This 2-page worksheet is designed to help students understand how the Age of Exploration initiated the 13 colonies in America. Students answer 5 questions about the colonies and treatment of Native Americans and then on the back students read more about the colonies or analyze a map and 5 complete sentences about what they learned.

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
