergonia.org /History-Colonial.htm (2636 words)

	KET Presents: New series places modern families in "reality" of colonial-era America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The eight-part Colonial House shatters historical myths and common misconceptions by tracking the firsthand experiences of the modern-day colonists as they live for four months on the misty Maine coast, with only the rustic tools and technology of the year 1628 at their disposal.
		Among the participants' many points of dissension are the rigid class and gender roles, mandatory religious worship and the puritanical civil laws of the era, particularly those pertaining to profanity.
		Colonial House is co-produced by WNET/New York and Wall To Wall Television in association with Channel 4 (U.K.).
	www.ket.org /pressroom/2004/20/COHO___homepage.html (393 words)

	Colonial Era (from Central America) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Because of the difficulties involved in establishing accurate chronologies, the Precambrian, or earliest, eras are classified independently.
		The major divisions of the Paleozoic Era, from oldest to youngest, are the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian periods.
		As African nations began to emerge from centuries of colonial rule, writers reflected on the imposition of Western values on the African people and examined the new conflicts that accompanied independence.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-234512?ct= (916 words)

	Brazil The Colonial Era, 1500-1815 - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		These figures are based on known tribes, although many unknown ones probably died out in the devastating epidemics of the colonial era.
		The externally oriented colonial economy consisted of enclaves that faced seaward and that considered only their own commercial interests.
		Yet when he discussed the interactions between the Indians and the Portuguese, he wrote that the former were only a few primitive tribes and that the "colonies developed and expanded almost without caring about these Indians." Although he could not have been more wrong, historians have echoed his attitude repeatedly.
	www.photius.com /countries/brazil/society/brazil_society_the_colonial_era_15~179.html (1095 words)

	Mexico History -MEXICO'S COLONIAL ERA--PART I: The Settlement of New Spain
		The fall of the Aztec Empire and capture of its ruler Cuauhtémoc (1521), left Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in charge of a vast and largely unfamiliar land.
		In 1524 Carlos V had formed the Council of the Indies to administer its colonies in the western hemisphere.
		During Mendoza's 15-year rule the dimensions of colonial territories continued to grow, eventually expanding south to Honduras, north to what is now Kansas and as far east as today's New Orleans.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/dpalfrey/dpcolonial1.html (824 words)

	The History Place - English Colonial Era
		in the colonies, where the English and American colonists will battle the French, their Native American allies, and the Spanish for the next eleven years.
		Also in February, the first mass is celebrated in the only Catholic church in colonial America, in Philadelphia.
		The conflict is known in the American colonies as King George's War and lasts until 1748.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/rev-col.htm (1356 words)

	Historical Text Archive: Links : United States: Colonial
		The plantation is a research and educational facility dedicated to the discovery and preservation of knowledge about the ordinary citizen of the 18th century.
		By the mid eighteenth century, rice culture, slavery, malaria and yellow fever were well established as a self-perpetuating cycle which had an adverse effect upon the life spans of the colonists.
		Description: "This Plymouth Colony Archive [at the University of Virginia] presents a collection of searchable texts, including court records, Colony laws, 17th century texts, research and seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, probate inventories, wills, maps, town and fort plans, architectural and material culture studies.
	historicaltextarchive.com /links.php?op=viewslink&sid=81 (1387 words)

	Mexico History -MEXICO'S COLONIAL ERA--PART III: The Economy of New Spain
		The chief function of the colonies in the eyes of the Spanish Hapsburg kings--who ruled until 1700--was to make Spain stronger, richer and more self-sufficient.
		Reforms in Spain's government and sweeping changes in its policies towards the colonies were instigated during the 1759-1788 reign of Charles III.
		But much of colonial society had tired of Spain's unrelenting extreme self-interest, as manifested by export controls and heavy taxation detrimental to internal economic development.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/dpalfrey/dpcolonial3.html (974 words)

