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a. What is the term for an area that has a low population density? b. Which region of the colonies does this term describe?
What is a. rural, b. the Southern region.
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a. What did Southern society develop around?
What are plantations.
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Where did most Southerners work?
What is on small farms.
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a. What is the term for a person who is considered the property of another? b. In which region would this group make up the smallest percentage of the population?
What is a. slave, b. the New England region.
100
What did free African Americans face in the Northern colonies?
What is discrimination or prejudice (either one).
200
a. What is the abbreviation for Pennsylvania and Delaware? b. In which region did both belong?
What is a. PA and DE, and b. the Middle Colonies.
200
a. What would Scots-Irish consider their nationality? b. From which country did the Scots-Irish migrate from?
What is a. Scottish, and b. Ireland.
200
a. What is the term for financial success? b. Who were the most financially successful groups in the North and South?
Who are the merchants in the North and the planters in the South.
200
a. What is the term for a person involved in trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries? b. In which two regions did most of this group live?
What is a) a merchant, b) New England and the Middle Colonies.
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a. What is the term for the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale? b. Name a region where this activity was an important part of the economy.
What is a. commerce, b. New England or Middle Colonies.
300
a. What is the name of the island area between North America and South America made up of islands in the Caribbean? b. What was the most important crop grown there?
What is a, the West Indies, and b. sugarcane.
300
a. Was is the term for a densely populated area? b. What was the most densely populated city in the North and which was most densely populated in the South?
What is a. urban, b. Philadelphia, PA and Charles Town, SC
300
a. What was the name of the part of the Triangular Trade that brought Africans to the West Indies? b. What was traded by colonial merchants for slaves in Africa?
What is a. the "middle passage," and b. rum
300
What is the term for a crop grown for sale rather than for the farmer’s use? b. What are three examples grown in the Southern region of the colonies?
What is a. cash crop, and b. tobacco, rice and indigo.
300
Which 2 regions make up the Northern colonies?
What are New England and the Middle Colonies
400
Which 5 states make up the Southern colonies?
What are MD, VA, NC, SC and GA
400
Why would the Northern economy and population both be considered diverse?
What is because the Northern economy was made of a variety of different jobs, and the Northern population was made of a variety of different people.
400
Besides overcrowding, what five (5) problems did people face in the Northern Cities?
What are overcrowding, lack of clean water, fire and diseases spread rapidly, and poverty.
400
What were three ways women were discriminated against in both the North and South?
What are women could not vote, attend school, or own property.
400
a. What did slaves have in the North that they did not have in the South? b. What are two examples?
What is a. they had rights, and b. They could sue, they could appeal to the highest colonial courts, and they could testify against white persons in cases not involving Africans.
500
a. From what country did the largest group of settles in the colonies come from? b. Who made up the 6 other groups in the population of the Northern colonies?
What are English, b. German, Scots-Irish, Dutch, Scandinavians, Africans and Jews.
500
What 4 things were traded between merchants in the West Indies and merchants in the 13 colonies?
What are slaves, sugar, molasses and fish
500
Which 8 states make up the Northern colonies? Name the region and then the states that belong to it.
What is New England: MA, NH, CT and RI; Middle Colonies: NY, PA, NJ and DE
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a. What were the two (2) most important components of the Northern economy? b. What were six (6) other important components of the Northern economy?
What is a. trade and commerce, b. fishing, lumber, grinding wheat, shipbuilding, iron making and farming.
500
a. Who were the indentured servants? b.Why did indentured servants stop coming to the colonies in the late 1600's?
What are a. white European males who exchanged a trip to North America for several years of farm labor, b. harsh treatment by the planters