13 COLONIES SCAVENGER HUNT

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1. Put the original 13 colonies in order from first settled to last settled. Write down the
colony and the year it was settled.

Colony Year settled

2.Colony founded by John Winthrop and the Puritans:

3. Colony founded by William Penn and the Quakers:
4. Colony founded by Lord Baltimore for Catholics:
5. Colony founded by James Oglethorpe for debtors:
6. Describe the geography of the following colonial regions:

New England:
Middle:
Southern:

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7.Motivation for settlers coming to New England:

8. Motivation for settlers coming to the Middle colonies:
9. Motivation for settlers coming to the Southern colonies:
10.This regions economy was based off of fishing and farming corn and wheat:
11. This region was almost entirely agricultural and grew tobacco, rice, and indigo on
plantations:

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12. This region was called the breadbasket because it grew many crops, such as wheat,
barley, oats, and rye:
13. This region had the toughest time with farming because of bad soil and cold, long
winters: