7th Unit 2: Discovery of America EOS

The _____ of the Southern Colonies was based on farming.

• economy 
• colony
• merchant

Most colonists in North America worked as ______ to make a living.

• merchants
• wealthy landowners
• farmers

Rivers provided_____ and ______ for the colonists.

• materials for homes and boating
• food and transportation
• floods and clean air

The colonists in Plymouth came from England looking for:

• religious freedom
• gold
• furs
• free land

Farming was most successful in which colonies?

• New England and Middle
• Middle and Southern
• New England and Southern

If you lived along the Atlantic coast, you were more likely to have a job in what industry?

• Fishing or shipbuilding
• Fur or mining
• Dressmaking or Theatre
• Glass blowing or blacksmithing

Which colonists were farmers and plantation owners who grew cotton and tobacco?

• New England
• Southern
• Middle
• Backcountry

The first permanent English settlement in North America was

• Werowocomoco
• Yorktown
• Richmond
• Jamestown

The main reason most of the early settlers came to the colonies of Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island was to

• Obtain better jobs
• Seek religious freedom
• Search for gold
•  Help win the war against the Native Americans

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Who owned the World market in tobacco seeds during this time?

• English

• Norway

• Mexico

• Spanish