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Grade 3 Social Studies · World 7: Colonial America · Level 48
The Mid-Atlantic
Wheat farms, busy ports, many religions side by side, and church schools.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 48
- Next stop, the Mid-Atlantic: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
- Economy: rich soil and a milder climate made great farmland. Farmers grew so much wheat that these were the breadbasket colonies. Mills ground the wheat into flour.
- Wide rivers carried the flour to busy ports. New York and Philadelphia grew into two of the biggest cities in the colonies.
- Religion: many religions lived side by side: Quakers, Lutherans, Catholics, Jews, and more. William Penn welcomed people of every faith to Pennsylvania. Settlers came from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden.
- Education: most schools were run by churches. Many boys became apprentices, learning a trade from a skilled worker.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS3H3.b — Compare and contrast colonial life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies (education, economy, and religion).
- SS3G3.c — Explain how the physical geography of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies helped determine economic activities.