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Name a natural resource used by the colonist.
Water, wood, animals, trees, fur, wheat and more.
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Many colonies in New England were founded for this reason.
What is religious freedom?
What was the major economic activity in the Southern Colonies?
Agriculture (Farming)
What is a shipwright?
A person who builds ships.
Lumber from New England was used to build __________.
What are ships.
Name a human resource the colonist used.
What are farmer, fisherman, shipbuilder, cobbler, carpenter.
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Which region grew cash crops like tobacco and rice on plantations?
Southern
Enslaved people were a source of “free” labor for growing crops.
plantations
What is a job that requires specialized skills called?
A trade
What were the lives of children like in the New England colonies?
Had very little play time.
Worked alongside their parents, farming, hunting, cooking, cleaning.
Name a capital resource used by colonist.
What are tools, ships, wagons.
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Explain why the Southern Colonies developed large plantations.
What is because the warm climate and rich soil were good for growing cash crops?
Why did plantation owners bring enslaved Africans to the Southern Colonies?
Enslaved people were a source of “free” labor for growing crops.
Schools in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies were often run by churches.
True or False
True
Which economic activity was important in the New England colonies?
Whaling
How were the colonist interdependent of one another?
What is the colonist helped each by sharing and trading goods and services with one another.
How many colonies were there in all?
13
People whose journey to the colonies was paid by another person, In exchange for, they sign a contract that they will work for that person until their debt is paid.
Indentured servant
What was one of the major exports of the Mid-Atlantic colonies?
Wheat
Name a human resource the colonist used.
Pilgrims
What does a consumer do?
What does a producer do?
Consumers buy products
Producers make products
Compare the lives of indentured servants and enslaved people.
What is Indentured servants worked for a set amount of time to repay a debt and could eventually gain freedom, while enslaved people were forced to work for life with no freedom.
Enslaved People
What is the economic system called that required the colonies to trade with Great Britain for manufactured goods?
Mercantilism
Describe the geography of the New England colonies.
Rocky and thin soil. Lots of forest. Rocky shoreline. with small beaches.