Vocabulary
New England
Middle
Southern
Vocabulary 2
100
self-sufficient farmers who owned their own land
Who are yeomen?
100
These were the ways people in New England made a living
What were ship building, lumber, and fishing?
100
This is why the Middle Colonies were a good farming region.
What is they had fertile soil because the glaciers came through New England and dumped the great soil in M.C., longer growing season, and many rivers
100
These colonies were founded to protect the British Colonies from Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia and the Carolinas?
100
Post Road
What is the road that travelled from New England all the way through the Southern Colonies that made trade and travel easier?
200
a line of waterfalls often used for power
What is fall line
200
This is how Puritan communities were planned and run
What is they centered around the meetinghouse with the homes surrounding with small farms behind them? The community was run by the men.
200
This is the reason there was so much diversity in the Middle Colonies.
What is religious toleration made it so that people from all over would want to come and live here…from many different countries.
200
These colonies were founded to make money for the British- excellent farmland- particularly for cash crops
What are Virginia and Maryland?
200
magistrate
What is a government leader?
300
the first representative government in the colonies
What is House of Burgesses
300
This is how the geography and resources in N.E. shaped the colonists
What is Rocky soil made is not great for farming, the number one resource was trees (lumbar) so their primary industries centered around that.
300
the western frontier area of each colony
What is backcountry?
300
Cash Crops
What was the name for the crops grown to make money- specifically tobacco, indigo, and rice?
300
a region of rolling hills
What is Piedmont?
400
the name for the shipping path that went between Africa, Europe, and North America
What is triangular trade
400
This colony was founded when individuals were banished for speaking out against the Puritans
What is Rhode Island
400
New York and Philadelphia became great large, wealthy cities because of these reasons.
What is they were centers of trade- rivers flowed into the ocean making it convenient for seagoing ships and riverboats.
400
Plantation
What is large farms that were almost like villages- with sometimes hundreds of slaves- run by the rich white men- located in the south
400
apprentice
What is someone working to learn a skill?
500
money made from polished shells that were put onto strings
What is wampum
500
This building was used for practicing religion, meetings, school, and storage for weapons
What is a meetinghouse
500
Holy Experiment
The name for William Penn's colony because it was governed according to Quaker beliefs.
500
located in the backcountry- grow only enough for their family
What is a yeoman farm
500
dissenters
What is someone who disagreed with the views to their leaders?
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