Geography
These three regions are commonly used to organize the English colonies.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
This economic term means that a person or region focuses on producing certain goods or services especially well.
What is specialization?
This term means the movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
This Unit 1 document established an agreement for government among the Plymouth settlers.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A diary written by a person living in a colony during the 1600s would be this type of source.
What is a primary source?
Rocky soil, forests, access to the Atlantic, and a shorter growing season would most strongly shape the economy of this colonial region.
What is New England?
Different geography caused colonial regions to produce different products, which increased the importance of this activity between regions.
What is trade?
Land, economic opportunities, or religious freedom could act as this type of migration factor attracting people to a colony.
What is a pull factor?
The Mayflower Compact is important because settlers agreed to create rules and work together for this purpose.
What is governing their community?
A textbook written today about Jamestown would be this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
Fertile soil and a moderate growing season helped make this region well suited for growing large amounts of grain.
What are the Middle Colonies?
New England's forests and coastline encouraged these two important economic activities.
What are shipbuilding and fishing?
War, persecution, poverty, or a lack of opportunity could be described as this type of migration factor.
What is a push factor?
Religious beliefs helped influence why some Europeans migrated and the kinds of these they established in America.
What are communities or colonies?
Historians compare two sources to see where they agree or disagree. This process is called this.
What is corroboration?
A long growing season and fertile land helped this region develop economies based heavily on cash crops.
What are the Southern Colonies?
The Middle Colonies' fertile farmland encouraged specialization in products such as these.
What are grains or agricultural crops?
The places Europeans chose to establish settlements were influenced strongly by access to land, water, and these materials found in the environment.
What are natural resources?
The Mayflower Compact provides an early colonial example of people agreeing that government should operate through rules and this type of decision-making.
What is self-government?
A map showing colonial settlements near rivers can be used as this to support a claim about where people settled.
What is evidence?
A colonist lives near forests and the ocean but has poor farmland. Explain the economic choice that would make the MOST geographic sense.
What is specializing in activities such as fishing, shipbuilding, or trade instead of large-scale farming?
New England produces ships and fish while another region produces grain. This economic relationship shows that specialized regions can become this.
What is interdependent?
Two groups migrate to different colonial regions because one wants farmland while the other wants access to ports and trade. What does this demonstrate about geography?
What is that geography influences migration and settlement patterns?
Why is the Mayflower Compact more important than simply knowing the year it was written?
What is because it shows how political ideas and agreements began shaping colonial government and citizenship?
One source says a colony was successful, while another describes hardship and conflict. What should a historian do before drawing a conclusion?
What is compare both sources/ perspectives? Using Evidence from both?