By order of his Majesty Charles I, King of England,
The king will be arriving shortly and your expertise is needed immediately! Historians are needed to report on the 13 Original English Colonies. Through researching the colonization of America, you will discover the similarities and differences of the Southern, Middle, and New England Colonies and report your findings in the form of a poster. When reporting your findings, consider the many similarities and differences that you uncover. You will work in a team of three. Each of you will become an expert on a colony. You will be expected to do your share and compare with your teammates.
After analyzing your findings, you will publish and share the information with your classmates in the form of a booklet. Your active participation will not only help the King make informed decisions about the American colonies, but will also help you to maintain your good standing in the King's Court. You shall be greatly rewarded for excellent work. Go now and research, for the glory of England.
Sincerely, Mrs. Fortner His Majesty’s Educational Advisor Research Organizer The Southern Colonies
Use the following as a guide for your project. Please be detailed. Please provide accurate information.
1) List each colony in your region, year founded, and the founder below. Name of Colony ...... Year Founded...... Founder 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
2) Give a brief description of why these colonies were founded.
3) List three geographical characteristics of each colony. Name of Colony......
4) What role did religion play in the development of your region?
5) What methods did they use to cure or deal with illnesses?
6) Describe their economic conditions of the region.
7) Describe slavery in your region or the attitude towards it.
Research Organizer The Middle Colonies
Use the following as a guide for your project. Please be detailed. Please provide accurate information.
1) List each colony in your region, year founded, and the founder below. Name of Colony ...... Year Founded...... Founder
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
2) Give a brief description of why these colonies were founded.
3) List three geographical characteristics of each colony. Name of Colony......
4) What role did religion play in the development of your region?
5) What methods did they use to cure or deal with illnesses?
6) Describe their economic conditions of the region.
7) Describe slavery in your region or the attitude towards it.
Research Organizer The New England Colonies
Use the following as a guide for your project. Please be detailed. Please provide accurate information.
1) List each colony in your region, year founded, and the founder below. Name of Colony ...... Year Founded...... Founder
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
2) Give a brief description of why these colonies were founded.
3) List three geographical characteristics of each colony. Name of Colony......
4) What role did religion play in the development of your region?
5) What methods did they use to cure or deal with illnesses?
6) Describe their economic conditions of the region.
7) Describe slavery in your region or the attitude towards it.
Glossary of Colonial Terms
Adz, adze - Sharp-edged wood-cutting tool with an arching blade set at right angles to the handle and curving inward. Logs and beams were shaped with the adze.
Auger - A tool for boring holes in wood, having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point and a handle fixed with right angles to the top of the shank.
Awl - One hand tool/pointed instrument for making small holes in wood or leather.
Basin - Bowl-shaped container that was used to hold pudding, stew, and other semi-liquid foods.
Bellows - An instrument with an air chamber and flexible sides, for drawing in air and expelling it under strong pressure used for blowing fires.
Bell Metal - A kind of bronze, usually about 1/4 copper and 1/4 tin.
Box Iron - Iron with hollow core in which a hot iron "slug" was placed.
Brindled - Marked with streaks.
Caddis - Woolen yarn or fabric made of it in tape form for binding.
Calamanco - A glossy woolen stuff of Flanders, twilled and checkered in the warp, so that the checks are seen on one side only.
Camlet, camblet - A Name originally for a costly Oriental fabric; of fine camel’s hair; subsequently for substitutes.
Card - Implement for raising nap on cloth, essentially an iron instrument with teeth. A similar instrument used to part, comb out and set in order fibers of wool and hemp.
Chafing dish - A vessel to hold burning fuel, for heating anything placed upon it.
Chaff - Grain husks.
Chaff Bed - A mattress stuffed with grain husks.
Chaise - One horse luxury vehicle used in America from about 1700 through the Civil War. Any light carriage for pleasure driving. Also known as a "shay."
Chattels - Any property, movable or immovable, except real estate.
Clothes press - Closet for storage, movable upright closet.
Colly - Black like soot, coal-black. Cordage - Rope
Coulter - The iron blade fixed in front of the share in a plough which cuts the soil vertically.
Counterpane - Coverlet for a bed.
Cradle - A frame attached to a scythe to catch the cut grain.
Cricket - A low footstool.
Crupper - Leather strap fastened to the saddle and passed under the horse’s tail to keep the saddle from moving forward.
Damask - A rich silk fabric woven with elaborate design patterns.
Delft - A glazed white paste earthenware.
Diaper - A white linen fabric woven of patterns showing up by opposite reflections from its surface and consisting of lines crossing diamond-wise, with the spaces filled up by parallel lines, leaves, dots, etc.
Drawing knife - A knife with a handle at each end used for shaving over a surface with a drawing motion.
Drugget - Coarse woven fabric, all of wool or half wool, half silk or linen, formerly used as dress material.
Duroy or Duffle - Coarse woolen cloth.
Earthenware - Dishes post and the like made of a coarse grade of baked clay, porous clay.
Flagon - A vessel with a handle, spout and often hinged lid used to serve liquids.
