7th Grade American History Videos:
Prehistory - Civil War (1865)

Geography of the Americas (Prehistory - Present)

The First Americans (Prehistory - 1600)

Europeans Reach the Americas (1000 - 1650)
The New World Encountered: An Introduction (00:38)
The First Voyage of Christopher Columbus (01:27)
The Later Journeys of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot (02:28)
Giovanni Caboto (Later John Cabot): The World is Round (00:37)
Prince Henry of Portugal and the Exploration of Africa (02:30)
Vasco de Gama and the Trade Route to the Spice Islands (00:27)
Spain's Efforts to Expand: The Conquistadors and the New World (05:19)
The Effects of European Exploration on the New World (00:31)
The Expeditions of Jacques Cartier (03:08)
Henry Hudson's First Expedition: Searching for the Northwest Passage (02:07)
Henry Hudson's Second Expedition: A Northwest Passage Discovered (01:08)
The Explorations of Samuel de Champlain (00:51)

The Thirteen English Colonies (1630 - 1750)
Coming to America
Colonial Life in the Late Seventeenth Century
The Puritans
The Puritans & the Indians
Puritan Intolerance
The Town Meeting
The Anne Hutchinson Trial
The Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Great Migration
The Typical New England Town
New England Colonists
New England Commerce
Northern and Southern Colonies: An Economic Profile
The Southern Community
The Southern Colonies & Tension with Spain
Dark Passages 0:46:56
Travels to Senegal in West Africa and Virginia to glimpse the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. The program tours Goree Island, significant in the shuttling of humans across the Atlantic Ocean to America, and examines the economic, political, and social impact of slavery on both African and North American plantation life.
The Quakers & the Middle Colonies
The Navigation Acts & the Glorious Revolution

Crisis in the Colonies (1745–1775)
Causes of the Revolutionary War 0:05:35
Sugar Act, Stamp Act, & Townshend Acts 0:03:53
Intolerable Acts 0:07:49

The American Revolution (1775–1783)

Creating a Republic (1776–1790)

Government, Citizenship, and the Constitution (1787–Present)

Launching the New Government (1789–1800)

The Age of Jefferson (1801–1816)

The Nation Grows and Prospers (1790–1825)

The Jacksonian Era (1824–1840)

Westward Expansion (1820–1860)

North and South (1820–1860)

Reform and a New American Culture (1820–1860)

Slavery Divides the Nation (1820–1861)

The Civil War (1861–1865)