Native Americans
Many early Native American groups survived by doing these two activities.
What are hunting and gathering?
This colonial region depended heavily on plantations.
What are the Southern Colonies?
Which of North Carolina’s three major regions includes many of the state’s largest cities and population centers?
What is the Piedmont?
Growing crops and raising animals are part of this economic activity.
What is agriculture?
The first successful settlement in American. Known for experiencing the starving time.
What is Jamestown?
A Native American community lives beside a large river. Name ONE advantage the river could provide.
What is food or transportation?
A colonist says, "I came to America so I could practice my religion." Which colonial region is the best match?
What are the New England Colonies?
North Carolina farmers raise large numbers of hogs in the eastern part of the state. Which geographic region is this?
What is the Coastal Plain/Coastal region?
This economic system involved Great Britain controlling colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
During the Starving Time, colonists struggled to obtain enough of this basic necessity.
What is food?
This achievement gave the Cherokee a written form of their language.
What is the Cherokee written language/alphabet?
Tobacco, rice, cotton, and indigo are example of these
What are cash crops?
Which North Carolina region has rugged terrain and less land available for large-scale farming?
What is the Mountains?
Under mercantilism, Britain limited the colonies' trade with who?
What are other nations?
This term means the movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
These brought by Europeans caused Native American populations to decline.
What are European diseases?
A colonial plantation grows rice and indigo. Which colonial region is it MOST likely located in?
What are the Southern Colonies?
North Carolina's has warm temperatures, fertile soil, and a long growing season. What economic activity would most likely be successful there?
agriculture/farming?
Indigo and tobacco belong to this important category of colonial products.
What are cash crops?
What two states had the first two permanent colonies?
What are Massachusetts and Virginia?
Europeans believed land could belong to individual people. Why could this create conflict with Native American communities?
The groups had different beliefs about land ownership and use.
Explain one major economic difference between New England and the Southern colonies.
The Southern colonies depended more heavily on plantations and cash crops, while New England did not depend on the plantation system in the same way.
Why might two regions of the same state develop different economies?
Their geography, climate, land, and natural resources can support different economic activities.
Explain the connection between geography and economic activity.
Geography, including climate, land, and natural resources, affects which economic activities can successfully develop in an area.
A colony's population grows from a small settlement into a much larger community as new settlers arrive. What is one likely reason for the population increase?
Migration/new settlers moving into the colony.