The thirteen colonies

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This is a Powerpoint for a unit on the Thirteen colonies in our 5th grade Social Studies.


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The Thirteen Colonies
The Beginning of a New Nation

New England Colonies
•Founded 1630 Massachusetts

•Founded 1636 Connecticut

•Founded 1636 Rhode Island

•Founded 1680 New Hampshire

Colonial families began to settle.

They built houses and farmed the land.

Saltbox houses were built in New England Colonies.

Middle Colonies

•Founded 1624 New York

•Founded 1638 Delaware

•Founded 1664 New Jersey

•Founded 1681 Pennsylvania

Families brought livestock to help work the farms.

Horses provided transportation also.

Southern Colonies
•Founded in 1607 Virginia

•Founded in 1632 Maryland

•Founded in 1663 North Carolina

•Founded in 1712 South Carolina

•Founded in 1733 Georgia

Plantation houses were built in the southern colonies.

Southern colonists grew cotton on plantations.

They also grew tobacco on their plantations.
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