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Colonial America
Review
1. What were some of the countries that the settlers came from when
traveling to the New World?
1. ___England_________________
2. ____France________________
3. __Portugal____Holland____
4. ___Spain_________________
2. How do you think the Native Americans felt when the Europeans came to
the New World? Why do you think they felt this way? Angry because the
settlers were taking over their land. They may have felt scared because
the settlers wanted to change their religion and were hurting them with
weapons and disease. They may felt curious and surprised because they
were new to the Native Americans.
3. What was one thing that the Europeans taught the Native Americans
when coming to the New World? Language, new people, new weapons
4. What was one of the things that the Native Americans taught the settlers?
Language, grow new crops, how to manage their environment, fishing,
hunting
5. Why did settlers want to come to the New World?
To have more freedom to practice religion the way they wanted, wealth
(gold, tobacco, furs, lumber), greater power in the world
6. What was the most important building in an established colonial town?
The meetinghouse
7. Most colonial towns settled near water so they could travel and trade
easily.
8. Name three colonial jobs and what they did.
1fishing and hunting – gathered food
2blacksmith – made things out of metal
3. glass makers/ glassblower
4._miller – ground wheat into flour and corn into cornmeal
5. basket weaver – wove reeds into baskets
6. barrel maker – used wood and metal to make barrels
7. peddler – buy and sell things others needed
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9. Describe the life of a typical colonial child including their chores,
schooling, and entertainment.
Doing chores (getting fresh water, gathering firewood, housework)
Schooling: not many tools, both boys and girls learned to read and
write, but boys went to school longer
Entertainment: boys – ball, rolled a hoop, banging drums, climbed trees
Girls – dolls, sewing samplers
Colony Matching
This settlement was on the swampy
banks of Virginia's James River. They
hoped to make money in the New
World. The community suffered
terrible hardships in its early years,
but managed to make it because they
started planting and harvesting tobacco,
making it the 1st permanent English
settlement.
After 3 years John White returned to this
North Carolina settlement. The men found
no people but only the letters "CRO"
carved on a tree and on another part of
the island they found the word "Croatoan"
carved on a wooden fence post. These
carvings were the only clues they could
find to where the colonists might be.
There are many theories about what
actually happened to these colonists.
This group of colonist started this
Massachusetts settlement seeking religious
freedom from England. They landed
on Plymouth Rock. During the first winter
about half of the settlers died, but none
of the survivors chose to return to England.
With the help of Squanto and other Natives
corn was raised and in October of that year
the settlers celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
Plymouth Settlement
Jamestown Settlement
Roanoke Island