New England/Middle/Southern Colonies

Question 1

What were the New England Colonies?

Answer 1

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire

Question 2

Why did the first settlers of the New England Colonies go there?

Answer 2

Religious freedom.

Question 3

Why did the English government support all of the colonies?

Answer 3

They were competing for wealth as well as land.

Question 4

What was the climate of the New England Colonies?

Answer 4

Long, cold winters and rocky hilly wilderness.

Question 5

What was made difficult in the New England Colonies due to the climate and what did the colonists use it for instead?

Answer 5

Farming was difficult so instead they took advantage of the sea and built economy on small farms, lumbering, fishing, shipbuilding, trade (fur trading).

Question 6

___ grow enough crops to ___ but not ___ (New England)

Answer 6

Can, live, trade.

Question 7

Port of Boston (New England)

Answer 7

Profitable, everything ran through there, lots of trade

Question 8

Middle Colonies

Answer 8

NY, Pennsylvania, NJ, Delaware

Question 9

What backgrounds did the first settlers have? (MC)

Answer 9

Diverse cultural and religious backgrounds

Question 10

Land (MC)

Answer 10

Landscape ranged from rich soil of Coastal New Jersey and Delaware to the valleys and wooded mountains of New York and Pennsylvania

Question 11

What did the farmers raise (MC) + What opportunities

Answer 11

Livestock, various crops, lumbering and ship building

Question 12

____ started the colony of Pennsylvania for ____ and then other groups with the same ___ followed and settlements of ____(4)

Answer 12

The Quakers, Pennsylvania, goal, French, Dutch, Germans, English

Question 13

Southern Colonies

Answer 13

Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia

Question 14

Geography + climate (SC)

Answer 14

Broad rivers, vast wetlands that merged with the sea

Question 15

The ___ and the ___ and ___ climate were ideal for growing ___ such as tobacco and rice (SC)

Answer 15

Soil, hot, wet, cash crops

Question 16

What did wealthy colonists due with the given climate? (SC)

Answer 16

They took advantage of it by making plantations

Question 17

What did the plantation owners rely on? (SC)

Answer 17

They relied on indentured servants and enslaved Africans for transport

Question 18

After harvested, the crops were brought by ___ to the ___ and then loaded on ___ for transport (SC)

Answer 18

River, coast, ships

Question 19

Mercantilism

Answer 19

Keeps the mother country richer than colony and only allows trade with the mother country but mother country can trade with other countries

Question 20

Why did the king allow the illegal trade that was going on with his colonies?

Answer 20

Colonies must give 1/5 of their profits to the mother country

Question 21

How could the colonists settle?

Answer 21

With permission from the King of England and he had to issue a charter to every colony but they needed to make their own laws b/c they were too far away

Question 22

Why did most colonies develop different governments?

Answer 22

Based on different purposes

Question 23

What was the general assembly?

Answer 23

A group of elected, white, land-owning, puritan, men who made the laws

Question 24

In ___ religious colonists established a ___. However, a system of town meetings emerged in which colonists ___ for ___ to ___ them.

Answer 24

Massachusetts, theocracy, voted, representatives, govern.

Question 25

Who could vote in most Colonies?

Answer 25

Free, white, landowning men, but in other Colonies, they also had to belong to the preferred church. Other colonists, including women, slaves, servants, and tradespeople who were not landowners could not vote.

Question 26

What colonial region was considered the “breadbasket colony”

Answer 26

The middle colonies because they exported grains

Question 27

Which product did the New England colonies export?

Answer 27

Lumbering and ship building materials

Question 28

Warmer Longer growing season Fertile soil Than New England colonies

Answer 28

Middle colonies

Question 29

What did the Middle Colonies grow and what was their cash crop?

Answer 29

They grew wheat, fruits, and vegetables Cash crop = wheat

Question 30

What are the two important rivers in the Middle Colonies

Answer 30

The Hudson River and the Delaware River

Question 31

Much of the Middle Colonies is ___

Answer 31

Lowlands

Question 32

What was the climate of the Southern Colonies?

Answer 32

Warm climate with hot summers and mild winters

Question 33

What was the geography of the southern colonies?

Answer 33

Coastal plains in the East to Piedmont farther inland

Question 34

What were the westernmost regions like in the Southern colonies?

Answer 34

Mountainous

Question 35

Growing climate in Southern colonies?

Answer 35

The soil was perfect for farming and had the longest growing season

Question 36

What did the hot summers cause in the Southern Colonies?

Answer 36

Diseases such as malaria and yellow fever

Question 37

Why did religion not have as large of an impact in the Southern colonies?

Answer 37

People lived on plantations that were often distant

Question 38

What was the southern colony entirely based on

Answer 38

Farming

Question 39

What crops were grown in the southern colonies and where?

Answer 39

Rice indigo tobacco sugarcane and cotton were cash crops Crops grown on large plantations where indentured servants and slaves worked

Question 40

There were a lot of ___ churches in the South

Answer 40

Baptist