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Southern Colonies
Geography of the Colonies
Economy of the Colonies
Establishing Representative Government
Anything
100
The southern colonies' economies were based on
What is plantation (farming)
100
The soil is rocky and the winters are long in the ________________________________colonies
What is New England
100

The south made money from growing and trading what?

What is cash crops

100

The Virginia House of Burgesses was the colonies first ____________ body.

What is legislative

100
Plymouth was a colony based on escaping _________________________persecution.
What is religious
200

What does the acronym RIT stand for when referring to cash crops? ___________

Rice, Indigo and Tobacco

200

The soil was moderately fertile and there were many grain farms in the ______________________colonies.

What is the Middle Colonies

200

Large-scale southern farms that relied heavily on slave labor were called ________________.

What is plantations

200

The Mayflower Compact was significant because it established a form of _________________________based on a social contract.

What is representative (self) government

200
Maryland was established as a colony for which religious group?
What are Catholics
300
The plantation economies of the south relied heavily on ____________________labor.
What is slave
300

The nickname for the Middle Colonies was the "___________________" Colonies.

What is Bread-Basket

300
This colonial region had shipbuilders, traders, and fisherman because of its close proximity to the ocean.
What is New England
300

Puritans established communities and held town meetings where elected officials dealt with community issues as a form of _____________________ government.

What is representative government

300
Name one motive for European exploration
What is: to increase wealth (gold) to spread Christianity (God) to expand empires (glory)
400
The crop that maintained Virginia's plantation economy was?
What is Tobacco
400
The land was ideal for planting large crops and the grow season was very long in the ______________________colonies.
What is the Southern
400

Which colonial region made most of their money off of small-scale farming and grain/wheat products?

What is Middle Colonies

400

What is one reason that American colonists began to practice self-government?

What is distance from Britain OR salutary neglect

400

Who was the Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania?

Who is William Penn

500

Slaves from West Africa were shipped to the Americas in what is known as the ____________________trade.

What is the triangle trade OR Transatlantic Slave Trade

500
Tobacco, rice, indigo, and corn were popular crops grown in the ____________________colonies.
What is Southern
500

The New England Colonies relied heavily on trade due to their close proximity to the coast and their large natural ____________.

What is harbors

500

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are known as the first written __________________ in the colonies.

What is constitution

500

Name one of the two individuals who founded Rhode Island as a colony that practiced religious toleration.

Who is Anne Hutchinson OR Roger Williams