1. APUSH Major Primary Sources Period 2 (1607-1754)
Includes paintings, engravings, photographs, political cartoons, speeches, documents with hyperlinks for additional information and video links.
Also includes secondary source maps, charts, and historical depictions.
Compiled by John Burkowski Jr.
Academy for Advanced Academics

2. Excerpts from First Charter of Virginia 1606

3. Excerpt from Voyages of Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain 1608

4. Address to Captain John Smith Chief Powhatan 1609

5. The Massacre of the Settlers Matthaus Merian 1634

6. Mayflower Compact November 11, 1620

7. A Modell of Christian Charity John Winthrop 1630

8. Town Map, Colonial New England

9. Preamble to Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 1639
Forasmuch as it hath pleased the All-mighty God by the wise disposition of his divyne pruvidence so to Order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Harteford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and uppon the River of Conectecotte and the Lands thereunto adioyneing; And well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to mayntayne the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God, to order and dispose of the affayres of the people at all seasons as occation shall require; doe therefore assotiate and conioyne our selves to be as one Publike State or Commonwelth; and doe, for our selves and our Successors and such as shall be adioyned to us att any tyme hereafter, enter into Combination and Confederation togather, to mayntayne and presearve the liberty and purity of the gospell of our Lord Jesus which we now professe, as also the disciplyne of the Churches, which according to the truth of the said gospell is now practised amongst us; As also in our Civell Affaires to be guided and governed according to such Lawes, Rules, Orders and decrees as shall be made, ordered & decreed, as followeth:--

10. A Plea for Religious Liberty Roger Williams 1644

11. Excerpt from Maryland Toleration Act 1649

12. Excerpt from The Wonders of the Invisible World Cotton Mather 1693

13. Letter to the Indians William Penn 1681

14. Excerpt from From Second Treatise on Government John Locke 1689

15. Excerpt from Cato’s Letters Thomas Gordon 1721

16. Declaration Against William Berkeley Nathaniel Bacon 1676

17. Excerpt from Marks of a True Conversion George Whitefield 1739

18. Excerpt from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edwards 1741

19. George Whitefield Preaching John Collet c. 18th century

20. British Thirteen Colonies Map of Religions

21. Navigation Acts 1660, 1663, 1696

22. Map of British Thirteen Colonies

23. British Thirteen Colonies Geography

24. British Thirteen Colonies Map of Migrations

25. British Thirteen Colonies Map of Resources

26. Trans-Atlantic Trade System