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What is the climate in the Northern Colonies?
Mountains, cold, mild summers.
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What states make up the Southern Colonies?
Maryland
Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia |
What was the religion like in the middle colonies?
Religious freedom.
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What are the 4 states that make up the Northern Colonies?
Connecticut
Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island |
What were two hardships that the colonists went through once they reached the Southern Colonies?
Natives- Indians
Disease/ unsanitary water |
What is the nickname for the middle colonies?
The "breadbasket" colonies.
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Why did the Europeans leave England?
To practice their religion freely.
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List 4 items of trade
Cotton
Tobacco Indigo Rice |
What are the three social classes of the people and give one example of each?
Gentry- wealthy & educated
Middle Class- Farmers & merchants Lower Class- Sailors & apprentices. |
What is the machine called that grinds wheat?
Gristmill
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What is the religion in the Northern Colonies?
Religion was strict. Only people who practiced and believed in the bile like the Puritans were allowed. No religious freedom.
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what did the colonists name the town they settled at first?
Jamestown
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Describe slavery in the middle colonies?
only 7% were enslaved. The slaves mostly worked in the cities.
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Describe the school and education in the middle colonies.
Small schools run by churches. Wealthy families hired tutors. Children could learn reading skills by reading the bible.
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What was the first state to be colonized by the Europeans in the North?
Massachusetts.
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Describe slavery in the Southern colonies.
Slaves worked on plantations.
Treated harshly. Stricts rules by the owner. |
What are two jobs people worked as in the city?
City: Merchants, shipbuilding, blacksmith, dockworkers.
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What was the Bay called that the colonists sailed through to get to Virginia (Southern Colonies).
Chesapeake Bay
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