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are an amazing way to get your students engaged and active in their
learning! The graphic organizers and foldables in this resource are
designed to be folded, cut, glued, & written-on to enhance your
instruction of history. It’s always amazing to see the creativity
some of your students will put into their creations!
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Early Colonies Vocabulary Foldable
Directions: Cut out this foldable graphic organizer along the dotted lines and then fold and glue into your
notebook. Underneath each term write a definition in your own words on one side and then draw a picture to
represent the term on the other side of the flap.
Joint Stock Company
Glue here into Your Notebook
Virginia Company
Jamestown
Indentured Servant
House of Burgesses
Quakers
Puritans
Cavaliers
Mayflower Compact
Cash crop
Direct Democracy
Directions: Cut out the complete circle below then fold down the 3 flaps along each side. Glue the triangle down
onto your notebook where indicated then draw a picture of what Jamestown fort looked like onto the triangle.
On the reverse side of each flap, answer the question about Jamestown fort and its first settlers.
Glue
Here
Onto
Your
Notebook
Who Were the Settlers?
Directions: Many of Jamestown’s first settlers had the wrong skills needed for survival and creating a successful
colony. Some were jewelers while others were “gentlemen” looking to profit off of gold they expected to find.
Use your historical imagination to think of 4 important occupations that would have made the Jamestown colony
more successful early on. Write each of your 4 jobs on the lines and cut out your graphic organizer. After gluing
down under the title, explain the reasons for each choice on your notebook paper under each flap.
Comparing Jamestown & Plymouth Colonies Foldable
Directions: Two of the first permanent settlements in America were Jamestown in Virginia and Plymouth
Colony in Massachusetts. However, the 2 colonies were very different. Now that we have learned a little about
both, we’ll use the Interactive Venn Diagram below to compare them.
Cut along the dotted lines and place glue only behind the title so that the 3 parts can be folded up and down.
Underneath each flap, write characteristics that apply to that colony and then some that apply to both. Think
about their geography, the people who settled there and why they came, the economic activities there, and social
aspects for each colony.
Jamestown
Both
Plymouth
Comparing Jamestown & Plymouth Colonies Foldable Samples
Directions: As the colonies grew, each region developed different characteristics. Complete the following chart
with information you have learned about each region.
Colonies
New
England
Middle
Southern
Geography
Social
Aspects
Economic
Activities
Directions: Cut out this
ma and paste into your
notebook. Then label each
of the colonies and the year
it was founded
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Directions: The
Sugar Act,
Stamp Act,
Townsend Acts,
& Intolerable
Acts were all
passed by
Parliament and
met with
resistance in the
American
Colonies. Cut
out this foldable
along the dotted
lines and then
glue it into your
notebook.
Behind each
flap, describe
what the act
did. Then on
the opposing
flap, draw a
cartoon or sign
to protest the
act.
The
Stamp Act
Glue Goes Here and
Paste in Notebook
The Sugar
Act, Stamp
Act,
Townsend
Acts, &
Intolerable
Acts
The
Sugar Act
The
Townshend Acts
The
Intolerable Acts
:
Directions: King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 after Great Britain's gained French territory
from the French and Indian War. The Proclamation forbid colonists from settling past the line, which followed
along the Appalachian Mountains.
Cut out the entire map along the dotted line then cut along the dotted Proclamation Line to create a flap that you
can write under. After gluing the map into your notebook, color it and design a “No Trespassing” sign onto the
square sign shape. Then write the reasons why Great Britain issued the Proclamation on your notebook page
under the flap.
Directions: As calls for independence grew across the 13 Colonies, people began to take sides. The colonists
who favored independence from Great Britain were called Patriots. Those who wished to remain tied to Great
Britain as Colonies were called Loyalists. Many didn’t take a side at all and were called Neutrals.
Cut out the graphic organizer below and draw what you think a Patriot, Loyalist, & Neutral person might have
looked like on the body images. Then in the speech bubbles write out an explanation of why they are on that side.
Patriots
Neutrals
Loyalists
Glue Goes Here
and Paste in
Notebook
Patriot’s
Mailbox
Side Tab (glue)
Directions: Enlightenment ideas spread throughout the colonies that had a major impact on many colonists
supporting the Revolutionary cause. Cut out the folder pocket below and paste it into your notebook. Then cut
out each of the pamphlets below. Give each one a title based on what that person wrote about and then in the
space below write their most influential ideas on Revolution, Democracy, and America’s Independence.
Bottom Tab (Glue here)
By Benjamin Franklin
By Thomas Paine
By John Locke
Directions: For each box, either identify the person and draw a picture, or give a quote that represents their
contribution to this period.
I am the His Majesty, the
King of Great Britain!
As Commander, My strong
leadership of the Continental Army
helped keep it together.
________________
I was sent to France to
secure an alliance.
________________
________________
_Patrick Henry_
_Thomas Jefferson_
Directions: The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in our country’s history,
so it is important to understand what it says and what it means. Read through the shortened version below then
cut it out along the dotted lines and glue it into your notebook by placing glue only under the title. Then
summarize each part into your own words onto your notebook pages below each flap.
Preamble
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent
respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.
Statement of
Beliefs
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation
on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
List of Complaints
The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
[Lists series of complaints. Some Examples]:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
Attempts at
Negotiation
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our
repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them of attempts by
their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the
circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and
magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these
usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been
deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
Declaration
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress,
Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in
the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and
declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States;
that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection
between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free
and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances,
establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right
do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine
Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Directions: Cut out each of the two pages so that it fits across 2 pages in your notebook like a centerfold spread.
It should read “Timeline of the Revolution” going across the top. Then complete each box with information
about the battles and key events of the war. For the “Strengths” and “Weaknesses” boxes, try to think of at least
3 for each one!
Timeline of
Why were the shots fired here
called “the shot heard ‘round
the world”?
1775
What was significant
about the Battle of
Bunker Hill?
1776
I am ______________
job was to:
the Revolution
Finish this drawing of
Washington crossing the
Delaware and in the space
below explain why this
moment was significant:
1777
1778
Valley Forge
Describe the conditions that Continental
soldiers faced during their winter at Valley
Forge.
1779
1780
What happened at
Yorktown that allowed the
American Continental army to win
the war?
American Revolution Vocabulary Foldable
Directions: Cut out this foldable graphic organizer along the dotted lines and then fold and glue into your
notebook. Underneath each term write a definition in your own words on one side and then draw a picture to
represent the term on the other side of the flap.
Writ of assistance
Glue here into Your Notebook
Guerilla warfare
Revolution
Patriot
Loyalist
Siege
Redcoats
Mercenary
Boycott
Blockade
Tariff
Here are some additional resources for teaching about the Early American Colonies and Revolution that fit in
perfectly with these Interactive Notebook graphic organizers!