Southern Colonies
Geography of the Colonies
Economy of the Colonies
Establishing Representative Government
Anything
100
The southern colonies' economies were based on
What is plantation (farming)
100
The soil is rocky and the winters are long in the ________________________________colonies
What is New England
100
The south had a _________________ based economy.
What is plantation
100

The belief that the United States was divinely destined to expand its territory westward across North America.

What is Manifest Destiny

100
Plymouth was a colony based on escaping _________________________persecution.
What is religious
200
The most prominent crop grown in the south was ___________
What is cotton
200
The soil was rich and fertile and there were many farms in the ______________________colonies.
What is the Middle Colonies
200
Plantations produced high volumes of a crop, called _____________________.
What is cash crops
200
The Mayflower Compact was significant because it established a form of _________________________based on a social contract.
What is representative (self) government
200
Maryland was established as a colony for which religious group?
What are Catholics
300
The plantation economies of the south relied heavily on ____________________labor.
What is slave
300
There were many rivers that flowed through the land to the ocean that made the land healthy and trading easy in the _____________________colonies.
What is the Middle Colonies
300
This colonial region had shipbuilders, traders, and fisherman because of its close proximity to the ocean.
What is New England
300
Puritans established communities and held town meetings to deal with community issues as a form of _____________________________________________ government
What is representative government
300
Name one motive for European exploration
What is: to increase wealth (gold) to spread Christianity (God) to expand empires (glory)
400
The crop that maintained Virginia's plantation economy was?
What is Tobacco
400
The land was ideal for planting large crops and the grow season was very long in the ______________________colonies.
What is the Southern
400
Merchants in the New England colonies traded with other colonies and________________.
What is Britain
400
American Colonists faced the following issues which created a need to establish their own____________________ *Distance from Great Britain *Need for lawmaking structure *Traditional rights of Englishmen
What is representative governments
400
Boston and New Orleans are founded as __________________________cities because of their close proximity to water for trade purposes.
What is port
500
Slaves from West Africa were shipped to the Americas in what is known as the ____________________trade.
What is the triangle
500
Tobacco, rice, indigo, and corn were popular crops grown in the ____________________colonies.
What is Southern
500

The ____________________colonies were involved in both large scale farming and ___________________

What is Southern and slavery.

500
The Virginia House of Burgesses was significant because it served as a model for____________________
What is other colonial legislatures (governments)
500
The document the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut which included *defining and limiting the powers of the government *creating a general assembly *granting the government the right to collect taxes helped to establish a tradition of _______________government
What is representative
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