Journal 9/19

What do you know about the 13 colonies?

Goals

• I can explain the basic relationship between England and its colonies
• I can describe characteristics of the middle, new england,

and southern colonies

• I can identify the 13 colonies on a map

What is a colony?

colony: an area that another country controls

Why did England establish colonies

in North America?

Mercantilism:

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Economic system where a country would accumulate wealth by controlling trade

• Colonies provided raw materials to mother country

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• England would manufacture goods and sell them back to the colonies (and other countries)

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• Colonies were limited and could only trade with mother country

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• mother country was able to get cheap resources

Review yesterday:

Push factors

Pull factors

drive people away from a place

attract people toward a place

Why did people settle there?

• To make money from trade or agriculture

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Indentured servants - people agreed to work without pay for a set number of years in exchange for food and shelter in the colonies

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• Political freedom

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• Religious freedom

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Pilgrims

Puritans

• Separatists
• Wanted to leave the Church of England

• “nonseparating congregationalists”
• Did not denounce the church
• Wanted to reform from within

13 Colony Puzzle

RULES:

• The goal is to get all 13 colonies correctly into the 3 regions without any extras
• No technology is allowed. Tables must be clear
• Student raises hand to tell me a colony and where they want to place it.
• Student may raise hand to erase or “delete” a colony from a given section
• Student may raise hand to move a colony from one section to another.
• Limit of one move per turn
• 6:00 mark 1st clue
• 10:00 mark 2nd clue (every 90 seconds)
• 16:00 3rd clue (every 60 seconds)
• Use problem solving skills

NEW ENGLAND

MIDDLE

SOUTHERN

Journal 9/20

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Try your best to list the 13 colonies from memory.

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Weekend plans?

Goals

• I can explain the basic relationship between England and its colonies
• I can describe characteristics of the middle, new england,

and southern colonies

• I can identify the 13 colonies on a map

3 Colony Regions

• New England
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• Connecticut
• Rhode Island
• Middle
• New York
• New Jersey
• Delaware
• Pennsylvania
• Southern
• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia

Colony Map

• fill in each region with a designated color (make sure to color the key!)
• Label each colony
• Map

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Predict:

Which region had the most food?

Southern Colonies

First successful English settlement:

Jamestown, 1607

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Religion: Church of England

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Geography: rich soil, warm climate

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Cash crop:

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Planted for the purpose of selling & making a profit

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What was the cash crop of the southern colonies?

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Tobacco

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Middle Colonies

Religious tolerance

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Geography:

warm climate, fertile soil, flat land

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New England Colonies

Religion: Pilgrim & Puritan

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Geography:

forest, hills, rocky terrain, long winters

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Mayflower Compact

To apply your knowledge of the colonies…

Google Classroom: Turn in a picture of your

completed map (due start of class Monday)

13 colony map game

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If you achieve 100% accuracy on the map…

raise your hand to show me

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3 regions game 1 game 2

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All games linked on Mr. Paul’s website

REMINDERS:

• Submit a picture of your map on Google Classroom
• Monday: Test review
• Tuesday: Unit 1 test

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