New England Colonies
This describes the soil in the New England region.
What is rocky, sandy and mountainous?
Who are the Quakers?
This is the reason many settlers in the Southern colonies were able to earn a living.
What is rich soil that was good for farming?
Women in colonial America learned to sew, cook, make soap, weave wool and dry fruits and vegetables. Name something that women would NOT have done.
What is make tools, plow the land, chop wood, etc.
Being located along a coastline was helpful to the colonies because they were able to do this.
He was the leader of the Puritans and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
The Mid-Atlantic colonies were known as ____________ because of how much wheat was grown there.
What is "America's Breadbasket"?
This was the main cash crop grown in the Southern colonies.
What is tobacco?
As a result of more settlers coming to the colonies, American Indians lost this.
"America's Breadbasket" was located in this region.
What is Mid-Atlantic?
This is the reason that Pilgrims and Puritans came to live in the New England colonies.
What is they were searching for a place to practice their religion freely?
The geography and location of the Mid-Atlantic region made them good for this.
What is trade?
This is the reason that more slaves were needed in the Southern region than in the other regions.
What is because more workers were needed in the Southern colonies because so many more crops grew there.
A woman in the Southern colonies would have received this type of education.
What is...she would learn to cook, sew, spin wool, and maybe write her name.
John Winthrop was the governor of this New England colony.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
This describes the size of the farms in the New England colonies.
What is small, family farms? They only grew enough food to feed their families.
This describes what life was like for slaves in the Southern colonies.
What is they were forced to work on plantations for no pay.
This American Indian region was home to Indians who moved around a lot.
What is the Great Plains?
The Quakers lived in this Mid-Atlantic colony.
What is Pennsylvania?
This describes the climate of the New England colonies.
What is cold, with long winters?
This describes what children in colonial America were expected to do.
What is work to help their families?
An indentured servant agreed to work for a rich landowner in exchange for this.
What is payment for their passage to the New World.
At first, American Indians and the colonists worked together. This is known as _____________.
What is cooperation?
Georgia is located in this region of colonies.
What is the Southern region?