IntroductionIntroduction
Essential Questions: How do the Middle and Southern Colonies compare to each other and to the New England Colonies?
Analyze the picture. Who are the people in the picture? What are they doing? What historical event is happening in the picture? What differences do you notice about the people in the picture? What do those differences tell you about the people, place, and the event? Roll over the picture to get hints and more information about the event.
Don't forget the Colonial Settlement Interactive Timeline. Take a minute to roll your mouse over the timeline to learn when major events concerning early American history took place.
The Interactive Timeline has buttons for Events in Europe and Other European Colonization.
Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Identify the relationships of the Southern Colonies and Middle Colonies with the Native Americans
- Describe the motives for founding the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies
- Compare regional differences between the Middle and Southern Colonies
The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: United States History I: Objectives: 1, 1b and 2.
This lesson incorporates the following Literacy Standards: R1, R2, R4, R6, R7, R9, R10, W2, W4, W9, and W10.
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