Colonies Vocab
A large farm
Plantation
This region's most important industries were small farms, lumbering, fishing, shipbuilding, and trade
New England
What was the climate of the Middle Colonies?
Warm summers and mild winters
Name at least two major cash crops grown in the Southern Colonies.
Tobacco, Indigo, Rice, Sugar, and Cotton
From which coast of Africa did most slave ships depart?
West coast
A pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa, and Europe
Triangle Trade
The New England Colonies had what type of winters.
Harsh / Cold
Why were the Middle Colonies known as the "Breadbasket"?
They produced the most food.
Colonies marked by fertile farmlands that were used to grow cash crops and led to the development of large _____________________________
Plantations
One way that enslaved people communicated secret codes was by:
Songs
A document granting its holder the right to settle a colony
Charter
Many of the settlers in New England had come to the colonies for:
religious freedom
What colony did William Penn found?
Pennsylvania
Much of the labor done in these colonies was done by:
Enslaved people
Colonist's weren't happy with the Navigation Acts, so they started ________ to avoid the taxes and earn a profit.
Smuggling
In mercantilism, a “favorable balance of trade” for the mother country would result in more _________ than imports.
Exports
Two colonies that formed part of the New England colonies were:
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and/or Rhode Island
What type of economy did the Middle Colonies have?
Diverse economy
What was easily spread in the Southern Colonies due to their climate?
Disease
During the period of _________ ___________, the colonists became used to ruling themselves.
Salutary Neglect
A business in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits
Joint-Stock Company
What type of government was common in the New England Colonies?
Self Government/Town Hall Meetings
What two countries, aside from England, did many of the colonists in the middle colonies come from?
Germany, Netherlands
Southern society was structured around:
Slavery
What groups fought in the French and Indian War?
France and indigenous allies vs Great Britain and indigenous allies