Nat Geo 8th Grade - Chapter 3 Section 3.3

Nat Geo 8th Grade - Chapter 3 Section 3.3

The Southern Colonies

Multiple Choice

Why did the Iroquois move west in the mid-1600s?

• to attack competing tribes

• to find more sources of food

• to flee the growing number of colonies

• to gain greater access to the beavers in region.

Multiple Choice

Why did the Algonquian tribes move each season?

• to stay away from the colonies

• to follow the supply of food

• to visit with other tribes

• to escape bad weather

Essential Question

How did settlers cope with challenges as they established the first 13 colonies?

The location and resources of the Southern Colonies provided new opportunities and new challenges for settlers. Lesson 3.3 discusses the expansion of colonies and commerce in the Southern Colonies and Georgia’s role in the conflict with the Spanish.

Objective

Discover why colonists moved to and settled in the Southern Colonies identifying main ideas and details, making inferences, interpreting maps, and drawing conclusions.

Main Idea

The Southern Colonies provided economic opportunities and social challenges for the colonists who settled in them.

Vocabulary

• Proprietor - a person with ownership of a colony, including the right to manage and distribute land and to establish government.

• Tributaries - a creek, stream, or river that flows into a larger river or other body of water.

• royal colonies - A colony ruled by a monarch through an appointed governor

Draw Conclusion

Why were many of South Carolina’s settlers slave owners?

Open Ended

READING CHECK

Use complete sentences and academic language. Rephrase the question in your response.

Cite textual evidence.

In what ways was Georgia different from other Southern Colonies?

Open Ended

MAKE INFERENCES

Why might James Oglethorpe have insisted on limiting the amount of land a settler could have?

Open Ended

Using the map in Lesson 3.3 answer the following question:

Find the city of Charleston on the map. What advantages do you think this city enjoyed due to its geographic location?