Chap 5 Lesson 3

Question 1

Where did the settlers move from and where did they move to?

Answer 1

From the English colonies to the back country.

Question 2

What was the Native American trail known as?

Answer 2

Great Wagon Road

Question 3

As more Europeans arrived their settlements spread onto what?

Answer 3

Native American lands

Question 4

What happened when the settlers began to settle on Native American lands?

Answer 4

War broke out between the Native Americans and the settlers.

Question 5

What happened to some of the Native Americans during the war?

Answer 5

They were captured, died from fighting or diseases.

Question 6

At first the colonies depended on what to do their work?

Answer 6

Indentured servants

Question 7

What became more popular once it was legalized?

Answer 7

Slavery

Question 8

Most enslaved Africans worked on what?

Answer 8

Plantations

Question 9

The slaves were often

Answer 9

beaten and abused. They were not allowed to learn to read or write.

Question 10

Slaves resisted by

Answer 10

breaking tools, pretending to be sick or working slowly.

Question 11

The economy in the South depended on what that were grown on plantations?

Answer 11

cash crops

Question 12

Cash crops made who very rich?

Answer 12

planters

Question 13

What is the name of a port city?

Answer 13

Savannah, Georgia

Question 14

What was the purpose of southern port cities?

Answer 14

to import and export goods

Question 15

Most people in the South lived and worked on

Answer 15

small farms. They did not own enslaved workers.

Question 16

What was the main cash crop in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina?

Answer 16

Tobacco

Question 17

What was the main cash crop in South Carolina?

Answer 17

Rice

Question 18

Name 3 types of cash crops

Answer 18

Tobacco, rice and indigo

Question 19

What did southern colonies build?

Answer 19

sawmills and naval stores

Question 20

Name another major industry in the South

Answer 20

shipping

Question 21

What was the Toleration Act?

Answer 21

It gave religious freedom to all Christians.

Question 22

What is a constitution?

Answer 22

A written plan of government.

Question 23

What are debtors?

Answer 23

People who had been put in prison for owing money.

Question 24

How did the settlements affect Native Americans?

Answer 24

They were pushed off their lands, their villages were destroyed which led to war.

Question 25

Who are planters?

Answer 25

Plantation owners (the richest people in the Southern Colonies)

Question 26

Where did most colonists live and work in the Southern Colonies?

Answer 26

On small farms

Question 27

How did some Africans become free?

Answer 27

Some escaped, some were set free by their owners, and some bought their freedom.

Question 28

What is indigo?

Answer 28

A plant that produces a blue dye used to color clothing.

Question 29

What are brokers?

Answer 29

People who are paid to buy and sell for someone else.

Question 30

What are naval stores?

Answer 30

Products used to make or repair ships. They include pine, tar, turpentine and pitch.

Question 31

Name the four Middle Colonies.

Answer 31

New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Question 32

Name the 2 major port cities in the Middle Colonies.

Answer 32

Philadelphia & New York City

Question 33

Who were the lands that made up the Middle Colonies were originally owned by whom?

Answer 33

The Dutch

Question 34

True or False:Unlike New England, the Middle Colonies had fertile soil.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Did the Great Awakening increase or decrease people’s interest in religion?

Answer 35

Increase