SS UNIT 2 L7 COMPARING THE COLONIES

The British included people from

• Scotland

• Germany

• Ireland

• Holland

The economies of the colonial regions differed because they had different

• resources

• languages

• governments

• origins

Plantations specialized in producing

• fine food

• dairy cattle

• cash crops

• wood furniture

Someone who agreed to work for an employer for a set period of time in order to pay off a debt was called

• an enslaved person

• an apprentice

• a colonist

• an indentured servant

Massachusetts Bay was founded to protect

• Puritans

• Catholics

• Baptists

• Quakers

Why was Rhode Island founded?

• to have large tobacco farm

• to offer religious freedom

• to be a trade center

• o home many poor people

Why were the Quakers mistreated in England?

• They taught that people should overthrow kings by force

• They often received special favors from the king

• They practiced a different religion from most English people

• They refused to obey laws

Which of these was a disadvantage of Maryland as a place to colonize?

• Mosquitoes spread disease

• People did not stay long

• Crops did not grow well

• Forest trees were scarce

Why was Georgia founded?

• to trade with Spanish colonies

• to shelter people who had been enslaved

• to raise taxes from new colonists

• to help poor debtors avoid jail

A body of lawmakers is called a(n)

• grant

• assembly

• West Indies

• economy