Puritans
Rocky soil
Cold weather
John Winthrop
Forests
Fishing
Shipbuilding
Religious freedom
Boston
Witch Trials
Town Meeting
Anne Hutchinson
Merchants
Towns
Repressive religion
Combination Sentences:
Opinion/Position:
Rich soil
Few slaves
Quakers
William Penn
Farming
Delaware
Philadelphia
Anti-slavery
Brainstorm as many things in each of the columns as you can think of.
Circle one thing in each column that is in the same category (eg, shipbuilding (N.E.), farming (Middle), tobacco (Southern) are all products or economic activities). If one column doesn’t have one, add it and circle it. Draw a line between the 3. Do the same thing with as many of the items as you can, each in a different color. Make a color key for the categories at the bottom.
Tobacco
Plantations
Slaves
Rich Soil
Long growing season
Cavaliers
Counties
Write combination sentences containing circled words in the same color. (Eg. New England didn’t have the land or climate for growing tobacco, but they were very good at shipbuilding.) Write several.
Write an opinion/generalization based on the information in the three boxes. Eg. Slavery might have been more popular outside the Southern
Colonies if other areas had warmer climates.