13 Colonies 1
The Puritans came over to the new world in search of what?
Religious Freedom
True or False? Many skilled craftsmen and artisans lived in the middle colonies.
True
These people worked on the plantations to repay their passage to the new world.
Indentured servants
These people were forced to work on the plantations from sunup to sundown.
Slaves
They grew many grains like wheat and barley in what region?
The middle
What is an extra supply of something called?
Surplus
In what region were all children educated?
New England
What is a territory settled by people from another country and controlled by that country?
A colony
Name the religious group that mainly lived in the middle colonies.
Quakers
These crops are grown for money and not for personal use.
Cash crops
Who is a person who buys and sells goods?
A merchant
New England colonist became well known for this particular trade.
Shipbuilding
True of false. Most enslaved people were allowed to read to learn to read and write.
False
These crops were grown for personal use
subsistence crops
What fort was the first free African settlement in North America?
Fort Mose
Young people who learned skills needed to become an artisan were called what
apprentice
Name 2 reasons why it was difficult to grow crops in the New England colonies.
Very Cold
Long winters
Hard, rocky soil
William Penn
Name two of the three main cash crops that were grown in the Southern Colonies.
Tobacco
Indigo
Cotton
Why were market towns often built near a river or waterways?
To transport crops and goods to the markets more easily.