Geography
Which ocean is located on the East coast of the 13 colonies?
The Atlantic Ocean
This colony was settled by the Pilgrims and Puritans.
Massachusetts
Definition: A line that divides an area
What is the Vocabulary word?
Boundary
This colony was founded for fishing.
New Hampshire
Which colonial region's economy was based on:
Tobacco Farming?
Southern
Which colony (and now state) is the smallest?
Rhode Island
This colony was settled by Henry Hudson, and then the Duke of York.
New York
Definition: A ranking in society based on wealth or importance.
What is the Vocabulary word?
Class
This colony was home to the first written constitution in North America.
Connecticut
Which colonial region's economy was based on:
Lumber?
Middle
Which colony does not belong in the Southern colonies?
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina
Which colony is missing?
Pennsylvania: a middle colony!
Missing: South Carolina
This colony was settled by the Swedish settlers and the New Sweden Company.
Delaware
Definition: Someone who owns land or property.
What is the vocabulary word?
Proprietor
This colony was a safe haven for Quakers.
Which colonial region's economy was based on:
Ship building?
New England
Which colony does not belong in the Middle region?
New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Which colony is missing??
New Hampshire: is a New England Colony!!
Missing: Delaware
This colony's earliest settlers were former indentured servants who worked on small farms.
North Carolina
Definition: A product sold to other countries.
What is the vocabulary word?
Export
This colony was given to John Berkley and George Carteret as a gift from the Duke of York.
New Jersey
Which colonial region's economy was based on:
Fishing?
New England
Which 5 colonies make up the Southern region?
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
This colony was settled by James Oglethorpe and was a place for debtors to serve their sentences, as well as a defensive buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Flordia.
Also, who settled New Hampshire?
Georgia
David Thompson
Answer both correct to receive all points.
Definition 1: A revolt.
Definition 2: An area that shares physical or human characteristics.
What are the Vocab words?
1. Uprisings
2. Region
This colony's earliest settlers were wealthy plantation owners and African slaves.
South Carolina
Which colonial region's economy was based on:
Dairy farming?
Middle
Which colony does not belong in the New England region?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Virginia, New Hampshire
Which colony is missing??
Virginia: is in the Southern colonies!
Missing: Rhode Island
Why did King Philip's war start?
Tell me the story.
- Native Americans were upset over rapid growth of colonial settlements and their treatment.
Metacom was captured and killed.
Answer both correct to receive all points.
Definition 1: A resource that can be made into other products.
Definition 2: To trade one good for another
What are the vocabulary words?
1. Raw Materials
2. Barter
Tell me the story of James Oglethorpe.
- Regular man who worked as a guard at a jail
- Thought it was unfair many of the prisoners were being tortured and criminalized for not being able to pay for taxes (debt)
-Wrote a letter to the King asking if he could settle some Southern land in North America and have the prisoners build the community.
-King accepted, sent him to Georgia.
-Immediately made friends with Yamacraw chief, Tomochichi
-Had good relationships with them to protect them from Spanish Florida
Which colonial region's economy was based on:
Mining?
Middle
List the 13 colonies from bottom to top
(south to north)
Must get all geographically correct to win 800 points. (I will let you know if correct or not)
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire
Will accept some middle and new england out of order
Tell me the story of Lord Baltimore.
Must include 3 or more of the bullet points:
- Given Virginia from King Charles I
- Given more land from the king and named it Maryland
- Got a girlfriend when coming to his new colony
- Wanted girlfriend to move with him but she wouldn't without her family
-Baltimore welcomed all religions, even Catholics, so her family would come
- Moved back to England, married another woman
- Looks like a triangle
List all 10 vocabulary words from memory.
Region, Proprietor, Barter, export, import, raw materials, Slavery, uprisings, boundary, class
Tell me the story of how New York was founded and how it got its name.
Must include 3 or more of the bullet points:
- Dutch came from Netherlands looking to colonize
-created New Netherland in 1620
-Thriving trading center, tons of people
-England noticed, wanted it, and took back the power.
-King gave colony to his brother, Duke of York.
-Duke of York named it after him, New York.
1. New England 2. Middle 3. Southern
1. Up north relied on Fishing because they don't have good soil or farm land (because cold), New Hampshire is in new england region and founded for fishing
2. Lots of woodlands = lumber, lots of fields= cattle = dairy, Many natural resources for mining
3. Virginia is in southern region and founded Jamestown (survived because of Tobacco), Plantation mansions in Southern region= lots of plantations and workers