13 Colonies-Geography and Economy

Plymouth Colony was in what state?

• Pennsylvania

• Virginia

• Massachusetts

• New York

The colonists in Plymouth came from England looking for:

• religious freedom

• gold

• furs

• free land

Who settled Jamestown?

• The Pilgrims

• The Virginia Company

• The Quakers

• Catholics

How did the Virginia Company make money?

• Selling furs

• Selling lumber

• Growing and selling tobacco

• Growing and selling grain

Lumber and ship building was a successful enterprise in which colonies?

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

• MIddle 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

What is the major industry of the New England Colonies?

• Cash Crops

• Metalwork

• Slavery

• Shipbuilding and Fishing

A cash crop is

• Traded with other crops

• Raised for sale in markets to make money

• Planted only for one's family

• Only for personal use

Which of the following was the first permanent English settlement of North America?

• Plymouth

• Roanoke

• Youngstown

• Jamestown

What was the New England economy shaped by?

• Rocky soil, long winters

• Fertile Soil, short winters

• Forest, mild summers

• Mountainous land