Colonial Regions
This region had rocky soil, cold winters, and focused on fishing and shipbuilding.
What is New England?
A crop grown to sell for profit, like tobacco or rice.
What is a cash crop?
People forced to work without pay and treated as property.
What is slavery?
A group that settled in Massachusetts seeking religious freedom.
Who are the Puritans?
The 13 Colonies were located along this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This colonial region was known as the “Breadbasket.”
What are the Middle Colonies?
Large farms in the Southern Colonies that grew one main crop.
What is a plantation?
A person who worked for several years to pay for their trip to America.
What is an indentured servant?
This colony was founded as a place for debtors and to protect other colonies from Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
The country that controlled the 13 Colonies before the American Revolution.
What is Great Britain?
This region had plantations and depended heavily on enslaved labor.
What are the Southern Colonies?
Sending goods to another country to be sold.
What is exporting?
The difficult ocean journey enslaved Africans were forced to take to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
A colony founded by William Penn for religious freedom.
What is Pennsylvania?
The colonies were divided into these three regions.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
This region included Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
What are the New England Colonies?
Bringing goods into a colony from another country.
What is importing?
The trade system connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
The right to practice any religion.
What is religious freedom?
This New England colony was the center of Puritan settlement.
What is Massachusetts?
This region had fertile soil and important cities like New York and Philadelphia.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This crop made Virginia wealthy in the colonial period.
What is tobacco?
Most enslaved people in the colonies worked on these large farms.
What are plantations?
This Middle Colony was known for being catholic.
What is Maryland?
The total number of original British colonies in North America.
What is 13?