The 13 Colonies
Vocabulary
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
100

Which colonial region had large plantations?

What are a the Southern Colonies?

100

A person who makes horseshoes and farm equipment from steel

What was an blacksmith?

100
This group wanted a place to practice thier religious beliefs and founded the Massachusetts Bay colony (Salem, Boston)in New England. They wanted to "purify" the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
100
This was a group that settled in the Middle Colonies and believed that all people were equal. They refused to fight wars.
What were the Quakers?
100

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia belong to which colonial region?

Who was the Southern?

200

Whales and lumber resources were found in which colonial region?

What is New England?

200

An area of  a country that has similar characteristics but not always fixed boundaries

What is a region?

200

What resource was used for construction and shipbuilding?

What was lumber?

200

Wheat, corn, and rye grew well in the Middle Colonies and were exported. They gave these colonies what nickname? the "breadbasket" colonies. (Name two)

What was the "breadbasket" colonies. (Name two)?

200

Which colonial region did slavery exist the longest?

What is the Southern?

300

Who made and fixed shoes?

What is a cobbler?

300

The process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a region

What is an economy?

300

Which of the following jobs would NOT be for men during Colonial times?

Making and sewing clothing for the children,hunting, farming, building houses

What is making and sewing clothing for the children?

300

Which state was NOT part of the Middle Colonies?

New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, or New York?

What is Massachusetts?

300

These made up a large part of the Southern economy.

What is a plantation?

400

Which colonial region had the most slaves?

What is the Southern Colonial Region?

400

A group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory or land

What is a colony?

400

Whales were important to the New England colonists because their ____________ was used to make oil.

Who was blubber?

400

A Quaker who helped found the colony of Pennsylvania. He was member of the "Society of Friends".

Who was William Penn?

400
A large number of these were forced to work on the plantations for no pay.
What is a slave?
500

What group came to America on the Mayflower in 1620 and settled Plymouth?

Who were the Pilgrims?

500

Something that a colony has and can use to increase its wealth

What are resources?

500

Which of the following colonies were considered part of the New England Colonies?

Maryland, Pennsylvania, or Rhode Island

What is Rhode Island?

500

What resource allowed the Middle Colonies to grow a lot of wheat and grains?

What is fertile soil?

500

Who made and repaired wagons and wheels?

What was a wheelright?