New England Colonies
This New England colony was founded by Puritans for religious freedom.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
This region was nicknamed the “breadbasket colonies.”
What are the Middle Colonies?
This was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
The Middle Colonies had this type of climate, making it good for farming.
What is moderate or temperate?
This group wrote the Mayflower Compact before landing at Plymouth.
Who were the Pilgrims?
The first written constitution in the colonies came from this colony.
What is Connecticut? (Fundamental Orders of Connecticut)
This colony was founded as a “Holy Experiment.”
What is Pennsylvania?
These large farms dominated the economy of the Southern Colonies.
What are plantations?
The New England Colonies relied on the ocean for these three industries.
What are fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding?
A proprietary colony is one that was owned by this kind of person.
What is an individual granted a charter by the King?
Because of rocky soil and long winters, this industry became vital to the New England economy.
What is shipbuilding (or fishing)?
The Quakers, who believed in equality and peace, were most active in this colony.
What is Pennsylvania?
This cash crop made Virginia and Maryland wealthy.
What is tobacco?
The triangular trade connected the colonies with these two regions.
What are Africa and the West Indies (Caribbean)?
Name the region where religious life was strict and laws were shaped by faith.
What is New England?
This religious group wanted to “purify” the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
In 1664, this English noble seized New Netherland and renamed it New York.
Who is the Duke of York?
Name two reasons why slavery expanded in the Southern Colonies.
Because plantations required labor and enslaved people provided a cheap workforce.
Explain how geography shaped the economies of the three regions.
Climate and soil determined whether colonies farmed, traded, or built ships.
Explain why the Middle Colonies were more religiously and culturally diverse than New England.
They practiced broader tolerance and attracted settlers of many faiths/nationalities, e.g., Quakers, Germans, Dutch, etc.
Explain why farming was less important in New England than in the Southern Colonies.
Because of rocky soil, cold climate, and short growing seasons; geography limited large-scale farming.
Name two staple grain crops common in the Middle Colonies.
What are wheat and barley? (also accepts oats/rye)
Explain how the geography of the South encouraged an agricultural economy.
Fertile soil, flat land, and long growing seasons made large-scale farming possible.
This Southern Colony was founded as a buffer against Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
Explain how tolerance in Pennsylvania differed from the intolerance of Massachusetts Bay.
Penn’s colony welcomed all faiths; Puritans allowed only their own.
Name all New England colonies, spelled correctly.
New England: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
Name all the Middle Colonies, spelled correctly.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Name all the SOuthern Colonies, spelled correctly.
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
This colony began as New Netherland, founded by the Dutch.
What is New York?
By the mid-1600s, both the Dutch and the English wanted control of the Middle Colonies. Why was this region—especially New York—so strategically valuable to them?
Because the Middle Colonies controlled key Atlantic harbors and the Hudson River trade route, linking the inland fur trade with ocean shipping. Control of New York meant economic power and access to interior trade networks, helping whoever held it dominate commerce and naval influence in North America.