New England Colonies
What year did Rhode Island become a colony?
What is...1636.
What was the typical climate of the Mid-Atlantic colonies?
What is... temperate.
What climate did the Southern colonies experience?
Who was banished from Massachusetts for his religious beliefs and later found the colony of Rhode Island?
Who is...Roger Williams.
What do milliners make?
What is...hats.
What was the climate of the New England colonies?
What is...Cold winters and mild summers.
Why was farmland and agriculture good in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies?
What is...rich soil and a good climate.
Which five colonies made up the Southern Colonies?
What is... Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
What famous woman escaped prosecution and joined Roger Williams in Rhode Island?
Who is...Anne Hutchinson.
In the New England colonies, villages were usually built around what three things.
What are...school, church, and town hall.
Why were the long, icy winters good for the settlers?
What is...It helped to stop the spread of diseases.
Which four colonies made up the Mid-Atlantic Colonies?
What is... New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
What type of land did the Southern colonies grow many crops on?
What are... plantations.
What man started the New Hampshire colony?
Who is... John Mason.
What two creative trades were women required to learn?
What is...sewing and embroidery.
Besides Rhode Island and New Hampshire, what two other colonies consisted of the New England Colonies?
What is... Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Which coastal cities became major shipping centers?
What is...Philadelphia and New York.
Which two groups of people worked on plantations?
What inspired Robert Frost's poems?
What is... weather and landscape.
Robert Frost's picture was featured on what?
What is... The U.S. postage stamps
Why was farming difficult in the New England Colonies?
What is... the rocky soil.
What is the area between the mountains and coastal plains called?
What is... The piedmont.
Which Southern colony cash crop makes blue dye?
What is...indigo.
What is... Narragansett Indians.
What made moving goods easier?
What are...waterways?