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Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies (2011) is a series web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies online in HD.

Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies — Storyline

The history of colonial America is a story of extraordinary scope, with Europeans, Africans, and the native peoples of North America interacting in a drama of settlement and conflict that lasted nearly three centuries. In the midst of it, no one would have predicted that the profoundly different English colonies along the East Coast, separated by religion, politics, economics, and many other factors, would eventually join to form the United States of America.

Cast & Crew

Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies — Series Details

Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: The World before Colonial America (2011-01-01) — What was the world like in 1500? Begin your investigation of colonial America by exploring the European discovery of the New World. What was happening in the Americas, West Africa,
• E2: Spain's New World Empire (2011-01-08) — Newly united under the Christian monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain accidentally found itself in possession of previously unknown lands. Learn how Spain set about exploiting th
• E3: John Smith, Pocahontas, and Jamestown (2011-01-15) — Investigate the varied life of Captain John Smith, a prototypical Englishman in an age of expansion. After a career as a mercenary fighting Turks, he was assigned to the London Com
• E4: Virginia and the Chesapeake after Smith (2011-01-22) — Discover how tobacco seeds from South America rescued the Virginia colony from extinction but also caused increased conflict with Native Americans. Virginia remained a death-trap f
• E5: The Pilgrims and Plymouth (2011-01-29) — Who were the Pilgrims, and how did this small devout religious community revolutionize the colonization of North America? Learn how a crisis aboard the Mayflower prompted the Mayfl
• E6: The Iroquois, the French, and the Dutch (2011-02-05) — Expansion by the Dutch and the French into New Netherland and New France brought them into contact with the Iroquois, the most powerful people in eastern North America. See how the
• E7: The Puritans and Massachusetts (2011-02-12) — The Puritans represented a different religious sect from the Pilgrims and were from a more prosperous social class. Learn what motivated them to migrate to New England in the 1630s
• E8: New England Heretics-Religious and Economic (2011-02-19) — Study three figures who disrupted the social order of New England. Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were religious heretics in the 1630s. In the 1640s, merchant Robert Keayne als
• E9: The Connecticut Valley and the Pequot War (2011-02-26) — Although the founders of Massachusetts believed they were coming to save the native people, they were soon involved in a bloody war to exterminate the Pequot of eastern Connecticut
• E10: Sugar and Slaves-The Caribbean (2011-03-05) — Focus on an area where the colonization venture flourished: the Caribbean. Barbados and Jamaica produced sugar that enriched English investors. Other European powers fought for con
• E11: Mercantilism and the Growth of Piracy (2011-03-12) — Sail the seas with a notorious byproduct of the newfound colonial wealth: pirates. During its golden age in the 1600s, piracy was a big business, fueling the economies of countries
• E12: South Carolina-Rice, Cattle, and Artisans (2011-03-19) — The only North American colony founded from the West Indies, South Carolina had a different social fabric from its neighbors. Professor Allison explains how rice, a crop essentiall
• E13: New Netherland Becomes New York (2011-03-26) — The Iroquois alliance in the fur trade made New Netherland a prosperous colony of the Dutch West India Company. Discover how conflict between the Dutch and English led to the Briti
• E14: King Philip's War in New England (2011-04-02) — Encounter the bloodiest war per capita in American history, a rebellion of native people led by Metacom, also known as King Philip. Bands of Indians attacked half of the English to
• E15: Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia (2011-04-09) — Nathaniel Bacon, an English aristocrat, led a military force of former indentured servants that nearly toppled the Virginia government. Learn that in the aftermath, Virginia plante
• E16: Santa Fe and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 (2011-04-16) — Examine Spain's strategy of securing the remote upper Rio Grande as a protective buffer for its rich mines in Mexico. Conflict with the Pueblo Indians led to a Spanish policy that
