Social Studies

Nat Geo 8th Grade - Chapter 3 Section 1

The Middle Colonies

Essential Question

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

• The Middle Colonies’ population included Europeans from various countries, people from other English, Dutch, and West Indies colonies, and Native Americans. Lesson 3.1 explores the reasons for this diversity and the challenges it brought.

Objective

• Understand how diversity influenced events in the Middle Colonies through identifying main ideas and details, analyzing cause and effect, interpreting maps, and comparing and contrasting.

• Main Idea

• The Middle Colonies included a diverse mix of cultures and religions as people from different countries began to settle in the region.

Open Ended

Reading Check

Use complete sentences and academic language. Cite textual evidence.

What factors contributed to the diversity of the Middle Colonies?

Open Ended

Analyze Cause and Effect

What caused William Penn to allow Delaware to form its own assembly?

Open Ended

Interpret Maps

Look at the map on page 108 in your textbook. Answer the question.

Locate Delaware on the map.

Why does it make sense that Penn might have difficulty uniting people who settled there with the settlers who lived in the rest of of Pennsylvania?

Open Ended

Compare and Contrast

How did William Penn’s purpose for establishing a colony differ from Cornelius Jacobsen May’s?

Homework

Directions:

Label the 4 colonies that make up the Middle Colonies. Color them in.

See canvas for your copy.