Many English settlers arrived in the colonies as indentured servants. Because poor men and women could not afford the cost of travel to North America, they bound themselves for four to seven years’ labor in return for passage across the…

Use this worksheet as a scaffold to help students analyze a colonial-era "An Apprentice's Indenture Contract."

This worksheet helps students analyze an 1864 sketch of African-American troops, many of whom were former slaves, liberating slaves on a North Carolina plantation.

This worksheet helps students analyze an archaeologist's sketch of a burial site in the African Burial Ground.

This worksheet helps students analyze the political cartoon "Showing the Light to the Filipinos."

This worksheet helps students analyze a pro-suffrage political cartoon.

This worksheet helps students analyze a letter from John Boston, a runaway slave during the Civil War, to his wife.

This worksheet helps students analyze the 1863 testimony of Captain C.B. Wilder, who attested to the impact of contraband slaves during the early years of the Civil War.

This worksheet helps students analyze a list of demands from the Women's Political Council regarding better treatment of black riders in Montgomery, Alabama.

This worksheet helps students analyze a 1920 photograph of Alice Paul and other suffragists hanging the ratification banner in Washington, D.C.