Mrs. Clarks Notes

Question 1

What was colonial life based on?

Answer 1

A. Manufacturing
B. Agriculture
C. Shipbuilding
D. Memes

Question 2

Which was not a small business in New England?

Answer 2

A. Shipbuilding
B. Blacksmiths
C. Furniture makers
D. Gunsmiths

Question 3

Who in the family worked in the New England Colonies?

Answer 3

A. Just the father
B. Just the mother
C. Just the children
D. All of the above

Question 4

What was an important industry in New England?

Answer 4

A. Blacksmiths
B. Shipbuilding
C. Gunsmiths
D. Memers

Question 5

Who’s cities on the coast served as as the center of trade in all of the world

Answer 5

A. New England
B. Middle Colonies
C. Southern Colonies
D. Mexico

Question 6

Most people were what in the middle colonies?

Answer 6

A. Business owners
B. Farmers
C. Priests
D. Memers

Question 7

The soil and the weather was better in the middle colonies than what other region of colonies?

Answer 7

New England

Question 8

What are crops that could be sold easily in the colonies and in other countries?

Answer 8

Cash Crops

Question 9

What two cities were important ports in were important ports and the 2 largest colonial cities?

Answer 9

New York City and Philadelphia

Question 10

In the middle colonies what did the what were some large businesses?

Answer 10

Lumber mills, mines, small scale manufacturing

Question 11

From what different countries were there settlers?

Answer 11

Scottish, Irish, German, Dutch, and Sweedish

Question 12

How were the conditions for the farming in the southern colonies?

Answer 12

Fertile soil and warm climate

Question 13

Most southerners made their living from what?

Answer 13

Farming

Question 14

What did the southerners have little of?

Answer 14

Commerce or industry

Question 15

Were were the large plantations located in the Southern Colonies?

Answer 15

The coast

Question 16

What are plantations?

Answer 16

Small villages

Question 17

Where were plantations built and why?

Answer 17

Near rivers so crops could be easily shipped to market

Question 18

Small plantations had how many slaves?

Answer 18

Less than 50

Question 19

Large plantations had how many slaves?

Answer 19

More than 200

Question 20

What was the backcountry?

Answer 20

A region of hills and forests between the mountains and the coast.

Question 21

What crop was the main cash crop in Maryland and Virginia that required a lot of labor?

Answer 21

Tobacco

Question 22

Where did did slaveholders who grew tobacco sell it?

Answer 22

Europe

Question 23

What was the main cash crop in South Carolina and Georgia?

Answer 23

Rice

Question 24

Where was slavery practiced long before the Europeans brought it to America?

Answer 24

West Africa

Question 25

What about slaves became a major part of the colonial economy?

Answer 25

Slave trade

Question 26

How were slaves brought across the ocean?

Answer 26

The middle passage

Question 27

Where did most slaves work?

Answer 27

Fields

Question 28

How were slaves treated?

Answer 28

Brutally

Question 29

What were the slave codes?

Answer 29

Rules about how the slaves could behave and be punished

Question 30

What were some examples of slave codes?

Answer 30

They couldn't leave plantations without permission, it was illegal to teach them to read or write.

Question 31

What was the slaves punishment if they broke the slave codes?

Answer 31

Whipped, hung, beaten severely, or burned to death

Question 32

What did slaves have with their families that were sometimes broke?

Answer 32

Strong family ties

Question 33

What trades did some slaves learn?

Answer 33

Carpentry, blacksmithing, weaving

Question 34

Who were the colonists whe were against slavery?

Answer 34

Puritans, Quakers, and Mennonites

Question 35

Many Europeans followed what theory?

Answer 35

Mercantilism

Question 36

What is mercantilism?

Answer 36

Building wealth and power to build their supply of silver and gold

Question 37

To achieve the goal of mercantilism, the countries had to...

Answer 37

Export more than they import

Question 38

Why did the Europeans establish the American colonies?

Answer 38

To get the raw materials that they had

Question 39

What acts did the English pass in the 1650's?

Answer 39

Navigation acts

Question 40

What were the Navigation Acts?

Answer 40

Colonists had to sell their goods to England no matter what. Any items from a different European country had to go through England first and get taxed.

Question 41

The colonists began to do what to the Acts?

Answer 41

They resented or rebelled against them.

Question 42

As a result of the resent of the acts, what happened?

Answer 42

They began smuggling goods