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    1) Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607. Life there was challenging for the colonists as few knew how to grow crops, and many starved. 2) Other southern colonies like Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were founded for reasons like religious freedom and economic opportunities. 3) Farming, the use of indentured servants and later slavery became important to the economies of the southern colonies. Plantations grew tobacco and other crops with slave labor.

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    1) Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607. Life there was challenging for the colonists as few knew how to grow crops, and many starved. 2) Other southern colonies like Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were founded for reasons like religious freedom and economic opportunities. 3) Farming, the use of indentured servants and later slavery became important to the economies of the southern colonies. Plantations grew tobacco and other crops with slave labor.

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    1) Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607. Life there was challenging for the colonists as few knew how to grow crops, and many starved. 2) Other southern colonies like Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were founded for reasons like religious freedom and economic opportunities. 3) Farming, the use of indentured servants and later slavery became important to the economies of the southern colonies. Plantations grew tobacco and other crops with slave labor.

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    Name ________________________________ Class ____________________ Date _____________

    The English Colonies


    Lesson 1

    Main ideaS
    1. Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America.
    2. Daily life in Virginia was challenging to the colonists.
    3. Religious freedom and economic opportunities were motives for founding
    other southern colonies, including Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia.
    4. Farming and slavery were important to the economies of the southern
    colonies.

    Key Terms and People


    Jamestown an English settlement in Virginia founded in 1607
    John Smith a colonist and leader of Jamestown
    Pocahontas a Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe
    colonists who reached America by working for free for
    indentured servants
    other people who had paid for their journeys
    Bacon’s Rebellion an uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against high taxes
    Toleration act of 1649 an act that made limiting the religious rights of
    Christians a crime
    Olaudah equiano a former slave who wrote down his experiences
    slave codes laws to control slaves

    Lesson Summary
    SeTTLeMenT in JaMeSTOWn
    Life in Jamestown was hard because few colonists Why did many colonists in
    knew how to grow crops. Captain John Smith Jamestown starve?
    worried about the lack of food, and many Because the lack of
    knowledge to grow crops
    colonists starved. The Powhatan helped them
    grow crops.
    Pocahontas helped unite the Powhatan and the
    colonists, but she died in 1617. Fighting broke
    out between the colonists and the Powhatan and
    went on for the next 20 years. The colony existed
    under the authority of a governor chosen by the
    king.

    © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    26 Guided Reading Workbook


    Name_________________________________ Class_____________________ Date   _____________

    Lesson 1, continued

    DAILY LIFE IN VIRGINIA


    Colonists began forming large farms called
    plantations where they grew tobacco. At first
    indentured servants worked on plantations. The
    demand for workers became greater than the
    number of indentured servants. So in 1619 the
    first Africans came to Virginia. The cost for
    slaves was not very high. These factors led
    wealthy farmers to begin using slave labor.
    Colonial officials began raising taxes and What happened to
    encouraging trade with Native Americans. In Jamestown in 1676?
    1676 Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy frontier farmer, In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon
    led Bacons Rebellion. They
    led Bacon’s Rebellion. Bacon and his followers didn't agree with the leaders
    did not agree with leaders, so they burned so they burned down
    Jamestown. jamestown.

    OTHER SOUTHERN COLONIES


    Maryland was founded south of Virginia as a
    new colony for Catholics. In the 1640s
    Protestants began moving in, which led to
    religious problems between Protestants and
    Catholics. The Toleration Act of 1649 made Underline the sentence that
    limiting religious rights of Christians a crime in describes the purpose of
    the Toleration Act of 1649.
    Maryland.
    The Carolinas and Georgia were formed south
    of Virginia and Maryland. South Carolina had
    many large plantations, and owners bought slaves
    to work on them. In Georgia many huge rice
    plantations were worked by thousands of slaves.

    ECONOMIES OF THE SOUTHERN COLONIES


    The economies of the southern colonies were How did a former slave
    based on farming. Many small farms and some describe treatment of
    slaves?
    small plantations meant a large group of workers
    was needed, so African slaves became these slaves were often
    tortured,murdered, and
    workers. Slavery was brutal. A man named treated with great cruelty
    Olaudah Equiano, who had been enslaved, wrote
    that slaves were often tortured, murdered, and
    treated with great cruelty. Most of the southern
    states passed slave codes to control slaves.

    © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    27 Guided Reading Workbook


    Name_________________________________ Class_____________________ Date   _____________

    Lesson 1, continued

    CHALLENGE ACTIVITY
    Critical Thinking: Sequence Create a timeline
    showing the dates of important events in the
    southern colonies.

    Bacon’s Rebellion indentured servants Pocahontas


    Jamestown Olaudah Equiano Toleration Act of 1649
    John Smith

    DIRECTIONS Read each sentence and choose the correct term from
    the word bank to replace the underlined term. Write the term in the
    space provided and then define the term in your own words.
    1. John Rolfe wrote about the brutal conditions he experienced as a slave.
    Olaudah Equiano
    treated with great cruelty
    Your definition:
    Olaudah Equiano was treated harshly, and was tortured.

    2. Colonists called Pilgrims signed contracts agreeing to work on plantations


    and farms in exchange for the payment of their journey to
    America. indentured servants

    Your definition:
    They Were willing to work for around 7 years as servants, for there migration to america.

    © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    28 Guided Reading Workbook


    Name_________________________________ Class_____________________ Date   _____________

    Lesson 1, continued

    3. A group of former indentured servants led by a wealthy frontier farmer began


    an uprising called the slave codes. Bacons Rebellion

    Your definition:
    Bacons rebellion was a group of people that rioted against the leaders and burned down
    jamestown.

    4. The plantation system made restricting religious rights of Christians a crime,


    and was the first law supporting religious tolerance passed in the English
    colonies. Toleration Act of 1649

    Your definition:
    it made limiting religious rights of Christians a crime in Maryland.

    © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    29 Guided Reading Workbook

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