Fasttrack to America's Past
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   The map is shown as it appears when completed by students using color pencils.  The full size map that students will use to guide their work can be found with the link on the main index page for this section. 

   Please read the "Tips for completing the map" in the next column.
 Pages 42 & 43 - Map - Early English Colonies

Map guide, page 42

   At the bottom of the page is a section titled Map Skills: Finding Distances.  Show students how to mark the edge of a piece of paper or index card to match the scale.  Once marked, the paper or card can be lined up with two points on the map to measure the straight line distance.  Allow some variation, but the measured distance should be fairly close to these:

From Jamestown to Richmond:  47 miles.
From Plymouth to Boston:  40 miles.
From Providence to New Haven:  93 miles.

The pictures

   The first drawing shows wooden buckets and a wooden butter churn for making butter from milk.  Butter kept longer than milk without spoiling.
   The second drawing shows an early advertising image promoting tobacco from Virginia.  Tobacco was the product that saved the colony financially and made it the wealthiest of the colonies in the Colonial era.


Tips for completing the maps, page 43

   Students should work from the full size, completed map page shown with the link from this section's main index page.  Emphasize neatness from the beginning!

   Ask students to notice the famous early settlements on the maps.  Have them add the dates using a #2 pencil or erasable red ink pen.  (Color pencils are not good for small lettering, and mistakes can't be fixed if students use regular ink pens.)
 
   Next, have students color the rivers (shown with dotted lines) using a dark blue color pencil.  Label each with a #2 pencil or a blue erasable ink pen.  Remind students of the importance of rivers in the pattern of settlement.  All of the early settlements were near water because of the advantage that gave to trade and travel.
 
   Label the Chesapeake Bay as well.
 
   Finally, ask students to shade the water areas very lightly with a light blue color pencil.  Emphasize this point - scribbled or dark blue coloring will make the maps unusable.







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   Copyright 2018 by David Burns.  All rights reserved.  Illustrations and reading selections appearing in this work are taken from sources in the public domain and from private collections used by permission.  Sources include: the Dover Pictorial Archive, the Library of Congress, The National Archives, The Hart Publishing Co., Corel Corporation and its licensors, Nova Development Corporation and its licensors, and others.  Maps were created or adapted by the author using reference maps from the United States Geological Survey and Cartesia Software.  Please see the home page for this title for more information.