Colonies- Enviro and Economic

Question 1

Which colonial region had the shortest growing season?

Answer 1

New England/Northern colonies

Question 2

Which colonial region had the longest growing season?

Answer 2

Southern colonies

Question 3

Which colonial region focused almost entirely farming and selling crops?

Answer 3

Southern colonies

Question 4

What is a plantation?

Answer 4

a large farm which grows crops to sell. The usually relied on enslaved workers.

Question 5

Which colony has the largest focus on plantation farming?

Answer 5

Southern colonies

Question 6

What were the main cash crops of the Southern colonies?

Answer 6

rice, tobacco, cotton, indigo

Question 7

Which colony had a combination of plantations and business trade?

Answer 7

Middle Colonies

Question 8

Which colony sold WHEAT as their cash crop?

Answer 8

Middle Colonies

Question 9

Which colony had rich fertile soil great for growing crops?

Answer 9

Both the Middle and Southern Colonies

Question 10

Which colony had rocky soil with few nutrients that was very bad for farming?

Answer 10

New England Colonies

Question 11

Subsistance Farming

Answer 11

Being able to only farm enough for your family- can’t sell crops to make a profit.

Question 12

Which region was only able to use subsistance farming?

Answer 12

New England Colonies

Question 13

Which colonies had great harbors for ships to come and go?

Answer 13

New England and Middle Colonies

Question 14

Which set of colonies has large slow rivers which would allow ships to travel to large farms?

Answer 14

Southern Colonies

Question 15

Which set of colonies grew so much wheat they were nicknamed the Breadbasket colonies?

Answer 15

Middle Colonies

Question 16

Which set of colonies focused on town living because farming was so difficult?

Answer 16

New England

Question 17

Which sets of colonies had large cities which became centers of trade?

Answer 17

New England and Middle Colonies

Question 18

What were artisans?

Answer 18

people who had skilled jobs that took many years of practice to become good at…..carpenters, barrel makers, printers, wagon makers, rifle makers

Question 19

Which set of colonies participated in the Triangle Trade?

Answer 19

New England Colonies

Question 20

What was the Triangle Trade?

Answer 20

A system of trade between the New England Colonies, Africa and the British Colonies in the Caribbean which allowed each to make a profit.

Question 21

Which region’s economy focused mainly on fishing, whaling, shipbuilding and trading?

Answer 21

New England Colonies

Question 22

Which region depended on enslaved labor to keep their farms running?

Answer 22

Southern Colonies