Study Guide for Colonization

Question 1

What are the New England Colonies?

Answer 1

Massachusetts Bay
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New Hampshire

Question 2

What are the Middle Colonies

Answer 2

New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware

Question 3

What are the Southern Colonies

Answer 3

Virginia
Georgia
Maryland
North Carolina
South Carolina

Question 4

What is the religion of the New England colonies?

Answer 4

Pilgrims and Puritans

Question 5

What is the religion of the Middle Colonies

Answer 5

many religions

Question 6

What is the religion of the Southern Colonies

Answer 6

Catholics and Protestants

Question 7

What is the region (land, water, climate) of the New England Colonies?

Answer 7

Rivers and streams not good for navigating but they ran fast to produce power for mills

Question 8

What is the region (land, water, climate) of the Middle Colonies?

Answer 8

Rivers
Forests
Rich farm lands

Question 9

What is the region (land, water, climate) of the Southern Colonies?

Answer 9

Long growing season
Mild weather
Rich lands
Lots of rain

Question 10

What is the economy (how did they make money?) of the New England Colonies?

Answer 10

Ship building
Fur trading
Fish
Whales

Question 11

What is the economy (how did they make money?) of the Middle Colonies?

Answer 11

Wheat - by using wind mills and ship to other colonies. Iron for tools
Ship imports

Question 12

What is the economy (how did they make money?) of the Southern Colonies?

Answer 12

Cash crops
Rice
Tobacco (first cash crop)
Inigo - used to make blue dye

Question 13

Important facts of the New England Colonies:

What is a meeting house?

Answer 13

Important building in center of town for church and meetings

Question 14

Important facts of the New England Colonies:

What happened in 1620?

Answer 14

Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Question 15

Important facts of the New England Colonies:

What is the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 15

The start of democracy (making rules - everyone has equal say)

Question 16

Important facts of the New England Colonies:

What happened in 1621 ?

Answer 16

The First Thanksgiving in Plymouth. Colonists became friends with Native Americans. Squanto interpreted and taught them how to grow food. Pilgrims invited them to a 3 day feast to show thanks

Question 17

Important facts of the New England Colonies:

Who was the governor during the First Thanksgiving feast?

Answer 17

Governor William Bradford

Question 18

Important facts of the Middle Colonies:

Who was William Penn?

Answer 18

A Quaker who believed they should live peacefully with Natives

Question 19

Important facts of the Middle Colonies:

Who was Ben Franklin?

Answer 19

scientist, inventor, writer. 1st book - Poor Richard’s Almanac

Question 20

Important facts of the Southern Colonies:

Who were Slaves?

Answer 20

worked on plantations

Question 21

Important facts of the Southern Colonies:

What is the Lost Colony? What happened there?

Answer 21

Roanoke - Raleigh sent a group there but they returned starving. White took another group there and went back for supplies. He didn’t return for 3 years due to a war and there was no one there when he returned.

Question 22

Important facts of the Southern Colonies:

What happened in Jamestown in 1607?

Answer 22

Virginia
Work done by Indentured servants who agreed to work to pay off voyage to America. Town was built on swampy land not good for farming or drinking water. People were starving and getting sick.

Question 23

Important facts of the Southern Colonies:

Who was John Smith?

Answer 23

A great leader who forced people to help. He got captured but saved by Pocahontas

Question 24

Important facts of the Southern Colonies:

What was the House of Burgesses?

Answer 24

It was used for government