The 13 Colonies

Match each region to its correct economy

• cash crops and mining

• New England Colonies

• shipbuilding, whaling and fishing

• Southern Colonies

• plantations, crops, and enslaved labor

• Middle Colonies

Match each region to its climate

• long hot summers and mild winters

• Southern Colonies

• long cold winters

• Middle Colonies

• mild weather

• New England Colonies

Match each region to its geography

• land for large farms

• Middle Colonies

• fertile soil

• New England Colonies

• forests and coastlines

• Southern Colonies

All of the following states are apart of the New England colonies EXCEPT

• New Hampshire

• Rhode Island

• Pennsylvania

• Massachusetts

All of the following states are apart of the Middle Colonies EXCEPT

• North Carolina

• New York

• Pennsylvania

• Delaware

All of the following states are apart of the Southern Colonies EXCEPT

• South Carolina

• Maryland

• Virgina

• New Jersey

Match the following terms to their definitions

• a large farm dedicated to growing substantial amounts of crops for profit, uses enslaved labor

• plantations

• a type of agriculture in which people lived on what they grew themselves

• cash crops

• a crop grown for sale to make a profit (examples: wheat, corn)

• subsistence farms