colonies review

In this region, slaves outnumbered slave owners

• Middle Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Southern Colonies

This region had the most diverse population

• Middle Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Southern Colonies

Most colonists in this region were Puritans

• New England Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Middle Colonies

In the middle colonies these two industries were important.

• Tobacco and Cotton

• Ironworking and Forestry

• Shipmaking and Banking

The southern colonies were primarily this type of region

• agricultural

• business

• manufacturing

In this region, some slaves were able to earn money as long as they gave a portion to their slave owners, and a very small number of slaves were able to save money to buy their freedom.

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

What does subsistence farming mean

• grow crops for survival NOT profit, but there is barely enough

• crops grown strictly for profit not for survival

What is Mercantilism?

• A system of controlling and maintaining wealth from carefully controlled trade

• A religious movement that swept through the colonies and changed colonial religion

• A legislature having two houses

What is Bicameral?

• A system of controlling and maintaining wealth from carefully controlled trade

• A religious movement that swept through the colonies and changed colonial religion

• A legislature having two houses

What is the Enlightenment?

• A system of controlling and maintaining wealth from carefully controlled trade

• A religious movement that swept through the colonies and changed colonial religion

• A legislature having two houses