Southern Colonies
This was the first permanent settlement by the English in North America.
Jamestown/Virginia Colony
Due to the climate, these were difficult or impossible to grow in the Middle colonies.
Cash crops (Tobacco, rice, indigo, sugar)
This was the first English settlement in New England.
Plymouth/Massachusetts Bay Co.
Mercantilism is a system where a country tries to become wealthy by importing _____________ and exporting ______________.
Raw materials/cash crops
Manufactured goods
Explorers travelled from Spain and Portugal in the 1400s, attempting to reach ________ in order to trade for exotic goods and create colonies there.
Asia/India
The climate in the South was extremely ________ and ___________, making it ideal to grow cash crops like tobacco.
Hot, humid
The Middle colonies focused on growing ___________ rather than tobacco.
Food crops, such as corn and wheat.
Many of the early settlers were ____________, an extremely strict sect of Christianity.
Puritans
Nations like Spain, Portugal, France, and England created ____________ around the world, in order to giver their countries a reliable supply of cash crops and raw materials.
Colonies
Due to the Spanish encounter with the New World (the Americas), many new foods and products suddenly became available in different parts of the world, in a process known as the _________________.
Columbian Exchange
In terms of size, Southern colonies were generally much ___________ compared to the Middle and New England colonies.
Larger
In addition to agriculture, many people in the Middle Colonies made their living by raising __________, for food and labor.
Domesticated animals, like cows, chickens, pigs, and horses.
Due to the colder climate, New Englanders focused on making ____________, rather than exporting agriculture.
Manufactured goods, especially those made from lumber.
Colonists produced cash crops and sold them to their "mother country". The mother country then sells _________ back to the colony, at a profit.
Manufactured goods made from the raw materials.
____________ were brought from the Americas to the rest of the world, creating a great demand from the people who liked and needed them.
Tomatoes, potatoes, corn, tobacco, hot peppers...
In Virginia Colony, the ______________ was created by landholders in order to create a system of government.
The House of Burgesses, a representative assembly.
The Middle Colonies became an important place for ______________, due to their ports and convenient location between the New England and Southern colonies.
Trade/business
In addition to their own industries, New England became a center for _________ due to their good harbors.
Fishing/trade
Mercantilism worked for both the mother countries and their colonies because both sides made a profit. However, colonies were restricted from _______________, while the mother countries were not.
Trading with other nations or foreign colonies.
____________ were brought from Europe to the Americas, changing the lives and cultures of the Native American Indians forever.
Diseases (like smallpox), domesticated animals (such as horses), and new religions (such as Christianity)
The names of the Southern Colonies are: (five answers)
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland
The names of the Middle Colonies are (four answers):
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York
The names of the New England colonies are (four answers):
(Hey, at least I'm not making you SPELL these...)
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire
If there are mother countries and baby colonies, are thee other siblings? Sister and brother colonies? What about father colonies?
The whole mother/baby thing is just an analogy. Countries themselves don't reproduce biologically.
(Thank goodness!)
Colonists purchased ______________, especially those who wanted to run plantations, and used them as laborers.