Colonial Homes

34 Pages·2010·43.441 MB·English

by  Verna Fisher

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HOMES
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HOMES
Verna Fisher
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Contents
Map ~ Timeline
chapter 1
A new world~
page 1
chapter 2
The First Colonial
Homes at Jamestown~
page 3
chapter 3
Different Types of Colonial Homes~
page 7
chapter 4
Native American Homes~
page 13
chapter 5
Changes in Colonial Homes
Over Time~
page 21
Glossary ~ Further Investigations ~ Index
Colonial
America
Middle
Colonies:
New York,
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
Delaware, and
Maryland.
Southern Colonies:
Virginia, North Carolina,
N
South Carolina, and
Georgia.
W E
S
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Colonial
America
1607
New England:
Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Connecticut,
1. Virginia
and Rhode Island.
2. Massachusetts
3. New York
4. New Hampshire
5. Maryland
In the 1600s, people
began leaving Europe to
6. Connecticut
settle in America. Some
7. Rhode Island
Middle were explorers searching
Colonies:
for gold, while others 8. Delaware
New York,
New Jersey, came looking for
9. North Carolina
Pennsylvania,
freedom.
Delaware, and 10. South Carolina
Maryland. Jamestown in
11. New Jersey
Virginia and Plymouth
in Massachusetts were 12. Pennsylvania
two of the earliest
13. Georgia
settlements where these
1733
people came to start a
new life.
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A New World
The first in America came from
colonists
England. To get to the , they
New World
had to travel by ship for many weeks.
When they finally reached land, they
must have been very happy, but also very
tired and hungry. Most importantly, they
needed !
shelter
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colonist: a person who shelter: a place to live that
came to settle America. protects a person from the
weather.
New World: what is now
America. It was called the wilderness: land that is
New World by people from not settled or changed by
Europe because it was new people.
to them.
Words to
Know
When the colonists arrived, most
of the land in America was forest and
. There were no towns or
wilderness
roads like the ones the colonists had left
behind in Europe.
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The First Colonial
Homes at Jamestown
In 1607, a group of
English colonists built a
settlement in Jamestown,
Virginia. Unfortunately,
the colonists were not very
prepared for this project. Many
did not know the first thing about
building a house. They also did not
have the right tools.
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Did You Know?
Words to
Know
Jamestown was the first
permanent English colony. The
colony: colonists faced disease and often
early
did not get along with their
settlement
Native American neighbors. There
in America.
was not enough food. Although
many colonists died, the colony
was still able to survive
and grow.
So, what did the colonists do? They
made the best shelter they could, with
the supplies that they had. Some may
have made a kind of tent at first, while
others were able to build small, one-room
homes.
A settled nearby at Roanoke in
colony
1587 did not survive. It is still a mystery
what happened to the people of Roanoke.
Roanoke is called the Lost Colony.
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