Colonies

Life in the Colonies

100

Most large landowner lived here. 

What is the Southern Colonies? 

200

Types of farms found in all 3 regions colonial America. 

What is smaller family farms? 

300

These people are skilled in trade and were found in all 3 regions. Examples: Blacksmiths, butchers, printers

What are artisans?

400

These people had no personal or economic freedoms and were treated very poorly. 

What are slaves? 

500

The first people that lived in America. These people were subject to failed treaties and attacks by British settlers called "Indian wars". 

What are American Indians? 

Southern Colonies

100

Types of crops. 

What is corn, tobacco, indigo, and rice? 

200

Major cash crop for the southern colonies. 

What is cotton? 

300

How did they live? (small farms, plantations, cities, ect.) 

They lived on large plantations where people lived far apart. 

400

Type of soil and climate. 

What is rich soil and a mild climate? 

500

Types of workers on plantations and farms. 

What are slaves and indentured servants because they were free labor?

Mid-Atlantic Colonies

100

Types of economy in the Mid-Atlantic. 

What is fishing, shipping, and manufacturing. Mid-Atlantic did less than New England Colony. 

200

Types of religion in Mid-Atlantic Colony. 

What are Quakers, Lutherans, and Presbyterians? 

300

Type of soil. 

What is Fertile soil? 

400

Main crop in Mid-Atlantic Colony. 

What is grains? 

500

Nickname of the Mid-Atlantic Colony. 

What is the Breadbasket Colony? 

New England Colonies

100

Type of economy in the New England Colony. 

What is shipping, commerce, and manufacturing? NH mainly did fishing.

200

Types of religions in New England Colony and why they came. 

What are pilgrims and puritans? They came to practice religious freedom. 

300

Types of farms. 

What are small farms? 

400

Type of climate? 

What is a harsh climate? 

500

What was important to them? 

Law was important to the New England Colony. 

Vocabulary

100

These people came to the colonies without funds necessary to travel across the Atlantic. In exchange for paying for their passage the large landowners and farmers, would set a specific amount of time that the servants would work without pay. 

What are indentured servants? 

200

These people were unable to vote, and were ofter excluded from and sort of "public" life. They were viewed as living in a separate sphere of home and family. 

What are women in colonial time? 

300

A small amount of these people continued to live on their traditional lands, but most were pushed far west toward the Appalachian Mountains. They started to take on characteristics of the settlers and the settlers started to copy them as well (agriculture, hunting, and clothing).

What are the American Indians? 

400

These people were thought to only be in the Southern Colonies, but were found in all 3 regions. They had no personal or economic freedoms, and their treatment was very cruel. They were also not allowed to get education or maintain their family structure. 

What are slaves? 

500

These people were found in all 3 regions, but mostly in the Mid-Atlantic region. Some of these people had farms that were large enough to produce crops to sell. Most were smaller and self-sufficient. 

What are farmers?