Colonial Map Project
Materials: Notes, The American Journey Textbook (the red book), colored pencils. Use the following pages,
along with your notes, to help you complete this project. Pages 75, 77, 83, 87.
Check off as you complete each task.
Map One – The Original 13 Colonies
1. ___ Name the colonies on the map. NO ABBREVIATIONS!
2. ___ Use 3 different colors to show the groupings of the original 13 colonies into 3 colonial
regions: New England (4 colonies – pg. 77), Middle Atlantic (4 colonies – pg. 83), and
South (5 colonies pg. 87).
3. ___ Create a legend for the colors you used.
4. ___ Include the date that each colony was founded on each colony.
5. ___ Create a map title.
Total: 31 points – 13 colonies, 13 dates, title and neatness 5 points
Map Two – Economic Activities Map
1. ___ Using the maps from the book on the pages above, create symbols for the economic
activities in your legend.
2. ___ Draw your created symbols on the correct regions on your map.
Total: 30 points. 15 points for your symbols (neatness and color count). 15 for proper
location. Remember, fishing was found in all colonies. Put your symbol where it is MOST
important.
Required Economic Activities:
Lumber, Grain (wheat, rye), Tobacco, Indigo, Iron, Rice, Peaches, Furs, Cotton, Fish,
Livestock, Corn, Shipbuilding, Lobsters, Apples
Now answer the following questions. Use your notes and your maps to help you find the
answers! You may use a separate sheet of paper if you wish.
1. What were three important economic activities of the New England colonies?
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2. What was the largest cash crop grown in the Virginia and Carolina colonies?
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3. What was the first permanent English colony in North America?
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4. Was farmland more extensive in the Southern or New England colonies?
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5. What economic activities in New England encouraged shipbuilding (there are at least
2)?
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6. If you were a stock herder (livestock) moving from England, in which region would
you choose to settle and why?
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7. What economic activity in the Southern colonies encouraged slavery?
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8. Why was shipbuilding an economic activity of the New England colonies but not the
Southern colonies?
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9. Why was the cultivation of tobacco, rice, and indigo an economic activity of the
Southern colonies but not of New England or the Middle colonies?
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10. If you were a carpenter moving from England, in which region would you choose to
settle and why?
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11. Which four colonies were the “breadbasket” of America (wheat, livestock, and corn)?
Name the region and the four
colonies._______________________________________________________
12. Which four colonies depended a lot on the sea? Name the region and the four
colonies.
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13. Which five colonies would be drawn together by their interest in tobacco, cotton, and
rice? Name the region and the five colonies.
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14. How did the climate and geography affect the economic activities for each region?
Explain.______________________________________________________________
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Total: 14 points.