Colonial America Review

What were most farms like in the New England Colonies?

• They were large and farmers grew cash crops to send to England.

• They were small and farmers grew what they needed for their families.

Which best describes the New England Colonies?

• cold weather, short growing season, settled for economic reasons

• long growing season, cash crops

• cold weather, short growing season, settled for religious freedom

• breadbasket of the colonies

Which best describes the Southern Colonies?

• cold weather, short growing season, settled for economic reasons

• long growing season, cash crops

• cold weather, short growing season, settled for religious freedom

• breadbasket of the colonies

Which best describes the Mid-Atlantic Colonies?

• cold weather, short growing season, settled for economic reasons

• long growing season, cash crops

• cold weather, short growing season, settled for religious freedom

• breadbasket of the colonies, most religiously tolerant

English settlers in the Southern Colonies created plantations and began growing cash

crops after

• they struggled with the fur trade

• they were not able to find gold

• they decided that they liked hard work

Which of the following colonial regions had poor, rocky soil and short growing seasons?

• New England Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Mountain Colonies

How did farms in the New England Colonies differ from farms in the Southern Colonies?

• They were large and were worked on only by slaves.

• They were large cooperatives owned by free men.

• They were small and had few, if any, slaves.

• They were owned by freed servants and escaped slaves.

Which of the following colonial regions has long deep rivers, cool winters, and natural

harbors?

• New England Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Western Colonies

Which of the following colonial regions had long summers and rich soil and wetlands?

• New England Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Western Colonies

What was the main reason why Southern Colonies used slave workers more than the

New England and Mid-Atlantic Colonies?

• The Southern Colonies were closer to the slave ports along the coast than the New

  England and Mid-Atlantic Colonies.

• The weather allowed farmers in the Southern Colonies to grow large fields of crops

  that needed lots of workers to harvest.

• The major colonial factory towns were in the Southern Colonies, and slaves were

  required in colonial work houses.

• The leaders of the Southern Colonies did not think there was anything wrong with

  slavery, unlike leaders in the New England and Mid-Atlantic Colonies.