New England Colonies
The main [food] industry in New England due to the rocky soil and cold climate?
What is fishing?
Nickname was given to the Middle Colonies
The main cash crop grown in Virginia
What is tobacco?
Things grown and sold for GREAT profit (Tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice)
What are cash crops?
Climate in the Southern Colonies
What is warm and humid?
The natural resource that was abundant in New England and used for shipbuilding.
What is timber?
The colony was known for its religious tolerance and diversity.
What is Pennsylvania?
The type of labor was primarily used on Southern plantations
What is slave labor?
These colonies exported large amounts of grain
What are the Middle Colonies?
The reasons the Middle Colonies were able to produce so much grain.
What are fertile soil and a mild climate?
The city in New England that became a major trade center.
What is Boston?
Crop most commonly grown in the Middle Colonies
What is wheat?
Two major cash crops grown in the Southern Colonies
What are cotton, indigo, rice?
Key export for the New England colonies
What is fish?
Geographic feature that impacted the economy in New England.
What is rocky soil? (Made farming difficult, so they relied on fishing, shipbuilding, and trade)
Besides fishing, the other major industry contributed to the economy in New England.
What is shipbuilding?
Name two key cities that developed in the Middle Colonies
What are New York and Philadelphia?
The system of farming that dominated the Southern economy
What is the plantation system?
Name one product from the Southern Colonies that was traded with England
What are tobacco, rice, cotton, indigo, and sugar cane?
This region had the longest growing season
The reason why large-scale farming difficult in New England.
What is the rocky soil and cold climate?
The environmental factors that contributed to the Middle Colonies’ success in farming
What are fertile soil and a mild climate?
Colony was founded as a place for debtors and the poor
What is Georgia?
Geographic advantages for trade in the Middle Colonies
What is access to rivers and ports that helped transfer goods?
Geographic feature that helped the Middle Colonies become a center for trade
What is access to rivers and ports like the Hudson and Delaware Rivers