Colonial Regions
Which colonial region was known for rocky soil and long winters?
Answer: What is New England?
Which crop increased the demand for slave labor in the South?
Answer: What is tobacco?
The Great Awakening was a period of increased ______ preaching.
Answer: What is religious?
The colony that began as the Dutch settlement “New Amsterdam.”
Answer: What is New York?
The New England town meeting is an example of:
Answer: What is direct democracy?
Which colonial region was called the “Breadbasket Colonies”?
Answer: What are the Middle Colonies?
A worker who agreed to labor for several years in exchange for passage to America.
Answer: What is an indentured servant?
Which religion spread rapidly through revivals and emotional sermons?
Answer: What is Christianity?
Which group held the MOST political power in the Southern Colonies?
Answer: Who are plantation owners?
Which colony was most known for accepting different religions?
Answer: What is Rhode Island?
Which region relied the most on plantation agriculture?
Answer: What are the Southern Colonies?
New England’s economy relied heavily on which natural resource?
Answer: What is timber (or lumber)?
Pennsylvania was created as a safe place for which religious group?
Answer: Who are the Quakers?
Which nation controlled the most land in North America around 1700?
Answer: What is France?
Indentured servants worked mostly to repay the cost of:
Answer: What is their journey to America?
This region depended heavily on the fur trade and mixed-European settlement.
Answer: What are the Middle Colonies?
Which colonial leader helped Jamestown survive famine and hardship?
Answer: Who is John Smith?
Which colony was founded after Roger Williams was expelled from Massachusetts?
Answer: What is Rhode Island?
Native Americans and Europeans MOST often disagreed about this issue.
Answer: What is land ownership?
True or False: The Middle Colonies relied mainly on fishing and whaling.
Answer: What is False?
Which geographic feature MOST influenced colonial trade and travel?
Answer: What are rivers?
Which colony was founded as a place for English debtors?
What is Georgia?
Which belief taught colonists that the soul is reborn in a new body?
Answer: What is reincarnation?
Which major conflict caused Britain to tax the colonies heavily afterward?
Answer: What is the French and Indian War?
True or False: Plantation life in the South increased the need for enslaved labor.
Answer: What is True?