New England Colonies
The geography and climate of New England.
What is Rocky coastline, dense forest, short growing season, rocky soil and harsh winters?
_____________ believed in religious freedom and were peaceful.
The Southern Economy is centered around.
What is Agriculture or Farming?
Colonies export their good to ____________.
What is other colonies and/or Engliand?
Inhabited North America for hundreds of years, respected the land and only killed what was needed?
What is Native People?
Lumber in the new England colonies was used for ________.
What is homes, buildings and ships?
Penn wanted land from the Duke of York becasue his colony was __________.
What is land locked?
Different crops were grown in different colonies.
What is different types of soil? What is plant what grows best?
A name for a contract signed agreeing to work for free on another persons farm.
A free person who agrees to work for another free person not for pay but for freedom dues is an _________
What is an indentured servant?
New England coloniest imported __________.
What is agricultureal porducts (farm products)?
Two descriptions of the land of the middle colonies.
What is Coastal plains, piedmont, mountains? What is deep, rich and fertile soil? What is long wide rivers, coastal harbors?
Children that lived on these large farms owned by their families often had private teacher.
What is a plantation?
This colony is known for logging, fishing & whale oil.
What is New England Colonies?
Left England to find religious freedom.
What is Puritans?
Puritans believed education was __________.
What is important? Children and women learned to read. Puritans believed everyone should read the Bible. They founded Harvard in 1636.
A person that is good at making products by hand.
Small farms further from town could be found here.
What is backcountry?
Colonies believe enslaving poeple is wrong but it contiunes in the Southern colonies ______________.
What is their wealth depended on the free labor of enslaved people?
New Netherlands becomes New York becasue _______.
What is King Charles II conquered New Netherlands and gave the colony to his brother the Duke of York?
3 things that discribe life in New England _________.
What is
Centered around church
plain clothes
No parties, work hard, no celcbrating with parties or holidays.
Education is important
harsh winters
Fishing and ocean life over farming (short growing season) as well as Lumber yards, ship building
Middle colonies were considered the most ______, becasue ___________.
Diverse - came from many different parts of Europe and took part in many different religions.
Two differences between indentured servants and enslaved people?
What is indentured servants worked for 4-7 years. Able to earn freedom. Agreed to indentured service with a contract.
Enslaved people expected work whole live, beaten and reated cruelly. Children born to enslaved people kept in enslavement. Families could be separated.
The "Breadbasket" colonies.
What is the Middle Colonies?
Their main crops were wheat, rye and corn which could be turned into flour and sold to other colonies and England.
The Pennsylvania colony is named for _________.
William Penn & "sylvania" meaning woods