Social Studies Printables
Social Studies Printables
Social Studies Printables
DELAWARE
Delaware, one of the four Middle colonies, is known as the First State. The nickname fits so
well because Delaware was the first of the thirteen original colonies to become a state.
DUTCH COLONISTS
In 1631, the Dutch built the first
settlement in Delaware. They planned to make
money hunting whales and making whale oil.
Unfortunately, the Dutch colony only
lasted one year. It was completely destroyed
after a disagreement with the nearby Native
Americans of the Lenni-Lenape tribe.
PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania, the Quaker State or Keystone State, was one of four Middle colonies.
Pennsylvania was nicknamed the Quaker
State because William Penn, a Quaker,
founded a colony in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is known as the
Keystone state because it is located in the
center of the thirteen original colonies.
NORTH CAROLINA
North Carolina, one of five Southern colonies, is known as the Tarheel State. This
nickname was chosen for North Carolina
during the Revolutionary War when British
soldiers marched into the Tar River. They
reported their feet were blackened with tar that
had been dumped into the river.
In this activity, you will analyze the causes and effects of major events in the North Carolina
Colony’s history.
Part I Choose the next two blank face-to-face pages in your History notebook.
Follow the directions below and on the next page to assemble and glue two
Cause and Effect Organizers securely into your History notebook.
1. Cut out two Cause and Effect Patterns, six Labels, two Titles, and
12 Effect Statements along the dark solid lines.
6. Glue one completed Cause and Effect Organizer onto the left side
and one onto the right side of your notebook.
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Sir Walter Raleigh 12,000 acres
of land in Ireland and permission
to establish a colony in America.
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by John White, to Roanoke Island.
PATTERN
CAUSE... EFFECT...
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as the Lords Proprietors. They
made new laws and sold land in
the Carolinas that was already
owned by Native Americans.
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covered with trees and corn
PATTERN
CAUSE... EFFECT...
Carolina’s soil was perfect for
growing tobacco plants, but the
coast of Carolina was blocked by
sandbars and reefs.
CAUSE AND EFFECT
LABELS AND TITLE
CAROLINA
COLONY
CAROLINA
COLONY
CAROLINA
COLONY
CAROLINA
COLONY
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What happened to them is still a mystery to
unfair laws. this day.
Eleanor Dare had a baby soon after the In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh sent a group of
colonists arrived at Roanoke Island. Her 108 men to Roanoke Island, near the coast
daughter, Virginia Dare, was the first of present-day North Carolina.
English child born in the New World.
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Colonists ate corn bread, corn stew, and By the late 1690s, Carolina had become the
corn on the cob. Mattresses were stuffed poorest of England’s thirteen colonies.
EFFECT
with corn husks. Any part of the corn that Runaway slaves, poor families, and religious
groups seeking freedom flocked to Carolina.
STATEMENTS
Sir Walter Raleigh used his land in Ireland The first colony in the Carolinas did not do
to plant the country’s first crops of very well.
potatoes.