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Colonial America, Lesson 3
Lesson Activities
1. to get more people to settle in New Netherland
2. New Amsterdam
3. New Amsterdam
4. proprietor
5. New Jersey had no natural harbors that could
become good ports.
6. Students should underline: “people who refuse to
use force or fight in wars”; Quakers
7. Students should underline: “As a result,
Pennsylvania had better relations with Native
Americans than many other colonies”; Penn paid
Native Americans for their land instead of just
taking it.
8. make laws
9. to put his Quaker ideas into practice
10. Answers may include: New Netherlands colony
was controlled by the Dutch; England attacked
New Amsterdam; New Amsterdam was renamed
New York City; part of New Netherlands became
New Jersey; Quakers and William Penn settled
Pennsylvania; Penn gave Swedish colonists their
own colony; that colony was named Delaware.
Check for Understanding
New Jersey from New York; Delaware from
Pennsylvania
Any two of the following: Dutch, Irish, Welsh, Germans,
Swedes
Colonial America, Lesson 4
Lesson Activities
1. If they did not have enough money to come to the
colonies, they could become an indentured servant
to have their voyage paid for and a place to live
and work.
2. Indentured servants agreed to work for a certain
number of years; enslaved persons were forced to
work all their lives.
3. as a place where Catholics could worship freely
4. Students should underline: “Act of Toleration.”
5. It showed that government must listen to the
people’s demands.
6. Bacon was unhappy the government had promised
not to move into Native American lands; he felt
the colonial government was dominated by people
who lived in eastern Virginia.
7. a written plan of government
8. tobacco, timber, tar
9. Students should underline: “people who owe other
people money.”
10. Georgia was founded as a place to give debtors
and poor people a fresh start and to act as a
barrier against Spanish expansion.
11. Answers may include: Large crops of indigo and
rice required lots of workers; slaves were used to
work fields; governor stopped settlements to
west in Virginia; Bacon’s Rebellion; tension
between Catholics and Protestants in Maryland;
boundary disputes between Maryland and
Pennsylvania.
Check for Understanding
Bacon and others who lived in western Virginia did not
like the fact that the governor stopped western
settlement. Also, they felt the government was
dominated by people who lived in eastern Virginia.
Maryland faced a border dispute with Pennsylvania and
tension between Protestants and Catholics.