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

• Bacon’s 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 Church’s

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