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 * Was your colony an "Agent of Change" or was it shaped by the environment of colonial times?**toc
 * Massachusetts
 * New Hampshire
 * New York
 * Rhode Island
 * Connecticut
 * Pennsylvania
 * New Jersey
 * Maryland
 * Delaware
 * Virginia
 * North Carolina
 * South Carolina
 * Georgia

Questions to be addressed in your paper:
 * 1) When, why, and how was your colony founded?
 * 2) Who went to your colony (what types of people, religions, background, social classes, education, etc.)?
 * 3) What was the purpose of your colony?
 * 4) Experiences of the colonists when they arrived?
 * 5) What were the hardships they faced?
 * 6) What was their response to early problems?
 * 7) What was the economy of the colony?
 * 8) What was the religious/social life in your colony?
 * 9) What was the political life of your colony?
 * 10) What was the relationship of your colony with other colonies?
 * 11) What was your colony's relationship with Britain?
 * 12) Who in your colony would be for/against the American Revolution?

Reference materials
This is the place to start any research project. Reference books such as encyclopedias and almanacs, offer short, authoritative information on every topic. These books cannot leave the library.

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 * [|Colonial America], 1543-1763. McNeese, Tim. New York : Chelsea House, c2010. You can read this book online.
 * **REF 973.3** //American eras//. Detroit, MI. : Gale Research, c1998. explores American life in the years between 1600 and 1754 from eleven different perspectives, including the arts, education, religion, and law and justice.
 * **R 973.2 PUR** Purvis, Thomas L., 1949-. //Colonial America to 1763//. New York : Facts on File, c1999. Provides details about the everyday lives and activities of people living in Colonial America before 1763, and includes statistical tables, charts, maps, photographs, and illustrations.

Books[[image:cliff1066,_creativecommons.org,_2009..jpg width="200" height="146" align="right"]]
Search for print and e-books using the online catalog Destiny. Try searching specific first (your colony). Then broaden your search to find more books (early america colonies). Here are a few:

Examines the status of people of African descent in the American colonies, beginning with a look at historical concepts of slavery, and discussing the slave trade; Africans in New England, the Middle Atlantic colonies; and other topics.
 * **973 R** Reiss, Oscar, 1925-. //Blacks in colonial America//. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1997.
 * **973.2 B** Butler, Jon, 1940-. //Becoming America : the revolution before 1776.// Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000. Presents a view of pre- revolutionary America as a multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, religiously plural land that turned protest into revolution and whose provincial politics brought forth a new nation.
 * **973.2 C** //The colonial period, 1607-1750//. San Diego : Greenhaven Press ;, c2003. Contains a collection of primary and secondary sources that describe events and developments in the colonial period in America from 1607 to 1750.
 * **973.2 C** //Colonial America//. San Diego : Greenhaven Press ;, c2003. A collection of primary documents which help chronicle the history of colonial America, providing information on the era's people, politics, activities, and culture.
 * **973.2 F** Gray, Edward G., 1964-. //Colonial America : a history in documents//. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, c2003. An illustrated collection of documents that provide insights into the lives of American colonists, including letters, diaries, sermons, newspapers, and poems.

WHS databases
Log into any of these databases by clicking on the link. To access these from home you will need the passwords: Student Passwords
 * U.S. History in Context Try searching for "Colonial America*". Adding the star to the end of America will search for results about America, American, etc.
 * American History- Search for your topic and findarticles; multimedia, primary sources, newspapers, and other popular resources about your subject.

Internet sites
Try searching on Google and Sweetsearch your colony and the extension .gov. For example: "new hampshire" colony .gov
 * 13 Originals- Founding the American Colonies
 * Library of Congress- Colonial and Early America
 * Charters of Freedom
 * Massachusetts Historical Society primary documents and information about events leading up to the Revolutionary War.