1. It costs a dime to look through this Bausch and Lomb high power telescope Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Zoom In Inquiry

2. What might we learn about American history from primary sources? Determine what you see and what questions you might ask to get the big picture.

3. Describe what you see in this image.

4. What new things do you see?

5. Make a hypothesis about what is happening in this picture.

6. Does this image represent the Colonial time period or Reconstruction?

7. Make a hypothesis about what is happening in this picture.

8. Colonial Prove this image is from the Colonial period by listing 5 pieces of evidence.

9. Click to show some answers. What other evidence do you see? The date is 1630 The style of dress is colonial The Native Americans were here when the colonists came. The colonists bought land from the Native Americans. The European style of clothing would be new and valuable to Native Americans in the Colonial Period.

10. Who else lived in America during the Colonial time period?

11. Unknown (n.d.) Poquanum selling Nahaut to Thomas Dexter for a suit of clothes, 1630. Library of Congress: PPOC.Poquanum selling Nahaut to Thomas Dexter for a suit of clothes, 1630

12. What is the “big picture?” How does the interaction of cultures lead to change?

13. Examine these primary sources to determine how they help us further understand how minority groups helped shape the life of Colonial America. Hollar W (1645). Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23.Library of Congress: America’s Library, Jump Back in Time.Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23. Thornton, J (c. 1700). "Chart of the Sea Coasts of Europe, Africa, and America..." Library of Congress: American Memory, African American Odyssey."Chart of the Sea Coasts of Europe, Africa, and America..." Beverley, R (1772). The history of Virginia, in four parts....By a native and inhabitant of the place. (Page before 199). Library of Congress: American Memory, The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1625.The history of Virginia, in four parts....By a native and inhabitant of the place. (Page before 199)