New England Colonies
What is 1 of the Economic Feature of the New England Colonies.
What Is smaller farms developed due to the rockey soild and shorter growing season
What Is slavery was legal in New England
What Is Fishing
What Is Lumbering
What Is Shipbuilding
What Is Craftsman and Merchants
What are the reasons for founding the Middle Colonies.
Religious Freedom
Opportunity For A Better Life
Farmland
What was the climate like in the Southern Colonies.
The climate was warm with a lot of rain.
What religion did the settlers in the Spanish colonies have to follow
What was Settlers had to be catholic, Other religions were not welcome
What is Self Rule
When people in a colony are allowed to rule themselves instead of being ruled by a king or queen.
What are 2 Physical Features in the New England Colonies.
What Is Rockey Soil
What Is Colder Climatate
What Is many rivers and coastlines along which settlements grew.
What are 2 pull factors for the Middle Colonies.
Good farmland was available (Because of disease and wars)
There was the hope for religious freedom
Religious and ethnic diversity
What is 1 Economic Feature of the Southern Colonies
Cash crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo grew well in the region. Enslavers who owned land began to enslave Africians in greater and greater numbers.
Some colonies, like South Carolina, had large slave labor camps to grow these cash crops. Other colonies, like North Carolina, had smaller farms.
Some Colonies like North Carolina had lumbering and made tar and pine.
Some trade centers, like Charles Town, also developed.
What was 1 British Colonization Rule
What is As long as the colonists stayed loyal to the King, Parliament allowed the colonists to set up local governments and representative assemblie
Colonist were allowed to tax themselves
What Is freedom of religion
The right to have any religious beliefs you want, or no beliefs at all.
What is 1 Political Feature
What Is Certain colonies offered greater religious freedom for denominations of Christianity than they had in England.
What Is Some of these denominations, though, did not tolerate religious freedom in New England themselves (such as the Puritans, who banished some people from the Massachusetts Bay Colony).
What Is There were some examples of self-rule, like the Mayflower Compact.
What Is Town meetings were held in the small New England towns, where men would discuss community issues.
What are 2 push factors from the Middle Colonies.
Quakers had been persecuted for their religious beliefs in England and New England.
Lack of land and opportunities in countries like England, France, and Germany.
Hardships in countries like Ireland.
Which Cash Crops grew well in the region.
Tabacco
Rice
Indigo
French Colonization Rules
What Was Colonies were required to follow the French king
Who founded the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Who is the Pilgrims
Why would smaller farms develope.
What Was rockey soild and shorter growing season.
What are the Economic Activities from the Middle Colonies.
Both small farms and large farms growing mainly grain
Some manufacturing
What were 3 Colonies apart of the Southern Colonies
What is Maryland
What is Virginia
What is North Carolina
What is South Carolina
What is Georgia
Who worked for the British Colonies
Who are middle class farmers, artisans, and tradesmen. Indentured servants, specialists [sawmill workers], fishermen.
What is common good
People working together for the benefit of everybody.
What are 2 Colonies that were apart of the New England Colonies.
What Is Massachusetts
What Is New Hampshire
What Is Rhode Island
What Is Connecticut
What are 2 Influences of Geography for the Middle Colonies.
Many rivers and other natural resources
The land was good for farming
The climate was healthier than that of the Southern Colonies
Settlements grew along rivers and the ocean
What was 1 Physical feature in the Southern Colonies
The climate was warm with a lot of rain, allowing for growth of cash crops like tobacco and rice.
Some colonies, like South Carolina, had a good harbor and some, like North Carolina, did not.
People settled along rivers, which allowed for transportation and easy defense.
Colonizers believed that land around the colonies was available for them to settle. Much of this land had soil that was rich enough to productively farm.
What was the name of the first Spanish Colony
What is St Augustine Florida (1565)
What is the Mayflower Compact
The agreement the pilgrims signed that created a government for their colony.