THE 13 COLONIES

| 7th Grade Social Studies | Capella | Orenstein |

Northley Middle School

AGENDA

Warm Up: Trivia

Big Vocab Terms

Cornell Notes on the South

Colonies

Closure: White Board Activity

DAILY LEARNING OBJECTIVE

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

WARM UP

Write as many of the 13 colonies as

you can think of

2 minutes

Georgia

New Hampshire

Massachusetts

South Carolina

North Carolina

Virginia

New Jersey

Maryland

Delaware

Pennsylvania

New York

Connecticut

Rhode Island

THIRTEEN COLONIES

DO NOW

Turn to page 91 in the textbook and fill in your 13

colony map

Shade in **AND CREATE A KEY** for the colony

regions

When complete, set up Cornell Notes

STARTER

Set up notebook, essential question and title on

whiteboard.

SOUTHERN COLONIES

Settled: London Company (joint-stock Company

Jamestown: 1st settlement 1607

Few skilled people

RELIGION

English Catholics: escaping persecution

Toleration Act of 1649: made it a crime to restrict

rights of Christians

GEOGRAPHY

Included: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,

South Carolina, Georgia.

Broad rivers, wetlands, fertile soil, hot/rainy

climate.

ECONOMY

Cash crops of tobacco, rice, indigo.

Begin establishing large farms: Plantations

Used indentured servants or enslaved Africans

Rise of Slavery

RELATIONSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS

Powhatan Confederacy: John Smith received help

to grow food and hunt.

Fighting due to conflict over death of Powhatan

leader

Bacons Rebellion: Against taxes and trade with

Native Americans

VOCABULARY

Democratic:

Ruled by the people. In a democracy, citizens

elect representatives to make and carry out laws.

Slave Trade:

The business of capturing, transporting and

selling people as slaves.

VOCABULARY

Economy:

The way a society organizes the manufacture

and exchange of things of value, such as money,

food, products, and services.

Puritans:

People who wanted to purify the English

Church. Puritans wanted to simplify the Churchs

ceremonies and its ranks of authority.

CLOSURE

Write the answers to the following questions on your whiteboard

Name two of the Southern Colonies

Name some of the southern cash crops

Who worked on the Southern plantations