5th Grade Social Studies

1. In New England, the main business was

• trading,cutting timber, builting ships and fishing

• Farming

2. The Middles colonies raised

• wheat

• nothing

3. The Southern colonies grew

• cash crops

• wheat

4. In New England, ______________ was the center of town life.

• Meeting house

• Town

5. Roger Williams was forced to leave and go to

• Rhode Island

• New York

6. New York and New Jersey are called as Proprietor Colonies6.

• True

• False

7. Pennsylvania was started by a Quaker called William Penn

• yes

• no

8. Maryland welcomed only Catholics

• yes

• no

9. James Oglethorpe started a colony called _____________ for British people who were jailed for debt

• Georgia

• Carolina

10. A ___________ is when a product is bought from othe counrties.

• Import

• Export