	The colonial era (from eastern Africa, history of) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Discussion of the end of the Warring States period, the imperial era, and the era of disunity.
		Focuses on Shi Huangdi, the Great Wall, the Silk Route, the Three Kingdoms, the fragmentation of China and the subsequent rise of the Sung (Song), the Mongol invasion of China, restoration of Chinese rule under the Ming dynasty, and the rise of the Manchus.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-37501?tocId=37501 (892 words)

	Chronology of Conscription in the U.S. – Colonial Era to 1999
		Chronology of Conscription in the U.S. – Colonial Era to 1999
		Colonial Era – In times of need, each colony calls to arms all adult male citizens who group together to form colonial militias.
		Revolutionary War Era – A regular army is raised by offering enlisted men cash bonuses and a promise of free western land after the war is over.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /page/5669.html (1327 words)

	Rhode Island History: Chapter 2
		It was the most liberal charter to be issued by the mother country during the entire colonial era, a fact that enabled it to serve as Rhode Island's basic law until May 1843.
		By the end of the colonial era, Rhode Island had developed a brisk commerce with the entire Altantic community.
		This liquor was bartered along the African coast for slaves, who were carried in crowded, pest-ridden vessels to the West Indies, the Southern colonies, or back home for domestic service in the mansions of the merchants or on the plantations of South County.
	www.rilin.state.ri.us /studteaguide/RhodeIslandHistory/chapt2.html (1346 words)

	Colonial Assumed Identities Project
		Students do additional research on the history and culture of Colonial Virginia using print, music and internet resources and they are challenged to come up with some generalizations about the person,.
		One activity will be a mock debate between the characters in favor of the Cause of Liberty vs. the Loyalists with those impartial or against the war allowed to voice their beliefs and the reasons for those positions.
		In June 2003, our students had a Colonial History Fair performance in which they portrayed their characters and expressed the reasons why they were either Loyalists, Patriots or undecided.
	www.sjteach.org /colonial.html (1706 words)

	Madagascar Colonial Era, 1894-1960 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		In 1896 France declared Madagascar a French colony and deported the queen and the prime minister--first to Reunion, then to Algeria.
		Nationalist sentiment against French colonial rule eventually emerged among a small group of Merina intellectuals who had been educated by Europeans and exposed to Western intellectual thought.
		In the case of Madagascar, the law established executive councils to function alongside provincial and national assemblies, and dissolved the separate electoral colleges for the French and Malagasy groups.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/madagascar/madagascar_history_colonial_era_1894_1960.html (1311 words)

	Thematic Units - Colonial America
		Students solve colonial math problems by converting pound, pence, shillings, and farthings on this printable worksheet.
		In this lesson, students will study census data showing the names and occupations of early settlers of the English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, to discern how life changed in the Jamestown settlement in the first few years after it was founded.
		Students explore Plymoth colonial life, answer questions, and write a series of letters through this web-based lesson plan with teacher notes.
	www.theteacherscorner.net /thematicunits/colonial.htm (1723 words)

	The History Place - Early Colonial Era
		is signed by the 41 men, establishing a form of local government in which the colonists agree to abide by majority rule and to cooperate for the general good of the colony.
		The bloody war rages up and down the Connecticut River valley in Massachusetts and in the Plymouth and Rhode Island colonies, eventually resulting in 600 English colonials being killed and 3,000 Native Americans, including women and children on both sides.
		King Philip (the colonist's nickname for Metacomet, chief of the Wampanoags) is hunted down and killed on August 12, 1676, in a swamp in Rhode Island, ending the war in southern New England and ending the independent power of Native Americans there.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/rev-early.htm (1939 words)

	Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Colonial Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Colonial wars evolved in type and function through several phases.
		Struggles between colonies became, like struggles between tribes, conflicts involving a partnership of colony and tribe pitted against a similar opposing partnership.
		The tribes launched fierce resistance movements that once more became entangled in world conflicts when England's colonies rose in a war for independence—a war that marked the end of the colonial era in America.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_042300_colonialera.htm (1512 words)

