Chapter 2 Section 3 Flashcards
How did most colonists in the middle colonies make a living?
- Farming: wheat and other cash crops
* Industries: sawmills, mines, and ironworks
How did most colonists in New England make a living?
Milling Grain, sewing clothes, making furniture, blacksmiths, shoemakers, shopkeepers, shipbuilding
Why were most southern colonists farmers?
- Major crops: tobacco, rice, indigo
- Agriculture: farming tobacco, rice and indigo
- Tidewater regions were ideal for growing these crops
What crops did they grow?
Tobacco, rice, and indigo
Which southerners depended on slave labor for their farms?
Plantation owners (that could afford it)
Why did Andrew Burnaby believe colonists would not unite?
The colonies were so much different from eachother
What was the main difference between the puritans of Massachusetts and the people of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island?
The puritans were not tolerant
Describe the “Great Awakening”
Religious revival in the country; camp meetings started springing up; church services were beginning to be held
List three of Americas earliest colleges
Harvard
Princeton
William and Mary
Why were slaves not educated?
Slave code: illegal to educate a slave
Don’t educate someone if you don’t want to control them
Which women had more rights than others?
Only widows and unmarried women could own businesses therefore more powerful
Why were many Americans pulling away from Great Britain?
We were doing things on our own and Great Britain was ignoring us
Where did John Locke believe government got it’s power from?
The people
