Thirteen Colonies

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Thirteen Colonies

• SS4H3 The student will explain the factors that
  shaped British colonial America.
• Compare and Contrast life in New England, Mid
  Atlantic and Southern Colonies.
• Describe colonial life in America as experienced
  by various servants, slaves, and Native
  Americans.

Created by S. Hall
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Map of States

• http//www.socialstudiesforkids.com/graphics/13map
  new.htm
• http//www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/colonies.pdf

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Motivation

• By and large, the people who settled in the
  New England Colonies wanted to keep their family
  unit together and practice their own religion.
• The people who founded the Middle Colonies were
  looking to practice their own religion
  (Pennsylvania mainly) or to make money.
• The founders of the Southern Colonies were, for
  the most part, out to make money but also
• for religious practices.
  

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Question 1

• What was a common motivation for New England
  Colonists, Mid Atlantic Colonists and Southern
  Colonists?

Education
Money
Religion
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Religion

• The New England colonists were
• largely Puritans, who led very strict lives.
• The Middle colonists were a mixture of religions,
  including Quakers (led by William Penn),
  Catholics, Lutherans, Jews, and others.
• The Southern colonists had a mixture of religions
  as well, including Baptists and Anglicans

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Question 2

• Southern Colonists included a mixture of
  religions but which of the following religions
  which wide spread?

Baptist
Puritans
Catholic
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Beliefs

• The Pilgrims in Massachusetts and the Quakers in
  Pennsylvania were examples of people who had left
  England so they could practice the religion they
  chose.
• These American colonists also believed that they
  had a right to govern themselves. More and more,
  they believed that they shouldn't have to pay so
  much in taxes to England, especially since they
  couldn't serve in the English government and have
  a say on how high or low those taxes were.

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Education

• The New England Colonists taught children to
  read. Only Boys were allowed to go to grammar
  school and college.
• Middle Colonists had private schools based on
  their religion. Girls were not allowed to attend
  unless they were Quakers.
• Southern Colonists were taught at home by private
  tutors. When they became teenagers, they went to
  college or sent to Europe. Girls were not allowed
  to go to school.

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Question 3

• What characteristic of education was common
  across all colonies?

Boys went to Europe for college
Only boys went to school
Students had private tutors
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Farming

• New England Colonists contributed fish.
• Middle Colonists grew wheat, barley,
  oats, rye, and corn.
• Southern Colonies grew several things. The most
  popular crop was tobacco. The two southernmost
  states (South Carolina and Georgia) also grew
  indigo and rice.

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Question 4

• What did New England colonists mostly contribute?

corn
Fish
Tobacco
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Question 5

• What did Southern colonists mostly contribute?

corn
Fish
Tobacco
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Question 6

• What did Middle colonists mostly contribute?

corn
Fish
Tobacco
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Parks
Boston Common 1848

• In colonial America, the park was more commonly
  called the common. These areas were found
  especially in the New England colonies. Boston
  still has its common.

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Question 7

• A common is similar to a _____________.

Farm
Church
Park
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Food

• There were not supermarkets like we have today.
• People who lived on the Atlantic coast often
  caught fish and whales.
• They might have apple trees and rows of corn and
  wheat. They might turn that corn into cornbread
  or cornmeal mush. They might turn that wheat into
  flour themselves and use it to bake bread. They
  might also hunt wild animals, like deer,
• rabbits,
• and turkeys.

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Question 8

• Which type of animal did colonists NOT hunt for
  food?

Elephant
Turkey
Deer
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Economy

• The New England Colonies were largely farming and
  fishing communities.
• The Middle Colonies were part agriculture, part
  industrial.
• The Southern Colonies were almost entirely
  agricultural.

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Question 9

• New England colonies were largely farming and
  _____________ communities.

Agricultural
Industrial
Fishing
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Question 10

• Middle colonies were part agricultural and part
  _____________.

Agricultural
Industrial
Fishing
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Question 11

• Southern colonies were almost entirely
  _____________ communities.

Agricultural
Industrial
Fishing
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Activities

• Use the clipart on the next slides and allow the
  students to create a chart/poster of New England
  Colonists, Middle Colonists, and Southern
  Colonists.
• Create Venn Diagram to compare the different
  characteristics for religion, food, education,
  farming, economy etc.
• Let students use clipart and cut/paste or velcro
  on charts.

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Industrial
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Corn
Church
Education
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Farm
Turkey
Wheat
Agricultural
Tobacco
Deer
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Barley
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Wild Animals
Fox
Squirrel
Quail
Rabbit
Ducks
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Motivation
New England Colonies Mid-Atlantic ( Middle Colonies Southern Colonies

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Religion
New England Colonies Mid-Atlantic ( Middle Colonies Southern Colonies

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Education
New England Colonies Mid-Atlantic ( Middle Colonies Southern Colonies

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Farming
New England Colonies Mid-Atlantic ( Middle Colonies Southern Colonies

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Food
New England Colonies Mid-Atlantic ( Middle Colonies Southern Colonies

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Economy
New England Colonies Mid-Atlantic ( Middle Colonies Southern Colonies

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Other Activities

• Daily Life in the Colonies
• Colonial Clothing
• 13 Colonies Activities and Maps
• There are several videos on United Streaming and
  search for 13 colonies

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