Parents: This week's test will be over life in Colonial America. The students have a few different graphic organizers that they can use to study. The students will be tested on Tuesday and Thursday of this week. Tuesday's test will be over labeling the original 13 Colonies and telling me which colonies make up each region. Every student has a map that we made in class to use to study. Thursday's test will be the weekly test.
Students: Use this link to review your colonies. Click on each colony to see it's facts.
You can do activities and play games with the 13 colonies here.
Use this link to find out what life was like for children and for different workers in Colonial America.
*Next week we will begin reviewing for Posttest 1. It will be given the following week.
Notes for this week's quiz:
Why did settlers want to come to America? economic opportunity and religions freedom
What does religious freedom mean? the freedom to practice whatever religion you want
What is a self-sustaining farmer? a farmer who grows crops for himself
What is a cash crop? crops grown to make money
What is an indentured servant? a person who would work in exchange for a trip to the New World (usually working for 7 years)
What is a navigable river? a river that is deep & wide enough for a ship to get down
What is a plantation? a large piece of land that would include a farm, master's house, and slaves houses
New England Colonies: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, & Rhode Island
-thin, rocky soil that was not good for growing crops
-shipbuilding made the people of New England successful
-not navigable rivers
-self-sustaining farmers
-community minded (they took care of each other; distrusted outsiders)
-against slavery
Middle (Mid-Atlantic) Colonies: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, & Delaware
-flat land that was great for farming; especially grains and wheat
-nicknamed "the bread basket colonies"
-navigable river that allowed them to trade with other regions
-people were open-minded
-people had religious and economic freedom
-against slavery and helped slaves escape the South
Southern Colonies: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, & Georgia
-flat land that was great for farming
-cash crops made the southern colonies successful: tobacco, indigo, & sugar
-navigable rivers
-people were close-minded and not willing to change
-people lived on plantations
-settlers imported slaves to work on the plantations
