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COLONIAL SCAVENGER HUNT
There are many important events and people in the early Colonial period of U.S.
History. These are a few you will be exploring:
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Roanoke Island and the Lost Colony
The Mayflower Compact
Founding of Jamestown
Pocahontas
Plymouth Colony
Founding of the 13 colonies
Salem Witch Trials
Anne Hutchinson
Save this worksheet as a word document in your S drive, and then type your answers
directly on the worksheet. File name for the document should be your last name and colonial; for
example, Kosikcolonial
At the end of Day 2 in the library you will save whatever you have completed in the BuPublic Directory.
If you don’t put this worksheet in the dropbox, it will not be graded.
Directions for saving are below:
Saving Work into the Student Dropbox
1. Save your work first to your S: drive. Follow your teacher's directions on what the file should
be named. (LastnameColonial)
2. Open up My Computer, open up your S: drive and find the file you wish to place into the
dropbox
3. Single-click the file name (highlight, don’t open). Since you don't have right-click capabilities
here, go to Edit / Copy or Control C to copy your file
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Go to bupublic, Student Dropbox, and open the folder for your teacher (Henderson).
Inside that folder open the Colonial Scavenger Hunt folder.
Open your period folder.
Once the folder is open, go to edit / paste or Control V
Check to see that the file went into the correct folder (if it shows 0 KB of information in the column under
Size, something wasn’t done correctly- ask for help
BEGIN THE SCAVENGER HUNT
DO NOT COPY AND PASTE YOUR ANSWERS-PARAPHRASE WHAT
YOU READ
1. Before Jamestown and Plymouth Colony, there was the Lost Colony in Roanoke,
VA. One of America’s most perplexing mysteries is: What happened to the
colonists in Roanoke? Go to BuPublic, Library folder; Lost Colony folder
watch and listen to the video clip, and summarize what the mystery is:
Summary:
2. Go to this website
http://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/a-short-history-ofjamestown.htm
When 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607, they named the place Jamestown.
a. What was the mission of this group?
b. What did they think the natural advantages of Jamestown were?
3. Go to this site:
http://apva.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=30
Take a look at the list of the original group of early Jamestown settlers and
their occupations.
Note the spelling of some of the occupations.
List the occupations of the early settlers.
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1608 (First Supply).
Click on the link below:
http://historicjamestowne.org/history/history-of-jamestown/the-first-supply/
Are there new occupations now? List them:
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Thinking Question: Why would the colonists’ occupations need
to change from those of
the original settlers to the 1608
settlers? __________________________________________
4. Go to this website: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Pocahontas.aspx
a. Who was Pocahontas?
b. What did her marriage to an Englishman bring about?
c. What was her lasting contribution to history?
5. PRIMARY DOCUMENTS are considered one of the best sources of historical
information. Go to this site:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/history/resources/pubs/us
ingprimarysources/index.cfm
a. Scroll down the page to read “What are Primary Sources”? Answer in your
own words what a primary source is, and give several examples:
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6. Go to this website: http://www.allabouthistory.org/mayflower-compact.htm
Read the two paragraphs under Mayflower Compact – What is it? and answer Who, What,
When, Where, and Why about the compact.
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Look and Listen to this short overview of the founding of Plymouth
Colony by going to this TeacherTube site:
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=13258
 When the Pilgrims first left the Church of England and moved to
Holland, they were called _____________________________ (fill in the
blank).
 In exchange for free passage to the new land, what did the Pilgrims
agree to send the Virginia Company?
 This was a new idea when it came to making laws:
______________________ _______________________ .
8. Go to this website:
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13colonies2.htm
List the Motivations and Economy for the New England, Middle and
Southern colonies:
 Define the word motivation (look up in a dictionary if you need to):
Motivations:
New England:
Middle:
Southern:
Economy:
New England:
Middle:
Southern:
9. Take a look at religion in the colonies. Go to :
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13colonieschurch.htm
What people in the colonies believed depended on where they lived. What were
the religious beliefs of the people in:
New England colonies
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Middle Colonies
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Southern Colonies
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10. Go to this website: http://salemwitchmuseum.com/education/faq.php
Click on 1692 Salem Witch Trials
a. What events were happening in Salem that led to fear and suspicion?
b. What did the special Court names of Oyer and Terminer mean?
c. What is spectral evidence?
d. What happened to the people convicted of witchcraft?
11. From the Burneson Library page, go to Subscription Resources.
 Go to World Book Encyclopedia
 On the search line, type in Anne Hutchinson
a. What did Anne do or say that got her into trouble with the Puritan church?
b. She and her followers were called Antinomians. What does that
mean?
c. What did the church do to Anne in 1638?