The 13 Colonies

Multiple Choice

Shipbuilding was a main industry in this region.

• New England
• Middle
• Southern

Multiple Choice

This region had the longest growing season.

• New England
• Middle
• Southern

Multiple Choice

The economy of the Southern Colonies was based on ______________.

• farming

• fishing

• slavery

Multiple Choice

What does the term pilgrim mean?

• Someone who travels for religious reasons

• Someone who stays in one place for a long time

• Someone who vacations often

• Someone who rules a colony

Multiple Choice

Which colonies have large plantations?

• Middle
• Southern
• New England
• Northeast

Multiple Choice

This region was known for wheat farming. (breadbasket)

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

Multiple Choice

Which group are the Southern colonies?

• Connecticut 
  New Hampshire
  Rhode Island
  Massachuttes
• North Carolina
  South Carolina
  Virginia
  Maryland
  Georgia
• Pennsylvania
  Delaware
  New York
  New Jersey
• Florida
  Georgia
  Louisiana
  Alabama

Multiple Choice

This region needed slaves for the plantations.

• New England
• Middle
• Southern

Multiple Choice

What is the major industry of the New England Colonies?

• Cash Crops
• Metalwork
• Slavery
• Shipbuilding and Fishing

Multiple Choice

New York was named after whom?

• Duke of York, the King of England's brother

• Duke of York, the King of France's brother

• Duke of York, the King of Spain's brother

Multiple Choice

This is the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World

• Last Passage

• First Passage

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Passage

Match

Match the 13 Colonial Region to their primary economic source.

• Wheat & Oats

• Cash Crops & Slave Labor

• Shipbuilding & Fishing

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies

Northern Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Northern Colonies

Dropdown

William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania on the idea of ​ ​

Select answer

. As a result, Penn's colony was more ​

Select answer

other religions, as well as women & hated slavery.

Explanation Slide...

William Penn was the leader of the Quakers, who believed in religious freedom & equality for everyone. Penn created Pennsylvania as a safe place for escaping religious persecution.

Multiple Select

Which physical characteristics contributed MOST to the development of the shipbuilding/fishing industry in the Northeastern states?

Select THREE correct answers. ​

• Thick Forests

• Large Desert Regions

• Deep Harbors

• Abundant Sea Life

• Long Growing Seasons

Match

Match the following reasons different European countries colonized the Americas.

• Fur Trade w/ Native Americans.

• Cash Crops in Southeast region of North America.

• Converting Natives in the Southwest to Christianity.

France

England

Spain

• France

• England

• Spain

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a primary reason for the vast creation of colonies?

• To avoid debtor's prison.

• To extend triangular trade routes.

• To escape religious persecution.

• To block Spanish settlements.

Multiple Choice

Religious meetings drew

• no crowds

• small crowds

• medium crowds

• large crowds

Multiple Choice

George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards gave sermons about

• the existence of many gods.
• helplessness and sinfulness of humankind.
• importance of government.
• importance of other religions.

Multiple Select

Ministers of The Great Awakening preached ___________

• God was kind and forgiving

• people were not equal

• colonists should not be independent

• colonists could save themselves

Multiple Choice

How did the Great Awakening change America?

• It brought people from all over the colonies together for the first time

• It led to people denying God and leading secular lives

• It spread abolitionism throughout the land and led to the end of slavery

• It brought French rule to America

Explanation Slide...

Thich Forests = more wood to make ships.Abundant Sea Life = more fish to catch & sell which increases need of shipbuilding.Deep Harbors = easy for ships to park & trade which again increases need of shipbuilding.

Multiple Choice

Why was the House of Burgesses (VA) important in the development of the United States?

• It was the first example of representative government in the colonies.

• It was the first time governmental powers were separated.

• It was the first time women were granted voting rights in the colonies.

• It was the first successful English colony in the U.S.

Multiple Choice

Why was the founding of the Jamestown colony significant?

• Because it offered the English access to vast gold deposits.

• Because it was an English settlement built on religious freedom.

• Because it provided the English with immediate profits.

• Because it represented the first permanent English settlement.

Explanation Slide...

Not the first one they tried (Roanoke) but Jamestown was the first one that worked for England!

Multiple Choice

Which statement describes a reason for the development of the transatlantic slave trade?

• Colonial Governments wanted to use slave labor to build canals.

• Plantation owners in Southern colonies were increasing profits from slave labor.

• Many colonists relied on slave labor to do difficult work on their ranches.

• Textile production in North colony factories relied on slave labor.

Explanation Slide...

Cash Crops made a lot of money for white Europeans so they needed more "workers" to do the hard labor for them = increase in slavery & slave trade.

Reorder

Reorder the following steps of this diagram regarding the increase in slavery in the Southern Colonies.

(Put them in order from left to right)

• Colonial production of Cash Crops.

• Use of Slavery in Agriculture.

• Increased profits for plantation owners.

• Expansion of the transatlantic slave trade.

1

2

3

4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Explanation Slide...

Making Cash Crops LEADS to using Slaves to do the work which LEADS to increased profits/money for Plantation owners which LEADSto an increase in slave trade.

Multiple Choice

What was one way slow communication due to distance with the British Government affected the American colonies?

• The colonies united for trade & defense.

• Self-Government developed in the colonies.

• Smuggling of goods in the colonies decreased.

• The colonies petitioned the government to establish a navy.

Explanation Slide...

Communication was slow between England & the 13 Colonies because how far they were from each other.This led to the colonies creating all their own stuff because England wasn't there to keep an eye on them.