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THE 13 COLONIES
| 7th Grade Social Studies | Capella | Orenstein |
Northley Middle School
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AGENDA
• Warm Up: Trivia
• Big Vocab Terms
• Cornell Notes on the South
Colonies
• Closure: White Board Activity
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DAILY LEARNING OBJECTIVE
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION
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WARM UP
• Write as many of the 13 colonies as
you can think of…
2 minutes
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• Georgia
• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Virginia
• New Jersey
• Maryland
• Delaware
• Pennsylvania
• New York
• Connecticut
• Rhode Island
THIRTEEN COLONIES
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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
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STARTER
• Set up notebook, essential question and title on
whiteboard.
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SOUTHERN COLONIES
• Settled: London Company (joint-stock Company
• Jamestown: 1st settlement 1607
• Few skilled people
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RELIGION
• English Catholics: escaping persecution
• Toleration Act of 1649: made it a crime to restrict
rights of Christians
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GEOGRAPHY
• Included: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia.
• Broad rivers, wetlands, fertile soil, hot/rainy
climate.
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ECONOMY
• Cash crops of tobacco, rice, indigo.
• Begin establishing large farms: Plantations
• Used indentured servants or enslaved Africans
• Rise of Slavery
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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
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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.
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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.
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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