Middle Colonies
What are the names of the Middle Colonies?
(What are) New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
What are the names of the southern colonies?
Who was the founder of the Pennsylvania Colony?
What is the name of America's fist permanent English colony?
(What is) Jamestown
(T/F) Georgia was the third colony established.
What is the geography of the Middle Colonies?
(What is) A mix of New England and Southern Features, but it had fertile soil and land suitable for farming.
What is the geography of the Southern Colonies?
(What are) Fertile soil, hilly coastal plains, forests, long rivers, and swamp areas.
What religion was William Penn from?
(Who are) Quakers
(T/F) Virginia Company of London sponsored the colony.
(What is) True
Who was the Founder of the Georgia Colony?
(Who is) James Oglethorpe.
What was the climate like in the Middle Colonies?
(What is) a mild climate with warm summers and mild winters
What are the Trades of the Southern Colonies?
(What are) Tobacco, Cotton, Rice, Indigo, Furs, and Farm Products.
What was the role of women in Urban Pennsylvania?
(What is) They did household chores and cared for children.
What are the "starving times"?
(What is) After John Smith left, a period of warfare between colonists and native Americans, and the death of many Englishmen and women from starvation and disease. When settlers had given up hope, supplies arrived from England.
What would people receive if they moved to Georgia?
(What is) a fresh start.
(T/F) New Jersey was a royal colony.
(What is) True.
Name the founding years for all of the southern colonies?
(What is)
Virgina: 1607
Maryland: 1633
North Carolina: 1587
South Carolina: 1633
Georgia: 1732
What were the two political groups in colonial Pennsylvania?
(Who are) the Quaker Party and the Proprietary Party (Gentleman's party)
What did the economy and labor look like for the Jamestown? (types of industries and main crop)
(What are) Small industries. The main crop was Tobacco
Why did few debtors settled in Georgia?
(What are) Funding Challenges
What were the trade/exports of the Middle Colonies?
(What is a) Food producing region. Corn, Wheat, and Livestock, including beef and pork.
Iron ore, lumber, textiles, furs, and shipbuilding.
(T/F) The Southern Colonies were difficult to survive because the humid and hot summers gave rise to the spread of disease. Therefore, crops and people would die often.
What made Native American relationships with Jamestown difficult to establish?
(What are) Language barriers, conflicts over land, cultural misunderstandings
When did Jamestown ceased to exist? (broad date)
(What is) Around the mid-1700s
What are the three main goals that Georgia had?
(What are) fresh start for debtors, Buffer from the Spanish, and try out new ideas for building a colony.