Response questions on the test: (Pick two of the approved group--an additional question will be available as extra credit)

Crossword Puzzle

Chapter 3 Timeline

Colonies Chart (Discussed in Class)

A Hotlist on the 13 Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies
Thirteen Colonies (Answers.com)
The 13 Colonies (Social Studies for Kids)

Flipcard Activity

Chapter Quiz

Chapter 3 : The English Establish 13 Colonies

Chapter Objective
The student will understand how the first English colonies survived and began to grow, while colonists both learned from and experienced conflict with Native Americans.
 

Section 1
Early Colonies Have Mixed Success

1. To describe early English attempts at colonizing
2. To explain English financing of a colony
3. To summarize how Jamestown was founded and grew
4. To analyze the conflicts of the Jamestown colonists both with Native Americans and among the colonists themselves

Further sites:

Relation of a Voyage to Sagadahoc
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
Roanoke Revisited - National Park Service
   Search for the Lost Colony



 

Captain John Smith http://www.history.org/ foundation/ journal/ smith.cfm
In-depth look at the founder of the Jamestown settlement, including excerpts from his own accounts of the settlement's early days.

Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations http://www.virtualjamestown.org/ indentures/ about_indentures.html
This database contains the names of more than 15,000 indentured servants contracts from London, Middlesex, and Bristol. The contracts indicate the servant's name, length of indenture, and the name of the servant's parents and owner, their home province and city, occupation, destination, and ship of embarkation. The records provide a detailed composition of indentured servants in the 17th-century Atlantic World.

Rankokus Indian Reservation http://www.powhatan.org/
Web site of the Powhatan tribe, including a history of the Powhatan, a discussion of the Pocahontas myth, and information about the Powhatan today.

A Brief History of Jamestown http://www.apva.org/ history/ index.html
A brief history with links to information about John Smith, Pocahontas, and John Rolfe; images of the settlement; and a time line. 

 

Section 2
New England Colonies

1. To explain why the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony
2. To explain why the Puritans set up the Massachusetts Bay Colony
3. To identify the New England Way and to evaluate challenges to Puritan leadership
4. To summarize the causes and effects of King Philip's War and the Salem witchcraft trials

–Massachusetts Bay Colony, 16401700 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/ academics/ courses/ is182/ s02/ assignment1hp.html
Collection of primary sources relevant to life in Massachusetts during the 17th century.

Puritanism in New England http://www.victorianweb.org/ religion/ puritan2.html
Brief look at Puritanism and the Puritans of New England by a university professor.

Indians and Explorers http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/ studteaguide/ RhodeIslandHistory/ Chapt1.html
Early encounters between Europeans and Native Americans in Rhode Island are presented in the "Student/Teacher Guide, an online resource site for teachers and students who wish to increase their historical knowledge of the Rhode Island State House."

Salem Witch Trials, 1692 http://www.salemweb.com/ memorial/ default.htm
Chronology of the events surrounding the Salem witch trials. Includes links to images of the Witch Trials Memorial and to the Salem home page.

Anne Hutchinson http://www.annehutchinson.com/
Biography of Anne Hutchinson and a partial transcript of her trial.
 

Section 3
Founding the Middle and Southern Colonies

1. To compare the founding of the four Middle Colonies
2. To trace the growth of the Middle Colonies
3. To explain how economics influenced the development of the Southern Colonies
4. To identify unique reasons for the founding of Georgia and Maryland

Time Line of New Bedford http://www.newbedford.com/ chrono.html
Time line of the history of the early Quaker setlement in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

The Religious Society of Friends http://www.quaker.org
Extensive information on the Quakers, with an Internet directory of Quaker related sites.

William Penn http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ William_Penn
Encyclopedia article about Penn, including articles on his relationship with Native Americans and his visionary planning of the city of Philadelphia.

New Netherland Project http://www.nnp.org/
The New Netherland Project home page has a history and time line of the 17th century colony and information on additional resources. .

Interdisciplinary Challenge: American Colonies

Experience Colonial Life http://www.history.org/ Almanack/ life/ life.cfm
Wide-ranging source of information about colonial life in North America, including food, manners, politics, and the African-American experience.

Primary Source Explorer: The Mayflower Compact

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut http://www.law.ou.edu/ hist/ orders.html
The complete text of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, published by the University of Oklahoma Law Center.

The Mayflower Compact http://www.yale.edu/ lawweb/ avalon/ amerdoc/ mayflower.htm
Text of the 1620 Mayflower Compact, the first colonial agreement that formed a government by the consent of the English people hoping to establish a settlement in North America.