1. Bellringer #9 Get out your planners and write down tonight’s homework! Your bellwork is to COPY and ANSWER the following: 1.Why would colonist chose to settle close to bodies of water? 2.Why were rivers important to the south (pg. 101)? 3.Why were rivers important to the north (pg. 105)? Have Venn Diagram on your desk ready to be checked!

2. Possible Bellringer Answers 1.Transportation, food source, water source 2.South used rivers to ship goods from interior to coast, then to Europe for sale. Also, fertile soil is found around rivers (good for farming). 3.North used rivers to power mills used to grind grain or saw lumber. Lumber was also transferred down the rivers to use for ship building.

3. Rivers in the Colonies

4. 3 Regions Venn Diagram

5. 13 Colonies Study Guide Directions: Using your American History textbook (pgs. 70-93), answer the following questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper.

6. 13 Colonies Study Guide Know the important cash crops, industries, and natural resources of each region. Know the reasons Georgia and Maryland were founded for. Study the Mayflower Compact and Fundamental Orders. Where was Roger Williams sent to after being kicked out? Study the location of the 13 colonies from your maps. Know the region where plantations were found in the south. Study your venn diagram. Read over your fill in notes several times and make sure you understand them.

7. Study Guide Answers 1.Charters 2.Poor, until the planting of tobacco took off and a representative government where 2 representatives were sent from each town to make local laws (House of Burgesses) 3.Tobacco 4.Experienced solider & explorer who forced settlers to work, explore, and managed to get corn from Native Americans. Colony survived first 2 years because of him. 5.James River 6.Representative government: people elected others to represent them. 7.Separatists 8.Puritans wanted reform of Anglican Church, Pilgrims wanted to leave it and set up their own 9.First plan of self government in the colonies 10.Common people: servants, craftspeople, poor farmers 11.Starvations, rebellion, disease, Indian attacks

8. Study Guide Answers 12. Wampanoags, Narragansets, Pequot 13. Starvation, disease, and cold 14. Pilgrims 15. Great Migrations 16. No, short growing season and stony soil 17. People who refused to use force or fight in wars 18. Quakers didn’t believe in church service or officials. 19. No, slaves 20.People who came to America without paying and worked off their debt for a certain number of years before being freed. 21. Sugar 22. Tenant farmers 23.French 24. Rice grew there

9. Format of the Test (100 pts) 36 questions – Mostly multiple choice – Some short answer – Venn diagram – 1 constructive response