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What was the geography and climate of the N.E.C?

Hills/Mountains, thick forests, long coastline.

Long winters, short summers

100

What was the geography and climate of the Middle Colonies?

Easy access to major rivers, fertile soil, flatter land, warmer than N.E.C, longer growing season, cold winters, humid summers

100

What are the two geography regions of the Southern Colonies?

Tidewater and Piedmont

100

What colony region did New York belong to?

Middle Colonies

100

What is the term for growing crops for profit, instead of personal use?

Cash crop

200

Disagreements over religions leads to the creations of new _____________

Colonies

200

What is the economy of the Middle Colonies?

Wheat and grain farming, industry beginning to grow

200

What was the economy of the Southern Colonies?

Crop farming, slavery, large plantations

200

What colony region did Virginia belong to?

Southern Colonies

200

The first people coming to the New World for Religious freedom?

Pilgrims

300

What was the economy of the N.E.C?

Fishing/whaling, ship building, fur trading

300

Who country originally had control of New York?

The Dutch

300

What was the 1st successful "town" in the New World?

Jamestown

300

What colony was considered the "Breadbasket"?

Pennsylvania 

300
Who were the group of people who allowed you freedom of religion?

Quakers

400

What was the name of the 1st self-government in America?

Hint: it was also the name of the ship that brought them to the New World

Mayflower Compact

400

All different __________ were welcomed to live in peace, allowing true freedom of __________

Religion

400

Who was the 1st leader in Jamestown?

John Smith

400
What colony did the Puritans belong to?

New England

400

This group of people left England for religious freedom, but ended up being more strict than the Church of England.

Puritans

500

Match these people with the colony they created.

Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker, John Wheelwright

Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

500

Who was the Quaker who helped settle Pennsylvania?

William Penn

500

What crop lead to large amounts of profits and led Jamestown to become successful?

Tobacco

500

What colony was a "buffer" zone to keep the Spanish from expanding North?

Georgia

500

In order to _______ you had to be a white male who owned land.

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