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Study Guide for SOL 1.5 a, b, c
Name of Colony
Reason Settled
1. Massachusetts Bay Colony
Religious freedom
2. Plymouth Colony
Religious freedom
3. Pennsylvania Colony
Religious freedom
4. Jamestown Colony
economic
5. Lost Colony of Roanoke
economic
6. Colony of Georgia
economic
 Please trace the borders
of the
New England,
Mid- Atlantic/ Middle
Colonies,
and Southern Colonies.
New England- New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut
Middle- New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Delaware
Southern-Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia
SOL 1.5b Essential Questions
How did climate, geographic features, and other available resources distinguish the three
regions from each other?
How did people use the natural resources of their region to earn a living?
What are the benefits of specialization and trade?
RESOURCES
Complete the Chart
Colonies
New England
Natural Resources
Human Resources
Skilled craftsmen,
shopkeepers,
timber, fish, deep harbors shipbuilders
Middle
rich farmland, rivers
Skilled and unskilled
workers,
fishermen
Southern
rivers, fertile farmland,
harbors
Farmers, enslaved
Africans
Climate and geography-fill in the blanks
9. New England
- Appalachian Mountains, Boston Harbor
- Hilly terrain, rocky soil , jagged coastlines
- moderate summers & cold winters
10. Middle Colonies
- Appalachian Mountains, coastal lowlands, harbors and bays
- Wide and deep rivers
- mild winters and moderate climate
11. Southern
- Appalachian Mountains, Piedmont, Atlantic Coastal Plain
- Good harbors and rivers
-humid climate and hot summers
SPECIALIZATION- focusing on one or more products.
Complete the Chart
Colonies
Specialization
New England
Fishing, shipbuilding, naval supplies,
metal tools and equipment
Livestock , grains, and fish
Middle
Tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton, forest
products
Southern
INTERDEPENDENCE- two or more people depending on each other for goods and services.
Complete the Chart
Colonies
From
New England
From Middle
From Southern
Livestock and
grains
Crops- tobacco, indigo,
rice, cotton, forest
products
To New England
X
To Middle
Metal tools and
equipment
To Southern
Metal tools and
equipment
X
Livestock and
grains
Crops- tobacco, indigo,
rice, cotton, forest
products
X
SOL 1.5c Essential Question
How did people’s lives vary among different SOCIAL GROUPS in colonial America?
Match the social group to its description
18. d large landowner
22. c free Africans
19. e
23. f indentured servants
farmers
20. b artisans
24. g enslaved African Americans
21. a women
a. worked as caretakers, house workers, homemakers, could not vote, had few
chances for an education
b. worked as craftsmen in towns and on the plantation, lived in small villages and
cities
c. were able to own land, had more economic freedom and could work for pay and
decide how to spend their money, not allowed to vote
d. lived predominately in the South, relied on indentured servants and/or slaves for
labor, were educated in some cases, had rich social culture
e. worked the land according to the region, relied on family members for labor
f. consisted of men and women who did not have money for passage to the
colonies and who agreed to work without pay for the person who paid their
passage, were free at the end of their contract
g. were captured in their native Africa, and sold to slave traders, then were shipped
to the colonies where they were sold into slavery, were owned as property for life
with no rights, were often born into slavery. (children of slaves (enslaved African
Americans) were born into slavery)
Be prepared to explain the difference between indentured servants and enslaved
African Americans.