	Chile The Colonial Era to 1950 - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		In colonial times, the segmentation of Chile into latifundios (see Glossary) left only small parcels for native American and mestizo (see Glossary) villagers to cultivate.
		Wheat was Chile's principal export during the colonial period.
		After Chile defeated Bolivia and Peru in the War of the Pacific (1879-83), nitrate mines in areas conquered during the war became the source of huge revenues, which were lavished on imports, public works projects, education, and, less directly, the expansion of an incipient industrial sector (see The Liberal Era, 1861-91, ch.
	www.photius.com /countries/chile/economy/chile_economy_the_colonial_era_to_~439.html (954 words)

	Spanish American literature -> The Colonial Era on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Their writings, eyewitness accounts of the discovery, the conquest, the existing civilizations, and the natural wonders of the flora and fauna, form the literature of the early colonial period.
		Among the first of those born in the New World to write about it, the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega described the history of the Incas and of Peru.
		With the growth of Spanish colonial society in America came the concomitant growth of literary circles, especially in the viceregal capitals of Mexico City and Lima.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/SpanAmlit_TheColonialEra.asp (629 words)

	Timber Frame Restoration and Post and Beam Repair — Colonial Restorations, Brookfield, MA.
		Whether a country barn, a stately colonial mansion or an older family home, underwriting all our work is our love of these unique period post and beam buildings.
		After correcting structural problems, Colonial Restorations is often asked to restore or replace the exterior fabric of a home or barn.
		Colonial Restorations helps to preserve historic homes and barns throughout the New England states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
	www.cr1981.com (915 words)

	Colonial Era
		In the 18th century such jobs included market or produce sellers, vendors of prepared "fast foods" (fritters were a favorite), domestic cooks, caterers, commercial chefs, stewards, hoteliers, and waiters-- a range of skills, occupational status, and incomes.
		Though Africans have been left out of many of the Colonial Period dialogues, they were present in the New World.
		The first Africans in the Americas were not slaves and the first group of people enslaved in America were not Africans but Caribbean from the West Indies brought to Boston.
	anacostia.si.edu /exhibits/online_exhibitions/food/the_colonial_era.htm (531 words)

	eBay - colonial era, Exonumia, Coins US items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		American Family of the Colonial Era Paper Dolls in F...
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	Directory - Regional: North America: United States: Connecticut: Society and Culture: History: Colonial Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Colonial Connecticut Records · cached · Extensive resource site of digitized volumes of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776.
		The Society of Colonial Wars in Connecticut · cached · Membership organization provides a timeline, bibliography and information on resources.
		The Colonial Seal · cached · Illustration and information on the seal which represented the State of Connecticut in Colonial days.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=5837287 (184 words)

	Colonial Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Colonial: Founding the 13 colonies is an excellent chronological listing and description of the 13 colonies!
		Religion in Colonial America is a most fascinating examination of this topic, courtesy of the University of Delaware!
		Salem Witchcraft Trial is from a link from Doug Linder, a law professor at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.
	www4.district125.k12.il.us /faculty/sarmstro/colonial.html (109 words)

	Colonial Life
		Colonial life involves the everyday work and play of these settlers.
		The Colonial period ended with the start of the Revolutionary War which was fought to gain independence from the British.
		Go to Colonial Family and Community (Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village) and travel back in time to investigate the daily lives of the Daggetts.
	www.42explore2.com /colonial.htm (1027 words)

	TomDispatch - Notes from the colonial era
		Bush for the first time drew explicit comparisons between the transition he is seeking in Iraq and the rough road to democracy that the Philippines traveled from the time the United States seized it from Spain in 1898 to the present day.
		This was not the first instance where a colony was given independence and colonialism was replaced with neocolonialism.
		It was a commonplace of the Vietnam era.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=1020 (3973 words)

	The colonial era (from Congo) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The formal proclamation of the colony of French Congo came in 1891.
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		Lesson plan for students to learn the varied occupations and pastimes of young adult Americans during the Depression Era, by means of interpreting visual and textual data from that period.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-40725?tocId=40725 (950 words)

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