Middle Colonies and Southern Colonies Flash Cards

Name the colonial region that has a geography of deep rivers, harbors, coastal lowlands, and good soil.

In these colonies many workers had skills such as carpenters.

The climate of this colonial region was humid and hot in the summer with mild winters.

The economy of this region was mainly agricultural

If you worked on a plantation in the southern colonies without pay you were probably a _________

Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay and Pennsylvania were founded for what reason? Economic or religious

The colonial region that included Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and New York was:

If you had a farm and raised livestock and grew wheat you probably lived in this colonial region.

If I lived in the middle colonies my political and social life would be in the

  1. Church
  2. School
  3. Market place

Philadelphia and New York are major cities in this colonial region.

Rich farmland with a moderate climate is found in the colonial region of ___________

Dutch, Irish, Swedish, Scottish lived in this colonial region.

The people who lived on large plantations lived in the ________ colonial region.

In the southern colonies the main focus of your social life would have been ________

The main church in the southern colonies was the _________

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The Southern colonies were divided into:

  1. Streets
  2. Counties
  3. Churches
  4. farms

The geography of these colonies included flat sandy beaches, rivers, swamps, and the Appalachian Mountains.

Pennsylvania was established to allow which group of people to worship as they wanted?

  1. Debtors
  2. Separatists
  3. Quakers
  4. Puritans

What group of colonies grew tobacco, rice, cotton and indigo?

Which was NOT a way middle colonists earned a living:

  1. Shipbuilding
  2. Farming
  3. Trade
  4. fishing

Fishing, shipbuilding, trade and port cities and naval supplies are characteristics of which colonial region?

Colonists in the middle colonies made their living by:

  1. shipbuilding
  2. Wood
  3. Whaling
  4. Livestock and grain on farms

If you owned a plantation, the success would be based on:

  1. Livestock
  2. Slavery
  3. Indentured servants
  4. Skilled craftsmen

Most people in the Southern colonies were:

  1. Puritans
  2. Anglican( church of England)
  3. Quakers
  4. Catholic