Primary Source Learning: Settlement Primary Source Set

Have students use the primary sources in this set to tell a story about European settlement of present-day United States. The story may be in digital or print form and could be nonfiction, fiction, poetry, or even a song. Click on each thumbnail image below to access the full size primary source. You may also use this primary set for a found poetry activity (click the previous link for instructions). For more primary source sets and other teaching and learning resources look below the primary source set, then access the U.S. History by Time Period themed link set.

Virginia discovered and discribed by Captayn John Smith	Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers for America	Landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth 11th Dec. 1620
Landing of the Pilgrims	Pocahontas	William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians
Franquelin’s map of Louisiana	Bird’s-eye View of Boston, Massachusetts	Join or Die
Virginia, Marylandia et Carolina	Colonel Bouquet in con-ference at council fire	View of Charles Town, capital of South Carolina
Petition for bail from accused witches	A Puritan Maiden’s Diary	requiring [vessel] passes …to be returned…
authorize and impower (blank) to beat his drums…for inlisting voluntiers…