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Colonies~Southern
Soc Studies~Chapter 7
Question | Answer |
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What is the port city of Maryland? | Baltimore |
What is the port city of Virginia? | Norfolk |
What is the port city of North Carolina? | Wilmington |
What is the port city of South Carolina? | Charles Town |
What is the port city of Georgia? | Savannah |
Where did the original colony of Carolina stretch from? | It stretched from Virginia to Spanish Florida |
What did the word "back country" mean? | The back country is land "in back of" the area already settled by the Europeans. People began to settle there. |
What was the back country also called? | the Piedmont |
What was the Piedmont? | the land between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains. |
Where was the first settlement for free Africans? | in Spanish Florida |
Who helped found Georgia for debtors? | James Oglethorpe |
Who founded the Maryland Colony to give Catholics a safe place to worship? He named the port city after himself. | Lord Baltimore |
What was the Toleration Act? | The Toleration Act allowed religious freedom to all Christians in the Maryland Colony. |
Where did most enslaved workers work? | on plantations in the Southern Colonies |
What was the main cash crop in the NORTHERN areas of the Southern Colonies? | Tobacco |
What was the main cash crop in the SOUTHERN areas of the Southern Colonies? | Rice |
What does a broker do? | A broker buys and sells a colonist's goods for them in England. |
Name three ways that Africans dealt with the hardships in their lives. | *They would rebel against slavery by breaking tools, pretending to be sick & working slowly. *They kept their culture alive by telling stories and singing songs about Africa. *Christianity also became a source of strength for some enslaved Africans. |
Why did conflicts develop when Southern Colonists settled in Native Americans' land? | *Colonists destroyed some villages. *Some colonists did not treat the Native Americans justly. *Some colonists captured Native Americans and sold them into slavery. *Many Native Americans died from European diseases. |