COLONIAL JIGSAW – NEW ENGLAND/NORTHERN REGION
Using your textbooks (Chapter 2, section 3) and the web resources listed below, gather information about the characteristics of your colonial region. You should be prepared to teach your classmates about your region. In an effort to become an expert instructor, please identify the following information about your colony group:
· Name of colony or colony group
· Date(s) settled (hint: look at the handy timeline provided by the publisher
· Reason(s) settled – What motivated the settlement of this colony?
· Geographic features
· Climate
· Major cash crops
· Ethnic makeup of colonists
· Relationship with Native Americans
· Religious influences
· Role and views of slavery
· How the colony was governed
· Individual people of interest in the colony – leaders, dissenters, rabble rousers, etc.
For further information, check out the following information during access or at home:
All regions
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-1994/the-colonial-period/new-england.php
http://www.dfsd.org/www/dfsd/site/hosting/Webquests/The%20Thirteen%20Colonies.htm
Climate, geography, economy of colonies - http://questgarden.com/47/74/9/070310170736/process.htm
Mr. Zoller Podcast on New England Colonies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ScZh2-QLOE
COLONIAL JIGSAW – MIDDLE REGION
Using your textbooks (Chapter 2, section 4) and the web resources listed below, gather information about the characteristics of your colonial region. You should be prepared to teach your classmates about your region. In an effort to become an expert instructor, please identify the following information about your colony group:
· Name of colony or colony group
· Date(s) settled (hint: look at the handy timeline provided by the publisher
· Reason(s) settled – What motivated the settlement of this colony?
· Geographic features
· Climate
· Major cash crops
· Ethnic makeup of colonists
· Relationship with Native Americans
· Religious influences
· Role and views of slavery
· How the colony was governed
· Individual people of interest in the colony – leaders, dissenters, rabble rousers, etc.
For further information, check out the following information during access or at home:
All regions
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-1994/the-colonial-period/new-england.php
http://www.dfsd.org/www/dfsd/site/hosting/Webquests/The%20Thirteen%20Colonies.htm
Climate, geography, economy of colonies http://questgarden.com/47/74/9/070310170736/process.htm
Middle Colonies
http://www.ushistory.org/us/4.asp
http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-middle-colonies-new-york-delaware-new-jersey-pennsylvania.html#transcript
William Penn writing on Pennsylvania
http://www.sitesalive.com/hl/tg/private/hlrwk1a.htm
Mr. Zoller Podcast on Middle Colonies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw9pw8rIDlU
COLONIAL JIGSAW – SOUTHERN REGION
Using your textbooks (Chapter 2, section 2) and the web resources listed below, gather information about the characteristics of your colonial region. You should be prepared to teach your classmates about your region. In an effort to become an expert instructor, please identify the following information about your colony group:
· Name of colony or colony group
· Date(s) settled (hint: look at the handy timeline provided by the publisher
· Reason(s) settled – What motivated the settlement of this colony?
· Geographic features
· Climate
· Major cash crops
· Ethnic makeup of colonists
· Relationship with Native Americans
· Religious influences
· Role and views of slavery
· How the colony was governed
· Individual people of interest in the colony – leaders, dissenters, rabble rousers, etc.
For further information, check out the following information during access or at home:
All regions
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-1994/the-colonial-period/new-england.php
http://www.dfsd.org/www/dfsd/site/hosting/Webquests/The%20Thirteen%20Colonies.htm
Climate, geography, economy of colonies - http://questgarden.com/47/74/9/070310170736/process.htm
Mr. Zoller Podcast on Southern Colonies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3KAOWye1AM
Map of the colonies
Using pages 44, 53 and 67 in your textbook, please complete the following:
A. Label and identify the following colonies:
Jamestown Delaware
Plymouth New Amsterdam (New York)
Massachusetts Bay
Pennsylvania
B. Label the following rivers and draw in blue color:
Hudson River
James River
C. Identify the Appalachian Mountains and label with a series of triangles.
D. Color each region in a different color to show the three regions.
E. When map is completed, answer the following questions:
1. What geographical feature determined the western boundaries of the Southern and middle colonies?
2. How did the New England and middle colonies’ economies differ in general from the economy of the South? What may have accounted for this difference? (Geography Spotlight will be helpful in answering this question – pgs. 60-61)