Flail - Universal tool for threshing. Used to separate the grain or seed from the plant stalk (straw).
Flock Bed - A mattress stuffed with refuse of wool or cotton, consisting of coarse tufts.
Fowling Piece - A light gun for shooting birds.
Fustian - Coarse cloth made of cotton and flax twilled cotton cloth; corduroy; velveteen.
Gimblet - A small auger turned with one hand that makes a round hole in wood.
Gridiorn - A framework of parallel metal bars used from broiling flesh (meat) or fish over a fire.
Hatchel, hackle, heckle - A comb with long metal teeth for cleansing raw flax or hemp. Flax straw pulled through the iron teeth to separate fibers.
Harrow - Agricultural implement with teeth drawn over plowed land to break clods of earth. Hogshead - A liquid measure, 63 gallons; a large cask or barrel.
Holland - Unbleached linen fabric from Holland.
Housewifery - The use of the skills necessary to running an 18th century household.
Huckaback - A stout linen fabric with weft threads thrown alternately up so as to form a rough surface; used for towels.
Husbandry - The occupation of business of farming.
Ironmongery - A general named for all articles made or iron.
Kersey - A coarse woolen cloth of light weight, either smooth or ribbed.
Kneeding Trough (Dough Tray) - A wooden trough or tub in which to knead bread.
Lathe - A lathes is a machine which holds a piece of wood or metal between two centers and turns it so the work can be shaped by hand-held "turning chisels." Foot operated or hand cranked.
Linsey-Woolsey - A coarse cloth of woven linen and wool or cotton and wool threads.
Maul - A large hammer or mallet.
Manumit - To liberate from slavery.
Messuage - A home with its adjoining buildings and adjacent land.
Metheglin - a spiced mead (a liquor made of honey and water); sometimes medicated.
Moiety - A small portion or share.
Nankeen - a kind of cotton cloth, originally made at Naking from a yellow variety of cotton, but now from ordinary cotton died yellow.
Noggin - a small mug or cup.
Peel - Tool resembling a long-handled spade, used to take loaves out of the oven.
Perch - A measure of distance equal to 5 1/2 years.
Pewter - Alloy composed of tin and small amounts of other metals - lead, copper, bismuth or zinc. From 1725 to 1825 pewter was the most widely used metal in America.
Pincers - Instrument or tool having two handles and a pair of jaws working on a pivot used for holding objects or unfastening.
Pipe - A large cask with its contents, containing the volume of four barrels, or 126 gallons. Pipkin - A small cooking pot or earthenware.
Porringer - A small dish for porridge, broth or other similar foods, usually having one handle.
Reamer - A finishing tool with rotating cutting edge for enlarging or tapering a hole.
Reversion - That part of the estate which remains after the determination of the particular estate and falls into the possession of the original grantor or representative.
Riddle - A coarse sieve used for separating chaff from corn, sand from gravel, ashes from cinders.
Ripple - Comb for cleaning flax, broom corn, etc.
Scythe - Implement used for mowing and reaping, consisting of a long curved blade fixed at an angle to a long bent handle.
Seedlip - A basket in which seed is carried in the process of sowing by hand.
Sickle - An implement with a curved or crescent-shaped blade mounted on a short handle, used for cutting tall grass, grains, etc.
Stilliards - A balance for weighing that consists of a beam, a weight sliding on a graduated scale, and hooks to hold the thing being weighed.
Tallow - A mixture of animal fat refined for use in candles.
Tankard - One-handled covered drinking vessel with either dome-shaped or flat lid.
Tearce - Liquid measure; 42 gallons; 1/2 of a pipe.
Tow - Coarse fiber of flax, hemp or jute.
Trencher - A wooden plate used at the table.
Trivet - Three legged stand to hold pots of food over the coals, on the hearth and at the table.
Wimble - A boring tool, such as a gimlet or auger.
Wool Comb - Toothed instrument used in carding wool by hand.
Yeoman - Freedholder, farmer, small land owner. To Do List-Place the following information on your organizer.
1. List the colonies in your region and who was the founder of the colony? 13 Colonies http://www.cnusd.k12.ca.us/anthony-es/13founded.html
Founding the American Colonies http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
* American Colonies Chart http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/colchart.html
2. Description of why these colonies were founded. American Colonies http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
3. List three geographical characteristics of each colony. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch2_p2.htm (use the next arrow to see each colony’s information)
4. What role did religion play in the development of your region? http://www.mrnussbaum.com/13.htm
5. Describe slavery in your region or the attitude towards slavery. You will need to “dig” for this information at one of the sites below.
NOTE: Here are some great links to help you in your search for information: http://www.teacheroz.com/colonies.htm#Colonies http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_S_Colo nies.html
Conclusion: Once the Information Sheet has been completed, all 3 experts will come together to share findings. Each team member needs to share their information with the other members. After discussing the information determine the similarities and difference discovered between the regions. Create a brochure/booklet on each of your regions. Include the reasons why people might have wanted to live in the region. Your discoveries must include a minimum of 6 pages. The presentation MUST be a collaborative effort.