• E17: William Penn's New World Vision (2011-04-23) — In 1681, King Charles II granted to William Penn, an English Quaker, all of the land west of the Delaware River. Gauge the success of Penn's goal of establishing a place of fair tr
• E18: The New England Uprising of 1689 (2011-04-30) — King James II proposed reforming the New England colonies into one entity: the Dominion of New England. Witness the reaction of recalcitrant colonists when the new governor arrived
• E19: Witchcraft in New England (2011-05-07) — In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, experienced the most famous outbreak of witchcraft persecution in colonial America. Probe several intriguing questions: What caused these incidents? W
• E20: Captives and Stories of Captivity (2011-05-14) — New England and New France were on a collision course after the 1660s. In Canada, the French spurred their Native American allies to attack frontier settlements in New England, sei
• E21: The Indians' New World (2011-05-21) — Weigh the price that Indians paid for European colonization. While Europeans encountered a previously unknown land, rich with new plants and animals, the Indians also faced a new w
• E22: Family Life and Labor in Colonial America (2011-05-28) — Notions of family life and the nature of a family were undergoing a transformation during the centuries of colonization in the Americas. Here, grasp the parental and social forces
• E23: Smallpox, 1721-The Inoculation Controversy (2011-06-04) — Delve into an important early episode in the battle against smallpox: the 1721 outbreak in Boston, which triggered a heated dispute over a method of inoculation recommended by Rev.
• E24: France, Senegal, and Louisiana (2011-06-11) — Shifting attention back to New France, consider France's strategy of planting colonies from Canada to the lower Mississippi, which met setbacks along the Gulf Coast. The French tra
• E25: Georgia-Dreams and Realities (2011-06-18) — Learn how Georgia was born from two motives: English philanthropists hoped to found a colony in the New World where debtors could find useful labor; and the British government need
• E26: The Atlantic Slave Trade and South Carolina (2011-06-25) — By the mid-1700s, Britain was bringing more than 50,000 African slaves to the New World every year, with South Carolina providing one of the major markets. Learn how the small whit
• E27: The New York Conspiracy of 1741 (2011-07-02) — Discover that New York City, too, was ripe with unrest. In 1741, a tavern frequented by slaves and free blacks, Irish servants, and Spanish dancing masters (who may have been disgu
• E28: The Great Awakening (2011-07-09) — Investigate the origins of the Great Awakening, a religious revival that swept the American colonies in the 1740s and 1750s. At its root was a new relationship between worshipers a
• E29: The Albany Conference of 1754 (2011-07-16) — Responding to moves to consolidate France's position in North America, the British government ordered its colonies to meet at Albany and restore their alliance with the Iroquois. A
• E30: The Great War for Empire (2011-07-23) — The first global war started as a frontier skirmish between a Virginia militia unit led by 22-year-old George Washington and a group of French soldiers and Native American warriors
• E31: Pontiac's Revolt against the British (2011-07-30) — A confederation of native tribes under the leadership of Pontiac very nearly drove the British out of the Ohio and Great Lakes valleys. Follow the Indians' well-coordinated plan an
• E32: Imperial Reform-The Sugar and Stamp Acts (2011-08-06) — Regarding its colonies as a cohesive economic unit, the British Parliament set up a system to regulate colonial trade. Hear about the impact of the Sugar Act and the notorious Stam
• E33: North Carolina Regulators Seek Local Rule (2011-08-13) — Watch the seeds of revolution take root in North Carolina over seemingly petty local grievances. There, misrule by colonial officials spawned the Regulator movement, which sought t
• E34: Virginia-Patrick Henry and the West (2011-08-20) — Trace the rise of Patrick Henry from an obscure lawyer to public figure, thanks to his brilliant argument for the autonomy of the Virginia legislature in a case called the Parson's
• E35: Destruction of Tea and Colonial Rebellion (2011-08-27) — Probe behind the scenes of one of the most famous incidents leading to the American Revolution: the Boston Tea Party. The British Tea Act in 1773 focused on India, but a minor prov
• E36: Independence and Beyond (2011-09-03) — After exploring the starkly different colonial societies in the previous lectures, consider how remarkable it was for them to sign a common Declaration of Independence in 1776. Inv

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How many seasons does Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies have? 1 season(s) with 36 episodes.

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