13 Originals
Hunt
for 13 original colonies
American
Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
In this lesson, students will explore daily life and its influences
in the late 1700s for two families in different colonies—Delaware
and Massachusetts. Students will become historical detectives and
learn to gather information from artifacts and make inferences about
the lives and times they represent. They will then use what they
have learned to write historical fiction in the form of friendly
letters between fictitious cousins in Massachusetts and Delaware.
Bills
Showcase of notes and bills from the original 13 colonies.
Currency
In 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper money
in the colonies that would later become the United States. Until
that time, money consisted of gold and silver coins from England,
Spain, and other countries.
Colonial
and Continental Currency: A New Nation's Currency
Office of Congressional
and Public Affairs
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government and beyond, Our Nation, Historical Documents