Colonial Economy
This is the main cash crop grown on plantations in Virginia
What is tobacco?
This region of the colonies had the most plantations.
What are southern colonies?
This was the official religion in England that caused many people to seek religious freedom in the colonies.
What is the Church of England?
Colonists believed they were entitled to the same rights as citizens from this country.
What is England?
This was the name of the voyage enslaved Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic.
What is the middle passage?
This economic system required colonies to provide raw materials to the mother country in exchange for manufactured goods.
What is mercantilism?
This colonial region was known for its rocky soil and reliance on fishing and shipbuilding.
What is New England?
Public Education was found most in this colonial region
What is New England?
This document from England influenced colonists' views on their rights as English citizens.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Under colonial law, enslaved Africans were considered this.
What is property?
These were two major cash crops grown in the Southern colonies.
What are tobacco and rice?
Two major differences geographical differences between the Southern and New England colonies.
What are colder winters in New England and better farming land in south (answers can vary?)
This was the main goal of education in the New England colonies
What is teaching children to read the Bible?
Colonial assemblies gave colonists the right to do this, something they couldn’t do in England.
What is elect their own leaders?
Two challenges people living in colonial cities often faced.
What are fires, bad sanitation, etc.?
One benefit and one challenge of farming in the colonies.
What are Fertile land and hard labor (answers can vary)?
This colonial region was known for its large ports and diverse population, with cities like Philadelphia and New York.
What are the Middle colonies?
This religious movement renewed people's faith and inspired ideas about equality and freedom.
What is the Great Awakening?
Colonial governments usually had these two main parts: one appointed by the king and the other elected by the colonists.
What are the governor and assembly?
Two major differences between life on a colonial farm and life in a colonial city.
What is farm life being more isolated and self-sufficient, and city life being more crowded and trade-focused?(Answers can vary)
The Southern colonies relied on this type of labor to maintain their large plantations.
What is slavery?
Ways geography influenced economy in each colonial region
What is New England focused on fishing and shipbuilding, the Middle colonies on farming and trade, and the Southern colonies on plantation agriculture?
Two reasons education was less common in Southern and Middle Colonies
This document in England reinforced the idea that the monarchy’s power should be limited, influencing colonial self-governance.
What is the Magna Carta?
Enslaved Africans contributed to the economy of the Southern colonies by doing this
What is working on plantations to produce cash crops like tobacco and rice?