When coming to America, the Pilgrims suffered from the weather and lack of food. However, they created a form of government which they all agreed upon before landing and setting up a colony.
Get your Social Studies textbook and turn to page 214. Read the section
called “Read a History Map.”
•Does our country look the same or different today than it does in this map? Explain. •Are changes you see today caused by nature or people or both? •Which group of people landed in Jamestown?•Where is Jamestown? •What ocean did these people cross to get to America?
•Why do you think the English colonists settled in on the coastline of Virginia? •What was the set of rules the colonists made before they landed in Virginia? •Where did the Pilgrims land? •As more people began coming to America, what happened to the land? •What were the new challenges people had to face with the increase in population and the changing of land?
In your Social Studies textbook, read pages 210-213 and pages
216-221 about the thirteen colonies and the role Paul Revere
played.
Remember, the colonists wanted to
be free from England. They were called “Patriots.” Those
who wanted to remain under English
rule were called “Loyalists.”
Don’t forget Paul Revere! He was a Patriot who learned
that the English (British) troops in
Boston were going to march down the
countryside to fight the Americans who
wanted their freedom from England.
He set up a secret signal to warn the Americans the English (British) were coming. He put lanterns in Boston’s North Church steeple. One lantern would show the British left by land, and two lanterns would show the British left Boston by sea.
Thomas Jefferson played a key role in our history. He wrote the "Declaration of Independence" stating the colonies
would be free from England. It was signed on July 4, 1776.