Unit 1: Colonial America Review

Cause: The Southern Colonies have many tobacco plantations

Effect: __________________________

• Manufacturing will become a major industry

• Relations will improve with Native Americans

• The British monarchy will weaken in power

• Colonists will become dependent on slavery

Which completes the blank for NEW ENGLAND COLONIES?

RESOURCES: Deep harbors

CLIMATE: Cold Winter/Mild Summer

PRODUCT: _____________________

• Ships

• Tobacco

• Grains

• Livestock

Which completes the blank for MIDDLE COLONIES?

RESOURCES: Rich farmland

CLIMATE: ____________________

PRODUCT: Livestock

• Harsh Winters/ Mild Summers

• Mild Winters/Mild Summers

• Mild Winters/Hot Summers

• Warm Winters/Hot Summers

Which completes the blank for the SOUTHERN COLONIES?

RESOURCES: __________________

CLIMATE: Hot and humid

PRODUCT: Cash crops

• Rocky Soil

• River Valleys

• Tobacco, cotton, indigo

• Fishing and whaling

Why did the plantation system develop only in the Southern Colonies?

• The climate was suitable for growing crops

• This location was closest to African ports

• Slavery was banned in other colonies

• Agriculture was how Puritans made a living

Plymouth was a refuge for ______________________________.

• Religious organizations that ran the government

• Puritans migrating to the American colonies

• The colonies separating from Great Britain

• Christianizing American Indians in the colonies

What was the goal of the British mercantile system?

• To create an economy based on Colonial manufacturing

• To establish representative governments

• To increase the supply of raw material

• To resettle American indians to western territories

Why was Georgia colonized?

• As a refuge for debtors

• A place for separatists to relocate

• Roman Catholics wanted to flee perscution

• Landowners wanted to increase their wealth

They Mayflower Compact led to the ___________________________________

• development of the Puritan religion.

• end of slavery in the British colonies.

• establishment of self governments in the colonies.

• creating of free enterprise among American colonists.

Which region is represented by the following characteristics?

River valleys

Grain and dairy farms

More tolerant of other races and religions

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

• Western