The 13 Colonies Reading Passages Comprehension Worksheets Thirteen Colonies

The 13 Colonies Passages, Questions, and Annotations {Thirteen Colonies}

This resource contains 5 Engaging, Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages with Directions for Student Annotations! Reading Comprehension Questions also included!

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Questions & Answer Keys for Each of the 5 Reading Passages!

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Quick overview of topics covered in this resource include:

1.) The 13 Colonies: New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies

-The colonies were considered the first “13 States” of America (broad overview of the three types of colonies)

-Separated into three sections based on lifestyle (New England Colonies, The Middle Colonies, and The Southern Colonies)

-New England Colonies Overview: Colonists came for religious freedom, weather and terrain.

-Middle Colonies Overview: More diverse religions and cultures– Quakers, Lutherans, Dutch

Calvinists, and other religious groups

-Farming was much easier in the Middle Colonies

-Southern Colonies Overview: cash crops played a big role

-slaves and indentured servants were used as a workforce on plantations

-experienced outbreaks of malaria and yellow fever.

-bays, rivers, wetlands

Keywords: terrain, indentured servants, cash crop, whale oil, plantation, tobacco

2.) The New England Colonies (Massachusetts {Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay}, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island)

-Plymouth Colony (Founder/Governor, year founded, Mayflower Compact overview

-Massachusetts Bay (Founder, “City upon a hill” (John Winthrop wanted this colony to set an example for the rest)

-Connecticut Colony (Thomas Hooker, year founded, – disagreed with Puritans, created the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut”, limiting government powers and it guaranteed more rights to individuals

-New Hampshire (year founded, founder, dominated by puritans – whales, fur, and fish were natural resources)

-Rhode Island (Year founded, founder) Roger Williams founded the colony but was later banished for spreading “dangerous opinions” – wanted separation of church and state

Keywords: Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Puritans, religious tolerance

3.) The Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware)

-New York Colony

Year founded, founded by Dutch Colonists

-describe climate and natural resources -no specific religion

-New Jersey Colony

-Year founded, founders

-first split into East and West, both had their own constitution set in place.

-Iron ore resource

-Pennsylvania Colony

-year founded, founder

-had religious tolerance, but mostly dominated by Quakers

-referred to as “holy experiment” colony by William Penn – wanted freedom of religion

-Delaware Colony

-year founded, founders

-founded because of rich soil, known as a breadbasket colony

-overview of how the ownership of this colony frequently changed

Keywords: Religious Freedom, Quakers, Breadbasket colony, William Penn

4.) The Southern Colonies (Virginia, Maryland, Georgia)

-Virginia Colony

1607, John Smith

-First searched for gold, then built plantations to grow cash crops (overview of plantations)

-Overview of Powhatan Wars (building plantations and taking over Powhatan territory)

-Maryland Colony

-foundation date, founded by

- -religious freedom for Catholics

-The Toleration Act (promised Christians could worship freely)

-plantations grew corn, fruit, cotton, and tobacco

-Georgia Colony

-foundation date, founded by

-Land given from King George II – where debtors seek refuge from the money they owed back in England – would be thrown in jail if you couldn’t earn the money back. The colony was used as a solution

-Slavery was (at first) not allowed, but later changed.

Keywords: Cash crops, plantations, Powhatan wars, The Toleration Act, debtors

5.) Southern Colonies Continued: (North and South Carolina)

North Carolina Colony

-foundation date, founded by

-overview of how The Carolinas were once a single colony but then separated into North and South.

-King Charles II gave the land to eight noblemen (the Lord Proprietors)

-the Lord Proprietors separated the colonies

South Carolina Colony

-foundation date, founded by

-Colonists first settled in Southern part – land was better for farming, more plantations developed. Slaves made up a large portion of population, they were the work force.

-Overview of what the plantations grew, overview of Atlantic slave trade, tobacco, cotton, cash crops

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