Southern Region Colonies By: Jacquelynn, June, Maggie, Rita, Sebastian, Sunny.
The Region Daily Life Basic Needs
Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................................Page 3
Weather and Climate...........................................................................................................................Page 4
Native Americans.................................................................................................................................Page 5
Language.............................................................................................................................................Page 6
Disease................................................................................................................................................Page 7
Tools and Food.....................................................................................................................................Page 8
Water Supplies and Clothing................................................................................................................Page 9
Glossary...............................................................................................................................................Page 10
Cited Sources.......................................................................................................................................Page 11
About the Authors.................................................................................................................................Page 12
In the 17th and 18th centuries, explorers and colonists came to the New World to establish a successful, strong colony. In order for this to happen, they needed to plan carefully for everything to make the colony strong and permanent. Some of them landed on the Middle Region, some went to the New England Region, and the others landed on the Southern Region. In this book, we will explain and describe the colonies that were established in the Southern Region.
Region Weather and Climate The climate in the Southern Colonies was the warmest of the English colonies. The warm climate made it possible to grow crops throughout the year. The weather was hot and humid, but occasionally it was cold. Actually the climate of the southern colonies was much as it is today in the southern United States. The southern colonies included the city of Charleston and the states of Maryland,South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia. The colonies enjoyed mild winters that allowed the colonists to thrive throughout the year. The warm summers and plentiful rain made this area a prime location for the growth of food crops like corn, beans, wheat, and even cotton for clothing. But the warm climate in the southern colonies had cons also. Sometimes the weather carried deadly diseases that killed a lot of the people.
Region Native Americans Do you know who Native Americans are? Native Americans are the people who originally lived in America, including Alaska and Hawaii. They are formed of lots of distinct tribes and ethnic groups. There were different types of Native Americans, for example, Northeast Woodland Indians, Southeast Woodland Indians, The Great Plains Indians, Southwest Indians, Northwest Indians, Arctic/Far North Indians, and the Central & South American Indians. Did you know that lots of them survive as intact political communities? The terms used to say that Native Americans have been likely to give rise to public disagreement. According to a 1995 U.S. Census Bureau set of home interviews, most of them called themselves "American Indians" or just "Indians".
In the earliest days of New World settlement, relations between the natives and the colonists were friendly. Native American culture valued trade as a means of binding two tribes and increasing general cooperation, so the tribes provided food, clothing, and homes for the dependent settlers in exchange for metal tools. The Native Americans also traded knowledge; they taught the settlers to be self-supporting.
Since the end of the 15th century, migration of European has started hundred of years of conflict and adaption between the Old and New World communities. A lot of the Native Americans lived as hunter-gathered communities and told their histories orally. Europeans created almost all of the surviving historical record about the conflict.
As the European settlements began to grow and intrude on more and more Native American lands, relations became more awkward. A lot of Native Americans died from European diseases which they had no resistance to. The Europeans kicked them of of their homes, took over their lands, paid them to work for them, but the Native Americans helped them survived in the new world. They should be thankful of what they have and not get what they don’t have.
Daily Life !
What Language did they use? The people in South usually known as Southern colony people are people who speaks English. The Southern region people, spread English to the Southern colonies.
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How are they Learning in Southern Colonies? The Southern Region didn’t have many schools because people didn’t live where many people live. So, the parents who have enough moneys can have tutors to teach their children. But, people who are poor and have no money, they do not getl to learn. Instead they need to be slaves and work. These are people who are trying to learn
What will happen if you were sick in colonial time?
All About Diseases What kind of medicines did people use?
If you were sick in colonial day, your At that time, people usually use plants as mother would make you as medicine, there was a plant called herbs comfortable as she could, just as were said to cure any thing your mother does now. When it was colonial day, people believe She would move your bed close to the fire to keep you warm. Then she in witches, so when you have a fever, people will do this to you: Cut your nails would think about the kind of and put it into a little bag of fine linen. medicine to give you. Put a live eel into a tub of water. Tie the little bag of nails around the eel’s neck. The eel will die and you will get better. Also, when it was colonial times, people sold medicine that time, but sometimes it was not really medicine. Some people put plain water in a fancy bottle and called it medicine!
This is a medicine shop in colonial time!
Were there doctors in colonial days? At that time, there weren’t many doctors. If you were very sick, your neighbor might be send to the nearest doctor. But your neighbor might be riding a day before he gets find a doctor. After your neighbor found a doctor, many doctors will cut open a vein in the sick man’s arm. If it didn’t made you feel better, people will say that it was the fault of witches.
