owner who has the legal right or exclusive title to an area of the land.
What is proprietor?
100
an area of rolling hills between the Appalachian Mountains and the Coastal Plain.
What is Piedmont?
100
a self-sufficient farmer.
What is yeoman?
100
How did settlers use natural resources?
otter, raccoon, fox and bear were hunted in the forests.
100
Germans contributed ______.
What is Kentucky rifles?
200
allowing people the freedom to practice any religion.
What is religious toleration?
200
edge of plateau where rivers or streams form waterfalls as they fall from uplands to lowlands.
What is fall line?
200
an unsettled area.
What is backcountry?
200
why did farming become the main activity in the middle colonies?
the fertile soil made the middle colonies ideal for farming.
200
The Swedish contributed _____.
What is log cabins?
300
William Penn's attempt to govern his colony according to Quaker beliefs.
What is "Holy Experiment"?
300
What people were attracted to the Middle Colonies?
German, Dutch, Fur traders, Farmers, Millers.
300
the minimum needed in food and shelter to support life.
What is subsistence?
300
describe the farm life in the middle colonies
large landowners, small farmers, yeoman
300
Native Americans contributed ____.
What is maize [corn] and pumpkins?
400
How did New York and New Jersey become colonies?
NY became a colony when the Duke of York took the land from the Dutch. The Duke gave some land to two friends, who named there colony New Jersey.
400
What were some reasons for settling in the Middle Colonies?
rich land for farming, forests for furs, rivers/waterfalls for transportation and milling.
400
a person who learns a trade by working under a skilled craftsperson.
What is apprentice?
400
who were the people in the middle colonies.
farmers, hunters, Williams Penn, Duke of York, Quakers, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, enslaved people
400
Why did the Philadelphia and New York become large and wealthy cities?
Both were located on rivers and on harbors that provided access to oceangoing ships.
500
Who immigrated to the middle colonies?
Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, French, German, and Scot-Irish people; Africans came as enslaved people.
500
Where are the major European settlements located?
on the Atlantic coastline and up the rivers
500
Which city/colony was an important port city and center of trade for Pennsylvania, Delaware and western New Jersey?
What is Philadelphia?
500
What were the cities like in the middle colonies?
Philadelphia: trade and commerce, port city, built on a grid pattern; New York: built on the Hudson river, trade, apprentices, cultural diversity
500
How were backcountry farms different from farms in settled areas?
Backcountry: subsistence farms, crops planted among trees, and log houses.
Settled areas: crops planted in open fields, enough produced to sell, wooden houses.