1. DSS Questions Week of 11/12-14

2. Tuesday, November 12th DSS Questions
What were the three regions of the 13 colonies?
Which region was North Carolina in?
What state do we know today that was apart of Massachusetts colony?
What was the mother country of the 13 colonies?

3. Wednesday, November 13th DSS Questions
What was the first successful English colony in the New World?
Name three of the five Southern Colonies.
Who was the founder of Pennsylvania colony?
Who was the colony of New York named after?

4. Thursday, November 14th DSS Questions
What was the main reason for founding the New England colonies?
What colony did William Penn lead and what was special about it?
Name two of the Quakers beliefs.

5. 5th Period: Come in, take out your laptops and go to Quizlet.com

6. Good Morning Sunshines!
Get your DSS notebook and your ISNs and open to your chart from yesterday!

7. 13 Original Colonies
Get out a pencil, a ruler from the back table and three colored pencils.

8. Colonies Chart COLONY DATE FOUNDED LEADER(S) IMPORTANT FACTS
Make a chart :
4 columns across the top
14 rows down the sides (one at the top for titles, and 13 for colonies)
I made each of my rows about 1 inch and 1/4

9. 3 regions
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies

10. New England Colonies Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut
New Hampshire

11. Middle Colonies
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware

12. Southern Colonies Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina
Georgia

13. Massachusetts
New England
1629
John Winthrop

14. Rhode Island
New England
1635
Roger Williams

15. Connecticut
New England
1636
Thomas Hooker

16. New Hampshire
New England
1623
Sir Ferdinand Gorges and John Mason

17. New York
Middle
1664
Peter Minuit (Dutch) and Duke of York (English)

18. Pennsylvania
Middle
1682
William Penn

19. New Jersey
Middle
1664
Lord Berkeley and Sir George Cateret

20. Delaware
Middle
1638
Peter Minuit

21. Maryland
Southern
1632
Lord Baltimore

22. Virginia
Southern
1607
John Smith

23. North Carolina
Southern
1712
8 English Nobles

24. South Carolina
Southern
1712
8 English Nobles

25. Georgia
Southern
1732
James Oglethorpe

26. New England Region IMPORTANT FACTS: Society: Motive for Founding:
Status based on religion
Religious freedom
Strict society
Economics:
Government:
Shipbuilding
Direct Democracy
Fishing
Conducted through town meetings
Lumbering
Covenant community based on religion
Subsistence farming
Manufacturing

27. Middle Regions IMPORTANT FACTS: Society: Motive for Founding:
More relaxed than New England colonies
Money, trade, religion
Strong middle class
Religious toleration
Economics:
Small scale farming
Government:
Ship-building
Democratic
Trade
Emphasis on culture and religion
Middle Class

28. Southern Region IMPORTANT FACTS: Motive for Founding: Society:
Religious freedom (no persecution)
Based on family status (nobles) and land
Strict social classes
Economics:
Plantations (tobacco, rice, indigo, cotton)
Government:
Near the coast
House of Burgesses
Trading
1st elected government in the colonies
Hunting
Farming

29. House of Burgesses

30. House of Burgesses
First legislative (elected) government in North America
Began in Virginia
Started by the Virginia Company
Their goal was to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America to make the colony more inhabitable (livable) to the other colonists
“Burgess” means an elected or appointed official of a city or town to represent the people living there (in a borough)