colonial life

Question 1

List the 4 northern colonies.

Answer 1

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

Question 2

List the 5 middle colonies.

Answer 2

New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania

Question 3

List the 4 southern colonies.

Answer 3

North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia

Question 4

What is the climate in the northern colonies?

Answer 4

harsh, cold winters and short, mild summers

Question 5

What is the climate in the middle colonies?

Answer 5

even seasons with cold winters and hot summers

Question 6

What is the climate of the southern colonies?

Answer 6

hot and humid summers and short, mild winters

Question 7

What is the economy of the northern colonies?

Answer 7

lumbering, fishing, shipbilding

Question 8

What is the economy of the middle colonies?

Answer 8

fur trapping, mining, shipping, fishing, farming, lumbering

Question 9

What is the economy of the southern colonies?

Answer 9

agriculture - large plantations with cash crops

Question 10

What is the geography of the northern colonies?

Answer 10

forests, rocky soil, harbors

Question 11

What is the geography of the middle colonies?

Answer 11

rivers, bays, coastlines, mountains, hills, plains, wetlands

Question 12

What is the geography of the southern colonies?

Answer 12

fertile soils, plains, swamps

Question 13

How did native Americans help the colonists in the beginning?

Answer 13

taught them to fish, farm, plant corn and hunt

Question 14

Which region of the colonies used slavery the most?

Answer 14

southern

Question 15

Describe agriculture in the southern colonies.

Answer 15

large plantations growing cash crops such as cotton, tobacco, and rice

Question 16

Why was trade so important among the colonies?

Answer 16

exchanged goods, news and ideas

Question 17

Give examples of how the colonists combined work and socialization.

Answer 17

quilting bees, barn raisings, house raisings, corn husking with feasting and dancing when finished

Question 18

Give examples that prove that attending church was important to the colonists.

Answer 18

1. no work on Sunday
2. read bible as a family daily
3. pray daily

Question 19

What was the main item traded between the colonies and West Africa?

Answer 19

slaves

Question 20

How did the triangular trade route get its name?

Answer 20

shaped like a triangle

Question 21

What were most West Africans doing when they were kidnapped into slavery?

Answer 21

going on with their daily lives

Question 22

How were slaves transported to the colonies?

Answer 22

ships

Question 23

Why were slaves branded?

Answer 23

to show ownership

Question 24

How long were people kept in slavery?

Answer 24

for life

Question 25

Which man helped Jamestown succeed?

Answer 25

John Smith

Question 26

What important law did John Smith make in Jamestown?

Answer 26

no work, no eat

Question 27

What type of government did the Mayflower Compact establish in the colonies?

Answer 27

democracy

Question 28

In democracy, who makes laws?

Answer 28

the people

Question 29

What current US document is based on the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 29

US constitution

Question 30

Why did the pilgrims come to America?

Answer 30

religious freedom

Question 31

What opportunities/freedoms were available to the colonists in America that were not available in Great Britain?

Answer 31

political, economic, and religious

Question 32

Who celebrated the first Thanksgiving?

Answer 32

pilgrims and native Americans

Question 33

What was eaten at the first Thanksgiving?

Answer 33

deer, corn, seafood, duck

Question 34

How long did the first Thanksgiving last?

Answer 34

a week

Question 35

How did the lives of the Native Americans change after the colonists arrived?

Answer 35

enslaved
disease
land stolen
converted to Christianity
culture destroyed
beaver and buffalo almost extinct