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AP U.S. History: Period 2: 1607-1754

2.1 Contextualizing Period 2

2.2 European Colonization

Powhatan People and the English at Jamestown

2.3 The Regions of British Colonies

"Jane" A Starving Time Tragedy
Evidence of bones as a primary source

2.4 Transatlantic Trade

Primary Sources from the Transatlantic Slave Trade

2.5 Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans

Identity of Nations from American Indian Museum (Smithsonian)

2.6 Slavery in the British Colonies

1619 Project
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
Slavery and Freedom
From the African American History Museum

2.7 Colonial Society and Culture

Colonial Society
from the American Yawp

2.8 Comparison in Period 2

Continuities of Period 2

Period 2 General Review

Period 2 from Gilder Lehrman Institute