Weekly Social Studies Review #9

The three colony regions: New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies had different economies because they had different...

• governments

• origins

• languages

• resources

Plantations specialized in producing...

• fine food

• cash crops

• dairy cattle

• wood furniture

Someone who agreed to work for an employer for a set period of time to pay off the debt was known as...

• a slave

• an apprentice

• an assemblyman

• an indentured servant

How did many of the Middle and Southern Colonies begin?

• Religious groups faced persecution (punished because of their beliefs) in the first colony built.

• The colony spread out to claim more land for England.

• The English took the land from the Spanish.

• King Charles gave away large plots of land.

Puritans were seeking

• Warmer climates

• Family

• Religious Freedom

• The Church of England

New England colonist jobs consisted of farming, selling lumber, and

• fishing.

• They did not have jobs.

• Colonists worked for the Puritans.

• mining for minerals.

Farming was ________ for the Middle Colonies because of the cold winters, hot summers, and long growing seasons.

• harder

• easier

• difficult

• similar to New England

People in the Middle Colonies had jobs as farmers, ________, lumbermen, sailors, merchants, and raising dairy cattle.

• bankers

• government workers

• miners

• teachers

Crops that were grown in Southern Colonies included

• tobacco

• fruit trees

• indigo

• all of the above

Wealthy plantation owners used __________ as workers.

• slaves

• prisoners

• indentured servants

• slaves and indentured servants