Colonial
Regions
Regions
Which colonial region specialized in shipbuilding and fishing?
What is New England?
What does "specialization" mean?
Focusing on producing one or two main products or services
Who worked 4–7 years in exchange for passage to America and were free after their contract?
What is an indentured servant?
This colony was founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This cash crop made Virginia wealthy and a center of trade.
What is Tobacco?
Which region was known as the "breadbasket" and produced grains?
What is the Middle Colonies?
Give two examples of a product the South supplied to other colonies.
What is Tobacco, Cotton, Rice, Indigo?
Who were enslaved people in the colonies (short answer)?
What is people captured/sold into lifelong forced labor as property (enslaved African Americans)
This colony was founded by a group of separatists.
What is Plymouth?
This was the landing and date of the first African Americans captured from Africa.
What is Port Comfort, VA 1619
Which colonial region grew tobacco, rice, and indigo on large plantations?
What is the Southern Region?
Give one example of a good New England provided to the South.
What is Fish/Whale, Timber (shipbuilding), and small manufacturing.
Describe two differences between the lives of large landowners and farmers.
Size of land, products they produce, the propose of production (local use vs. sold for cash)
These three settlements were founded for economic gain.
What is Jamestown, Roanoke, and Georgia?
In 1619 Virginia created the first representative assembly in the colonies — name it.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Name one major port city in the Middle Colonies.
What is Boston?
How did specialization increase trade between colonies and Great Britain?
What is Specialization created goods the colonies needed to buy or trade, increasing exports to Britain and imports of manufactured goods
The qualities of a Free African American.
What are able to own land, limited rights, restrictions such on voting and bearing arms.
These three settlements were founded for religious gain.
What is Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth.
Give one reason Virginia became powerful and influential among the colonies.
What is it had the largest population and the most land (and wealth from tobacco)?
Explain one geographic reason why New England and the Southern Colonies specialized in different products.
What is different geography, climate, natural resources?
Describe how the Mid-Atlantic colonies showed interdependence with both New England and the South
The Mid‑Atlantic grew grains and raised livestock for New England and the South, and traded for New England’s manufactured goods and the South’s cash crops
White women faced these restrictions.
What are no legal rights and no rights to vote.
Match the following with the people who settled there- Georgia, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Pennsylvania
What is:
Georgia- Debtors
Pennsylvania- Quakers
Massachusetts Bay- Puritans
Plymouth- Pilgrims
What political idea—encouraged by Virginia’s creation of the House of Burgesses—gave colonists experience governing themselves?
What is self rule?