COLONIES RESEARCH


As you research your colony, use the questions below to help you get a true picture of how your colony began and what it was like in the 1700s.

1. Who started your colony?

2. Why was it founded?

3. What group of people came to your colony?

4. How did the settlers make a living?

5. Who were some famous people from your colony, and why were they important?

6. Were there any important events that happened in your colony from its founding to 1775?

 

NOTABLE PEOPLE IN COLONIAL TIMES

Northern Colonies
John Carver
William Bradford
Miles Standish
Massasoit
Samoset
Squanto (Tisquantum)
John Winthrop
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
Thomas Hooker
 

Middle Colonies
Peter Minuit
Peter Stuyvesant
John Peter Zenger
George Carteret and John Berkeley
William Penn
Benjamin Franklin
 

Southern Colonies
John Smith
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Powhatan
George Calvert
James Oglethorpe
George Washington
Martha Washington
Thomas Jefferson
George Wythe
Patrick Henry
James Geddy
Peyton Randolph
Richard Henry Lee