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6th Social Studies
Descriptions of the 13 Colonies
Question | Answer |
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New England Colonies | The types of settlers in the ____ were English, Puritan, and Farmers. |
Middle Colonies | The types of settlers in the _____ were the Quakers, Dutch, French, Germans, Scot-Irish. |
Southern Colonies | The types of settlers in _____ were English aristocrats, planters, small farmers, slaves |
New England Colonies | In the ___ had many forests, they were rocky and hilly, with poor soil, long winters, limited farming. |
Middle Colonies | The ____ had fertile soil, flat land, swift rivers, wide valleys and warmer climate. |
Southern Colonies | The ___ had rich, fertile soil, broad coastal plains, tidewater and back country. |
New England Colonies | The ___ were built around a commons, Boston, Providence, and Newport. |
Middle Colonies | The ___ had seaports, and the cities of New York City, Philadelphia. |
Southern Colonies | ____ had seaports, and cities such as Savannah and Charleston. |
New England Colonies | The major economic activities of the ____ were small farms, merchants, craftsmen, boat building, whaling, lumber, and fishing. |
Middle Colonies | The major economic activities of the ___ were farming grains, livestock, cash, crops, mining, and trading. |
Southern Colonies | The major economic activities of the ___ were plantations that grew tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton; slavery, fewer crafts and industry. |
New England Colonies | The religious groups of the ___ were Puritans which were very strict, gloomy and superstitious. |
Middle Colonies | The religious groups of the ___ were Quakers, Catholics, Jews and protestants, they practiced tolerance. |
Southern Colonies | The religious groups of the ___ were the Church of England and Catholics. |
New England Colonies | Town meetings were help where people could speak out and vote. They were self-governed. |
Middle Colonies | A mixture of town meetings and county governments were practiced in the ___> |
Southern Colonies | Counties were basic units, they had sheriffs and justice of the peace that were appointed by the governor. |
New England Colonies | Consisted of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. |
Middle Colonies | Consisted of New York, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. |
Southern Colonies | Consisted of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. |
New England Colonies | Fur, Fish, and Timber for shipbuilding and manufacturing. |
New England Colonies | Pilgrims developed the Mayflower Compact. |
New England Colonies | William Bradford was a political leader. |
Pilgrims | Wanted religious freedom from the Church of England. In England they were called separatists, but in the colonies they were know as ___. |
Separatists | People that wanted religious freedom from the Church of England. Known as Pilgrims. |
Plymouth | Founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims who wanted religious freedom from the Church of England. |
Mayflower Compact | The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed before leaving the ship, and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. |
Puritans | A group of colonists that wanted to purify or change the church. |
Religious and economic rules | Founders of New Hampshire wanted escape for those limited by ___ and ___. |
Fishing | The colonist in New Hampshire made a profit from trade and ___. |
Trade | The colonists from the New Hampshire colony made a profit from ___ and fishing. |
Puritan harshness | ___ led settlers north and inland to New Hampshire. |
Trading and fishing | ___ is how the settlers earned profit. |
Connecticut | Colony founded by Thomas Hooker. |
Thomas Hooker | ____ founded Connecticut for religious and political freedom. |
Religious freedom | ___ is the reason that Thomas Hooker and Anne Hutchinson founded Rhode Island because they wanted a colony where any religion could come and be free to worship as they pleased. |
Rhode Island | Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were founders or leaders of this colony. |
Religious freedom | Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams wanted ___. Williams set up Rhode Island, the most tolerant colony, where any religion could come and practice their beliefs. |
The colony of ___ | |
New England Colonies | These colonies had plenty of fur fish and timber to build ships and for manufacturing. |
Leaders | The ____ of the New England Colonies were William Bradford, John Winthrop, John Mason, Thomas Hooker, Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams. |
Middle Colonies | The ___ were called the "Bread Basket colonies" because they had grain, cattle and agriculture. |
Bread Basket colonies | The nickname given to the middle colonies because they produced grains. |
New York | ____ was established by the Dutch West India Company in hopes of trading and making a profit. |
Dutch | New York was set up as a ___ colony, but was taken over by the English in 1664. |
English | New York was set up as a Dutch colony, but was taken over by the ___ in 1664. |
Trade and profit | New York was founded by the Dutch West India Company for___. |
Trade and profit | The Middle colonies of New York, Delaware, and New Jersey were set up for ___. |
New Jersey | One of the middle colonies that was set up for trade and profit and religious and political freedom. |
Pennsylvania | One of the middle colonies that was founded by a Quaker, William Penn for religious freedom for Quakers. |
Fighting | Quakers did not believe in ___. |
Southern Colonies | Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia are all ____. |
Jamestown | ____, Virginia was founded in 1607, by John Smith of the Virginia Company for farming, trading and profit. |
Virginia | Jamestown was founded as a joint-stock company. Only 60 of the first 900 colonists survived because of starvation and disease. |
House of Burgesses | ___ was the first representative government in Virginia. |
Maryland | was founded by Lord Baltimore for religious and political freedom for Catholics. |
Catholics | Maryland was a safe haven for Catholics. |
Lord Baltimore | Founded Maryland as a safe haven for Catholics. |
North Carolina | A group of 8 proprietors, were investors, founded this colony as a joint business venture, for trade, profit and farming as well as religious freedom. |
Rice | A group of 8 proprietors founded South Carolina for trade, profit and farming as well as religious freedom. ___was the major crop. |
Trade, profit and farming | A group of 8 proprietors founded North Carolina for ____ as well as religious freedom. |
South Carolina | A group of 8 proprietors founded this colony as for tread, profit, farming and religious freedom. Rice was the major crop. |
Georgia | ___ was founded by James Oglethorpe as a debtor colony. This colony offered the imprisoned debtors of England a new start with an opportunity to pay their debts. |
Georgia | This colony became a buffer zone, protecting other colonies from Spanish Florida. |
James Oglethorpe | Founded Georgia as a colony for debtors. Georgia became a buffer between Spanish Florida, protecting other colonies from Spanish Florida. |