Original Colony Brochure
Imagine that you are living in the colony that you are researching, but it is the early 1700s. Create a travel brochure to get people from England to come visit the colony. Your brochure must include information on the history, religion, climate/geography, and economics for your colony. Remember, you live there, so the only real part of the brochure that you would write about in the past-tense is the information on how and why the colony was founded.
Click here for another copy of the research worksheet. Click here for a copy of the brochure requirements.
See the websites below for some excellent research resources: |  |
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/13colonies/13profiles.htm
This is one of the best recources I found! It has an interactive map, information for each colony, clickable pictures, and more. Thanks Mr. Nussbaum!
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
If you are just looking for straight information the above website has a couple paragraphs for each colony.
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/colonialamerica/a/colonylist.htm
For some quick facts and an early colony quiz go to this link provided for about.com.
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_NE_Colonies.html
New Enlgand colonies information.
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Mid_Colonies.html
Middle colonies information.
http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/colonization_s_colonies.html
Southern colonies information.
There are also many other great websites, like the one that provided the chart below. If you find another excellent site that might be useful to other students please e-mail it to me!
|
Colony |
Founded |
Founders |
Major Industry |
Major Cities |
Colony Named for |
Became a State |
|
Massachusetts |
1630 |
John Winthrop and others |
fishing, corn, livestock, lumbering, shipbuilding |
Boston, Quincy, Plymouth, Salem, Lexington, Concord |
Massachusetts tribe (word means "large hill place") |
February 6, 1788 |
|
New Hampshire |
1638 |
John Wheelwright and others |
potatoes, fishing, textiles, shipbuilding |
Concord |
June 21, 1788 | |
|
Connecticut |
c.1635 |
Thomas Hooker and others |
wheat, corn, fishing |
Hartford, New Haven |
from an Algonquin word, quinnehtukqut, "beside the long tidal river" |
February 6, 1788 |
|
New York |
1626 |
Peter Minuit and others |
shipbuilding, iron works, cattle, grain, rice, indigo, wheat |
New York City, Albany |
July 26, 1788 | |
|
New Jersey |
1664 |
English colonists |
ironworking, lumbering |
Trenton, Princeton |
December 18, 1787 | |
|
Pennsylvania |
1682 |
William Penn and others |
wheat, corn, cattle, dairy, textiles, papermaking, shipbuilding |
Philadelphia, Lancaster, York |
December 12, 1787 | |
|
Delaware |
1638 |
Peter Minuit and others |
Fishing, lumbering |
Wilmington |
named for the Delaware tribe and for an early governor of colonial Virginia, Lord de la Warr |
December 7, 1787 |
|
Maryland |
1633 |
Lord Baltimore and others |
shipbuilding, iron works, corn, wheat, rice, indigo |
Baltimore, Annapolis |
April 28, 1788 | |
|
Virginia |
1607 |
John Smith and others |
Plantation agriculture (tobacco, wheat, corn |
Jamestown, Williamsburg, Richmond |
England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I |
June 25, 1788 |
|
Rhode Island |
1636 |
Roger Williams |
Lumber, shipbuilding, fishing, farming, dairy |
Providence |
for the Isle of Rhodes (in the Mediterranean Sea) or for its red clay (Dutch explorer Adriaen Block may have named it "Rood Eylandt" meaning Red Island, in Dutch) |
May 29, 1790 |
|
North Carolina |
1653 |
Virginia colonists |
Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice, tobacco) |
Raleigh |
from Carolus, the Latin word for "Charles," Charles I of England |
November 21, 1789 |
|
South Carolina |
1663 |
English colonists |
Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice, tobacco, cotton, cattle) |
Charleston |
from Carolus, the Latin word for "Charles," Charles I of England |
May 23, 1788 |
|
Georgia |
1732 |
James Oglethorpe |
indigo, rice, sugar |
Savannah |
January 2, 1788 |
Most of the table information is from Kathy Roberts: http://kathydoty.com/colonies/13colonies.html