Basic Needs
Tools The first few colonies in England were lucky because Native Americans were struck by diseases before people started colonies, leaving broken fields and clear villages which took minimal preparation to prepare to build on. As settlements grew, fresh land and roads needed to be cleared, so colonist used felling axes to take down huge trees that were in there way. The colonist left the tree stump from the trees to rot. They also used muskets out in the wild, for protection against wild animals and Native Americans. They used the muskets to hunt food. Colonist’s fresh cleared fields were prepared with and instrument called a breaking plough. Then the field is turned by hand with hoes and shovels until the field is loose and easily planted.
Food People that lived close to the Atlantic coast caught fish and whales, so then they sold whale and fish blubber at the fish market, near the docks. Farmers grew wheat, barley, corn, tobacco, and rice and would sell them at the town market. The crops were soled to people and traders. The traders shipped the goods to other colonies by ship, rivers along the ocean coast or on wagons.
American colonist ate a lot of fish and seafood. They ate pork, beef, and birds like heron and gulls. In certain areas they also planted food like corn and other crops. Though not all areas were good for planting. The cold
Cornucopia
The Southern Region Clothing The shirts of the colonial days are mostly worn as a male’s underclothing. It covers the body of the person neck to knee. Often, the shirts are made out of white linen that may have ruffles at their wrists and breasts. Most of the times, a laborer’s shirt is made out of unbleached linen and also has patterned stripes and checks. A plain shirt could also be utilized as a nightshirt. Women wore long dresses and aprons. They also wore bonnets and boots. In colonial days, young boys spent their first years wearing baby clothing and then a type of gown similar to those that the young girls wore. Once boys reached a certain age (between three and eight years), they began wearing trousers and coats. During most of the colonial times, boys wore full-length trousers; before and after the colonial times, boys wore short pants that came to just underneath the shins. This was one of the ways to identify colonial boys' clothing from the time of the pilgrims or from the Victorian times, which followed the colonial times. Water supplies Colonial people got their water supplies from streams, lakes, and creeks. In order to clean it, they often put the water beside the fireplace while bathing and boiled it in the fireplace while drinking it. However, they also died when there were droughts in the New World, such as the one that occurred in the year 1609, where colonists struggle to find clean water to drink. They also died when there was no clean water to drink, and there were only polluted water.
Caption: This is the picture of the colonists having a feast with the Native American Tribes.
Caption: The colonists had just settled a few days ago and preparing to build the settlement.
Glossary Bonnets:
A hat of cloth or straw, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin. Women and children
wore it. Laborer: Workers considered as a group. Utilized: To make use of something, especially for a practical purpose. Droughts: A long period of time when there is little or no rain. Indigenous: Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else. Boundaries: A real or imagined line that marks limit of edges of something and separates if form other things or places; a dividing line Ethnic: Connected with or belonging to a nation, rave of people that shared a cultural tradition. Controversial: Causing a lot of angry public discussion and disagreement. Respondents: a.) A person who answers questions, especially in a survey. b.) A person accused of something. Adaption: The process of changing something to suit a news situation. Conflict: A disagreement between two people or a community.
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BOOKS McGovern, Ann, and June Otani. --If You Lived in Colonial Times. New York: Scholastic, 1992. Print.
Sebastian
June
Jacquelynn
About the Authors Hi! We are the authors of this book. We are all 5th grade students in Shanghai American school. Our group members are Maggie, Rita, Sebastian, June, Sunny and
Jacquelynn. We have our own job and we are very cooperative when we work together. Everyone did very good research for this book. Maggie and Rita wrote about
weather, climate and native americans in the southern region colonies. Sunny and Jacquelynn wrote about the language and diseases in the southern region colonies.
June and Sebastian wrote about all basic needs for Southern region colonies. Why did we write this book? That is because we have a non-fiction project and our title is the southern region colony. Thank you to every one in this group for doing an extra page.
Everyone showed his or her strengths and  cooperation skills when we were writing this book. Rita is like our leader, she always talk to us and make sure every one is happy with their job. Maggie always helps anyone who needs help in the group. June and Sebastian is very good at teamwork and creating new things. Sunny did
research on books, websites at school and at home! Jacquelynn found a lot of information for this book and she is very good at organizing information that she found. As you can see, every one did a lot for this book. All of us hope you get information from this book and enjoy this book!
Rita
Maggie
Sunny
Colonial America This very awesome book youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read is about the Southern Colonies. It includes mainly everything you need to to know about living in the colonies. Hopefully, you had enjoyed our book and we hope you had learned a lot.
We would like special thanks to Rita, Maggie, Jacquelynn, Sunny, Sebastian, and Jun. They have worked very hard on this book. They have put in a lot of effort.
RESEARCH TOPICS " This book is written by June, Sunny, Maggie, Sebastian, Rita, and Jacquelynn. They all gathered information of the Southern Region Colonies: Maggie: The Region--- Native Americans Rita: The Region---weather/climates Sunny: Daily life---languages Jacquelynn: Daily life---diseases June: Basic Needs---water supplies/clothing Sebastian: Basic Needs---tools/foods