Colonial Regions Study Guide

What are TWO things that were unique to the New England Colonies?

• Fishing

• Big cities

• Church was the center of town life

• Plantations

What are THREE things that are unique to the Middle Colonies?

• Many different religions and languages

• Merchants and Artisans

• Plantations

• Grain was the main source for the economy

What is the ONE thing that is unique about the Southern Colonies?

• Cash crops grown on plantations

• Fishing

• Merchants and Artisans

• Big cities

What do all three colonial regions have in common?

• Fishing was the main source of the economy

• They had an active port for trading

• Slavery was practiced in every region

• Settlers here exchanged raw materials with England for goods

Match the following terms with their definitions.

• The wealth and resources of a region, especially in terms of production and consumption

• Economy

• A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory

• Colony

• The social behavior and norms found in human societies

• Country

• An area under the control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country

• Culture

The act of sending people to live in and govern another area and its people

• Culture

• Colonization

• Power

• Economy

Match the following terms with their definitions.

• The activity in which manufacturers take raw materials and make them into goods or products to be sold; a group of businesses that make and sell similar goods, or provide similar services.

• Culture

• The system of production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services in a particular society.

• Geography

• The social behavior and norms found in human societies.

• Industry

• The study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.

• Economy

A trade system with at least three points in which profits from one exchange are used to purchase goods from another

• Geography

• Triangle Trade

• Economy

• Cash Crops

A crop produced to make money rather than for use by the grower

• Food

• Crop

• Cash Crop

• Economy

The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period

• Geography

• Weather

• Storm

• Climate