New England Colonies
Who founded Hartford, CT?
Thomas Hooker
Who originally owned New York?
The Dutch
What was the name of the border between the North and the South?
The Mason Dixon Line
What did colonists learn from Africans?
Proper farming techniques
What representative democracy was created in the New England colonies?
The House of Burgesses
Why was New York considered to be a successful colony?
They were wealthy from the fur trade and it was the center of colonial diversity.
Maryland was established to encourage religious freedom for who?
Catholics
How many enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas?
John Winthrop
Why was PA unique?
It was advertised to people of different ethnicities.
Who established a colony for debtors to live freely?
James Oglethorpe
The Middle Passage
How were colonists grouped into regions?
They were grouped based on similarities in climate, economy, and population.
Name the proprietary colonies of the Middle Colonies.
New Jersey and New York
What did Georgia and Maryland have in common?
They were both founded to protect individuals.
What effect did the headright system have on slavery?
It expanded slavery by encouraging planters to purchase more enslaved people in order to gain more land.
What was the main reason that several New England cities became major shipbuilding centers?
The cities were located on the coast and had plenty of wood.
How were the Middle Colonies similar to the New England coloines?
Why were the tidewater and the backcountry so different? What influenced their way of life?
These regions were so different because of the different forms of geography.
The tidewater had flat fertile land and used slave labor to work the fields and grow cash crops.
The backcountry had hilly land filled with forests that made only subsistence farming possible.
How did the geography of the Tidewater contribute to the growth of slavery?
The tidewater had plentiful, fertile lands and water. This led to an increase in farming and thus a need for more labor workers.