The Colonial Period

Pilgrims signing the Mayflower Compact aboard ship, 1620. (Library of Congress)

1. New Peoples
2. New England
3. The Middle Colonies
4. The Southern Colonies
5. Society, Schools and Culture
6. Emergence of Colonial Government
7. The French and Indian War
8. An Exceptional Nation?
9. The Witches of Salem

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