Colonial Regions Part One
What colonial economic system was based upon the climate, soil conditions, and resources available in each region?
Mercantilism
What products/resources did the Middle colonies produce?
Ship building, small scale farming, and trading
The private ownership of property was important everywhere in the colonies. What tragic form of property ownership was important for the production of "cash crops?"
African slaves
How did Puritans treat people who believed in religious tolerance and separation of church and state?
They were intolerant of dissenters and kicked them out of Massachusetts.
What was the social structure of the Southern colonies?
It was based on family status, land ownership, and enslaved people.
What products/resources did the New England colonies produce?
Ship building, fishing, lumber, and small scale farming.
Name two important seaport/commercial center cities in the Middle colonies.
New York and Philadelphia
How did mercantilism create a system of interdependence between the colonies and the countries that controlled them?
Both sides needed the products/resources produced by the other.
Who founded Rhode Island?
The dissenters who were kicked out of Massachusetts (Roger Williams).
What did Virginia large landowners in the eastern lowlands dominate?
They dominated government while maintaining closer ties to Britain than the other colonies. They also tended to favor the Church of England.
What two Puritan beliefs helped the New England colonies prosper?
Hard work and thriftiness
Name the five Southern colonies.
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
Migration patterns, geography, and climate effected what two colonial institutions?
Social and political institutions
True of False.
Did all the colonies enslave Native Americans and Africans?
True
Direct democracy
Name the four New England colonies.
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
What products/resources did the Southern colonies produce?
They grew "cash crops" such as tobacco, rice, and indigo on large plantations along the eastern coastal lowlands.
American colonization led to what two beliefs about government that eventually spread to other countries?
Representative government and religious freedom
How did the Middle colonies, which were made up of Quakers, Huguenots, Jews, and Presbyterians, deal with people of different religions?
They were tolerant of them.
What was the focus of Middle colony government?
The basic rights of Englishman.
Name the four Middle colonies.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
Where did many poor, subsistence farmers settle in Virginia?
The Shenandoah Valley and parts of western Virginia.
Puritans believed strongly in religious . . . ?
Standing
How did Middle colony society differ from that in Europe during the same period?
It was more flexible and had a strong middle class of artisans and entrepreneurs.
How did British North America develop the only enslaved society in the New World to sustain itself?
Moderate climate and the types of crops produced allowed enslaved populations to grow in size and eventually outnumber all other enslaved populations.