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Curriculum Standards

• Grade 4– The learner will be

able to identify major industries of Colonial America using a map of the original 13 colonies.

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• The first colonies in North America were along the eastern coast.

• The first permanent settlement in North America was the English colony at Jamestown, in 1607, in what is now Virginia.

• Other English colonies sprang up all along the Atlantic coast, from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south.

Jamestown

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• As more and more people arrived in the New World, more and more disputes arose over territory breaking out in wars.

• French and England fought for control of North America in what Americans call the French and Indian War.

• England won the war and gained control of Canada too.

French and Indian War

13 Colonies• By this time, the English

colonies numbered 13. They were Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

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Major Industry: Agriculture (fishing, corn, livestock), Manufacturing (lumbering, shipbuilding)

Major Cities: Boston, Quincy, Plymouth, Salem, Lexington, Concord

Colony Named for: Massachusetts tribe (word means "large hill place")

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Major Industry: Agriculture (potatoes, fishing), Manufacturing (textiles, shipbuilding)

Major Cities: Concord Colony Named for: county of Hampshire in England

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Major Industry: Manufacturing (shipbuilding, iron works), Agriculture (cattle, grain, rice, indigo, wheat)

Major Cities: New York City, Albany

Colony Named for: Duke of York

13 Colonies Major Industry: Agriculture (wheat, corn, fishing)

Major Cities: Hartford, New Haven

Colony Named for: from an Indian word that means, "beside the long tidal river"

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Major Industry: Agriculture (livestock, dairy, fishing), Manufacturing (lumbering)

Major Cities: Providence

Colony Named for: Dutch for "red island"

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Major Industry: Agriculture (wheat, corn, cattle, dairy), Manufacturing (textiles, papermaking, shipbuilding)

Major Cities: Philadelphia, Lancaster, York

Colony Named for: William Penn and sylvania, Latin for "forest"

13 Colonies Major Industry: Manufacturing (ironworking, lumbering)

Major Cities: Trenton, Princeton

Colony Named for: Isle of Jersey in England

13 Colonies Major Industry: Manufacturing (shipbuilding, iron works), Agriculture (corn, wheat, rice, indigo)

Major Cities: Baltimore, Annapolis

Colony Named for: Queen Henrietta Maria of England

13 Colonies Major Industry: Agriculture (fishing), Manufacturing (lumbering)

Major Cities: Wilmington

Colony Named for: Delaware tribe and for an early governor of colonial Virginia, Lord de la Warr

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Major Industry: Plantation agriculture (tobacco, wheat, corn)

Major Cities: Jamestown, Williamsburg, Richmond

Colony Named for: England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I

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Major Industry: Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice, tobacco)

Major Cities:Raleigh

Colony Named for: from Carolus, the Latin word for "Charles," Charles I of England

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Major Industry: Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice, tobacco, cotton, cattle)

Major Cities:Charleston

Colony Named for: from Carolus, the Latin word for "Charles," Charles I of England

13 Colonies Major Industry: Agriculture (indigo, rice, sugar)

Major Cities: Savannah

Colony Named for: England's King George II

Summary

• The 13 colonies were settled for a variety of reasons.

• The two main reasons were:–Religious freedom/autonomy

–Economic interest

13 Colonies Resources

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The 13 colonies were settled in the 1600’s.